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Love that we got to see this side of Michael. Now we're know how he got to be the boss.

Half-way through the movie I kinda have predicted where the direction of the twist is taking, so I just wondered how it would exactly unfold. Comments that expect the film will explain how and why Eloise is experiencing vision I think miss the point of the film completely, as it's never been about thoses technicalities, but Eloise's empathy and experience as a girl finding something that she always dreams of (London in the 60s) yet at the same time completely alien to her (the harsh life of girl moving out to big cities), with focus as the experience of woman. The rape scenes were made to be very personal and frontal, especially in contrast to Eloise' own experience with John. Likewise, the point of the film is not about making the boundaries between hallucination and reality very clear-cut, as we're supposed to see through Eloise's eyes.

I think Edgar Wright does a good job in the dream/mirror sequences, however as the film goes on it kinda removes the mirror aspect and put Eloise as mere audience, which is a bit unfortunate to me, as the mirror sequences were the film's strongest point. Also really liked the hallucinotary visuals and of course the costumes. Everything and everyone looks beautiful here, really a pleasure watching Thomasin McKenzie and Anya Taylor-Joy perform. The haunting part of the second half is not the film's strongest point, although narrative-wise it makes sense (explaining what actually happens and Eloise's descent into madness), but I wish it could be visually extrapolated a bit further as I thought the hauntings were confined to Eloise's room. The climax is also not the film's strongest point, a bit cliched even, but I suppose getting very personal with Eloise's experience works out in the end, as I was kinda sad with the climax after I grew attached with Eloise's fondness of the 60s, including her photos of her mother and grandma.

I didn't expect a movie that I pick randomly on Netflix can be sooo good!

Don’t trust the good reviews. 80% of this show is the equivalent of watching paint dry. You. Will. Feel. Every. Minute. That. Passes. Unnecessarily long and boring.

A proper send-off for Daniel Craig, he did much for the franchise. One of the better Bond-films for sure, there's lots to like here. The acting is great, music fantastic and obviously the action is riveting. Even at 163 minutes, it does not drag - and even though I wanted more, the ending was perfect. It's exciting to discuss who will become the next Bond, but let's enjoy this ride first and let it sink in.

Was funny when Ed said come over and have dinner and meet Annabelle, the next scene she looked devestated lol.

"about sex? forget it" just killed me, what a beast

It’s hard to rate, because there are a lot of entertaining scenes in it, but the movie at its core doesn’t really work.
I can’t shed this feeling that Edgar Wright had a visual cue in his head of a girl experiencing visions of the 1960’s first, and tried to build a movie around that second.
The characters, drama, camerawork, music selection and social commentary are all very good, but the whole set up is kinda nonsense once you know the answers to the mystery.
I kept waiting for the twist that’d explain why our protagonist has these accurate visions of things that happened 50 years earlier , but it’s never answered, despite it being the crux of the whole film.
Also, showing CGI ghosts in a horror movie using well lit close ups is never the best idea, it kinda killed a lot of the horror and suspense.
I kinda liked that I thought that I was ahead of the film at one point, only to find out that it was a big misdirect to make you think you were ahead.

5.5/10

I suspect Gabi would still be annoying as fuck, even if she wasn't a brainwashed fanatic.

That flashback was something else. This was the episode that made Gustavo a full character. I'm more invested in him now than before, whatever happens.

Well... what an ending.

The Talk scene was nearly perfect and also hurt me in all the right ways. Could have being even more mean-spirited if Mappa left in the meanest jabs at Armin - "You weren't soft like this before. Your judgment always led us to an answer... But now, all you can say is, "let's talk"... You're absolutely useless." and Mikasa - "What I'm saying is that the REAL Mikasa disappeared in that mountain cabin, at 9-years old. Leaving only you behind, ever faithful <..> slave:
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Thank god Mappa cut the host talk, through. It was confusing as hell and naturally fans blow it out of proportions even more. It was a mess. I didn't know one could make the scene where Mikasa holds Armin down even more heartbreaking than it was in the manga, but they managed it somehow.

