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The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou Pre-view

This movie is on and will be watched on Netflix.

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I honestly don’t really know what to think of this movie, it has a well known cast and it seems super colorful which is a pretty welcomed change form all the zombie and horror movies I’ve reviewed so far. If anything I’ll bet my first born child that this movie will not take itself seriously, which would be honestly refreshing. I’ve drawn this conclusion from the casting primarily and it’s only now while typing this preview out that I realize that this movie is a Wes Anderson film. That means it’s going to be charming, slightly funny, full of heart, super weird and not something I’d watch normally, but most of all it’s something that I’m going to come away from not really sure if this was a waste of time.

This new development only makes the summary slightly more unusual, “A scientist at sea grapples with pirates, his wacky crew and his ego while trying to avenge his friends death”. This honestly just sounds like a Wes Anderson movie from just that, I don’t know how much I’m going to be able to write about this for the Review, honestly a Wes Anderson film is a Wes Anderson film, enjoyable but also super quirky and honestly kind of weird. I hope that this movie is really good, but if I know Wes Anderson like I think I know Wes Anderson, I’ll enjoy it but something inside of me will still have something against this movie.

Tank 432 Pre view

This movie is on, and will be watched on Netflix.

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Tank 432 is a movie about a few guys in a tank, but supposedly it’s a horror movie so this could go almost anywhere. The short summary of the movie tells us that a group of mercenaries are running for their lives, but it never tells us what they’re running from. For all we know it could be that their are running from their responsibilities, probably not though mercenaries are very responsible. The summary is very secretive all it really says is that they’re scared, they hide in the tank, and then it says the terror is just beginning. so there’s not much to go on, and even the director doesn’t have any other movies on Netflix so there’s no indication of how this movies is actually going to be. It does have a high match righting so I guess it will be good at least by my standards, which aren’t that high I didn’t think the Star Wars Prequels were that bad.

Well, lets hope that his movie isn’t actually that bad, I’m personally not holding it to being good. recently the movies I’ve been reviewing have been declining in quality. This pre view has been really hard to write there isn’t a lot to go off of the summary. Action & Adventure, Action Thriller, Horror movie, some pretty mundane genres that this movie fits under.

The Awakening Pre-view

This movie is on Netflix and will be watched on Netflix.

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The Awakening is a British movie that is about spooky ghosts. More specifically this movie is about someone who doesn’t believe in said spooky ghosts. From the genres, and the “This movie is” lists this movie seems to be a spooky scary ghosty suspenseful movie.
From the summary, it seems that the movie follows a character named Florence Cathcart who disproves hocus pocus styled stuff, but this ghost isn’t so easily not believed. It tries to spend the entire movie spooking her into believing in it, but will it succeed? Also, it Takes place in a boarding school which is pretty much the most British thing I can think of.
I can sympathize with this ghost, it can be hard to get people to believe in you. No one believed in my dreams about not doing any of my work and stumbling my way through the first few years of college, but look at me now! I’m still here and I only stumbled a little bit. This ghost just wants people to believe in him, and here comes this lady trying to prove that he can’t do anything because he’s not real. Well, I believe in you ghost, you can finish college.
(By the way, my family fully supports me and all of my endeavors and I actually do my work in college and not stumble my way through.)

Next Pre-view

This movie is on Netflix and will be watched there.

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Next is a movie with Nicolas cage so it’s bound to be at least an entertaining movie. Like everything I’ve watched I know practically nothing about this movie, but I have seen another nick cage science fiction movie namely “Knowing”. If that movie is anything like that it will at least be watchable. Nick cage is one of the celebrities that I don’t really like, but I never dislike. He just has this weird charm where I respect what he’s doing, but I don’t want him anywhere near me. I want to assume that he’s completely different from the roles that he plays, but I heard that he thinks that watching his pet octopus makes him a better actor. I mean I’m not an actor, so I have no idea if that actually does anything for him. All I’m just saying that that’s not the most normal thing for a person to do.

“Las Vegas magician Cris can see a few minutes into the future and an FBI agent wants his help thwarting a nuclear attack.” There are a few thing’s I want to point out: firstly spelling Chris without the “h” is actually physically painful for me to type, secondly I don’t think that the ability to see a couple of minutes into the future would be enough to stop a nuclear attack. A few minutes is not much time but I have a feeling this movie going to make it somehow a viable solution to disarming a nuclear weapon.

