'I hate you!'
BLOWS UP EVERYTHING WITH A FUCKING NUKE
Seriously. I've hated Zack from the very beginning, although at least the first actor still was somewhat bearable.
But not only does the 'newly' cast Zack deserve a prize for worst acting in history (and yes, I've seen 'The Room'); his character also deserves one for being the most disliked TV show character in history.
I honestly can't remember despising any character in a movie or show as much as I do Zack. Kudos to the writers for (accidentally?) creating the perfect villain. No, not the strigoi, but Zack.
Unlike part 1, where they've just been trying way too hard with their 'PURE' thing, this episode just feels completely wholesome on every level. It really is a perfect finale for Gilly Cassie.
I can't believe that it's easier for me to empathise with and genuinely like an android than 90% of the other human characters.
Especially that very short conversation between Suki and Six in the Marauder was simply heart-warming.
I don't know why, but I genuinely feel bad for Blood Boy. I kinda hoped he'd become somewhat more integral to the season's developments.
I'm at a loss of words. 'Holy shit' kinda describes it best. My goosebumps' goosebumps say that this might be the best episode I've ever watched on television.
I can't wait for this movie to finally launch!
And even if it's worse than expected, the soundtrack surely won't disappoint.
They really nailed the humour in this episode. I haven't had so many uncontrollable laughs in ages and even thinking about what I just watched makes me chuckle.
Yeah, it might've been somewhat of a filler episode, but a brilliant one. I keep loving this show more and more.
The ending was a bit obvious. I mean, no straight guy ever would call his best friend's girlfriend 'GIRL' during a Skype call.
So I kind of was just waiting for the revelation, which was nonetheless awesome and hella funny.
No. Just no.
I was really excited when I read the plot, because there's so damn much potential there. And unfortunately, story-wise, they probably did everything wrong that one could possibly do wrong.
About 20 minutes in, I jokingly said 'Hey. You know what the worst way this could play out be? If, as hinted at the beginning, they'd all be oh-so in love with their AI that they'd do something utterly stupid that causes it to escape, kill everyone and face that risk management gal in a final showdown, just to reveal that said gal was an AI itself.'
Being through with the movie, I conclude that actually watching the rest was just a waste of time.
I mean, in terms of cinematography they'd created something really great! If it'd come down to both that and the plot, Morgan really would deserve 8/10.
But seriously, the utter lack of creativity, desperate attempt at creating suspense and straightforward pseudo plot twist, paired with less than mediocre acting created a movie that brought back long-dead memories of House of Wax; only without it embracing the fact that it's trash.
So, then again, not even from this standpoint it's fun to watch.
I'll finish my rant by strongly advising to skip this movie and enjoy these 80 minutes of quality time by doing something that's actually satisfactory.
Damn, son. This shit was intense.
Yeah, it's an American movie about an American operation with American clichés. But without the unnecessary over-patriotism and glorification of the importance of whatever damn operation they got going on before shit hit the fan.
I'm having a pretty hard time actually finding things I disliked about these 2 1/2 hours of superb entertainment.
The story was based on real events, most certainly a little bit dramatized, but that's okay. For a war movie, this was a damn good story.
The cinematography was amazing. Seriously. Impressive camera work with a smart use of drones, a perfectly set atmosphere (with a couple of hick-ups in terms of lightning, but I think that's just me being overly critical) and some of the best special effects that I've seen in years.
The soundtrack and general sound mixing didn't leave any room for criticism, too. It all just flowed perfectly and the orchestral music even gave me some goosebumps here and there.
And guess what, even the acting wasn't bad. It's a war movie. With actors who are actually good. I'm positively amazed.
Michael Bae(sic!) and the rest of the folks involved in this movie simply did a great job on all ends.
And now I finally have a new war movie I can recommend.
Being 5 episodes in, the first thing that Banana reminds me of, is Black Mirror, however weird that sounds.
Every episode focuses on a different person and they're all somehow connected with each other; some more, some less.
Also, every episode is more or less a standalone short story delivering great acting, great writing and perfect camera work, as well as a superb sound track pick.
I don't yet know why the last episode is so poorly rated, because I've yet to watch it; but leaving it out, Banana just delivers everything I want out of it. There's a lot of unforced and well-placed humor, a bit of great drama and a lot of characters that one can just connect with in an instant. Just a solid show that nobody ought to miss out on, no matter if they're LGBTQ or straight.
Even though I really liked the Pilot, something just felt a little bit off about it.
The visual atmosphere they're creating is perfect and it clearly shows which direction this show is supposed to head. Also, the music is really well-picked and just fits.
