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Travelers (2016)
Brad Wright is a Genius.
Top 5 TV show of all time. Brad Wright, the creator, is a Genius. I love this show. I love Mckenzie Porter. Borderline literally. I would fall in love with her if I knew her in real life. I adore her relationship with the social worker David, and the actor who plays him is very charming, kind of an unconfident Chris Pratt, to me. Eric McCormack is brilliantly cast as the leader of the team of time travellers from centuries in the future, when clearly they are living in an extinction-threatening post-apocalyptic world but they do have technological development. Some of the tech they reconstruct here in the 21st century is brilliant. Look, no spoilers, this show is 3 seasons long, all 3 seasons are on Netflix, only the first 2 seasons on Prime and DVD, WATCH IT. It is some of the most riveting world-building ever constructed for TV. Watch the entire run.
Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd (2003)
This film is great.
I was shocked to come across the fact this is a bottom-rated movie. It is sweet, the 2 leads are likeable and funny, and it has one of the most laugh-out-loud 2-hit jokes of my 35 years as a film fan. I'm 40. The cast is great, if you're actually a film fan who's like a walking iMDB for actors, some still visible, some not. It's better than Dumb and Dumber To, overall. Eric Christian Olsen as Lloyd is hiwawious. Watch it, and ffs grow up. Not every film has to be Scorsese. It's funny, has Stifler's Dad (Eugene Levy) as a villain, has Bob Sagat screaming, twice, a total babe as a supporting character (Rachel Nicholls)... I could go on. Don't listen to the haters.
Safety Not Guaranteed (2012)
50 minutes in and no time travel
I like Aubrey and Jake Johnson, but after getting 50 minutes into this film, I think I know why Colin Trevorrow was dismissed from Star Wars: he's a mediocre talent. You don't make a time-travel movie which opens with the promise of time travel, is all about time travel, and don't confirm time travel is possible/going to happen AFTER 50 MINUTES IN. On top of that, without this cast, the film just wouldn't be charming, at least not by the point in the movie I'm at. CT is simply, clearly, not a special talent.
Downsizing (2017)
Hong Chau blew me away
I'm very, very surprised, having just watched the movie, a Matt Damon vehicle no less, that it only made about half it's budget back worldwide. Christoph Walt plays his usual here, Kristen Wiig has a role, but we don't want to talk about that. No, what I took from this film was that Hong Chau is an incredible actress. I don't know her from anything else, but there's a scene around just after the halfway mark where in the middle of a scene/shot that lasts minutes, she starts to cry. It Blew Me Away. The whole delivery. She could win an Oscar one day. Nay, she almost certainly will. It's an interesting film, maybe I didn't understand it, but I don't think its as smart as the Director thinks. The textual story and the visuals are great, but I got the feeling the Director thought he was saying something deeper, subtextual, but I just didn't see it, personally.
Watch it for the 3 principals, Matt Damon, Christopher Waltz and Hong Chau.
Final Score (2018)
Better than you'd assume. Slight Imperfections.
As a Briton, after seeing the trailer for this, I thought it'd be brilliant to see a bunch of football fans blown up. So I watched it the day it was released. I'm also a Drax fan, played by Dave Bautista, who also headlines this movie as a humble-but-hard ex-Army soldier visiting the UK to see his niece and sister-in-law. His brother died in action. The movie is reminiscent of Die Hard, and also Sudden Impact, of course, which it was clearly inspired by (to his credit, and no surprise, Dave Bautista is as enjoyable a lead as prime-era JCVD). I liked his sidekick, a wimpy Brixton-born Arab, who at the beginning of the film an old woman assumes is a terrorist (there is a great 2-in-a-row pay-off to this scene near the end of the film). In the last 10 mins, the story has a few implausible beats (mostly after the end result of the terrorist's actions), I think the screenwriters had written the main action of the film, and resorted to 'the numbers' in wrapping up, but I liked it, it was better than you'd expect. There is a bike chase sequence where I would've chosen subtly different shots, but the Director is quite good overall. Also, for Brits, look out for the Irish-accented supporting role by a star of the British "Shameless"! For Americans, for Brits, for soccer fans world-wide, watch this film. It's pretty great overall, given it's modest budget of $20 million - they got a lot for their money. May Dave Bautista do more British productions...