Is this thing still on?
So, trying to get back into the habit of writing my thoughts down, see if it helps me get back into the habit of writing other things.
Also trying to get back into this whole going to the movies thing, a habit I'd pretty much lost between the "pandemic", the economy, and Hollywood's general state of decay.
But, I've been to the movies four times in the last twelve months, which is quite a clip by recent standards, so...
Silent Night: A- A sad, brutal film that doesn't glamorize or sugar-coat revenge and its costs. Sadly flopped at the box office but I believe will be vindicated by streaming. Definitely going in my Christmas counter-programing playlist.
Bad Boys: Ride or Die: B-. A love-letter to the franchise that works alright as an action movie.
Deadpool & Wolverine: A+, up there with Endgame on the comicbook movie Mount Rushmore.
Trap: C-, thoughts below the cut for spoilers if you care.
Josh Hartnett struggles in a manful and ultimately pointless attempt to elevate M. Night Drama-Llama's decision to take a script that could have been an interesting episode of Dexter and turn it into a 100-minute commercial for his daughter's mediocre singing career.
The trailers promise a tense game of cat-and-mouse as Cooper grows ever more desperate to escape, before deciding, screw this, if I'm not getting out I'm at least going to cause as much chaos and mayhem as possible before I'm caught. I wanted to see that movie, where the FBI screwed up and trapped a serial killer in an arena with 10,000 potential victims, with Haley Mills' profiler having to weigh the potential casualties today vs letting Cooper escape and keep killing for years to come.
Barring that, I spent the whole second half of the movie waiting for the twist.
Cooper is not the Butcher, but a different serial killer who just got caught up in this mess.
Cooper is a super-powered serial killer, and this is part of the Unbreakable universe.
Cooper's daughter Riley is actually a vampire or possessed by a demon or something, and his victims are his way of feeding her, with the alluded-to but never explained 'incident' with Riley's friends being a tell that she needs to feed, soon.
Cooper's wife is in on it, and "The Butcher" is actually a duo act. Something.
Cool concept, absolutely rolled a Natural 1 on execution.