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Sunrise was... kinda underwhelming. I wanted to like it more but by the end I was just a little bored and confused by some of the plot points. It's a pretty slow-paced film, and it doesn't help that there are 3-4 flashback scenes that occur throughout the movie to tell you how the protagonist is related to the villain. I don't feel that aspect of it was done very well; gave it a really disjointed feeling. The acting is pretty good. But the writing and direction suffer a bit; it's not a difficult story to tell but for some reason I felt they made it out to be. There are tons of plotholes that made no sense to me as well, mostly all to do with the motives of certain characters. Pretty meh.

We also watched a Tubi original tonight released in January called Guess Who. Initially, this movie had a ton of stuff going for it and I was really liking it. It's based on this tradition I hadn't heard of before called "mummering", basically it's kinda like Halloween and Christmas together. You dress up so people don't know who you are, and you go door to door like caroling except you tell a riddle and people have to get it right to know who's under the mask. It's an interesting concept that lends itself well to horror, and to start out with there's a ton of promise. The film's first half or so sets an ominous atmosphere where you don't quite know what's going on; sadly I remarked that I hoped this film didn't turn into movies such as The Invitation, Ready or Not and Till Death Do Us Part just to name a few and sadly, that's exactly what happened. It really, really lessens the impact of this one for me because I've kinda seen too many like this before. Certainly these people are watching each other's movies right? Why does this movie keep getting made? Again, like 2 of those 3 movies I mentioned in those spoilers, it isn't a bad film (one of those 3 certainly was though). It's just not as good as it could have been if they hadn't gone this route; I had this one pegged a lot higher on my list through the first act or two.