Jack of Harts

I’ve seen more movies in the last month than in a long time. Call it a change in priorities that put watching movies way down on the list of things to do. But this Christmas I’ve seen several movies that I loved. Bumblebee, Mary Poppins Returns, and Aquaman have all hit my “love” buttons. And watching old favorites like Peter Jackson’s Hobbit movies has been fun too. Working up to Lord of the Rings. All extended edition as any true Tolkien fan should appreciate. Hehehe.

The nice thing about the spat of Christmas movies I just watched is that they all did something right. In none of them did the directors and producers try to do their own spin on things. They didn’t try to reinvent the characters in ways that would turn off fans, and they stayed away from preaching down to the audience. They just went to the source material they are all derived from, and created amazing and fun movies obviously delved from it. I wish more directors could do that, but I treasure that these did and I hope to see them make more like this in the future.

Seriously, scenes where all the ocean animals swam up behind Aquaman were truly amazing. Like the scenes of Cybertron falling. And hearing music I grew up with in each of them was like a rain of sunshine. Or the rains in Africa…you pick.

I’m utterly happy with the recent movies I’ve seen. No reservations. And that is something I don’t get to say nearly as often as I would like.