Easy Rider in yet another "unable to understand people opinion's maybe be different than his and tells them their opinion is wrong" shocker! 
Quite a few I've watched over the past few days -
X-Men Apocalypse - 4/10 - This felt like a mess from start to finish for me. I liked the basic premise of an ancient uber Mutant but the film felt like it was trying so hard to be different to the first X-Men films that it lost it's way, I mean how many Wolverine "origins" have we had now and this film adds yet another! Casting wise the film suffers now that Jennifer Lawrence is bigger than the film and the plot having to accommodate that fact. Fassbender/McCoy still play their parts well but the new cast, bar another excellent turn from Quicksilver, are all just a bit "meh" with no-one standing out. Plus the last 1/3 of the film is a CGI-filled mess which doesn't help.
Independence Day Resurgence - 3/10 - Oh boy! Felt like A-List movie doing a bad job of being a B-movie with some extremely obvious "for Chinese movie goers" characters thrown in which, to be fair, is probably going to become the norm. The plot was weak but it deserved better than the awful script, direction and wooden acting from people who should know so much better! CGI was fair with only a few bits obviously done on the cheap in front of a green-screen.
The Huntsman 2 - Winter War - 3/10 - HAHAHAHHAHA those amazing accents hahahahahahahaha. I really liked the "dwarf" actors, especially once the two female dwarfs appeared and both Emily Blunt and Charlize Theron did a good job with a poor script but the the two mains were just awful, not due to a lack of ability but because they had both been saddled with god-awful accents that the director should have removed the first time he heard them, although they did have a good on-screen chemistry.
Ghostbusters Reboot - 5/10 - Not as funny, witty or charming as the original by a long shot but the humour was there, albeit a PG version of the type found in Bridesmaids etc. I actually thought the original cast cameos shouldn't have been done and were a low point in the film. The 2 mains played the same characters they've played in almost every film, Leslie Jones played herself (going by her social media vids) but Kate McKinnon was, for me, easily the stand-out actor. My biggest negative, despite all the all negative stuff pre-film, was that the neon coloured ghosts looked terrible, like a CGI designer with ADHD had been let loose with the dayglo colour palette.
The Legend of Tarzan - 4/10 - Even the stunning Margo Robbie can't help this film, although none of the actors do a "bad" job as such despite Christoph Waltz and Samuel Jackson yet again playing the same character as always. The Animal CGI was very good in most places, the real world locations were breath taking yet the plot was very weak and the script was, for the most part, pretty poor too. Again, Margo Robbie seemed to get the best scenes and her dinner "chat" with Waltz was particularly good.
The Siege of Jadotville - 8/10 - After the dross I watched from the mainstream studios I came across this Netflix film which seems to building a great deal of hype despite zero advertising. After watching this I can't understand just how badly wrong the big studios can make a film when Netflix is producing amazing quality films such as this almost weekly, it's bloody good! The cast is fairly small which helps keep the script tight (although "war" clichés do slip in) with both the director and actors doing a great job keeping everything believable. Dornan does a particularly fine job considering I only knew of him from the awful 50 shades film. The combat scenes are pretty good and the director allows that cheeky Irish humour to keep popping through preventing it from feeling overly depressing.
Quite a few I've watched over the past few days -
X-Men Apocalypse - 4/10 - This felt like a mess from start to finish for me. I liked the basic premise of an ancient uber Mutant but the film felt like it was trying so hard to be different to the first X-Men films that it lost it's way, I mean how many Wolverine "origins" have we had now and this film adds yet another! Casting wise the film suffers now that Jennifer Lawrence is bigger than the film and the plot having to accommodate that fact. Fassbender/McCoy still play their parts well but the new cast, bar another excellent turn from Quicksilver, are all just a bit "meh" with no-one standing out. Plus the last 1/3 of the film is a CGI-filled mess which doesn't help.
Independence Day Resurgence - 3/10 - Oh boy! Felt like A-List movie doing a bad job of being a B-movie with some extremely obvious "for Chinese movie goers" characters thrown in which, to be fair, is probably going to become the norm. The plot was weak but it deserved better than the awful script, direction and wooden acting from people who should know so much better! CGI was fair with only a few bits obviously done on the cheap in front of a green-screen.
The Huntsman 2 - Winter War - 3/10 - HAHAHAHHAHA those amazing accents hahahahahahahaha. I really liked the "dwarf" actors, especially once the two female dwarfs appeared and both Emily Blunt and Charlize Theron did a good job with a poor script but the the two mains were just awful, not due to a lack of ability but because they had both been saddled with god-awful accents that the director should have removed the first time he heard them, although they did have a good on-screen chemistry.
Ghostbusters Reboot - 5/10 - Not as funny, witty or charming as the original by a long shot but the humour was there, albeit a PG version of the type found in Bridesmaids etc. I actually thought the original cast cameos shouldn't have been done and were a low point in the film. The 2 mains played the same characters they've played in almost every film, Leslie Jones played herself (going by her social media vids) but Kate McKinnon was, for me, easily the stand-out actor. My biggest negative, despite all the all negative stuff pre-film, was that the neon coloured ghosts looked terrible, like a CGI designer with ADHD had been let loose with the dayglo colour palette.
The Legend of Tarzan - 4/10 - Even the stunning Margo Robbie can't help this film, although none of the actors do a "bad" job as such despite Christoph Waltz and Samuel Jackson yet again playing the same character as always. The Animal CGI was very good in most places, the real world locations were breath taking yet the plot was very weak and the script was, for the most part, pretty poor too. Again, Margo Robbie seemed to get the best scenes and her dinner "chat" with Waltz was particularly good.
The Siege of Jadotville - 8/10 - After the dross I watched from the mainstream studios I came across this Netflix film which seems to building a great deal of hype despite zero advertising. After watching this I can't understand just how badly wrong the big studios can make a film when Netflix is producing amazing quality films such as this almost weekly, it's bloody good! The cast is fairly small which helps keep the script tight (although "war" clichés do slip in) with both the director and actors doing a great job keeping everything believable. Dornan does a particularly fine job considering I only knew of him from the awful 50 shades film. The combat scenes are pretty good and the director allows that cheeky Irish humour to keep popping through preventing it from feeling overly depressing.
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