movies I have seen recently

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Spotlight

  • Ironically, winning Best Picture is probably the worst thing that could have happened to Spotlight, because you just know in a few decades’ time people are going to be like “What was Spotlight? Never heard of it. Why didn’t Mad Max win?”

  • Also I’m not sure Rachel McAdams really deserved Best Supporting Actress for this, she was fine but not really…prize-worthy?
  • It was good though, I’ll probably watch it again soon

Philomena

  • Another ‘the Catholic Church have some horrible hidden secrets’ movie. I think there’s quite a lot of them
  • Hi, Anna Maxwell Martin! I remember when you were playing small roles in Doctor Who. And hi, Wunmi Mosaku!
  • Steve Coogan is just playing Steve Coogan but that seems to work
  • I didn’t know it was based on a true story until afterwards and then I was sad

The Impossible

  • Actually way better than I was expecting
  • I definitely get the criticisms about ‘why, seeing as most of the victims were Thai, did the movie have to be about a white family’ though. Especially since that could easily have been avoided by having multiple storylines about multiple people, since the film has two different storylines anyway
  • Also, if I was part of the real-life family the film was based on, I’d be pretty pissed they changed my nationality from Spanish to American. Why is it always about America
  • Tom Holland! Or whatever his name is! New Spider-Man! He’s a really good actor, I’m feeling considerably more optimistic about the reboot these days
  • The make-up on this film was fantastic, I hope someone got an award for it
  • Also yeah Naomi Watts probably deserved that Oscar

White House Down

  • Paraphrased sample line from this movie: “It’s the President! And he’s got a ROCKET LAUNCHER!”
  • Probably the most gleefully stupid film I have seen in some time

London Has Fallen

  • Also stupid, but not as gleeful
  • The posters for this movie showed Big Ben blowing up. Big Ben does not blow up and comes out relatively unscathed
  • That being said I find London being destroyed on film a bit more…painful? then seeing places like Washington DC destroyed, because I live near London, so I was actually rather glad they didn’t spend too much time on that
  • This film was a lot more racist than I expected, especially considering it was directed by a Iranian man
  • I bet certain people were really delighted at that ‘go back to fuckheadistan’ line, sigh
  • Wait Gerard Butler you were in Gods Of Egypt too? You really need to start picking better projects man