It’s February and movies are rarely very good this time of year.
Here are mini-reviews of each of these.
I saw them so you don’t have to.
The Final Destination movies are at least fun looks are the absurdity of mortality.
To his credit, Perkins knows how to set up a shot.
His movies do have a unique look to them.
I can’t recall too many other movies that tried this hard to be funny that falls this flat.
We are told at least a dozen times that it’s fucked up that we all eventually die.
It would much rather try painfully hard to be funny without making much sense at all.
There are times when this is shockingly bad.
You’d never know they had any bad times from this bland movie.
The is the first authorized documentary from the band.
It also may be the most sanitized documentary from any band.
Want to know how safe this is?
We don’t get a single interesting John Bonham story.
I don’t believe the word “drug” is ever even mentioned.
Becoming Led Zeppelin also includes at least four full live performances spliced in between the talking heads.
It all just felt so redundant…and I like Led Zeppelin!
I don’t need to see them perform Whole Lotta Love in poor quality.
Tell us anything interesting!
Instead, we watch them become really successful and popular…THE END!
Becoming Led Zeppelin: C-
The Unbreakable Boy is a bad movie.
It’s a shame because the premise could have been compelling.
Instead, this is schlocky and lazy filmmaking.
This also shoehorns religion in unnatural parts of the movie.
It feels like the messaging is an obligation to someone (producers?).
This was shot in late 2020 and sat on a shelf for over four years!
It’s just too bad that the shelf this was sitting on for so long was also apparently unbreakable.
