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. ⚀

This isn’t day for night — it’s colour grading for day?

Is that CGI?

Heh heh. OK, this is a comedy? I have no idea what led me to buying this movie, but I did? Apparently? Did somebody recommend it?

It’s quite amusing so far.

I really should note why I’m buying stuff, because this seems pretty random.

This is obvs a low budget movie, but it looks really good.

Except for the CGI snow which they overdo in some of the scenes.

I’m really enjoying this — they’ve got great repartee going, likeable characters and entertaining actors.

Hey! That’s Cheyenne Jackson, isn’t it?

It’s a kind of chamber piece — there’s less than a dozen actors in total, I think, and they’re trapped in a tiny village. And all the characters are real characters.

Well… it’s really slowing down now. Did they run out of money to do outdoors shots and just had to plough through 30 script pages with these people sitting in one room?

OK, that was just some down time — the movie picks up again.

This is one of the best low budget comedy/horror movies I’ve seen in years. It’s really charming — the funny bits are really funny, and there’s some scary bits that are scary. It’s just really well made. *slow clap*

However, it was just a bit flabby in the middle there. Perhaps because they didn’t even have enough money to shoot something fun? So instead we got a section in the hotel there that didn’t seem to go anywhere interesting — and a lot of “eh?”, like the fate of that science woman (who had some of the funniest scenes before that).

Perhaps it’s a ⚃ movie really, but I’m rating on a low budget scale, so:

Werewolves Within. Josh Ruben. 2021. ⚄