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2024 Quick Recap · The Recess Bell

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  This production is brought to you by the Recess Bell. Hey everybody, my
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  name is Justin Greenberg and this is Film Real And on today's episode, we're
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  gonna be going over all the movies that I've seen in twenty twenty four so
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  far, give a little brief recap of the movie and if I give it
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  a recommendation. I have zero social life. Pretty much anytime I have free
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  time, I'm at the movies. It is my way to escape the reality
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  of my shitty life. And I've been to the theaters twenty seven times so
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  far and I plan on breaking one hundred like I did last year. So
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  let's begin with the first movie that I saw this year in theaters, and
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  that is Anyone But You Now. I did a more in depth review of
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  this movie and an earlier episode. Definitely check that one out quickly to recap
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  it. One of the worst comedies I've seen in many years. Soulless taking
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  no risks, unrelatable characters, absolute dog shit. Second movie from twenty twenty
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  four was Migration, a fun little family film about a group of ducks that
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  don't want to migrate, but then decide they want to migrate. It's not
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  breaking any grounds. It's nothing i'd watch again, but you know, it
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  was fine for what it was. Boys in the Boat, directed by George
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  Clooney, was a movie that I thought I would like a lot more.
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  I like sports movies. I like sports movies based on true stories. This
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  movie is about a rowing team in the nineteen thirties that you know, gets
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  to go to the Olympics, and there's there's drama, of course, you
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  know, it's an underdog story. It has all the elements that I think
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  I would like. You know, they're going up against the Nazis. It's
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  got things that I think on paper would work well. But as a feature
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  film, I don't know. I felt like the threat really wasn't as great
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  as it should have been. It was very cliche, which isn't the worst
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  thing in movies, but I it just didn't click for me. I think
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  a documentary about this would be far more interesting. The Bee Keeper another Jason
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  Statham action movie. All these movies with Jason stath of all blend together.
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  Every Jason Stathan film feels the same. And is that a bad thing?
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  No, If you want to just turn your mind off for mindless action sequences
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  and you know, British smarmy remarks, sure it's serviceable, but nothing again.
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  I would see again i SS I thought was such a good concept for
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  a movie. Takes place on the International Space System, so you have Russian
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  people and American people both on this you know, space station, and war
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  breaks out, a nuclear war breaks out, and these people that are once
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  friends have to go up against each other again. I think it was a
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  really good concept, but it really didn't deliver. I saw Queen at Montreal.
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  I saw a Queen concert. They released it in Imax. This was
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  awesome. You know, seeing Freddie Mercury on the big is something I recommend
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  everybody get to see. American Fiction is one of my favorite movies that I've
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  seen all year. It tells the story of a black author who writes really
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  intelligent books, but unfortunately the messes don't enjoy them, so he starts writing
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  stereotypical black books and it garners an audience. And it's about morals. The
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  whole thing is like, is he selling his soul to write something that's gonna
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  make money even though he thinks it's stupid. It's a very very good movie
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  about family and relationships, and it pulls no punches, and I think the
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  ending really delivered and the acting is unbelievable. American fiction is definitely one of
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  my favorites of the year. Scrambled is a movie I really don't remember much
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  about. It's about a woman who What the fuck was Scrambled about? A
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  woman who wanted to have a kid or didn't want to. I remember the
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  people in the movie. I'm not going to look into exactly what it is.
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  This is just sort of a freestyle. Look at all the movies I
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  saw and if something. If I can't remember what your movie's about and it
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  came out less than two months ago, that's a problem. The one thing
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  I do remember about Scrambled is everybody in the movie was very unlikable, and
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  I remember the performances being good, but I remember not having a single character
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  where I was rooting for them. So that's the one takeaway from Scrambled.
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  Lisa Frankenstein I had a lot of fun with. I was very surprised that
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  the audience in critics score was a lot lower than I thought it would be.