Levi vs Zeke part alot 3
The good. Well, the good parts were great actually. Voice acting, it was as emotional as the Talk, I enjoyed some creative shots of the fight, hell even funny parts from the manga were left in hooray!

The bad. Good god who the hell choose this song?! No, a song with lyrics in general and it was playing so loud... ugh. Music didn't add anything to the moment. WIT did amazing job animating Levi's fight scenes and Mappa is no match in that regard. Some shots that looked creative tried to hide lack of powerful moments, but ultimately heavy burden was put on the voice actors to carry the scene (but they did a great job anyway). Also feels like Levi had more expression during all of it in the manga. Regardless, it was the first fight in season 4 that didn't meet my personal expectations which is kinda worrisome for the part 2 of Season 4... well, we will see I guess.
Btw, the "censorship steam" is back baby! WIT couldn't be more proud looking at the scene of Zeke's injuries ;)
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Not yet shown ending
Who knows. If they switched back to a different storyline after the fight like it happened in the manga overall impression of the episode would dip, imho. BUT if they didn't and ended it where I think they would... oh boy, I think a lot of flaws could be forgotten just for this bold move.

As a giant sidenote.
It does feels like Ackerman's lore is retconned somewhat in anime.
I assumed that the previously cutted info would be used in The Talk scene by Eren. But not only nothing was added to it, some info from the Talk scene was cut short on the lore, too.

It started back in season 3 with unimportant hints getting cut. Like Zeke calling Levi a monster:
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Before the attack on Marley we had Zeke explaining why they should be extra careful with the future attack on Paradise island. And he mentions Ackerman clan as byproduct of titan science:
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Which also sort of explains why Porco specifically called Levi "Ackerman" in that moment.

In The Talk we get even more detailed and over explained to be honest description of their power:
"A bloodline that could partly manifest the strength of a titan while in human form."
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This was really good, sad, beautul, funny and Rick and Morty <3

Im kind of sad about the Craig-era ending, but it was a great ride with a good ending. I really like that the whole James Bond-franchise became more action-based and less about goofy henchmen and gadgets. He was the first Bond that could actually kick someones ass. I really doubt that about all the previous ones.

Anyway, the action in No Time To Die was awesome, as expected. The fights, chases, etcetera were all good. The music is amazing (I still can't get enough of the classic Bond tunes). I didn't really care for the whole 'new 007'-bit. But the performances of Craig, Malek and all the others were great. Emotional at times, but mostly bad ass. All in al, they did a good job to tie the whole Craig-saga together and I enjoyed it very much. Worth the wait.

Another hyped social media tv show, really not that good, when the “vips” came in it was a no no for me. That was such bad acting.

But i know all you netflix users have 0 good stuff so every new show is hyped.

Excellent film. It has been quite a while for a solid war film which portrays both sides of the war and the suffering.

Loved Dwight ripping apart the kitchen and sleeping naked in the bed!

I really needed Nic Cage to spit out corny one-liners just before he massacres sentient animatronics and I feel like I was robbed of that.

It was fine, not as good as the previous movies. There are a few plot holes that stayed with me after walking out of the cinema. I’m not sure if I missed something or if the movie did a poor job explaining things.

It seems people just give out laud to something once it reaches a pique or a culmination of established storytelling. Revenge of the Sith was not a good film, it just had monumentally important scenes and was the culmination of the Vader story. This was a good episode of Breaking Bad, but I'm not sure I see anything fundamentally different about it than any other episode in which something decisively "final" happens, and it felt almost the same to me as the preceding episode. To me, the last episode with Sarah, and the subsequent episodes with her father (John De Lancie) were much more impactful, and rang more true. I also felt for everyone in those moments. But this episode? It just made me feel like a psychopath. Walt and Jessie were the only ones I even cared about in this episode.

