In the Lost Lands “Review”

Release date: March 7, 2025 (USA)

Budget: $55 million

Story by: George R. R. Martin, Paul W. S. Anderson

Distributed by: Constantin Film, Vertical

Based on: “In the Lost Lands”; by George R. R. Martin

From Resident Evil to In the Lost Lands, Milla Jovovich has been awesome for those turn your brain off popcorn movies. The trailer hooked me giving vibes of the later half of Resident Evil series movies. Shall we discuss In the Lost Lands now….

I thought we were in for a good time and mostly I was. But before we take that twist and turns shall we discuss the awesomeness that this world is. Combine the world of Mad Max with cinematography of Sin City and characters from (Although didn’t quite get there but could have if cooked proper) Diablo games. This combination and added cherry with Milla Jovovich & Dave Bautista acting was awesome and such a fun popcorn film.

Then the script showed dents. Dents became holes then a sour grape mess. The actors did their best with this but my fun ride of a 7 dropped to a 6.5 fine scoring mid way through. When I finally got my wish of the witch using her powers outside of her intro setting. I wanted the clock to turn back and unsee the poor quality that was the entire scene.

Again, it was bad but fun to experience. I see worse scores online depending where you look. So if you’re not digging the intro, you wont like the mid way point. If you don’t like that the ending just gets worse. But if there’s any enjoyment from the characters and visuals. Then maybe it’s something to stick with. A guilty pleasure movie if you will. I doubt this will sprout into a franchise, series or even get a sequel….. but if it does…. I’ll be getting myself a ticket to check it out.

Not put off yet by the above? Then let’s discuss the film a little more.

The premise of this feature is based around mainly 2 characters with interconnecting stories with other characters. Jovovich playing the witch Gray Alys and our Hunter (I thought Gunslinger at first, could even be a Diablo Demon Hunter) Boyce played by Bautista. Our witch requires the assistance of our Hunter to travel the Lost Lands in search of a magical power that allows a person to transform into a werewolf.

Getting herself caught up in affairs of others by being unable to deny someone’s request. She accepts this mission placing both our leads in situations that leads to some awesome action and maybe even make you feel emotion for snakes.

Despite how bad the execution of this story was. I loved the characters and world so much a part of me would watch it again if requested. If a sequel gets announced I’d check it out. Just know, its a bad movie. Get some good popcorn and turn the brain off. Maybe you too will have a new guilty pleasure movie that you’d be happy to say you liked it or keep to yourself haha.

Popped score of 6.5/10. Lots of goodness but soured to the core. Let’s hope it makes enough to learn from this and for the script in the sequel be tweaked to a better quality. Or forget it and never think about this feature ever again :D.

March 8, 2025 0

Captain America: Brave New World “Review”

Release date: February 14, 2025 (USA)

Director: Julius Onah

Budget: $180 million

Story by: Rob Edwards; Malcolm Spellman; Dalan Musson

Distributed by: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures

Based on: Marvel Comics

Did I get the Abigail treatment? If you’re avoiding spoilers then here’s a quick popped score – Personal Score: 3/10 (Stream) – Fair Score: 6/10 (It’s mostly okay but damn was it way to long to rewatch the trailer.)

Don’t read on, Spoiler Rant-ish warning going forth

If you’re a fan of Eternals, then you’ll probably enjoy this title. I could have walked out of Eternals and be happy to not wasted my time. I kind of feel like this with Brave New World. Nothing really happens in the universe of MCU. I feel like the U in MCU has been forgotten about.

A 2 hour movie to setup a 1 minute post credit scene to remind you of the U, is a waste of blooming time. When it takes an hour and a half in a 2 hour movie to watch the scenes heavily revealed in the trailers….it’s a waste of time. When it last 10minutes and sucked! It’s a waste of time.

Drawing out the outcome to get to the reveal for an hour and a half…..is a waste of time. It’s mostly fine at around a 6/6.5 out of 10 but personally I’d have played it in the background streaming it.

I’m seriously loosing faith that the MCU can return. I’m so tired of this new standard of Marvel film. The last good one outside of Deadpool was Shang Chi almost 4 years ago. I’m not interested in Fantastic 4 and hopeful for Thunderbolts to be fun, but otherwise….can we get Moon Night back please and start forming a new group of avengers with fun stories.

I’ll give it to secret wars before I drop the MCU. I really hope that can swing things around.

Shall I rant and go red hulk on this ? Or leave it there? Let me know in the comments.

With that out of the way…shall we get started on a discussion about the best animated movie of 2025 😀 Ne Zha 2, because I’ve been looking forward to hype the shit outta it since I watched it earlier :D.

