i really don't know why the votes here are so low for the series.
i just finished the first episode and thought it was freakin excellent. astounding worldbuilding in the Pilot, which isn't an easy feat to accomplish.
i am VERY excited to watch more and i cannot wait for next week
it is terrible
misses the mark by ten trillion lightyears. forgettable characters, no plot, zero awareness, just the worst thing i have ever seen
again begging @Trakt to do something about these before-release reviews.
this has 95% critics rating and 100% audience rating on Rotten Tomatoes, yet it's 30% here on Trakt?
non-spoiler initial thoughts
this show is AMAZING!
super well-written, tight paced, really great music selection, visuals, acting, etc
there is ACTUAL character growth and complexity in this show, so if the basic romeo and juliet storyline for the first two episodes seems kinda meh just know that it goes WAY deeper than that as the show progresses
there are some pretty complex character and storyline interactions here and they're all excellently done
Incredible. i did not expect the ending to be like that. incredible series and the entire episode was dissimilar to the others it was just amazing
LISTEN don't read anything about this. don't watch a trailer, don't do ANYTHING except this:
set aside 3 hours on a not-weekday.
get your favorite bottle of liquor or favorite 2 bottles of wine.
Start watching and drinking at the same time, and don't stop until the finale.
if you follow my instructions precisely, then you'll have an absolute blast.
IT IS A CHALLENGE the first 5 episodes but trust me, it's so fun
This movie has no right being as excellent as it is. I freakin loved it!
This past weekend I watched both Excellent and Bogus for the first time. Face the Music takes the very best parts of both earlier movies and combines them in a truly spectacular way while leaving the weaker moments of both prior movies in the past.
At just a hair over 90 minutes, Face the Music never seemed boring. The pacing of the film and overall progression of the story was very well done. Next sentence contains minor spoilers The ending was really REALLY outstanding and had me tear up a little bit when everything got resolved.
I'm gonna compare this in one way to Jurassic World and Jumanji. These two movies and Face The Movies are sotra 'sequels that nobody asked for' situations that turned out far better and more enjoyable than I think anyone anticipated.
Contains just the right amount of off-the-wall situations without going *completely off the rails (like some parts of Bogus). Takes the world building of the original and ads a modern twist.
Also, It was just awesome to see the time traveling sequences with modern graphics
this being the pilot, i am super intrigued. Season 1 Episode 1 is 9/10
This is a SPOILERS FREE review, although i'm not even sure spoilers exist in a pilot episode?
the worldbuilding is very well done, the animation is SUPERB
cliffhanger was good, overall i am going to watch each of these episodes. very VERY cool stuff so far.
the A/B story being the past / present is great.
this might be an absolute banger of a series. can't wait for next week
who are these people that are voting on movies that haven't even been released yet???
why is this at 15% with two ratings????
SPOILER FREE REVIEW
DTS is the only reason i got into F1
the first 4 seasons i thought were amazing
Season five is bad
if you didn't watch the 2022 season live, find a big fan account on Youtube and watch a handful of 15 or 30 minute videos about the 2022 season and skip this entirely.
if you did watch the 2022 season live, instead of spending 6h 22m of your time watching this, just close your eyes for 20 seconds and think back on your own memories the 2022 season. that is a more fulfilling use of your day and you'll have another 6h 21m and 40s of time to do other, better things with your life.
6.5/10 rounded up to seven.
I remember watching this movie when it came out.
I don't watch a lot of horror or slasher movies, but this movie was very enjoyable. I really appreciate how they took to time to introduce the audience to the characters.
Setup, story, progression of events were all well done. There are some very cool artistic moments that could have been cheesy but I appreciated them.
I would absolutely recommend this movie to watch, even if you're not the biggest horror / slasher movie fan.
SPOILER FREE REVIEW ( the blurred paragraph contains a content warning and some things about the first movie.)
Disclaimer : my review contains no spoilers for this sequel, but there is heavy language and adult themes in this review, because.... i am writing a review about a movie called "Don't Fuck In The Woods 2" so..... yeah. [one content WARNING trigger warning i will give is that there is depictions of SA in the first ten minutes. so... if you have decided to watch a horror / slasher movie called "don't fuck in the woods 2" then.... please be aware that this movie contains a nonconsensual encounter between a woman and a creature within the first 4 minutes....
REVIEW
in terms of ultra low-budget horror / slasher / thriller / borderline pornographic whatever you want to call it, Don't Fuck In The Woods 2 carries VERY strongly as a direct sequel to Don't Fuck In The Woods.
