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The Greatest Hits (2024)
A beautiful movie for grief
I'm not sure what the low ratings are about, I think maybe you need to have experienced grief (or are currently) to appreciate. The time travel via music is a device to show how all encompassing and overwhelming grief can be. I think we all hope that we could go back to that one moment.... David, who wants to live in the now and deal with the practical parts of losing someone, is such a perfect counterpart to Harriet, who is drowning and isolating herself in every way possible. David sees music as a positive nostalgic experience, while Harriet sees it as a way to block out the world and live in her own version of the past. In grief, you contemplate what was real, what if you forget, and whether the grief was worth the experience of knowing and living. Music, like grief, is something we all experience differently - but we all experience.
Blue Beetle (2023)
George Lopez made me laugh!
There were so many good parts of Blue Beetle - Palmera City, the future/retro of it all, the Hispanic culture and humor - but it didn't seem to lean on any of it. If you asked me what this movie was about, I don't think I could explain it in less than 10 minutes. Maybe because we've seen it 100 times or because we never got the tomb raider reboot we were promised, but I was way more interested in Jenny Kord's story than Blue Beetle's. I think this would have been so cool as a Disney plus series where Jenny discovers her dad is still alive and we get to see more of the fun 80s/90s tech he built and the history between Victoria Kord and her dad. I didn't really care about the weird military robots living in a castle on an island - they felt out of place and like huge tropes. Maybe someday we'll get that? If anything, George Lopez was pretty great in this.
The Brothers Sun (2024)
So good! Like IRL anime
I have no idea why some critics panned this, Brothers Sun was so good! I think maybe it was "too Asian"? It's definitely pandering to an Asian audience, especially an LA Asian audience. It was like an Asian LA Confidential, an epic crime story spanning 'Asian LA' - SGV, Korean Spas, Monterey Park, etc. Highly rec watching with the subtitles on so you can catch the outstanding soundtrack! Feels like an LA anime. Super fun, with heart but lots of action. I laughed so hard at the John Cho mansion episode. Definitely the right amount of Cho jokes! I also had no idea I needed to see Jenny Yang and Michelle Yeoh fight it out, but now I know. I really want a churro now.