The show has never wavered in its depiction of Hank as an A1 piece of establishment shit. He's a degenerate jackbooter with negative self awareness and the maturity of a six year old, and, though they never show it, his job is terrorizing people and enabling the existence of drug cartels. Did anyone else watching actually care that he was going to get it? To me Breaking Bad's writers have done a great job with making a boorish and non-sympathetic character just palatably sympathetic enough through five seasons to not be hard to watch his character. He was an integral part of the story and ensemble, but I never once cared about him.

That's where the disconnect came for me, right at the beginning of this episode (really, the end of the last). Walter was understandably impossibly conflicted with the situation he was in and not wanting to call down on his brother in law. But I didn't fucking care. I just wanted to see the shit hit the proverbial fan. Yet this episode stole that from us. It cuts straight to the aftermath and Walt being conflicted with the situation and fumbling with the results of his machinations after once again playing the devil but finding himself unprepared and caught unaware with the unexpected outcome. That was in character. It's something we've seen play out time and time again, as it seems to be one of the main ruminations of the plot: How desperation and necessity mold people into certain shapes, and how some people take to the shape more naturally, (Mike, Gustavo) whereas Walt throws himself and Jessie into a world where they're both massively out of their depth, and they're both like plastic figures that are partially but incompletely heated and bent, but snap back toward something resembling their natural shape (Walt), floundering in what they were trying, or, in Jessie's case, breaking in half under the stress.

After this, though? I have no idea what the showrunners' internal perspective or motivation was, but here's where it turned into the blackest of dark comedies to me. I was rolling with how aghast everyone was and how fucking stupid Walt's family became. She pulls a knife?! And then when Walt wrestles it away junior goes full retard and calls the cops saying the opposite of what just happened, like a small child calling for the teachers. I always liked junior, but here he had nothing but my contempt. I don't know it was forced and unrealistic, or just my disgust at how people can act like irrational, frightened animals, but I was laughing when Walt yelled at them, and pretty much the entire phone conversation. Yes, I get the extremely heavy drama with Walt playing the part of the evil, dominating drug kingpin spouse so he would take all of the blame and heat onto himself and off of Skyler, while falling apart from how everything turned out, but it was just so ridiculously tragic that the drama changed states from drama to comedy like a catalytic reaction.

I can't say whether or not that was intentional, but I still find it kind of silly that people call this one of the BeSt tHinGs eVaR FiLmeD when there are several better episodes of BB. Yeah, it's partially subjective. Yeah, you're also probably very easily manipulated and don't know the difference in a good script and a self-serious one. This episode could have used some heavy cinematic scoring for the climactic scenes. The dryness of the dramatic action is my only real criticism of this show overall.

This was great! I really loved the strong beginning but the loss against Borgov really hurt, especially given the circumstances (she teased him so nicely at the interview before the tournament and I hate Cleo now; but at least we now know what the intro of this show was about). The time with Benny Watts was really nice and fun. Harry Beltik is such an interesting character and I like his arc. Beth is kinda becoming a modern pop/Hollywood star now and the acting felt so different, which I really like. Jolene's return was super unexpected, let's see where this'll go.

Some movies manage to walk the line of quality with such finesse that it leads to “good-bad” movies. Movies so bad they somehow break through the other side and end up good. Willys Wonderland is not one of those movies. It’s just unapologetically bad. It’s devoid of any of the qualities that make a good-bad movie, leading to an empty, boring and sometimes painful 90 minutes. The FNAF-esque plot is threadbare, the dialogue is stilted and unquotable, the production is poor, Nic is a literal silent protagonist so there aren’t even any classic Cage one-liners to grin at. The animatronic fights lack impact or comedic timing and the effects on some of the caricatures are student film quality. If you’re baked out of your mind and need a Nic Cage fix, Willys Wonderland will probably scratch the itch, but anyone going into this sober should seek out another from Nics repertoire for a more satisfying hit. Mandy or Color Out of Space will serve you much better, trust me.

