The Olive Opinion

  Since its the end of year, I decided to make a list of my favorite movies this year. This would also be a good opportunity to talk about movies I didn't review this year, considering I only started updating my blog a few months ago. To remind you, these are MY FAVORITES from this year of what moved me and what has been stuck in my head and have convinced me to watch more than once. Everyone is entitled to your opinion or what your rankings are but these are mine.  10. A Big Bold Beautiful Journey   This was a movie that a lot of people were not big fan of when it came out. The concept was outlandish. Kogonada decided to make a very Americanized version of a Studio Ghibili movie. But that was not the reason why people did not like it. At least I don't think it is. I think people were expecting this to be a date movie, a rom-com of sorts but like Materialists, this was almost the antithesis of that expectation. The idea of trying to get two people together through a very ...

  James Cameron's behemoth of a passion project returns, this time with a shorter time between the sequels. Avatar: Fire and Ash is seen as Disney's last Hail Mary for 2025 after a very slow year at the box office, but will it be as successful as the previous two? Both movies had earned over 2 billion dollars, but for this sequel to follow suit wouldn't be worth the gamble.  It is not because the sequel's quality is subpar. In fact, Cameron continues to solidify that the Avatar franchise is the most visually stunning of them all, given how much work Cameron and the rest of Lightstorm, along with the outsourced animators, have done over the last 15 years. To comprehend that 90 percent of the film is CGI and that it still looks so realistic is amazing. The fight sequences were exciting. Evoking fear during beautiful sequences is only something Cameron can do and is known for. Certain characters were also given interesting arcs, especially Neytiri, who is finally given muc...

  The number of times I have seen this trailer in the last two months shows that movie theaters wanted it tattooed in the back of people's minds. Plus, with the Sydney Sweeney controversies going on, it was just free publicity at this point. Based on the bestselling book series by Freida McFadden, this was an adaptation of The Housemaid , a book I have seen in almost every bookstore but have never read. I was never interested in its premise.  Lionsgate, however, has more confidence in this film than anyone else, despite not having a true box-office hit in years. They aim to possibly create a new lukewarm franchise here with Sydney Sweeney at its front, at a time of her career that is mostly boiled down to her perhaps aalleged political ties after the infamous American Eagle ad. But the main appeal of The Housemaid is not its titular star but rather everybody else involved. It may bode well with Paul Feig, but no one else in this first film could return for a potential sequel....