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Dune: Part Two (2024)
A good book that loses something in this movie.
I've read the original book several times, and have seen the '84 movie (both versions) and the SyFy channel miniseries. While both missed something, it wasn't as bad as accelerating the timeliness and leaving out key scenes that would make a third movie, Dune Messiah, more plausible. Such as in previous versions Alia, Paul's sister, was the one to kill Vladimir Harkonen. This is what lead to her eventual insanity, as was shown in the SyFy channel's Children of Dune. The cinematography of the movie was great, but splitting the Fremen like how Islam is split was a poor choice. The choice to make the Fremen of two sects might have been a good way to go given how religious sects go, but in MY opinion it was the wrong way to go. And making Paul and even more reluctant hero also weakened the movie. The quickening of the timeliness was foolish because in the book and previous versions, it took time for Paul to learn what he needed to learn and for the love between Paul and Chani to develop. If this had been done properly then the story would have been better.
Bumblebee (2018)
Reboot or another flop
I've been watching the various Bay-verse Transformers saga, but Bumblebee does not fit into the Bay-verse. In my opinion this movie doesn't work as a prequel to Bay-verse. If it was meant to be a prequel, then they missed the mark completely.
They missed the mark of a prequel by completely disregarding the history and story line for Bumblebee. Saying that he only been on Earth a few decades instead of millennia.
Now maybe this movie could have been better promoted as a reboot to the series. Being that Bumblebee was among the first of the Cybertronian to be encountered on Earth. If they had gone with this premise I think that people would have received the movie with more enthusiasm than they did.
Appurushîdo XIII (2011)
A bad showing
I'm a fan Shirow Masamune, his works are usually very good. But XIII was the worst. All it really is is a psuedo retelling of the Labors of Heracles, set in the world of Appleseed. It was long, slow and overwhelming complicated. Even the movie versions of the first twelve episodes were horrible. Pass on this and hope for better in the next showing.
John Wick (2014)
A terrible movie
John Wick is one of Keanu Reeves worst movies. The whole is centered around him getting revenge on a monster killing his dog, the last gift from his girlfriend/fiance, and his Mustang. That's the whole plot, the rest of this disaster is how many guns can we shoot, how many people we can beat up, and how big of a body count can we generate. It was two hours of my life I wish that I could get back.
Anna (2019)
Okay movie
Now while I'm a fan of Luck Besson, this movie wasn't his best. It felt like he partially rehashed La Femme Nikita and mixed it with Atomic Blonde to make this movie. I'm sorry if some don't agree, but it's my opinion. But it doesn't mean that I won't watch it again later and adjust this review.