DRAWMA KINGG Movie Reviews

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  • CAUGHT STEALING 2025 Movie Review – Is He Caught Stealing?

    Normally, I would love any movie about Catwoman, who even Marvel (Professor, of course – see Drawma Kingg Episode 2) agrees is the best superhero of all. This Caught Stealing movie where Catwoman falls in love with Elvis in the ’90s made no sense though. Didn’t Elvis leave this world in the ’70s? They both look very youthful for two people born before the end of the second world war. Triumphantly, Dis Drawma Kingg powered through to the end, because I had to know ONE THING! Is he caught stealing?

    One time when I was a kid I found a penny on the ground on the road next to a neighbor kids house. As I picked it up off the ground, the kid walked over to me and said it was his penny, because it was by his house. We argued what little we knew about property rights for two kids until his dad came out to review the situation. The neighbor kid, Little Johnny Johnson of the esteemed Jhonifus family, explained the situation more accurately than I would have expected to his Jhonified dad. Little Johnny Johnson Senior, the dad, sided with his son and demanded that I return the penny to his “family’s full monetary estate” immediately. Anticipating an adult to agree with me, I was mortified at his response. They, the Johnsons, got their penny back, and I have been cursed with a not-wanting-money complex ever since. Caught Stealing sounded like a movie title I could really RELATE to because of those couple of minutes I refused to give up a penny.

    The Good, the Bad, and the Ain’t Pretty:

    Good1: The acting was perfectly good, no complaints there.

    Good2: Great ’90s soundtrack!

    Good3 or Ain’t Pretty1: Walkin’ On Da Sun is in the soundtrack.

    Bad1: The plot: Oooh there’s a key that goes to something!

    Bad2: If you suspected the trailer kind of gave away the whole movie, you were right!

    Ain’t Pretty1: (or 2 if you count Walkin’ On Da Sun in this category) Catwoman is in less than half of the movie! You thought I was watching this movie for Elvis?

    Is He Caught Stealing?: No. The movie ends shortly after he takes the money.

    Final Thoughts: 6/10 Crowns. The actors are the only reason it deserves above a 5 (totally average) Crown rating. To be fair, 6/10 is pretty high for a movie about Catwoman and Elvis in their 20s with Walkin’ On Da Sun playing in the background. With that being said, Caught Stealing is oddly a very normal movie for director Darren Aronofsky. I was disappointed that the main character never really gets caught with the money. Under these circumstances, there was absolutely nothing my childhood self could relate to in the story. 

  • TRON: ARES 2025 Movie Review – Ending Explained

    In this age of grand cinematic competition, what really sells tickets is the presence or absence of Gillian Anderson. At least, for Dis Drawma Kingg anyway. I admit that I am assuming this holds true for all other ticket buyers. Tron: Ares was surely not the disgusting pile of garbage I expected it to be. It was a lovely pile of garbage! Well… I suppose I shouldn’t say “pile of garbage” since I really liked the film. Let’s say it was a lovely GARDEN of garbage. The filmmakers couldn’t possibly be offended by that, could they? Y’ see, rather than a Morbin Time sequel with a Nine Inch Nails soundtrack, it turned out to be a philosophical DEPECHE MODE movie with a Nine Inch Nails soundtrack. If you’re a lover of electronic music, you can’t get any luckier than that!

    Visually, Tron: Ares was excitingly exceptional! Green screen movies are not generally my favorites, but the special effects quality did not have me complaining at all. Early on, you see a creepy face talking to the Morbin Time guy. This is the real world creator of these digital entities communicating with his progeny. We experience a dialogue between God and his creation. Sacrilege! Not the being able to have a direct conversation with your creator part, more so the insinuation that Morbin Time is God’s most powerful and beloved of all his constructs!

