Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit enjoying his quiet life, is swept into an epic quest by Gandalf the Grey and thirteen dwarves who seek to reclaim their mountain home from Smaug, the dragon.
Watched with my youngest (8). She liked it but wanted to know why the Eagles didn’t just fly them to the mountain.
[insert “wormtongue – a just question” meme]
★★★
Jack's got a blood debt to pay: he owes his soul to the legendary Davy Jones, ghastly Ruler of the Ocean Depths. But ever-crafty Jack isn't about to go down without a fight.
We watched the first Pirates of the Caribbean with the kids (8/11) and they liked it, so we watched this. And they spent the whole time saying, “wait, what’s going on? Why’s he doing that?”
We had to have a chat about how some films look good, have fun things in them, but make zero sense, even by their own rules.
★★½
David Housden · Song · 2012
Where Are You? by David Housden
nervous_testpilot · Song · 2012
Schism by nervous_testpilot
Does anyone else despair when even Microsoft’s own apps default to C:\Windows\System32 in the file dialogue?
A prequel to the first two Underworld films, this fantasy explains the origins of the feud between the Vampires and the Lycans. Aided by his secret love, Sonja, courageous Lucian leads the Lycans in battle against brutal Vampire king Viktor. Determined to break the king's enslavement of his people, Lucian faces off against the Death Dealer army in a bid for Lycan independence.
This is an exceptionally odd film. I probably let the gap between watching part 2 and this, part 3, get a little large but that wasn’t the end of the world. As I recall, I think this basically fleshed out the big reveals from the end of part 2?
And it’s weird because, in a franchise where previously a big draw was Kate Beckinsale in very tight leather/pvc, this is really a Romeo and Juliet tale of forbidden love. But with vampires and werewolves. The vampires aren’t even all that vampiric.
And it does it competently. I’m not sure there is much more to say than that. It’s a solid three stars across the board. I don’t think it’s fair to say a film is bad because it lacks any real ambition. If you have any investment in the “universe” I think it’s worth the admission fee. It cost $35m and made $91m at the box office, so plenty of others agreed.
★★★
If I was to start a movie podcast I think it’d be called “In Defence of Average”, in which I talk about genre films that are in no way bad, were successful at the box office, yet are generally derided.
You know, when you unsubscribe and tick “Did not sign up”, we can check. You know that, right? We can see when you signed up, how and which emails you opened. Yeah, sounds a bit creepy but, still, there it is.
It’s clearly not a business plan. I know people won’t make a Twitter account so they can see that funny video in that tweet… so I just find it on YouTube…
And I just screenshot posts…
I feel like the UK government will wake up to the risks of AI-generated content at about the same time a “deep-fake” of Rishi Sunak declaring war on Russia goes viral. These new technologies improve exponentially fast. We could be looking at “perfect” quality by the end of 2024.
