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The Call of the Wild (2020)
It's actually good
I don't see what the fuss was about. I saw this on cable, and when I saw a CGI dog, and I got lost in the storytelling, I forgot Buck was CGI, nor did I care. Straightforward acting from the humans, great CGI acting from the dogs, the wolves, the boar, the bear..... we should really stop deluding ourselves about what we should and should not be seeing in what we watch. Parents read books to their kids, kids use the imagination. So how is it we can't imagine a CGI dog is real?
Masterful storytelling, beautiful score, Harrison Ford is always wonderful to watch. I loved the movie, sans judgment. You should enjoy it, too.
The Midnight Sky (2020)
Disappointing! Aaarrgghhh!!
Had so much expectations seeing Clooney again. Sad.
Midnight Sky is a 2-hour venture into absolute boredom. You'd think in 2049, a spacecraft that travelled to Jupiter and back would have intelligent astronauts. Nope. These are more of the mopey dramatic ones who could not find their way back to Earth. You'd think Clooney had more intelligence on how to traverse from one Arctic satellite station to another, but no, he fell into every predictable catastrophic possibility there was. The movie droned on and on with a musical score that would have made you sleep, dragging your feet forever on ice til you get numb and not care anymore. It came to a point where i loudly asked, hey guys! Why aren't you arranging Iris to go to Aether??! You forgot the kid! Then, the punchline, the twist, brewing for so long, and then, the dust settles, and you ask yourself, how could I possibly care for these characters when they stole 2 hours of my life???
If you still wanna watch it, keywords to the movie: Iris, Hyacinth, Aether looks like a flower, even the inside of the spacecraft looks more organic, fragility of life, losing loved ones, the Arctic desolate, no life forms, a baby on the way. Wrap your head around that, because Clooney wanted to convey that in this movie, but failed miserably, whatever it was he really wanted to say.
And oh. Absolute cornball astronauts singing Sweet Caroline in the middle of the movie? I rest my case.
Spenser Confidential (2020)
I want to say I liked it, but...
I love Mark Wahlberg. This one... I wanted it to be as enjoyable as I wanted. But seriously, it's just passable. It's fun at times, but not all the time. Lots of useless scenes, like the long scene with Spenser getting attacked by a dog named Lego. What's up with that?? The good cop/bad cop stories come and go, and I'd watch them all over again, rehashed, whatever, but unfortunately, Spenser Confidential.... it's not a great movie. It's not a good movie. It's a movie you'll watch on tv and forget about later. Also, have to say, lots of wasted talents. That Cissy girl was fantastic, should have had more scenes. Same with Alan Arkin. Same with OMG Winston Duke, so great as M'Baku in Black Panther and soooo wasted here, if I didn't see his name in the cast, I'd think he was a new actor with zero acting skills. Really. He was so bland! No register of emotion! Aaarrghh! Can't blame Mark Wahlberg, though. He really tried, it showed, with whatever script he had. But it's really not enough. "I want you to buy me a lobster." "You want me to buy you a lobster?" "I want you to buy me a lobster." What kind of lazy writing is that? So go watch it if you love Mark Wahlberg. But stay away if you're not.
Merry Happy Whatever (2019)
Got better along the way
Well, hey, too many comments here about the laugh tracks of this sitcom, but if you're allergic to it, you'll be glad to know it died its own death towards the last episode.
The show is good family fun. Gave it a solid 7 here only because it took me until episode 5 before I really laughed out loud. Granted I didn't want to waste my time going through the grueling part of adjusting to the first few episodes of forced camaraderie between an ensemble of characters, they saved it midway, and towards the last episodes, Merry Happy Whatever just became more fun. The acting became better (not forced), the punchlines were perfect, and best of all, everything fell into place. Dennis Quaid is pretty much the attraction here, but all supporting characters, like the Outlaws and the siblings were interesting.The show touched --- grazed? glossed over? --- on topics that could have been more seriously explained, but understanding the limitations of time in a sitcom, I'm actually surprised they were able to include homosexuality, religion and divorce as topics. I think the real struggle this show had from the start was bad writing. Thank God it felt like the writing shifted halfway through the series, and instead of focusing on one-liners, Merry Happy Whatever focused more on the humor of having a controlling family. I am looking forward to seeing the next season.