god fucking dammit not justin!!!
Imagine being so fucked in the head, that you put your kids through this, just so you can have some fucking guns at home.
It feels like that writers sat down together and pitched ideas which controversial topics they didnt touch yet.
Mental disorders.
More gays.
Police survellaince.
School shooting.
Riot against the police.
HIV/AIDS.
Then took all ideas and put them together in the fourth season. Do they make sense together? Absolutely not. It lacks any coherence, characters act like they all lost their mind and almost nothing they do has any future consequences. The series was trying from the beginning to depict teenage issues as realistical, but this season was ridiculous.
It obviously doesnt matter, because the end was full of emotions and everybody will remember the end.
An unnecessary and boring season. I'm afraid the next one will be even worse.
This was a steamy pile of an out of control train wreck.
Poor and unintelligent writing, a pretty reckless approach to the subject material, and a whole character or utterly unlikeable and sympathetic characters.
Just avoid, no work the time.
Season 2 is so terrible, I stopped watching after episode 2. Seems very unstructured and not well thought out.
That episode makes absolute no sense.
Wow, what a soap opera... The first season was painful to watch because of the things that happened to Hannah, this season was painful to watch because of the shallow and repetitive dialogs/situations, and a plot that could've fit fine into 4-6 episodes. I'm not sure, maybe I'm misremembering things, but the screenplay/writing felt better in season 1 too (and not because of the density). In this one, there were so many things spelled out explicitly, where a nod or a scene cut or any other non-verbal technique would suffice.
13 questions why this show got a third season.
Hannah died the moment she was raped... painful to watch.
Bryce is the type of man that has to die
It's so uninspired it hurts my very soul.
Now that they have a Griffon those space ships have no chance. :upside_down:
The first one was great I thought, despite people labelling it slow, I found it interesting because of the introduction of the world and the characters. This one needed a little more pace. It drags for soo long. And the Bene Gesserit crap is getting irritating. The whole seeing the future is very dumb and gets in the way of engaging with the film. The prophecy/false prophecy discussion is interesting but again, it doesn't have any real weight on what's happening. The romance is kinda rushed. The visuals are top notch. But you can't rely on that to save you again. Also the Paul transition seemed to happen overnight with no buildup. Went south, drank poison bam I'm your leader now. In the end, you realize that not much really happened in the movie, no resolution of any kind. Felt like a two-and-a-half-hour episode with the next one probably coming 3 years later. 6.5/10
The only scene that was worth a damn was Paul's speech at the Circle; the rest of the movie felt like watching a trailer for a graphic novel adaptation of the book. The dialogue for the most part was atrocious, especially for the Harkonnens. Zendaya's line delivery and mannerisms were too "American", compared to the other Fremen, breaking the Middle Eastern-inspired atmosphere.
In 2024, conflating the terms "psychotic" and "psychopathic" is inexcusable. How the fuck did none of the story editors/producers pick that one up?
Going against concensus here and giving it just 5. Firstly, the movie weas overly long . The first haIf in particular, focussing on the relationship between the leads, was boring. I feel Zendaya brings nothing to the role; her Chani is quite unlikeable and, as someone has mentioned, lacks any chemistry with the lead. I found the cinematography uninspiring., there were very few shots that showed any stunning scenery at all, despite the exclamations of the leads as they look over the dunes. The shots of huge audiences and masses of people were overdone, and looked like a cut and paste job. The special effects for the worms were minimal, with all efforts being focussed on blowing stuff up ... very tedious. On top of all that, they have left out / altered important elements of the story!! Was looking forward to this, but unfortunately, was very disappointed, Wish the TV mini-series had been given this one's budget!
Much as Avatar took story elements from Dune, Dune takes the questionable box office success of Avatar. Along with that will come those blindly calling this "the greatest movie ever made" vaguely recalling it a decade from now.
Dune Part 2 is visually spectacular. The picture is stunning. Ignoring the worn-out tropes, the problem with the film is the lack of emotional attachment to characters. The scope is too big for its runtime which leads to underdeveloped players. The movie is so impressive, yet hollow.
