Last week at the movies vol. 8
Good day everyone, it was an interesting week at the movie theater last week, seeing all kinds of different movies. Let’s get into it :
First up was a movie I knew absolutely nothing about. I hadn’t even seen a trailer, but another YT channel called The Flick Chicks did an out of the theater review of this movie. They are two olderish ladies that appear to enjoy going to the movies regularly as part of their retirement (just like myself) and they enjoyed it so I thought I would take a chance on it as well. It is about Anna-Nicole Smith’s doctor that ended up going to court with two other people from her life after she had died. I found it very entertaining and quite moving and emotional at the end. I learned something new, and was glad I saw it.
Halloween is a week away, and as part of my enjoyment of the spooky season, I re-visited the movie Dawn of the Dead, the first Zach Snyder directed movie from 2004. I vaguely recall watching this at home back in the day, but hadn’t seen it since. I am usually not a fan of the zombie genre, but this movie is great! So funny, great jump scares, and high tension throughout the movie.
Wildwood is the latest release from Laika studios, and is a marvelous feat of stop motion animation film making. I have always been in awe of this type of creativity. The movie is set in Portland, Oregon and having been to this city countless times in my own travels, I recognized many of the places shown. Additionally, if you were not aware, the city does have a park located in the hills above downtown called “Wildwood”. I am not sure if this park is the same one based in the movie, but I wouldn’t be surprised. I have hiked in there and felt the presence of magic and fairies myself. I just am not sure who this movie is for. I don’t think kids will like it, and some scenes are probably not for little kids anyway. It might just be for cinephiles.
In keeping with spooks and scares, the new DC Studios release of Clayface was last week. I was highly anticipating this movie. Not being aware of this villian in the Batman universe, I was looking forward to it, hoping it wouldn’t be a failed villian origin story like so many of the Spiderman villian origin movies over the past few years from Sony. I was not disappointed. It had me squirming and twisting in my seat, and shocked a few times with delight and awe.
Probably the buzziest movie right now is the new Nathan Fielder documentary, You Can See Everything. I have watched the HBO doc The Inventor and only the first episode of Hulu’s The Dropout. Elizabeth Holmes and her company Theranos is a fascinating story and so I was looking forward to learning more through this film. I had absolutely no idea though who Nathan Fielder is. After seeing this movie I did a bit more research on him as a comedian, and I find him to be somewhat akin to Andy Kaufman. I would keep that in mind when watching this. I will not spoil anything here, as opinions on this vary wildly. Form your own opinion, but if you are interested I would say it is very entertaining, the three hour run time flies by, and at the end you will, if nothing else, have something to talk about afterwards.
