The Best and Worst Movies

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San Andreas (film) - Wikipedia

★★★★★ 

SAN ANDREAS

      DIRECTOR: Brad Peyton

WRITERS: Carlton Cuse, Andre Fabrizo, Jeremy Passmore             

MAIN CAST: Dwayne Johnson, Alexandra Daddario, Carla Gugino, Hugo Burt, Archie Panjabi

"San Andreas" is about a man named Ray Gaines who is a search and rescue pilot, trying to get his family to safety when the San Andreas fault line in California cracked open and created the biggest recored earthquake known to man: a level nine earthquake; which then created a tsunami. We are taken through the emotional and heart racing scenes of Ray and his family trying to get from Los Angeles to San Fransisco. This became my favorite movie the moment I watched it. I have seen anything and everything Dwayne Johnson has been in, but this movie is absolutely my favorite. Dwayne Johnson famously plays the same type of character in most of his films; which is the strong, brave, family man, who has to save his family from something bad. The reason this one in particular is my favorite, is because the CGI was done so well. The movie was filmed in real water for a lot of the scenes, which aided a lot of the emotional scenes by making it as real as possible. The acting from Dwayne Johnson was phenomenal per usual, but this one blew me away like no other. I thought, although the ending was predictable, I was still on the edge of my seat throughout the whole thing, and left crying by the end. 





Midsommar - Rotten Tomatoes
★

MIDSOMMAR

DIRECTOR: Ari Aster

WRITERS: Ari Aster

MAIN CAST: Florence Pugh, Will Poulter, Jack Reynor, Isabelle Grill, William Harper


Midsommar is a 2 hour and 50 minute long horror movie released in 2019. The movie is about a women named Dani, who was going through a loss of her family when her bipolar sister killed her parents and herself. To help with the grieving Dani goes on a boys trip that was meant for her boyfriend Christian and his friends to Sweden. In Sweden, they visit small village to participate in the midsummer celebration. Throughout their visit they quickly learn that the people of the village are actually in a very dangerous cult. By the time the friends realize it, enough people had already been sacrificed and it was near to impossible to escape. Dani ended up becoming the queen of the midsummer celebration and going the cult, also being the only one left alive at the end. I thought this movie was absolutely terrible. I can't express how much I disliked this film. Throughout the entire movie the scenes were shown as if the viewer was on psychedelics, so all of the nature around them was breathing and moving very life like and the faces of people would be distorted. Although that was okay, I thought the entire story line of this cult was so odd it was hard to understand. It was all so uncomfortable that it made me hate it so much. Every single scene made me confused and cringe. By the end of the movie I genuinely was just so confused as to what I had watched. The ending had no connections to the rest of the movie, and there was no contexts to more than half the scenes. Nothing, and I mean nothing made sense to me in this movie. Overall I think it was a creative idea but the writing was so bad and I would have to watch it a few more times to even understand it, but unfortunately I hated it so much I cringe even thinking about watching it again. 

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