Recent content by Pooky

These days you know you’re unlikely to be going into a classic when even the early influencer reactions were pretty tepid. Still, despite some real weak points I ultimately found this passable. It might have benefited from following on from seeing Masters of the Universe a few days earlier...

I caught up with this on Disney+. I perhaps wouldn’t consider it a new classic, there are still some elements that I’m a little tired of in Pixar’s movies, it’s a little slow to start and to be honest the emotional elements left me almost completely indifferent. Nonetheless I did enjoy it quite...

For all my concerns about IP dominance in animation (and the wider entertainment industry) this is definitely a great match of source material and artist.

I know it can be joyless and boring to talk about market potential and business decisions, but you do have to wonder who would have confidence in this, with two opposite “takes” on Thundercats having stumbled in the last 15 years, and perhaps even more so with a He-Man film struggling (to be...

I'm open to the idea that a one-and-maybe-done reunion could work better than a series, but not interested until I know McCracken and/or some of the original team are involved.

Good to know, I should be seeing it in the next week or so.

Watched Best of the Best 3 yesterday, early on a couple of young kids watch a rather worn looking print of A Tale of Two Kitties before their older brother rudely turns to another channel.

At one point I wondered if TS5 might slightly underwhelm and if Lightyear indicated some contentment with the series in addition to bafflement at such an odd tangent, but it had been pretty clear for a while that wasn't the case and it was no surprise this had a huge opening. I suspect it won't...

This really didn't work for me. It's not without merit; the costuming is on point and the production design is generally solid, the performances are fine and the opening and ending kind of work. The film is basically a step or two away from being a full blown parody adaptation in the vein of the...

I guess this is a bit like how Avatar (blue, not airbending) films make a minimum of $1.5billion despite the internet's indifference (at best), or how shows like Yellowstone or even old Criminal Minds episodes get more views than a lot of the stuff that gets the jibbers jabbing online; pretty...

I'm lucky in that I've had few bad cinema experiences; some audience misbehavior in Hereditary, Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension and Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, a bit too much audience chatter in Fast & Furious 7 despite being in an audience of about 4, but tame compared to many...

A lot of these things come down to expectation; as discussed in another thread, at the time I wasn’t a fan of the second film, so I went with low expectations and thought it was fine (and better than some other movies that were popular at the time, like the first Bay Transformers film). A lot of...

I know I’m in a pretty small minority but I really didn’t enjoy Spider-Man 2 back in 2004. I’ve come to respect it more following a rewatch in the last 10 years or so (and as its idiosyncrasies have become more appealing in a world of IMO increasingly boilerplate superhero films), but it’s still...

The final gag is a homage to Murphy’s breakthrough role in 48 Hours. Anyone who legally saw that in theaters on its original release without a parent or guardian (or at all in much of the world) will be in their sixties now. But hey, this 39 year old whippersnapper got it!

I think that’s relatively good for Disclosure Day considering it’s an original property (legit this time, not even based on a novel!), and this is arguably the first time Spielberg has gone for a traditional Spielbergian Summer Blockbuster since War of the Worlds 21 years ago (Ready Player One...