I decided to rewatch the 1982 John Carpenter version of The Thing for the first time in a few years. For some reason I thought it was longer than it actually is, so I unfortunately kept putting it off for a while. Still as great of a movie as I remembered and one of my favorites.
I watched Christopher Robin at home on Netflix today. It was a decent movie. I missed the voice of the original Eeyore since he's my favorite character. I don't know how I felt about the live action. I like the animated characters better, but live action made more sense based on the story. Not a movie I would rave about, but not a bad way to spend an afternoon either.
I liked it, p different from Benilde and Abraham's Valley and more of a spooky manic story but it managed to stay good without going cheesy with the animations and such
Today I watched Tale of Tales at home on Netflix. It was pretty interesting for someone who likes the dark origins of fairy tales, which I do. I was only vaguely familiar with the three tales told in this movie, so it was a nice change of pace from the more common stories.
I like comic books but I usually don't bother with Superhero movies since I'm just so sick of them and their extended universe crap. Seeing as this was both a Spiderman movie and a totally stand alone thing though, I gave it a go.
I thought it was really quite good. The art direction of it is just fantastic and I like how it was based in an alternate universe we're used to seeing for a nice change to familiar villains like Dr.Octopus and Scorpion rather than just redoing the EXACT same thing for the 20th time.
I've always been a fan of SpiderGwen and Spiderman Noir too, so it's nice I got to see them in a movie as they're really not characters I ever expected to see in that context. I even got a bit won over on Miles Morales, not really enjoying what I read of him years ago...Odd that they featured a black Spiderman as the protagonist and people weren't going nuts about it. Probably because it's not MCU...
SpiderHam is also there...*sigh*.
I even kind of enjoyed Kingpin, a villain I'm not usually that interested in due to the massive inconsistencies in his strength and personality.
I also like that in the span of a movie they managed to introduce a team of heroes most people haven't heard of (lets be honest, outside of Peter Parker, these aren't well known characters) in a single movie...And that the end credits doesn't necessarily connect to a sequel, it's just there because it's funny. Beats having to watch multiple different unrelated movies first and afterwards to understand a true 'meta plot'.
Last movie I watched was Legally Blonde. It was alright/cute, but nothing really special imo. It's one of the better romance comedies despite being predictable. The court scene was the best part. 6/10
In theaters, I watched Us. I absolutely loved it and really enjoyed having to dig deeper and come to my own conclusion after the movie was over. One of the few movies that I thought about days after I watched it. At home, I watched Pan's Labrinth and The Witch, both on Netflix, and I enjoyed both. I loved the former, and it's now my favorite genre. Dark fantasy is amazing.