The Review: Eternals

Eternals 1/10

So a while back I was interested in seeing this movie because the MCU has managed to get me interested in characters that I didn't give a damn about previously. But holy crap that really dropped the ball with this one. Between this and Hawkeye (not to mention Black Widow) they have been putting out some stinkers. Not even “That was alright...” stinkers but straight up “I wouldn't suggest this to anyone.” It is so disconnected from the other films that you could watch this on its own and still not be entertained. I'm not gonna put who was in the movie because I don't care to copy, paste, and edit their names. The plot? Uh, some aliens been here for thousands of years giving us shit and find out they supposed to let us all die and repeat on other planets like they have in the past. They kinda like Earth so they wanna stop it. This movie was long as FUCK. I shouldn't even say that because there are others just as long, but this one felt very long. I should have watched this over two days. I didn't but I paused a few times. I didn't rate this a 0/10 because it looked nice. Not the special effects but it was a good looking film. I have spent more time than I intended writing about this trash.

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The Review: Why Did I Get Married

Why Did I Get Married 5/10

Once again L. made me watch a Black film that my ass has never seen but heard of. In case you all are wondering if you click on Black Movies 101. This movie was another example of a group of friends being friends for years but acting like and doing shit only my worst of enemies would do. I let L. know that in almost every Black film we have watched this seems to be a running theme and its weird. This movie is about four couples that meet up every year at a retreat and talk and work on their marriages. Or according to this particular season meet up and reveal all their secrets and fight the whole time. Like, the whole ass time. Things are weird between everyone before they even leave. Let me give some examples and spoil the whole movie at the same time.

The Review: Encanto

Encanto 10/10

You lucky ass kids. I watched Encanto with L. streaming and absolutely loved this damn movie. It made me feel feelings! I seriously have no complaints about this and what makes it even more surprising for me is that I really don't dig animated movies anymore that are computer based. Its the bitter ass pencil and paper guy that draws in me. This is about a girl named Mirabel that belongs to this family of Madrigal's that all have special abilities that began after her grandmother and grandfather was trying to get to freedom and a better life with their triplets. The grandfather was killed and a magical candle appears and builds a magical home and land for everyone. Its really cool. Each of the Madrigal's are given a special ability as a child when a door with their image on it appears. One sister can grow flowers and is perfect, another is super strong, one can hear everything, Mirabel's mom can cure anything with her food. And then there's Bruno...but we don't talk about him.

The Review: The Tragedy Of Macbeth

The Tragedy Of Macbeth 9/10

I'm not gonna sit here and recap the entire The Tragedy Of Macbeth because I know better. I watched this with L. on Apple and really liked it. The way acting and the way it looked were incredible. Thankfully I still understand what they are saying and even got to use this ability while watching. It felt like I was watching a play starring some great stars and a lot of surprises appearing throughout. If you have a chance to check this out you really should even if its hard to understand it is nice to look at. This along with some other films I have seen recently and will be reviewing soon would have made my best of list if I had seen them before the end of the year.

Denzel Washington as Lord Macbeth

Frances McDormand as Lady Macbeth

Alex Hassell as Ross

Corey Hawkins as Macduff

Bertie Carvel as Banquo

Harry Melling as Malcolm

Brendan Gleeson as King Duncan

Kathryn Hunter as the Witches/Old Man

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Sitting In The Aisle: Spider-Man No Way Home

Spider-Man No Way Home 9/10

I'm not gonna spoil Spider-Man: No Way Home. I had some stuff spoiled and it sucks because I am good at avoiding that stuff but with this no matter what channel or site I was on names and characters would pop up. I will say that this movie managed to be better than I thought it would be considering the amount of just....everything that it had to do. This had to cover so much ground in terms of story, characters, resolving of battles, and tales that will lead to future films. There is only one reason why I didn't rate this a 10/10 and I can't even get into that right now. I will do a follow up review after this starts streaming and more people have a chance to check it out. I will say that I thoroughly enjoyed this and when it streams will watch it a few more times because I know there is a lot of detail I missed. This was my favorite Spider-Man movie but not my highest rated.

Tom Holland as Peter Parker/Spider-Man

Zendaya as Michelle "MJ" Jones-Watson

Benedict Cumberbatch as Dr. Stephen Strange

Jacob Batalon as Ned Leeds

Jon Favreau as Harold "Happy" Hogan

Benedict Wong as Wong

Tony Revolori as Eugene "Flash" Thompson

Marisa Tomei as May Parker

J. K. Simmons as J. Jonah Jameson

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The Review: My Brother's Wedding

My Brother's Wedding 0/10

I have other shows and movies I need to review but I gotta talk about My Brother's Wedding that L. and I watched the other day. This movie is trash. I almost gave this a 1/10 because I laughed at so many parts but they were parts not mean to be laughed at and after listening to L. read me a few reviews I started to get the feeling that this movie is supposed to be loved and considered good because the director got to edit the movie the way he wanted or because if you don't like it you don't appreciate small and independent films. Its not the fact that the acting is terrible. The characters are shitty. The filming of it when visible or audible is bad. No. The director got to show the movie the way he wanted so its great. The plot is listed as:

Worst Movies Of The Year 2021

There were so many terrible moves released last year. More than usual actually. I had to cut this list of the Worst Movies Of The Year down a bit. Its like it wasn't bad enough to make a bad movie, they had to make what was bad about them even worse. Like so bad that a few of them felt like personal attacks. Here is the list and if you enjoyed any of these films I envy you.

Best Movies Of The Year 2021

2021 had some really good movies considering that I wasn't able to go to theaters. I went once and it was to see a 1940's film and that felt weird. But streaming channels stepped up and supplied me with a lot of entertainment. This list is very much all over the place but I'm happy that four of them would be considered Black films. Links for each full review below.

Worst Series Of 2021

I thought I had done a Worst Series Of 2021 category before but somehow have not. The past year had lots of good series buy, my god, there were some really terrible ones both old and new. And some that were just straight up disappointing. Here is my list which is funny considering that they were mostly praised by folks.

Best Series Of 2021

2021 had far more good series that I expected there to be. If not for L. most of the shows on this list would not have been watched by me. I had heard of some coming soon but based on posters had no desire to check them out. Usually I have about five shows that I'll enjoy and for the most part they are just the next season of another show. These were all first seasons which is incredible. I will be posting a link to each of these Best Series Of 2021 and a small description of why its on this list.