Lion King (2019)

Gosh, this is tough for me to write.

I spent lavishly on myself today.

I got myself an Imax 3D ticket to watch this.

Imagely speaking it is spectacular.

Right down to the hair of Simba's chinny chin chin!

Apart from the spectacular imagery, the movie is rather.... Meh!

Seriously, the movie is meh...

When the animation feature was product, the B team was put to work on it?

Why you may ask?

Because A Team was working on their big animation movie Pochahantus....

Lion King shone, because B Team wanted to show the world, what they can do.

This version, from a storyline point of view, had absolutely nothing new to say

Nothing!

So.... Is this an example of remake for the sake of remaking?

Really disappointed by this...

My Two Sen

THE LION KING (2019)

Review:


Rating: 3 / 5

Very generous rating man. Imma fan of cartoon version, found being bored da heck outta this film

Everyone's entitled to their opinion. But this is my share of thoughts.

Felt like watchin natgeo/discovery channel documentary. And wouldnt fault the film...its live-action of frickin LION....whatdya expect? Moving their face muscles, jaws up, down, sideways as in cartoon?

Which raises nothet question. Why bother makin this film? Seriously?.... thank god I watched it online...5 mins max (intro, Mufasa's death, Simba vs Scar climax fight) and felt I've wasted my time....god bless poor souls that endured this film😂😂😂

There was no point of remaking it this way. I would 100% fault the film. They are talking sentient lions with drama and comedy. Of course they have to have unrealistic facial expression otherwise we are better off watching straight faced animals on NatGeo. It's not live action, it's still animated just not hand drawn. However I did not hate the film as much as Aladdin, BnB and Cinderella so I gave it a slightly higher rating than them 😅

He is bad guy in Casino Royale

Best since Licence to Kill

This post has been edited by skylinelover: Jul 21 2019, 09:33 AM

Fast Color (2019-science fiction Drama)
Release Date -April ( Available)
Director-Julia Hart
Stars: Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Lorraine Toussaint, David Strathairn

Set in the American Midwest, in the dystopian near future.The Earth
is in severe drought and water is expensive and rationed.

Ruth(Gugu Mbatha-Raw), a woman on the run and being pursued by
Bill (Christopher Denham) the government authorities that want
access to her power.

She processes extraordinary power, an energy source
(like Storm from X-men). At the start, she has no control
and can cause devastating earthquake and gave her seizures.

Personal difficulties led to estrangement from her family,
a young daughter Lila (Saniyya Sidney)and her mother, Bo (Lorraine Toussaint).

And she goes home to find some answers...

This is a movie about recovery, healing, and redemption.
There’s no fancy CGI or final showdown with the big bad.
A tight 110-minute runtime.



This post has been edited by lleihuan: Jul 21 2019, 01:12 PM

I love this movie too....

This post has been edited by Mickey C: Jul 26 2019, 04:52 PM

Crawl is such an under-rated movie!

Rocketman is so touching that I shed my manly tears. Although I am not a big fan of Elton John , this movie really good for portraying him.

Taron Edgerton can act , sing and dance, I wonder what are the things he cannot do. He deserve an Oscar nomination for this role.

Hope they be frontrunner for next year like bohemian rhapsody this year

Do you think Taron is too young to win Oscar presume he got a nomination for best actor?

Share (2019)
Release Date- 27 July (Available)
Director- Pippa Bianco(Euphoria-1 episode)
Writer - Pippa Bianco
Stars - Rhianne Barreto(Hanna), Charlie Plummer, Poorna Jagannathan.

Based on Bianco’s 2015 award-winning short of the same name.

Mandy(Rhianne Barreto) 16-year-old wakes up on her front lawn
with no memory of what transpired after a night out partying
with friends.

As she goes inside to take a shower, she saw bruises on her arms.
Mandy realizes that something terrible has happened to her.
She starts receiving texts from friends about a viral video of
a girl passed out on a bathroom floor who seems to be her.

Mandy wishes that this would all go away so that her life can
go back to normal. But her parents escalate the situation
further by taking the video to the police.

The movie questions what exactly happened to Mandy that night
and also acknowledges that the act of going to the police makes
Mandy’s life harder. It shows the complicated humanity of the
people who victimize her.

And we follow the minutiae of Mandy’s life after the incident.



This post has been edited by lleihuan: Jul 30 2019, 04:02 PM

LATE NIGHT (2019)

Review:


Rating: 4 / 5

Catched Hobbs & Shaw😎

Such a fun film.

Wild Rose (2019)
Release Date - June 2 (Available)
Director: Tom Harper
Stars: Jessie Buckley (Chernobyl), Julie Walters

20-something Rose-Lynn (Buckley)an aspiring Scottish country
singer who was recently released from prison on a drug charge.

Rose-Lynn’s dreams of only one thing, singing country music
and becoming a Nashville star. Her dreams clash with the difficulty
of her family life, her two young children who've been without their
mother for so long.

Her mother Marion (Julie Walters) has been caring for her
two young children while she spent a year in prison.
She later gets a job cleaning the home of well-off Susannah (Sophie Okonedo)
who takes an interest in her music and wants to help her along.

Rose-Lynn struggles to figure out who she wants to be.
We see her pull herself together to make good on the promise of her talent.

Wild Rose is a film worth seeing. It is touching and all-around wonderful
performance from Buckley.



This post has been edited by lleihuan: Aug 6 2019, 03:52 PM

Make F&F better than F&F with vin around

Vin/Torette is the heart of F&F along with Paul/Brian & Mia

Rock came on-board with Fast5 after Vin came across a fans post comment on want to watch him & Rock on-screen. Granted

Deckard 1st official debut was post-credit scene of Furious 6

Everythin involving Deckard in Furious 7 was legendary.

To think a spin-off featuring 2 bald headed badasses who fought Torette/Vin at some point would be such a fun ride

I heard the director said there's gonna be Hobbs & Shaw franchise. Wouldnt be suprised if Rock & Statham miss-out on a couple of F&F films with "family"

Tyrese as usual would😑😑😑

Hobbs & Shaw - The dumb just got dumber.
This franchise has reached the inept moronic plot line and action noise of Bayformer. It is as comparable to an episode of GI Joe pandering to its own audacity. The action thrills can only carry your investment in the characters until they veer off into repetition and whatever justify the next action set-piece. The only good thing about H&S is not even H&S, Princess Margaret is the mvp. Her debut almost as good as Ilsa Faust in MI. Well another disposable sequel that I don't care by tomorrow.

Light of My Life (2019)
Release Date -August (Available)
Writer-Director - Casey Affleck
Stars - Casey Affleck (Manchester by the Sea ),
Anna Pniowsky, Elisabeth Moss.

The world has been hit by a killer plague that has wiped
out womankind. And women are a scarcity and are a commodity
to be stolen and kidnapped.

A father, Caleb Shaw (Affleck) and his eleven daughter
Rag (Anna Pniowsky) constantly moving around and trying
to go unnoticed, finding deserted locations to camp in
the woods.
To keep Rag out of harm’s way, Caleb dresses Rag up
like a boy. But her femininity is beginning to become
obvious despite her clothing and short hair.

We will see how the father prepared Rag for the world
that disfavors her gender.
And we cannot turn away from the reality that in a world
where there are conflicts, women are the most vulnerable.

A loving relationship between a father and daughter.

Affleck directs this movie with much delicate touch.



This post has been edited by lleihuan: Aug 11 2019, 02:56 PM