Hereditary

What can I say with out spoilers.

If you love a traditional horror see this. See it now, do not go alone, you’ll need a support group for after.

Toni Collette is fucking fantastic! Yes I dropped an f bomb and yes it was deserved.

I actually saw this on Friday (it’s now Monday) I needed the time to process.

Big thing for me, it’s the first time in quite some time I’ve watched a trailer and major plot lines haven’t been given away. Which I think really helped, I was expecting a supernatural Hollywood movie.

There are elements of that, but it’s so much more.

On Chesil Beach

A story of a young couple who marry in haste, with little knowledge of the world, love, or sex.

The story follows flash backs between their early relationship, and the lead up to consummating of the marriage. This is somewhat hard to follow, the viewer is not always sure where we are in the time line, or who’s perspective we are looking at. I started to get bored.

We finally get to them ‘doing the dead’. It doesn’t go well, it’s been built up in their heads so much it doesn’t actually happen.

She becomes frightened, and disgusted at the whole thing and runs away along Chesil Beach. While there a conversation ensues that changes the course of their lives.

We then jump into the future first to 1975, and then 2007. This part takes about 10 minutes, and the movie ends.

It raised some interesting conversations between my self and my husband afterwards. (The Mr chose this film) We both took different things away from it.

Over all it was an interesting premise, and story but it just could have been so much more.

I was disappointed. Perhaps the whole point.

It is a book by Ian McEwan, I haven’t read it but perhaps try that first.

Avengers: Infinity War

Things. Will. Never. Be. The. Same. Again.

The MCU have done it again, I have no idea where they’re going to go after this. I don’t want to spoil anything….

There isn’t a satisfying ending as we’ve come to expect in the last 10 years, yet it makes it feel like there’s more to come, the story isn’t over.

This is far from over….

Rampage

After suffering a disappointment this morning I decided, rather than wallow in self pity, to get my self out of the house and went to see Rampage.

What can I say, it didn’t disappoint in my expectations of an over the top action movie made for what the cinema intended; entertainment. (Exactly what I needed at the time).

Dwayne Johnson has developed a reputation, and back catalogue, of exciting movies that are simply there to entertain. A safe place where you might guess what’s about to happen, but it’s always a little better, I little sillier, a little funnier, or a little bit more thrilling than the imagination.

This movie is loosely based on the video game of the same name, first released in 1986 on the Atari, with later versions on PlayStation, GameCube, and even Wii platforms.

It features an all star cast made up of The walking dead’s favourite villain Jeffrey Dean Morgan (doing a blinding job of being an asshat who’s not actually an asshat at all). Joe Manganiello, ironically getting in to a show down with a rather angry wolf, Naomi Harris (28 days later), and Malin Ackerman playing a believable bitch.

Think San Andreas, Pacific Rim (the first one) and Jurassic Park make a movie baby, this is the love child.

Totally stupid science, but completely entertaining, and fun.

Pacific Rim Uprising

Ohh dear, the first Pacific Rim was quite a little gem of excitement. With a strong story arc, and believable sub plots.

The latest instalment to the “franchise” however was an extended power rangers episode from the 90’s.

At no point can I believe that teenagers could pilot a jäger. The first film took great lengths to highlight that only a select few good men/women are drift compatible. Strong and well trained individuals, Yet now everyone seems to be able to manage it.

There was of course the spunky girl who’s good at building stuff, and a disgraced ex pilot who can get through to the kids on a different level. At least that’s what we have to assume.

A kiju only makes an appearance in the final 20minutes, one of the crazy smart doctors is now unbelievably stoopid crazy, and there’s a hint at a 3rd movie.

I didn’t enjoy this. I was so disappointed, particularly because I really enjoyed the first film.

If John Boyega wasn’t in the movie it would be horrendous.

With him it’s just terrible.

Although a relative new comer, I think we can expect great things from John Boyega.

Don’t bother seeing this one though.

The Shape of Water.

The first movie I decided to see with my new unlimited movie pass was this years Best Picture Oscar winner ‘The Shape of Water’.

Having watched the trailer I was intrigued, but when one person described it as a woman falling in love with a fish I was a little less intrigued….

On face value ‘Del Toro has out weirded himself yet there is something compelling and beautiful about the whole thing.

Two creatures, however different from each other are able to find in each other the connections they desperately need.

Eliza the kind and caring mute woman has compassionate friends yet is desperate for love and the physical connections that comes from romantic attachment. Highlighted very early on with her vigorous, and daily, self love.

The creature has only know violence, fear, imprisonment, ‘scientific experimentation and being feared.

Yet they’re both the same; unable to communicate in a world that see’s them both as lower beings.

The parallel between the treatment of the creature and the segregation in 1960’s America is obvious but pointed out in a big neon sign during a short scene in a diner. Where we also learn the sexual orientation of Eliza’s next door neighbour and best friend.

The hero’s of the story are all highlighting in some way the marginalised in society. The groups that have been shunned and suppressed in often brutal ways.

The bad guys, everybody else. Every thing around the protagonists is dull and boring. Yet our hero’s? there something fantastical about everything around them.

It’s a story of seeing the real beauty in all walks of life, a story of all beings needing connections with others.

Yet it’s still that beautiful and stunning story of girl meets fish….