    “I can’t put my love of Depeche Mode into words” says M. Time. Never have I related more to a movie in my entire overly dramatic life! This came after an earlier conversation about Depeche Mode. That’s right, not just one, but TWO Depeche Mode conversations occur in Tron: Ares. After the first one, I wrote myself a little note to jokingly write about how it’s a movie about Depeche Mode. When the second conversation happened near the end, I was like OMDMG (Oh My Depeche Mode Gods!) this really is about the philosophy of what it means to love Depeche Mode! This is when I realized I love Tron 3, because it was legitimately a movie made for people who love both Nine Inch Nails and Depeche Mode.

    Two main criticisms need to be addressed. First, Gillian Anderson was the best actor by far, and yet her character served no particular purpose to the plot. I wanted her to be the protagonist or perhaps turn out to be the primary villain. Instead, her character is written in such a non-crucial way that you could take her out of the whole script and the main plot would not change at all. In one scene she is attacked by one of the data peeps, but fortunately Dana Scully is a medical doctor. You can’t kill a doctor! They can just use their heal abilities. The implication is that she really dies, which makes no sense when she could have done doctor stuff to herself! I really disliked that plot hole. 

    Second criticism, the only Depeche Mode song we get to hear is Just Can’t Get Enough, a song from their first album written by Vince Clarke. Don’t get me wrong, I love Vince Clarke for his contributions to the first Depeche Mode record as well as his later groups, Erasure and Yaz/Yazoo. When discussing the glorious unmitigated beauty of Depeche Mode, Martin Gore’s songwriting is key! Vince Clarke left Depeche Mode after the first album, and Martin wrote almost every Depeche Mode song after that. Just Can’t Get Enough is literally the ONLY Depeche Mode song the average person might know that WASN’T written by Martin Gore. This was absolutely the wrong track to use in a movie that discusses the philosophical beauty of Depeche Mode’s songwriting. I’ve noticed that Just Can’t Get Enough shows up a lot in movies, TV shows, and commercials. I can only guess that it is somehow easier/cheaper to license Vince Clarke compositions than it is for Martin Gore compositions. That is just one of my many Depeche Mode conspiracy theories though. Another for example — keyboard player, Andy Fletcher supposedly has an unreleased solo album called Toast Hawaii that is said to have never surfaced because it was weak material, but maybe it is really due to it accidentally summoning evil demons when audible OR even more plausibly, because it was so epic that it outshined the band’s entire discography.

    Ending Explained: Ares realizes Depeche Mode’s music makes a human life worth living.

    Final Thoughts: 8/10 Crowns. Tron: Ares would have been 9/10 Crowns if we got a Martin Gore song and more Gillian Anderson in the plot. During the credits, I noticed Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross were also executive producers in addition to composing the score. A sci-fi movie about questioning God’s commandments and loving Depeche Mode? Doesn’t that kind of sound like Trent Reznor secretly had a hand in writing the movie as well? Enough of Dis Drawma Kingg’s conspiracy theories, I want to take a moment to thank YOU, the reader, for tuning in to the 30th episode of drawmakingg.com. My nonsense could not exist without the continued support of offbeat comedy lovers such as yourself!

    Much love,

    -Drawma Kingg

  • HIM 2025 Movie Review – Is it ain’t half bad?

    “Sports”! Yes, this was the first word uttered in the sports horror film, Him. Dis Drawma Kingg can’t recall ever seeing a movie of this subgenre before. For this review (and for the rest of my life), I will be referring to it only as SPORROR! Accepting some problematic flaws, Him was an interesting movie.

    Sporror can create various assumptions in the brain. Imagine going outside to play one of them sports things and there is NO BALL, not even a non-circular version. Terror, robbery, disappointment, and negligence become ALL CONSUMING thoughts. You begin to doubt yourself. Did I somehow cause this catastrophe? Oh wait, is that the ball over there in the bushes? Maybe it’s a demonic entity in disguise. No, just the ball.

