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Daniel’s Gotta Die – Movie Review

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TL;DR – It is an amusing and chaotic film that does hold back a bit when it should embrace its premise.

Rating: 3 out of 5.

Post-Credit Scene – There is a post-credit scene.

Disclosure – I was sent a screener of this film.

The family at a funeral.

Daniel’s Gotta Die Review –

Today, we are looking at a fundamentally odd film out of Canada. One that leans into chaos at almost every turn but never truly embraces it. Full of character actors playing right into their caricatures but finding them quite two-dimensional. It’s quite engaging, but it always holds you at arm’s length.   

So, to set the scene, one evening, Daniel Powell (Joel David Moore) woke up feeling something was off like someone was in his room. He wonders who is out there, but just when he resigns himself to it being nothing, he is attacked from behind. The Powell family is incredibly dysfunctional, more dysfunctional than anyone should be. Not that Daniel really knows his siblings because they were gone to boarding school most of the time. But they were all untied after the patriarch Edward Powell (Iggy Pop) died suddenly. All the kids need to get along for a weekend to get their inheritance, but we know that does not go well.  

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Avatar (2009) – Exploring the Past

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TL;DR –. A tour de force in worldbuilding that still hits those emotional moments even after all this time.  

Rating: 4 out of 5.

Post-Credit Scene – There is no post-credit scene

Disclosure – I paid to watch this film.

The fly through the floating mountains.

Avatar Review –

When Avatar first came out, I, like nearly everyone else I knew, went and saw it, and it might have been the only film ever truly worth paying extra for those 3D glasses. But as the sequel approached, I realised I had not watched the movie since I watched the extended edition when it came out on DVD. I knew I had to catch up again, and there was no better time than when it was back on the big screen.

So to set the scene, it is 2154, and while the Earth is a hollow mess, humans have found a new world to wreck in the Alpha Centauri system on a moon called Pandora that orbits the gas-giant Polyphemus. Even though Pandor looks like a lush paradise, the high carbon dioxide content means you will be unconscious in 20 seconds without a mask. Jake Scully (Sam Worthington), the former marine that lost the use of his legs, has just made the 6-year trip to the planet in cryo-sleep, but he was not meant to be there. His twin brother, a scientist, was killed, but because they shared exact dnd, Jake could sub in for him on the planet as part of its avatar program with the local population, the Na’vi. All Jake has to do is convince them to move from their sacred home because underneath it is the biggest supply of Unobtanium on the planet, and the RDA needs to make their money.

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