A dark and interesting speculation on a wold long past the singularity, where human consciousness can be downloaded and plugged into different bodies (or sleeves). What becomes of humanity in a world with such power and an ever widening gulf between wealth and poverty?
There are two reasons why I never went to dance school. Firstly, I have the physical dexterity of a cow with two left feet. Secondly, I was put off by the witchery goings on at the dance school in the original movie; not exactly a good advert for movement academia!
But onto the movie itself after my tedius preamble. It isn't perfect; like the original, there is more style over substance. It's overlong by about half an hour too! However, it is very well made, there is imagination to spare, and the film shows more intelligence than many horror movies today. A rewatch might be in order as there is a lot to take in within one sitting. Patience is required, but it will be rewarded.
I really enjoy long movies but I know it's not for everyone. Dakota Johnson was a total miscast... cannot stress this enough. If you can get past the casting it was worth it. It discusses womanhood in a very inventive way whether that was the point or not. I thought the story was intriguing and it looked beautiful. I wouldn't pass it up just because of some of the other reviews.
The Gorgeousness of 70's filmmaking is on full show.
The dance scenes are cut to a perfect Hypnotic rhythm.
It's a long run time, about an hr to build up what's happening in the coven, it's what it needs to be, but those 150mins of senses' bashing go by quickly.
Disappointed by the lack of 'torn apart' gore that had been mentioned in early reviews. There's barely any gore- until the end. and it's nothing particularly special.
Great music, performances, make-up, aesthetics.
The cinematography is great and dancing all looked fantastic. The score was amazing. The editing and sound design were great. It does a good job of creeping you out. A slow burn until the bat shit crazy third act. I need to see it again to even try and begin to understand what happened but I think I loved it.
I really gotta eat my words on this one. I talked so much shit about how it was gonna be terrible. On and on I went, with reason after reason. "The runtime!" "The color palette!" "The lead actress!" Blah blah blah. Stellar. I was so tense for so much of this thing. Absolutely amazing!!!!
The handmaiden's tale is a positive story compared to this horrible shit. I'm done.
This movie shows in a very good way how the next virus outbreak that will be just as big or maybe even bigger as the Spanish Flu is gonna happen in the 21th century. And believe me, sooner or later IT WILL HAPPEN.
I liked the electronic music that was playing at the beginning of the movie. It had sort of an panicked tone to it that together with the people who where getting sick and dying set a thrilling tone to the first part of the movie.
I found the movie to be very realistic. Jude Law character was spot-on. When there is gonna be an outbreak we will see people on the internet (who have no medical training whatsoever) who think they have found the cure and millions of people will listen to them. There will be millions of people who stop going to work, who stay at home and avoid contact with anyone. Others will do whatever they can to get their hands on a vaccination, even if that means killing someone else.
I liked the fact that we got to see the story from so many different angles. It really gave an overview of the entire situation and what the virus had for an impact on all the people involved.
The end of the movie was a bit disappointing. In my opinion that could have been a lot better. But overall i find this movie to be really good.
That was beautifully brutal. TWD at its best: emotional, brutal and intense episode that promises an exciting development.
Ben's death was harsh and his last words were so touching. Now that emotionally deranged Morgan's back he's ready to stand up to the Saviors along with Carol.
The symbolism between Dwayne and Ben as Morgan's sons was amazing. The events that triggered him into rage mode again were the deaths of his two sons. And, although this was Richard's plan all along, Morgan took his own words to stand up against the Saviors. Richard's plan went sideways, Morgan took his place by killing him.
That scene when Morgan went on "clear" mode was astonishing and the acting of Lennie James was amazing. He's such a tremendous actor. I swear, Morgan centric episodes are among the best.
The only thing about Richard's death that made me angry was that no one from the Kingdom decided to step in and stop Morgan, the guy they've just met, from killing Richard, a guy they've known for a while now.
This kind of thought provoking episodes are the ones that I love. Besides, it was full of tension.
"I'm gonna go kill them, one by one", oh boy, crazy as Morgan's back. When he said that I was totally thinking "use your aggressive feelings, boy, let them flow through you!"
That Gavin guy is awesome. The actor's doing an amazing job. One moment he's totally scary and the next he respects the deal and doesn't want anyone to get killed. And King Ezekiel is an awesome character. I'm amazed at the way in which he shows empathy and insight to his people.
