Sean’s movie thoughts

The latest  Disney/Pixar film Soul was decent. It is nice to have Jamie Foxx provide the voice for the lead character. However maybe it is just because I just saw Onward recently, I liked Soul but not nearly as much as I liked Onward on re-watch. Maybe on re-watch I will like Soul a bit better and I think I might re-watch it. I finally saw Collateral. Jamie Foxx and Tom Cruise are really good. Cruise plays a hitman who hires a taxi driver (Fox) to drive him to his various jobs. There are some really good scenes, especially one where Fox has to pretend to be Cruise. Foxx was really good, maybe I forgot how good an actor he can be after the Amazing Spider-man II. I liked the Invisible Man but not as much as most critics. It is not bad exactly but I am not sure that I'd ever want to see it again. A couple of times it seemed like the Invisible Man has above average strength but that could just be an impression I got. I thought Elizabeth Moss was good in the lead role as a woman who fea...

Father of the Bride, the Steve Martin one, is still good. This is one of the three or four classic movies Martin made. Martin Short’s wedding planner is a little over the top maybe but he is not insufferable. Also it helps that he is a supporting character. The animated movies Prince of Egypt and Joseph King of Dreams are good. Maybe the Prince of Egypt is a bit better but there are both enjoyable. I had not seen either one in a while, so it was nice to  re-watch them. The Dark Universe is officially dead. I liked the Mummy (2017) but it had problems and it was not enough of a success to launch a franchise. There will be(or there could be) a new Invisible Man movie by Leigh Whannell (creator of the Saw franchise and the writer/director of Upgrade). That could be good. I say could be because Whannell has been hired to write and possibly director an Escape from New York remake. There was an early review of the third How to Train Your Dragon franchise that complained about too m...