Very good, funny most of the time, a few good emotive scenes... I'm only unsure if it should have been centered on Tommy as much as it was. Maybe they could have done something closer to Stranger Than Fiction to give us more than just questioninig what is real and make it truly great.
Now that would have been an interesting iteration of Super Sentai/Power Rangers. :joy:
Too bad that the story itself was poor, but the concept might have worked.
It has great concepts but somehow it doesn't develop them as well as it could have been.
The Marshes side story is good enough but I dunno about Hunter because he prevents us from really feeling sorry about the absurdities that they have to endure to showcase how the Campbells aren't even at the bottom. And then there's the couple, which starts off well somehow in a situation where it could have easily come off as Adam taking advantage, but then the twist didn't feel earned so I thought it was too abrupt to have Chloe give in so fast and so completely. That could have worked if this was only satire but I think they really needed us to see a loss for both of them at that point and I didn't feel that way, so the payoff wasn't that good.
Very good overall, way above the commonplace dog story - largely because of the dog's POV actually driving the story forward, and the rest is up to Milo and the references sprinkled in thtoughout. Though a few hiccups leave it somewhere below greatness, namely the subplot with the grandparents right after one of the most overused tropes. At that point only the dog and the child have interesting reactions to offer as the rest is just meant to (successfully, in more ways than one) upset the viewer. The solution to that conflict having to be handed to Denny (since it was built to be unsurmountable) is the cherry on top. At least they finish it well enough not to leave a sour taste and Enzo's story has a nice ending.
Pretty good action/sci-fi in its own right, and a good showing from the cast. The main thing working against it is the weight of the franchise, and even though they did a good job with the remixes, it's increasingly hard to keep on messing with timelines and get it right.
Great cast, lukewarm story development. They could have done much better. The CGI completely takes me out of the scene sometimes because it draws too much attention.
I really wanted this to be better, if nothing else for Cara Gee and Omar Sy, I always enjoy seeing them.
Hmm, I guess I'll have to watch it and find out what percentage of his brain Josh Futturman uses nowadays.
It's a fun movie, no big flashy scenes but not boring either. Some parts remind me of The Brass Teapot.
Credit where it's due, it manages to be funny and provocative for about 75% of it. It's a shame it pivots right to where you'd expect a movie like this would end up in the silliest cliché way possible. Had it been made in a different time and place, it's like the movie didn't make it past censorship and they had to amend a BS ending to appease them.
It looked like my kind of trashy horror B-movie with a recognizable cast, so I stuck around hoping it would eventually fall into place. Big mistake. The story just spirals.
Thoroughly enjoyable experience. Even though we knew beforehand we're seeing a good chunk of metaphors, by the end we're still left to reexamine and digest them.
The soundtrack is generally fitting, but both the sound effect and the theme song for the demon attack get old really fast and from then on it's just bothersome. Other than that, it's passable. If they'd lean in on the comedy a bit more, it would have been much been better.
"Panic Attack: the Movie" would have given away too much, but it's just as fitting. I get that this is exactly what the story is going for but, damn, there were more than a couple of times I almost couldn't pull through.
I'm still not sure if I was supposed to want to punch as many characters as I did. :sweat_smile:
I wanted to like this more because it's a great twist on space colonization but the development of the story doesn't grab me the same way throughout and I can't quite put my finger on it like, on the other hand, I know that the ending bothers me because it shifts the focus completely back to the POV of the main character when the movie had been about us discovering that we shouldn't do that.
All in all, it's still far better than what I expected going in.
Good quirky comedy. At times it feels like the story would have benefited from having more characters on the spotlight but in hindsight that doesn't seem like a great idea anymore. In any case, those characters seize the little screen time they end up with and make each interaction with Jovana its own thing.
Poignant story of sci-fi/drama (it's definitely not a thriller), though in hindsight maybe they should have focused even more on Remy's POV so that the story they were going for would seem more cohesive. I can understand why they did it like this but it's been done so many times that it didn't add much to the ol' "the enemy is us", so the heavy lifting is mostly left to the acting - and they do it the best they can, though the finished product isn't good enough to be memorable... Final thought: this makes True Grit seem like a happy family film. :laughing:
Ok action, mostly bad sci-fi. Beyond that, a few of the emotional elements worked well enough but most characters are forgettable and shallow, including the main lead for most of the time. It's only those few emotional elements that seem to work by sheer willpower of the actors, that their characters have moments that feel like something, then it's right back to your regularly scheduled generic action flick.
