Movies, Film and My Opinion

  Surprisingly, this was a really good movie! Who knew that Dreadpool could be so delightfully funny without the blood and guts and profanity! The main idea for this movie is pretty much a gamer's dream come true: you create something that has a life of its own, and someone wants to kill it. And on top of that, you work for your dream company and the company has issues with you. It's just crazy and so real! And it was really good to see online regular people with their YouTube shows and whatnot in this. Social media has a real hold on our world today. I was hoping for a romantic cyber twist, but instead got something in the end that I didn't expect. And Joe Keery, who was wonderful on "Stranger Things", would have been fantastic in "Ready Player One." Just sayin'!

 This wasn't the best of all the Marvel Movies for my husband and I, but this had a lot of action. And I can reconfirm that dragons are real. And Awkwafina has made her full transition from comedienne to serious actress. Wow! And I gotta find out if she does her own stunts! I didn't really buy a "love relationship" between Awkwafina's character, Katy, and Simu Liu's character, Shaun. I felt more of a "best friend" vibe and not a "romantic" vibe. It was good to see characters from the Marvel universe show up like Ben Kingsley and Benedict Wong, as they reminded most audience members that "yeah, Marvel universe here, hello!" The story starts off fun and funny, but then it gets serious with Shaun's dad and his background and then his mom and how she dies. Revenge is a moving force within the Marvel universe and so much so here. The martial arts moves in this movie look like a dance to me. So much of a slow moving dance, and then

 omg this was just silly. So silly. And a star-studded movie. It's interesting to see how many genres and movies that Weird Al had to get permission to parody: Rambo, Conan, Indiana Jones and even Gone with the Wind. This movie proves a good point, though: ya gotta have friends. The rich and powerful are nothing without positive backup. And George's friends were there for him, poor or rich. It's an entertaining movie and one of my husband's favorites.