Way better than I was expecting. Go in blind if you can.
Didn't quite understand all the twists and turns, but I'm looking forward to a second viewing.
Robert Rodriguez's Matrix/Inception? I'm here for it!
Worth watching overall, especially for fans of whodunits, despite the usual butchering of Poirot by Branagh who can’t even do a decent French accent. Fey is also terrible reciting her lines like a 5th grader rather than speaking them in a natural way. The rest of the actors do well.
The sets are good and quite lovely for the most part except for being overdone at times.
The plot is thick and unravels nicely which accounts for the decent grade.
I’m curious to see how much they deviated from Christie’s plot on which this is supposedly loosely based.
If Branagh had not so mercilessly slaughtered Orient Express and Nile I would have probably tolerated and liked this one better…
Great episode, but it didn't feel like Black Mirror. It's missing the sci-fi element, the dystopian topic, the futuristic technology aspect.
Sorry folks but this one didn't go well for Marvel. I don't even know where to start. Acting was average, more like below average. Screenplay was as much ordinary as it could be. No surprise here. CGI was OK but it's somehow expected from Marvel. But I totally didn't like the idea of Wakanda. Hidden city in the center of Africa with tons of technology and advanced weapons and systems and so on. But how the hell did they build all of that? No explanation. It just happened. Yes, they have Vibranium, but they don't sell it. In fact they never did and for whole world they are just a bunch of shepherds and farmers. So where did they take all that money to build empire like this? I don't like movies without explanations and this is one of them. Almost nothing has been told about Vibranium whatsoever. Oh yeah, it's some super thing from the universe capable of anything. That's all the explanation you get. There are too many clichés we have already seen too many times. And we have to see them again. One example: I challenge someone for a fight because I want to kill him. And when I have the chance to kill him, what would I do? Kill him or throw him down from the cliff to the water where he can survive? But enough. If you hesitate if to watch this, I can recommend not to waste your time. Wait for the Avangers where you can also see the Black Panther. You won't miss anything if you miss out this movie.
Possibly Shinkai's best work so far, and as a massive fan of both 5cm and Garden of Words I do not say that lightly. The animation is breathtaking as always but some scenes go beyond mere visual splendor and are just mesmerizing. The characters are so fun to be around and you'll find yourself rooting for them and hoping it all works out. I was slightly concerned when I saw the "boob fondling" scene in the trailer but even that becomes a genuinely charming gag throughout the movie, believe it or not!
As to be expected of Shinkai, the film also takes you on a roller coaster of emotional highs and lows and keeps you guessing how it will end until pretty much the last minute.
I cannot recommend this enough.
This is how DC's Movies should have been made. It's action sequences are insanely awesome. Amber Heard is drop dead gorgeous like a goddess in this movie. Jason Momoa is born to play Aquaman. Perfect castings. Don't miss this amazing movie guys.
When you order a pepperoni pizza and they deliver a pepperoni pizza, do you complain they didn't serve you filet mignon? This film is the pepperoni pizza of action films. If you want an action film, this has got it. It's not especially new or revolutionary or poetic, but at least it's got action from beginning to end which is more than many other action films of late.
When you’re rooting for the dinosaurs to eat most of the characters (especially Franklin) during the movie, something’s not quite right.
...including some lies and overreacting. the few facts are abused to make it appear this "opinion" or better "limited point of view" is the only solution.
No Question most people eat to big, unhealthy and to much meat.
But are animal-eating animals unhealthier than plant-eating animals? Are they extinct? No! It has more to do with exercise.
"Casein is addicting" No! All things you do (eat, move, learn, toilette...) trigger the same reward system in the brain for a reason.
An Egg containing all nutrients to create a new life - in their opinion egg yellow kills you. lol
It's 2017 and they still think cholesterol from food is harmful for the body.
What about insects animal protein? Why became the dominant species on this planet an everything eater?
... and so on.
propaganda movie which could have been perfected with a narrator voice of Putin or Erdogan. The same kind of movie could have been made for "only eat meat, plants will kill you"
learning sustainable nutrition not with this "documentary". you might want to go vegan for reasons, but not for this.
Oh hey, it's February the 2nd, let's re-watch this for the umpteenth time. :D
Belle... A collection of music videos glued together by a really badly written narrative.
Belle is one of the weakest animated movies i have seen in the past few years, and that makes me really sad, as a fan of the director i went into this expecting an 8 or an 9, but what i got is a 5 at best.
Belle has a interesting idea, with its reworking of the "beauty and the beast" and its child abuse themes... But it fails to build on its characters and to explain basic premises of its own world, making it for a very boring and bland experience.
Most of the things we thought would be relevant were completely ignored and absolutely useless, we asked ourselves watching "did she get some disease and now is unable to sing in the real world and that is why the U is an escape?" No, they never address this, she just fails to sing and vomits once because the movie wanted to i guess? They keep all her "friends" completely irrelevant and underdeveloped until the last quarter of the movie, so i basically don't care about any of them in the end, they never explain the socio economical structure of the U world... How does this work? They say the avatar is made automatically based on people physiognomy, but the avatars are crazy different in form and species, how can that be made from ones physiognomy? How is the invitation system decided? Who is invited and why? Why even have an invitation system instead of selling the app or freely distributing it if that ends up irrelevant to the story? Why show us a very interesting singer character on the start that rivalizes our belle if you are just going to forget her for the whole movie? How to know which avatars are AI controlled and which are actually people? Is it possible do die in U? If not, what is the relevance of all the conflict we see?
Belle raises too many questions and answer very little, it presents us with an beautiful and interesting virtual world but tells us NOTHING about it and how it all works, it presents us with futuristic technology in a world that seems stuck in the 2000s, it gives us many bland and uninteresting characters with only one personality trait each and develops none of them... There are so many problems, so many drawn out scenes... That it all gets boring and tiresome...
