Recent content by Hot Monkey

Yeah it’s very missable. Not terrible just nothing new or original.

Saw End Of Oak Street last night after work. Had a nice retro ET/Welcome to Derry/Close Encounters vibe and of course a lot of Jurassic Park in there as well. Fun flick not earth shattering or ground breaking just fun. I wanted this family to die much less then previous review of Last House.

Watched this on Netflix over the weekend we thought it was laughably bad. Felt like the whole movie, plot, dialogue, etc. was a either entirely AI generated random nonsense or just to worst and silliest COVID lock down metaphor imaginable. Either way it's just awful and I have never rooted...

Watched A24's Death of Robin Hood this weekend. It was IMO a powerful little slow burn tale of regret, repent and redemption. Unapologetically violent and yet somehow also peaceful and moody with excellent cinematography. A total rework of the traditional character retaining just enough lore to...

All my home theater gear was in storage for a couple years during divorce, relocating a few times and eventually landing in our current house. I can attest to it being a joy to get it all back up and running with proper surround sound at home. I didn't realize how much I missed it. Odyssey was...

2nd viewing was better they either tuned up the sound system or our seats were just more in the sweet spot (1st viewing was front biased and painfully loud. 2nd viewing was noticeably more tolerable and more immersive). Maybe a combination of both. Picked up on a few details with 2nd viewing...

Got tickets for 2nd IMAX viewing in a couple weeks. Not missing chance while it’s still on the big screen.

My wife commented on the way out of the theater it felt like when we were kids watching the old Ray Harryhausen stuff but for real. Like actually real. Not CGI... real. This production was monumental IMO. It drew an ovation from the crowd which I have not seen in a theater since Godzilla Minus...

Probably will go back for another (IMAX) viewing of Odyssey. There were definitely some Nolan-ism's to unpack with his version of this classic tale. But there was so much visceral stuff happening on screen that it was hard to think about any of that while simply witnessing and absorbing the...

Odyssey was pretty epic. IMAX sound track was as LOUD as I have ever experienced in any theater.

Got Odyssey IMAX tickets for this weekend can't wait. They had me at 60ft (non CGI) puppet.

Another teaser dropped today. Doesn't reveal a whole lot but I'm fine with that. Staking out my parking space at local IMX theater for 11/03 release.

All I remember about it at the time was that it was somewhat controversial because it depicted what amounted to a grown man who appeared as a young boy (stunted growth from trauma of war, etc.) and there was I think a (not graphic) love scene with a grown woman so everyone freaked out about...

Deacon, Bar none the most intense and historically fascinating WWII film I have seen in years is Come and See (1985). It tells the story of a young wide eyed kid from Belarus enlisting with the Soviet army/resistance to fight Germans as they retreated and laid waste to entire Belarusian...

Found this list on IMDB... WWII Movies From A German Perspective... I have seen a number of them but not for many years. I remember Tin Drum being a big movie about a kid whose age and growth are (I think not sure) metaphorically stunted by the horrors of war. And I have seen several others...