But while the looks and the characters, as well as the story assume an atmosphere similar to classic Nordic crime shows, the pace so far feels way too fast, as if they couldn't manage to fit all the content into a single episode otherwise. That, for me, kind of disrupted all the things that were so great about it. Nevertheless, we'll see how it all develops- it was still a very solid Pilot.
This Is Us really surprised me in so many ways.
Before watching the Pilot, I was honestly expecting 'just another family comedy show', kind of. But ever since the first episode aired, I'm positively and repeatedly surprised and touched by just how beautiful and real this show is- on so many levels.
Yes, This Is Us is a dramedy focusing on three families that appear to really have nothing in common, but episode by episode one really learns and loves to learn to look deeper.
In a time like this, where TV seems to have reached some sort of quality peak, it doesn't happen too often do find a show that really stands out, especially in a genre like comedy. But This Is Us does pretty much everything right. The storytelling is superb, there's always new bits and pieces one picks up when watching the show, constant new revealings, a perfectly picked cast (really, they all work damned great together) and, as I said earlier, there's this honest and humble approach to it all that, for me, makes it stand out so severely.
This Is Us doesn't (need to) rely on heavy special effects, over-dramatization or flat jokes, nor does it try to deliver some sort of big and important political message. It's strapped of all this and by doing so, one can really enjoy the work, thoughts and incredible skills that have been put into all aspects of this show.
I find it really rare these days to find a pure gem like this and even more so to get so heavily attached to a show after just a couple of episodes. But, well. Here I am, already wanting This Is Us to never end, ever.
I'm wondering if this utter sense of denial ever wears off.
No, that's not the end. Never. Waiting for closure 2.0.
I'm really glad about the fact that Ana was featured on Chef's Table.
Of course, one may always criticize that what she's doing there isn't a lot different from what so many other restaurants are trying to do, in terms of local ingredients and respect towards the environment.
But I see her from a little different perspective.
Not only was this episode much more pleasing than a lot of the others from a viewer's perspective, but it was her character that made it even more so.
In this episode, I see two really different aspects that work so great together.
For one, there's the fact that she was more or less forced to take over the kitchen and learn virtually everything on her own, in a more or less unknown conservative country scarred by communism, with a quasi non-existent culinary history.
And then there's this spark of her, this unexpected entrepreneurial sense and her craving for freedom and the expression of creativity.
And somehow, God knows how, over a long course with a lot of rough patches, she managed to combine all that and lift both herself and her restaurant up to a level that's really hard to beat.
With a little outside help, she managed to place herself onto the international map of gastronomic highlights and give Slovenia some sense of gastronomic identity.
Doing all this while preserving her being down to earth and continuing this journey really deserves all of the respect there is. And I'm really looking forward to seeing how she and her husband develop themselves even further over the next years.
I'm really intrigued about the concept of Private Romeo.
The attempt to tell a classic Shakespearian story in a setting like this really is a rather hard feat.
Of course, there were some parts that were quite hard to follow and one really has to focus in order to understand it wholly, but overall, it was really nicely done.
The acting was surprisingly excellent, the shots were beautiful, aside from one or two small cutting errors, and doing something so complex with a budget so little really deserves an A for effort.
Whatever it was the writers were smoking, it had to be awesome.
High-Rise is basically just a huge mind fuck with a lot of beautiful shots and a story that's been told in a way that's really not easy to get. So you have to pay close attention to everything and let the mind fuck get the better of you.
I think the best way to describe it in detail is not to describe it at all.
Obviously this is an artsy, drug-induced reflection of today's society and all the gaps there are within, as well as a, on first glance, weird social experiment. But everything that's beneath this twisted surface is something that each and every viewer has to explore for themselves.
Is it a good movie? I have no idea.
Did I like it? I have no idea.
What's certain is that it definitely made some kind of impact on me, which is the only thing I can justify my rating with, aside from the beautiful and well-made production itself.
I really didn't have any high hopes about Deadpool, since almost everyone I know found it rather meh.
Which is why, now that I've seen it, I'm so positively surprised about it.
Sure, it's pure trash with semi-expensive CGI.
Yeah, there's a fair share of dick jokes and a lot of bad humor in general.
Also, yeah, it's basically a flat and linear love story.
And all of this is what makes Deadpool such a great movie.
This is one of those movies that don't take anything (including themselves) seriously. And for everyone who didn't get that: pay attention to at least the first 2 minutes. This fact is brought upon us even during the intro credits.
Of course, if you expect it to be a superhero movie like so many, it's understandable that you're highly disappointed.
But for someone like me who couldn't care less about superheroes (aside from Batman; seriously, he's just awesome.), this movie is pure shit-stained, trashy gold in the best way possible.
Take Steve Jobs and amplify the amount of creativity, radicalism and the drive to establish an emotional connection to the product and the overall experience by a factor of 10.
