kill me for being forced to watch this movie!
This movie felt like one big monotone conversation, really not worth watching, even just for the sake of it.
way to long for my taste. Hope part 2 make up for it.
Spoiler alert: They spend the entire movie brooding. All of them. Brooding...
If you don't like anything to do with the Twilight franchise, then you're not going to change your opinion by this point.
The acting is weak and forced, the characters have no chemistry and the story line is weak at best. None of the characters are relatable or likeable, the only likeable was Alice and she's more of a comic relief.
Twilight shines brightest once the credits roll.
Soooo booorrrriiinnng. Lost 2 hours of my life...
What a waste of money. Literally nothing happens in this movie.
So I watched Hunger Games 2 last week and wasn't impressed. I haven't read the books and I can only speak for the movies. The first one was good, and had me looking forward to part 2. But this movie, at 2 hours 26 minutes was looong. And not the good sort of long either. It dragged on, the story building upon and post the events from the last film. It felt anticlimactic. Probably 40 minutes in the film began to show signs of a take-off point for this particular story-arc, but for the remainder of it the movie didn't really -- for me -- take off. There were moments of action and excitement, but it got lost in the attempt to build plot, which also wasn't impressive. 6/10 for the effort. Killed my excitement for the franchise and the next film though.
I thought this was a bit of a letdown. It's retreading the plot and structure of the first one with some minor twists added and a different ending, so its not seen as the blatant copy it actually is. By having the same structure as the first movie did, most scenes before the 1 hour mark feel like filler and most after feels like a copy of the first movie, slightly amped up. To me it felt too much like the first one, a feeling I last had watching Transformers 2 - and that is not a good thing, as I avoided the sequels. Though, to be fair, it was mostly because Transformers 2 was very annoying.
The movie felt long. Really long. I think it could have been 40 minutes shorter and it wouldn't lose any important things while actually giving it a better pacing, as the movie feels just stretched out just so it runs over two and a half hours. And because of that stretching, the ending feels like it came really quick and was over before I realized it. The ending also leaves you hanging, desperately wanting you to want to see both parts of the final movie, both being released in a November (2014 and 2015), taking the route of unnecessarily stretching out the lifespan of the movies like it's usual now.
I don't understand why they think they need to do this. The Harry Potter movies, a franchise with a similar target audience, had the two parter finale released in a span of 6 months. Even the Matrix sequels came out in the span of 6 months. Both were very successful and at least the former was beloved by most who saw them. Maybe it's because of Twilight, as its two part finale was also released in a November (2011 and 2012).
But for now, until both sequels come out on DVD/BR, I don't have any interest in seeing (or even reading) The Hunger Games in the foreseeable future.
Good for teenage girls and guys trying to get with teenage girls, impress them, or have something to talk about with them. For anybody else, super meh.
Like a Saturday morning cartoon: unoriginal, entertaining and forgettable.
At World's End sinks the Pirates of The Carribean film series after the first 2 good movies, with a mix of unrealistic dialogues and situations that makes the movie nothing more than a farce devoted only to the fireworks instead of being towards an adequate script. Only Depp's, and few more, interpretations don't allow the standards to go down further.
I don´t know, maybe it´s the whole pirate thing that I can´t relate to but I don´t get into this franchise.
Again, like the first, it´s a really well made movie for the time. But it has the same flaws from where I stand. Not a great story (althought this might change in context with the next parts). And I must say the Jack Sparrow act wears itself out rather fast - I find it irritating already.
Believe it or not but it took me 12 years to finally watch this. Maybe I should have watched it earlier, maybe it´s just not my kind of movie, but I wasn´t overly impressed. Production is great, CGI still looks pretty good and Johnny Depp is awesome but personally I found the story rather thin.
Nevertheles it was entertaining and I will watch the rest of the series.
This is an ok distraction, what you would expect from the usual Z monster movies, but with the budget to make it look (very) good. Maybe even too much budget, that allowed them to include many over the top cliche action scenes instead of focusing on the monster action.
I mean did it really need a 0G space scene ? Parachuting from a crashing plane ? And a B2 bomber ? I was a little disappointed in what was supposed to be the climax, city battle and monsters battle, so a little more attention to that instead would have been better. More military action in the city battle for instance, lots of tanks, some fighter jets, etc. (though jets are maybe not great for city fights ?)
And what's with the B2 ? What's the point of using the most expensive ever furtive plane during the day to send a missile on animals from several kilometers away ? Did they fear they had radars ?
The first wolf battle is nice though, and the crocodile looks AMAZING. The SURPRISE: the wolf can fly was a nice touch too.
The interaction between The Rock and the gorilla is nice. Can't say the acting is that great, so it feels a little weird, nut it makes for some funny jokes.
Morgan's character is really cool, though he's just that. He's clearly been written with a description: "cool cowboy, rough guy but nice, smart enough to be on the right side". That's it, nothing more. His background, job, role and interactions with the rest of the characters are inexistant or makes no sense with no questions asked.
The really bad part is the antagonists. There we go way beyond cliche. Typical rich guys, ready to go beyond what is legal or moral to make money. They apparenlty lead a billion dollars corporation, able to have its own space laboratory, though we barely see any employee, They seem to be the only ones in control and who knows all the nad stuff. But at the same time they're the stupid duo you would expect in a Home Alone level comedy. And the result is weird. The sister is definitely shown to be tougher, but she just looks that way compared to her brother. She might have been an ok character if by herself. But he's so stupid and useless and played so badly that it's painful to watch each scene he is in. It's bleeding bad (non) writing through the screen. And none of what they do makes any sense. Hey, let's make all the monsters come right tot the top of our building. What could go wrong ?
