When you reply to a request with “I don’t understand what you need me to do” and the response doesn’t actually provide any clarification but expands on why the person cannot do it themselves…
 
It means they don’t understand what they need you to do either.
Watched The Hunt (2020) from letterboxd.com
Twelve strangers wake up in a clearing. They don't know where they are—or how they got there. In the shadow of a dark internet conspiracy theory, ruthless elitists gather at a remote location to hunt humans for sport. But their master plan is about to be derailed when one of the hunted turns the tables on her pursuers.

I always thought Betty Gilpin was kind of badass.

★★★½

Watched Host (2020) from letterboxd.com
Six friends hire a medium to hold a séance via Zoom during lockdown — but they get far more than they bargained for as things quickly go wrong. When an evil spirit starts invading their homes, they begin to realize they might not survive the night.

The kind of film where, afterwards, you think twice before switching the light on. Or turning round too quickly.

Or the dog next door coughs as you pass the window and it scares the living shit out of you…

★★★★

Watched Piranha 3D (2010) from letterboxd.com
Each year the population of sleepy Lake Victoria, Arizona explodes from 5,000 to 50,000 residents for the annual Spring Break celebration. But then, an earthquake opens an underwater chasm, releasing an enormous swarm of ancient Piranha that have been dormant for thousands of years, now with a taste for human flesh. This year, there's something more to worry about than the usual hangovers and complaints from locals, a new type of terror is about to be cut loose on Lake Victoria.

Sadly I did not see this in 3D.

If you are looking for boobs and gore this delivers in spades and on that basis I can’t fault it. I don’t even think it is trying for any real tension. It’s just shore to shore bikinis and blood.

★★★

Watched Alita: Battle Angel (2019) from letterboxd.com
When Alita awakens with no memory of who she is in a future world she does not recognize, she is taken in by Ido, a compassionate doctor who realizes that somewhere in this abandoned cyborg shell is the heart and soul of a young woman with an extraordinary past.

I liked it a bit more on second watch. The visual effects are way better than I remember. I dunno if I just took against those big eyes.

I think another factor is that now I have seen Rotoscoped Rosa Salazar (in Undone) I can see her performance in Alita, and somehow that elevates it for me. Like you can see the Andy Serkis in Gollum (right?) You appreciate what the actor is doing under the CGI that bit more.

The script clangs a bit in places and I can, in no way buy Waltz and that massive hammer.

I kind of would have liked to see the second part now. Shame.

★★★½