I have found lately that I want to get some thoughts out about recent movies I've watched. Then I realized I've been maintaining an unsuccessful blog for fifteen years! My issue is I go way too in-depth and then never end up writing because I don't have the time because I know it's going to take me like three hours to get everything out of my head. But here are snippets of stuff I've seen recently:
Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1 (2024): I really wanted to support this, like man, a classic Kevin Costner western dripping with sincerity, sounds awesome. This was maybe one of the straight up worst movies I've seen in recent memory. And this was the year of Madame Webb (2024) and Borderlands (2024), people. It's just somehow shot really really boringly despite having the entire American West as a backdrop. There are way too many unrelated characters that are continually introduced up to two hours into the movie. Supposedly that will all straighten out as the somehow THREE ADDITIONAL chapters drop, but simply put there is nothing compelling here to justify much of anything. It's really rough and I really wanted to like this one.
Sasquatch Sunset (2024): I was pumped for this one, too. I really didn't want Harry and the Hendersons (1987) but I wanted something a little lighter for what amounts to a Bigfoot mockumentary. This is one of the most depressing movies of the year! It's so deeply, deeply sad! It at least does look good, it works as basically a silent movie and the acting is spectacular, and I can safely say I've never quite seen a movie like this. So good stuff but man it's sad.
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024): It's hard to even say this, but this might have been the best of the recent Apes films. It tells an incredibly articulate story while preserving all the themes of the previous films. It's basically an animated film that looks gorgeous. Somehow this series has never won any awards ever but we'll see this year.
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024): This was getting a lot of praise as possibly superior to Mad Max: Fury Road (2015). It doesn't quite reach those levels of pure storytelling efficiency but it's definitely solid. Hemsworth probably wrapped up villain of the year, equally charismatic, threatening, and pathetic. This is definitely in the Saga category. I was surprised when Anya didn't show up until over halfway through. There is so much world-building that really doesn't take away from Fury Road. And plenty of room open to see how Scrotus dies.
That's about it. I just want to say that somehow James Acaster was the funniest part of Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024), which is insane for a movie starring Aykroyd, Rudd, and Murray.
Goodnight everybody!
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