Zoba Zeta

Destroys the Star Wars canon and disrespects the fans of the franchise

I give it an 8/10 but I'm boosting the score so it gets the attention it deserves. It had some good jumpscares but it's less scary horror and more gore horror, and there's plenty of that. But really it's just silly and campy in all the right ways and the novelty introduced some new twists just before it could grow stale. There's only one scene that was a little too ridiculous but when you view the whole film as ridiculous it fits. And the actors were well cast. As far as little girl horror films go, Abigail doesn't quite reach iconic level, but I'm sure we will see some of her running around this fall.

I was skeptical about this movie at first from the trailer. It looked chceesy and I expected them to waste the dream theme on a low budget bargain bin movie with a hammy performance by Jason Momoa. Even so, I went in hoping to at least be entertained, and I was pleasantly surprised to find myself tearing up on several occasions - a rare feat Disney can't even accomplish these days. The story is solid with a very good theme woven beneath the dream transitions, which I admit were better than I expected. While the film's pacing seems to speed up at times and weirdly slow down in others, I was never bored and found myself wishing it was longer. In fact, if anything can really be said about the movie is that it wasn't ambitious enough. I wasn't too fond of the aesthetic they chose to represent Slumberland, as it seemed obnoxious and wasn't imaginative enough. I wish they would have gone with a more whimsical gothic/steampunk or fairytale vibe like Tim Burton's films. The supporting cast also felt out of place and they didn't develop enough of either world to invest the setting. Slumberland felt like a tourist attraction, which was a shame. Moreover, Momoa's performance as Flip was indeed as hammy as expected, and he just didn't have the whimsical charisma needed to pull off the role [like Johnny Depp would have]. Nevertheless, Marlow Barkley gave a solid performance as Nemo and I'd put her beside young heroine led movies like Golden Compass that deserved better efforts from the rest of the production. Overall it was an enjoyable film and something the family can enjoy. If nothing else, it was missing the Tim Burton aesthetic and needed a weirder, more whimsical touch.

[spoiler free] I've decided to write this review for 3 reasons: The first is that I started watching this movie, got bored, and went to watch other things for a while. The second is that I came back to watch it some months later, and ended up enjoying it. The third - while it is not an amazing film - certainly not one of Pixar's greats - it does not deserve the negative 1 star reviews from other posters here. The theme of this movie is about friendship and how surrounding yourself with people who make you better leads to more fulfilling life. It skips over other themes like acceptance and family, but both are introduced to bolster the primary plot points. It's a great movie for children under 12 who are forming early friendships. They will benefit from the simplicity of the themes, the bubbly character design and the vivid animation. Beyond that, older audiences may find the characters underdeveloped, as the predictable story only wades into shallow water with its themes [pun intended] and doesn't go too deep on the emotional side. And while the environment design is pretty enough, the character design is rather generic. Moreover, much of the conflict is shown in quick flashes or implied in quick conversations; therefore, the stakes are never too high and the character's motives are never strongly reinforced. Nevertheless, the movie still manages to accomplish what it set out to do for the target audience. I do not believe it is a bad film; however, unlike other Pixar films that were enjoyable for all ages and artistically sound projects across the visual and audio department, Luca is a solid above average offering whose only problem is that it wasn't ambitious enough. Luca exists in a space where better movies exist, and therefore it's not very impressive. For comparison, I thought Soul and Coco were brilliant, and both Onward and Turning Red were a lot more fun and original than Luca. Even so, it doesn't deserve the 1 star reviews. Lightyear is the worst Pixar film for me. Now that was a hot mess! I gave it a low 7/10.

