Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story
Very belated... it was passable, very dated and very shallow but given when it was made and clearly for how little it'd be rude to expect more.
Us
I came into this wary after the staggering over praise Get Out received. This is the better and more consistent film but it still rests at merely average, falling into some of the same trapping. After the two of these it's clear as day now that Peele's 'horror' love is purely from the Twilight Zone mould which is why the plots are so weak in these films, destroying the curiosity of the set up. They're very barely horrors, more low anxiety thrillers until they go too silly at the ends. Lupita is the main draw, she largely carries the film with a cracking turn.
Child's Play
The new reboot, dare I say it... it actually lands it. Tone and execution wise it's actually very similar to the other films but it's actually reasonably thought out. I expected the worst from the idea that Chucky was now just faulty AI instead of the set up of the main canon but they actually carry the whole film out whereby Chucky's logic makes a reasonable level of sense. Some characters are a tad dumb but that's common.
Aladdin
Still weaker across the board than the original but amongst Disney live action films it's probably the best effort they've made with one. Jafar is incredibly poor and there's a few irritations like benny hill sped up movement at times and some of the song re-do's are a bit grating but generally alright.
Very belated... it was passable, very dated and very shallow but given when it was made and clearly for how little it'd be rude to expect more.
Us
I came into this wary after the staggering over praise Get Out received. This is the better and more consistent film but it still rests at merely average, falling into some of the same trapping. After the two of these it's clear as day now that Peele's 'horror' love is purely from the Twilight Zone mould which is why the plots are so weak in these films, destroying the curiosity of the set up. They're very barely horrors, more low anxiety thrillers until they go too silly at the ends. Lupita is the main draw, she largely carries the film with a cracking turn.
Child's Play
The new reboot, dare I say it... it actually lands it. Tone and execution wise it's actually very similar to the other films but it's actually reasonably thought out. I expected the worst from the idea that Chucky was now just faulty AI instead of the set up of the main canon but they actually carry the whole film out whereby Chucky's logic makes a reasonable level of sense. Some characters are a tad dumb but that's common.
Aladdin
Still weaker across the board than the original but amongst Disney live action films it's probably the best effort they've made with one. Jafar is incredibly poor and there's a few irritations like benny hill sped up movement at times and some of the song re-do's are a bit grating but generally alright.
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