The opening credits is an awesome heavy metal rendition and summary / recap of the first movie in old-school hollywood style of actually HAVING opening credits.
this is a gritty, low budget sex slasher and it far exceeded my expectations. Don't Fuck In The Woods 2 is coherent from start to finish in ways that would shame many AAA blockbuster titles. The setup, character introduction and development are all solid, and the progression of the storyline as well as inter-scene progression and dialogue and camera work is outstanding throughout.
the MUSIC and pacing, along with respect for the first movie is commendable. Again, i am striving to reveal as little as possible because it's a spoiler-free review and i believe that every movie should be judged based on its own merits and experience, unaltered by exterior factors: i will risk saying this: Don't Fuck In The Woods 2 is a refreshing addition to the low budget slasher scene which pays tribute to Don't Fuck In The Woods while remaining its own movie. Don't Fuck In The Woods 2 elevates itself far beyond the perceived gimmicks of its genre, and it creates in itself a wonderful world of terror while paying subtle homage to a few body-horror and thriller classics [unnamed, due to the spoiler-free nature of this review]
Don't Fuck In The Woods 2 is a shining example of what sequels should be.
i very strongly believe small budget films like this should be celebrated wildly.
i love this movie. 9/10.
i'm sorry, no.
does this movie get any better after the first half hour?
i hated every second of this.
i hate this movie.
NO-SPOILER REVIEW
I absolutely loved this movie. Samara Weaving is absolutely brilliant, and the entire first third of the movie feels like a kinda-okay teen babysitting movie, but then you realize it isn't. And then ten thousand wild things happen all at once.
This movie is PERFECT at 85 minutes long. It's one of the shortest recent movies I've seen, but what it does in this short time-frame is very tight. The pacing from the opening to the end credits is absolute perfection.
The ending is absolutely phenomenal and I very highly recommend it to anyone who wants to have a journey, and be shocked or surprised as to where that journey led.
[100% SPOILER FREE review]
-edit: massive photosensitivity warning: there are just.... all of the flashing color-alternating light stobelight effects throughout the entire movie
House is a visual triumph. it is a bizarre conglomeration of visual and musical bizarreness that you will do well to put at the top of your viewing list.
i am a massive fan of the sub-90 minute movie genre and this is absolutely stunning. a film that has visuals at the forefront, it's an incredible feat which was made over 45 YEARS AGO
if you are of the ... (legalized)drugs persuasion, partake and watch. it is a spectacle unlike anything i've ever seen before.
this show, well... it is what it is!
also, it is not what it's not. it's not Lost. the show itself is kinda lame but the overall story is fun
i rated it 6/10 but i am still enjoying it :)
if you have the extra time and aren't searching for the best show ever made i'd say give this show a fair chance :)
how can television be this THIS GOOD
I enjoyed this movie e
Cats absolutely does not deserve the hatred that it got!
I though it was an outstanding movie about belonging, redemption, friendship, loss, forgiveness, hope, and acceptance.
I must admit, the first few minutes of Cats were a bit jarring: the human-cats look unsettling on all fours for an extended period of time, which is almost exclusively how they were for much of the introduction (The vast majority of the movie they're on two feet so that aspect improves quickly). Robbie Fairchild and Francesca Hayward are phenomenal actors, and the facial motion capture brilliantly preserves the the emotion they bring to the film.
Watching Cats a full year after it was released was an interesting experience. I'd say it's an experience similar to what Victoria the main character experiences in the movie herself. The main plot is about regular cat who is actually tossed into a bizarre and unknown world with weird characters and a bunch of nonsense, spectacle, bizarre other cats, traditions, and situations completely foreign to her. Watching the first 20 minutes of Cats I felt like Victoria: "How did I get here?" "What the heck is going on?" "What am I supposed to do with myself?"
I began warming up to Cats at the same time the Jellicle cats were warming up to Victoria. The Jellicle cats welcomed Victoria to their cat group, and they wanted to teach Victoria the ways of their society. The cats are whimsical, but they have one super special ritual that Victoria is introduced to: a ritual that the evil wizard cat wants to steal. With that, we have the basic plot of Cats.
It continues on: Victoria learning more about the Jellicle society, about the bad guy, and the movie progresses naturally from there. It's a rated PG movie released during Christmas time 2019, it's not going to have any insane plot twists like Se7en (1995) or Upgrade (2018) and I thought this movie was wonderful overall. You get accustomed to the GGI quickly, and the good pacing and storyline strongly overshadows the small complaints there are about the visuals.
While watching the intro I would have rated Cats a 4/10. Middle of the movie, 5.5/10, but the ending of the movie, and thinking back on it while listening to the music and the credits, Cats a solid 6.5/10 in my book, rounded up to 7 in the Trakt system. I would recommend you watch this movie. I re-watched this again two days after seeing it for the first time and am boosting it to a 9/10 rating. I absolutely love this movie. Wait, no. The ending is.. strange. 8/10
The rest of my thoughts here might contain soft spoilers about popular and well-known big moments in the film, but any hard spoilers have been marked.
When Victoria met Grizabella, I thought that was remarkable: a newcomer not understanding why someone had been cast-out and shunned by her society goes to show that a fresh perspective, and listening free of judgement can go a long way to help someone out who is hurting.
