What did you watch this week my beautiful people? (12/27-01/02)
Happy new year and many many good movies for you and your loved ones. Let's keep it cinematic!
Im officially done with my vacations but I work 4 days/week for the entire month of january so that's a bit more movie time for me.
This week:
Tropa de Elite 2: O Inimigo Agora é Outro (“Elite squad 2: The enemy within” 2010 TV): Not comparable to City of God or City of men, this Brazilian gangster movie is violent with good directing, good acting and a slightly convoluted plot. Maybe if I had seen the first one before... so that’s my bad. My rating: 8/10
Klaus (2020 Netflix): Interesting take on the story of good old Santa with beautiful graphics and very funny humour. The high point for us was a random scene of like five seconds that got my two kids laughing so hard that it got us all literally rolling down on the floor and I had to rewind it four consecutive times just so we could keep on laughing. A nice feel-good movie but I don’t get the people who cried and I’m known to cry very very easily. My rating: 7.5/10
Arthur Christmas (2011 Netflix): Entertaining and fun enough but it somehow felt a bit longer than it should’ve. Still, I ain't got nothing else bad to say and it’s a merry family movie to watch this time of year for sure. My rating: 7/10
Red eye (2005 TV): I was keen to watch this because of both the reviews and the critics and because of both leads whom I consider to be tolerable actors. It ended up being really meh. I can’t even affirm it’s worth a watch if you’re bored... I’m sure you could find better. My rating: 5.5/10
Missing in action (1984 TV): One of the coolest, baldest, funniest Chuck Norris movies ever. Maybe his best, IDK. It’s definitely one of the best “bad movies” out there. It holds one of my all-time favorite scenes too. My rating: 6.5/10
On the 31st I told my children they could pick the movie of their choice for an afternoon watch and they made me proud as they picked one of my all-time favourite, a movie with some of the best fight scenes, settings and character development ever: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze (1991). My rating: 8.5/10
Ash VS evil S3: About time I finish one of my top 5 series of the past decade! Violence, nudity, substances, language and gore at its best. Plus it’s hilarious. I am severely frustrated they won’t do a 4th season. Breakdown: Ep1: 8.5, Ep2: 8, Ep3: 9, Ep4: 8.5, Ep5: 8.5, Ep 6: 9, Ep7: 8.5, Ep8: 8.5, Ep9: 8, Ep10: 9.5 OVERALL: 8.5/10