Monday, April 29, 2019

Monday Minute 006

The Monday Minute! is a new series that will provide weekly updates for loyal readers on the titles that have been added to the Jumjax Database and our newly accessible IMDb tracking lists.


Jumjax Database: New Additions

I think this system has been working really well


The newly added titles are as follows:

Avengers: Endgame (2019) - 181 minutes

Let me just start out this review by saying that we at FNB (me, Frank) is a big, big fan of time travel. I am also a fan of throw backs and nostalgia. It was fun to travel through time to see Natalie Portman and others in their roles from previous Marvel Cinematic Universe flicks. Paul Rudd (Scott Lang (Ant-man)) and Evangeline Lily (Hope van Dyne (Wasp)) are also some of my favorite super heroes of the Avengers Initiative (with Scott seeming like the most likely hero to use jumping jacks, as an everyman like myself). The movie did have dabbing and Fortnite, but these felt like forced "consumer" jokes. Imagine instead if we encouraged exercise by having jumping jacks! The youths would be better off, and it could still be done in a funny way. Was hoping we could at least see some jumping jacks in training sequences, but disappointed again. 5/10. Recommended for people looking for a couple good performances from some actors and some fun time travel sequences and throw backs even if it may be lacking in further substance.

Dragonheart: Battle for the Heartfire (2017) - 98 minutes

It has a dragon which was kind of cool, and some scale-y characters. However, they weren't very relatable even though they were meant to be the protagonists. Partially because they had dragon scales and fire bending/super strength abilities (and I do not), but also because they didn't come across as relatable or even friendly for that matter. I have an idea for something to fix that!... 1/10. Not recommended.

Tokyo Drifter (1966) - 82 minutes

Yakuza gangsters running and gunning for each other, and the intrigue of betrayals. The use of color and staging was fairly impressive, but (a recurring complaint you are familiar with): would it hurt the studio to throw in an exercise/training sequence with jumping jacks? The great exercise--which can be done anywhere--is good for mind and body and would make the gangsters better understood and more approachable. 1/10. Not recommended.

Game of Thrones (2011- ): Season 8, Episode 3 [TV]

This week there was a big battle, which everyone on the internet seems excited about, but I am left with a sour taste in my mouth! These people claim to be kings and queens and knights, but they have terrible battle tactics! They wasted a lot of lives in my humble opinion. They needed more interesting tactics and better preparation. And could have done with some scenes showing the characters prepping for the battle/struggling to stay awake and using jumping jacks to do so. I will try again next week. Series rating: 1/10. Not recommended at this moment (rating may change if narrative builds to something more dynamic in future episodes--still unworthy in current state). 

Keep your eyes peeled.

xxoo, always yours
-Frank



3 comments:

  1. Evangeline Lilly is a time travel expert. She starred in Lost, the greatest cinematic exploration of time travel of all time. It's unfortunate the directors of Avengers:Endgame did not ask her for advice on the rules of time travel. The rules of time travel in the movie did not even come close to making sense.

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    1. I hadn't even considered the Evangeline/time travel connection. If I wasn't already doing this jumping jacks database I would definitely like to spend time exploring that further, maybe via an Evangeline time travel database or even a larger scale general time travel database. That is a really interesting coincidence.

      Just remember with the Avengers movie that it is NOT like Back to the Future (1985). More or less, each moment exists as an individual instance and going back to that instance has the potential to veer an existing moment to an alternate reality without necessarily impacting the future to that specific moment. More or less "multi-time" (a phrase I coined).

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    2. Granted, (SPOILERS AHEAD) when Captain America (Steve Rogers (Chris Evans)) appears at the end, it does feel like the movie has devolved into a Back to the Future (1985) style of influence, at least in part. But then going further, when you sit down and analyze the scene with Tilda Swinton drawing lines of delineation on the roof in the battle over New York City, it is displayed that it could be possible for Steve to stay in the past of the present singularity of multi-time without causing a multi-time fracture to an alternate instance and end up in an alternate possibility of the multi-verse spawned by multi-time.

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