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mellicious) wrote2021-07-13 04:19 am
mellicious) wrote2021-07-13 04:19 am
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Black Widow and other movies
Hey, I have a Black Widow icon! I think I've had it for a couple of years, actually, but still, feels like karma or something, that I came to post for the first time in ages and that's my default icon. (Silly, but there you go.)
Well, I wasn't sure about the Black Widow movie going in, but I liked it, it wasn't great but it was watchable, and entertaining. That's about all I ask. I knew some reviewers didn't like it, so maybe that lowered my expectations a little, which is helpful sometimes.
It was weird to be in a theater with more than a sprinkling of other people. We did go to the occasional movie last year, even, but there was never anybody there to speak of. Sometimes we were the only people in an auditorium.
Anyway, I didn't actually come to post specifically about Black Widow at all - I went through my planner and made a list of what we've seen this year, and I thought I would post that. I've been to eight movies and Rob has been to seventeen, no less. Horror movies were practically the only thing coming out for a while. (Plus he went alone some weeks when I just wasn't in the mood, so his list is not all horror.)
Here's what I've seen:
News of the World (which I think technically came out in 2020 but we saw it in January)
Promising Young Woman
Judas and the Black Messiah
Nomadland
Raya and the Last Dragon
The Courier
Army of the Dead
Black Widow
If I had to pick a favorite, I think I'd pick... hmm, either Promising Young Woman or Judas and the Black Messiah. I liked both of them and they were both depressing as hell in their different ways. (I liked Raya and the Last Dragon a lot, too. All of these were good, even freaking Army of the Dead.)
(I guess Army of the Dead is technically horror, isn't it? For some reason I'll go to a zombie movie occasionally, if it doesn't seem too too creepy. I saw World War Z and both the Zombieland movies and Shaun of the Dead, of course. I'm partial to the funny ones - I love Shaun of the Dead. Although actually I don't think we ever saw it in a theater, come to think of it.)
And then Rob saw all eight above plus these:
The Father
Nobody
The Unholy
In the Earth
Separation
Spiral (the Saw thing)
A Quiet Place 2
The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It
The Forever Purge
Honestly, he'll go see practically anything horror. You should see the reviews on some of those.
Well, I wasn't sure about the Black Widow movie going in, but I liked it, it wasn't great but it was watchable, and entertaining. That's about all I ask. I knew some reviewers didn't like it, so maybe that lowered my expectations a little, which is helpful sometimes.
It was weird to be in a theater with more than a sprinkling of other people. We did go to the occasional movie last year, even, but there was never anybody there to speak of. Sometimes we were the only people in an auditorium.
Anyway, I didn't actually come to post specifically about Black Widow at all - I went through my planner and made a list of what we've seen this year, and I thought I would post that. I've been to eight movies and Rob has been to seventeen, no less. Horror movies were practically the only thing coming out for a while. (Plus he went alone some weeks when I just wasn't in the mood, so his list is not all horror.)
Here's what I've seen:
News of the World (which I think technically came out in 2020 but we saw it in January)
Promising Young Woman
Judas and the Black Messiah
Nomadland
Raya and the Last Dragon
The Courier
Army of the Dead
Black Widow
If I had to pick a favorite, I think I'd pick... hmm, either Promising Young Woman or Judas and the Black Messiah. I liked both of them and they were both depressing as hell in their different ways. (I liked Raya and the Last Dragon a lot, too. All of these were good, even freaking Army of the Dead.)
(I guess Army of the Dead is technically horror, isn't it? For some reason I'll go to a zombie movie occasionally, if it doesn't seem too too creepy. I saw World War Z and both the Zombieland movies and Shaun of the Dead, of course. I'm partial to the funny ones - I love Shaun of the Dead. Although actually I don't think we ever saw it in a theater, come to think of it.)
And then Rob saw all eight above plus these:
The Father
Nobody
The Unholy
In the Earth
Separation
Spiral (the Saw thing)
A Quiet Place 2
The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It
The Forever Purge
Honestly, he'll go see practically anything horror. You should see the reviews on some of those.