09-16-2020, 05:48 PM
^ I've been meaning to see that one (who doesn't love Tom Hollander and Oscar Isaac) and then afterwards I'd be curious to watch 'The Ottoman Lieutenant', which was released a few weeks before 'The Promise' and co-funded by Turkey as an allegedly a-historical rebuttal to the other film. It's also got some fairly big names in it.
Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020)
I was ready to love this belated sequel after some very positive reviews, plus it opens with the classic Orion logo which put a big nostalgic smile on my face but about 30-seconds into the first scene I was thinking "oooooh no". It was only 38-minutes after that that I got the first laugh when Bill pulls a gun on Bill and the second laugh came 13-seconds from end with Bill saying the word "Nurse". The rest is a comedy wasteland. Any fun moments are all from Alex Winter's Bill, he's back in the role like he never left, where as Keanu Reeves is so flat and depressing. It makes me wonder if Reeves hasn't become a more serious actor over the years, he's just become a more serious person in real life and now he can't work out how to play the lovable doofus any more.
The FX look embarrassingly cheap, to the point where I suspect they'd done little more than pre-viz FX, then the lockdown happened, cinemas closed and so the studio tactically decided to not waste further money on it. I hated the distracting half-arsed cameos by 2nd-rung SNL people. The narrative is all over the place and full of dropped subplots and incoherent writing. The script clearly makes a real effort to keep it in line with the continuity of the previous movie which I appreciated but it still feels like the premise massively deflates the crowd pleasing ending to 'Bogus Journey'. I sincerely wish I'd enjoyed this as much as everybody else
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Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020)
I was ready to love this belated sequel after some very positive reviews, plus it opens with the classic Orion logo which put a big nostalgic smile on my face but about 30-seconds into the first scene I was thinking "oooooh no". It was only 38-minutes after that that I got the first laugh when Bill pulls a gun on Bill and the second laugh came 13-seconds from end with Bill saying the word "Nurse". The rest is a comedy wasteland. Any fun moments are all from Alex Winter's Bill, he's back in the role like he never left, where as Keanu Reeves is so flat and depressing. It makes me wonder if Reeves hasn't become a more serious actor over the years, he's just become a more serious person in real life and now he can't work out how to play the lovable doofus any more.
The FX look embarrassingly cheap, to the point where I suspect they'd done little more than pre-viz FX, then the lockdown happened, cinemas closed and so the studio tactically decided to not waste further money on it. I hated the distracting half-arsed cameos by 2nd-rung SNL people. The narrative is all over the place and full of dropped subplots and incoherent writing. The script clearly makes a real effort to keep it in line with the continuity of the previous movie which I appreciated but it still feels like the premise massively deflates the crowd pleasing ending to 'Bogus Journey'. I sincerely wish I'd enjoyed this as much as everybody else
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