Oscar and Action Movies to Watch

A MAN CALLED OTTO

COMEDY DRAMA

PLOT:  Tom Hanks is Otto, a grouchy senior citizen who has a heart of gold.  Based on a Swedish movie A Man Called Ove.

WHAT IS RIGHT:  Tom Hanks who loved his job and wife dearly and it was taken away from him and he hates the world but soon starts to care about his multicultural  neighbors is a joy to watch.  The rest of the cast is wonderful too.

WHAT IS WRONG:  It is predictable but still great to watch.

SHOULD YOU WATCH:  YES!  Loss is hard to bear and his only reaction was anger at people.  Very good and very sad.  The only thing I can say is where is the series.

80 FOR BRADY

COMEDY 

PLOT:   Inspired by a true story of four senior ladies going to see Tom Brady at the Super bowl.

WHAT IS RIGHT:  The four 80s ladies Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda (who looks AMAZING!), Rita Moreno and Sally Fields.  It is a cute concept with the team getting into fun and adventure.

WHAT IS WRONG:  You know what is going to happen but still fun to cheer them on.

SHOULD  YOU WATCH:  YES.  If you like the cast and Tom Brady is throughout the movie and is Executive Producer.  It is fun to watch ladies in their 80s have a good time.

ANT-MAN AND THE WASP:  QUANTUMANIA

ACTION/FANTASY 

PLOT:  Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) is happy he was an Avenger and back with his family. His teen daughter, Cassie (Kathryn Newton) made a device to contact the Quantum Realm but the adverse effect the family is sucked in to the Quantum Realm.  They try to find each other but secrets are revealed.

WHAT IS RIGHT:  The spectacular special effects!  You feel you are like in another world.  The cast. Paul Rudd as Scott Lang /Ant-Man is Great!  Michelle Pfeiffer is equally good as Janet Van Pyne who lived in the Quantum Realm and has many secrets.  Kathryn Newton is good as the smart and wants to change whatever world she is in.  The supporting cast is wonderful too.  William Jackson Harper as Quaz who’s forehead glows and reads minds.  Katy O Brian as Jentorra, a female warrior trying to protect her people.  Jonathan Majors as Kang steals the show.  He is evil to the core and does it well!

WHAT IS WRONG:  There is a person from Ant-Man’s past who shows up.  They tell what happened to the person, but it could have been done better.

SHOULD YOU WATCH:  YES.  It is full of excitement, adventure and comedy.

M3GAN 2023

HORROR/SCI-FI

PLOT:  The perfect robotic toy becomes a killing machine.

WHAT IS RIGHT:  M3GAN stands for Model 3 Generative Android. The prototype in the beginning she is loving, protective even a companion and sister. The doll then soon evolves to have human emotions.  She becomes toy Terminator before it is over and it is good.  The leads are women and there is dark humor.

WHAT IS BAD:  It is predictable and it has been done to death!  Machine turns on man or woman or machine wants to control man for his own good.

SHOULD YOU WATCH:  If you enjoy dolls run amuck then yes!  Note:  The movie is rated PG-13 but the studio might have done an R-rated version.  Also they maybe a sequel and when you watch the film you will know why.

 

THE OLD WAY

WESTERN

PLOT:   A cold-blooded gunslinger, Colton Briggs (Nicolas Cage) marries and has a daughter but his past catches up with him.

WHAT IS RIGHT:    Nicolas Cage!  He can still act even if he does strange, quick buck movies and it is a western which they don’t make these days.

WHAT IS WRONG:  The plot you have seen in most western:  revenge!  Brook Briggs (Ryan Kiera Armstrong) is a headstrong, bratty kid you have seen a dozen times over.  The villain James McCallister (Noah LeGros) is the standard bad guy.

SHOULD YOU SEE IT:  Two things:  Nicolas Cage and it’s a western.  If not interested in those two reasons don’t watch!