* Godzilla and Godzilla King of the Monsters - great fun, especially back to back
Good fun, nonsense characters. But then again, you're not there for the human characters.
* Alita Battle Angel - that was great. What a lot of fun. Hope they make a sequel.
Yep, a very pleasant surprise, fun little movie. Pity it had no "ending".
* The Dark Tower - was fine. Not many movies like that. Not enough gunslinging IMO, but fine. Lucky it was short.
To be honest, I thought it was an absurd movie. What you get when you condense thousands of pages into two hours of film. Considering all the times I've cried my eyes out watching him in Interstellar... it was painful watching Matthew Mcconaughey so wasted.
Saw "Joker". Probably not something I'd like to see a second time. However, Phoenix does very well in his protrayal of a mentally disabled guy who becomes the Joker.
Sorry, but I think that is the last retelling of the Joker's beginning that I probably ever want to see. I must be getting older, and at the same time, more choosy when ti comes to what I enjoy in films. On a scale of 1 to 5, I rank it a 3.
I liked it, but felt it was way too blunt. The movie told you what it was about every 20 minutes or so, and in the end, Joaquin Phoenix straghtup tells the camera "society did this! it's all your fault!", which feels a tad childish to me.
As for me, I watched Ad Astra. What a lovely load of bollocks. Very beautiful movie, pretty, very well shot, impeccable CGI, probably some of the best space scenes ever on screen.
I loved the atmosphere, the depressing normality of space travel, the opressive ambience of the Mars colony (for the first time, a movie which makes me NOT want to visit Mars. My chalet on Mariner Valley will have to wait). Brad Pitt was very good in it.
But the plot was such utter nonsense. Amazingly so, considering all the impressive effort taken into making space feel real. I mean, space monkeys or moon pirates are cool, but they make no sense. I feel the plot would have been a bit less full of itself and more clever with its use of mystery. It's got a Blade Runner and 2001 vibe, but its mystery falls flat at the end.
Recommended, if you know what it is: a very beautiful ride through space, and an interesting character piece on isolation and loneliness. Ignore the plot.