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  I really, you know, this felt like a throwback film. It
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  was directed by Robin Williams's daughter In her directorial debut, and she knocked it
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  out of the park. I see a big future for her. I thought
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  the performance was really fun. The main premise is a outcast, you know,
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  gothy sort of girl, sort of like Lydia in Beetlejuice. She wants
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  a boyfriend and somehow through a lightning stride kidding a grave of somebody that she's
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  been fawning over. She's been fawning over this dead body at a grave site,
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  and it just so happens lightning strikes this this very grave and brings back
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  this guy from the eighteen hundreds, and this weird romance starts out. It
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  takes cues from lots of movies. I mentioned Beetlejuice. I definitely felt Heather's
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  vibes. I've even felt something like et She's sort of teaching this, this
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  creature, this zombie like creature, about modern day society. And then again,
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  this movie pulls no punches. It's a revenge plot at some point,
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  and these characters do things that a lot of mainstream movies I feel would not
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  do. And that was such a breath of fresh air to see some of
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  these things that you would see in movies in the eighties being done in a
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  twenty twenty four film. So I give a high recommendation to Lisa Frankenstein.
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  Argyle is That's gotta be top three worst movie I've seen of the year.
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  Just just a mess of an action movie and such a damn shame because the
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  cast is so talented and Bryce Stylis Howard's very likable in the movie. Sam
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  Rockwell is one of my favorite actors of all time. The performances are good.
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  It's just a clusterfuck of an action movie. I think this director,
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  Matthew Vaughan is one of the most overrated directors, and apparently he's rumored to
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  be directing the new James Bond movie, Stay Away from James Bond. Argyle
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  brutal, brutal movie. Madam Webb, Oh, Madam Web. We've all
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  seen the memes it was. It is what it is. Everyone knows this
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  movie is trash. I don't know how a movie like this gets made.
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  Taking a you know, a D list character in the Spider Man universe,
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  and what did Sony think was going to happen. I don't understand why they
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  keep making these Spider Man films without Spider Man, you know, the Venom
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  movies. I guess mad Money, but Venom's a very popular character. Madam
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  Web is not. And this movie is just awful. It's every single thing
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  that the memes are telling you. It's poorly acted, it's poorly directed,
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  the script is terrible. The villain is just non threatening and embarrassing the whole
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  film, and everyone associated with Madam Web should be embarrassed. But honestly,
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  there is some morbid curiosity with it. I had more fun with Madam Webb
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  than I did with Argyle. Argyle has talent involved with it and should have
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  been better where Madam Webb I was. I was just curious, like,
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  while watching this movie, how did this get made? Why did this get
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  made? So there was that form of you know, watching a train wreck
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  happen and you know people can't look away, And I had that same fascination
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  with Madam Webb. Up next was Bob Marley One Love, not the biggest
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  Bob Marley, you know, I know his hits. I would not recommend
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  this, I'm not really I'm really not a fan of the bio pick for
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  musicians. I thought this movie did all the cliches that you get with these
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  bio picks. With musicians. I you know, didn't care for that Elvis
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  movie as much as a lot of people did, but at least that felt
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  different. It had a certain style to it, had a certain flare.
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  The director had a vision for it. This just felt like cut and paste.
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  Will take all the greatest hits from these biopicks and make a generic film.
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  Again, a lot of these things I think would be better as documentaries.
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  I think a Bob Marley documentary would be more fascinating than this movie.
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  Bob Marley One Love. Driveaway Donalds was a huge disappointment. The Coen Brothers
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  are great directors. Now I know both Cohen's weren't involved in this movie,
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  but I like the cast. I like the premise to an extent, but
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  it fell short. It was actually probably my most disappointing movie of only twenty
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  four. Cannot recommend Drive Away Dolls Ordinary Angels. On the other hand,
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  I was crying my eyes out. This tells the story of a young girl
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  who's battling a disease and she needs a kidney transplant I believe, or a
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  liver transplant, some sort of transplant. Her dad is a single parent.
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  His wife died from cancer and it's all based on a true story. And
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  this one girl in the town. She's like, I'm gonna help this family
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  played by Kira Who the hell Hillary Swank, That's who it was, played
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  the woman, and she just wants to help this family. And it's such
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  a breath of fresh air. And I know I've used that phrase before,
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  but to get movies like this, there's so much negativity in the world,
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  right and a lot of these movies prey on that negativity. They're you know,
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  they're dividing the racist, they're dividing the country. You know, there's
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  literally a movie coming out next week called Civil War. And to have something
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  like this where a whole community comes together to help a little girl. I
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  like seeing movies like this. I like to be uplifted after I leave the
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  movie theater. And I felt good about myself in this movie. It has
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  the tears, it has the emotion. Highly recommended Ordinary Angels Dune two I
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  thought was good. I don't really care for the Dune franchise. I've said
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  this before and I'll say it again. I need something to relate to in
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  a movie. I need a character where I could latch onto or I need
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  a character where I could say I know somebody that's sort of like this,
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  Like we all know in Star Wars, We've all met somebody like Han Solo,
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  you know, a grifter, a guy who was a ladies man.
