Weekly Watch: Monday 7/11-Sunday 7/17

This is my very first Weekly Watch, so sit back and enjoy the reviews!

Marky Monday:

Spenser Confidential (2020)

What’s better than going on one good streaming service like Netflix to watch a sort of new movie that stars the GOAT, Mark Wahlberg, Spenser Confidential. This movie came out in 2020 and this has to be one of the best crime-thriller Netflix original movies to watch! This movie also stars Post Malone, Winston Duke (Black Panther & MCU), Bokeem Woodbine (Spider Man: Homecoming), and Alan Arjun (Grudge Match)! Most crime-thrillers you might tend to watch these days don’t seem to deliver what you’re looking for or like I said in one of my earlier reviews, not a good enough ending to satisfy your expectations. This movie follows the story of a former Boston Police Detective played by Mark Wahlberg who gets arrested after pleading guilty to assaulting a Police Captain who he thought was part of the murder of a woman. When he eventually gets out, he returns only to find that one of the officers who interrogated him was part of the murder. This movie also puts you in a place of creating theories and possibilities as you continuously watch to look for small details to see what’s really happening. This is a definite Must-Watch!

Terrible Tuesday:

Batman & Robin (1997)

Let’s go back to when Batman was starting to become popular again, besides Michael Keaton’s 1989 Batman, the 90’s which consisted of Val Kilmer and worst of all, George Clooney. Michael Keaton was our first Batman during that time and a lot of us might think that this movie and Batman Forever serve as a sequel to Batman (1989) and Batman Returns (1992) because they had the same Alfred, Michael Gough and Commissioner Gordon, Pat Hingle but it was never really quite confirmed if they’re in the same universe, similar to the way Edward Norton and Mark Ruffalo’s Hulk was cinematically shown. We can definitely assume though that this movie is a direct sequel to Batman Forever, especially because they have the same Robin, played by Chris O’ Donnell. Batman & Robin fails through many ways in trying to serve the audience right in the concept of fight sequences and stunt sequences, outfit designs, and everything looks like you’re watching a comedy. Nothing really looks as real as previous and newer Batman movies, and instead of being shown and taken as a serious movie, it’s more seen as a comedy in terms of scenes that include Batman and Robin arguing, Mr. Freeze, played by Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Poison Ivy, played by Uma Thurman. In terms of the scenes not looking so realistic, this is also when we saw Bane for the first time and looking at him looked like you were looking at Shrek wearing a black suit and mask with all that green. I can understand that Joel Schumacher possibly wanted to try and add something new but there was really no point in explicitly adding nipples in Batman’s suit. This is honestly not the best Batman movie to check out.

Wild Wednesday:

Jackass Forever (2022)

What’s funnier than watching half the whole Jackass crew come back together to entertain the audience once again?!😂 For another movie and sequel that took a while to come out, the jokes, stunts and humor put into this movie was so hilarious along with the perfect camera angles to capture the Wild moments. I remember seeing this movie when it first came out in the theaters and it was even more incredible when MTV’s TV Show “Ridiculousness” Host, Rob Dyrdek showed up! 😂 I really have to say the two main stars who bring the best of it are Johnny Knoxville and Steve-O, Jackass would be nothing without them and their exciting and insane comedy and stunts! This is definitely a movie to check out if you want to laugh your heart out! 🔥😂

Throwback Thursday:

Pulp Fiction (1994)

Let’s seriously go back to the 90’s and check out one of the best Tarantino movies ever made! Pulp Fiction is one of the best movies with an outstanding cast starring John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman, Bruce Willis, Ving Rhames, Tim Roth, Amanda Plummer and Harvey Keitel. For those who don’t think they’ve seen the best movie ever made, this is the right and perfect one to watch. The movie scenes are divided and aren’t exactly in chronological order but as you continue watching, you start to understand more every time you watch it. This movie is just a masterpiece  of work that puts you in a position of looking forward of what’s to come next. This movie also consists of so many action-thriller and comedy scenes that will get you in-shock and laughing at the same time.

Fancast Friday:

James Bond /007 Surprise

Robert Pattinson as James Bond

Sequel Saturday:

Spider Man: No Way Home (2021)

OK, it’s been 7 months since this movie’s come out and I’m pretty sure we all know what we’re about to see here! Out of all MCU films, I really have to say this is by far my current top favorite movie I’ve watched of 2021 and 2022. As we waited and heard for a while that a Live Action Spider-Verse was in development, we would all just sit around and say “Yeah right, they’re always saying the same thing”. Not only did we get “Spider Man: Into the Spider Verse”, but we finally got the real movie we all waited for! This is another movie that I saw in the theaters without having to see spoilers before, and it felt nothing but outstandingly amazing seeing the iconic returns of not only the original trilogies villains Doc-Ock, Green Goblin, and Sandman from the Raimiverse, Electro and The Lizard from the Webbverse, but the iconic returns of Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield’s Spider Man. Not only were their returns Great, but the fact that they brought in old jokes and references to previous films like Tobey saying “My Back is sore from all the swinging”, “I had a web block”, and “I fought…an alien made out of black goo once” and Andrew saying “I want to fight an alien” and “I fought a Russian guy in a Rhinoceros Machine” 😂. Then in the beginning of the movie when it opens up with Peter’s identity being revealed, it was awesome to see Netflix’s Daredevil/Matt Murdock as a brief cameo! I remember seeing Amazing Spider Man 1 and 2 in the theaters when I was a kid and I really couldn’t have asked for more to see in this movie when they literally brought everything from the 2000’s back to the big screen about 20 years later and how they even brought in the idea of bringing existing characters that we never knew existed in the Marvel Cinematic Universe! No crossovers in movie or TV shows can beat one as good as this!

Strange Sunday:

Doctor Strange In The Multiverse of Madness (2022)

OK, this movie was good but of course it doesn’t beat Spider Man: No Way Home. It was awesome to bring Sam Raimi back to direct this film, especially since it’s in the MCU and I also love how Doctor Strange was able to move forward after the events of No Way Home, as he sees his ex-girlfriend Christine Palmer, played by Rachel McAdams, get married and then he meets America Chavez, played by Xochitl Gomez, who he thought was only his dream but it turns out to be another universe and seems to be an expert of the existence of the multiverse. Before this movie came out, I was also expecting to see a few more returns from the 2000’s, like the original Fantastic Four and The X-Men, and yes we did see the return of Patrick Stewart’s iconic Professor X and The Illuminati which also consists of two existing characters that we kind of knew like Anson Mount’s Black Bolt from the show “The Inhumans” and fans cast-requested John Krasinski as Mr. Fantastic! The only part of the movie I didn’t like is that it started focusing too much on Wanda Maximoff and she’s a greatly important character since ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron”, but the way she was shown in the movie was very dark and we saw a side we never would’ve expected to see in a movie like this. What’s the point in her killing so many people, especially heroes? Anyone can check this movie out, it’s a cool movie to watch and I’d watch it again.