DRAWMA KINGG Movie Reviews

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  • SPEED 1994 Movie Review – Is It Worth Watching?

    WHOA I’m moving at a really high rate of speed! Wait, that’s not even what I’m doing at all. I was mistaken. I believe this confusion is mostly a result of recently watching Speed, the movie from 1994. Perhaps movies can disorient us a bit and make us forget what is real! I actually thought I was moving at a high rate of speed with no justification whatsoever being that I’m sittin’ down doin’ nothin’. Well anyway, I finally watched Speed when it’s over 30 years old, and I’m extraordinarily late to seeing this movie. Though that does make me question – at what point is it mandatory that you’ve seen a movie? For example: it’s not like everybody has seen every movie from the ‘20s, right? So technically nobody can say “Hey you haven’t seen Ghostbusters? It’s been long enough! You gotta go see Ghostbusters!” And then the other person is like “Man, I just got no idea what that movie is about and have no idea what any of the characters look like. Is it about people or something?”

    You know, in this movie there is more than just a fast bus. There is also a fast elevator action scene. How cool is that – more than one fast vehicle involved in this epic production! And at the very end, there is a fast subway! Yummmm, subway system…  Maybe I’m accidentally confusing a thing or two or many many more. OK forget I said anything, and you might as well not read on. [Whistling] Oh wow, are you still here reading? I’d be surprised if anyone wanted to read any more words of mine after that earlier part. So what was I talking about again, oh yeah – a Hollywood movie with fast vehicles! Wait, I didn’t even mention the fact that it had intensely energetic title cards at the beginning of the film! Well now I did mention it.

    Maybe this was just my incorrect interpretation of the movie, but the villain struck me as the kind of guy who had pretty much given up on things in life. The only issue was, he was watching football on television. Hope I got the name of that sport correct…anyway some kind of football play happened on the television, and he seemed to care about it! So the man did care about things after all! I mean maybe just football so maybe he just cared about one thing. I guess he also wanted some money, so there are at least two things this guy liked in life.

    Is It Worth Watching?: Tough one to say for sure on this particular movie. I will say that I myself enjoyed the movie. Whether or not it is WORTH WATCHING for someone else…I would say if you like ‘90s action movies, Sandra Bullock,  and/or Keanu Reeves – then yes, it is worth watching.

    Final Thoughts: I just realized as I’m finishing this review that I didn’t even have a number in mind yet for my Crown Rating! Hmmmmmmmmmm I will give Speed (arguably a prequel to that one where Keanu Reeves fights crime as a superhero that calls himself “The Matrix”) a 6.5/10 Crowns. I don’t know if that number is quite right, yet that’s what pops into my head. Sometimes you just gotta go with the aether I guess. One highlight I wanted to mention about this film is that the two main characters fall in love by the end, so it’s really just a love story where a bus and a subway san—, I mean, tasty subway SYSTEM get in the way. Did I get it right that time? 

  • THE END OF OAK STREET 2026 Movie Review – Is It Worth Watching?

    Dis Drawma Kingg is just chilling in the middle of Oakey Street, minding my personal business. Hmmm people keep driving by and telling me that it would be more interesting if I go over there to the end of this perfectly normal street. I don’t know, this middle is pretty cool. I have a glass of lemonade in my right hand and a sugar biscuit in my left hand. How could things possibly get any more interesting? Suppose it wouldn’t hurt to take a little walk, though I probably won’t go all the way to the end. You never know what random prehistoric dangers might show up if you just start walking any old where.

    The End Of Oak Street had to be about the boringest dinosaur movie I’ve ever seen, which clearly means it’s time to start talking about somethin’ else. Watching this film did make me wish I had a pack of dinosaur trading cards for my brand new episodic internet show called OVERLY DRAMATIC PACKS! You can watch the first seven episodes and any future installments on my YouTube channel, Instagram, or Facebook page. In this brand new series, I open one single pack of absolutely any random kind of trading cards! Rest assured, I don’t do that skip to the rare at the end unappreciative style of trading card videos. I I think the commons are better than the rares out of a pack! How’s that for a subversive opinion?! Anyway, it’s really not about rarity for me. It’s about the art and getting a trading card of a character that you like! And yes, I definitely say plenty of ultra stoopid things during the process for some laughs! Oh and get this: in Episode 4 I actually opened a pack of sports trading cards for the first time ever! I think it was the sport called balls n’ bases or something like that.

