Sean’s movie thoughts

 Blade of the 47 Ronin (just called Blade from now on) is a sequel (direct to video sequel) to the 47 Ronin. (If I have seen that, it has been a long time.)  I liked Blade. It has Mark Dacascos in a supporting role, it is always nice to see him. (I own his first movie.) This is set in the modern day and a descendant of the 47 Ronin is looking for a magical sword. Blade has a lot of sword fights, I like sword fights in movies. Maybe no single sword fight in this film is amazing but they were all good. It has some fun training sequences and it is under 2 hours.  (Yeah, I keep mentioning that I like the occasional shorter movie.)  Is it great? No but I knew it would probably would not be great before I watched it. I managed expectations.  Will I watch this film again? Maybe.

Black Adam is decent, maybe more than decent. I liked seeing the JSA in the film. Maybe there could have been more time spent with them. I would like to see them return in some other project. It seems weird that Shazam (Billy Batson) is not involved or maybe even mentioned in this film.  I like Top Gun Maverick but so many people and critics seem to love it. Am I missing something? I will probably watch it again. The new Dreamworks animation logo is a bit much. Sometimes less is more. This might be a good case of fixing something that was not broken. I guess the new logo is not awful but there was a simplicity to the old one. I might do another re-watched film festival next year. Maybe I will pick 3 movies from 2017 and 2018 to re-watch (but no Star Wars or Marvel movies).