Post by TheWolf on Jul 7, 2023 11:42:20 GMT -5
We watched a couple of kids' movies recently.
Super Mario Bros: Very entertaining. All the random 80s/90s nostalgia stuff sprinkled throughout was fun too; kudos to them for giving the adults some stuff to like in a children's film. I'm already sick of hearing P2 sing the Peaches song though (but it did allow us to easily identify that song in one of ln's trivia questions).
Little Mermaid: It was... fine? Like most of these live action remakes, it was entirely unnecessary, but they did an OK job with it. As a non-lunatic, I'm not mad that Ariel is black (although I do think it's 100% forced pandering nonsense). And that Halle Bailey... hachi machi. I found some of the CGI disorienting. Like the way they used real people with fake mermaid bodies and put them in the ocean with a bunch of CGI creatures around them... It was done well from a purely technical standpoint, I guess, but at times I found it tough to watch. Also I fucking HATED Javier Bardem as King Triton. He's a tremendous actor and there was nothing particularly bad about his performance, but he just felt wrong for the role and all of his scenes sucked. All things considered, this was a perfectly cromulent use of 2 hours on a rainy day, but it was certainly nothing special.
Super Mario Bros: Very entertaining. All the random 80s/90s nostalgia stuff sprinkled throughout was fun too; kudos to them for giving the adults some stuff to like in a children's film. I'm already sick of hearing P2 sing the Peaches song though (but it did allow us to easily identify that song in one of ln's trivia questions).
Little Mermaid: It was... fine? Like most of these live action remakes, it was entirely unnecessary, but they did an OK job with it. As a non-lunatic, I'm not mad that Ariel is black (although I do think it's 100% forced pandering nonsense). And that Halle Bailey... hachi machi. I found some of the CGI disorienting. Like the way they used real people with fake mermaid bodies and put them in the ocean with a bunch of CGI creatures around them... It was done well from a purely technical standpoint, I guess, but at times I found it tough to watch. Also I fucking HATED Javier Bardem as King Triton. He's a tremendous actor and there was nothing particularly bad about his performance, but he just felt wrong for the role and all of his scenes sucked. All things considered, this was a perfectly cromulent use of 2 hours on a rainy day, but it was certainly nothing special.
about the title. I thought it was a teen slasher flick just based on the title. 
