Sean’s movie thoughts

Renfield was decent. It might not be worth re-watching. Renfield is Dracula's manservant and he worries that their relationship is toxic. (It is.) Nicolas Cage stars as Dracula. He is having fun. Cage never phones anything in, for good or for bad.  I liked Nicholas Holt. I don't think I have seen him give a bad performance. Some of the scenes with Holt and Cage are fun. Maybe a few more black and white scenes would have helped.  I don't know if this is worth seeing  again. 

All action movies are unrealistic. Some are more unrealistic than others. It is part of the genre. When does an action movie become too unrealistic?  Your opinions will vary from film to film. I like Gymkata, and it is unrealistic. That is okay, it was not meant to be realistic.  Taken, for example, is more realistic than Gymkata. Taken is not that realistic though.  If the action movie has some science fiction elements, some things are more acceptable then those things would be in an action movie without science fiction elements. I like the last John Wick movie but there were some scenes where John Wick should not have been able to get up. Spider-man would not be able to get up from that John Wick did. If this does not bother you, cool.

This sequel is not as good as the original film. It is not terrible but the first one was better. I am officially ok if there is not another sequel.  Rachel Zegler and  Jack Dylan Grazer have some nice moments together. That might be the best thing to say about the film. (Considering how little screen time they share, saying their scenes together are the best thing about the movie might be faint praise.) It will be interesting to see what she does next. At least I finished this film, I did not finish the latest Ant-Ant-Man and the Wasp movie. I don't know if I will ever go back and finish that film. Maybe the first Shazam movie isn't a classic but it is better than this. I might re-watch Shazam in the next few weeks. I don't think I will re-watch this film.

Dwayne Johnson is reported to come back in another Fast and Furious Spin-off. (11 films of this series and four without Paul Walker aren't enough apparently.) Apparently this movie will take place between Fast X and Fast X part II (possibly the dumbest sequel name ever). That cannot be the title. Okay, good for Johnson, I guess. I have nothing against him but sometimes I wonder why he has made so many movies but so many of them are average or below average. (I am not calling him a no talent hack.) I thought the series had moved on from Dwayne Johnson in F9. I guess that big feud Johnson had with Vin Disel did not amount to much. (That made Johnson seem small.) Oh well, I will see what happens.  I did kind of like Hobbs and Shaw, Johnson's team up with Jason Statham.

There are rumors of a fifth John Wick movie. Without spoiling the last movie, I am not sure where the fifth film would go. I guess something could be figured out. It can be hard to walk away from a successful franchise. If the audience is increasing from movie to movie, it can be hard to stop making films. John Wick's audience does seem to be increasing.  I would like the people behind these films to do something else. I think that could be interesting. I don't think a fifth John Wick film has to be terrible but there seems to be a risk that it could be bad. Maybe going out on top would be good. More about this as it develops.

 The new John Wick movie is too long. It is still good but I think the third act is too long. I am not sure about the second act but I definitely think the third act is too long. John Wick wants to settle his differences with the High Table. The High Table has empowered a dude to kill John and that dude recruits an old friend of John’s to kill him. (I guess there are limits to friendship in the Wick verse.) Lawrence Fishbourne pops up to give plot details from time to time but it is good to see him. Clancy Brown is on hand to lend gravitas to the film. It is nice to see Donnie Yen, Marko Zaror, and Scott Adkins in this film. I don’t like the fact Adkins was in a fat suit but it was a good fat suit at least. Yen should be a bigger star in America. So should Zaror. The movie needed more Lance Reddick, maybe that it is a reaction to his death after the movie was filmed. I don't know if he had another project completed after this, so maybe this is not his last performance.  He add...

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Dynasty is getting bad reviews so far.  It will be interesting to see how many positive reviews there are in the coming days.  It is okay for stories to end. Indiana Jones might not need to age but Harrison Ford ages. Unless we want someone else playing Indiana Jones, maybe Ford should not have come back one more time. People seem not to want a new actor playing Indiana Jones. At least one prominent Star Wars YouTuber wants movies featuring computer generated versions of a young Harrison Ford, Mark Hamil, and Carrie Fisher. (I don't watch his work but apparently some people I follow on Twitter do and comment on his work. I have not fallen into the Star Wars YouTube rabbit hole and I don't think I will.) I think that would be awful. Maybe some of Carrie Fisher's films after the original trilogy ended were not great but some were fun. Hamil has done some good voice over work and Ford became a star outside the franchise. I think computer generated...