We went to see Blade Runner 2049<\/i> (which we liked, but I can see how not everyone would), and saw seven trailers (and a Coke ad) before the feature:<\/p>\n
Ready Player One<\/i> does not interest me. I liked playing 1980s video games, but I don’t look back on them with nostalgia, and the dystopic future doesn’t look interesting or believable to me, so… not for me, unless the word of mouth is amazing.<\/p>\n
I’m not especially fond of disaster films of the subcategory “weather run wild,” but at least Geostorm<\/i> seems to have an interesting backstory for its storms, in the form of saboteurs\/hackers\/hostile powers subverting a weather control system, rather than just saying Mother Nature’s gone mad (or humanity has ignored warning signs and brought an ice age\/superstorm\/earthquake\/volcano about). I’ll still probably pass unless our friends love it.<\/p>\n
Maze Runner: The Death Cure<\/i> is the third film in a series where I didn’t see the first two, so I won’t be paying to see it. Julian tells me the first one’s pretty good, the second not so much, so I wouldn’t expect too much of the third.<\/p>\n
Pacific Rim: Uprising<\/i> I might actually want to see. I enjoyed the first one — giant robots fighting monsters with some drama among the robot operators, what’s not to like? It wasn’t exactly brilliant cinematic art, but I had fun watching it, and if this sequel has any decent buzz I’d like to check it out.<\/p>\n
Why did they remake Death Wish<\/i>? Who thought that was a good idea in today’s political and social climate? Admittedly, getting Bruce Willis for the Charles Bronson role was a very good choice, but I still have severe reservations about the whole concept. I confess I never saw the original, and I don’t go to a lot of crime movies these days, so I probably won’t see this one, either.<\/p>\n
I had never heard of Annihilation<\/i> before, but it looks interesting. The trailer showed us some very surreal, dreamlike landscapes with cool stuff happening in them. Natalie Portman stars. This is one I’ll keep an eye on.<\/p>\n
And… I don’t remember the seventh (I always keep count, but don’t note titles), which is not a good sign.<\/p>\n
You will notice that this list is all dark stuff, mostly dystopian futures. I don’t suppose they thought people coming to see Blade Runner<\/i> were likely to be interested in romantic comedies, but there was a certain unappealing sameness to this string.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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