    OK back to the movie. Be warned — this is a super spoiler paragraph, because I gotta talk about the ridiculous ending! After a dinosaur eats one of the family members, they travel back in time to right before their house gets transported to dinosaur land. The main character (Catwoman, I believe) places a telephone call to her own house, convinces the deceased family member to get out of the neighborhood, and leaves the parallel versions of the rest of the family to get transported to the feeding bowl of the dinosaurs. Now some viewers might think that it would just be a time loop and they would make it out okay anyway. This interpretation doesn’t make sense, because the family just barely protected each other enough to get MOST of them safely to the time jump spot. The narrative presents itself as if this is a happy ending where everything worked out. I was basically speechless, which is unusual for my overly dramatic self. Catwoman did the parallel duplicates dirty with this conclusion. 

    Is It Worth Watching?: I don’t think you’re missing anything if you skip this one.

    Final Thoughts: 4/10 Crowns. The End Of Oak Street didn’t manage to engage me or pull me in. It was a little bit more exciting towards the end, but then the very end fell apart. Now I have to quote the first dinosaur movie that I reviewed. Way back in Episode 6 of drawmakingg.com (JURASSIC WORLD REBIRTH 2025 Movie Review – Ending Explained) I said “You don’t need substance in your script to enjoy dinosaurs! If nothing else, this movie definitely proved that for me.” Well looks like the proof has been disproven! Merely having dinosaurs on the screen was not enough to ensure an enjoyable theater outing this time. I’ll admit that the premise wasn’t bad, setting itself up to be a heartfelt movie about a family going through a dangerous and fantastical adventure. Sadly, it was unsuccessful in the details. Still made me wanna open some packs o’ dinosaur trading cards though!

  • ICE CREAM MAN 2026 Movie Review – Is It Worth Watching?

    Finally a movie about ice cream! I’ve seen movies about mans before, not so sure if I’ve seen anything about frozen cream treats. Ice Cream Man is one of those flicks where I did not watch a trailer before buying a ticket. That may have been a mistake this time, because I’ll tell you straight up at the beginning of this review that this movie is not very good. I legitimately got to the point where I felt like leaving and going home. Dis Drawma Kingg never reviews movies that I don’t finish watching, and that’s literally the only reason I made it to the end. Gotta get that review out this week one way or the other. Just like a small town ice cream man, Drawma Kingg DELIVERS!

    Sensation escapes me. Purpose becomes nonexistent. As I spin between the realms of reality and fantasy, all feeling disappears. Colors and sounds once vibrant are without meaning or stimulation. Are these thoughts indicative of an oncoming end? Maybe the opposite, a transitional perceptive experience not quantifiable through human thought patterns. To think that this is new when I still interpret through the old…

    Nothingness would be easier to comprehend. A mind would have to grow into the unknown in order to integrate. Would we shut down at the sight of the next dimension? What permeates beyond earthly knowledge? Ignorance seems incompatible with inescapable wisdom. Myself is replaced with a self.

    Is It Worth Watching?: No, I would not recommend the movie to anyone.

    Final Thoughts: 2/10 Crowns. Ice Cream Man was a horribly written movie. One positive thing I can say about it is that it WAS scary. This was accomplished through disturbing depictions of kids attacking unsuspecting adults. Had they written a good script, they may have actually had a notable horror film here. By the end, you start asking yourself why anyone would want to see something of this crude nature. I probably wrote two incoherent paragraphs just to save you from even having to think about this movie any more than is necessary. All I really wanted was a story where ice cream was runnin’ around in exciting cinematic ways. Was that far too much to ask? Guess I gotta stop asking for things. Reverse psychology time! Oh Hollywood, I totally don’t want you to make a movie with great writing, acting, directing, and cinematography! And I totally don’t want every single character to be an ordinary cone full of ice cream!

  • SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY 2026 Movie Review – Did Tenacious D Prophesize This Movie?

    Somehow Dis Drawma Kingg was not prepared for the level of drama in Spider-Man: Brand New Day! It’s not that I have a dramatic limit, just that I had my guard down for a 22nd movie (maybe it’s more than that by now) about insect people. The feels in this movie are NO JOKE! Derived from many mediocre Marvel Cinematic Universe installments, my only expectation was: “Sure hope this is at least a fun superhero movie.” Was it fun? Yes. Was it more than fun? Yes. Was it great? Read on to FIND OUT!

    Before I get into my critical points, I must talk about the prophecy of Tenacious D! There is an old live recording of Tenacious D singing about Spider-Man. It begins pretty much like the old famous Spider-Man song everyone knows, but then it goes into lyrics that kind of sound like they were just totally improvised on the spot. Jack Black may have written them out beforehand or perhaps written out some ideas that he would riff on somewhat improvisationally. I can’t confirm exactly how he came up with all of that. I’d like to think it was completely on the spot, because the song is funnier that way. Within these absurd and inappropriate lyrics, they mentioned that Spider-Man does a Matrix move! Now, many years later (SPOILER) Spider-Man absolutely does an unmistakable Matrix move in Brand New Day! What are the odds?! How did Tenacious D know that this was coming one day? Jack Black and Kyle Gass are pretty much the last two people on Earth that I would ever expect to receive any kind of divine futuresight. I will make no insensitive theological assumptions here. My assumption is that Tenacious D have a time machine and have hid it from the world for decades! SHOW US THE TIME MACHINE! Why is Robert Downey Jr. playing Dr. Doom in the next movie when there is a real-life actor that actually knows how to operate a time machine?! Well I guess hiding your technology from the world backfired on you, Jack Black. It could have been you that got the gig as Victor von Doom!

    Back to more critical matters, let’s talk about cameos vs. fan service. One complaint people often have with newer MCU movies is that there aren’t enough cameos from different Marvel characters. Is that actually a good thing? If someone is just thrown in quickly, many people will complain that it is tasteless fan service. I can’t say for sure who is right and who is wrong in this general argument, but for movies based around large comic-book universes, I personally support many characters in one movie. The difference between a standalone comic book and connected universes like Marvel and DC is the fact that these characters can cross over in fun ways. Spider-Man: Brand New Day really feels like a Marvel Universe movie! As a long time comic book reader, I loved this aspect of the film! With that being said, there were two characters that I felt were not emphasized as much as they deserved. First, we obviously have Scorpion. He was teased many films ago and did not get a costumed appearance until now. Due to the long wait, Scorpion deserved to be a stronger opponent with more interesting motivations. The other character (SPOILER) was Yelena Belova/Black Widow. She kind of just shows up to have two conversations with Spider-Man. Yelena is actually one of my favorite MCU characters, so I was very happy to see her show up. Quite unfortunately, she is not integral to the plot in any way, feeling more like fan service than an appropriately written cameo. Conversely, The Punisher got completely adequate screen time, a fitting way to bring him into the movies since he originated in a Spider-Man comic. This installment becoming a bit of a Spider-Man and Punisher team-up movie was really exciting to me. I also liked the montage scene where Spider-Man fights a number of villains. I’m pretty sure one of them was Tarantula, a personal favorite who is a little more obscure than his main villains.

    Did Tenacious D Prophesize This Movie?: Option 1 – Yes, if they don’t have a time machine (though I believe this would have been by total accident and not divine intervention). Option 2 – Not really if they do have such a device.

    Final Thoughts: 9/10 Crowns. I almost want to rate it even higher. On a superhero movie only scale I would definitely give this movie a 10 out of 10. I was absolutely dying watching this movie, in a good way. There was friendship, loss, romance, and heartbreak. I can’t think of a single other superhero movie that made me feel this much throughout the whole experience. Spider-Man: Brand New Day probably makes it into my top 3 movies of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and is probably my favorite Spider-Man movie ever! Now I gotta go find Jack Black to interrogate him about his time machine! Though if he really does have a time machine, he’ll always be precisely ONE step ahead of me!