The Syndicate

Martian was pretty good. Lots of the monologues felt appropriate, he would be creating a video log as opposed to just talking to himself, and the movie wasn't bogged down with crazy amounts of "I'm the only man on Mars dear god why" depression. A few characters were introduced by name for the five minutes they affected the story and then promptly forgotten about. The characters the movie spends time on, however, feel pretty complete. Really solid, you feel empathy for Damon, and that's what sells the movie.

Hotel Transylvania 2 was better-ish than I expected. I haven't seen the first one, but with the amount of alcohol I've had to run to showings I assumed it was bad. There were a few pretty funny parts but I was kinda disappointed by how the ending was handled. They build up a character the entire movie only for him to have a few lines and have literally less effect on the overall story than his henchmen.

I work at a Studio Movie Grill, so I'm gonna be in here a lot, disclaimer.

Saw the Scorch Trials. Was really impressed with the first Maze Runner movie, so I had moderately high hopes for this one. It didn't disappoint, but it didn't blow me out of the water. A few scenes the main character would stand around shining his light at the approaching enemies for like 10 seconds, and it felt like the character in the movie was only doing that to give the audience a better camera shot, which is a bit annoying. Really good length at 130 minutes, and there's not very much "filler" where you feel your time is wasted, so that's a big plus. On a scale of 1-10, with 5 being average, I'd give it a 7. Not gonna be a movie I remember 10 years and strive to watch again, but it's a well-made movie.