Monday, March 26, 2018

Pacific Rim 2 is No. 1

Included are over 15 movie reviews with Last Jedi BR will be covered in next weeks blog.

http://variety.com/2018/film/box-office/pacific-rim-uprising-leads-global-box-office-65-million-1202735872/
Great opening and if it continues like this in other countires then we'll get another sequel. Yes!
And finally it bumped Panther off the the No. 1 spot. And enough of Panther. No. 5 all time U.S. ?
Mini review: 3 out of 5
Yeah yeah, simple plot, lousy characters, bla bla bla. Who cares? I wanted more kickass robots and lots more more action and got it. Now the next one just needs more Kaigu through out the movie, not enough in this one even tho we got one hell of a big one to make up for that. (minor spoiler, lol).

http://www.joblo.com/movie-news/pacific-rim-uprising-director-already-has-an-idea-for-the-third-movie-154
That's if this does huge in China. Remember they got tired of robots with the last Transformers. But this deserves another pass. PR2 was much simpler than the first and not as bloated, sorry Del Toro.
But they need to come up with cooler creatures next time around.

Speilberg pissed of at Netflix ( I shortened the link)
Look who's pissed of. I included the IMDB article instead of the original article so yo could read the comments on imdb. They give it to Speilberg good which I agree. He still in old school mode.
More on this when Radio Player One comes out and my review in the next blog. Really Steve?

Movie Reviews: Finally caught up with March releases: 1 - 5 = Bad to Worst.

Sherlock Gnomes: 4: If you like the first one...clever, funny and good mystery plus the songs.
Tomb Raider: 3: Lots of action but still in the shadow of an Indy ripoff.
Wrinkle in Time: 1: Wtf? Total misfire and a total bore. Reese as a Flying lettuce was cool tho.
Death Wish: 3: Great warmup for the next Die Hard. Decent remake with different ending.
Hurrican Heist:1: Syfy leftover. All heist in the gloomy rain. Only last 15 minutes is the poster. ripoff.
Annihilation: 1: Didn't add up to much. And the big mystery at the end? zzzzzzzzzzzzz...
Red Sparrow: 1 for Jlaw nude. Please leave the spy genre to the British. One of the worst of the year.
Peter Rabbit: 2: Some funny then gets redundate. For fans of Paddinton Bear which was better.
Early Man: 2: Say it aint so Gromit.

Honorable mentions:
Atlantic Rim 2: 1: Worst knockoff than the first one. They didn't even try with this one lol.
Hellraiser Judgement Day: 1: Just tired old blood and those 3 chicks were disgusting. What a waste.
Hellraiser JD Commentary: 4: Great filmmaking 101. And on a budget of $350,000. Holy crap!
Ps there a lot more making of on Youtube about the film. Honest director thats for sure.
Cloverfield 3: 1 for the arm making me laugh. FK this franchise already. Hated it from day 1.
Ritual: 1: No big deal until the big reveal of a giant Moose looking creature with a dumb ending.
Death Race 4: 1: They have to stop with these. No imagination with the cars and the action.
Mom and Dad: 3: Nic Cage going nuts as usual. Crazy with a good premise on the plot.
Looking Glass: 1: Cage looks bored. Sexual Psycho thriller. Where? On the Lifetime channel?

At the local theatre:

Wednesday, March 21, 2018

Panther Beating Jedi And Avengers For Top 5

Black Panther to take out The Avengers for the No. 5 spot for the all time U.S. Box Office. WTF?
Next blog: Over 20 movie reviews for March.

Update: Sunday 3/25
http://www.slashfilm.com/black-panther-box-office-highest-grossing-superhero-movie/
Again, WTF? No. 1 in the U.S. and No. 3 after Avengers 1 and 2 world wide. Nobody predicted this, not even Disney. Avengers 3 has to take this out. Sorry but it wasn't all that compare to the gross amount. Well at least Panther beat Iron Man 3, the worst of the IM trilogy.

Previously:
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/pacific-rim-can-it-support-own-cinematic-universe-1096495
What they do is stick to the books that the films are based on. And not do the Walking Dead and be all over the place with the storyline and make up half the crap that the show does. But there is still so mch potential to this franchise. Here's my mini-review:
PR2: 3 out of 5. Compare to PR1 its apples and oranges. Not as tight as the first one. But this gets the edge as most of the action takes place in daytime and not at night amoung rain storms and the action can be clearly seen and not with frantic editing aka Transformers especially in the second half where they go all out assault. PR3? Bring it on !

Panther is Hollywoods Worst Nightmare
Panther is just about to take over the top 5 of U.S. all time passing Last Jedi at No. 6 and beating
The Avengers of the number 5 position. This will be Marvels biggest picture ever in the U,.S. market.
How the hell did that happen? But it shouldn't last long. Avengers IW should beat that unless its the biggest turd this side of Justice League. But as the article states, besides Han Solo, the competition doesn't have a chance till the summer. And even that doesn't look good with more sequels, ugh.
PS They forgot to mention one comparison with Titanic. The big picture that took on the ship was James Bond Tomorrow Never Dies, the 2nd Pierce Brosnan. Man that got buried by the iceberg.

