jro, I'm enjoying your movie review blurbs. I see you have at least a passing interest in French new wave of horror type films. Martyrs is amazing...
Are you going to watch Gaspar Noe's upcoming film 'Love?'
Thought I would chime in about the Babadook as well. I thought it was genuinely creepy at times, and the message in the end made it worth watching, even though it was basically spelled out from early on.
Also, here is one Matthew McConaughey film I want to see:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_of_Trees_(film)
I have developed a bit of an interest in the French New Wave stuff, I would definitely agree with that- kind of picking and choosing for now- I'm sort of tempted to watch the other two movies I Stand Alone and Carne to finish that series out, but Irreversible was so utterly odd that I'm not overly eager to pursue Noe all that much further- I would be more interested in watching Love, for sure- the 3D is an interesting choice, though I don't know if maybe he's actually getting a little overboard at this point : (
poster here is extremely NSFW). I'll buy the 3D Blu-Ray when it comes out, no doubt, but my expectations, I guess, won't be all that high. It almost sounds like hardcore porn reading about it. I also have wavered on
Enter the Void- I can't tell if it sounds awesome, boring as hell, or some of each. I'll probably get it sooner or later, I guess.
I have to re-watch
High Tension one of these nights, see how it's aged.
Well...anyone seen bla, bla, bla Ultron yet? I'm interested to hear the reviews on this one.
Personally, being completely underwhelmed by The Avengers, I probably won't see this on unless it's free or silly cheap.
I saw
Avengers: Age of Ultron today. It makes for a phenomenal experience while you're watching it, more so than the original, but then when you get a chance to think about it, it's not quite as great.
That's not overly helpful, I suppose, let me try to explain.
In the moment, the setpieces and the character interactions were fantastic (Scarlet Witch and Ultron were both awesome throughout, and when Vision shows up he's also badass), but there was an odd, nagging sense of "there's too much shit in this movie" that only gets more pronounced when I have a chance to go, yeah, half the stuff that they did was blatantly stupid or horribly contrived (Scarlet Witch is great, as I mentioned, but the Wonder Twins as a whole weren't handled well at all, and the others constantly pick the single hardest way to do anything).
The ending was oddly anticlimactic, too. The idea of how it ends is much more interesting in theory than in practice, IMO.
Also didn't really go for the way the next Avengers were revealed- impossible to say anything without spoilers, I'll just say it was like "hey, oh yeah, in Infinity Wars, these guys will be center stage, even though they collectively did jack and shit in the 150 minutes you just watched!"
So, summing up- Pros: several interesting new characters in SW and The Vision, the Hulkbuster is cool, Ultron is a good bad guy.
Cons: overstuffed and then some, oddly similar to the original (substitute robots for Tutari), some weird choices with character motivations and actions, and a weak ending.
Fun to watch, but about a mile wide and an inch deep. Not as good as the original
Avengers or even in the same stratosphere as
The Winter Soldier or
The Wolverine.