Movie Review: Rogue One

Good morning, good afternoon, good evening....whenever it is you have found todays entry.  Today, 10/10/17, I am checking out the Star Wars Rogue One flick.  It stars Felicity Jones, Diego Luna and Alan Tudyk.  "The Rebel Alliance makes a risky move to steal the plans for the Death Star, setting up the epic saga to follow."  I am not a huge fan of Star Wars but we will see if I like this one...I'm hoping for some Jar Jar love here, the best character in Star Wars history (yes...let me feel your hate!)  Oh it has a 7.9 on IMDB with 366,603 votes (I'm surprised it is that low, I figured all the Star Wars nerds would have given it a 12/10)

• There is our star I bet, in the past
• Yes trust the force, it has done so much for us so far...you know since we're filthy living in dirt and squaler
• Are they going to get sued by Battlestar Galactica?
• That kid runs funny
• The kid who is against the Empire had a Stormtrooper doll?  That doesn't make much sense
• Forest Whitaker is in this?  Nice, at least this one will have some decent acting...writing probably not so much but acting
• JESUS HE JUST KILLED HIS CONTACT!  The Rebels are such nice people, I can see what I would trust them
• The future...er....past....er....whatever sure is dirty
• CHOKESLAM!

• How many planets have we seen already?  Instead of wipes in this flick it is going to be new planets, at least it is something new for Lucas
• The rebels sure are nice people...have I mentioned that
• Does Star Wars have to have robots?
• And do all robots have to be annoying
• What is what Star Wars always having a shot of people watching a ship take off?
• Okay maybe I'm wrong about good acting, it looks like they gave Forrest a stupid gimmick
• The Star Wars Universe does love their capes don't they?
• I hope Forrest got a lot of money for this and what the director wanted for his "performance"
• Good grief what was that?  Chuckys Star Wars cousin?

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• The thing above looks like a critter with a body
• I love that Storm troopers can't shoot anyone or anything but everyone else is like the crew of the Walking Dead, never missing
• this is such a weird story and like so many star wars before it I am bored
• Fire in space?
• Are we sure this main character isn't the same as in Chapter 7?  She behaves the same
• I can't understand a word that guy is saying
• Wait...he is going to shoot the guy who is helping them?  I don't get this rebellion group
• Why is it the Alliance hasn't replaced the Storm troopers since they are completely incompetent.  
• What is the line from Spaceballs because good is stupid?  Yeah...talking about you Jyn
• Didn't move any of those other bodies though huh?  Guess if you're laying down nothing can move a body
• Wait...shouldn't Vader be crying right now?  That is what Vader does right
• Is that Ackbar?  
• So there is a rebellion in the rebellion?
• A bunch of steam as the doors open seems like a horrible flaw for things like an ambush
• That scene was pointless, just to put C3PO in the flick
• instead of running from the AT-AT shouldn't you run toward it so it can't shoot you?
• Goodbye Porkins....oh wait are you saying that isn't this movie?  Are you sure?  Okay
• They are only NOW sending all those tie fighters out?  Why?  
• So they can build robots but they still use tape technology like in Hackers?
• Those ones have black armor, are they like level 2 storm troopers?
• Why is there wind in the data storage tower thing?
• Of course, the blind guy can do it because the force is with him, of course
• Why aren't they shooting the guy cradling his dead buddy?
• Wait....are the storm troopers actually able to shoot and kill people suddenly?
• Ah yes the Video Game moment
• So it only broadcasts if it straight up and down?  Why make it move then?
• And why put it out on the end of a giant bridge?
• Who designed this shit?
• So everyone dies?  
• Ah the second video game moment with Vader attacking the ship
• Well that was creepy!

Well that was a movie.  I think like most Star Wars it is over rated.  7.9 is too high, I guess I'll give it a 7/10.  It is average.  However the stupid character design and weird gimmicks with little to no reasoning bugged me.

