Movie Round Up #1
I've recently invested in a Cineworld Unlimited card and thus I have been watching all of the films. Here are some quick fire reviews.
Daddy's Home
Stepfather Will Ferrell and actual father Mark Wahlberg compete for the love of two of the most unlikeable children depicted on screen in recent years. Not enough grossout humour to appeal to idiot teenagers, nor enough actual humour to appeal to adults, it's a tremendously bland affair. There's some pleasing old school Ferrell insanity in the scene where he dresses up as Santa Claus to ludicrously one up his rival, but that's about it.
Zoolander 2
See above. I saw Zoolander 2 three weeks ago and can barely remember anything about it. I said somewhere last year about Trainwreck that if LeBron James is the funniest thing about your film, you have a problem. Z2 has the same issue with Sting, who amusingly sends himself up, along with his sex god reputation. It's an all too fleeting highlight of a film more concerned with crowbarring celebrity cameos than writing solid gags.
Deadpool
This has been described as "a superhero movie for people who don't like superhero movies", which is one of the reasons I liked Deadpool so much. Several times funnier than both the above films put together, a supremely entertaining, action packed, meta romp with superb work from Ryan Reynolds in the title . More please.
The Big Short
A laudable (if not always successful) attempt to tell the story of the 2008 financial crash in an accessible manner, with a number of very good performances, in particular Christian Bale as a the maverick hedge fund manner who successfully predicts the crisis. I didn't see Wolf Of Wall Street but this feels like a much more sobering depiction of the events surrounding the collapse.
Spotlight
The story of the Boston Globe's "Spotlight" team's investigation into historic child abuse in the Catholic Church, this is gripping, compelling fare that's well worthy of Best Picture at the Oscars. It's a story that focuses on the victims rather than the authorities who had successfully concealed these crimes for so long. Not a flashy film, but an important one.
Daddy's Home
Stepfather Will Ferrell and actual father Mark Wahlberg compete for the love of two of the most unlikeable children depicted on screen in recent years. Not enough grossout humour to appeal to idiot teenagers, nor enough actual humour to appeal to adults, it's a tremendously bland affair. There's some pleasing old school Ferrell insanity in the scene where he dresses up as Santa Claus to ludicrously one up his rival, but that's about it.
Zoolander 2
See above. I saw Zoolander 2 three weeks ago and can barely remember anything about it. I said somewhere last year about Trainwreck that if LeBron James is the funniest thing about your film, you have a problem. Z2 has the same issue with Sting, who amusingly sends himself up, along with his sex god reputation. It's an all too fleeting highlight of a film more concerned with crowbarring celebrity cameos than writing solid gags.
Deadpool
This has been described as "a superhero movie for people who don't like superhero movies", which is one of the reasons I liked Deadpool so much. Several times funnier than both the above films put together, a supremely entertaining, action packed, meta romp with superb work from Ryan Reynolds in the title . More please.
The Big Short
A laudable (if not always successful) attempt to tell the story of the 2008 financial crash in an accessible manner, with a number of very good performances, in particular Christian Bale as a the maverick hedge fund manner who successfully predicts the crisis. I didn't see Wolf Of Wall Street but this feels like a much more sobering depiction of the events surrounding the collapse.
Spotlight
The story of the Boston Globe's "Spotlight" team's investigation into historic child abuse in the Catholic Church, this is gripping, compelling fare that's well worthy of Best Picture at the Oscars. It's a story that focuses on the victims rather than the authorities who had successfully concealed these crimes for so long. Not a flashy film, but an important one.
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