And.... That makes me really sad, the music is GREAT, the visuals are BEAUTIFUL, the music scenes are AMAZING... But they are few and far in between and the rest of the movie... Is not interesting, they present us a nice duality of belle and the beast, but their interest in one another is so out of nowhere and forced that it doesnt feel even a little bit real or natural... There is a great scene that develops the characters and emotional connects, but it is only in the last quarter of the movie... When it has already lost all my interest and attention... and the plot of child abuse is ok and very important... But it feels shoved in... The main plot... Feels shoved in... Oh, and how they find the boy... Well, that was just the worst "investigation" bit i have ever seen...
I really wanted to like this movie, but there are just too many unanswered questions, just too little character development, and a plot that is just generic and bland enough to lose my attention... The visuals and music alone are not enough...
At the end, i feel like they made some really great music videos and didnt want to release it as just animated music videos, so they wrote a really bland movie around it and shoved a controversial and important theme(child abuse) to appeal to peoples hearts in an effective but kinda cheap way.
Good thing Adam isn't subjected to fact checking, that would ruin him. The statements made in many of the episodes are as inaccurate as whatever he's supposedly disproving. Sometimes topically interesting, never to be taken as gospel.
DC has finally did it! Not only is Aquaman much better than any of the Marvel movies, it's an awesome movie on its own. The pace is good, music is good, humor is good, and visual is awesome! Wan did a great job displaying the beauty of the deep ocean.
The paradigm of material being cut from a book to fit into the run time of a movie doesn't really apply here because next to nothing from it happens in the film. It bares little resemblance to the book at all and is completely shallow for it. Conservatively I'd put it at 10% of the book translated to the screen in a recognisable form.
It should be "Inspired by" rather than "Based on" however I didn't find it that inspired at all. It's unbelievable to me that Cline himself handled the screenplay, at least in part. People that love the film will be thoroughly disappointed by the book, especially the PG-13 crowd the film brought in.
The Oasis itself was done an utter disservice by portraying it as basically just a game, it was so much more than that.
Disappointing.
misleading and fearmongering is what this movie is about - try watching Fat Head (2009) - a reporter re-did the experiment while eating everything on the menu at least once - no starving, no 'salad only' diet, yet he was able to even loose weight while doing it and he even debunked Spurlocks sensationalism as outright deceitful.
It's not really a documentary. It's essentially a 90 minute OpEd piece telling you to go Vegan.
Ignore the reviews, this movie is actually pretty funny, I wouldn't go as far as saying it's better or worse than A Million Ways to Die in the West. The script is supposed to be stupid. We've seen much worse in the cinema's over the years. Enjoy or not, each to their own opinion. Myself, even though I'm not the biggest Adam Sandler fan, it actually works well, massive cast Steve Buscemi and Dan Aykroyd make an appearance as does would you believe Vanilla Ice. Just take it for what it is. Fun.
Don’t read the comments or reviews, just fuckin watch it. Not for the Evas, not for the fights or the quality of the animation, watch it for the best delirious poem around, This is not anime or entertainment whatsoever, this is pure art.
Awesome! Laughed my ass of, the whole evening!
Flypaper" - is the best movie that i have seen all year long! It Twist and Turns past the Twist and Turns - BRILLIANT! Best "who done it" movie EVER!
IMO the best combination of action & humor ever made!
Somehow worse than the original. I liked the original Cube, but if we are being honest, is not a masterpiece. This one followed the same lines, but at the same time is more boring and slow. At least they change the traps, but still, it felt weird and cheap in comparisson to a movie of 25 years ago. Damn, even Hypercube felt better than this one
Unequivocally do not recommend anyone watch this, it brings nothing new to the table, and actually manages to tarnish the Cube name.
Totally agree with @movieswatcher, at about the 1h10 mark, the movie just completely goes off the rails and gets annoyingly bad.
Even so, from the get-go it's just a messy story:
The characters are all weirdly invested in each other after barely speaking to each other, let alone getting to know one another. Speaking of, there doesn't even seem to be that much time passing, like were they in there just a few hours? Then there's that utterly unnecessary gate that comes up in between the group, separating them because... who the heck knows? They could have easily used the doors closing as a similar plot device, but no.
Then the subplot of the dude who keeps freezing up because of some boring childhood trauma (that we keept being shown repeatedly). Eventually it even gets projected onto one of the walls of the cube... what, why ? Let him tell the story, then react, and we can guess it's from the only info we know about him (said story).
Finally, what was with the super generic generational age gape hatred which @movieswatcher mentioned as well ?
Additionally, that completely useless female character who never speaks and is way to obvious in her acting, revealing within minutes that she's in fact a robot . Then the rooms reacting to the crazy guy's mood which once again: served no purpose, doesn't make things interesting, and it doesn't advance the plot... it's there, and adds nothing of value.
Kinda like this whole movie: adds nothing of value. Skip, and go re-watch the original.
Shitty film, classic Hollywood action/comedy film. Nothing special, everything is bad. If only Brad Pitt would have been more in the movie, maybe it would have been watchable
4/10
This movie has everything going right. It has a funny, yet a heartwarming themes and sequence that fallows troughout the movie without it being too much nor too fake. It's a movie that makes you feel joyful and emotional from time to time while laughing out loud fallowing with tears going down your face because of how well it's inclusion of this sprinkled heartfelt dramatic moments that continues to be presented in the movie without inturupting the main comedic factor of it. Another great aspect this movie has is that, non of the themes showcase in this movie overpower one over the other. Amazing heartfelt joyful comedy.
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.
