Friday, February 21, 2025

Longlegs (movie, 2024)

Longlegs

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.

Thursday, February 20, 2025

Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (movie, 2024)

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.

Monday, February 17, 2025

The Shack (movie, 2017)

The Shack

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.

Longlegs (movie, 2024)

Longlegs Watched 2025. This would get a higher rating if the ultimate reason for the killings was explicable. Cage's character was extre...