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Soul (2020)

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"Joe Gardner is a middle school music teacher. Pursuing his dreams of playing with great jazz musicians in his time outside of teaching. In the pursuit of his dream, he stumbles into a new world. Where he helps his mentor realize their true passion and spark." - IMDB Synopsis The Style of animation in the real world is the Pixar style that we're used to seeing with great details to facial expressions and textures. But the art style we see in the Great Before is totally different and unique. The Jerry(s) with their abstract design and movements matches with both the jazz music theme of the film as well as the abstract concept of the Great Before. The Souls designs are reminiscent of the emotions from Inside Out, with beautiful particle effects only seen in close detail. The world design of these mystical spiritual realms that Joe travels around to are beautiful and wonderous to look at. The soundtrack for all the theoretical construct realms helped give the abstract mystic

WandaVision - First Impressions

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"Blends the style of classic sitcoms with the MCU, in which Wanda Maximoff and Vision - two super-powered beings living their ideal suburban lives - begin to suspect that everything is not as it seems." - IMDB Synopsis Now that WandaVision is over and I've seen every episode, I want to give my first dry impressions of this crazy experience of a show. MCU kicked off their Disney+ career right, I'll say that right now. I've been following these characters closely like everyone else since their first appearance in Age of Ultron in 2015. I knew a bit from their stories in the comics, and even though a lot happened off screen, I stood by the development of their romantic relationship throughout the films.  That being said, Vision's death was very heart crushing to watch. You just had to be there. After everything Wanda has gone through, I was rooting for her happy ending. She lost everybody, she deserved a win, just once. I was very emotionally invested in this sho

Jaws (1975)

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"When a killer shark unleashes chaos on a beach community, it's up to a local sheriff, a marine biologist, and an old seafarer to hunt the beast down." - IMDB Synopsis The first half of Jaws is a perfect example of building suspense the right way. There's wasn't much music, blood and gore was at a minimal, the shark was barely seen, and there was never a certainty of safety. With the tension built up, the 4th of July sequence was the perfect turning point of the film and segwayed to the trio's grand adventure at sea in the 2nd half. IMDB.com When Brody, Quint, and Hooper set off to to hunt the shark, the real movie begins. This half of the film was so good. Much tension was built as the shark teased the guys, while also teasing the audience as to when the shark will meet its end. Right before the climax, there was a calm before the storm where the trio had a nice bonding moment together that was very heartfelt. Then the final battle came and went in a glorious