Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, 2019 – 1.5/5

Ramen Junkie June 19, 2020 0 Comments

Let’s take everything star Wars has build up in it’s legacy and just complete dump all over it with some randomized nonsense. We still don’t get any satisfactory explanation for the First Order or Rey, or even why the main baddie of this film even exists. Kylo’s entire arc basically goes nowhere, Finn and company get shuffled even more into the useless background.

The first of the Sequel Trilogy wasn’t great but ok, maybe they can go somewhere with all of this. By the end we have three movie which are all almost completely unrelated to each other with a lot of potential that’s completely unrealized because the creators can’t decide if they want to lean into the nostalgia bus full tilt or try to go their own completely different way.

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Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, 2018 – 2.5/5

Ramen Junkie June 19, 2020 0 Comments

I really enjoy the Fantastic Beasts concept for being a movie int he Potterverse about adults who actually just use Magic all the time in their daily lives. The while somewhat shoehorned aspects of the “Beasts” is a little cheesy but it mostly works.

I am looking forward to where this whole series is going, but this particular film is just too meandering and meaningless in the end. The core plot never really gets any sort of resolution that makes any real sense, we never really get any real reason to care about who the LeStranges were or why their lineage is apparently so important. A bunch of fancy eye candy happens as our heroes sort of bumble about while Grindelwald is doing… something… sinister, I guess, in the background.

The core problem really seems like this entire film just feels like a set up for future events, more than a film that really stands up on it’s own.

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Knives Out, 2019 – 4.5/5

Ramen Junkie June 17, 2020 0 Comments

The first hour kind of drags just a smidge but once things get rolling it’s a pretty fun ride.

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Yesterday, 2019 – 3.5/5

Ramen Junkie June 13, 2020 0 Comments

The music and presentation is pretty good as is the cast. I am kind of indifferent to Ed Sheeren being in it, which seems to be a turn off for folks.

Its alright. At least it didn’t go for the expected “It was all a dream” trope in the end.

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Josh Miller aka “Ramen Junkie”.  I write about my various hobbies here.  Mostly coding, photography, and music.  Sometimes I just write about life in general.  I also post sometimes about toy collecting and video games at Lameazoid.com.

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