Movies Watched -- The Hateful Eight

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Not on my Top 100 list since it scored 75% (including idiot bloggers) and 62% (top critics only), but I watched it anyway since it made other people's Ten Best lists. Running time is 167 (!) minutes which is nearly three hours long for those bad at math. Totally self-indulgent, it is at least an hour too long. The Weinsteins always give Tarantino total creative license, it seems. 

Anyway, in addition to being too long, the movie doesn't really work, it's stylish but ultimately empty, similar to Inglorious Bastards (and even Django in some ways, though Christoph Waltz's brilliance really carried that one). If you like Tarantino, you'll love it; if you hate Tarantino (as most mainstream critics do), you'll hate it; if you have mixed feelings about Tarantino, you'll probably not be thrilled ... I wasn't thrilled, fast forwarding from the 100 minute mark. A long-winded parlor drama which builds to an ultra-violent end. Red rating, avoid. 

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Movies Watched -- Ant-man

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115 minute running time so definitely 20 minutes too long. Watched 40 minutes before I lost interest and fast-forwarded to the end. Paul Rudd, Alicia Silverstone's older brother in Clueless, plays the reluctant superhero, and I just don't like the guy, he's a wimp. These Marvel movies are all formula, the violence lightened by smartass humor -- squarely aimed at teenagers, I suppose.  For some reason Guardians of the Galaxy worked for me, but this one didn't. At the very end, a sassy hapa beauty appeared (see below) named Anna Akana, who I guess is a YouTube star ... a rare bright moment.  Red rating, avoid. 

Rex hated it too: "Ant-Man is no Spider-Man or Avenger, especially played by Paul Rudd, who looks like a fraternity boy and has neither the charisma nor the cajones to carry an assignment of this magnitude." Indeed.

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