Haunter Pre-view

This Movie is available on Netflix and will be watched on it.

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I chose this movie simply because I thought that the name was a Pokemon name, and I was right. Now if I know Pokemon, and I think I know Pokemon, this movie will be about a girl trying to catch a haunter, possibly trying to evolve it. The thing is she doesn’t have anybody to trade with so she has to spend the majority of the movie trying to befriend some random person on the street or internet. This movie could be a really good entry into the Pokemon universe, although it is a tad weird that they chose to not title it with the traditional Pokemon title.

Another weird thing about this movie is that it’s a horror, good on Nintendo for trying to branch out into another genera. Hopefully, the Pokemon spirit will survive the transition, but who knows it could not work. This movie has an uphill battle, while Pokemon does have some pretty creepy stuff, it’s never on the surface.

I haven’t watched the trailer, I feel that it’s easier to make stuff up when you know as little as possible about a subject. Hopefully, this Pokemon movie will be a pretty good movie and not destroy my childhood. I’m holding out a lot of hope for this movie.

The Last King Pre-view

This movie is on and will be watched on Netflix

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From the name you’d think that this movie is about The Last King of some sort of fantasy land. The summary seems to prove this, apparently the fictional kingdom of Norway is having  the civil war of the century and the king is dying. He decides to give his son to two random foot soldiers. I assume they were chosen because literally every single other person more qualified were the ones revolting.

This could be a really good movie full of two guys and a baby going on a wild misadventure filled with hi-jinks. Alternatively it could also be a really bad movie full of two guys trying to hide the baby from almost certain death. Either way I’m expecting a heart felt comedy about two guys and a baby trying to make it through some tough times.

The Trailer not only gives us a look at what I’ve already been expecting but also skiing. Skiing seems to be a pretty big part of the movie so maybe in the end the two foot soldiers decide to raise the baby themselves is some sort of domestic partnership and run a ski lodge named “The Royal Ski Lodge”. I think that would be a pretty good ending to a pretty good film.

Here’s hoping that this movie is as good as I hope it’s going to be.

 

The Hunter Pre-View

This movie is on and will be watched on Netflix

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The Hunter, a movie about a guy trying to kill the last Tasmanian tiger, the premise sounds alright, although a bit lack luster if the Tasmanian Tiger doesn’t turn out to be some sort of super apex predictor. That’s even if he can find it, Tasmania is a pretty big place, 26,000 square miles big. I mean, I might still watch it if it’s just 2 hours of him walking around aimlessly in the woods and then going home because he got frustrated with not being able to find it. I used to watch ghost hunters and that’s pretty much the same thing.

I picked this one at random and it turned out to be another Australian made movie, if it’s anything like Wyrmwood I’ll be presently surprised. But unlike Wyrmwood this movie doesn’t show any awards so it’s either very modest or it hasn’t won anything, let’s hope it’s the former. Next time I’ll try to stay away from the Australian made movies.

This movie stars Willem Dafoe, who is a pretty big name for a movie I haven’t heard about even if it is a foreign movie. Hopefully he makes a good blood thirsty killer and doesn’t die to an animal that we hunted to extension in 1936. Some of the other images that I saw showed him preparing a primitive trap, this can only mean one of two things, either he’s doing it out of desperation because he lost his gun, or he stopped using it because he decided that it would be too easy.

 

 

Wyrmwood Pre-view

This film is on and will be watched on Netflix.

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From what I’m able to draw from the single sentence synopsis, this film takes place in Australia with “A man” trying to rescue his sister from a mad scientist who is turning people into zombies. The poster/ promotional image doesn’t look that bad, it shows a guy decked out in hockey and other sporting gear, and it looks pretty cool if I’m going to be honest. However I feel this is unrealistic because I assume hockey isn’t very popular in the wild outback of Australia. The film also received a fair amount of Australian film festival awards which is a positive sign.

I assume this is going to be a stereotypical zombie movie, along the lines of resident evil franchise. Wormwood is an angel form the book of revelations, which leads me to believe that there is going to be some biblical imagery. I feel like this movie is going to be a simple plot that will try to surprise the audience by throwing in one or two plot twists. The inclusion of zombies only furthers my belief that this movie is going to be a shallow movie with not much going for it. This is about all I can expect from what seems to be a B movie, but maybe I’m wrong after all every movie earns awards.

Over all I’m not expecting much from this movie, but there’s always the chance that I’ll be pleasantly surprised.