Naomie Harris' character is nonexistent. You could litterally remove her and not a thing would change in the movie. Her only useful action is to put the antidote on Claire before she's eaten which is a great wtf because we've never seen George have any interest in eating people so how could it have been a viable strategy ? It would have been much more likely that he'd just punch her out of the building and out goes the antidote.
I was also surprised by the intro declaring CRISPR a WMD but I checked and some US officials actually referred to it as one. Don't think it's been officially categorized this way though.
I am not sure Nolan did himself a favor by making the movie like this. He might have been thinking "I'll do what I want and if you don't get it I don't care" and I can appreciate that. Or he was more concerned with getting cool IMAX shots - unfortunately I only had a BluRay at HD resolution so I may have been focusing more on story. But the mixing of different timelines is very confusing. You never stay long enough in one place. I can't make a connection with the characters which is essential because how to feel for them and their situation ?
I have a pretty good understanding what happened at Dunkirk because I am very much interested in the WWII history and this never felt like it. I couldn't grasp the scale at all. It was more like some localalized skirmishes put together. On the plus side there is the visuals and the sound which are both great.
Taking everything into account, and that includes maybe totally missing the point, I can only say I am dissapointed.
Nice pictures from time to time.
But storytelling and story itself were pretty mediocre...
Terrible movie with very little depth or any sense of the true scale of this disaster (and subsequent rescue effort).
This is the episode that graced the show
While the story-telling and the visuals itself are on point, the movie confirms my worst fear. It wasn't made because there was a story to tell: Instead, it basically retells the story of A New Hope. The intention for profit is undeniable.
Also, major pacing issues are to point out. Ray talks about "Han being the father she never had", and Finn is willing to risk his life for Ray, although these people had only met the day before. Somewhere I feel I missed the time lapse.
Also, the background of things is left UBER-vague, although here I can at least hope the sequels will catch up on that.
totally and completely disappointing. The influence of Disney was more than obvious, what was with all the comic relief? this is star wars not The princess bride. The casino scene was totally out of scope, Luke was out of character and completely bad, and of course there was no plot or story, just a Mashup of the first three star wars. I want to thank all the actors and director who ruined the movie.
This was......... weirdly written.......... Somehow the characters you have never seen before get better emotional scenes than the ones you have. Holdo, who?
Really poorly written. Can't believe there were so many predictable moments and moments filled with complete and utter pathos. So, so dissappointed.
I finally watched the whole series (so far) and this is my comment for all seasons and episodes:
who writes these shit ?
I liked the history and mythology, until they started twisting it.
I like the battles and the music that goes along. No comments there.
The actors? Come on. Hand-picked for their muscles and their looks. Barely believable. With some exception I won't bother mentioning.
All in all I enjoy watching the show.
What I don't enjoy are the endless scenes of supposed poetic beauty, the pretentious anachronisms, the jumps in story-telling, the twisted timeline, the foretold deaths, the prophecies, the inner turmoils, the silly characterization.... It's poor. It has been all along and no-one seems to know how to fix it.
The biggest burden of the show must be its success. They did stupid things from day one, but people still accepted and followed the show, and instead of using that chance to get better story-telling, they kept re-iterating their teenager targeting plots, as if they were masterpieces.
Nothing was new or original in Season 4. It seems they said all that was to be said, in Seasons 1-3 and then got renewed and went back to the previous seasons trying desperately to dig the stories to bring to life: the same siege, the same brotherly betrayal, Floki's clinging to the past, more betrayals, Harbard, Lagertha's mishaps, child-births and christian woes .. Nothing original. And they wasted a whole lot of time in utter nonsense, then rushed things in the last episode, then decided to prepare for the next season with what was probably improvisation from Mr.Fimmel as I can imagine anyone writing his speech in paper and getting it approved as a final scene .
All the great scenery and costumes and hairdos and boats... all wasted in the hands of obviously young, overconfident and ignorant writers. If money and ratings is all that counts, then maybe they've succeeded. But if the final product and its filming legacy counts for anything, then they have failed and they did tremendously.
When you can write a summary of an episode in 10 words or less, that's a hollow episode, visually appealing maybe, but not at all profound.
My guess for next Season? Whichever actor/actress is favorite of the viewers and willing to keep the same salary will miraculously be alive. The rest, will be written off in one sentence or less. There will be cameos for the reunion-junkies. Then they will prepare for the Mediterranean . At least 2 or 3 episodes will be wasted in Kattergat with silly plots introduced in that same season only to be resolved in the next episode. Some events will be foretold, probably in an intense drug-induced frenzy with ominous music. New characters will appear, become prominent, overshadow everything, then die tragically, or not. One good fight mid-season, one in the finale. And in-between the never-aging Ragnar will fight the same inner daemons, restate his bro-mance with the over-played and long dead Athelstan and try to be the leader he hasn't been since Season 1. Mixed with some Wessex and Paris stories to keep the filming budget under control, we'll conclude the series with endless scenes of everyone saying goodbyes to everyone mostly through long stares and 'don't you die on me' moments...
I'm so disappointed. I hate not being 16 years old, for I cannot enjoy any of that. And I really wanted to.
The Floki storyline is getting really annoying, I wonder where they are going with this.
I hope the show picks up the pace for the mid season finale, really! My prediction is the next episode is going to be better than this (or at least that's what I hope)
Fantastic series! Very authentic scenes with some great chemistry between the cast members.. Highly recommend.
I rarely say this about any show/movie but this is a must see.
History can teach us a lot and I don´t know of many shows that do it as great as Band of Brothers does.
