Sean’s movie thoughts

Dark Phoenix has problems. I think it is better than Men in Black International. We barely know this version of Jean, so a story about her losing control or going to the dark side can only have so much impact. I think we needed more of her in the last movie or we needed a full movie with the new cast after Apocalypse before doing the Dark Phoenix story. I thought Sophie Turner was pretty good. I think this movie needed more Quicksilver. Maybe he is a one trick pony but it is a good trick. I think the movie lost something after he got hurt. Maybe Charles Xavier is too much at fault in this movie.  I think this movie should have centered more on Jean. Now the movie is as much about his failings as Jean’s struggles. Maybe that was not the best choice. The death of Mystique might have had more impact if I had not known about it before the movie opened. I know Jennifer Lawrence’s performance as Mystique has detractors (I might be included in that group at times) but maybe reveal...

Dark Phoenix bombed. Predictions have it losing close to $100 million. Wow. It is also getting mostly bad reviews. Jennifer Lawrence seems to be getting hammered in several reviews. I think New Mutants is doomed, I don’t see Disney wanting to spend money on a spin-off to a finished franchise after what happened to Dark Phoenix. The Hellboy reboot died. It was out of theaters in five weeks, that was quick, and the reviews were bad. The makers of this movie though maybe they could strike gold if they made it on a reasonable budget. They didn’t. Godzilla King of the Monsters won’t make even 2/3rds of the money that 2014 Godzilla did unless there is an unexpected surge overseas or domestically. I liked the film but it is not getting the audience that the 2014 Godzilla did for some reason. Even the opening box office of the Secret Life of Pets 2 is down 50 percent or more from the original.  I guess this won’t be a long running franchise. I hear the film is bad and it plays more l...

Dark Phoenix bombed. Reviews are mostly negative. Jennifer Lawrence in particular has been singled out for her performance. (Sophie Turner is the film’s female lead.) There seems to be a feeling that Lawrence has really checked out of this franchise and might have checked out at least one film earlier. A review on Polygon  said that saying Lawrence phoned in her performance implies a level of energy that she never reaches. (I might have gotten the quote wrong but that is the meaning,) That is harsh. Other critics might not have been that direct but similar sentiments have been expressed. I don’t watch celebrity interviews or talk shows like the Tonight Show and haven’t for a while. I don’t know what Jennifer Lawrence has said about her role as Mystique. However I am not sure I need to, I can decide by watching the films. She made X-men First Class before the Hunger Games hit and in each X-men movie after First Class, she seems to spend less time in the Mystique makeup an...