    We’ve all had frightening experiences involving standard yard objects. That’s what makes sporror so effective to the human subconscious. Athletic injuries are the thematic seed that forms Him’s plot. I have never played on a sports team in my life, yet I could still relate to an extent. As a young Drawma Prinnce, I sustained a substantial skull injury while playing with a “cup and ball on a string” style device. My parents forced me to continue performing with the cup and ball in order to obtain a multimillion-dollar contract. None of the ladies at the bingo hall made such an offer, and detrimental effects to my health persisted for life. Upon ascending to the throne, I vowed to be a better monarch than my parents chose to be!

    Would you like to hear some serious thoughts on the movie? I mean “more serious” obviously. That yard ball stuff was vitally important. Him’s greatest strength was in the visuals. The creepy rooms in the training facility (where most of the events take place) were absolute top-notch examples of what can be achieved in cinema. I cannot champion that part of the film enough. To my great amusement, comedian Jim Jefferies shows up and demonstrates respectable acting abilities. On the problematic end, the antagonist’s motivations projected as complete nonsense (to me at least). They didn’t really make sense and not in an intriguing mysterious way, more so in a “this script needs to be reworked” kind of way. Lastly, the main character endures too much bizarre behavior, waiting an absurd amount of time to legitimately question his situation. Personally, I would have ran away as soon as they gave me the first random unexplained injection.

    Is it ain’t half bad? Yeah, it ain’t half bad.

    Final Thoughts: 7/10 Crowns. Visually, it deserves 10/10 Crowns. A few script updates could have turned Him into one of the year’s top movies. The penultimate scene where the two main characters fight was unsatisfying, and I probably would have hated the movie if it ended right there. Luckily, things took a turn with a crazy final scene that made for a cool ending! I would highly recommend this film to anyone that appreciates beautiful scenic atmospheres. Now please wish me luck at my next hospital visit for my childhood cup and ball sports injury. Oh the sporror, the SPORROR!

  • WEAPONS 2025 Movie Review – Ending Explained

    Weapons starts out claiming “This is a true story.” Yeah but how troo? I mean, there are different levels of chrooth! Dis Drawma Kingg was very hyped to see this movie. I have to admit, I was a bit disappointed. It’s not bad by any means, it just left me wanting in a number of areas. I would say this is more of a mixed opinion review because weapons definitely had its merits.

    Generally the acting was very good in the film. Also, I shouldn’t prolong mentioning that this review is ULTRA SPOILER – so you should only read on if you’ve already seen the movie or do not want to. OK, so I did really like the villain in Weapons. She was this odd sorta witchcraft practicing kinda aunt I guess? They don’t really fully explain her backstory. I would like to note that I really thought she was going to transform into a monster ant that was collecting a hive of people to do her bidding. There is a scene where some characters are watching ants on the television, so I was like is she gonna be a big creepy bug monster ANT AUNT? How wrong I was! As time continues to pass, I’m still pretty sad there was no ant aunt.

    Sos first the movie starts out with the teacher as the main character. Then maybe 30 minutes or sos into the movie it switches to another character’s perspective. I think “Oh cool! A movie with two different main characters!” Again, how wrong I was! One time a dog ate some crispy potato chips, but that has nothing to do with this review. There were like six different main characters. You keep getting the events from different perspectives. This was fun at two and three, but then I just started to realize they weren’t going to move the story much further in time because they were going to run out of minutes. How right I was this time! The movie has a climax with barely any resolution after. Then it just ends abruptly.

    Ending Explained: The villain is defeated and the kids are saved. It was the aunt.

    Final Thoughts: 6 or 7 out of 10 crowns. I think the movie started out strong but got almost lighthearted and silly in the middle. Plus there was no ant aunt monster at the end. It definitely loses points for that and more points for having a double dream sequence.

    “Oh noooo wayyyy that right there waz just a dream? At least I’m fully awake now! Ahhhhhh! [sumtin’ scary wakes them up again] Oh noooo wayyyy that one waz just a dream too!!”