Batson's Blog

It's been a busy couple of weeks. I just got done watching and reviewing Aquaman and Bumblebee. Both were added to the list of new movies I saw this year. That list is compiled and ranked (worst to best) below. It was an interesting year. There weren't that many superhero movies --- typically a main focus of my blogs --- and certainly there weren't that many good superhero movies. The Christmas Chronicles Worst movie of the year, by far.  If Netflix hopes to compete with the major movie studios, they need to step up their game.  This was no Christmas classic. I thought Kurt Russell would've been a good Santa Claus, but the character was too out there.  The sheer stupidity of the other people in the movie (who saw flying reindeer and still didn't believe that Kurt Russell was Santa) was too much to overlook. The musical number in the jail cell?  A hot steaming mess.  Maybe not even a hot mess.  Just a hot pile of dog crap. The elves that...

I was really hoping DC's Aquaman would be good. Apparently it did $100 million in China already and is expected to make that much opening weekend in the U.S. There's even talk of a sequel. That's great news! Some people are DC and some are Marvel. I'm both. Some are Star Wars and some are Star Trek. Again, I'm both. I want DC and Marvel to do great because that means more movies that are made that I get to watch, enjoy and own. More good news for you: Aquaman isn't just doing well financially. It is actually a good movie! I went into the theater hoping for the best and walked out very pleased with what I got. Summarizing it, Aquaman was a great mix. It was Star Wars meets Lord of the Rings starring an underwater Thor with Avatar visuals. Oh, it also had a great soundtrack. It could've very easily been one gigantic hot mess. Yet, it wasn't. Aquaman captured a lot of the great elements from those previously mentioned movies. The...

I'm not one to predict financial results at the box office. I've never really tried that before. However, what I am usually good at is predicting what's going to bomb and what's not going to bomb. I sit in the theater and see the trailers and go, 'That's going to be awful!' That's what happened with Baywatch , Jupiter Ascending , Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets , Ghost in the Shell , the latest version of The Mummy and various others. I sat there thinking, 'How could anyone think these were good ideas?!' This is the first time I've voiced my opinions in a published format. Here goes nothing. Here are my predictions for some of December's movies: Aquaman Prediction: Hit Like I've already told some of my family members, this is an underwater Thor. This is going to be good for D.C. While they've has a few issues with some of their other movies, they got this one right the moment they cast Jason Mo...

I went into Justice League the way I got into all movies that I want to see: without watching the trailers. I tried to avoid as many clips or previews or interviews or spoilers or reviews as possible. And I wasn't disappointed. One of my co-workers did mention to me that Joss Whedon apparently retweeted a review by Variety, which said that the villain in this movie was one of the worst villains of all time. I don't know if that's the case because I never actually took the time to find that tweet. I did see a few months back that Diane Lane, who plays Martha Kent, mentioned on an episode of Watch What Happens Live that she didn't think Justice League would be as good as The Avengers .  She released a statement later, explaining that she was saying that she couldn't reveal spoilers and that she hadn't seen The Avengers . So, there was that.  Outside of that little bit of information, I didn't know what to expect from the movie, but I was wanting ...