applejosh1991

I'll be honest here, i take back what i said about "the dark knight rises". The batman (2022) is the most boring, unfocused, poor pacing and too long for a film about Batman, it's dark like literally, i can barly tell what am i watching, most of the chatacers are underdeveloped, cliche dialogue, copying a lot from david fincher's "Seven" from 1995 (which is masterpiece in filmmaking), the riddler, Paul Dano is just why?, he such a good actor and all the scenes of him i'm almost laughing at his performance, i don't know if it's matt reeves poor direction but somthing went wrong here, he's feels like a poor man's john doe in a gimp suit, very over the top even for riddler standers, the riddles themselves are interesting, i'm trying to figute out what's the answer, but batman's answers them so quickly like less then a minute (every one of them) like give so time with some bulid-up lets the audience also think for a moment, like even the movie thinks their audiences are stupid. The casting is a mixed bag: Zoe Kravitz (catwomen), Colin Farrel (penguin) and Jeffery Wright (james gordon) are the only ones that are trying really hard with such a messy script and poor dialogue, john turturro as Carmine Falcone is so wasted in this film and add's almost nothing to the film, Robert Pattison is just very boring batman, he only has two emotions: sad and angry, the only good thing about Pattison is the bat suit, looks great. Andy Serkis is a great actor but so miscast as alfred. Everything about the film is depressing, bleak and too much focus on the political side which only makes things worse. Seriously in theaters after the one hour a half i was looking at my watch every 20 minutes and yawning from boredom on the poor dialogue especially from alfred by the third act i just wanted this film to end already. As fan of the batman comics i can tell it's mostly based on "Batman: Year One" with some plot point and elements stright from the comic. I think this movie needed a better director, casting director, a editor who can calm down every scene and a better writer. But that's my opinion. The only thing that can salvage this film is to cut maybe an hour and focus more on the main story then the 2 side stories this film has. Like half of the time i forgot the riddler was in this film.

As a fan of the original cartoon series (Hillenburg era 1999-2004) and first 2 theatrical films, The third SpongeBob film "Sponge on the Run" is what I like to call the perfect storm of soulless cynical cash-grab. it feels almost nothing like a proper SpongeBob movie, more like an very expensive "TV Special" then a Theatrical film, not to mention a shameless tie-in to the SpongeBob spin-off series "Camp Corral" (which already manages to retcon the series and mess-up the back stories of the main characters) and oh boy they are pushing this spin-off very hard at the expense of the film. the main "so-called" plot is another rehash of "Gary is Missing" episode and the film does a really poor job retelling this story.

it's about SpongeBob and Patrick are on a road trip to find Gary in Lost City of Atlantic City. the film feels like an executive producer's wet-dream, cause it reeks of being too safe, predictable and by the numbers like with many sadly, children films these days. with pointless celebrity cameos that add almost nothing to movie but stating the obvious, modern "hit" music that stinks of quantity, main characters not acting like their characters, few jokes made me chuckle, but most are stale and lame even by SpongeBob standards.

unlike the previous films, I had a very hard time watching this film. this is definitely the weakest film in the film series by far. Viacom (who own's nickelodeon) completely went against the late Stephen Hillenburg's whishes and vision and essentially throwing his SpongeBob he created completely out the window. like many fans predicted it's completely 100% "a shadow of it's former-self" which is sad.

the only positives I can give this film it's a great time-waster for children, like i mention before few jokes were little bit funny and the CGI stop-motion style animation while very different from the previous films and show works surprisingly well and looks great.

I'm happy this film's didn't get a worldwide theatrical release cause it doesn't feel like a film and fits perfectly with the mediocrity of streaming service films (80% of the time) .