The Review: A Soldier's Story

A Soldier's Story 8/10

This is a damn good movie. L. got me to watch A Soldier's Story which came out in 1984 and I only knew one line from this damn movie and it was from watching that show Martin. This is this takes place during World War II and one of the most evil acting man who is a master sergeant is found shot dead on the side of a road. Most people just say the local Klan did it but a captain is sent to investigate this. The thing is is that this captain is Black and there is not many other Black captains if any so a lot of the soldiers are super proud and shocked when they see him and anyone that's white is confused and baffled as to why they need to salute or listen to this man because he's Black.

The Review: Black Panther Wakanda Forever

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever 9/10

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever was great. I know I keep on saying how I rated the first Black Panther film way too high, but honestly I was caught up in so much of the personal hype regarding that film that I forget that the last battle scene was so not good. I also did not enjoy that they killed the villain but Marvel has gotten better at not letting every villain die at the end of their films. This one picks up six years after the blip and T'challa passes away. They don't show how which was very classy of them and I really did appreciate. So now the queen is trying to run Wakanda with people slowly trying to invade it to get some of their Vibranium. Meanwhile Shuri is upset that she was not able to save her brother so she is just burying herself in work.

The Review: The Menu

The Menu 9/10

I finally decided to check out this movie The Menu because a few people I know had seen it and talked about how good it was. They did not spoil it for me which I very much appreciated so I'm going to do the same thing. I went into this movie not knowing anything about it except one of the main actors and that's about it. The basic premise is that about a dozen people pay a lot of money to have dinner on this island where there is a world-famous chef. Once they get there they're served multiple course meals that look extremely pretty and fancy but out of all of them there was only one that I thought I would try. This always happens whenever I see anything very fancy being made. It doesn't look appetizing to me and I know I do not have the pallet or food language to describe what I like about anything that I eat. So at first you're just watching these different people and these different couples talking about themselves mostly and about their lives and then they're interrupted by the chef who explains a small story about each dish and then it continues to get weirder and weirder after every single course until all hell breaks loose. This was a really good movie. I started watching it while I was ironing and then slowly started ironing less and less until I was just very much into this. You can check this out on HBO Max. It's a good quick watch that is in a 3-hour movie doesn't need a sequel and has a satisfying ending.

Ralph Fiennes as Chef Slowik

Anya Taylor-Joy as Margot

Nicholas Hoult as Tyler

Hong Chau as Elsa

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The Review: House Of The Dragon/Pale Blue Eye/Wednesday/The Imperfects

House Of The Dragon 10/10

This is me catching up on the whole lot of different things at once. The first one is going to be House of the Dragon. I watched this show as it debuted and watched every single episode as they came out and absolutely loved it. This takes place a couple of hundred years before the Game of Thrones so you don't really need to have watch that show to enjoy this one. It does help with random little Easter eggs like when you hear a certain name or something and you recall it from Game of Thrones. The basic story of this without getting way too deep into it is that there's a princess and her father and mother who are the king and queen are having trouble giving birth to an heir that is a boy and when they finally do the child ends up dying along with the mother. The princess is supposed to be made the leader eventually but nobody wants to listen to women so she ends up hooking up with her uncle eventually which is really weird and creepy but after listening to so many episodes of that Noble Blood podcast was totes norms back in the day. This show had a really cool story, really good casting even though it was kind of weird to get used to this young girl suddenly being a grown woman. I enjoyed every single episode of this and none were wasted and could have easily watched twice as many if they had made them. Is this show bloody and violent? Yes, very much so. But I would not expect anything less from HBO or the creator of the series of books. This also filled the fantasy whole that was left by certain shows either not coming back or not being made. Every year I need at least one show with some kind of magic or science fiction or something and can't sit around watching nothing but detective stuff all the time.