Jefe's Movie Reviews

 I saw Avatar: The Way of Water tonight. I expected it to be visually stunning and weak on story and dialogue. And that's EXACTLY what it is. The story is very VERY similar to the first movie, except without (I'm afraid) the best part of the first one. To me, the genius of the first movie was the AVATAR aspect - that Jake Sully and his friends got into the pod thing and became the big blue people. It was amazing to go through that transition with him. Kind of like when Toby McGuire becomes Spiderman for the first time. We feel like we're along for the journey. Well, in this movie, they're all blue people all the time. We see a couple flashbacks or "Great Mother" moments when we remember or revisit normal humans. And there are some normal human bad guys. I don't want to give too much away, so I'll just say there's one normal human who may or may not be a bad guy - the main bad guy from the first movie's son. Sort of. I'll let the movie expla...

  Hey guys! I'm taking suggestions as to what movies I should review next. If I haven't seen it, I'll watch it and review it. I had a TikTok viewer recommend Girl, Interrupted. I hadn't seen the whole thing, just parts. So I watched it. And I was shocked at the star-studded cast! Of course Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie were good in it. But they weren't just good. Winona played a more serious version of her journaling self from Heathers. And the song Que Sera, Sera from Heathers was in this movie, too. Angelina Jolie gives what is probably the best performance I've seen from her in this movie. She's raw and edgy and crazy and mean, but also playful and silly and lovable. Her character is so complex, and she plays it perfectly. But we've also got Whoopie Goldberg, Jeffrey Tambor (whom you probably know from Arrested Development), Elizabeth Moss (from Mad Men and Handmaiden's Tale), Brittany Murphy! (whom I didn't recognize in the role and then wa...

 People.... people who eat people.... are the unluckiest people in the worrrrld... Barbra Streisand might have sung. And she'd be right. These are not lucky people. I saw "Bone and All" tonight. I went in with an open mind and low expectations. I didn't like the movie. There were a couple moments that were good. The very first scene where you learn that the main character, played by Taylor Russell (picture above, left), is an "eater", or cannibal, is intense and shocking in a good horror movie kind of way. But then the plot jumps all over the place. The one thing I can say is that the acting, for the most part, is good. Besides Russell, Timothee Chalamet and Mark Rylance play simultaneously disturbing and sympathetic characters. I really liked Mark Rylance in The Outfit, which I recommend. And Chalamet was  great in Dune. But I feel like their talents were wasted in this strange and gratuitously disturbing movie. And when I say gratuitous, I mean just that. ...