Insidious: Chapter 3 Review

Preface

So Insidious: Chapter 3 is a movie that I’ve inexplicably wanted to see for a while now and just got around to recently.
I say ‘inexplicably’ because I didn’t even see Insidious: Chapter 2, and I only kinda liked the first Insidious. It wasn’t bad, but was only kinda ehh in my opinion.
Though for some reason I really wanted to see this one!
So how is this one? Well… Here we go!

It Follows Review

Preface

First I’ll make the obligatory ‘this movie is over-hyped in scariness’ remark.
If you’ve seen any marketing for this movie, you’ve probably seen the line “the scariest movie ever!” or something like that?
This movie is not the scariest movie ever, but it is pretty scary. And it is really good.

Review/Rant

Ya know what guys, Pixels actually isn’t as bad as I thought it would be. It’s actually a lot worse.
Kevin James plays the President, did you actually think I was gonna say, “wow… That was cool!”
No, but I’ll say this about Pixels: it had a good premise. It’s about an alien race of video game characters who think old footage from the 80s is a declaration of war. So now only the biggest video game nerds can take em down!
You hear about it and you’re like: man, that’s absurd but it could be kinda like a modern day take on Ghostbusters or even Independence Day.
But no… No!

Preface

This is gonna sound super obscure, but this movie reminded me of the planning scene from Guardians of the Galaxy (where they’re planning out the final attack) mixed with Sam Raimi’s first Spider-Man.
Yeah… That!

Premise

So Ant-Man is the newest Marvel movie about the relatively unknown Marvel superhero Ant-Man.
In this movie, Scott Lang is this criminal who got thrown in prison for burglarizing a couple places, but ultimately he’s a good guy who means well.
And Hank Pym, the original Ant-Man, has been scouting Scott to be his Ant-Man successor and to ultimately take down this organization that’s been exploiting Pym’s work.
And ultimately it blends humor with action with Marvel references and has these great characters that make the movie flow.

Preface

So the other day I was looking through the list of movies I had seen thus far in 2015 and despite all the bad buzz a lot of movies had gotten, I realized that I haven’t seen many AWFUL movies.
I’ve seen four movies so far that I would qualify as my Top 4 of the Year, as of now, and I’ve seen MANY mediocre, average, and meh movies.
A LOT of those.
But now there are two movies (including this one) that I can successfully say are pretty terrible…
Not as bad as I thought though!