Back to the Future Part II (1989)
8.2
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After travelling to the future year of 2015 with Doc Brown in the now-flying DeLorean time machine,...
Mike Portnoy recommended This Is Spinal Tap (1984) in Movies (curated)
The Very Best of Linda Ronstadt by Linda Ronstadt
7.0
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The Very Best of Linda Ronstadt is a hits compilation by American singer/songwriter/producer Linda...
The Disappearance of Emily (Destiny Falls Mystery & Magic #2)
9.0
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Hayden fell through a mirror and was thrust into an alternate, magical place. Destiny Falls is home...
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Watchmen - Season 1
10.0
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Set in an alternate history, 30 plus years after the events of graphic novel, where masked...
Excalibur Epic Collection: The Cross-Time Caper
Chris Claremont, Michael Higgins, Terry Austin and Dana Moreshead
7.0
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Amazing adventures across the Marvel Multiverse! England's premier superteam takes their show on the...
Emma @ The Movies (1786 KP) rated Love Wedding Repeat (2020) in Movies
Aug 16, 2020
Jack has to juggle with dramas at his sister's wedding to make sure a troublemaker doesn't ruin the whole day.
Love Wedding Repeat looks very much like every other romcom out there but its saving grace appeared to be an interesting cast and the fun alternate timelines we'd see as promised in the blurb... but don't get your hopes up on that last part. I rewatched the trailers to try and find out where I got the wrong end of the stick about this and I found it was only mildly implied, in fact, it's the synopsis that outright tells you "alternate versions of the same day".
What's given to us feels more like an accident, like they filmed heavy and then realised they were running out of time and needed to cram it in. The "alternate versions" are more of a footnote on the film and a wasted opportunity. You could have run the Groundhog Day-esque scenarios or had the comedy rewind sound and gone back to the beginning of the scene... but the comedy alternatives are really nowhere to be seen.
The lack of comedy doesn't stop there, for the most part the script isn't a great success, I don't think I even laughed once. It tries to rely on quite an aggressive humour (that might not make sense to you, but it does in my head!) and everything feels very forced.
A good cast can sometimes redeem those moments that don't land on the page but the majority of the characters are just forgettable. No one is particularly likeable and that was a real drawback when you add it onto all the other drawbacks.
Love Wedding Repeat feels terribly balanced, had any of the elements been even slightly better it could have made this more watchable, but alas, they weren't, so it wasn't. Simple as.
Originally posted on: https://emmaatthemovies.blogspot.com/2020/08/love-wedding-repeat-movie-review.html
Suswatibasu (1703 KP) rated Dark Matter in Books
Jul 25, 2017
While it seemed more engaging at the beginning, the lack of movement in terms of the end goal, made it slightly tedious and repetitive. It could be a tad shorter for what it is. It also terminates quickly leaving a lack of conclusion.
David McK (3600 KP) rated X-Men: Apocalypse (2016) in Movies
Apr 26, 2019
Unlike the time travel shenanigans of the previous film (and the Sentinels), Wolverine only makes a cameo in this while the 'big bad' is actually the worlds first mutant who - in the prologue - gets buried in ancient Egypt.
Unlike the Marvel universe films, however, Quicksilver survives in this!