The Crooked Castle
Eight moderately busy days later, three movies, some rowing, and various sort of hard work.
“Finding Dory” is a significantly inferior sequel to an upper mediocre talking fish movie. It sort of almost developed a soul by the end. Almost. Sort of. Continue reading
One movie, various misadventures.
“Central Intelligence” is a comedy with an odd twist: The comedian (Kevin Hart) is the straight man, and the other guy (Dwayne Johnson) is the goofball. It works surprisingly well, and this coming from someone who fundamentally does not LIKE comedies. The pacing was uneven, and the characters were in some cases broken (from a literary standpoint; broken people oftem make great characters), but in the end, it WORKED. It also played a bit with the Mary McCarthy quote, “We are the hero of our own story.” More of that in another post. Continue reading
Ten days. Two movies, a messabout, a conversational meal, and general carrying on.
“Now You See Me 2” is about half the movie its predecessor was, and the predecessor wasn’t that great in the first place. This movie assumes that the audience is REALLY familiar with the earlier film, as in, “Watched it in the last week in preparation” familiar. I understand that audiences don’t like infodumps, but audiences like repeatedly wondering what is going on even less. The one bright spot was the addition of the ever-entertaining Lizzy Caplan to make up for the departure of Isla Fisher. I like Fisher a great deal, but I like Caplan better in pretty much any case. Continue reading
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