The Digital Movie Collector

  Impressive Box Office Spider-Man: No Way Home appears to be making more in its opening weekend than Venom: Let There Be Carnage did gross. I am not surprised based on all the rumors about who may appear and what will happen in the story. If you are looking for confirmation to any rumors, I am going to try not to give anything away. I will only say there are two post credit scenes that setup two different movies. So, stay all the way until the end of the credits. Review Oh I wish I did not promise not to give anything away. This movie is so full of surprises that you just have to watch it. I would recommend watching both Hawkeye and What If...? on Disney+. I could recommend other things to watch but that would give too much away. I keep wanting to say more but will just leave it at that. The movie is almost two and a half hours long. I doubt they could have shortened the movie without loosing a lot. The movie was nearly a constant non-stop pace. I will say almost the entire theate...

  Another Remake I will start with a little spoiler. Dune 2021 is Part 1 with Part 2 expected in 2023. That being said this remake took at least 37 years to happen. With the special effects now able to match the scope of this movie, we are no longer subjugated to a majority of the movie being made on dark stages where you cannot appreciate the scope of the story. Granted the new is full of CGI but it makes the movie seem more grand than the original. 1984 vs 2021 Review The 1984 movie has a run time of 137 minutes. The 2021 movie has a run time of 155 minutes and is only part 1. For starters, the 1984 version has a lot of monologue at the beginning and throughout the movie because the effects and budget were not able to meet the vision of the movie. There is a little monologuing in the 2021 version but it has full action scenes as a backdrop to this monologuing. Both 1984 and 2021 feature a stellar cast of actors and actresses for their time. One thing to note about the new movie i...

  In Theater Movies We are starting to see a tread of going back to the movies. Marvel (Disney and Sony) are currently taking three of the five top USA grossing films in 2021. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings followed by Black Widow are the top two. Black Widow might have been first if not for the Disney+ premier access release the same time as theaters. Venom is currently in fifth place but it has not even been out a full two weeks yet. I suspect it will easily move from this position before it leaves theaters. This is only the third movie I have seen in theaters post COVID. Cruella and Black Widow were the other two. If you do go to the theater, be sure to follow guidelines of the theater, locality, and state to be safe. Review Tom Hardy is definitely the best Eddie Brock/Venom actor we have had. For a bit of trivia, Tom also does the voice of Venom without sound edits. Woody Harrelson is an excellent Cletus Kasady/Carnage. But Andy Serkis does the voice for Carnage. Man...

The Resolution Questions I had questions from my one reader about the following "How worried about UHD should a person be in general? Or is 8k so close it will get skipped? Thoughts?" I will answer each question one at time as best I can.  UHD? Obviously, the higher the resolution you can get for the same price is always better. There are a few movies that go on sale for $5 in UHD which is always the best value for you money. Even if you do not have a 4K or 8K TV, the streaming services will show you the best resolution your device and your internet connection will allow. So when you buy UHD, you also own the HD and SD version of the movie. Some people don't realize that. Another thing to point out is that there are a large number of movies that are not in 4K/UHD yet. Indiana Jones was just released in 4K in 2021 is an example of this. A majority of my collection has been built up through Disc to Digital conversion. In this instance, the process will only do SD or HD. UHD...

  End of the World Why are we so fascinated with movies that depict the end of the world? Perhaps we know we keep messing up this planet and would like a fresh start on another. One has to wonder if our race did manage to find a habitable planet that we could travel to, would we end up messing it up too? Probably.  Review The movie moves at a good pace. A majority of the cast are younger actors and actresses. Tye Sheridan has done a few movies lately including Ready Player One. I did not realize Johnny Depp had a daughter old enough to act. I actually didn't know he had a daughter at all. Lily-Rose Depp does a great job in this movie. In fact, many of the cast are very good. Colin Farrell plays a great mentor in this movie. While not an original story, I refer to the 1988 movie Earth Star Voyager. You can watch this old movie here on YouTube. I am surprised Disney is not suing Lionsgate for this movie. Since the movie is not on Disney+, I am guessing it is not one Disney wants...

  DC Meets Marvel Director What happens when you put a great cast with a proven directory like James Gunn? Not the movie I was saw. The cast was great. I didn't even realize Sylvester Stallone and Nathan Fillion were in the movie. Add to the known cast of Idris Elba, Margot Robbie, and John Cena among other and this should have been a great movie. I think my daughter summed it up the best as a horrible movie that was so bad, you had to watch it. My impression is that you took the group movie like Guardians of the Galaxy and threw in Deadpool dialog. It did not work in my opinion. Review The cast were great. You really felt for their characters. The story had a lot of promise. Cinematography was very good. Dialog destroyed this movie. Not all of it was bad but it felt like the dialog dropped the f-bomb every fourth or fifth word. R rating had nothing to do with fighting. Joker got away with their R rating and it was an okay movie. Birds of Prey had an R rating and was about as good ...

 Slacking In Reviews So I have been a little behind on movie reviews. Guess that means double feature review time. To make it interesting, I picked two fairly new releases to two popular streaming platforms. This review will be a little different than normal as I try to determine which original movie is worth the streaming fee. I will also give some spoilers away for each movie so you are warned now.  Both these movies have star actors as the leads with Liam Neeson and Laurence Fishburne in Ice Road from Netflix and Chris Pratt and J. K. Simmons in The Tomorrow War on Amazon. Netflix streaming service is $18 per month for just streaming. Amazon Prime is $13 per month or $119 per year which includes free shipping. Amazon clearly has the price win here. I am surprised they don't use their shipping services to sell movie merchandise for their original movies. I would like a small commission if they do for giving them the idea not that they read my blog. lol Ice Road - Review Who ...