'Objects In Space'
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I'm right there with you Jesse. Though JLC's performance was good enough that I don't think anyone was robbed, exactly. I'd just have preferred if the voting went another way.
Michele Yeoh was my win-or-riot selection, though. As long as she got the award I would have been fine with my choices losing any other category, including Best Picture.
The scariest moment for me was when All Quiet on the Western Front picked up a couple of prizes it was the second-favorite on and it started to look like they would win bigger prizes. I didn't really care about Best Picture, but I was going to smash something if it won for adaptation over Women Talking. The more I think about it, the more mad I get about what they did with the ending (which, if you don't know, is where the title comes from).
Dungeons & Dragons was a lot of fun and much better than I expected it to be. I also had no idea that Regé-Jean Page was in it, so between him, Michelle Rodriguez, and Chris Pine, there is a LOT of pretty onscreen.
Shockingly, I didn't feel the ridiculous length of John Wick 4 as much as I thought I would, but it could have been shorter. That is, many of the fight scenes just went on for too damn long and were very repetitive (in that often there were just more people coming at Wick in every situation). The best ones were the extended one-on-ones using the fight choreography the series is known for, but they were few and far between.
That said, I enjoyed it quite a bit. I loved all of the Paris stuff even if some of it had my eyes rolling vis-à-vis the geography. It wasn't as pretty as #3 (IMO, the best visuals) but the plot was somewhat better, though it still definitely suffers from the "trying to do too much" element that has plagued this series since #2. In my rewatch of the first three, #2 rose significantly in my esteem but not quite enough to topple #1, which will always have my heart for its simplicity of concept and creativity of execution.
Final ranking:
John Wick
John Wick: Chapter 2
John Wick: Chapter 4
John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum
Probably relevant only to me, but: trailer for the Blue Beetle movie!!! [link]
God, I hope it doesn't suck.
That looks fun.
I'm excited as well. I'm kind of sad we won't have Grizzled Old Peacemaker in the mentor role, but I knew that would be the case once he was part of The Suicide Squad.
I haven't read of any of the Rebirth stuff, so I have no idea what's different from the original run.
Grizzled Old Peacemaker in the mentor role
Man, that was THE BEST.
I went to Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves yesterday. It was fun. Not life changing, but sometimes you just want to see pretty people in fantastical situations.
Coming in August, The Last Voyage of the Demeter. For those who know Dracula, it expands one chapter of the book.