Movie Capsule Reviews
Dec. 29th, 2016 05:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chuckroZootopia - I think we can say with some certainty that the genesis of this movie was someone accidentally saying, “bunny cop movie” when they meant “buddy cop movie,” then deciding that sounded cool. This movie is far better than it particularly needed to be, and impressively smart.
Doctor Strange - I feel like the stand-alone/origin Marvel movies are getting awfully formulaic at this point, but I did still enjoy it. (Especially the supporting cast.) The director and visual artists clearly LOVED Inception, as the “folding city” gets taken to new heights here.
Attacking the Darkness - Christopher Guest-style mockumentary that supposedly documents the creation of the "Dark Dungeons" movie. (And made by the same Zombie Orpheus crew that did The Gamers, etc.) It's cringingly delightful? Watch Dark Dungeons, and if you enjoy that, then this is also likely to be worth your time.
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story - This was the best session of the Star Wars tabletop RPG I’ve ever watched. (And the closest a movie has ever come to recreating The Empire Strikes Back.) They did a nice job dealing with it being an interquel that we knew the ending of ahead of time. I didn’t know in advance that Grand Moff Tarkin was going to be a CGI character, but the muppet-like movement of his mouth made it very obvious to me.
Also, Mads Mikkelsen is having a really good year, isn’t he?
Doctor Strange - I feel like the stand-alone/origin Marvel movies are getting awfully formulaic at this point, but I did still enjoy it. (Especially the supporting cast.) The director and visual artists clearly LOVED Inception, as the “folding city” gets taken to new heights here.
Attacking the Darkness - Christopher Guest-style mockumentary that supposedly documents the creation of the "Dark Dungeons" movie. (And made by the same Zombie Orpheus crew that did The Gamers, etc.) It's cringingly delightful? Watch Dark Dungeons, and if you enjoy that, then this is also likely to be worth your time.
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story - This was the best session of the Star Wars tabletop RPG I’ve ever watched. (And the closest a movie has ever come to recreating The Empire Strikes Back.) They did a nice job dealing with it being an interquel that we knew the ending of ahead of time. I didn’t know in advance that Grand Moff Tarkin was going to be a CGI character, but the muppet-like movement of his mouth made it very obvious to me.
Also, Mads Mikkelsen is having a really good year, isn’t he?