I found this movie by looking for horror/thriller films. The premise seemed vague but I went in with no expectations. While it is not a horror film, it is horrifying...that is, horrifyingly tedious to watch. The main characters are either extremely passive or aggressively dislikeable. They never do anything logical and the plot only moves from one disturbing scene to the next because it has to. Obviously, the movie features children, and children are not fully equipped to deal with challenges. Children can also be very mean, selfish, and behave in ways that don't make any sense, especially when they grow up in broken homes. But children are not as stupid as they were portrayed here. The protagonist Ida hates her sister Anna because she is autistic and favored by her parents. They've just moved to a new apartment complex and Ida goes out to look for new friends. She befriends a boy named Ben who has the ability to do things with his mind. Ben dislikes his mother for some reason so he has decided to become a supervillain. Also living in the apartments is Aisha, a girl who can hear other people with her mind. What follows is Aisha helping Anna by listening to her 'inner voice', and Ida fawning over Ben despite his wicked nature. After all, she would put glass in her own sister's shoes, so watching Ben torture and kill a cat or try to hurt Anna himself isn't enough to raise any red flags for her. Yet Ben gets worse by pouring boiling water on his mom, killing a boy who 'bullied' him by possessing someone else, and breaking another boy's leg just to test his powers further. When Aisha stands up to Ben, Ben tries to choke her telepathically; at last, Ida steps in, and so Ben decides to possess Aisha's mom, who then kills her that night. Still, Ida refuses to say anything. Instead, she decides to try pushing Ben off of an overpass, and when that goes horribly wrong, Ben [who somehow survived a 20 foot fall] comes back for revenge, and Ida gets hit by a car trying to run away from his illusion. Sometime later, Anna takes matters into her own hands and goes to confront Ben. She telepaths to other children in the complex and they all kill Ben in plain view of the playground. Now Ida has decided to be less of an evil witch and Anna...well who knows. The End. Moral of the story? Children suck. Adults also suck. Everybody sucks. But a good storyteller can sell anything, and bad storytellers suck most of all. While the young cast's performances were acceptable, the rest of the writing was either glossed over or unnecessarily ambigious. It's an artsy film that is trying to be atmospheric and let you ponder the questions it is posing about innocence; instead, all that empty space is left waiting for a character to do something - anything worthwhile. After Ida got hit by the car I started fast forwarding the movie wanting it to be over. The more I think about the movie the less I like it. 5/10 and that's being generous. The children were cute, the music was decent, and Ben's death was the only satisfying scene in the movie.

If you are looking for a feel good parent-child movie with decent action, real themes and nice special effects, this movie does really well with that. The story tries to say a lot and maybe doesn't say everything it wants to, but what it does say is solid. Watch it with your teenager and they might start to appreciate you more. If you are looking for a serious sci-fi flick with laser accurate physics and world-moving speculative narrative...well this isn't that kind of movie. It doesn't ask too many hard questions that you need to think about, and the minute you start thinking about it you're going to be disappointed. Treat this movie like this: it's a love letter from Ryan Reynolds to his past self, and if you are a fan of his style, then this is one of his stronger movies. It has his usual self-aware charm, but it's not obnoxious to watch compared to some other woke 4th wall breaking movies that are coming out now. [And unless you LOVE satire, i'm pretty sure we're all tired of those]