Love that Nabila's quote "Here's the beautiful thing your Majesty, you can year it out and cut it down; you can burn it and throw it all away. But if you want, it can all grow back".
I also loved the symbolism between Carol and Morgan with that "go but not go". Carol taking Morgan's place in the Kingdom and he replacing her at the house, a threshold between war and peace.
On balance, one of the best episodes this season.
I love King Ezekiel, it's nice to see Carol being Carol, and this episode actually looked like a graphic novel so kudos to... whoever made that happen (the director and the DP?). MUCH better than last week's episode, imho.
TWD is a gross, violent show and normally I love that about it because it'd be weird if it weren't, given that it's about the ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE. But tonight's ep was just gratuitous. Just ugly and crude and in-your-face for its own sake. Negan's not even the kind of bad guy you can love to hate. He's a bully and you KNOW he was already evil before the world to shit.
If this is what this season's going to be about... trying to crush the spirits of those who've managed to survive this long - people who are trying to rebuild a better world, all because you're a selfish prick who wants to be king of the trash heap? Nehhh. I'm not on board. That's not even an interesting story to tell. I hate Negan so much he almost makes me miss the Governor.
This show has been losing steam anyway. I'll give it a few more episodes into this season but if this doesn't take a serious turn in that time, this may finally be it for me.
Brutality for brutality sake.
Primitively playing with the lowest of instincts and fears ( of the watchers...).
Hope the rest of the season will be better than this.
I can't understand why everyone is so hyped about this episode there was just violence without any tension. it was just 45 minutes of wasted time! After that massive cut of the last season this episode was just made to rekonstruct the set of main charachters for season 7. This could have been direkted better by a 5 year old!
I was waiting so long for the new season....now i don't know if i'm even still interestet in TWD.
Thanks for that!
A good episode (as for the previous two as well) with a rather heavy build up to the season finale, showing the toll and burden that some of our most loved characters have endured over the past 6 seasons.
Some will say that those that ventured from Alexandria were acting out of character and with reckless abandon but fear and anger can drive even the most logical and calm person to walk away from their path, for one in particular who, seems to have been criticized the most for this, actually has precedent so shouldn't really be a shock.
I wasn't at all happy with the ending much preferring no dialog at all would have left the viewer in much more anticipation for the finaIe.
I hope my expectations are not too high for it.
I'm thinking that there will be multiple deaths much in the same light as the governor's attack on the prison. I'm going to go for Rosita, Glenn and Carol to die and/or Rick to have his hand removed.
Way to give some head Eugene lol. Probably will get his though in the finale. Abraham might live longer. Denise died how he does in the comics.
Note though that Herschel died how Tyrse did in the comics. But Tyrse still died eventually.
This episode was teeeeeense.... I was 100% sure for 42 minute & 39 seconds that they were walking into a trap. If I watched it again, I would still be 100% :-) The main reason I thought (still think) so is that Rick took all the best people with him, leaving their place to vulnerable and Jesus (I love that character though) is almost to good to be true (coming from an Atheist, hahaha )
Next episode is probably going to be EPIC :-)
This episode would've worked so much better as 6.03 instead of 6.04!!
An amazing episode, with great character development, not only for Morgan, but also for Eastman (in only on episode). Kudos to the writers in getting Eastman as a Forensic Psychologist who had gone through trauma himself... and the perfect thing was that he did indeed get his revenge, and showed that it didn't fulfill him and gave him peace... showing that vengeance wasn't worth it, and getting him to actually relate to Morgan.
It was perfect to show how Morgan went from the nutty guy we saw in Clear and the zen guy we get now. But after such a fast paced episode and with such cliffhangers, this episode broke the rhythm and was sort of disappointing for us who were still high waiting for continuity of 6.03
9.5/10. This was a superb effort from The Walking Dead. I really appreciate them devoting whole episodes to developing characters rather than trying to do it through the various machinations of an often baffling series of storylines alone. This was practically a short story, and it helped us to develop a better understanding of who Morgan is, and he got from the screw-loose madmen we saw in "Clear" to the pacifist monk who appeared last season.
