Sean’s movie thoughts

Tough Turf is a 1980s movie with James Spader and Robert Downey Jr. Maybe it is not good but I kind of liked it. I might be blinded by nostalgia. Spader plays a new student named Morgan at a LA high school. He is considered a troublemaker and his relationship with his mother is strained. In a better movie, this would be explored more and so would his relationship with his older brother. Morgan runs afoul of some goons. Downey plays Morgan’s new friend Jimmy. They are fun together. Morgan falls for Frankie (Kim Richards) the girlfriend of the head goon. He pursues her. There is a scene where he is singing to her and that was kind of fun. The goons remain and complicate this would be romance. Especially because head goon Nick thinks that Frankie belongs to him. I think that Nick thinks he loves Frankie. Roger Ebert did not care for it. He found Spader too laid back and said he barely seems to be alive. He also said that Richards’ hair was lovely and often the only thing on scree...

This was long but good. It wraps the Infinity Stones saga and the trailers really did not reveal much of the film.  It is kind of surprising in this day and age. (Some movies seem to have their plots revealed in their trailers.) Five years pass and Ant-man comes out of the quantum realm. He suggests that they use time time travel to get the Infinity Stones. Tony Stark has a daughter now and at first he resists taking part in the plan but he eventually solves time travel. I enjoyed this. I liked the parts where the Avengers went back in time to get the Infinity Stones. The scenes with Thor and his late mother Frigga, and Tony Stark and his late father Howard Stark were good. The part where Captain America fought his younger self was fun. The time travel goes wrong and Thanos from the past comes into the present day. He brings his army, and past versions of Gamora, and Nebula. There is a massive fight but it is done fairly well and characters get standout moments. The girl powe...