"Leap!"
French film Ballerina gets dubbed into English in awkward girl goes to the city fantasy. Cartoon take is uncanny, but some of it seems to work. Forget about the animation mixing the Eiffel Tower construction wit the State of Libery's, separated by actually 5 years. The story of two orphans in Paris where one somehow befriends Eiffel, but you never seem him, and the other becomes another person in disguise to be the dancer in the Nutcracker, but is caught. Forget that the Nutcracker would not exist for another 8 years. Anyway it's an okay children's movie. May contain some intense action.
"Close Encounters of the Third Kind"
The reissue of the classic movie that inspired so many more, including ET and the miniseries Taken, is the dramatic Spielberg family story of a man who seems to be going insane after an alien encounter on a dark road. The story is more a drama than a contact movie. It is slow paced until the end. Many new generation people will be utterly bored. It is a classic though and pointed the way to more upbeat and action packed copycat films. Last year's The Arrival was a cousin to this, but a generation and more later.The theatrical redo aired in a faux imax showing where the ship models looked crisp and fantastic, but the puppets looked unconvincing as aliens. It wasn't their fault. This is best on bluray. It should be shown in film schools. See it's not really about aliens on the devil's mesa, it's about people discovering they don't belong together, and seems to be a divorce parable.
"Stephen Kin's It"
The 2017 version of, spoiler, one part of the saga of It returns to the screen but now in theaters. It was a miniseries in 1990. It works better as a miniseries. The first film deals with the kids of Derry, Maine, where children are being sucked into a labyrinth like sewer system where an evil clown alien demon is apparently harvesting them. Friends team together as archetypes of King's friends, and go off on a Mary Sue type adventure to find one of their friends' little brother, who disappeared a year prior. What they find isn't him, but trickery from the alien clown demon. Also there are creepy parents, the one girl who might be some sort of vamp, but turns out she is just abused, and also some jump scares. The film was not wholly scary. It had moments, and it seems an onkay horror movie, and it does earn the R rating.
"American Assassin"
This is a movie copying a dozen others, as yet another movie about a rogue maverich agent out for revenge against the cartel that killed his fiance, and yet another coming of age story of young hotshot spy and aged master. It caught interest because of the leads, who were in the film chewing scenery, but story wise is was kind of lame. The spies seem to get out of every bind, and only bad guys get shot. The one messed up fun scene was a simulated town gag where the trainee accidentally shoots through the other trainee because she was annoying, but still, it was staged. It still didn't quitew work.
"Kingsman The Golden Circle"
This is not The Circle, but another movie about a cult. The drug cult is run by a famous star chewing scenery, and she is out to destroy the Kingsman mansion itself, and render them out of the way so she can win the war on drugs, market her own supply, and cure those she deliberately infected. It seems like a fun enough premise, as it is so batty insane, but it's missing something. The lead spy from the first one is now engaged to the girl from the gag at the end of the last one, for no reason. The spies discover their agent man from the church episode last time was in fact rescued by the Statesman, a group that rescues them to Amnerica where we're all living in a faux western, but he's now nuts. For some reason, evil cult lady likes melting little golden circles on people. She has also captured Elton John, as himself. Honestly, what were they on when they came up with this script? It's supposed to be a James Bond spoof, but this is ridiculous. She even dispatches enemies ala a giant industrial meat grinder. Lovely. It should have worked, but it didn't because it was all over the place.
"Lego Ninjao The Movie"
This story was actually in production before the Lego Movie, and looks it, as the effects aren't wuite polished as much as the Lego movie, or the Lego Batman movie. So this was actually first, named for the popular feudal fusion ninja cartoon of the same name. In this wrap around though, an aged Jackie Chan plays his rode from Kung Fu Kid (Karate Kid 5). He doesn't need to be there. The bumpers do not fit. You can tell they were added later to be more like 'The Lego Movie'. For the initiated, the story takes place in the third season after they go to the current century via the time travel episode. It is okay. The crowning achievement is a striped kitty cat secret weapon that does like Godzilla and is summoned into town to trash the hero mechs, because as batty as that sounds, in that universe a Purr Beast works! A similar gag is featured in the 2014 out take footage of Starship Chimera, our fan film, which has been online since then, where a cat disrupts the set filming and is referred to as The Purr Beast out to 'Decimate your enemies with his adorable cuteness!"
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