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Midweek Movie Free Talk
Have you watched any movies recently you want to discuss? Any films you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here.
Please just try to provide fair warning of spoilers if you can.
I watched a couple of new movies this week. The first was Heart of the Beast. Overall, I'd rate it slightly above average, and mildly entertaining, but I was expecting a lot more.
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I am not fond of the opening sequence in the movie. From that point on, there were no surprises for me in the story. I could see it play out in my mind, and I was right.The second movie is one I deliberately missed in theaters, because I was certain I wouldn't enjoy it. This was The Odyssey. I am not a fan of Nolan's films in general, and this one is a real stinker in my opinion. Normally, I can find something redeeming in his movies, like any one of the special effects sequences in Interstellar or Inception, or perhaps a great performance, like we got from Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight. Heck, I'll even take a great musical score as some type of consolation, but The Odyssey has nothing that I'd regard as outstanding. Nothing. I disliked the structure, the poor acting from Tom Holland in particular, the writing... oh my god, the awful writing. I kept getting my suspension of disbelieve shattered by the Americanisms. The list of my dislikes could go on.
I felt sorry for John Leguizamo and Charlize Theron in particular. They were given jack shit to work with.
Ugh.