Friday, January 10, 2020

Year End, New Decade Movie Dump




JUMANJI: THE NEXT LEVEL
ACTION/FANTASY
  
PLOT:    The sequel to the first movie.

                Spencer (Alex Wolff) is now in college in New York. He feels alone, lost his girlfriend and his self worth is down so he goes a small remaining chip from the game Jumanji and goes back in.  His friends worry about him and reluctantly they go back in the game as well but the game has changed as well their original characters they were in the last time.  It is very good.  It has action, comedy; adventure even a little tragedy too.  It is well done.

STAR WARS:  EPISODE IX: RISE OF SKYWALKER
ACTION/FANTASY

PLOT:    The Resistance and the First Order collide in the final chapter of the new trilogy.

                Rey, (Daisy Reilly),Poe(Oscar Issac) and Finn (John Boyega) are the resistance and Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) is with the First Order along with an old enemy.  If you like action and not a Star Wars fan you will enjoy this movie for it has excellent special effects but if you are a fan-not so much.  They pack a lot of things that are not important and there are many cameos.  There is a character that is interesting and her name is Zorii Bliss (Kerri Russell).  She knows Poe before he became part of the Resistance.  She is tough but has heart.

QUEEN AND SLIM
DRAMA

PLOT:    A first date becomes a frightening chase.

                Earnest “Slim” Hines (Daniel Katuuya) and Angela “Queen” Johnson (Jodie Turner-Smith) go on their first date, small talk and he drives her home.  The problem begins when a cop stops him for he drives a little erratic.  It is cold outside and when Earnest tells him to hurry up the expecting the cop gets mad and so does Angela for she is a criminal attorney.  The cop shoots her in the leg and the two men fight and Earnest shoots the cop.  Angela tells him they must leave and they are on the run for six days.  
             To some they are heroes for many think that cops kill black people and no justice, others are angry at them for they continue the stereotype of blacks being criminals.  The movie is interesting but the couple does dumb things while on the run.  They are not called Queen and Slim except on the news and newspapers. Draw your own conclusion to that.  They are not the black Bonnie and Clyde for they don’t rob banks or kill anyone.  It is realistic and sober.

HARRIET
BIOGRAPHY/DRAMA

PLOT:    The story of the legend Harriet Tubman.

                Harriet Tubman (Cynthia Erivo) was a slave who escaped and freed other slaves by the Underground Railroad.  This is a good movie but I don’t really know how accurate it is.  The performances are fabulous-especially by Erivo.  I hope many people see it to read more about this amazing African-American female who defy all odds and still wanted to help others.

CATS
MUSICAL/FANTASY

PLOT:    The Broadway play comes to the big screen.

                Victoria (Francesca Hayward) is abandon white kitten in a junkyard and is greeted with a tribe of Jellicle cats who wants to be chosen to be reborn by Old Deuteronomy (Judi Dench).  WTF!  I hope the play is better than this!  They have talented actors in the film-most can’t sing. Jennifer Hudson sang the famous Memory but that didn’t sound very good. The strange hybrid of CGI of human and cats is at best SCARY.  Some dance numbers are okay but there is hardly any talking mostly singing.  You shouldn’t always rely on a trailer but if you hated the trailer the film is much worst.  Can Hollywood make a movie musical anymore?

LAST CHRISTMAS
ROMANTIC COMEDY

PLOT:    Kate at Christmas finds love.

                Kate (Emilia Clarke Game of Thrones, Terminator: Genisys) is a singer who makes bad choices on everything.  She gets a job as an elf but is not very jolly until she meets Tom (Henry Golding Crazy, Rich Asians) who makes her feel alive and in love.  It is a cute movie and with the late George Michael’s songs that does help it but there is a plot twist I didn’t see coming which makes it a little sad.  Clarke is bubbly even when she feels nothing is going her way and Golding is handsome and charming.  It is adorable if you like cut love stories at Christmas time.

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