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As this was a Netflix movie, I activated my woke goggles as I turned it on and yup, bad guys were white and there was representation from different ethnicities. I do appreciate diversity in film scripts and here it is done in a way that didn’t feel like it was done to fill a quota, but actually by talent so that was nice. I made a prediction of how things were gonna go with how movies trends are generally these days in fantasy stories that give you that twist, such as in Disney’s Malevolent, and sure enough we get the same trope here. People = bad, doing bad stuff, and the perceived bad guys are actually misunderstood. What saved this movie is Millie Bobby Brown, Robin Wright and that amazingly animated dragon. Without them this movie would have fallen apart easily, so it was great to see some great acting and voice acting to help make this movie come together. It is just a shame how it is so predictable, and the massive plot convenience of magical healing glow worms just had me going “what?” Watch it to see what I mean, it just removed the tension from the movie. Overall, an okay movie, easily 6/10 but it could have been more as it had so much potential.

The Grudge is you lose. No matter what you do, you will lose. This film series has always been weird because you know if you step into that “house” it is inevitable that you will die and you will lose, there is no escape. Episode 3 tried to squeeze in a possible way of escaping the curse but really the characters just put it back to square 1. If a movie has no means of combating something there are no odds because that person will 100% die, so you don’t care. This movie (remake?) brings it all back but makes it worse with terrible acting and the premise of “you lose”.

Action = awesome! Antagonist = excellent! Story = familia!! Another typical outing in the franchise snd I loved it. It is so over-the-top I just laughed at the absurd scenes with the physics defying stunts and superhuman capabilities shown, but it’s all good fun! Jason Momoa steals every single scene he was in, a really great bad guy who really doesn’t care how he gets to his goal as long as he gets there while having as much fun as possible. I hope to see more Jason in the next 1 (2?) movie(s). Some things though had me shaking my head. I’ll share one here since it is bot really a spoiler. Little B is learning how to drive from his dad Dom, so you see him doing donuts and figure-8s and all this tire screeching. When he stops the camera pans up from the passenger side of the car and you can clearly see Little B’s legs are not long enough to reach the pedals. How did he drive the car? There isn’t even blocks there like how Shortround drove in Temple of Doom. I couldn’t excuse that for some reason

I loved this series! The only let down is the daughter who does get on my nerves a little bit because of some decisions she makes but in the end it all works out. Arnie's humour really shows here and if you arr a fan of his one liners and method of delivering his jokes then you will love this! I can understand why some would not like this but man... I just turned off my brain and enjoyed the ride!

I’ve seen the other movie that had the guy with the blue lips working for Jeremy Irons. That scarred me and it still has not healed. Then this movie came out and I was not hopeful but thought I would give it a chance and surprise surprise… it’s awesome! I did not expect that. Every single character was great and lovable with a great plot moving it forward. Do I want a sequel? I can’t believe I’m saying this but yes.