The Roundup with Jeff Stockton (Season 19 Round 7)

 

We're getting closer to the home stretch with just three rounds left of Season 19. Here's the The Roundup....

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2. Box Office
While the last few rounds have been rough, things are looking up. Looking at the schedule for the rest of the season, I'd guess this will be the last of the completely rough rounds. Next round will give us the Dark Tower sequel and a Tom Cruise project, Season 9 has a new Alden Ehrenreich project and Superman 2, while Season 10 has Spider-Man.

1. Kazaria
I honestly didn't really like Kazaria that much, but it was the best film this round by far. I respect what the filmmakers were trying to do, even if I wasn't very entertained by it all. Even though I had problems with the film, I am happy for the filmmakers that it made a profit and wasn't destroyed by the critics (myself included).

3. Kazaria
Yep, it's in both sections. Kazaria is like Star Wars minus the action, excitement and adventure, but stuffed full of the boring council meetings that litter the prequel trilogy. Simply, it's more misguided than all-out bad. I just couldn't get into it. Even George Lucas gave us three or four films of exciting adventure before trying to bore us with the political stuff in the prequels. Kazaria skips the fun, and goes straight to the stuffy conversations about politics we don't know enough about to care about.

2. What We Were Promised
This film was just not very entertaining to me. It's probably not the fault of the filmmakers other than for them thinking the book would work as a film - it didn't. Eden Townsend is far from the first writer to try to make a movie out of a book that just isn't focused and cinematic enough to work.

1. Lovestruck
This may come off as a tad harsh but..... Why? This film features the most unlikable character around and a plot that makes ZERO SENSE. Is William 20 years old or is he in high school? Is he a successful filmmaker or is a teenager who lives with his mom? Apparently the bulk of the story was supposed to be a flashback according to its writer, Alex Conn, but the film doesn't tell us that or give us any visual hints. Outside of that, our "hero" William spends the bulk of the film berating and bad-mouthing a girl for not being interested in him. Who wants to watch that? I was especially disappointed by the film since Dan Star and Chris, Travis & Juliet weren't terrible and showed a good amount of effort in the writing department. but I did not feel the effort with his one.