Some parts of the story were a little too convenient. I was reminded of "Broken" from House M.D. where you knew that the writers were going to have to hit certain beats in telling a story of recovery. But that aside, I really liked the character of Eastman, who was given quite a bit to do and was the glue that held this episode together. The actor who played him (an odd mix of J.K. Simmons and Paul Heyman) lent the appropriate zen but playful air to him that made the character work.
And I liked how the show offered a little bit of optimism here. There's a great deal on TWD about people being damaged, scarred, shaken, or changed by the fall of civilization. It is, in many ways, a pessimistic show, about what people become when the metes and bounds of society are removed and our impulses go unchecked. Sometimes the show has depicted people finding solace in this new world, but never has it devoted so much time to showing a person healing. Despite the episode's end, it was a very hopeful episode, something that's in short supply in this series, and I for one, was happy to have it.
It was also a wonderful episode in terms of atmosphere and mood. It was very patient, going over the show's usual runtime to develop the story as long as it needed to. There were slow, lingering shots of edenic meadows, quiet streams where Eastman and Morgan practiced forms, or the characters simply stayed in place and reacted to each other. Very artful and a nice break from some of the more action-y drama from the first few episodes of the season.
I liked this episode because of the realistic story with some kind of problems which should be "the real life" in the zombies world.
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aaron!!! i'm so happy!!! hahaha very good episode
Unlike the rest of the season, I found this the best episode in a loooong time. The major change in cinematography was very refreshing and to experience the death throught the eyes of Tyreese was interesting. It felt like an episode that was thought through well, instead of others which form by boring, chronological storytelling. Sad to see that a lot of people don't see the beauty in this sort of filmmaking and are easily bored when the series cut down on action scenes.
Really great show. Once you get past the first two episodes it becomes quite compelling. Yes, it's a teenage drama, that doesn't make it a bad show.
South Park at its peak. I lost my shit at the Rickroll .
I enjoyed this more than I thought I would. I love seeing Octavia Spencer doing something different. Diana Silvers was great. Some ok teen drama stuff and the third act is good with a few ridiculous moments.
Might get shot down for this comment,but I would say on a level or maybe even better than Stranger Things
I’m enjoying it, it could be better unfortunatly, but generally I like it.
My main gripe is the background music, it’s just a bit off and almost cheapens the whole show. Reminds me of an 80’s show. I don’t normally notice any background music, but this is annoying.
I like anything sci-fi, fantasy, supernatural etc. And it is difficult it seems to pull off a good show. So, I’m used to them all having something off with them.
The female reporter is probably the most annoying character and it’s just too much and spoils things.
It’s good to see characters from old shows and films: Damon Salvatore- Vampire Diaries
Jeremy and Eleana Danvers - Bitten
Seelie Queen - Shadowhunters
Dr Elliot - 12 Monkeys
And so many more
It’s not as cheesy as some of the above mentioned thankfully lol.
Something is not quite right about this show sadly, it’s got a good line up of cast and so is the plot, but it’s simply not delivered as well as it could be. Almost a bit rushed perhaps. I can’t quite put my finger on it.
However, I’m still enjoying it and hoping it will improve if it gets a second season. As this can be common with new shows.
Definitely worth watching.
This move sure was... fine.
A tense drama about being trapped in an isolated space: Been done plenty. A movie about the complex questions regarding ethics and AI: Been done to death. A movie about robots and sexuality: Been done plenty. A movie that tries to make you question the motivations of the characters: Been done plenty. A movie about a feminine character using sexuality to manipulate an unknowing male character (and by extension, the audience): Been done plenty.
Does mixing these elements make anything new, unpredictable, or particularly interesting? No, apparently not, but it sure does seem to trick people into thinking it does.
So many cliches in this movie it isn't even funny. The characters are so unrealistic. And why wouldn't you build some kind of save mechanism into your robot (e.g. a code word for turning it off immediately)? All my points go to the cinematography and the music, which are the only good parts about this movie.
Lily Rabe is always great, wish she were the star of another season.
Commenting ahead of time to avoid all the people that are jumping on the hate bandwagon. The seasons a slasher one inspired by 80s horror... stop acting like you are expecting The Shawshank Redemption. Or continue to nitpick and blend in with the rest of the generic comments.
