Sean’s movie thoughts

The Second Chance Film Festival continues. Summer Night is a likable movie. It might not be that good but it is likable. This is about a bunch of friends in a small town in California and what they are doing on a day and night. Some of these friends are in a band. Some of these friends are dating each other or want to date each other or have dated each other (I think that covers everything). The actors are good, even the ones I don’t recognize from other projects (which is a large part of the cast). Lana Condor seemed to have a larger role in this from the trailer than she really did but it was nice to see her. I would have liked to see more time with her and would be boyfriend Jack/Rabbit. Victoria Justice is likable in this movie, she plays Harmony and she is on a date with Jameson. It might be a first date. There are some band performances in the movie but maybe there’s one too many.  I like band performances in movies as much as anyone and the songs are good. There is a lot...

I added this film to the Second Chance Film festival.  I had basically the same opinion after the re-watch that I did after seeing it in theaters. The movie is kind of average, and I expected better from the fourth film in a franchise. It is not the start of a new franchise, the set up carries over from the first three films and Emma Thompson returns as the head of the organization from the third film. I think there was a photo of Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones in the background. I think the series missed Will Smith. I thought Tessa Thompson and Chris Hemsworth were fine, I don’t think they were the problem but neither one is Will Smith. The aliens seemed less amazing but maybe after three previous movies that was bound to happen. Producer Walter Parks either re-wrote the script or had it re-written. The finale script was not the script that the cast or director signed up to make. Some people said to the Hollywood Reporter, without giving their names, that Parks watered it down...

I want to keep the movies in this festival ten years old or newer.  So that is the first criteria.  It will narrow the selection area. The second criteria is all these movies are movies that either I disliked or was on the fence about. A film I really liked probably does not need a second chance. The third criteria is that I need to have watched the entire film. Baywatch does not qualify. I tried two (or maybe three) different times to watch it (one was during a rainy day in a hotel room I believe) and never finished it. Maybe some day I will give it a fourth chance, if only to be able to explain why the movie failed. I probably won't. So Hellboy 2019 has already been re-watched, that leaves me with the following films in the festival assuming I don't add one or two more Summer Night Fast and Furious Presents Hobbs and Shaw Zombieland Double Tap Tolkein

I re-watched Hellboy 2019 as part of my Second Chance Film Festival. I thought Hellboy 2019 was going to leave HBO soon. I was not willing to buy it, so I decided to watch Hellboy 2019 before it left HBO. It is still bad. Maybe it seems a little less bad than it did when I saw it in theaters but that is not saying a lot. I don’t think the actors are at fault, I think they did the best they could. This movie just has too much going on, the giants subplot could have been cut without harming the film, I feel. I feel I have seen the ancient witch out to destroy/conquer the world done better in other films. I am not sure they needed to tie in King Arthur as much as they did. I still think the supporting cast of characters was better in the Del Torro films. Either that or the actors  in the supporting cast were mostly better than the actors in the new movie. Maybe it was a bit of both. The movie ends with a post credits sequence that will never be addressed. (I don’t think this wil...

I decided on my Second Chance Film Festival for 2020. The idea is to watch some films again and see if I like them more than I did when I first saw them or to see if my first impressions were correct. I did not hate each of these films but I hated a few. here are the films Fast and Furious Presents Hobbs and Shaw Hellboy 2019 Summer Night Zombieland Double Tap Tolkein I did not put Undercover Brother II on this list because I don't hate myself, at the moment anyway.  (Kidding.) Also I really did not have high hopes for Undercover Brother 2. I am going to do this in June.  I will pick one to start but I think I will end with Hellboy 2019.