Obsession: Still a great movie on the second watch! You can really pick up on some very subtle decisions actors made after you know what to look for and know where the story goes. Very happy to see this movie getting its flowers.
Masters of the Universe: What a fun movie! Equal parts cheesy, campy, adventure, and action with a few adult jokes thrown in for the older crowd (that line about Adam's sword between his thighs
). It felt like it ran a bit long but it was an enjoyable movie regardless. It's a shame the brand is just too outdated for modern audiences and there wasn't a large enough crowd interested in it. This feels like what the painfully bad Thor Love&Thunder years ago was trying to accomplish. Hopefully there's a smaller sequel or streaming show down the line but this one may end here due to it bombing.
Disclosure Day: Holy hell, this was painful to sit through. I refuse to ever walk out of a movie but damn if I wasn't really tempted to. One of my least favorite movies I've seen in theaters in many years. Script? More plot holes than swiss cheese. Magical object that lets anything happen when the script or any character needs it to? Stupid and lazy. Tone? All over the place. Score? Not bad if this was an ET, Goonies, or Indiana Jones type adventure movie or something more whimsical, but damn it didn't fit the more serious tone here. Action? Hardly any at all. When there was, it was mainly stupid chase sequences where the bad guys have the intelligence of a toddler. CGI? Super uneven, and all the animals looked bad. Character motivation? They all flip flop depending on what the script needs them to do. The only good parts of the movie were the last 20 minutes starting from the news report. That's where I wanted this movie to begin. Not the 2 hours of boring, repetitive lead up. This could have been fantastic since it had capable people behind all aspects of it, but each part did not come together well here.
Supergirl and Leviticus later in the week to hopefully wash away the Spielberg stink.