This rom-com has gotten quite a bit of attention the last few days… and I can totally see why. It’s a snappy, well-written rom-com, and that’s so rare these days.

No lines (so far) that are actually hilarious so far, but they keep coming so fast that that’s OK.

OK, now it’s even funnier.

It’s so… breezy and well made.

Boo hiss!!!

Things get a bit more serious, and I’m not sure that works as well as the zippy frothy scenes at the start?

I mean, it’s not bad, but…

The performances are so much fun.

Oh, I didn’t think about this before this scene — is Uma Thurman old enough to be his mother? *pauses movie* OK, he’s born in 1991 (but is playing a 23-year-old, I guess?), and Thurman is born in 1970… Yeah, I guess it’s possible. She’s really young to be a president, though, but I guess she’s playing somebody older…

It’s a bit of Fry!

Anyway, the film is a bit uneven? The start is fantastic, and then it’s a bit bumpy, and then the ending is amazing! I laughed, I cried, etc etc.

So I’m going with:

Red, White and Royal Blue. Matthew López. 2023. ⚅

It’s Cowboy Curtis!

And Bill! Or Ted! I forget!

Nice desert.

It’s Bergerac! I mean Lovejoy!

Nice fridging! I bet that’s gonna make Lovejoy all vengeful and stuff.

Reviewers are always saying how realistic the fight scenes are, and they totally aren’t. But they’re fun to watch — a lot more fun than, say, Marvel fight scenes are. They’re very theatrical and dance like.

And extremely silly. Did I mention silly?

But then again, the entire premise is too, so it all adds up.

As with the previous movies, this looks really good. Nice saturated colours and dramatic scenery.

They ramp up the stupid even more in this movie — which I don’t mind. I do mind that they take a half hour time out to do some character building (i.e., talk about fambly (it’s all about fambly, after all)). It’s really tedious.

But even that looks good.

Have they used more CGI in this than in previous movies? Some things, like the Arc de triomphe looks really… fake. The cars don’t really move like cars do.

In general, it looks more like a traditional action movie (and by traditional, I mean “from 2015”), where they don’t bother to go on sets but just greenscreens everything, even stuff that would be easier to just shoot on location. To take a shot at random, the above one — it looks a bit unreal. And there’s been way more of those “uhm…?” sets in this one than the earlier movies.

Well, it’s better than the third movie, but there’s a lot of dead air in the middle of this one. The plot is the silliest of all the John Wick movies, and that says a lot, but that’s fine.

John Wick Chapter 4. Chad Stahelski. 2023. ⚃

Yes, that is totally how a spice rack is mounted in an actual, real house.

OK, so this is a no-budget kind of movie, I guess? But it’s pretty odd even for one of those — the video is kinda choppy… is there an FPS mixup somewhere? It feels like it’s a 12 FPS film.

Yes, that is exactly how you paint.

So… this is set in like 2001, but there’s flashbacks to… the 70s?

I really started wondering whether this was an older movie (i.e., more than a decade old) because it looks rather like early digital — kinda crappy.

Some of the actors here aren’t that bad, but… it’s a pretty bad movie.

Perhaps the worst thing about this film is the über-schmaltzy music running in basically every scene. It’s pretty hard to take.

Such shock.

Oh my god. I’m only halfway through?

That’s such a real 70s living room. The whole family just relaxing.

It’s debatin’ time!

There’s barely a movie here at all, and they spend two hours getting there. I mean, the people making this probably had fun? But…

It’s bad.

You Are My Sunshine. David Hastings. 2021. ⚀