Film, Box Office, and Stuff

I've never really agreed with the notion of mindless fun, but it is certainly present with Rampage .  It is a hollow monster-destruction flick that feels like it was written by the same people as Power Rangers .  The script is pretty generic, Dwayne Johnson is irritatingly more wooden than usual, and the villains are two-dimensional misfires.  On the flip-side, it's saving grace if you will ... there is a bunch of big, CGI monster fights, and I don't care what anyone says, they're fun to observe.  Not exciting or moving in any other way (apart from the short-lived final battle), but it's always at least visually interesting to behold these clashes.  There are also some comedic attempts, only two of which actually work (both are the gorilla's hand gestures).  The film jumps into gear pretty much as soon as it begins, and before you know it, it has ended. Not a lot of time for development. There is nothing outright terrible, but a lot of forgettable charac...

I was again walking around my local shopping mall, Raffles City, and this time they are promoting Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle , two weeks ahead of its 12th January release date.  Columbia Tristar Marketing clearly sees a big hit to start marketing this so early (and why not? It's doing gangbusters in the US).  It would not surprise me if it out-grosses Spider-Man: Homecoming 's $116m to become Sony's second biggest hit in the market in the last 12 months (I seriously doubt it tops Resident Evil: The Final Chapter 's $160m). Anyway, so this marketing stand is pretty cool.  It has prop plants and other fixtures that I assume are part of the film.  The idea is to go into the booth, and your face can appear on the screen atop the body of one of the characters.  I went it to test it and got Dwayne Johnson.  I took my son in and he got Karen Gillan.  To be honest, this experience was lame.  Kind of clever, but the result was cheap.  I assum...