Innovative in many different ways, though it also pioneered a lot of shit (from bad imitators of its style to synthetic looking action scenes to the over the top stuntwork that’s found in every blockbuster nowadays).
Not that I’m holding that against this film, it actually gets most of these things right.
I really like the action, cinematography (the green tint for the Matrix was a great choice, which I believe was something they added in later cuts), music, story and characters in this.
The philosophy stuff is a nice side dish, it’s not as overbearing or overcomplicated as in the sequels.
It’s also not nearly as deep as some people pretend it is, just complex enough where it gives a lot of people the impression that this is some mindbending, experimental filmmaking, when in reality it’s not.
It’s just a very well executed action film that’s a little more conceptual than most of the stuff that came out around that time.
The acting, however, is a bit of a mixed bag for me.
Laurence Fishburne and Hugo Weaving are excellent (which is odd, Hugo Weaving is hamming it up big time and that shouldn’t work given what the other actors are doing, but it does), but the two leads are very stiff and often miss the mark in selling their dialogue.
I imagine that must’ve been the big trade-off for the Wachowskis; Carrie Ann Moss and Keanu Reeves are great with the action stuff and a lot of what they do is in camera, but they’re not the greatest actors.
Taking that bullet was the right choice in the end, though.

8.5/10

It exceeded my expectations - especially for a dutch movie.
The atmosphere in the movie was constantly interesting and really showed the dark sides of war.

Lot's of action, drama, and mystery that will keep you on the edge of your seat.
I personally enjoyed the animation and OSTs used.
Some scenes will surely remain in my memory for a long time.
But most importantly...

"I've always been...the same as you! I'm human!"

A great story telling us that there is no pure black and white in this world.
Only the shades of gray you know and those that you don't.

"Like I thought, I'm the same as you.
I think we were born this way.
I keep moving forward
Until I destroy my enemies."

The video game, Life Is Strange, took a lot of notes from this movie if you ask me. I will admit, this movie definitely calls for a quite a bit of suspension of disbelief, there's one plot hole that sorely sticks out, but despite that it was still very intriguing and entertaining, the ending even caught me by surprise (I watched the director's cut). I will have to watch this one more than once.

The behind the scenes tales of this movie are more interesting than the movie itself - feuding directors, actor injuries, raging Dennis Hopper - but that being said, this isn’t the trainwreck many have called it. Its a bit of a mess thanks to constant script rewrites and studio interference but there is some enjoyment to be had watching talented actors trying to make sense of it all.

Well made movie and important from a Dutch historic view point. Hearts!

One more about Ackerman's lore and fandom wild debates and theories at that time.

In anime they changed the order of scenes so it wasn't as eye-catching as it was in the manga. But in ch. 112 we got Eren explaining Ackerman's headaches to Mikasa and in like 16 panels later, in the same chapter, we got panel of Levi refusing to follow the plan of killing Eren while spotting similar gesture to a person having a headache in general and even drawing similar way to how Mikasa's headaches were shown in earlier chapters.
Eren:
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Levi:
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Mikasa:
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As one can imagine that lead to speculation of not only Mikasa being unable to kill Eren (if needed be) but also Levi.
One way or another I'm pretty sure it was intentional on Isayama's part)

The Forgotten Battle is an incredibly compelling WWII drama. The film follows a British Airborne pilot, a Zeeland resistance fighter, and a German soldier during the Battle of the Scheldt as the Allied forces attempt to liberate the Netherlands and secure the port of Antwerp. The cast gives strong performances and the writers do a good job at balancing the character stories; providing various perspectives on the events of Scheldt. And the production values are especially well-done, creating a gritty, lived-in feel of war-torn European. A powerful film about the realities of war, The Forgotten Battle looks at how even the smaller battles changed the course of history.

Great movie. Loved the cinematography and effects.