Incoming (2024)

Incoming (2024)

6/10

Starring          

Mason Thames

Ramon Reed

Bardia Seiri

Raphael Alejandro

 

Directed by Dave Chernin and John Chernin

 

The whole movie is like a remake of the coming-of-age 2007 movie, Superbad. I enjoyed this movie enough to give it a good rating, it is not a great movie, but it was good enough.

If you have seen any coming-of-age movie, you have seen this, but it was still fun. I liked the way it did not waste so much time trying to build us up. Things just start going down, everything just gets started and it became a shit-show (a literal one at some point).

I can understand why many will not like this movie, because they will feel like Superbad did it better, and maybe it did, but to have a movie have so much happening from two fronts is fun. The characters all had an angle and something to prove to themselves, and how some achieved some clarity, some grew and became adults is nice to see.

The movie is about four friends, who just got into high school. They are, Benj, who has a crush on his sister’s best friend. Eddie whose mother is dating a douche who takes advantage of him in his own house, because Eddie is laid back and just wants to get on with life. Connor who is the same age as the others but is smaller and is tired of being a nobody. The last one is Danah, the one guy in every group of friends who is actually crazy and thinks he can become somebody legendary.

Danah’s brother Koosh is having a party in his place and tells Danah he can bring his friends. Danah invites his three friends, only for on that day Koosh tells him that only one of the friends can come in. Benj asked to be the one, because he had hopes of getting his sister’s best friend to be his. The other two were upset with Danah for not being man enough to let them in and left, not even giving a fight with Benj to get in. You will need to see the movie yourself to see all the things that Benj and Danah got up to at the party. How Benj was able to get the girl alone and tell her how he felt and how Danah trapped a girl in a room with him, with the hopes of getting laid.

The other two took Eddie’s mother’s boyfriend’s car and had a night they will never forget themselves. Which, in the end, was able to get them to have the respect that Connor wanted and helped Eddie to stand up for himself and tell the man in his house to behave.

Nice movie to catch on Netflix if you have the time, I found it was worth the watch.

The Garfield Movie (2024)

The Garfield Movie (2024)

 3/10

Starring          

Chris Pratt

Samuel L. Jackson

Hannah Waddingham

Ving Rhames

 

Directed by Mark Dindal

 

I have fond memories of the 2004 Garfield: The Movie. That movie starred Bill Murray (as the voice of Garfield), Breckin Meyer as Jon and Jennifer Love Hewitt as Liz, Jon’s love interest. That movie was live action with Garfield being CGI. This movie on the other hand is complete animation. Now, watching this new one, I was hopeful that I would like it. I will be honest, I have not given the 20-year-old Garfield movie a rewatch, so I do not know how I will feel seeing it now, but this one did not give me the same vibe as that one did, when I saw it 20 years ago.

This movie played like it was meant for children, so I will regard it as so. Because for me, other than Odie everyone else in the movie was a bore.

The plot is boring, as it plays to us as a reunion movie between Garfield and his father Vic, by doing this the movie just crosses all the Ts and dots the Is from cliché-r-us. Not playing anything new, just giving us the same old stories of parent and child, separated at birth. You know those Hollywood stories, where both now must overcome a hurdle to survive and to achieve this, they must overcome the past and work together.

The plot starts with us meeting Garfield, he is enjoying his lazy life, when he and Odie gets kidnapped by Jinx and her crew. Jinx used to be part of Vic’s crewmember as they go about committing crime years ago.

Jinx got captured during one of their heists, and wants revenge on Vic, because she believes Vic did not do enough to save her. She kidnapped Garfield and wants both he and Vic to work together to get her a quart of milk for everyday she spent locked up, which was more than four years. They must do this, or else Jinx’s goon will be set on them. So, the two go out to fulfil this new heist, and we see them struggle to work together because Garfield is holding on to the past of being abandoned by his father, and Vic is struggling to explain to Garfield that things did not play out the way he thinks it did. You will need to see the whole movie to see how they get on.

If you can stomach the boredom of this movie, then maybe you can enjoy it, if like me, you cannot stand boring movies with no glimpse of trying to do anything new, then I will advise you to stay away from this movie.

All that said, the movie was a great commercial success in the box office, so I will not be surprised if a part two is already being drafted to be made.

Outrageous Fortune (1987)

Outrageous Fortune (1987)

 

3/10

Starring          

Shelley Long

Bette Midler

 

Directed by Arthur Hiller

 

You do not get that much free time to do a lot of things in life. When you do get that free time, you can decide to take a walk with your dog, go for a picnic, have a nap or do what I did, watch a movie.

It would have been best I donated my free time to my office and work for free. When you decide to watch a movie, the biggest mistake you can make is to watch a movie that does not to be able to entertain, no matter how hard it tries.

Outrageous Fortune is a complete waste of time. How this movie made a lot of money in the box office and earn Midler a Golden Globe nomination goes above my head.

The whole movie context is lame and hard to relate to, because nothing that is happening or being shown to happen is in any way possible even in the context, they claim it can.

The leads are two women from opposite ends of the spectrum, who happen to be in a relationship with the same man, Michael. Michael uses them to be able to pass messages to his partner-in-crime, who happens to be the acting teacher of these two women. Michael is on the run from the CIA because he stole something, and he is using the women as mules to pass messages with his potential buyer.

Now the complexity of achieving getting these two women is not shown, nor do we see how he uses them to pass the messages, we are just told. From this point, the acting in this movie is so dreadful it is amazing and as the plot develops – we are exposed to so many plot holes. These two women must have some superpowers because they were able to track down a man, that the entire CIA could not.

I think what was worse still was seeing the CIA hoping these two women, will be able to assist them to track down the villain.

The two women in question are actresses who happen by some share luck to be in the same acting class and to have the same taste in men, are Lauren (Shelley Long) and Sandy (Bette Midler).

If like me, you happen to just come across this movie playing, and decided to sit through it, then I am sorry. If you have not, then please save yourself the pain, it is not worth the time.