Movies, Film and My Opinion

  It wasn't bad. It wasn't as good as the first movie, but it wasn't bad. Elphaba is in rare form and fantastic as she flies around with her agenda: to free the animals who could have spoken and give them freedom. They need to be back in Oz society. But she's the evil one. She is the one the people are against. But really, she's not. And she has allies. Cynthia Erivo has a wonderful voice, a very straight Alto voice, but she's not spectacular. She's good. And her acting skills are top notch. It's just that in my past theater experience, I have witnessed women with better voices for that role. But Cynthia is believable as Elphaba. And her love for Glinda as her best friend/sister in life is also believable. I believed their love. I believed the sisterhood that they had. And Ariana Grande proves a very self-absorbed and emotionally torn Glinda. And Elphaba is not the bad one here: the Wizard needs to prove himself a good guy, a guy doing the right thing f...

 I really liked this movie. Not as much as the first one, but yeah, I enjoyed it. Mostly because what I thought was going to happen, didn't. Lots of plot twists. These guys can not catch a break! Like ever. But they want to protect their friend, Snake. Snake is in love with a bird and this could not be the best thing in the world for him. And the friends all think Snake is involved in Bad things. Stolen things. Cause he's good at it. And what if the bird friend is in on it? What will they do? Plus they have the Commissioner on their tails about all the robberies going on. They promise the Commissioner that they'd help. But it just gets them into trouble. Will Governor Diane Foxington, played by Zazie Beetz, help them out? What if there are others involved? Will they be able to make the world believe they're good instead of bad? I love the animation and I love the voices, especially Awkwafina ( I totally wanna talk to her agent). Definitely worth a 2nd viewing.

 Out of all the Gambler movies, I just didn't care for this one. No poker playing, no real gambling other than with each other's lives and the lives of people...it just didn't have that "gambler" feeling to it. Brady and Billy meet up with Buffalo Bill, played by Jeffrey Jones and travel a little bit to find Brady's friend, Chief Sitting Bull, played by George American Horse. But tensions are high between the American soldiers, the Senator Henry Colton played by Charles Durning and lots of lovely ladies in the wild west who share secrets and spread the news of the government buying up Indian land and giving the Native America tribes a bad deal. And there's murder. Don't forget - there's murder. Granted, Kenny Rogers and Bruce Boxleitner are in almost every scene and things get so deep with the plot, but it's just not a Western feel for me. I'll just have to not recommend this one out.