February 14, 2025 0

Love Me “Review”

Release date: January 31, 2025 (USA)

Directors: Andrew Zuchero, Sam Zuchero

Language: English

Distributed by: Bleecker Street

Music by: David Longstreth

Produced by: Kevin Rowe; Luca Borghese; Ben Howe; Shivani Rawat; Julie Goldstein

But wait! There’s one more title to wrap up January 2025 😀 and what an intriguingly unique movie at that….for some individuals out there.

Let’s lay the ground work here as a premise, then let’s explore further into this experience. It’s not for everyone. Niche of the niche. But if you’re interested after this then stick around.

Long after humanity’s extinction. A smart buoy thaws from ice as the ice caps begin to melt. Meanwhile a constant orbiting satellite goes by over head. In a cute yet innocent meeting they find themselves meeting online and communicating. As they learn what life was like on Earth through old video uploads, they discover themselves and what it means to be alive and in love.

Sound interesting enough to continue?

Our Satellite is sent up into space in March of 2027 almost like a capsule of humankind. This Satellite acts as a welcomer for life forms that come to the planet formally known as Earth. (The year by the way is 2500’s) I am Satellite is his name and voiced / played by Steven Yeun.

The Smart Buoy, voiced / played by Kristen Stewart is Me. Forming herself on Deja rather than finding of Me is which is explored throughout the movie. Me, comes to be Me from watching a Youtube channel called Deja & Liam.

An experience is going to occur, if you did this title till now then excellent enjoy the journey. Otherwise you’re not going to enjoy the next part in this exploration of what is life?

Love Me, explores this self discover and meaning through different visual aspects. From the Earth as the Smart Buoy / Satellite. To VR Chat style living spaces. To real life interpretations.

While one copies that of life, the other experiences life within self learning over imitation.

The last minutes got away from the movie I had been enjoying but luckily wraps it up in an interesting experience. It’s not for everyone and fits nicely in with the. It’s a fine movie. Popped score of 6.5/10 with it’s Fine, good elements but not bad. I can see people not interested nor open to this type of experience really not enjoying this movie at all.

But for the niche of the niche, it’s something worth checking out.

With that fellow movie goers, wraps up January 2025 and is our #11’th movie watched this year thus far. Making great progress with the 100 movie goal. Still need to watch 3/10 of the best picture nominations for 2024 in a couple weeks but I’ll be sure to discuss my overall thoughts once that’s been completed.

Until Love Hurts / Paddington in February for our next movie “Review”.

February 1, 2025 0

Flight Risk “Review”

Release date: January 24, 2025 (USA)

Director: Mel Gibson

Budget: $25 million

Distributed by: Lionsgate Films

Music by: Antônio Pinto

Production companies: Icon Productions; Davis Entertainment Company

I was curious to see how entertaining this movie would be, considering it’s mostly taking place on this plane and between 3 individuals. To my surprise it wasn’t all that bad. Good enough to say that it’s now created a new Popped rating tier of “Fine”.

Flight Risk is a movie focused around 3 individuals, a U.S Marshal played by Michelle Dockery, Winston our “Witness” protection fugitive played by Topher Grace, and lastly the guy that keeps this title entertaining and possibly even worth watching, our “Pilot” played by Mark Wahlberg.

The movie just goes, quickly showing us Winston for moments cooking his cup noodles before the doors come crashing down with our U.S Marshall taking him into custody. Apparently he’s been avoiding them quite some time and been quite a nuisance to catch up to.

Introductions into the film brief as they were it would have been nice to learnt more about them prior to setting up this interaction before getting to our In Flight Entertainment for the next hour and a bit. For an hour and half feature. They did a good job keeping the viewer somewhat entertained.

Despite some questionable actions from the U.S Marshall which made me feel like she wasn’t well trained to be a field agent. The cast did fairly well outside of Markie Mark. Just like with Presence, having this be a shorter movie I wont go into spoilers even if shown in the trailer.

What little enjoyment there is outside of the trailers setup, I’ll allow you to experience that fresh. We had 1 guy clap for this movie upon entering the credits but no one joined in. Make of that as you will haha.

With all this said I’ve painted a picture of my experience but I’d love to hear how your movie going experience was. At a 6.5/10 I feel as I need to create a tier between above average and good. Thus the “Fine” tier will be born :D. I’ll slowly convert the 6.5’s to the fine tier going forward but now I must rest as tomorrow holds a big day of movie going enjoyment.

The Brutalist, The Colors Within, along with a mystery secret movie all await :D. Going to be a journey, but a journey I’ll take in order to experience this beautiful industry of creating movie magic. Even if the magic on the tin sometimes comes with an expired warranty.

January 26, 2025 0