Reviews

You can argue this might be Tim Burtons best film. I don't think anyone will tell you wrong either way. I have seen this movie a little over a handful of times and every time it finds a way to bring me to tears and as a man in his mid 20s I'm not a shame to admit it bc it's a beautiful movie. The performances all around by everybody is great and it is a must watch movie no matter how old you are or how old it is (1990). It has that Frankensteins monster theme to it with how the non main characters end up treating him and all because they don't like what they don't understand ultimately. Poor Edward goes from a great citizen who cuts hair, grooms dogs, and cuts hedges to being public enemy number one over a crime he didn't commit. But he refused to come clean to protect the girl he loves. What amazes me is the character development of the movie. The citizens of this town right away take in Edward because of his unique talents while Kim the love interest at first resents Edward. It seems that's all Edward is good for to all characters of the movie minus the mother and well Kim at the end. But speaking of kim towards the middle of the movie she comes to realize Edward isn't a monster at all he cares and only wants to make everyone happy. And that is the unique twist of the movie because it is not completely a Frankenstein scenario. See edwards father ended dying leaving edward alone and isolated. Not able to continue getting the love he was getting from his creator and it's obvious through the whole movie that's all Edward is after is continuing to get love from people. Towards the end while the town has turned on Edward due to Kim's boyfriend Kim comes to realize what I've stated but it's too late as everyone else has turned on him. He ultimately saves her life from her boyfriend who is enraged with jealousy and tries to hurt Kim. She returns the favor by making sure the mob doesn't come after Edward. I love this movie and is watchable for everyone. The only thing is I wish Kim would've been able to visit Edward more as she's telling her grand daughter the story she says she never saw Edward again after that night. It would've been even more satisfying of an ending if she had been able to keep that connection with him. All and all this is an obvious 10/10.

Zac Efron is a personal favorite and he is completely miss used in this movie. I honestly thought they had a shot to be at least on par with the original movie but they comped drop the ball in the second act. Like the original movie at least tugged at your heart strings but having the girl kill the father in this movie made 0 sense. I was shocked at how lame they did this. In the original movie the father is such a strong force that enjoy to watch but in this movie he doesn't seem close or care about Charlie as much and then he randomly just dies at the end. They could've did so much better in this remake but they wasted having Zac Efron and sadly this movie under achieves.

I don't think it's as good as the dark knight.... But that Batman movie set the bar ridiculously high to top. I'd put it on the same level as Batman begins (which is my second highest rated Batman behind the dark knight) though. It was very hard for me to wrap my head around Edward from twilight becoming Batman but he honestly does a great job and I think this set up some good potential for future movies. Although I don't think the joker being the next villain is wise. What I really liked about it was that they weren't afraid to do their own thing and create their own version of Batman and the beginning is just really awesome to me because the narration of how he represents fear even though he might not be there the criminals know once they see the light in the sky and look around those dark alley ways no one is safe from the bat. It was also very different because this movie solely seemed to focus on the Batman side of Bruce Wayne and how being Batman was all that mattered to Bruce. Bruce Wayne the actual person didn't seem to hardly exist and that was a completely different aspect to all the previous movies.

I was with this movie until maybe the 40 minute mark. I rewatched all the mcu movies in order for the first time ever according to timeline and I came across this one and was like wow the movie before was so much better and the ending just wasn't satisfying for me. For starters 3 hours is crazy run time I remember seeing this in theaters and I just got to the point I wanted it to be over it really is too much. Next i like how it starts. They get together what's left of them track down thanos and kill him great.... Butttt this is the problem I have I feel like that should be the movie. So Ant man randomly shows back up. Tony naturally discovers hey time travel is possible thanks to ant man. That's the next part time travel has that not been done to death?? Even while they are going through movie examples it really shows you that hey wow all these other countless movies out there time travel so why can't we. To me end game is watchable and still good enough but I think they missed here the first 30 minutes could've been the movie. They avenge (pun intended) their friends and everyone lost by defeating thanos and have a crazy battle and that's it. Satisfying to me. Lastly and I know this is where there will be the disagreements. I'm tired of these super hero cliché movies where there has to be a happy ending. Like why? Let's face reality these movies are always crazy enough that all these battles happen but none of the good guys can die but all the bad guys can be taken down. That's why infinity war to me was the way superior film. They did something that so many superhero movies before them didn't have the guts to do. You still could've sacrificed tony at the end of this movie as he kills thanos by sacrificing his life. But no bc Hollywood/Disney needs money you have to bring back all these other characters or how else will you make future films and make money. Still a 7/10 bc I love all these actors and the opening was good but I just cannot rank it higher than a 7. Infinity war set them up for something big and this to me wasn't it. If losing Robert Downey Jr. Was what they needed to do to move on them they still could've done it the way I explained.

People are anti remakes but this film especially the uncut version is solid and maybe one of the best remakes that was made through the whole slasher remake phase of the early 2000s. It is so hard to remake a movie with 11 movies history. What do you keep and expand on?? What do you ignore?? They ultimately go with covering the first 4 Fridays films which makes sense since 2-4 take place around the same weekend. Next is how terrifying and brutal this Jason is. As classic and iconic as the first 2 Fridays are they are very slow and can be hard to watch. The cold open to this movie is 23 minutes long... so fast and upbeat while they basically cover the first 2 movies. Next while people may not like the acting and sexual nature of the film let's not forget what the friday films were founded on. Bad acting, unlikeable side characters and horned up young people. The second half the movie covers more of parts 3-4. Overall to me this is one of the best friday films and gets way overlooked for some reason because sure there are some hits and misses but that is every friday film.

Freddy and his kills carry this thing. I'm not sure how or why I'm giving it a 5. The kills are that good other than that it's a snooze fest after the "original" dream warriors are killed off. Don't get me started about how bad the next two movies are Gesh.

I'm not sure why there's some poor reviews?? Look there's always the complaints of Michael having a low body count. Well he sure got his in this one. I mean I saw the previews and it still delivered to me. Sure there are a couple of issues like how is Hawkins even alive after a throat slit. Multiple stab wounds and oh yeah he got RAN OVER BY A CAR AFTER. That really is the biggest one to me. That and the Doc loomis bit. Now look I loved Loomis he was the best part of the Halloween franchise after the first movie. But Gesh I'm not sure what they tried to do it obviously looked like him so I guess they used some kinda technically but the voice was ehh pretty off. I like all the back story though of that night as well as other tie ins. I was a big advocate of them picking up after the original. Second movie because to me that movie was so good as well and at first I thought they were going there. Overall the beginning of this thing and the end of this thing were really good. Middle at times it keeps you entertained while at others it kinda slows things down. It's not a 10 like the original and I'm debating back and forth if it's even as good as the last one but you have to remember this is part 2 of 3 in this movie series so some spots have to be left desired. I think it overall did a great job and people need to stop with the bad reviews on this thing. It's at the least an 8/10.