Double Feature

I'm supposed to write a review about Joe Wright's Pan. Not in the mood, but I can safely say that that movie is pretty pointless and has the worst child actor in a movie since The Last Airbender. You know which child actor has a better performance in a movie? Those two girls from the racist Owen Wilson-actioner No Escape and the girl from Ryan Reynolds' latest Self/Less. I mean, those two movies are not big budget studio tentpole and they did a better job casting a child for a movie. This review is long overdue. Once again I have shamelessly been a lazy-ass person who just eats, sleeps, raves, repeat. I saw the disastrous Pan early this month and finally saw the ensemble cast in the based-on-true-story Everest like a week later.

Pan

I love Joe Wright. Apart from The Soloist, I can watch his films like a hundred times. Atonement is awesome, Hanna is amazing, Anna Karenina is magical, and Pride and Prejudice is beautiful. While Pan, um, is none of those positive adjectives. Let's start with the good part first, Hugh Jackman as the villainous pirate Blackbeard is on his over-the-top scenery-chewing game which is necessary for this film. He's the only life of the film. Rooney Mara is great to look at but her performance is so bland I could be watching a picture of her and still get the same reaction. Levi Miller as Pan is unbearable. He only has two expressions for everything. Garrett Hedlund also churns out a laughable kind of approach to Hook. I was hoping the film to be like Jupiter Ascending, getting bad reviews but a fun one-off event of movie-going. Nope it wasn't. I even fell asleep after the obligatory Tinkerbell cameo. This is probably one of the worst movies I've watched in cinemas of all time. Even I didn't fall asleep during Fant4stic. I didn't remember the movie had any standout scenes apart from Hugh Jackman. There was a Smells Like Teens Spirit rendition that is so weird and so out of time. Probably that stands out. But not really. Oh Amanda Seyfried has a cameo, but I doubt anyone would remember from this forgettable film. I wish Joe Wright goes back to smaller movies after this. It's best to stick to Hook as your go-to Peter Pan movie. Pan: rated 1/4

Everest
This movie is based on an incident that happened in 1996. The movie is directed by Baltasar Kormakur and starring a great cast that includes Jason Clarke, Jake Gyllenhaal, Josh Brolin, Keira Knightley, Robin Wright, John Hawkes, Sam Worthington, Emily Watson and so much more including the stunning Elizabeth Debicki. The movie feels real, like the feel of the mountain climbing is really there so that's a plus. I watched this movie not knowing that they shot some on an actual mountain. So I was hoping like obvious green screen all over. But then not at all. It was an intense experience. The cast are really good too. It's great to see Jason Clarke getting more leading roles because he can carry a movie. I would love to see more of Robin Wright and Sam Worthington though. The movie is also pretty respectful to the actual tragedy that killed several climbers without giving too much dramatization on the events. And the movie was really good in a large format 3D. Everest: rated 3.5/4


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