Well, while I like Panther (3 out of 5), this has to be the most overrated Marvel film since Iron Man 3 (Sucked!) and Avengers 2 (disappointing) to be a big Box Office hit at over $1B in ticket sales.  I just don't get it. Of course the fans are connecting the dots with the big action piece taking place at Wakanda for AIW so Panther is a must see for that alone I guess. When we go back live in May we'll have our take on the whole Marvel money machine. And how big will Solo be after all this?

http://variety.com/2018/film/news/pacific-rim-uprising-box-office-preview-black-panther-1202731544/
Whether it beats it or not is besides the point. Sure PR could be No. 1 for the weekend. But not a big deal when you have BP beat Avengers for that No. 5 spot.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/filmart-chinas-return-surging-box-office-growth-fuels-dealmaker-optimism-1095335
If you look at boxofficemojo.com you'll see in the top 5 world wide are films from China. And while Panther did huge opening weekend, they did the Last Jedi and killed it the 2nd week after bad word  of mouth shut down the box office. That hurt it from entering the top 10 all time. China does not play around, thats for sure.

http://variety.com/2018/film/asia/deadpool-china-premiere-at-beijing-festival-1202729650/
And for a complete contradiction, how is this happening considering the first one was banned. While it is a festival, why bother showing it if it's not going to get a major release to begin with.

https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/article/jon-favreau-will-write-a-live-action-star-wars-series-on-disneys-streaming-service-and-more-movie-news/
They should have Favreau do the movie Trilogy. Lets face it. He got Iron Man 1 right. Never mind 2.
And everyone hates Rian Johnson for Last Jedi. He's already getting the blacklash and who knows what that story is about.

http://www.joblo.com/movie-news/steven-spielberg-confirms-indy-5-begins-shooting-april-2019-in-the-uk-210
Indy Jones and the Fountain of Youth. I always wanted The Lost city of Atlantis to be told but after The Crystal Shit Skull we don't need another Indy. Let this die already.




Tuesday, March 06, 2018

Black Panther Top 10 U.S. All Time


WTF? Again? I take another break and all hell breaks loose with the MCU and the fish story wins the Oscar. So another catching up write up and the Oscars review will be in the bonus section.

Update:
http://www.darkhorizons.com/infinity-war-headed-for-235m-opening/
LOL, I dont get this at all. It's the same studio! They want to beat Last Jedi count and it's still Disney. It's like competiting against your own twin brother. "Mom likes you better!" 

http://www.darkhorizons.com/walking-dead-sinks-to-s1-level-ratings/
1. Stop knocking off fan favorites 2. Negan needs to be eaten by a Zombie already, so annoying.
3. Nobody count from Daryl! He needs at least  5 minutes every episode to get his freak on.
4. Highest ratings Sunday night? Low ratings + high budget = Cancelled!

http://variety.com/2018/film/news/avengers-infinity-war-release-date-moves-up-1202714656/
Wow, the studio really wants that acknowledge for biggest opening ever. And screw up everyone else schedule and as this Tuesday morning they moved up Rampage a week. Now this is funny. And lets face it, this wouldn't happened if Jumangi made so much money giving Johnson the right to pull this off. Studios, just like spoiled children. "He's got Ice Cream, I want Ice Cream!"

https://movieweb.com/marvel-mcu-10th-anniversary-character-posters/
With Black Panther being one of the biggest hits in the MCU, this is a great recap before going to the next phase at the same time keeping it new with their new looks and costumes. Just more gravy before the big premiere of Avengers IW.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/box-office-will-black-panther-conquer-china-1088437
This includes a video promo shown in China with RDJ which is pretty cool. Well after breaking the all time top 10 U.S.and the top 50 World Wide,  and on it's way to breaking the $ 1 Billion mark, how much can China help on top of that? And does it matter? Well to the studios it does. but lets face it. Superhero movies and Star Wars franchise do not clear $100M mark but Pacific Rim made over $200M did. Go figure.

Oscars Review: (dedicated to the few who saw this show, lol)
Shades of Water was the big shocker. It was suppose to be a showdown between 3 Billboards and Dunkirk but instead Dunkirk got the tech awards instead of Shades and Shades got the Oscar.  At least Billboards got some of the acting awards. But the best thing is we fantasy/sci-fi/horror fans got one in our corner. The last big one was Return of the King. Now the only thing Del Toro has to do is direct a Godzilla film. Done. Drop Mic.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/tv-ratings-oscars-eye-new-low-early-numbers-1091636
Really? You nominate films that no one saw and leave Wonder Woman of the list when there was still a spot open to include one more film for a total of 10 films. So what audience is the Academy looking for? Either way they sure miss the boat.  On top of that the show was boring as hell.
Even tho Shades was the big surprise of the evening I was ok with most of the wins especially Roger Deakins finally winning for his camera work after 20 nods. It was about time. The rest? Meh...
But special shout out at the Memoriam Section, they included the first actor to play Godzilla. Now that was cool. And one of our members from our Godzilla community posted that on our page. Good to know I was not the only one watching the show.

http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/927583-meh-the-emoji-movie-named-worst-picture-at-the-razzie-awards
If any picture deserves to be trashed it's Transformers. Yeah Emoji  was a waste of time but, hell, there was a lot worse pictures that deserve to be on this list. Sure Baywatch was a waste of time but again, it plays better at home especially those Zac Efron jokes by Johnson. Those were funny. Have to give to Dwayne Johnson for Baywatch accepting his Razzie on Instagram. Well what else can he say? He's got 2 films coming out back to back, so he's gotta smile about it, lol.

Bonus:
So who thinks that Del Toro should direct a Godzilla movie?
My bet? Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla. He did Kaiju and robots in Pacific Rim so why not?
Hmm that sounds like a poll for our Godzilla Community, lol.
Directed by Del Toro, listen to the Godzilla roar at the very beginning, right after the zombies.