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Leave The World Behind

Leave The World Behind, a movie adaptation of the book by the same name, which, no, I did not read and have no intention of reading. Yes people that read the book,I’m sure the book is better. You always say that. This movie clocks in at about 2 and a half hours, so I doubt the 9 weeks it would take me to slog through the book would be better.

This movie was weird for me. Julia Roberts and Mahershala Ali were fantastic in this movie. They all were. The story itself is great. A family goes on vacation to get away from a life that’s making their parents miserable. The kids are enjoying themselves. It’s well acted.

Two strangers show up telling tales of a black out which may or may not be true, they may or may not be the owners. There’s some slight racism going on with Julia Roberts’character but it’s kind of understandable given the situation so maybe it isn’t racism it’s just healthy skepticism.

The problem I have honestly was with the pacing of it all. This move felt like it lasted 4 hours. By the time Kevin Bacon’s character shows up again I forgot he was even in the movie to begin with. His scene was pretty tense and his character was very necessary. If the movie was a little shorter I may have even been wondering where he was.

The movie does have a fantastic story and I don’t want to spoil stuff for you. You will notice I haven’t really said much about anything you won’t see by reading a movie poster. And I will still recommend watching this movie because while it feels long it is worth checking out. Just make sure you bring a drink and popcorn. Best wishes and may the gaming gods bring you glory.

Just Go With It (2011l

Honestly if you have ever seen any Romantic Comedy with Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston you know what this movie was about. Adam got his heart broken by a woman, he does some insane shit for years.

He meets Jennifer Aniston,this time she works for him. He meets a woman he actually loves, he convinces Jen to help him fix the horrible situation he created. Some will they won’t they ensues.

The movie has its funny moments but the real star here is just the overall chemistry that Adam and Jennifer have. I always enjoy their movies together because they just seem to enjoy being around each other. It would be super weird to find out they actually hated each other at this point. Shout out to the kids for playing their parts well. The movie is a must see for romantic comedy fans. It doesn’t break any new ground,but it does the entire genre well. Best wishes and may the gaming gods bring you glory.

M3gan Unrated review

Sometimes I wait so long to see a movie I forget it exists,then I watch it and I am left wondering why the hell I waited so long to see it.

This is one of those movies. I have a lot of questions,for example how nobody noticed they created a self aware robot. Why did it take so long to figure out it was killing animals and people?

Don’t get me wrong,I grew up watching Child’s Play. Chucky is the king of murderous toy dolls. But damn M3gan is absolutely a close second. From the very start you get a feeling that this doll isn’t quite right,and it gets more and more out there as the movie goes on.

It starts simple with things like Megan doing things she isn’t really programmed for,but believably happens by coincidence. Toys say weird stuff when they are just talking. Most of us had Furbies growing up.

It isn’t long though until Megan figured out that her job is to protect Cady,her paired child that recently lost her parents. How do you prevent the dog that bit her from biting again? Well you kill it. Boy picking on her in the park? That’s gotta go too.

Part of what makes this movie rather freaky however is that in theory,this could happen on some level. Probably not to this extreme,but the idea that someone wouldn’t notice it is plausible.

Either way it is a great movie and one worth checking out. Best wishes and may the Gaming gods bring you glory.

Godzilla X Kong: New Empire Review

Oh monsterverse we meet again. As a life long Godzilla fan, way back to watching the original movies with my dad when it was just a guy smashing toys while wearing a rubber suit until today watching them with my children I have always loved Kaiju. I remember watching Kong scale the Empire State Building in awe as planes attached to strings shot him and the two fight each other. Seeing them together will always bring a smile to my face.

Now something new brings a smile to my face. It’s this picture.

The real question is how does it hold up to all the other movies in the monsterverse? Well simply put very well. The movie starts out with Kong out on patrol of his territory in the Hollow Earth searching for more of his own kind, suffering from of all things a sore tooth.

This will eventually lead him to the surface which worries humanity as after our last movie there is a deal between kings and Godzilla,kong stays below and Godzilla stays above. Each has their own territory and they don’t encroach on the others domain.

That is until a new hole and area of the Hollow Earth opens up and Kong discovers he is no longer the last of his species. There is a whole lot of them left under the tyrannical rule of the Skar King and his pet the titan Shimo which is honestly just ice breathing Godzilla.

