greedy People- I watched this dull crime caper back in November, and my initial reaction then was “what has happened to Joseph Gordon Levitt’s career?”. I barely remember this film. I remember a couple of actors being in it, but it is so incredibly mediocre that it has no redeemable qualities to stick with you, nor is it so bad it leaves you with that feeling of having survived something. It is just a dull film. And it is the second one top lined by Joseph Gordon levitt, because even though I did a full review for Killer Heat much closer to its actual release on Amazon, I can’t remember that movie either anymore. I can’t remember the audio description for either film, which likely means neither were amazing or bad. If you are in the mood for depressingly mediocre Joseph Gordon Levitt films, apparently this is his thing now.
Rotten: Final Grade: C-
Gladiator 2- The phrase “Gladiator 2” is something I never needed to hear. I keep going into every Ridley Scott movie hoping he’s going to knock one out of the park and finally win a competitive directing Oscar. he feels like someone who should be a winner.but, if we were doing it right, it would be for an earlier film like Gladiator, or perhaps even more boldly, Alien. But, he got a ton of money to make a fine follow-up to a great film. That’s what this is. it is fine. Despite the fact that Spencer Treat Clark is alive, the role he played in Gladiator is now being played by Paul Mescal, which you would hope means something. it doesn’t. Where Crowe was the dominating force of the original, mescal becomes a neutrally acceptable centerpiece for better actors to dance around. Denzel Washington is having tons of fun, and Pedro Pascal is actually quite good in a role he got little attention for. There are also a pair of very entitled brothers running the show now, and they were funny to watch. Even returning actors like Derek Jacobi and Connie Nielsen have more memorable moments. Mescal was always going to get compared to Russell Crowe. I guess they gave up on trying.
this movie and its audio description track are about highlighting the action scenes and set pieces, which it does quite well. The movie dives into silly territory when the Coliseum starts to have sharks for Paul Mescal to fight, but at least that segment was well described. There’s also a fight with monkeys, and one monkey is featured throughout the film. It is a solid audio description track, but there was something about how it was recorded that felt cheap. It reminded me of the audio description track for Civil War, which just isn’t recorded or mixed on the level with the tracks we usually get. Paramount went with a newer company, but they need to up their game when it comes to how the track sounds. It is hard to have a track that doesn’t quite sound up to the task on a film that had a budget larger than the GDP of developing nations.
Fresh: Final Grade: B, Audio Description: B
The Last Stop In Yuma County- One of the sleeper hits of last year never got audio description. In my initial review, i said I felt like I was watching something like The Boondock Saints or Donnie Darko, a film that is very indie, very under the radar, not a box office hit, and somehow every movie nerd has seen it. It just needs audio description though, because it is a crime thriller, and the tension can’t build if I don’t understand what is ratcheting it up, or where it is coming from.
Unwatchable Due To Lack of Audio Description
