Pitch Perfect 2 was never going to live up to the original, and maybe my expectations weren't as high because I didn't see the original during the initial hype, but either way, I pretty much got what I expected. It was weird in that sometimes it felt like the movie wasn't even trying to be witty or funny, and other times it was trying
too hard. This film was also weirdly obsessed with being as much like a standard "college" film as possible. The cameos and Das Sound Machine were amazing, though.
The Minions is exactly what you were expecting. It feels like one long TV episode more than a movie with a coherent plot, and most of the jokes were already featured in the ads.
I also decided to watch
Catching Fire and
Mockingjay Part 1 on Netflix. The former was okay, and it was nice seeing more of the HG world and the most fun characters (Effie, Johanna, Finnick). The latter kept a lot of the dumb stuff from the books and was pretty boring and did not need its own film.
Bryce Dallas Howard's character was pretty badass. I mean yeah a lot of the attention went to Chris Pratt, in the end its Bryce Dallas Howard's heroics by using herself as live bait that end up saving the day and she did it all while wearing high heels, if that isn't badass I don't know what is.
I never said her character wasn't badass. My point is that more of the characters, especially main characters, in
Jurassic World could have been women. Why couldn't one of the kids be a girl, for instance?
~Psychic