I have mixed feelings on this. I mostly agree with @ketu except for the Blonde scientist (played by Catherine Lemieux); I find her abrasive and thoroughly unwatchable. When the monkey got her in the face I thought 'excellent, she's out' but no, not even a scratch (wtf, come on!)
Fringe was mentioned and I've heard elsewhere this compared to and touted as the next Fringe. It will never be Fringe. Fringe was lightning in a bottle. There is simply no potential chemistry here like it, and Walter is so unique in both character and performance. These characters are very flat and the nature of the contained environment leaves little development for our 'heroes' that won't slip into soap opera territory.
There was some good dialogue, the exposition wasn't grating, though the 'working with the ex-wife' is amongst the handful of clichés here. I like the main guy (played by Billy Campbell), I think his performance is quite good. I think the make up effects are good, the CGI monkeys were cool though some of the other CGI is a little wonky (the shot where they were walking from the helicopter to the complex was bad).
I'm hoping this show develops into something with some balls. It's seeded enough interesting points that it may, but stretching this out beyond a season (13 episodes?) seems like a push to stay interesting.
You'd think the failures of M. Night Shyamalan would have taught filmmakers that a plot twist at the end of a movie isn't enough to compensate for a meandering and unconvincing plot. And, isn't the entire reason we, as a society, enjoy magic tricks the idea that they're physically plausible?
Pros:
* The first ten minutes
* The Redhead (when she doesn't talk)
Cons:
* Virtually anything else
The overdid everything with this movie, not a single actor is convincing, CGI looks pretty bad and kills all the tricks (what's the point of tricks if you have to resort to FX anyway ?).
The storyline isn't great either, AFAIK I can't say the ending was very surprising. At any rate the acting was so emotionless that I didn't really care anyway.
Action scenes are average but at least this movie won't make you fell asleep
I was dis-interested the whole way :[
Michael B Jordan! I could sit through a two hour movie of him tying his shoelaces <3
And I dare you to watch the scene where he's training and the music is pumping and then he goes running down the street with the bikes circling him without wanting to jump up and punch something. That song and sequence got me pumped! I've never seen any of the other Rocky movies, but I definitely enjoyed this flick.
The movie takes the first half of it to the world-building, and it does that successfully. With a series of events--only minimal dialogue--it shows the kind of apocalyptic world Max lives in. The plot is fairly simple, but the world which plot rests on it is convincing. The war boys culture, resource monopoly, woman objectification, etc. The rest of the movie jams the audience with action-packed scenes while slipping insight into the world through several lines of dialogue and character's behavior.
Some relationship/character-building seem to happen off-screen and seem to be implied, but the progress seems natural that you know something has been going on between them. You can see the development of one of the character where he went from a brash, rash youth to a soft-spoken guy. The last scene seems to put off the suspension of disbelief for a while (on how easy they made the final decision after going on for that long), but it is remedied by the action and the last drama involving one of the supporting character. Very solid composition for a fantasy-action movie.
Why are all the dates messed up?
I can't believe Mark got sent home. One of my favorites and hands down one of the most improved, and I thought he would make it to the finale from the beginning.
Exactly as cringy as it needed to be! Loved it!
Ms. Summer did NOTHING WRONG honey we love you :heart:
8/10
So, do the writers not know that people outside of New York City watch the show too?
How does anyone stomach Taylor Swift? The enormous ego and platitudes towards the other guests. Ruined the show.
Pretty entertaining and an interesting watch but I'm gonna need the "rich people bad" films to at least find more unique angles at this point because while I agree wholeheartedly with the message it's completely hamfisted and played out.
In addition to that, I felt like this movie was giving me whiplash with how it would go from interesting to bad to kind of good to bad to "omg this is really good" to "wow this is stupid."
And that ending was the most predictable thing ever.
[HBO Max] There is in this film a combination between the observation of nature focusing on the smallest details and a portrait of the brothers who try to contribute a grain of sand in the fight against environmental degradation in a city like Delhi, which it devours its inhabitants on the surface but it also devours life in the skies. It's a mixture made with meticulous attention to detail, with a sense of the visual that is overwhelming. It reflects the illusion of two contributions that can be small and frustrating sometimes but that prove to be above all passionate and powerful.
A beautiful way to use Amsterdam for an episode. It fits the show like a glove.
What a way to not stick the landing in the absolute slightest...
The cast is good but this movie really is a chore to get through. A story about the profiting off of stereotypes told through the plot of a tired cliche. The only redeeming quality is the meta aspect of this movie getting a Best Picture nomination because liberals love to make fun of themselves while thinking they’re one of the good ones.
Great movie !
I was amazed by the amount of complete lack of interest I had of this movie. It is not often I see something this boring. Sorry. I know I am supposed to love it and think it's all inspiring but no. I didn't care one bit for any of the characters.
Looked good at the beginning, but the ending was dreadful
Season 3 > Season 1 >>>> Season 2
A disappointing mess from the opening credits
Lynch at his most self-indulgent in an episode that spent five awkward minutes or so in the eponymous town. In fact, we're three episodes into this thing now and have maybe spent ten minutes in any of the charming and quirky settings that I fell in love with alongside a young Agent Cooper. Heck, this thing so far has been entirely lacking in any and all of the sorts of people and things that made this show so charming and interesting and quirky in the first place. But it's doubling down -- heck, quadrupling down -- on the weird, almost as if Lynch is determined to ensure that no one can accuse him of going mainstream. A huge disappointment so far.
"It's pretty, but what's the purpose?" is my most constant thought while watching most scenes in this final season. It's all just unnecessary filler, but I'm still here because I've a problem with quitting things... and people haha... ha (yeah, it's a problem, I'm working on it). Anyway, my finale was the end of last season when June was martyred and carried over the fields by her goodly disciples, that was beautiful, that was the end - FIN.
Was that class they showed an actual college class? "We Texans are the best and everybody else sucks"? Yikes!
This episode destroyed me. After Nacho's death and Kim behavior turning more and more like Saul's behavior, the last important character with uncertain future was Howard and I really had hoped that he could escape of all the caos the Wexler-McGill couple generates. But no. No one is safe in this show, no one saves :(
Poor Howard, I said that a lot of times in the last seasons. He deserved better. The bad things he did were only the ones he said to the main characters in their house: not letting Jimmy work at HHM (which wasn't his choice) and sending Kim to the mail room. Then, like since season 3 or mid 2, I don't remember any error from him but he kept receiving shit and mistreating from them.
PD: Hate the way Jimmy and Kim lie when everyone know the truth, same level hypocrisy Walter White had.
this episode was a great little deep dive into Rick's character
spinning the majority of the episode trying to hunt down the person who took a s*** in his super secret private bathroom planet lol yes You read that right
Rick stops at nothing to to find the culprit
only to fine a lot of his self and his insecurities in The person responsible
The episode ends with one of Rick's most vulnerable humbling moments at an all-time low as he takes a dump in his vast lonely domain that's some deep s***
y'all
We will eventually need this episode to remind us that everything's going to be alright. so, don't you worry about a thing. Brilliant Episode. Probably the best of the series. A true Masterpiece writing.
Props to the man randomly spinning on the street. Now that's a unique bit of local flavor for the episode!
Xavier really likes to say if I’m being honest