The movie is largely following Kong and a child of his species as they bond and attempt to free their species from Skar, and when Kong loses his fight and is greatly injured he attempts to enlist Godzilla to help in his fight. I won’t spoil the details of how this comes to pass, but anyone familiar with how the Godzilla franchise has always worked knows he has a flight inclined counterpart that has always had the ability to make him see reason and do the right thing.

The action scenes look amazing as they have in all of the movies so far,and while this has been my least favorite of them all so far it was still an entertaining and well made movie worth a watch. Best wishes and may the Gaming gods bring you glory.

Poltergeist (2015) Review

I am just going to do what the writers of this movie did and use someone else’s work,so here is the movie synopsis from Rotten Tomatoes.

“All seems well for Eric Bowen (Sam Rockwell), wife Amy (Rosemarie DeWitt), and their three children as they move into their new house in the suburbs of Illinois. Soon, the youngest daughter Maddy (Kennedi Clements) begins talking to an imaginary friend, or so the family thinks. It’s not long before sinister spirits wreak havoc in the home, holding Maddy captive and forcing the parents to consult a team of parapsychologists who engage the supernatural entities in a battle for the girl’s freedom.”- Rotten Tomatoes synopsis

Ok so now that I’ve saved myself some time just like the writers did let me put this out there, this isn’t a bad movie exactly. They just created a reboot and then just made in many ways a shot-for-shot remake. Yes, they changed a few things, for example, the ending. However when you don’t change much of the original movie why change what many consider the best part?

I’m not here to shit on the movie like most people have over the years, however. The acting was great, and the story itself still holds up very well. My girlfriend having never seen the original loved it. The movie is good, it is just a bad remake.

Knock at the Cabin Movie Review

Knock at the Cabin is probably the first Dave Bautista movie I have seen that wasn’t in some way an action movie. I wasn’t really sure what to think going into this but it looked interesting.

M. Night has a way of making 2 types of movies, great and why the hell did I waste my time watching this,and I’m happy to say this one falls into the pretty great category because it doesn’t really force you into making any decisions, while also making you feel for both sides of what should be,and is, a crazy situation.

The movie starts off with a little girl named Wen catching grasshoppers outside of the cabin her family is vacationing in. This is when Leonard (Dave B) makes his entrance and instead of his usual style he is simply shown as a very big man walking in the woods.

He sits down and talks to Wen and quickly we discover this soft spoken giant of a man is here on a mission,one he is not happy to be on. We discover Wen has 2 fathers and when asked how she felt about it she basically tells me she loves her dad’s and it’s only when people try to hard that she becomes uncomfortable with them asking about it. (This is obviously done in little kid language) Leonard quicky tells Wen to remember no matter what happens when his associates arrive, he is her friend above anything else.

Things quickly take a turn when they are forced to break into the cabin and let this family know that one of them must be sacrificed to avoid the apocalypse. The rules are simple. Nobody can leave the cabin, this family must make the choice themselves, and they must also make the sacrifice themselves.

What follows is a weird ride if it is true or isn’t it true, discovering one of these 4 may or may not be the homophobic man that attacked one of the fathers in the bar which is what caused this man’s distrust of people and some tastefully done death scenes.

The movie is very well crafted to make you think instead of trying to catch your interest with blood and gore. At times I even found myself questioning the gay couples motives for not making the choice as it becomes more and more clear this may not be some cult sort of thing.

This brings me to Dave’s performance as Leonard. He was phenomenal and even when I felt he was in the wrong for even being there,I wanted to see him win. This also brings me to what you rarely see in movies. Without giving away the end of the movie, neither side is right or wrong in many ways. I found the whole thing interesting. I definitely recommend checking it out. Best wishes and may the gaming gods bring you glory.

Beware: Children at Play

For starters this 1989 slasher is niche as niche gets,I had never even heard of it until @torstenvblog told me about it,which is how we spent New Years Eve, watching Beware: Children at Play.

The movie starts off setting up the soon to be story, a Dad and his son just vacationing in the woods, until dad steps on a bear trap and after days in the woods dies in front of his son.

The rest of the movie focuses on a sheriff and a writer trying to solve the mystery of the disappearing kids in the area. Later you will discover that the missing children are actually cannibals eating people.

