Sean’s movie thoughts

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...

Upgrade is good. It is a bit of a mix of science fiction and horror. In some near future year, technology has increased to the point self driving cars are widely used and digital printers might be able to make food.(That was in a dream sequence but still counts, I think.) Our hero is Grey Trace (played by Logan Marshall-Green) and after he is paralyzed in an attack that leaves his wife dead, he gets a computer chip called STEM that allows him to walk again. However that is not all the chip allows and the chip starts to talk to Grey. Grey and STEM start to hunt down the men who killed Grey’s wife and STEM can take control of Grey’s body. (A lot, if not all, of this is revealed in trailers.) With STEM in control, Grey becomes nearly superhuman. I thought this was pretty good. Logan Marshall-Green was really good in the lead role. I am not sure if I had seen him in another film but I am interested in seeing him in another. It is a pretty violent film. Leigh Whannell wrote and direct...