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If you dip your toe in the shark movie pool, you better come prepared. Not only are you going up against the behemoths that are Sharknado and Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus there’s also the shadow of a certain Spielberg film looming on the horizon. And yet despite that toothy opposition The Shallows has slipped in any way.
The first Fast & Furious film that I saw was the seventh, and yet it was everything I hoped for. If it had been two hours of The Rock hulking out of a cast I probably would have been happy and yet that wasn’t even the daftest moment. It also got me thinking. If I can jump into this franchise at number seven with little to no issue, what happens if I watch the entire thing backwards. A few months later I’ve done exactly that.
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The backlash against Pixar’s recent influx of sequels has been quite a strange one, particularly when you consider the studio’s third film – Toy Story 2 – was a sequel. Despite that, there is no denying that when Pixar have gone beyond original properties, the quality has dropped – unless we are talking about said toys. It doesn’t matter how much you complain, though, thirteen years after Finding Nemo we are back under the sea again and this time, we are Finding Dory.
When Star Trek boldly made its way back onto our screens in 2009, it was entering an uncrowded marketplace. Star Wars seemed dead, and sci-fi epics of the space-faring kind appeared to be on the backburner. JJ Abrams responded in style making a Star Trek that took elements of its War like cousin and rewrote the Trek rulebook. In 2016 the market looks very different. JJ has jumped ship, and Star Wars is suddenly the biggest thing in space again. So where does Star Trek go next?
They’d be locking me up in a cage to be looked at with all the squiggling, you know, hippo dumplings, crocodown dillies and giggirafs, and then there would be a gigantus looksy giant hunt for all of the boys.
I don’t care if you are nine years old or 102 if you aren’t enchanted by watching Mark Rylance work his way through sentences like the one above then you are dead inside. If there were nothing else to The BFG than Rylance’s take on The BFG’s unique way with words – many of which are taken wholesale from the book – then it would probably have been enough. Thankfully, there is more than that.
To say that Ghostbusters has had pressure placed on its shoulders is a bit of an understatement. If it fails it sadly gives a particular sub-section of the internet all the more reason to spill their bile-filled views. While it would be harsh to blame Paul Feig for that if it were to happen, it is hard not to root for this most reviled of films.
‘Have you seen Toy Story? Well, imagine that, but with pets!’ You can only assume that was the elevator pitch for The Secret Life of Pets a film that follows what your family friend gets up to when you’re not at home and includes elements of all three Toy Story films.
Living in a shed at the bottom of her mum’s garden 29-year-old Anna has given up on life. The relatively recent passing of her twin brother has sent her spiralling over her edge, and she splits her time between working at a local activities centre for kids and making funny videos reflecting on existence starring her thumbs. That is until eight-year-old Clint comes into the picture, a remarkable kid whose mum is dying from cancer.
Duncan Jones’ Warcraft: The Beginning has been saved from flop status by its success in Russia and China and because of that has been deemed the most successful video game adaptation of all time. However, if you are going by reviews and its performance in countries like America, it is hard to see it as anything but a failure. The consensus has at best been meh and at worst been downright hateful.
The Edinburgh International Film Festival is over for another year and while I didn’t get to go to quite as many films as I would have liked – I am but a poor person after all – I did get along to a handful. One of those I have already talked about (the rather poor Kids In Love) but rather than do individual reviews of the rest I have decided to go for the quick-fire approach. So here’s my thoughts on five films I had the pleasure of watching.
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