And I'm sorry there are so many weird plot holes that I could drive an imperial cruiser through to give it any higher and honestly I am going to readjust and give it a 6/10.  Take in the average acting and that dropped the score down.  Sorry to fan boys out there that loved this flick but I just didn't.  I feel like there was stuff left out for me to understand.  Now you could argue that this was for star wars fans and they "know" all that was left out but that doesn't make a good movie.  

So give me your hate fan boys, I'll take it and love it!  LONG LIVE JAR JAR BINKS!!!

Movie Review: Inferno (2016)

Good morning, good afternoon, good evening...whenever it is you have found this entry.  Today (9/12) I am watching the Ron Howard flick Inferno.  It stars Tom Hanks, Felicity Jones and Irrfan Khan.  "When Robert Langdon wakes up in an Italian hospital with amnesia, he teams up with Dr. Sienna Brooks, and together they must race across Europe against the clock to foil a deadly global plot."  It is based, in part, on the Dan Brown book.  It currently has a 6.2/10 on IMDB.

• We do have too many people on the planet, that is true.
• I wouldn't flip the switch, screw humanity!
• Strange dreams, I understand that, I get them a lot too...usually about unicorns
• There are worse places to wake up, like Detroit!
• Well that was pretty straight forward, lets kill everyone in the way, gotta love the direct approach
• Wow...shooting people in public seems much easier in the movies then I assume it is in real life
• I don't trust this doctor lady
• Wait...she took his clothes from the hospital, did she lose them?
• Should I have been able to tell what that was on his back?
• Weird kid is right!
• Why do most billionaires look like douches?
• I actually agree with some of what this nut job is saying
• Is this going to be one of those movies where everyone is against Hanks?
• So everyone that is looking for you is outside the garden...so you sneak into it?  
• Tom Hanks runs weird
• I am not a fan of this flick thus far, way too much flashing around
• Half the world?  How would she know?  Oh right the youtube video
• The niece looks like Zooey
• This kind of thing seems to follow the Professor regularly
• A tour goes up there?
• I think I'd take the heels off, but what do I know
• That is a hell of a flashlight!
• Yeah, the "can't remember anything for the last 48 hours" is a great plot device
• So are we going to find out this guy is actually the bad guy and Elizabeth and the guy from Jurassic Park is actually the good guys
• I would think that the fire extinguisher to the face would be enough but not in movies
• They would be really good at Where's Waldo as easily as they picked that guy out of that crowd
• The problem with these movies are they are often predictable  At some point there will be at least one more double cross if not two
• And 30 seconds after I wrote that there is yet another double cross
• Oh wow, that *IS* Ben Foster...he was kind of chubby during this flick
• Nobody finds it weird this guy is dragging a body around?  Movies are so weird with things like that
• Humanity is inhuman, good quote
• Why the gloves?  
• This is like that movie the Game
• Something isn't right about that memory is it?  Is Elizabeth going to turn on the Professor as well?
• The problem with trying to make us think that the bad guy is going to win is it happens so rarely.  This should be a heart beating in your chest moment and i have no doubt they'll stop it
• Of course they'll study it so that they can weaponize it....er....study it

Like the other "Dan Brown" movies this isn't a bad movie.  It is quite contrived, in my opinion, but that is what makes them fun right?  The acting was well done and honestly it was hard to know who was good or bad.  So between good acting and good writing I found that good.

I would give it a 7/10, so slightly higher than the average but average for me on non-bottom 100 flicks I think.  

I can't really say anything good or bad about the flick, it was just there.  Standard Tom Hanks/Dan Brown/Opie flick.  There wasn't anything new or ground breaking in the film and like I mentioned during my play by play it really ends up academic at the end.  I know it is the journey that is important, and it is, but it comes to the point where it is tiresome to always see good win because that isn't life.  I also know that recently I said I watch movies to escaped real life so yeah that is a paradox huh?

If you can catch this on a movie channel or a streaming service its not bad.  I am glad I watched it but I wouldn't go out of my way to watch it either.