Tim Burton's movies often employees style over substance and once again delivers us a highly edible yet unremarkable meal with a huge title. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is a fun film that unfortunately does not have twice the amount of it's loveable shit bag namesake character. It choses to rather spends it's runtime developing a mother (Lydia) and daughter (Astrid) relationship along with a few other colorful characters who, in the end, don't really play a huge role in it's story. Nearly wasting the absolute amazing addition of William Dafoe's talent on a B plot side story that goes nowhere in the climax. Perhaps Michael Keaton didn't have twice the energy to give either. He's getting old and Beetlejuice has aged with him, yet you can tell he's still having a good time bringing the character back to life. Catherine O'Hara on the other hand has aged wonderfully and Delia is as pretentious as ever. She delivers some of the biggest laughs of the film. Huge fans of the original are likely to find loads of laughs and smiles here and I think many will rediscover a love for it's predecessor as well. For a long awaited sequel it's not too bad.

I read a fantastic note about this movie, which said that if the AI system recommends your kids watch the Emoji movie than something is inherently wrong with that AI. It made me giggle but it also helped me understand my experience with this film. This is a movie that will entertain you as much as you allow it to. Is it scary? Absolutely not. Is the writing good? Ha! Did my friends and I find enjoyment in it's stupidity? Hell yeah we did. We laughed out loud at multiple scenes. Potentially, they were not meant to be funny but who cares? This movie doesn't take itself very seriously. It's a popcorn horror flick with a plot that can be summed up in two words - AI BAD. I will not bore you with plot details or performances because absolutely no one seeing this movie really expects anything other than minor enjoyment, which can be found here. 

This movie is so bad I had to search for a one-star png. Two stars would have been too much. I haven't seen a movie this terrible in a long time. Where do I start with this... I watched the original for the first time before this and was pleasantly surprised by it's style and dark sense of humor. The remake had neither of those things. In an effort to make Shelly a main character it spends the first half of the film developing a relationship between her and Erik. This movie doesn't do romance well. It doesn't do anything well. It's a story about revenge it's bound to have at least satisfying violence. Even if you suffer through the first half there is no silver lining. They decide to make Erik a piece of shit. He's terrible at everything. He's only competent for the final action sequence without any explanation. Before that he's actually scared to get hurt despite being invincible. Remember the charming relationship between sweet little Sarah and the police officer from the original? Non-existent in this film. It actually lacks side characters. There's no personality. There's nothing here to enjoy. 

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Around 2018 I played a well loved game called Alien Isolation, where you play as Amanda  Ripley, and I loved it. The first half was like Alien. You are being hunted by 1 xenomorph and you have to outsmart it with maneuvers and tricks. The last act of the game however played like Aliens. Blasting your way through a xenomorph hive. The gradual progression from having no tricks but survival to being able to battle your way past the enemies has a powerful pay off. It’s a game that stuck with me ever since and I believe it’s one of the best horror games ever made. Watching this movie made me think a lot about Alien Isolation. Romulus is possibly the best horror the franchise has to offer. It’s a well crafted love letter to the original thriller, while still managing to grasp the excitement that Aliens offered in crazy moments that had me pulling my hair out. Just when I thought it had given me enough to warrant its namesake, it goes even further with its final act. Managing to deepen the growing lore of a franchise that I’ve come to adore. It’s not perfect. Long running franchises never are. But it’s proved to be capable of endless amounts of fun. 

Not being a Marvel fan-boy has worked out pretty well the last few years. Post Endgame Marvel has not hit the same. However, there are two titles that I'll easily sign up to go see with my friends. Guardians and Deadpool. Both still managing to bring out the good times that they are known for. Adding Wolverine to this title was an easy route to success. Everyone was instantly hyped for it and with good reason. We got ol' Hugh Jackman back in the fucking supersuit! It's a damn good time. They take full advantage of homeboy's violent nature and watching the 2 super regenerative superheroes tear each other apart multiple times is just good fun. However, let's be honest here, besides the fan service there's not a ton of substance to the writing. For most people that won't matter if a brainless fun script is all you want - you're in for a good fucking time.