I should've read the reviewsDownsizing was definitely not the movie I thought it was going to be. I was never quite sure what it was about the whole time. It was labeled as a comedy on Hulu, so I thought it was just going to be a nice little comedy. I spent a long time waiting for the comedy to start, but it never came.
I was pretty disappointed in Downsizing. It was a 2+ hour movie that moved really slow for the first 3 quarters and then really fast at the end. The entire first hour of the movie was spent explaining the reasoning behind going small and establishing that Matt Damon was an occupational therapist in financial trouble. It was really slow. There was a 15 minute scene showing the process of becoming small. It was mildly entertaining, but it definitely didn't need to be so long. I feel like the director chose to show realistically how life would be if people could miniaturize themselves instead of actually entertaining people. I had to take a break from this movie about halfway through. It was right after he got small. The movie took a total 180 after Matt Damon actually got small. His wife never showed up again, even though she spent a lot of time on screen in the first half. The narrative picked back up a year after he got small. It followed him through his normal life for a while. Eventually he found a famous war refugee and helped her with her prosthetic leg (he's an occupational therapist). Then, in a weird move, he tries to tell her he's going to Norway on an important trip (that's where the first small colony was). She said she's coming with him, so his plan goes to pieces. He didn't seem too upset though because he fell in love with her on the way there. They met the scientist who found out how to miniaturize people. He says they have a couple years until the earth gets overcome by global warming, so their colony is going to live underground for the next few thousand years. Matt Damon almost goes in with them, but chooses to stay with the refugee instead. This all happens in the final third of the movie. Why we needed all that exposition, I have no idea. It would have been a pretty good movie if they had started it at around the hour 15 mark. The fact that they were tiny didn't even play much of a role in the actual story after that point, so it really was like two movies. This really did have all the makings of a really good movie, but it didn't execute well at all. You can probably cut out at least a third of this movie and lose absolutely nothing substantial. Way too much time was spent building a conflict, only to throw it all in the garbage and start from scratch. The movie would have been so much better if they had added 40 minutes to the ending events and subtracted 40 minutes from the beginning. The beginning was not enjoyable to watch and it did not matter. There wasn't enough time after Damon became small to create and resolve a real conflict. It resulted in his character feeling disconnected. I think the writer realized at the end of the movie that he had to create an actual story, so he just through that in there. He tried to cover up his mistake by saying "it was all part of God's plan to bring me to Norway to help save humanity". That doesn't make up for the first hour and a half of aimless story. Downsizing had the opposite problems Turning Red had. Downsizing was a great idea, but the execution was not there. Turning Red was a terrible idea, but it was executed very well. 4/10
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THE Batman (Emphasis on THE) The Batman is the only Batman movie I've seen, so I can't judge it against other Batman movies. In my heart, this is the Batman movie. Why? Because it was good, that's why. Enough Said.
10/10 Anyways, I was originally not hyped for The Batman, but I heard from somebody that it was a murder mystery. I thought that might be cool. This is the greatest crime/detective movie I've ever seen. It has all the things necessary to make a great detective movie: a mastermind villain with an overcomplicated plan, a cool antihero detective, a loyal sidekick, and many layers of the mystery to peel back. I'm so glad this movie was three hours long because I couldn't get enough of it. If this were a six hour movie, I still think I'd be glued to the screen the entire time. John and Noah claimed that there was too much filler, but they don't understand. Where in this movie is there any filler? The entire movie is spent stopping the Riddler. He is a good villain, so it took a while. The Riddler in this movie is probably up there with my favorite villains of all time (that was a journal question from a while ago). Paul Dano did an amazing job being a crazy person for 3 hours. The scenes with him on the phone were so so good. You really feel scared or like your in a saw movie or something. The only thing I didn't like a whole lot was part of the soundtrack. There were points of the movie that were too sharp. I don't know whether I'd like it better or not without those noises. I just noticed it every time it was played. I think the opening scene was one of my favorite scenes in any movie ever. The voice-over was epic. The Arkham scene near the end was also pretty good. If you like police and detective movie, this is the Ark of the Covenant. I highly recomend this movie. If you don't like it, you just don't get it. 10/10 |
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