Movie Round Up
I saw three films last week that I haven't yet blogged about and I lack the energy or desire to stretch them out into three individual blogs so here we are.
Blade Runner 2048: An undeniably visually stunning dystopian spectacle. I have no doubt that there will be people out there for whom this is the film of the year, decade or more. But I struggled to connect with it on an emotional level, although there are a number of strong performances. An easy film to admire but a difficult film to love. Also at 2 and half hours pre credits it's too long. NO FILM NEEDS TO BE LONGER THAN 2 HOURS.
Goodbye Christopher Robin: The story of AA Milne and the creation of Winnie The Pooh. Domhnall Gleeson provides consistently good performances and does so again here as Milne, trying to overcome the struggles of PTSD and writer's block. Will Tilson is very good as his son, Christopher Robin, although his family call him Billy Moon. Margot Robbie as Milne's wife Daphne is poorly characterised as a London obsessed socialite. There's a lot of strolling about the idyllic British countryside in the movie. The film is at its most interesting when assessing the impact of Winnie The Pooh's fame on young Christopher and I would have liked to have seen more of this. A totally unnecessary and ridiculous plot twist took me out of the narrative in the final act. The film is sweet, but it's slight.
The Lego Ninjago Movie: I didn't realise that Ninjago was a pre-existing children's cartoon before heading into this, although I did assume that Ninjago had to exist as a concept/Lego property before now. There are a handful of good laughs, the visuals are once again nice, but it's a vastful inferior film to either The Lego Movie or The Lego Batman Movie. It's one for the kids and there's nothing wrong with that really.
Blade Runner 2048: An undeniably visually stunning dystopian spectacle. I have no doubt that there will be people out there for whom this is the film of the year, decade or more. But I struggled to connect with it on an emotional level, although there are a number of strong performances. An easy film to admire but a difficult film to love. Also at 2 and half hours pre credits it's too long. NO FILM NEEDS TO BE LONGER THAN 2 HOURS.
Goodbye Christopher Robin: The story of AA Milne and the creation of Winnie The Pooh. Domhnall Gleeson provides consistently good performances and does so again here as Milne, trying to overcome the struggles of PTSD and writer's block. Will Tilson is very good as his son, Christopher Robin, although his family call him Billy Moon. Margot Robbie as Milne's wife Daphne is poorly characterised as a London obsessed socialite. There's a lot of strolling about the idyllic British countryside in the movie. The film is at its most interesting when assessing the impact of Winnie The Pooh's fame on young Christopher and I would have liked to have seen more of this. A totally unnecessary and ridiculous plot twist took me out of the narrative in the final act. The film is sweet, but it's slight.
The Lego Ninjago Movie: I didn't realise that Ninjago was a pre-existing children's cartoon before heading into this, although I did assume that Ninjago had to exist as a concept/Lego property before now. There are a handful of good laughs, the visuals are once again nice, but it's a vastful inferior film to either The Lego Movie or The Lego Batman Movie. It's one for the kids and there's nothing wrong with that really.
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