Critical Capsule: Ready Player One

When I first saw the trailer for Ready Player One, I was immediately interested. It was my introduction to the source, as I had never heard of the novel before. I was caught up in the nostalgic references to pop culture of decades gone by. Now, having seen the movie, I enjoyed playing spot the reference, as well as the lengthy horror movie sequence and the appearance of a certain mechanical monster. On the other hand, the story felt like a lot of what I have seen before and the lead actors did not have all that much personality. I had fun enough with it, but that is due to the references to things I like a lot better. Overall, I felt this was a mediocre movie banking on nostalgic recognition rather than doing anything interesting with it.

Critical Capsule: Lincoln

As I left the theater the first thing to jumped in my mind was a question. Where we're the vampires? I could have sworn this supposed to have some real bloodsuckers in it. Sadly, the closest thing I got were some grimy politicians. After realizing I was mixing the wrong genres, the next thought that came to me was that it was definitely better than Warhorse, that movie may have had some nice cinematography but I was not all that good. Anyway, I walked out of Lincoln knowing I saw a good movie and also knowing that was not quite as enamored with it as many seem to be.