Midweek Movie Free Talk

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Captain America Winter Soldier (2014): ★★☆

So continues my Marvel catch-up. I thought this was good, but not great. Despite my general lack of knowledge about the MCU, I did at least know that one character had to live for a later movie, so one of the important plot threads of this one was moot to me. It was also interesting to see Anthony Mackie in this movie while knowing that he gets his own movie later.

Hoppers (2026): ★★☆

Eh. This is a kids' movie, but I expected that and enjoyed it well enough. They do a good job of not explaining the magic/sci-fi too much and just letting you go with it. I am a little worried about emoji-spamming becoming a meme, but that thankfully doesn't seem to have taken off as much as the movie tried to turn it into a meme.

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939): ★★☆

Not bad. The edu-tainment bits for things I already know slow the movie down, but it's still enjoyable on the whole. There are some things that are interesting just for being from 1939, like sending 9 cents in coins through the mail and World Series tickets being worth $15.

Does anyone happen to know who all the portraits are on Paine's wall? There are Woodrow Wilson and Herbert Hoover, and one that's probably Teddy Roosevelt. But I assume that viewers at the time would have recognized more of them, since the walls of his office are completely lined with portraits.

The Revenant (2015): ★★☆

This movie was showing in a theater an hour away from me. It said it was for its 10th anniversary, but that should have been last year, so ¯\(ツ)/¯

They made a movie of The Last of Red Dead Part II‽ Seriously though, this was close to three stars. If only there weren't quite so many flashback/daydream bits and Fitzgerald didn't mumble half of his lines...