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Movie Review: Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire

This past Saturday my wife and I had a date day. We don’t do that much anymore, so it was a good thing. We planned on seeing the new Ghostbusters movie, which was also our first theater movie in many years. We also planned on eating at a Mexican restaurant down the street from us, which we both love, after the movie.

We checked our favorite theater, Xscape, but found it had closed, which upset us. So we decided to go to the theater down the road from us, which is right across the street from the Mexican restaurant. Unfortunately, it’s an AMC theater.

I’ve been in three of them now, and they all suck, but the one near us is the worst of the three.

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Old Shit Reviews: The Jurassic Park Movie Series

We all know them, we all love… the first one, and moderately kinda put up with the other two.

I, like most people alive in 1993, saw the first movie and immediately fell in love with it. The theme song stuck with me long after the movie was over, and I even got to perform it in high school band a couple years later, which was pretty cool. It’s a beautiful piece.

I didn’t see the second movie, The Lost World (1997), until much later, probably the mid-2000s. I enjoyed it, though I was probably high.

And at some point shortly after, I saw the bird cage scene from Jurassic Park 3 (2001) in passing, and probably not even the whole scene.

Which brings me to now. The wife and I decided to watch them all, and finally got around to it. We just finished up part 3, and I gotta tell ya, ouch.

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Edward Scissorhands Sucks

I’ve seen it a couple times over the years but the last time I saw it was quite a while ago. The wife wanted to watch it so we made a pizza and sat down to watch. It has been a while since she’s seen it, as well.

Even though I’ve seen it a couple of times before, this was almost like watching it for the first time again. And I gotta say, it fucking sucked.

It was so bad that after maybe a half hour we decided to turn it off. To be fair though, there has always been something about it I didn’t like.

From Dianne Wiest’s character, Peg, kidnapping him to literally everything else about her, I hated her from the very beginning. I’m not a big fan of Dianne to begin with, but that role was terrible. When she first met him she started putting astringent on his face scars to “prevent infection.”

For those of you who don’t know, “an astringent lotion applied to the skin to reduce bleeding from minor abrasions or as a cosmetic to make the skin less oily.” I got that from Google. Basically, it could help him with his skin, but it’s a little late if she’s wanting to prevent an infection. Those wounds healed a long time ago.

Everything she had him do on his own was just stupidity. Here, put this outfit on by yourself with 10 inch knives as your fingers. Here, eat this entire dinner with fucking 10 inch knives as your fingers. What a stupid bitch. He was living in a mansion by himself for years. I’m sure a really good meal is something he’s only been dreaming of, and now this bitch is going to wave a huge, tasty meal right in front of his face, and basically said “Figure it out while my family stares at you.”

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Black Adam Review

Black Adam recently came out and is getting huge reviews. It’s also getting some real reviews that say pretty much how I feel, like Chris here, who gave 3 stars. *SPOILERS*

It was good. Not great, but you just can’t go wrong with The Rock.

My only two non spoiler complaints would be:
Why did Dr Fates helmet not look like the comics? That was just a dumb move for no reason. It actually makes me more angry than I should be. Some producer decided he wanted it to look more sci-fi instead of just being smart and leaving it alone.
Second, out the 300 plus superheroes on the planet, You took two children on their first mission to take down a god? What?
DC’s big problem is, the movies aren’t made for “regular” people. I can take my wife who doesn’t read comics, to see Iron Man and she’ll get it. Even Guardians of the Galaxy. But when it comes to DC, you can’t just throw things at an audience like Task Force X, Atom Smasher, Cyclone and the Justice Society. Why not Justice league? Who is the JSA?
DC nerds do, but does a person who just wants to watch The Rock know?

That said, I loved Kent’s attitude and thought Dwayne Johnson was a good fit for the character, but in all honestly, I’d probably watch The Tooth Fairy again before I feel the need to watch this again.

That is the face that The Rock made through the entire movie.
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