Late to the party, but I really enjoyed both Moana and Fantastic Beasts.
Fantastic Beasts is basically
Wizarding!Steve Irwin mashup with Doctor Who and Mary Poppins
Which works for me. I am still irritated by the casting of Redmayne instead of Nathan Stewart Jarret or indeed any other black Briton, because that was a golden opportunity on a platter to create a brand new nonwhite British icon, AND it would have made for a more interesting bit of storytelling and worldbuilding, given that segregation/racial tension is one of the themes of the movie. This movie was astonishingly, and disappointingly, white AF.
I really loved
Queenie and Jacob
But I thought Redmayne's character had zero sexual or romantic chemistry with, well, ANYONE on screen, so the
"romantic" goodbye just felt weird.
He seemed to be playing the character as rather on the spectrum, and that worked, and I quite liked the character, but I didn't really see any romantic sparkage between him and anyone - although the story seemed to be trying to convince me I should be shipping him with
Tina.
Also, Colin Farrell should call me.
The reveal at the end was disheartening, because One can't unknow that Depp is an asshole, but otoh it explained why nobody was recognising that Graves was Grindelwald.
Tbh I mostly want cool worldbuilding stuff. Like - the next four movies could just be like wizarding world versions of Steve Irwin's show, with Newt travelling the world to save and protect weird and wonderful beasties and occasionally dropping in on
Queenie and Jacob
for tea and cake, and I would be ALL OVER THAT.
Moana was beautiful - I still can't get over the quality of the water animation. And yay Lin! And Mr The Rock was a sweetheart, and Auli'i Thingummy was charming as hell, and I am super earwormed now with 'Shiny'. Which was indeed shiny.
I am super earwormed now with 'Shiny'. Which was indeed shiny.
Who doesn't want their Disney villain to go full-on glam rock David Bowie, I ask you. I was like, "who is that singing, I know I've heard that voice somewhere before," and turns out he was played by Jemaine Clement of Flight of the Conchords fame. Seems a gimme in retrospect. I mean, who else would play him?
While we're on Clement, I finally watched What We Do in the Shadows. WHAT A DELIGHTFUL ROMP. Long-haired Jemaine Clement with his shirt open to the navel = surprisingly sexy. Or as Vlad would say, "dead but delicious." My excitement about the third Thor movie (directed by Taika Waititi) has now shot up by about 300%.
My DH and I loved that movie and are still wont to say "We're werewolves, not swearwolves" at opportune moments.
There's supposed to be a sequel (at some point, since Taika Waititi is so busy) called We're Wolves.
I have THE BIGGEST CRUSH on Taika Waititi as a result of
What We Do In The Shadows.
I mean, I also really liked
Boy
And
Hunt For The Wilderpeople,
But WWDITS was fucking HILARIOUS. Except for
Peter's tragic demise.
Still not over that.
To me,
it was worth it for having Vlad ask if they should have the police do a walk-through to point out fire hazards before they left.
Saw Rogue One tonight. LOVED IT.
Me too! I've decided this is my favorite one except for the first which is the fourth. I'm still thinking about it.
