Change Your Image
vyrkgrl
Reviews
Beastie Boys Story (2020)
A painted line
What was worth it:
Fascinating little insights about who they knew, their journey and the framework of their history. A couple of little seemingly touching moments.
What wasn't worth it:
For a group who throw themselves out there as edgy and real, this did not come across as real.
Their constant fight for their right to be individuals never seems to be realised because they are too busy performing. That's what this documentary felt like, a performance, a painted line when I was interested in the concrete underneath.
I feel an absence of witnessing any of their morality or character. Maybe they don't even know it.
This may just be a too busy being extroverted and partying to reveal any real sense of self, maybe it is missing but I experienced a few "I'm not sure I like these guys moments."
Or they just didn't want to share that to the cameras.
Either way it was an entertaining look at the Beastie Boys. Welcome to the entertainment business!
Mortal Kombat (2021)
Light, fun, shallow
Bring me some nostalgia!
The worst and the best was Kano. He is horrible and hilarious. They got people for their looks and martial arts abilities but not for their acting, it came out as empty and wooden.
Some characters were amazing, the less wordy their characters, the more easily cool they could be. I loved that this wasn't a soft version of Mortal Kombat, the fatalities were epic, some tongue in cheek jokes showed it didn't take itself too seriously. It felt flat a lot and then the action was too much but some of it made me want to train again and I kept waiting to get excited about fight scenes, some of which were amazing. There are beautiful pockets of wonderful in this even if it was flat on a substance level.
It's fairly typical of an action movie but there were some glorious times. Worth seeing, if just for the playfulness.
The King of Staten Island (2020)
Lifeless, were Pete and director Judd Apatow both stoned for this movie?
The King of Staten Island was boring, depressing and reaching with its comedy. I didn't think they could take two comedians (Pete Davidson and Bill Burr) and make them so unfunny, I love comedians moving into drama as they seem to have enough pain in their lives to evoke emotions. This movie however, conveyed a drought of emotion, leaving only a wallowing of nothing.
One to be missed.