Dredd

Our new TV has been such a blessing since the old one couldn't do the fancy digital channels. I caved and started watching Tubi. It's so hard to get the movies you want in Canada, plus the the "leaving this month" email motivated me to take a look.

Dredd definitely had the feel of a comic book movie as well as a video game inspired one as well. I forgot how saturated movies from this time where--it's either painfully blue/orange or red/green in places--but the ripping soundtrack and action sequences were great! This is a very squishy movie with some flashes of sexual assault and definitely not for younger viewers in more ways than one. It's such a bleak version of the future that I hope doesn't come true!

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Se7en

Not to sound like a broken record, but there's a whole swath of 90s movies missing from my personal catalogue because I was either too young or too broke to watch them. It's hard to spend $8 on a movie when you're only making $7.28 an hour part time!

I didn't know much about Se7en before I watched it on Tubi this afternoon except that it starred Brad Pitt and was about a serial killer working through the seven deadly sins. I didn't even know it starred Kevin Spacey or Morgan Freeman! Sometimes the less you know about something the more wonderful the surprise is.

Freeman and Pitt play a pair of mismatched detectives in this, suspenseful, neo-noir thriller. I really enjoyed the orchestral soundtrack and colour grading as well as the pacing. I find too many movies these days are a blur as they hop from scene to scene, so the story's slow unfolding was very enjoyable as well.

Now, this is a very squishy and dark movie and I feel it dances slightly into horror territory. It's such a visual feast though with the constant rain, grittiness and practical effects. Definitely one I would watch again since it contained so much detail.

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