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  We all have met somebody like Luke Skywalker, somebody who's stuck at home and
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  just wants to move away. Even though it's in a galaxy far far away,
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  a long time ago, we could still relate to those characters. And
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  in June. Although it's very impressive visually and it's definitely not a bad movie,
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  I just needed somebody where I could go that's a recognizable thing, like
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  I've dealt with something like that in my real world. It's very regal.
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  It's very proper, very hard for a slub from Long Island to relate to
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  anybody in the movie. But visually it is a masterpiece. The zone of
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  interest. What is the zone of interest? I have no idea. Oh
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  the zone of interest? Okay, yeah, this movie was This movie was
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  really good. This was about a family in Germany. They're Nazis. It
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  takes place during World War Two and they live right next door to a concentration
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  camp. And this was, again a movie that I've seen nothing like before.
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  It is in German, so it is subtitled. But I mean,
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  what a fucked up concept that is. You know, this wife is flowering
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  her plant, she loves her house, her husband's a Nazis, she has
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  beautiful kids and you know, loving family. And then next door you just
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  hear you don't never go inside the concentration camp. You just hear the the
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  cries and that you see the smoke from the from the gash chambers. You
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  see and hear the terror, but you're not in the terror. But just
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  a really unique contrast of life. I was disappointed with the ending, I
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  really was. I didn't deliver like some of these other movies, like American
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  Fiction, the ending really delivered Late Night with the Devil a movie will get
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  too later, Immaculate, another movie will get too later. All those endings
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  delivered. This did not. But definitely a really good movie. Imaginary just
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  another dumb horror movie. That's all I'm gonna say about that. I did
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  see the re release of two films, Labyrinth and Field of Dreams, back
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  to back. Never seen Labyrinth before starring David Bowie. Beautiful you know,
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  Jim Jim Benson, Jim Henson, Puppets and Feel the Dreams is just It's
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  probably the greatest sports movie not named Rocky. Arthur the King is a movie
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  with Mark Wahlberg about an adventurer who's on some adventuring race team and he meets
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  a dog. And I tries to do a lot of the cliches that you
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  would see in movies like this, but to me, it didn't hit.
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  It really didn't hit. You know, obviously, with a dog, there's
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  gonna be this is the dog die. There's that sort of drama involved with
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  that. Another movie that's based on a true story, a fine family film.
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  Nothing again, you'd watch again. But I didn't leave the theater frustrated
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  like I did with some of these other movies. Love Lies Bleeding is one
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  of the most erotic films I've ever seen in theaters. I was alone in
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  the theater. There's one other guy with his girl in the back and they
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  He clearly didn't like it, because when I was leaving the theater, all
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  I heard him say the one to no one else is in this theater.
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  This movie sucked. I disagree. I really enjoyed this movie. It starts
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  Kristin Stewart and she falls in love with another woman, a bodybuilder, and
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  she has some daddy issues. There's there's murder, there's mystery, there's romance.
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  It's very sexual. As I mentioned, I've again, I've never seen
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  anything like it before, and I like that. You know, so many
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  movies feel the same, all the superhero movies. That's the common critique.
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  They all feel the same, they all end the same. You have two
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  armies running at each other, cliche battle at the end. To see something
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  like this that takes a risk, and maybe that's why that guy didn't like
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  it, Because a lot of people are stupid and they only like things that
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  they know, you know, that's the whole South Park member barriers. Oh,
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  I remember this. I remember that. That's why I liked this.
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  That's why I like that. No, try something new, and this movie
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  took a lot of risks and I enjoyed it. Really really interesting film.
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  Up next, Ghostbusters Frozen Empire. As a lifelong go Ghostbuster fan, you
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  know, I love that original movie. I have a soft spot for the
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  sequel. I know it's not good. And the damn phone is ringing in
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  the middle of my is that the is that the Ghostbusters? They they're calling
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  the Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters. This movie, it's it's just it's another member Barry's
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  movie, just like the first one. Oh remember Sneimy, Slimy's back.
