Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

A charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers embark on an epic quest to retrieve a long lost relic, but their charming adventure goes dangerously awry when they run afoul of the wrong people.

I am stunned at how much I enjoyed this movie.  I had honestly only gone to see it because one of my nieces has had the family role play through stuff like this and it has been hilarious so of course we had to see this.  And then the movie was actually a fun as hell ride.  If felt a lot like a Pirates Of The Caribbean or Jungle Cruise kind of ride.  You turn off your brain and just be entertained by it all.  

I would shockingly recommend people checking this out.  Never thought I would say that but this movie was a lot of fun.

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After a catastrophic crash on an unknown planet, pilot Mills quickly discovers he's actually stranded on Earth -- 65 million years ago. Now, with only one chance at a rescue, Mills and the only other survivor, Koa, must make their way across an unknown terrain riddled with dangerous prehistoric creatures.

This was one of the most pointless big budget special effects movies I have seen in a long time.  Like completely pointless.  It was a random lobbed up Jurassic Park wannabe.  And on top of that - if you watched the trailer you legit watched the whole movie.  Like this was really just a 90 minute throwaway movie.

I wouldn't recommend anyone bothering with this.  It's a waste of time and money.

Creed III

Still dominating the boxing world, Adonis Creed is thriving in his career and family life. When Damian, a childhood friend and former boxing prodigy resurfaces after serving time in prison, he's eager to prove that he deserves his shot in the ring. The face-off between former friends is more than just a fight. To settle the score, Adonis must put his future on the line to battle Damian -- a fighter who has nothing to lose.

The movie is incredibly formula in every possible way.  There is nothing that you don't know is going to happen long before it does.  But it keeps you hooked.  The build up is good.  The direction was good - and even better when you factor in that Michael B Jordan directed it.  The performances were strong.  And Jonathan Majors continued his Hollywood takeover by completely owning every scene he was in.  The boxing was filmed in a different way that made it look more like a HD video game and that really worked well.

I would recommend any fan of the franchise checking this out.  It is definitely my favorite of the three and you can give the majority of reasoning for that to Jonathan Majors for sure.

Shazam! Fury Of The Gods

Bestowed with the powers of the gods, Billy Batson and his fellow foster kids are still learning how to juggle teenage life with their adult superhero alter egos. When a vengeful trio of ancient gods arrives on Earth in search of the magic stolen from them long ago, Shazam and his allies get thrust into a battle for their superpowers, their lives, and the fate of the world.

This was one of DC's more difficult movies to watch.  Not only was it a just there movie that definitely dropped off from what was a somewhat fresh original comic book movie entry.  But the fact that the villain was one of the most miscast things I have ever seen in Helen Mirren and then the fact that this movie is part of a massively failed DCEU that is being disbanded just made it so beyond pointless.  Like the two credit scenes literally referenced a Black Adam/Shazam crossover even though Black Adam has already been declared dead and a third Shazam movie that will never come to pass.

I would not recommend anyone really bothering with this because you are just giving DC/WB money for movies at this point that are completely pointless.

Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania

Ant-Man and the Wasp find themselves exploring the Quantum Realm, interacting with strange new creatures and embarking on an adventure that pushes them beyond the limits of what they thought was possible.

Um . . . . . . this might easily be the most disappointing of all Marvel movies.   Jonathan Majors is AWESOME as King and that was easily the best part of this movie but outside of him there really wasn't much else to take from this movie.   Also - MODOK might be the single worst thing that Marvel has ever done.  What in God's name made any part of that seem like a good idea.  Marvel has pretty much gone waaaaaaay too sci-fi and waaaaaaaaay too CGI at this point.  I really wish that they could reign that in a lot.  

I would still recommend seeing this of course to continue with the overall MCU storylines but this was definitely massively disappointing.

Knock At The Cabin

While vacationing at a remote cabin in the woods, a young girl and her parents are taken hostage by four armed strangers who demand they make an unthinkable choice to avert the apocalypse. Confused, scared and with limited access to the outside world, the family must decide what they believe before all is lost.

Sadly there was literally nothing more to the movie outside of the trailer.  Like the whole movie was just a philosophical question without really defined progression and there was some kind of pointless flashback stuff to flesh out the family that is posed said question.   And worst of all, with this being a M Night Shylamanananana movie - there was no twist.  Like if there was ever one of his movies that needed a twist this probably would have been the one.   Very weird and the movie just kind of ended up being there.

I wouldn't really recommend anyone bothering with this.  There is so little substance to it which is honestly shocking because of the high premise trailer.