More re-watches and streaming list cleanup, (neither a bad thing) -
Frozen (I stopped trying to come up with a good non-Disney reference when I realized it was gonna be incredibly offensive and that lots of small children read these boards and are molded by what's posted on them) - Adam Reed basically decides to make a real movie and it's actually also really good. Solid enough casting with Ashmore and Bell both doing a nice job with a pretty challenging script. Holds up really well to both time and repeated viewing.
Hatchet - eh, not bad, but not what its reputation would have you believe. Kind of a tongue-in-cheek (not not enough, as mentioned later) love letter to Friday the Thirteenth, etc. Kane Hodder's even the star.
Hatchet 2 - Making Tony Todd the focus here was a good idea, but it still doesn't make the movie any good at all. Danielle Harris is also unfortunately featured, and I'm sorry, but she's not a good actress at all, scream queen bonafides aside. I liked the AJ Bowen cameo (Where TF were Joe Swanberg and Amy Seimetz?!) but not remotely enough to make the movie worth watching. Dunno how a third one got greenlit after this waste. There were multiple scenes that made me actively dislike the acting and took me completely out of the movie (the uncle, who in the hell thought that guy could act?) That final kill on RZ, I gotta admit that that's inspired stuff.
Hatchet 3 - It's... okay? Better than 2 at least I guess. Liking the Parry Shen is unkillable gimmick at least I suppose. And it's good that it's basically just gore, gore, gore first, movie second. Again, Danielle Harris did not help.
Victor Crowley - And then Green got a second (ish) chance and got it right (!, this is what Hatchet should have been). From "make the other one out to my dad, his name is Bill with a B" and "why won't you sign my cock?!" to "I have a dick" and "I would have had your babies!", I gotta admit that I genuinely laughed out loud at the script more than once in this one. The plot also happened to be better than in the others, VC stalking survivors on small area works a lot better than people trying to find him. For real, after kind of soldiering through 2 and 3 and being underwhelmed/annoyed, VC was really fun. Probably not for non-fans of the genre, but if you are, very much worth a watch.
Train to Busan: Peninsula - quite a pivot from the original, but it really does work. Good story, solid characters (the girls and their mom, c'mon), good zombie action, top tier in the genre if not quite the icon the original is.
Would You Rather - sort of in the 13 Sins vibe I think, it's very unpleasant and it's about people making bad decisions for money. This is maybe mildly superior to that, I think, in that it's much more focused and (relatively, obviously) believable. Nasty ending (like it wouldn't be!) and some very good evidence as to why Sasha Grey is not a mainstream actor.
Held - maaaaan..... solid setup, very stupid "twist." Don't watch this.
The Batman - I was thinking that I had definitely liked this the first time I watched it, I dunno, couple of years ago or whatever. It holds up really, really well to a rewatch now. I still think Pattinson is the best Batman (helped out immensely by Reeves' directing), but it's the rest of the cast and the script that really makes it sing. Kravitz is good as Selina, Wright is awesome as Gordon, Torturro is really good as Falcone, Dano is great as Riddler, Farrell is great as Oswald, Serkis is awesome as Alfred. I'm certainly looking forward to seeing The Flash and I hope it does like Gunn says it will and reset the DCEU slate, but Reeves' take on The Batman is, IMO at least, the best thing going in comic/superhero movies right now.
