{"id":13999,"date":"2025-01-19T13:32:14","date_gmt":"2025-01-19T18:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=13999"},"modified":"2025-01-19T13:34:57","modified_gmt":"2025-01-19T18:34:57","slug":"weekly-movie-roundup-104","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=13999","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Movie Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, I watched 6 movies:<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt17163970\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/1-2-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Wallace &amp; Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/1-2-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/1-2-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/1-2-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/1-2.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt29623480\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2-2-189x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Wild Robot\" width=\"189\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14001\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2-2-189x300.jpg 189w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2-2-647x1024.jpg 647w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2-2-768x1216.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2-2-970x1536.jpg 970w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2-2-1294x2048.jpg 1294w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/2-2-scaled.jpg 1617w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 189px) 100vw, 189px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt15789038\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/3-2-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"Elemental\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14002\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/3-2-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/3-2-691x1024.jpg 691w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/3-2-768x1138.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/3-2-1037x1536.jpg 1037w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/3-2-1382x2048.jpg 1382w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/3-2-scaled.jpg 1728w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt17163970\">Wallace &#038; Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl<\/a> doesn&#8217;t reinvent the wheel of Aardman cozy sight gags, but it&#8217;s a lot of real silly fun.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt29623480\/\">The Wild Robot<\/a> is lovely and clever and heartfelt.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt15789038\/\">Elemental<\/a> has some clever moments, and it&#8217;s heartfelt when it leans into its story of the children of immigrants, but the worldbuilding feels like it&#8217;s trying too hard and never quite comes together.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/4-2-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Flow\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14003\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/4-2-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/4-2-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/4-2-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/4-2.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt16428256\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/5-2-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Suzume\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14004\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/5-2-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/5-2-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/5-2-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/5-2-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/5-2.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt8864596\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/6-2-189x300.jpg\" alt=\"Transformers One\" width=\"189\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14005\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/6-2-189x300.jpg 189w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/6-2-647x1024.jpg 647w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/6-2-768x1216.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/6-2-970x1536.jpg 970w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/6-2-1294x2048.jpg 1294w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/6-2-scaled.jpg 1617w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 189px) 100vw, 189px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt4772188\/\">Flow<\/a> isn&#8217;t photorealistic\u2014there&#8217;s never any confusion that these images were animated in a computer, and there&#8217;s a dreamy, surreal quality to almost everything\u2014but the animals nonetheless feel incredibly real, more true to their individual natures than anthropomorphized, and it&#8217;s incredibly compelling and moving film because of that.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li>I&#8217;m not sure that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt16428256\/\">Suzume<\/a> is as visually thrilling as some of Makoto Shinkai&#8217;s other films, but there&#8217;s a beautifully strange story here nonetheless.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li>There&#8217;s a lot of humor in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt8864596\/\">Transformers One<\/a>, and the voice cast does a mostly admirable job, even if the celebrity voices do get a <em>little<\/em> distracting sometimes. But the story beats, and how the movie races through them, are incredibly predictable, and the movie doesn&#8217;t do enough that&#8217;s interesting or surprising with this potentially interesting prequel.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I also rewatched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0129167\/\">The Iron Giant<\/a>, which is as lovely (if not more so) than I remember it. I don&#8217;t know who needs to hear this, but: you don&#8217;t have to be a gun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, I watched 6 movies: Wallace &#038; Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl doesn&#8217;t reinvent the wheel of Aardman cozy sight gags, but it&#8217;s a lot of real silly fun. The Wild Robot is lovely and clever and heartfelt. Elemental has some clever moments, and it&#8217;s heartfelt when it leans into its story of the children &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=13999\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13999"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13999"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14008,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13999\/revisions\/14008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}