Grant Achaz is a genius in so many ways, showing the rawest of dedication and obsession and the will to break (not only) boundaries to achieve something new and different. He's not only a chef, but a top-notch artist, portrayed perfectly in this one very short hour.
summary: bunch of dudes cruising and hooking up by a lake. the slowest 97 minutes of my life.
One of my top 5 most favourite episodes so far. The script was fantastic as usual and the ending emotional af.
Damn, I can't stand the thought of this show being over soon.
Even though the 1:1 format is something that nobody would expect anymore nowadays, since it's been misused and overused way too often now, Xavier Dolan knew how to use this kind of effect carefully and not in an annoying way.
Aside from the format, Mommy was just an incredible, carefully and beautifully made movie.
There was not a single scene that felt overly scripted or 'unreal'- both acting and writing were on point throughout the entire 140 minutes.
Also, it was interesting to finally see a movie portraying the challenges that come with raising a both traumatised and psychologically unusual child in such a fashion. There was no intention to be (unnecessarily) provocative or to create some sort of fake awareness. It simply was a great story between a mother and her son that could've easily been based on real events (aside from the fact that all of this happened in a 'fake Canada' with 'fake laws', as explained right at the beginning of the movie).
Kudos to Xavier Dolan for making this great film, as well as the awesome use of music, and to the three main actors for their diverse and superb job!
This has to be one of my favourite episodes of Scandal, yet.
Yeah, the schematics are repetitive and we've already seen this kind of behaviour from Jake, Olivia and her dad before.
And yeah, we get that it's pretty much impossible to free oneself from Papa Pope's grasp, as they've shown us what feels like a kajillion times already.
But what I found really interesting about this episode are the constant flashbacks into Jake's past, since this was the first time we were ever granted with not only a glimpse of it, but an entire revelation as to why it really is so fricking hard to escape Olivia's dad and to rid oneself from his influence.
Conclusion? Rowan's a psychopath. Yeah, nothing new. But the kind and amount of psychological terror that he'd put on Jake over the years finally gives us a logical explanation to Jake's and Olivia's behaviour over the past seasons that at first glance might've seemed a bit irrational and without logic.
This was probably the kind of ending I least expected, due to it being just so obvious and somewhat uncreative.
I haven't read the book, therefore I can't say a think about the storyline or the ending, for that matter.
But there were so many chances where one could've built in a couple of awesome plot twists that would've made the entire thing not only a whole lot more enjoyable, but much more fitting to the whole complex thing that the concept of time travel is.
For example: Since they set the focus so heavily on the fact that time doesn't want itself to be changed, they could've easily changed the storyline in a way that doesn't really change the past in such a hard way.
What if Lee Harvey Oswald wasn't the one responsible for the assassination of JFK, but Mr. Amberson himself? What if Lee Harvey Oswald was nothing more than a patsy and the FBI or whoever else was actually the one responsible for the shooting? What if, that, after changing the past in a rather impactful way, there was no way of going back through the rabbit hole, since said change dismissed the fact that the rabbit hole existed in the first place?
These are just a couple of 'what ifs' that I've asked myself at the beginning and throughout the series, 'what ifs', that I figured the writers and producers of this show also must've asked themselves when being presented with a plot that's so diverse and changeable in such numerous ways.
And, sadly, these 'what ifs' are nothing more than, well, 'what ifs', since it seems like this huge amount of possibilities was just too huge an amount for the people creating this show to actually explore them, at all.
So the actual ending itself appeared to me as nothing more than way too straight-forward, obvious and rather uncreative, running adrift to being a slightly cheesy love story ending.
To be completely honest, I don't have the slightest idea as to what to think about Bad Education.
It's a rather complex story, told from multiple perspectives that at the end create a picture that nobody would've expected at first.
There's this constant weird feeling of a piece of the story missing, which sought for a lot of attention throughout the entire film- I can't really remember the last time a film that's neither thrilling, nor forcefully attention-seeking has actually caught my attention for such a long period of time.
All in all, Bad Education really is a film worth watching, with some almost flawless acting, a great and complex plot and told in a fantastic way that just left me rather out of words while typing this comment. Great work!
there were some good moments and a rather predictable twist, but overall it felt just weak and as if they were trying too hard to be #deep.
this is definitely one of those movies that, once seen, can't and won't ever be forgotten. very emotional, very touching and a wake-up call for all strict christians, that religion leaves a whole lot of room for interpretation.
this episode perfectly reflects the best of what limitless has to offer: a catching story, great actors, a lot of sarcasm, yet enough room to get your attention caught.
definitely not as catching as the previous season finale, yet again with a massive cliffhanger that shows just how they can't get away with murder.
that was more than just an appropriate start for season 4. really excited!
