Thursday Movie Picks: 2021 Releases

 

For the first week of 2022 as part of Wandering Through the Shelves' Thursday Movie Picks. We go into the subject of 2021 releases as it is a new year but there’s still films from the year before that people are catching up on or ones that deserve a lot of praise. Here are my three picks of 2021 releases that I hope to never watch as they’re all musicals:

1. Music

Whatever goodwill SIA had as a pop star went totally down the drain in this absolutely misguided and tone-deaf piece of shit musical that she co-wrote, directed, and wrote music for about a drug dealer who has to take care of her young autistic half-sister after their grandmother had died. It is a film where for anyone that knows anything about autism or know someone with autism would have every right to rant about this film. It showcases what not to do while it had poor Maddie Ziegler go full-retard to play the titular autistic character against her will with Kate Hudson being a willing participant to this piece of shit that got her a Golden Globe nomination. The film itself wouldn’t just get another Golden Globe nomination which only adds to the lack of credibility that award already had. The film would eventually win three Razzies in Worst Actress for Hudson, Worst Supporting Actress to Ziegler, and Worst Director to SIA in the hope that she will never be involved in cinema ever again.

2. Cinderella

There’s nothing inherently wrong about another re-telling of the famed fairy tale or to turn it into a musical. However, Kay Cannon had to play to what people want rather than what people need as the film became more about who is in it rather than the story. The fact that it tries to have these modern ideals where the titular character is running a shop and uses pop songs from other artists just doesn’t make the story work while the casting is also uninspired where Billy Porter’s appearance as the fairy godmother is really more of him representing his brand of stupidity. Yet, the biggest offender is the cameo appearance of James Corden as a mouse. The fact that he promoted the film with a cast by wearing dumb costumes during a traffic jam just exemplify how exposed and how unfunny he is. If I had been in that traffic jam and saw him, I would be in prison for vehicular manslaughter and it would be worth it knowing that I got rid of one unfunny motherfucker.

3. Dear Evan Hansen

An adaptation of the Tony-award winning musical definitely brought out the worst aspects of its intentions to discuss mental illness and social anxiety. Yet, there were those who didn’t the musical was even that good as this film is justified into why it wasn’t any good to begin with. It’s about a kid who writes a letter to himself about his anxieties and feelings where some guy reads it, gets upset, and kills himself. Then he tries to confess to that guy’s parents who mistake him for being his best friend as he tries to win over that guy’s sister whom he has feelings for but eventually gets caught up on all of these lies. It’s a horrible story and this won a bunch of Tonys with a lot of shitty-ass songs. Yet, the worst part is that it had that show’s star in Ben Platt who is nearly 30 as he’s playing a high schooler which makes the whole thing even stupider. It also showcases that Platt’s inclusion in the film is largely due to the fact that his daddy is one of the producers as it just adds more shit as it comes off as creepy and desperate in the hope that Platt never does a film again as he should be performing to small theater bars playing to indifferent drunks.

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