Mostly decent, though it disappoints a bit near the finish line and can't quite deliver on its message. I was fine with it not being conclusive but I think that the bittersweet ending was too broad, maybe even afraid of making a statement. I was left with the impression that if they managed to get the movie done, it would have even been a happy ending on the characters' minds...
It's a nice story, even if it leaves me to wonder what was left out in the cutting room for the characters' progression seem uneven by the end. As advertised, the mission's importance gives way to characters' personal decisions, and that's a turnoff for people who like the genre but won't take the synopsys seriously. On the other hand, that does create the problem of limiting how high the stakes will go since there's always the notion that the environment can't kill a character as that's reserved for said decisions.
While I probably wouldn't have watched it if not for the chance to see what's next for Shamier, I'm glad that I did as the whole cast didn't disappoint.
I appreciate the attempt but the execution leaves a lot to be desired. Great cast and concept wasted on a weak script. Zoe Kravitz's character even showed some potential, only to be left untapped.
The main leads brought me in, the rest of the cast also looked very good, but unfortunately the script isn't ambitious or interesting enough to do them justice. The secondary characters are barely even there - and when they are they don't add that much to the story.
By the end, the whole thing feels sort of like a David Lynch copycat, and even then it doesn't begin to scratch the surface of what that would actually look like.
Of course the villain would be an edgelord who thinks saying "trigger warning" out loud is an hilarious joke and that anyone who doesn't think so is just a triggered snowflake. :joy:
Sadly, it doesn't go deeper than that and just relies on glorifying a school shooting as Teenage Die Hard. So many opportunities and they ask the wrong questions every single time.
If it wasn't for the final act leaving so much unsaid and implying so many other apologies that should have been said out loud and worked through on the screen, it could have been a great movie. I guess that the allure of going the easiest way and turning it into a full feel good story at the end was too much to resist.
It's still a good start over any bullshit Hallmark puts out there, so it's a win nonetheless.
It turns out to be mostly a feel-good movie in the end but you get the sense that a lot was dropped on the cutting room floor. Some characters and plotlines end up being dead ends as their importance seems to simply give way to the dramedy plotline.
I know that it probably wasn't planned beforehand and was likely thrown in to address the controversy but I even liked people jokingly asking if Emma Stone's character told them about her being some part Hawaiian, but in the sense that some people are so worried about what percentage X, Y or Z they are and that doesn't interest most other people in the slightest.
I went in expecting it to be a disaster and was positively surprised, so maybe that's the key here.
It has a slow pacing, for sure, but by the end it fits the story perfectly, so people that just want to see action or explosions might want to sit this one out.
The one loose end that bothers me a little was the one set at the beginning, for the deliberate misdirection. Not because of said misdirection but because it just feels wrong that they'd mention "the rest of the world" and then never bring up any more details about it like what happened in the first place to precipitate the expedition, how did it get so bad within the 2 years that the expedition took place or what year is it? :sweat_smile:
65% seems about right. OK story with interesting enough characters, bumped by the experience of veteran actors.
This show is so weird with their mix of horror and comedy, and I love them for it. As much as there are bad episodes here and there, even those rarely feel like the same as when you watch some pretentious piece of film crash and burn. The people in charge here know not to take themselves so seriously.
This one felt like 'A Nasty Piece of Work', the other great and more comedic episode of this season.
It's probably unintentional but, ah, the nostalgia! :sweat_smile:
http://supernaturalcases.blogspot.com/2012/03/brazilian-urban-legends-of-80s.html
Other than that, I think they might have tried to insert some of Chuck into it, but in that case the origin story didn't have much time or substance to it. It was still a funny episode, especially having Felicia Day solving her own 'Supernatural' case. :joy:
Better than the previous one (Midnight Kiss) but that's a low bar. The psycho stalker didn't blend well with the comic bits they threw in to juxtapose how abusive relationships look like from the outside.
This episode was the first one of this series to fall completely flat for me. I would have forgiven everything if I had felt even a little rush for longer than a split second but that never happened. Last year's episode had a sillier premise and still worked better.
Good but a wasted opportunity of going full High-stakes Jumanji. The secrets were never going to be any good but they could have done much better with the several ways of getting us there.