The movie itself is,well it’s bad. The acting looks like something from a bunch of high school students who were forced to perform a play and had no real interest in theater. The effects even for the 1980’s not only didn’t look good some made no sense,for example a guy being chopped in half with a scythe but there being no blood on the ground or the weapon. Also fair warning, a trigger warning if you will, there is a sex scene that is basically a rape scene.

The dialogue as well is far from even decent. The movie is however greatly entertaining and I will say the ending itself is probably one of the most ballsy I have ever seen in a movie. The good news is tho you can just watch it on YouTube,which I have shared below. So please go and enjoy this abomination,and may the gaming gods bring you glory.

I Still See You Review

I Still See You is a 2018 movie based on a book that starts off with what is truly a terrifying premise to be honest. An accident at a lab, due to a Hadron Collider, causes a massive explosion. This explosion kills a ton of people and leaves behind remnants.

The remnants are basically ghosts that go through these small loops every day at the same time in the same place daily. For example one old lady crosses the same street every morning at the same time in the same way. Now however everyone can see them.

You can’t really interact with them and if you try they sort of vanish and they don’t even know you exist. They are even governed by 3 laws that have held true since the accident.

This is sort of terrifying honestly because imagine this in the real world, a mother or daughter dying and then simply showing up for breakfast daily or having to see a murder over and over again in your home.

This is also where the movie falls to pieces because the entire plot revolves around this premise falling apart magically but only for this girl and her friend while nobody notices and also those laws that have held true for a decade not being laws,but only in this situation.

The acting is fine, Bella Thorn does an admiral job doing what she can to keep this convoluted plot together. And her co-star and love interest Richard Harmon have some good chemistry. I’d like to see them together in a movie that doesn’t fall apart at the half way mark.

I didn’t hate this movie, it was a pretty average experience. I’d actually watch it again if my friend threw it on. I simply hated that what started out as a great idea that could have been terrifying so easily decided to simply reverse course and say everything they spent time establishing as true was a lie and did it in such a lazy way.

I won’t spoil the movie for you, as always I do hope you will watch it and make your own decision and come back and let me know. Best wishes and may the gaming gods bring you glory.

Hellraiser (2022)

This movie gets a lot of hell (pun intended) and honestly I don’t think it deserves it. I will go on the record and say it is probably the 2nd,if not 3rd best of the series. First off,it’s one of the few movies that still did practical effects in this day and age,so huge shout out to that. Jamie Clayton did a great job playing a difficult role, and unlike the most recent movies in the series this one had a plot and script that actually made some sense.

This time around we basically got to see what would happen if a very rich man got bored and collected the puzzle, had someone solve it and watched them die. Yes he was a very sick man, but at the same time who wouldn’t want to know what that thing did?

Obviously the story builds from there as we meet our main character Riley who’s brother has disappeared and she believes this insane puzzle is responsible,one that she now thinks may be after her (spoiler alert,it is) I truly wish I could get more into the story without absolutely destroying the movie for you all,but it completely would.

What I can say is the practical effects in this movie show why more movies need to go back to using them. Best wishes and may the gaming gods bring you glory.

Troll (Netflix 2022)

Troll from Netflix is one of those movies you watch and leaves you wanting more and at the same time asking yourself what the person who made this thing was drinking. I mean that as a compliment by the way.

This thing starts off with a father and daughter climbing a mountain, a daughter that probably shouldn’t be doing this by the way. Once they get to the top they sit there having a discussion about myths and poems etc and she sees the faces of the trolls that drank too much and turned to stone with the sunlight.

We fast forward about 20 years and this girl is now on a dinosaur dig desperately trying to find some bones before their funding is gone and during a speech about having to have faith and deliver she finds a T-Rex skull. While all this is going on there is some digging and blasting elsewhere and a troll is awakened and gets a bit pissed and kills some people.

Of course in the small country of Norway the government tracks down a bunch of doctors,hacks a cellphone from one of those crushed people and manages to find footage and still nobody believes it’s a troll.

Like most monster movies it takes awhile before anyone will believe this thing is real, and when the big reveal comes the troll actually doesn’t look too bad. It’s about 130 feet tall for some reason and while not as fancy as the newer Godzilla vs Kong movie it looks better than many monsters we have been treated too.

This is one of the closest movies I have seen in a long time to a classic Kaiju film. It’s got a solid story,a giant monster destroying stuff and it looks good while doing it. The movie isn’t by any means fantastic,but damn if it isn’t fun. Check it out,and may the gaming gods bring you glory.