Been catching up on some movies while also catching up on some of the DC Animated Films. They are for the most part good, but not focusing on them or the hallmark crap i watch with the wife. Here are some of the ones I have seen lately.
Soul (Disney +) - Pixar's new film about a middle aged man who after finally getting his big break, dies, goes to the land of souls and has to find his way back. Not gonna lie. It's not Pixar's best in my opinion and I lost interest, pretty sure the kids did to. Basically the message is to enjoy every thing in life, because it could be over tomorrow. 5/10
The Call of the Wild (HBO Max) - Already been reviewed and I enjoyed it. It's amazing how accurate the dog's facial expressions were, but man I feel like Harrison Ford just mails it in and earns what is probably a ridiculous paycheck. 6/10
You Were Never Really Here (Prime) - stars Joquin Phoenix. This movie had so much promise and of course they had to make it all artsy and weird in the second act. The premise is that he is a veteran that works finding missing children. Once again, starts out promising, but then goes into this weird way to the end. Could have been such a good movie. 6/10
Most Wanted (Prime) - Josh Hartnet is not dead and stars in this as a reporter in Canada that uncovers a Canadian police drug deal overseas gone wrong. Rather than admit their mistake the leave the guy in prison and the reporter has to uncover everything to get him extradited. 6.5/10.
Chick Fight (Prime) - Has a couple hot chicks and mails it in Alec Baldwin as the drunk trainer. Basically a down on her luck women starts to go to the all women fight club her mother once established. It follows, with sometime humorous interactions, the women as she gets her life back together. The funniest parts might come from her recently coming out as gay father played by Kevin Nash and his 5 foot tall Asian boyfriend. You go into this movie knowing what it is. I hoped for boobs and sadly the actresses did not provide those in this go around. 5/10
The King of Staten Island (HBO Max) - Run away. This movie was horrible and I couldn't make it past the halfway mark. I'm sure it will be critically praised for showing how cool it is to be a mid-twenties loser that is stoned all the time. 3/10
Geostorm (HBO Max) - Gerald Butler is starting to take over the role previously held by Bruce Willis as the guy that keeps making bad movies, but you can't turn them off because they are just so absurd they entertain. Global Warming movie that's only overshadowed by Al Gore's predictions. They build a satellite that can fight the weather and Butler has to go fix it when their is a conspiracy about who weaponized it. You also see Andy Garcia and Ed Harris, and of course American's and Republicans are evil. Its bad and you will most likely finish it. 4/10
Irresistible (HBO Max) - Steve Carrell and Rose Byrne. I like Carrell and Rose Byrne gets hotter with age so I checked it out. Directed by John Stewart and in the first few minutes I thought I knew where it was going, but then it changed course completely and was refreshing. Carrell play a democratic strategist who is distraught over Trump's win. He decides to go to a small town in Wisconsin to try and help win the mayor's race. It starts out with good intentions, but after inadvertently insulting the town at every turn he realizes it will be harder to connect with "fly over" country than he thought. It then gets into lobbyists, super pacs and big money donors coming to town and tries to highlight a lot of what is wrong in today's politics, but of course it just falls onto deaf ears of his constituents as no matter how much they think they can understand these simple people, everything is wrong. At the end it dawns on him that those people despise him and his type as much as his type despise him. Byrne floats around as his Republic opposite that is portrayed as just a deep pocket liar.
This movie actually shows a great insight into how many in flyover country feel and why they do what they do in the movie. While Republicans are not portrayed well, this movie holds nothing back in skewering the democratic party and the media's involvement in our division to which all of them are tone deaf and refuse to change. The media in the end credits is one of the best parts as it highlights how they give their opinions as fact and not the actually story. The other funny part is that they always ask him where something is OK and he always replies with the large coastal elite cities, not realizing that small towns could give two craps. I'm actually a little shocked this movie was allowed to be made. 7/10.