Recently Watched Films

This one was pretty solid. Early on I was a bit afraid it would turn into a cringey comedy, and I found Katy annoying most of the time, but otherwise it was mostly quite fun, and I did like both the MC and the villain quite a bit (this is definitely NOT one of those MCU movies where the females upstage the males, lol) I thought the middle stretch was the most enjoyable, though the ending was still mostly fun, aside from some extreme "WTF" levels of CGI 

The first Lerner and Loewe musical since My Fair Lady, and what do they do with it? Why, it's My Fair Lady II: The Paris Edition! Looks incredible (costuming and direction both rightly praised), but the story is weak as is often the case in musicals, and it's just not as memorable as it's predecessor.

The characters from it were previously announced to appear in Doctor Strange 2, but that doesn't seem to have happened in the end. 

Well, I don't think it's the worst MCU movie, but that's only because the two Ant-Man movies exist 

I can easily see why it's widely considered the worst, though, because oh boy is it ever one hell of a mess. I've seen people say a more fleshed out Disney+ series could have worked better, but I'm honestly not convinced there's much of a story or memorable enough characters here in the first place. There was nothing outrageously bad for the most part (one late movie "twist" had me laughing my ass off like a maniac at how stupid and predictable it was, lol) but it somehow felt rushed and poorly paced at the same time, like it managed to drag while also feeling like it was randomly jumping between scenes and different times periods for no reason. There were a few interesting parts here and there, but overall it was definitely not a good movie, and the whole "Eternals will return" definitely feels more like a threat than a promise, lol

Quite a gentle feel-good movie, which I suppose was what people wanted sometimes during WWII. Despite being about a Catholic priest, the religious element never seems to intrude or get preachy. It's also classed as a musical, but it's really more a movie with songs in.

A day in the life of a Scotland Yard inspector. A rare British film from John Ford. Played in a really quirky way - not an outright comedy - but manages to really nail the British sense of humour. An achievement for a director with Irish ancestry who apparently didn't have much time for us Brits. 

Wow, one hell of a story! And so fucking long... It's a lot better than I expected. Some bits of it are kind of shit, but there's some proper drama which still holds up today in others. It's often called racist, as it glorifies the antebellum era of the southern states, but I think it also reflects a lot of the attitudes of both the 1860s when it was set and the 1930s when it was made which makes some people uncomfortable.