Tuesday 11 June 2019

Dark Phoenix (2019)

Surprisingly good! Much better than Apocalypse, better than Last Stand, not as good as the others. It had a story that tied in with the X-Men, and with mutants' place in society, some great action scenes, and new places for the characters to go. Downsides were that, like Apocalypse, felt less standalone and more serialised, and though there were lots of differences it was still going over old ground with the Dark Phoenix storyline. It also left a lot of stuff open despite likely being the last X-Men movie in this version, which is a shame when DOFP looped stuff around so nicely.
Rating: Good

Monday 10 June 2019

Good Omens (2019)

Sheen and Tennant are great, but in general this can be characterised best as irritating.
In general, it's just so meandering and fumbles a lot of scenes by going on too long, and it's really unclear about story rules and character motivations. But it's full of little things like:
The narration has a H2G2 feel to it, but where that show stopped the story for little asides, this one crams the narration in at the edges and also uses it to tell us stuff they're showing us anyway.
Those setting cards really bug me - why are they like that? Little signs that flap up with condensation on the camera?
All the stunt casting is incredibly distracting, and a lot of the general casting is just wrong. It all feels very 'school play'.
There are near-constant cheap jokes revolving around a character saying "oh God" or "I'll be damned" or (in bad weather) "it's hell out there".
IRRITATING.
Rating: Bad