Tatiana Maslany is so underrated, what a brilliant actress.
Denis Villenueve. A solid lineup. A different take on first contact. I loved Sicario but went in expecting a cerebral epic sci-fi.
That was a mistake.
Good things:
- Some really nice visual scenes
- Interesting aliens Calligraphy aliens!
- Clear theme of communication is omnipresent
- A neat score that might be awesome in a different movie
Bad things:
- The acting
- The lack of emotional reaction to ALIENS! The students asking to turn on the TV, all of the main characters
- Lack of useful characters Only the aliens and Louise actually did anything the entire movie.
- Supporting characters are very stupid in an attempt to foil the main character slightly
- Very clumsy exposition. Genre-typical news reports, voice-overs, dumb characters asking stupid questions.
- Very slow pacing. This worked in parts of Sicario, but didn't work in this movie because there was no tension. The main characters never seemed remotely threatened.
- Lousie showing up at school thinking everyone will be there after aliens arrive and there's a state of emergency
- Why can't you translate alien language like you can translate Farsi. This is a paraphrase but in the spirit of what Colonel Weber was saying.
- Useless love interest when the costars have no chemistry.
- Ultrasecure military base lets someone steal a ton of explosives and put it in an ALIEN SPACECRAFT without anyone noticing.
- Many unbelievable plot points
- Poor dialogue Let's make a baby - real quote
- Poor handling of the major plot points Looking through time seems to undermine the fact that the aliens need help. Why did one have to die if they could see the future? Why did only one die when they were right next to each other?
- Very heavy handed moral messaging that didn't align with the rest of the movie.
- Why couldn't Ian also see into the future as he studied the language, or any of the others?
Overall extremely disappointing. I'm honestly surprised critics or general moviegoers like this. The premise was very good. It's a real shame the execution failed so miserably.
My most beloved TV show got destroyed in a matter of minutes. The previous episodes of S08 at least gave me some kind of emotion, episode 05 was a flat line. This truly is a masterpiece, a masterpiece of destruction. They've destroyed everything! The character development, the story, the plot, the meaning of GOT, the writing of G.R.R. Martin. They've destroyed all the hard work put in all of these years, they've spit on everything. I'm not going to hate the show, it gave me so much, and it will continue to be my favorite, but i'm just going to pretend this last season was never made. I'm going to imagine all the possible theories, all the story plots that could have been made, and just hope the writer finishes the series some day.
Sesion 8 the waste of our time.
While still funny and immensely entertaining, I confess I was a little disappointed with Deadpool. With this character, they had an opportunity to make a completely ridiculous and nonsensical superhero movie, and what we got as another generic plot following the tired origin story / damsel-in-distress formula, with a bit of crude humor and 4th-wall breaking mixed in. I almost wonder if that was the cost for finally getting this movie made.
There was nothing enlightening here. I felt that the engineering from social, psychological, computational, and mathematical aspects were interesting and should have been explored more, since they essentially glossed over the misinformation campaigns running rampant on every social media platform the world over. Even if this doc would've focused on regulation, or the lack thereof, that would've been something, but they chose to not call any entities out, remain middle-of-the-road, and out of the fray. I think that this topic would've been much better served as a multi-part series that explored the various ramifications of social media, rather than 90 minutes of glossed over, big-picture fluff that didn't hit at the heart of any of the numerous implications caused by the inherent designs of social media platforms.
I will say, however, there were far better recommendations for how to combat this ever-present problem in the last few moments of the film, while the credits rolled. The director had the interviewees each list methods they utilize to prevent overexposure to the ills of social media to them and their families.
That invisible car payoff was so good.
The last 15 minutes of the episode made me so happy. I fucking love this show -- you can realise the true happiness is on simple things. Remind us to be sensitive.
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I don't understand why everyone likes this show so much, it was really bad I just wanted each episode to end. Their was no suspense at all yet rotten tomatoes gave it a 95% really, it was trash just garbage the acting the fight all lame. So can some one explain to me why everyone likes it so much?
no no no its nothing like Girls whatsoever girls is bad !!! this show is much much much better and genuinely funny the writing is so witty & hilarious and the cast is brilliant totally recommended
Very disappointing ending to the season. There were only maybe one or two good episodes this season. The rest were a mess.
another great show from Netflix, i liked it more than i thought i would. just wish it had more episodes!
yeah Bens wife suck since ep 01
It promises, but it won't deliver.
Just started watching and I’m getting early 19th century Gossip Girl vibes...
The most intensive and sadness episode I ever seen.
This was the worst episode ever.
Handmaid's Tale has become ascended fanfic, and I am here for it!
Certainly the most clever and elegant burn against Donald Trump to date.
This cutting satire takes on Trump's travel ban, the Confederate flag debate, and asks the question, who is the real danger to the U.S., foreigners or white middle class?
Frankly, I don't see why there's so much hate against this film. Maybe there are more conservative Republican Trump supporters than I'd been led to believe? Too bad and screw the lot of them!
Son of a bitch, I'm gonna miss this show.
Sam Esmail doing a cameo and giving his wife Emmy Rossum a little role as well. As Philip puts it: Welcome back, Mr. Alderson. Two year break is over :)
Very disappointing, slow and boring and also it really didn't make any sense. Weak story. I cannot believe the 8.2 on imdb and 98%(!!) on RT
Really loved this season and the addition of the guy playing michael, who did a fantastic job selling all sides of his character. I enjoyed the flashbacks and web of interconnections to other seasons and some of the obscurer ones to discover really blew my mind.
Gemma should be the dead one! Or, at least, arrested for life. Tara, one more time, suffered for stay by Jax side, but this time she had to pay with her life.
Yeah, mediocre season and the golden globe for Gaga is a joke.
Great season finale. Loved this season, it was easily the best yet.
The previous episode was more of a season finale than this one was. This episode just felt tacked on and so out of place. It's the first time during the entire series that I honestly didn't care about what happened during the majority of it, with the sole exception being the Noah/Whitney scenes.
Complete snoozefest. No one cares about the Frenchman or his deathbed.