The Review: RRR

RRR 9/10

Some movies are just way more fun than they need to be. I had seen a scene from this movie and wanted to check it out. I didn't know what it was about or that it was three hours long. Within the first few minutes a woman was smacked in the head with a log and a child was kidnapped after singing a nice song. The hell is happening?! This is the story of two men with very different ways of achieving the same goal. One dude is trying to get his sister back and another is trying to arm his people by joining with the enemy. That is actually pretty much the gist of this.

Casting Slouch: Who Should Be The Black Panther

Oh, lord. This is way harder than I thought it'd be. I like recasting or making casting wish lists and since there has been this thing online with folks wanting T'Challa recast after the fucked up death of Chadwick Boseman who portrayed Black Panther. Now, I don't wanna recast the character of T'Challa. I want a damn Black Panther though because even though in hindsight that movie wasn't as good as I thought at the time (seriously, that last fight scene looked like something out of PS1). I liked that Black kids had a character that wasn't lightning based or Blade. Nothing against Blade, but, come on. So after weeks of randomly coming back to this and looking up lists of Black actors that I think could play the part I was only able to come up with two people. That's fucking sad.

the Review: Prey

Prey 9/10

I really liked this movie! I finally got a chance to watch Prey on Hulu last night and within twenty minutes realized that this was better than any Predator based movie after the second one. This is about a Comanche girl named Naru that wants to hunt but is being trained to be a healer for her people. Her brother Taabe is the best hunter around and wants her to chill out. One day she and her dog, Sarii, see some lightning in the sky. She lets people know and they kinda ignore her. Her brother brings her along to hunt a lion that attacked someone and the other guys just play along with her. Naru finds a skinned and de-spined snake and sets up a trap for the lion. The lion comes up while in a tree face to face with it they both fall to the ground and she wakes back home. Her brother brought her back and eventually kills the lion.