Things I liked:
The facial motion capture. The overall theme. The pacing. Jason Derulo. The performances of Francesca Hayward and Robbie Fairchild. I liked when the magician cat tried a couple times to bring back the grandma cat, then everyone started cheering for him and singing their support of him, that was a heartwarming event in the movie Ian McKellen's number. It was emotional and portrayed a lived-in world that didn't need any over-explaining about his history, and his past as an actor.
Things I did not like: (i have a lot of things nit-picky to say, these are all minor things even though there a lot of them)
Yeah, the mice and the cockroaches are irredeemably terrible, in all aspects. The inconsistent size of the cats in respect to their environment? At the end of the movie (this is not a spoiler) there is a statue that the cats are sitting on and standing around. That statue looks just AWFUL in the CGI. If you pay close attention to where the characters hands and feet meet the 'stage' or background, you can tell that it doesn't 100% match up flawlessly. Rebel Wilson has a zipper-down cat fur costume that she wears OVER her performance outfit. I don't understand the logistics of that. Also, many characters wear wither fur coats, or actual tennis shoes and / or flats or heels. Who is making these shoes for these cats? Tap-Dancing.
Things that surprised me: I didn't know that Taylor Swift was a henchman for the bad guy! This movie made me cry a couple times! This movie was overall an enjoyable experience. I'm a HUGE Taylor Swift fan, but I was pleasantly surprised that Jason Derulo just brightened up and improved every single scene he was in. He played a big role in most of the movie, not just a one-off scene as Swift had. Ian McKellen, I was worried it would be a sad, confusing, frustrating affair, but his number was wonderful. I honestly decided to watch Cats as a half joke, half morbid curiosity but I was very pleasantly surprised.
An outsider is introduced, an insider had been cast out, a pre-established group set in their own ways and tradition but is willing to listen to the newcomer, the same group seeing the fresh perspective of the newcomer and finding forgiveness and understanding toward the one they had previously cast out, and finally, acceptance of the newcomer and introducing her as one of their own.
I really liked this movie.
I'm gonna be as vague as I can possibly be here, but if you decide to watch it, stop watching the movie at the 1:50:56 mark and let that be the end of the movie for you.
the actual end of the movie sucked! It's a world-ending disaster movie. You don't need to ruin the whole film with a happy, everything is going to be back to normal vibes at the end. a complete waste
it was just okay.
I think it was hyped up too much, the storyline was good though
It Follows is definitely one of the best movies that has ever been created. 11/10 This movie transcends anything I could have ever expected. It is absolute perfection.
It's the whole entire package: Cinematography, musical score, pacing, visual framing, originality, (soft spoiler) twists, and everything from the casting, costumes, actors, just overall the tightness of the story... this remains the most psychologically disturbing movies I've ever see in my life.
This movie affected my mental well-being for two solid months after watching it. It's terrifying.
Disasterpiece did an overwhelmingly excellent job on the musical score, and the actors brought this movie to life.
There are no spoilers in this review, just know that I saw this movie FOUR TIMES in theaters when it came out.
I'm not NOT a horror movie type of person, but It Follows fucking changed me as a human being.
You must watch this movie for yourself. It's incredible.
Babysitter from Netflix is 10/10: one of my favorite movies of all time. I had been putting off watching this movie for several days because I didn't want to be disappointed.
Killer Queen absolutely did NOT let me down! The over-the-top buckets of gore moments are perfect for a movie like this, and the movie really did a great job bringing most of the main cast back, without ever feeling overdone. I haven't laughed that hard in a while, when I was watching the intro, the first 15 minutes or so. Really good narrative setup, and the time effects while Mel and Cole are talking were cool to see.
One of the best things about The Babysitter was the tight pacing at just under 90 minutes. I was concerned that the extra 20 minutes of runtime in Killer Queen would mean that it might have moments that dragged on, but again, I was pleasantly surprised it did not. Chris Wilde's character was an absolute delight. He and Ken Marino really clicked as a funny duo.
MEGA SPOILERS for the rest of the comment, please don't read unless you've seen both of the movies.
Please let there be a third!
The ending was great! I tend to over analyze and get too much in-my-head when watching movies, and there are a lot of twists that I can see coming from a mile away. The fact that the twist about Phoebe's babysitter being Bee, AND that it was Bee who sacrificed herself to save Phoebe absolutely floored me. I never expected to cry so damn much watching this movie, but it really got me.
Mulan 2020 has awful reviews.
They are all wrong.
Granted, the first half of the movie is just 'okay', but the SECOND HALF, I loved every minute of it.
The rest of this review is spoilers, so go away.
so the whole Forbidden City part of the movie, after the avalanche was fucking awesome. I think I said aloud "Beatrix Mulan Kiddo" because the action on the second half is freaking awesome. ALSO, the Emporer is actually a fucking badass. The film resolves very well with the intro, and musical queues were on point.
I'll make a more thorough review soon, but I greatly enjoyed this movie
This is one of the worst movies I have ever seen.
I hated every minute of it.
