Kedi

I got into the mood for a bit of an indie...ish - film (not a Hollywood blockbuster) for this, picked a day when I felt I was in the right mood for it. I read a review - it was great and the film was shown not only in the art-film cinemas here, but in the more mainstream ones too, so surely, it must be great. It's about cats, after all. I love cats. What could go wrong?

Well, apparently - a lot of things. It was - boring. Plain and simple. At the start I was excited, by the end I was squirming in my seat wondering when would it end. One could say that Hollywood movies with their flashy fast-paced images has spoiled me. But no - I'm not sure that's the issue here. The film had no narrative. No one storyline to tie together the small bits, the stories of all the cats. If there was one it was so loose, it didn't do it's job. It felt like a small TV-series with each bit of the film being an episode about a certain cat(s) and a human connected to the cat(s). It got old, repetitive and there were a lot of issues I would have liked a closer look at, a more in-depth discussion of, but that were just briefly mentioned. All and all, not my favorite kind of film.

Spider-man: homecoming

Sometimes it's just nice to go and see a nice entertaining movie. It's nice when you go and expect something good, mildly amusing and nice and you get just that. Not a masterpiece, but something that you can just enjoy and forgive some small flaws to, because it's entertaining. And that is what that movie is.

It was almost a little shocking that this wasn't an origin story. I was mildly disoriented by the fact for a moment, but really it was great and refreshing. I liked the story. Liked that everything was already established, because really - we all know how Peter Parker becomes Spiderman by now. I felt that Peter was pretty in character too.