The movie was good right up until the ending. And the reasons why were already listed by Juanita in another review here, so I"m just going to reiterate what they said: The film takes your focus away from God and the hope of the Gospel and puts it on Satan. If you're a believer, then this serves as a strong warning against the power of the Enemy - and he does have power. But he does NOT have more power than Christ, nor is God the "slaver" he is portrayed as by the demon. God created you to have a relationship with you. But you cannot love him without free will; otherwise it is slavery. And with free will comes the option to choose to love God or not. By choosing to love God - even in the midst of trials - you prove yourself worthy of inheriting the universe. And there is nothing wrong with worshipping the creator. We are created to worship, and if we are not worshipping the God of the universe and beyond, then we are worshipping ourselves, the world, or demons. And look at how that's going so far; not so good eh? Mankind is destructive by nature. Even when faced with undeniable proof of God, we still refuse to believe, and give ourselves over to our selfish desires. That shows both how strong demons are, and how hopeless we are to save ourselves without God. We cannot save ourselves, and either way, we worship something, so why not worship the God who has the power to save us? If you're an unbeliever, the movie doesn't offer you hope of salvation in God. Through the demon's speech, God is portrayed as "the enemy". There is no saving moment for the psychologist. There is no believer to steer him towards Christ. And there is no angelic presence that points to God's grace. There is nobody to portray God in a positive light, because the demon advocates for Satan, and the psychologist [as an athiests] advocates for secular humanism. For that reason, this film is DANGEROUS to the unguarded mind. And make no mistake: unbelievers' minds are unguarded. Like the book of its namesake, the film serves a warning: that there is a war between good and evil, and whether you are aware of not, you are part of it. And as a soldier in the war, I advise you not to watch this movie unless you are a believer or know someone who is who can steer you in the right direction afterwards. Because the Bible says we are judged based on what we know. If you are completely ignorant before watching this film, this film alone will open your eyes, and once you are made aware you are now held accountable for what you do with that information. So you need to take it upon yourself after watching this to read the Gospel and begin your relationship with Christ. Do not wait until it is too late and you stand before God to give an account of your life. Because God will ask you why you didn't seek Him while you had the knowledge and opportunity. And in that moment, you will either curse God and reveal yourself a child of Satan, or stand before God in total awe and regret your life for the rest of eternity. This is not some fairytale about a magic man in the sky. This is about the eternal destination of your soul. And you do not want to spend it with demons like the one portrayed in here. They are NOT your friends and Satan is not waiting to welcome you into hell with a party. He wants you to suffer with him forever because it hurts God to see His children willingly choose that path. If you watch this movie, do so at your own risk. This is not "right-wing" propaganda. This is part of the truth; the other part is that there is hope in Christ as long as there is breath in your lungs.

I used to be a huge Star Wars fan and I've enjoyed and rewatched every Star Wars movie. But the sequels are soulless cash grabs that have no identity of their own, and The Last Jedi is the only movie i've ever felt so insulted by that I wanted to walk out of the theater and watch something else instead. I should have known the minute I heard a 'mom' joke in the first 5 minutes.. of STAR WARS! But i gave it a chance and it just kept throwing self aware gags at the screen. It feels like a parody of Star Wars, and there are already plenty of those done better [thanks Family Guy]. I had the displeasure of seeing it in theaters twice, and i never want to see it again.

In a distant civilization millions of years before modern humans, a man with an ailing daughter explores the cosmos to support his family. But when his starship is struck by an asteroid, he finds himself stranded on the most hostile planet of all: Earth, 65 millions years ago, just before the dinosaurs went extinct. All members of his crew have perished, except one little girl, and all other escape pods have been destroyed, except one 15km away. Dinosaurs, natural hazards, and a looming asteroid make 65 a fun escape thriller who's main flaw is that it wasn't long enough to flesh out the backstory with the protagonist and his ailing daughter. The main relationship on display is between Mills [Adam Driver] and Koa [Ariana Greenblatt], a young girl who speaks a different language. Personally I thought this was a very good touch, because if she had spoken 'English', they might have spent the whole movie bickering. Instead, the language barrier added to the film's otherworldly feeling, and made the journey more challenging. Moreover, it brought out solid performances from Adam and Ariana, and the action was tense and exciting. It's not the most original and it doesn't have the strongest story, but it does have great music, better than expected action scenes, and is certainly worth 90 minutes of your time. If you want a similar film with better action scenes, watch Prey 2022. That film lacks the heart of t his one but makes up for it with wild action scenes and gorgeous cinematography.

It was good - not great, but good. It's not as stylish as John Wick or King's Man, it's not as thrilling as Bourne, the plot isn't as twisted as Bond, and it doesn't have the stunts of Mission Impossible. It doesn't build up enough of it's characters for you to care much, and the action scenes often seem unpolished and abruptly end. You walk away from it feeling like the plot was a lot of pomp and circumstance over nothing. Nevertheless, it is a solid action flick with potential for a compelling sequel. Moreover, it was interesting see Chris Evans play a villain. Sometimes he wasn't selling his psychotic torture happy character; other times he did seem unsettling - though it's probably just the mustache. The highlight of the movie is the cinematography.