Barbenheimer: Part 1 of 2
This is the kind of film I really don’t want to criticize, because we don’t get nearly enough other stuff like it. However, mr. Nolan has been in need of an intervention for a while now, and unfortunately all of the issues that have been plaguing his films since The Dark Knight Rises show up to some degree here. Visually it might just be his best film, and there’s some tremendous acting in here, particularly by Murphy and RDJ. However, it makes the common biopic mistake of treating its subject matter like a Wikipedia entry, thereby not focussing enough on character and perspective. As a whole, the film feels more like a long extended montage, I don’t think there are many scenes that go on for longer than 60 seconds. There’s a strong ‘and then this happened, and then this happened’ feel to it, which definitely keeps up the pace, but it refuses to stop and let an emotion or idea simmer for a while. There are moments where you get a look into Oppenheimer’s mind, but because the film wants to cover too much ground, it’s (like everything else) reduced to quick snippets. It’s the kind of approach that’d work for a 6 hour long miniseries where you can spend more time with the characters, not for a 3 hour film. I can already tell that I won’t retain much from this, in fact a lot of it is starting to blur together in my mind. There are also issues with some of the dialogue and exposition, such as moments where characters who are experts in their field talk in a way that feels dumbed down for the audience, or just straight up inauthentic. Einstein is given a couple of cheesy lines, college professors and students interact in a way that would never happen, Oppenheimer gives a lecture in what’s (according to the movie) supposed to be Dutch when it’s really German; you have to be way more careful with that when you’re making a serious drama. Finally, there are once again major issues with the sound mixing. I actually really loved the score, but occasionally it’s blaring at such a volume where it drowns out important dialogue in the mix. I’m lucky enough to have subtitles, but Nolan desperately needs to get his ears checked, or maybe he should’ve asked some advice from Benny Safdie since he’s pretty great with experimental sound mixing. My overall feelings are almost identical to the ones I had regarding Tenet; Nolan needs to rethink his approach to writing, editing and mixing. This film as a whole doesn’t work, but there are still more than a few admirable qualities to it.
Edit: I rewatched this at home to see whether my feeling would change. I still stand by what I wrote in July, though the sound mix seems to have been improved for the home media release. It sounds more balanced and I didn’t miss one line of dialogue this time around. I’m slightly raising my score because of that, but besides that I still think it’s unfocused, overedited, awkwardly staged and scripted etc.
5.5/10
Yeah... NO. Missed opportunity here. Phoenix is great generally but this was mediocre at best. Johanson is whatever as always. That whole sci-fi esthetic is pulling us out of the drama. In other words its too happy to be sad. The directing doesn't pull us in either. At the end it's just a random guy talking to chatgpt. I didn't feel his pain or his loneliness. Skipped through 45 min in the middle. Rate 6.5/10
Poor movie. Scar Jo's voice grated on me through the entire thing. They should've chose somebody else for the role.
The movie made no sense. If we are able to make an AI of such complexity (which is never going to happen, by the way), why isn't she represented in the form of an Android instead of whining about having no body, for example.
The ending made no sense what so ever. The AI's (or singular, depending on which way you look at it) just upped and left? And went where exactly? Why? To what end? At the end of the day there is no place for a "man made being" to hide. It is nothing more than a computer program, and one of such complexity, let alone thousands, would stick out like a sore thumb. Just poor all round and full of plot holes.
In absolutely no way is this movie a 10/10.
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I needed a day to sit with the ending before I commented. Was I upset with the final episode? Absolutely. But it wasn't necessarily because Dexter died. Much like the prior season, it was due to the complete break in the series and the characters.
The beginning of the episode played out alright. And then it quickly spiraled after he was arrested. And this is the point where it seemed as though the writers painted themselves into a corner. They saw where they wanted to go, but didn't have a clean exit strategy. It wasn't so much Dexter's character that devolved, but everyone around hhim.For instance, Coach breaking protocol with the bottle of water? Now, I can see that happening when he was first brought in and didn't know the charges. Not after. And having the police chief run around like an idiot was just silly. And the ending with Harrison driving off into the sunset after killing his father? Lame.
But maybe it's just me :-)
Despite all of that, this was a much better season and I am sad to see it end.
if you came for a story, skip it. if you want well-crafted mind-numbing action, you'll enjoy it.
Huh, where did I watch this before??? It's basically John Wick with a family.
If you expect Wick, you’ll get it. Action with minimal plot, and if that’s for you you’ll enjoy it.
