SilentLuminary Reviews

  Genre: Comedy/ Drama Time: 1h 37mins Director:  Melanie Mayron Quick Summary:  The Plastics are back in the long-awaited follow-up to the smash hit Mean Girls - and now the clique is more fashionable, funny, and ferocious (🤮) than ever. Ew. Who let Disney remake Mean Girls? This is like Disney made this film but they decided to be a bit more risky by saying the word fuck and virgin. Ooooh, look. This film is so cool it said virgin. (Said maybe one 12-year-old girl thinking she was cool for watching this) It feels gross. The outfits are horrendous and honestly an eye-sore. The acting is awful too, and not even the funny kind. It's even got the line "I'm not like other girls" seriously said by the stereotypical tomboy girl who dyes her hair and likes cars. That is how bad this is. Don't watch this. Please. I wasted time out of my life for this terrible, icky sequel.  1/10

  Genre: Comedy/ Drama Time: 1h 40mins Director:  Mark Waters Quick Summary:  Cady Heron is a hit with The Plastics, the A-list girl clique at her new school until she makes the mistake of falling for Aaron Samuels, the ex-boyfriend of alpha Plastic Regina George. Banger. Classic. Masterpiece. Timeless. 💅 Nothing beats the early 2000's cunty high school films. It's a genre I will never get tired of because they're so funny and in their own league. This is so easy to enjoy and it's absolutely timeless, even now, 20 years later it's still funny, even if a lot of them are based on far-fetched stereotypes.  The teenagers actually look like teenagers, not like 30-year-olds playing teenagers. And what holds the film together are the great performances from the actors. They're all perfect. Lindsay Lohan is perfect as Cady, the clueless girl who gets a taste of popularity and has to have more. I've always found to enjoy her in film, she has this sort of quirky ch

  Genre: Sci-Fi/ Action Time: 2h 20mins Director:  Matt Reeves Quick Summary:  After the apes suffer unimaginable losses, Caesar wrestles with his darker instincts and begins his own mythic quest to avenge his kind. *Sobbing* First the obvious, the CGI is amazing and is truly a technological marvel to cinema. I thought these apes looked good last time so I was absolutely blown away with how good they looked this time around. Andy Serkis once again plays the ape ruler Caesar and is easily the best movie character in recent years, in each film he has gotten progressively better and in this one it is definitely the best performance. I may have cried a little bit and some of the more emotional and harder-to-watch scenes. This poor guy has gone through it and continues to go through it during the events of this. The story is great and is well-acted throughout. This movie is also an amazing drama. You know I'm glad they focused more on the drama and emotional side of things as the last

  Genre: Sci-fi/ Action Time: 2h 11mins Director:  Matt Reeves Quick Summary:  The fragile peace between apes and humans is threatened as mistrust and betrayal threaten to plunge both tribes into a war for dominance over the Earth. I liked the funky tribal paint they used to decorate themselves. I liked the previous film. I really liked this one as this one takes everything from the last one and just improves on it. However, I will say the first hour was a little bit slow so it lost my attention a couple of times. Granted, this needed to be slow to build up the main conflict. The CGI is so much more impressive this time. The ape's fur looks so realistic in some of the scenes and yet again I had fully forgotten these were fake apes. They feel so real and I think that's what makes this one work so much more. To add to this you can actually tell each ape apart from various little changes to their appearances or how they move which is honestly so cool to me. Though it is a little

  Genre: Sci-Fi/ Action Time: 1h 45mins Director:  Rupert Wyatt Quick Summary:  A substance designed to help the brain repair itself gives advanced intelligence to a chimpanzee who leads an ape uprising. Finally the justice these films deserved with a good film. There is so much that is good about this film that the small things can be overlooked. Some moments are truly gratifying, and the main ape really steals the show with his evolution throughout the movie. The journey this ape takes really connects and you feel his plight. Honestly, it's so emotional the whole way through and there were moments I gasped or cheered especially during the big “no” moment. Hands down one of my favourite film moments. Even though you know the chimps are CGI, their eyes look amazing, with depth and personality, and along with their body language and facial animations, you really do forget they are CGI. This ape has the most terrifying but impressive look I have ever seen. It just screams a strong l

  Genre: Sci-Fi/ Action Time: 2hours Director: Tim Burton Quick Summary:  In 2029, an Air Force astronaut crash-lands on a mysterious planet where evolved, talking apes dominate a race of primitive humans. For such a shit film why did they give us such a juicy ending Okay, I'll give this credit. This looked really good and stylistic. I really liked how the apes were designed, leaning more towards humans with monkey characteristics in which we get fully clothed, waddling, swinging, odd-looking apes with various different hairstyles. The makeup for their faces was done well too, but they looked solid and difficult to move which made some of the talking scenes look a bit funny. As for the world, it seems really primitive but styled almost towards Asian culture. The issue is, it's too damn dark and it was difficult to see anything. As I am someone who has seen and loves the original, it was surprising to see in this remake that the humans could talk. The fact that humans couldn&#