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  I think this franchise needs to end. He just let's do new, Let's
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  do some new stuff like the next movie I saw, Immaculate, starring Sydney
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  Sweeney. Now, the first movie I reviewed starts Sidney Sweeney Anyone but You,
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  and it was awful and she was miscasting that role. I think she
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  was miscasting this role. She plays a nun who somehow gets pregnant, and
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  again, risks are being taken. The ending of this movie is something I
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  think is going to be talked about for a very long time. I wouldn't
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  have casted Sidney Sweeny necessarily in this role. She's sort of like this,
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  you know, ditsy, sort of blonde check. She doesn't really give none
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  vibes. But I thought she did good in certain aspects. I think once
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  she gets a role that i'm she has the potential. First, she's beautiful.
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  Unfortunately, she's a nun in the movie, so you don't see any
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  of her body, which I think is a big selling point for Sidney Sweeney.
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  So I think she's trying to purposely show her acting chops and not play
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  into her very large breasts. In my opinion, she should not be doing
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  that. But she was fine in it. But the plot is interesting,
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  man. You know, there's a lot of drama. How did she get
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  pregnant? Is the church involved in this? Is? Is she actually giving
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  birth to Christ? That's what the whole movie's about. Again. A really
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  really good movie, and another horror movie that is actually my favorite movie of
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  the year so far is called Late Night with the Devil, which takes place
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  in the nineteen seven A talk show host a la Johnny Carson has some very
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  bad ratings and on Halloween Night, he tries to amp up those ratings by
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  inviting some paranormal guests onto his talk show. Such a breath of fresh air
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  to see movies like this, man, to see films being filmed in ways
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  that we've never seen films. This is all filmed like a seventies talk show.
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  What a unique premise. There's been so many found footage films out there,
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  but this one takes something that's been done but puts a very unique spin
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  on it. Obviously, everything goes to shit. There's one girl that's possessed
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  by the devil. There's one guy who tries to denounce all these things that
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  are happening, and it's just it's shot uniquely, it's acted brilliantly. It
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  all comes together with an ending that really delivers one of the best movies I've
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  seen in years, one of the best horror movies I've ever seen, and
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  definitely my favorite movie so far in twenty twenty four. But I did see
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  a few more movies after that. One Life starring Anthony Hopkins, another concentration
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  movie. I guess, these kids in Czechoslovakia in the nineteen thirties, they're
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  gonna be, you know, sent to concentration camps. In Anthony Hopkins character
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  in flashback scenes is trying to save as many kids as possible. And this
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  is one that is actually based on a true story. So you get the
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  flash forward moments of Anthony Hopkins as an old man sort of dealing with the
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  guilt of not saving as many kids as he could have saved. And then
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  it all comes to a head with a really heartwarming scene. I'm not gonna
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  spoil much of it, but Anthony Hopkins is a great performance. It is
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  a true story and it really delivers unlike a lot of these other things that
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  I think it would have been more interesting, as you know documentaries, This
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  would be a great documentary, but it's also a really good movie. So
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  definitely check out One Life. Godzilla and Kanan just a tough movie. Man.
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  That is a very very dumb There's one scene in this new Godzilla and
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  Kong movie where there's a baby King Kong and King Kong picks him up and
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  starts using him as a nun chuck. That's the type of movie. This
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  is very stupid. And the last movie I saw so far this year in
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  theaters was Dumb and Dummer. They re released it first thirtieth anniversary and just
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  one of the greatest comedies of all time and delight that I never saw it
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  on the big screen, and I loved seeing it on the big screen.
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  So we're a third, fourth, fourth, way done with the year.
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  I'm gonna do this every three months, so we recap the movies at the
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  end of the year. We're gonna, you know, pick a top five
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  best, top five worst. But this is sort of if you want to
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  see something in theaters or maybe something is on demand now, just like a
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  quick recap of what I would recommend, So just to recap the recap,
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  movies I would recommend would be American fiction Lisa Frankenstein June two, Zone of
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  Interest, love Lies, Bleeding Immaculate, and Late Night with the Devil,
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  not including you Know the Queen Concert and you know the the re released films.
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  Those would be the film I would recommend. But I will get into
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  some more movie topics next time on Film Reel. Thank you all for listening
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  so long.