Watched 2025.
This would get a higher rating if the ultimate reason for the killings was explicable. Cage's character was extreme, I get it, but so what? And again, I don't understand why horror movies have to take place in pre-cell-phone times, except that if everyone had a cell phone it would be harder to let the phone ring for two minutes.
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
Watched 2025.
Other reviews of this movie are positive, but not like mine. In a world of gratuitous sex and violence, this is hilarious escapism. I suppose there are minor plot holes in a plot that is straightforward to begin with, but c'mon, the slow speed boat chase was ingenious. Take a break from Longlegs and watch this movie.
Watched 2025.
The screenplay is careful with the theology of the Trinity. I'm not sure how I would react myself to encountering a vision of a female Black God and a supermodel Holy Spirit, but they keep to their lanes. I was a bit surprised by the portrayal of Wisdom as a separate person; this is a decidedly Old Testament notion.
The portrayal of forgiveness seemed appropriate. It is the not the facing of the sinner so much as the soaring past the sin along one's own journey.
The wife's experience was underwhelming. She seemed to be satisfied to return to the sad situation of not knowing and not forgiving.
Watched 2024.
Most murder mysteries can kill the victim, run the trial of the flawed but innocent character, and reveal the unsuspected killer, all in an hour or two. But this show uses 8 half-hour episodes. The actions of all the characters are extreme, the violence is extreme, and the marital betrayal is extreme. The only normal character is the unsuspected killer. I found the final reveal unsatisfying. The killer simply was not presented as someone who could track down the eventual victim ("just to talk"), snap, and beat the victim with a fireplace poker. Also, the copycat staging at the murder scene had to have been devised and accomplished within minutes, which seems unrealistic.
There should have been an outtake of a family celebration of the outcome where the lawyer shows up with a bill for a bazillion dollars which drives them into poverty. Ha ha ha.
But the drama is pretty boring. Maybe this is unfair because I watched the 3 1/2 hour director's cut. I was curious about the obsessive love Napoleon had for Josephine, but she was not a nice person. There is a brief scene near the end where we hear why Nap's love letters are so well known to this day.
This movie should have been an exploration of the romance with interspersed battles, but instead it was an exploration of Napoleon's hunger for power interspersed with an inexplicable romance.
Very funny in spots, but needlessly pornographic, and the pornographic bits aren't funny.
Watched 2024.
Takes place in Shanghai, unlike the original series which takes place in Japan. The format is similar, and I liked the extra focus on the cooking. But the diner seemed to be open all the time, night and day. There were no memorable stories or characters. There is no indication that the setting was a Communist country. Sexist.
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