Your Name and
John Wick 3Your Name was delightful, good storytelling, well paced, typically Japanese stuff. It didn't resonate much with anything other than a rather typical millennial/Gen Z vibe of finding where one belongs, but like with many anime movies it was technically flawless in many areas. 8/10, would watch again.
I preferred John Wick 2 over 3, even though this movie does leave me eager for the next installment. The fight scenes felt a touch less dynamic compared to the first two, I wonder if they changed fight coordinators...? And the plot... didn't quite get it. Everything went as expected until the scene with the Elder. So here, John has two choices ultimately;
kill Winston and continue working for the High Table, or take the fight to the High Table and Elder both. The conflict and flip between the two choices felt too rushed. John should have had more time to reflect on the choice between the two, instead we just got more fight scenes and with the same guy even. So this part felt meaningless.
Now, having decided to
team up with Winston against the High Table, I expected John to kill the Adjudicator. Leaving her alive probably serves the plot somehow, but is really not what you expect from John "I killed a High Table in a Continental, come at me bro" Wick. It'll be interesting to see where this goes next, but JW3 was a bit of a let down from JW2.
7/10 but would not watch again, fight scenes too interminable.
Blade Runner 2049
In a word,
cyberpunkSpecifically, detective noir set against a dystopian backdrop of evil megacorporations, zero governance and judicial review, advanced technology, cultural melting pots and cyborgs
2049, like the original, underscores the point by asking just what it means to be human in the midst of all this confusion and conflict, but has a different answer
