Tag Archives: #chris pratt

‘Onward’ made me very uncomfortable

Posted on March 11, 2020 by reelentropy

5/10 Every movie, to one degree or another, mirrors the world it releases into – that’s the whole concept behind this blog. Some, like Ad Astra, are such clear and urgent cries about the anxieties of their time the subtext … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy, White Noise | Tagged #chris pratt, #daniel craig, #Disney, #donald trump, #inside out, #pixar, #tom holland, Ad Astra, coronavirus, Mulan, No Time to Die, Onward, The Hunt | 1 Comment

‘Fallen Kingdom’ falls hilariously on its face

Posted on July 15, 2018 by reelentropy

2/10 The unabashed joy of watching Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom is like watching a bitter rival trip over his own shoelaces. You’re laughing at the movie, not with it, but you’re laughing hard, and isn’t that the point? Several years … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged #bryce dallas howard, #chris pratt, #jurassic park, #jurassic world, Incredibles 2, Ivan Pavlov, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Nosferatu, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, Shrek the Third | Leave a comment

Strong performances, lazy production leave ‘Infinity War’ uneven

Posted on April 28, 2018 by reelentropy

7/10 It’s upper-echelon for the MCU, but for half a billion dollars, does it have to be so ugly? In Avengers: Infinity War, Earth’s mightiest heroes are once again called to action to protect it from an unstoppable alien threat. … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged #chadwick boseman, #chris pratt, #josh brolin, #justice league, #mark ruffalo, #mcu, #rebecca romijn, #robert downey jr, #X-Men, Alan Cumming, captain america: civil war, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Hugo Weaving, Infinity War, Marvel, Someone covered Arnold Schwarzenegger with a giant scrotum, Thanos looks like a testicle, The Avengers, Tom Vaughn-Lawlor | 2 Comments

‘Vol. 2’ not as good as first, but with new and different merits

Posted on May 5, 2017 by reelentropy

7/10 In August 2014, the first Guardians of the Galaxy burst into theaters as a wildly different offering from the MCU. From the formula that was finally beginning to grow stale — and kept right on doing so with its next … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged #chris pratt, #mcu, #prattprattpratt, #star wars, #vin diesel, bradley cooper, Guardians of the Galaxy, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, I am Groot, James Gunn, Marvel, Volume 2, Zoe Saldana | Leave a comment

‘Passengers’ a cliche-ridden mess

Posted on December 23, 2016 by reelentropy

Passengers is a fantastic concept for a film and, starring the two hottest actors in the world, a guaranteed success, but inept, lazy filmmaking allows this concept to descend into cliche and disturbing moral carelessness. Aboard the starship Avalon, more … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged #chris pratt, #jennifer lawrence, #prattprattpratt, cliche, morten tyldum, passengers, Stockholm Syndrome | 1 Comment