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[Ulfarr]

Double Entry  : )

1) I tried to watch DnD: Honor Among Thieves about a week ago. Very good visuals but absolutely no cohesion between each scene/set piece. It felt like I was watching someone's demo reel. Great for if I was looking to hire a VFX team but otherwise a bad movie.

2) I watched the new Nosferatu last night. It's quite an atmospheric film, not very terrifying, sometimes disgusting but mostly just melancholic. I would have liked if it was somewhat longer, 15-30 minutes tops, just to better drive home the characters' desperation.

Spoiler: Nosferatu spoilers (click to show/hide)

The protagonists' actions don't really matter in the outcome of the plot. The creature would have met its demise in the exact same way, whether they fought it or not. One character does say, that their actions are futile and that their only point is to keep the others from preventing Nosferatu meeting his end but yeah...

I'm not sure if I would consider this plot point/hole, problematic or not. They could have written a different ending but this one is consistent with the themes of the movie: "the creature is more like a force of nature", "humans are powerless against it", "blindly following your desires will lead to your doom".

[McTraveller]

Finally watched Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.

Every bit as good as people claimed! I think it might be my favorite Spider-Man movie.

[delphonso]

I finally got around to seeing The Lord of the Rings, War of the Rohirrim. It's...pretty bad. The animation is just like...terrible. Honestly the faces and everything is fine, costume/character design is also totally reasonable, but the way everyone moves is really really weird. They throw their weight left and right with every step. It makes me wonder if there was some weird mo-cap process in there. The environments are often 3D and the characters are not, plus the dark lighting on the scenery (as with all movies now) just washes out any detail and makes the mismatched animation timings look worse. The story, overall is not very strong but not terrible either, the pacing is not good. It's really amazing how bad it is. I've seen fan animations with tighter plots and more interesting visuals.

[Il Palazzo]

I've heard it said the thing was slapped together in a hurry, just to keep the rights to LoTR from expiring. Don't know if that's true, but it'd fit the bill.

[McTraveller]

The Dead Don't Die.

I was looking for something to fill some time this snowy afternoon, and it caught my eye because of its cast - specifically the thumbnail with Bill Murray and Adam Driver. It's also got Danny Glover, Tilda Swinton, and a bunch of other people I recognize but not on a "I know their name" basis.

My brain is still processing the experience.

[Il Palazzo]

God, that was dull. Maybe not dull dull, but dull given the talent involved. It was trying too hard to be a Jarmush film, without that spark of his earlier work.