Wonder Woman 1984

Diana Prince lives quietly among mortals in the vibrant, sleek 1980s -- an era of excess driven by the pursuit of having it all. Though she's come into her full powers, she maintains a low profile by curating ancient artifacts, and only performing heroic acts incognito. But soon, Diana will have to muster all of her strength, wisdom and courage as she finds herself squaring off against Maxwell Lord and the Cheetah, a villainess who possesses superhuman strength and agility.

What in the blue hell was this?   This movie was pretty good for all of about 5 minutes.  The start of the movie where Diana is young and in training was great.   Unfortunately the other 2 hours and 25 minutes were total garbage.  Like seriously.  No point.  Massively overacting bad characters.  The lamest storyline reliant on making wishes that I think I've ever seen in a comic book or superhero movie.  And I guess that Warner Bros were the only ones that thought the effects from Cats were good last year because what the absolute f#@k with Cheetah in this?   

I would not recommend that anyone watch this.  Actually . . . . . . . . strike that.  This movie is so cheesy and bad that I actually think that everyone should check it out just so they can be as WTF as I am.

Soul

Joe is a middle-school band teacher whose life hasn't quite gone the way he expected. His true passion is jazz -- and he's good. But when he travels to another realm to help someone find their passion, he soon discovers what it means to have soul.

Pixar really doesn't know how to make bad movies.   This was a movie about jazz music - which I have never been able to get into no matter how I tried - and spiritualism/souls - which I have always had heavy doubts about and what not.   Yet - they completely pulled me into both because they were both so important to the movie that they pretty much became side characters.   This was not one of the more mainstream Pixar movies and I am not sure how well it would have done at the box office but it was a very well written and thought provoking movie.  

I would definitely recommend people checking this movie out.   It was an amazing watch and although this year in movies is definitely effected by covid - this was undoubtedly one of the better movies of 2020.

News Of The World

Five years after the end of the Civil War, Capt. Jefferson Kyle Kidd crosses paths with a 10-year-old girl taken by the Kiowa people. Forced to return to her aunt and uncle, Kidd agrees to escort the child across the harsh and unforgiving plains of Texas. However, the long journey soon turns into a fight for survival as the traveling companions encounter danger at every turn -- both human and natural.

Westerns have never really been my thing so I tend to have no expectations for them.  There is just something about them that has made it really hard for them to hook me.  This one kind of did though.  It did a great job of kind of taking you there and feeling like you were in those times.  Tom Hanks is Tom Hanks and the story progression was good.  The only real knock that I'll make towards this movie was that I feel like it definitely didn't need to be as long as it was and that made it drag at points.   

I would recommend anyone that was interested in it.  It is definitely a decent watch.  Not a must see by any means but a decent watch.

Promising Young Woman

Nothing in Cassie's life is what it appears to be -- she's wickedly smart, tantalizingly cunning, and she's living a secret double life by night. Now, an unexpected encounter is about to give Cassie a chance to right the wrongs from the past.

This was a surprisingly enjoyable watch.   This was supposed to come out back near when all the movies first starting getting postponed.  Carey Mulligan did a great and convincing job of being out for revenge on the typical guy and what they have put her and friends of her through.  The movie keeps going up in intensity and the twists towards the end were really well done.

I would definitely recommend people checking this bad boy out.  It was a surprisingly good watch.

Fatale

After a wild one-night stand, a successful sports agent watches his perfect life slowly disappear when he discovers the sexy and mysterious woman he risked everything for is a determined police detective who entangles him in her latest investigation. As he desperately tries to put the pieces together, he falls deeper into her trap, risking his family, his career, and even his life.

Here is another great example of what the hell is going on with movies in 2020.  This movie would have normally struggled as a January or September release in any other year.  It is a movie that has been done 7,000 times and is really much more of a Lifetime movie than a wide release in theaters during what would normally be the second busiest time of the year.  This one at least had some name actors but really not much else in terms of substance or story.

I would not really recommend anyone bothering with this.  There is very little hook to this movie and certainly no sexiness in a movie that is supposed to be about seduction and intrigue and what not.

Monster Hunter

A portal transports Lt. Artemis and an elite unit of soldiers to a strange world where powerful monsters rule with deadly ferocity. Faced with relentless danger, the team encounters a mysterious hunter who may be their only hope to find a way home.

This movie was kind of like if you combined Pacific Rim and Resident Evil.  If you are a huge fan of movies like that you might find this somewhat watchable.   For me - it was a 90 minute watch that I kind of forgot about like 10 minutes later.  

I would not really recommend anyone bothering with this.   It's just one of those kind of there movies when it really should have been more enjoyable considering the special effects and the basic watching of people avoiding and then hunting these monsters.

Half Brothers

Renato, a successful Mexican aviation executive, is shocked to discover he has an American half brother he never knew about -- the free-spirited Asher. The two very different half brothers are forced on a road trip together. masterminded by their ailing father, tracing the path he took as an immigrant from Mexico to America.

I don't know that there could be anything to better signal how crazy 2020 has been at movie theaters than the fact that this ended up being a December wide release and was a top 5 movie at the box office for it's first two weeks of release.  It's not that the movie is bad.  It's somewhat watchable . . . . . . . if you were to just randomly stumble upon it late one night on tv.  But for this to have been widely released in theaters is absolutely crazy.  

I would not really recommend people checking this out.  It's beyond formula, not really worth the time and ends up being a "just there" buddy comedy.  I can't believe that this movie is going to be on my blog.  2020 is something else.