Talkie Tuesday: Aquaman

"What could be greater than a king? A hero."

Hello everyone!

I'm actually watching more current movies now, yay me! Haha.

It's one of those things that happen when you're so busy watching everything and anything you can, and occasionally there'll be slips and I'll be caught in some cycle of older movies before regrouping and jumping back into the present.

I'd wanted to see this one from the moment it was announced, but that being said I apparently needed some time to get to it.

DC is lagging a little bit in comparison to Marvel when it comes to their movie lineup; they're trying, but they just can't seem to find their stride and don't seem to have a specific vision or even look they're going for, which shows in the finished product. But it looks like they do VERY well with origin stories, which means that they might even be on the rise.

In all actuality, probably nothing will ever overcome the success that is the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but DCEU is trying its hardest.

And within that lineup, Aquaman is definitely one to watch!

Talkie Tuesday: Diana

"Somewhere beyond right and wrong is a garden. I will meet you there."

Hello everyone!

It's back to biographical movies this week after our little interlude with the Academy Awards last Tuesday (for the blog post I typed about it, you can click on the link here). As I said when I typed about Grace of Monaco, I have a thing for these kinds of movies. 

I don't really know why.

But I do know some of my favourites are from this genre, including The Butler and The Imitation game, for one, and let's not go into Titanic or The King's Speech or something.

I just have a soft spot for these kind of biopics as they call them, and I tend to watch a number of them each year as I discover them. I have a few waiting on the list still, but for tonight I'm going to go through my backlog of reviews and dig out one that I SHOULD have watched way back when in 2015 while I was at the seaside singing Kumbaya and drinking cocktails.

Ahem.

I didn't do either of that, really. Well, not much anyway. And I also didn't watch Diana until very, very recently, regardless that it's three years old by now.

Talkie Tuesday: Grace of Monaco

"The idea of my life as a fairytale is itself a fairytale."

Hello everyone!

So allow me to admit a guilty pleasure. 

No, it's not Glee anymore, sadly.

My guilty pleasure are biographical movies, whether they're slightly fictionalized or completely realistic as they come, but I love a good movie based off a true story, and I can't really count how many I've seen so far, although I haven't liked all of them. This week and the next will be dedicated to those.

Tonight's movie is one of those that I watched back at the seaside in 2015 when I was really fed up with melting in the heat and withdrew into the air conditioned interior, where I could then lounge and doze to my heart's content.

And I do have to admit that I tried not to doze through some of this, unfortunately, as this particular movie ranks somewhere along the lines of 'could have been better' for me even if some will be vocal with their disagreements.

But Grace of Monaco just wasn't all that jazz.