Catching up

So I just watched to catch up and write down some films I recently saw and haven't made a post on yet.

Fantastic Beasts: Crimes of Grindelwald

Johnny English Strikes Again

Venom

Little Favour

The Spy Who Dumped Me

Viimane Vürst

I feel like I am forgetting something....

I'm not sure if I will write a review on any of those, but I just kind of wanted to keep track of the stuff I've seen. Is that weird? I mean that's the whole point of this blog I guess.

Loving Pablo

This is not the kind of genre I generally go for, but every now and again I like to challenge myself, I like to see something different and I do like films that are based on real life, however loosely.

This however, was the standard drug dealer's life kind of story. There was nothing truly shocking about it for me, aside from the fact that the female characters were stupid enough to think that they could be "safe" living or having an affair with a criminal mastermind.

For me it was unnecessarily, violent and gruesome, too much blood and naked bodies that I didn't enjoy looking at. All in all, I'll just admit it wasn't my kind of film. I'm not sure it was a bad one, in fact I think it wasn't, but it certainly wasn't for me either.

Ocean Eight

I love a good heist film. The visuals are beautiful, the outfits were lovely, the actors are great, although its one of those movies that tries to get your attention by slamming in all the famous names.

The story was all right. It was nothing revolutionary, fairly standard heist movie stuff. I was surprised by the fact that nothing really went wrong in the plan, not really, not drastically. The tension was mainly created by me expecting something to go wrong.

The humour was fine, but not anything hilarious either. It was a good, nice, inoffensive film to watch. Enjoyable, but not mind-blowing. I was cheering for the bad guys as the film intended.  I really liked it and I think other people too will like it, but a masterpiece it was not.

Love, Simon

Edit: I have rewritten this entire post. I was previously under the false impression this was based off a John Green book. I feel very sillu. 

Beautiful movie with a heart-warming sweet and relatable story.  I personally feel that the teens in films like in these films remind me more of my teen life than most American teen films. They feel normal, not crazy party and boy-crazed people who pull insane stunts and seem to have no brains.

The cinematography was very beautiful. It was very similar to  John Green films and therefore has a real "John Green film feel" Looking at the trailer I was so certain it was based on a John Green book. The visuals are just really beautiful and interesting.

The subject matter was handled, in my humble experience, well and not too stereotypically. It was a nice take.

Ant-Man and The Wasp

It's another nice and chill Marvel movie. I feel like the humour in Marvel movies gets better and better as time goes on. It wasn't a full on comedy or parody like Deadpool, but it had a lot of really fun moments. It wasn't terribly mind-blowing, but it was good and fun and there wasn't much that bothered me plot-wise. 

I liked that they tied up the end with the Infinity War. I hadn't seen the first Ant-Man film and felt a bit confused as the film started, but the confusion disappeared quite quickly. So see it even if you haven't seen the first part. It was fun-

Deadpool 2

If you saw the first Deadpool film and liked that you're going to like this one. I'm not really sure how it works on its own because I, for one, was happy I had saw the first one again just a few days prior. There were a lot of references to the first movie as well as pop culture references in general. At times I felt it got a bit overboard, but honestly I'm not one of those people who minds them. In fact I usually like them. I felt that at times they just repeated the same joke from the first film and that did feel a bit...old.

Spoilers ahead!

Otherwise it's a fun film. As in the first film it has the same crude, rude, yet creative and fun humour that really fits into this film's general tone. I'm not the one for gross comedy and swearing and sex jokes, but the ones in this film are creative. Also, Marvel has done enough death scenes recently that Deadpool's had me wonder if he was actually going to die. And even if he would have - it would have still been a fun scene and it's hard to make death scenes not feel too heavy. Shrek has done the comically slow death joke before, but it was still funny. I'm not saying it was completely void of clichés, but I am saying it was fun to watch and I laughed a lot and some of the humour was very creative and it was all very true to the way Deadpool is.

Basically it comes down to this - if you like Deadpool you'll like this and if not then I don't think you will? But I did. If you don't know if you like Deadpool yet, give it a go! Maybe you will.

Avengers: Infinity War

Was it a great movie? I wouldn't say it was some grand masterpiece. It had so many plot-lines going and and loads of characters and you could sort of feel that they tried to cram as many of them in there as physically possible. Also it seemed they tried to film this around actors and their schedules. There are so many famous and great actors in this film and they can't possibly all be in the same place at the same time so it seemed that they were trying to keep that in mind while filming. That might not have even been the case, but it certainly felt and seemed that way.

Spoilers ahead!

The storyline wasn't anything amazingly unique either, but the story was comprehensible despite the many plot-lines and characters. Some things, such as Thanos killing his daughter were so utterly predictable he might have as well carelessly thrown her off the cliff for comedic effect. Yes, they wanted to show he did really love her, but we sort of get that from what we're shown before and we all knew he was going to do it.

I loved the ending. It was totally unexpected for me. I doubt Marvel will actually kill off half of its characters in the MCU, so the stakes aren't as high as they may seem, but it was a good, bold ending and I liked it. I've longed for a film where the villain wins plenty of times. Honestly, I really loved the film too. These are the characters I know (well, most of them at least, I haven't seen all of the previous films) and some of whom, I love. I felt good coming out of the cinema. I thought about this film days later and really, what more could you ask for?