I don't know if it's the actress, the character, or both, but "Auggy" is the most obnoxious and irritating character I've seen in quite a while. Tiresome af, tarnishes any scene she's in.
Show constantly reminded us throughout the season that it's about community that was destroyed as much as it is about the crime itself. Unfortunately, when all is said and done we don't see much evidence of the first one and the story surrounding the crime is disappointing on multiple levels.
For a show that's called True Detective, detectives are pretty clueless - constantly on the wrong trail, and completely in the dark about what happened until everything is spelled out for them by mr. Julius. Not only that story behind the crime isn't that interesting but we get big exposition dump that explains everything in a manner of a Youtube recap video, most of which isn't even hinted at in previous episodes.
They had an opportunity to play around with unreliable narrator given the problems Hays has with remembering stuff which could be interesting in combination with the interview , but unfortunately that whole memory aspect boils down to nothing more than a backdrop for some nice editing transitions between time periods. One could argue that except last few minutes it makes no difference at all to the story. Whole interview aspect also went nowhere, and seem other to give them a reason to take one last look at the case.
This is by far the worst season as it clearly had nothing interesting to say - second one was a mess for the first half, but then found it's footing and even matched greatness of season 1 at times. At the very least it didn't try to backtrack to try to emulate what made season one so popular but was completely it's own thing.
Cocaine Bear presents the spin-off we didn’t asked for Cocaine Shark
Really predictable, poor acting and overall boring.
Saw an advance screening of this one.
This is one of the most original and creative films I have ever seen. In the words of Casetify defending their copyright theft: it's "a bastion of originality".
Let's get a quick rundown of the plot:
Some farmers are chilling on their farm, enjoying their peaceful life. They have enough grain for themselves and a little extra. Big evil outsiders come in, and want their grain. This is a problem, because they want all of it. So the evil outsiders announce that they'll be back in ten weeks to take all of their grain, and boy howdy had they better have that grain ready, or else bad things will befall this little peaceful farming town. So the peaceful farmers decide to send out two of their people to go and find some SPACE WARRIORS:tm: to defend them from the evil empire.
At this point, you're probably saying to yourself, "This sounds familiar", but I assure you, it's a story never been seen before on film. Not once.
checks notes
- Seven Samurai
- The Magnificent Seven
- Battle Beyond the Stars
- A Bug's Life
- Star Trek Enterprise: Marauders
- The Magnificent Seven (again)
- etc, etc, etc
Now, what makes this one different, is that it's with Star Wars vibes!
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Oops Mandalorian did this one too in S1E4, "Sanctuary".
So what this movie lacks in originality, it surely makes up for in characters, right? Wrong! Out of the six or seven main characters in this film, all of them get less development than a random spider villain that shows up briefly halfway through. There are two interesting characters, one of which is the main character, Kora, whose flashback stories are infinitely more interesting than her present predicament, and Jimmy, a robot voiced wonderfully by Anthony Hopkins, who disappears after about five minutes of screentime.
This movie consists of the main characters going to a place, seeing a person do something cool, stowing that person in their spaceship for later, repeated a few times. We get a cool scene of Shirtless Guy trying to ride a bird lion thing, which is lifted straight from Avatar, a very derivative film in it's own right. There's a scene of Asian Sword Lady taking down a spider person, which is cool but again has no impact on the story or other characters whatsoever. It's a list of cool action scenes Snyder wanted to string together and came up with some very thin reasoning to get there. It also has the advantage of being a "Part 1", which means the movie is all setup and no payoffs, so nothing really happens in this film. The Moon does not Rebel.
The main Nazi Guy does get killed by our main hero, which should be a pretty permanent thing given that he is in fact dead. I almost gave Snyder a pass here for this next part, because earlier in the movie, he sets up a character that can bring things back to life! Holy reveal, Batman, she's still alive! Nope, they hook him up to some hoses and put him in a water balloon, and he's all better and more ready than ever to subjugate some farmers on a back moon somewhere for some grain, sans the re-aliving princess.
I will give a little credit to the visuals of the film; they're outstanding. This movie was great to look at, even better if you only look at the trailer and don't have to deal with the plot, which is what this film was designed for. Most of the exciting trailer shots were five second flashbacks which weren't fleshed out. I watched more slow motion shots of rice in this movie than actual characters interacting.
To paraphrase Honest Trailers' criticism of Nolan's Tenet: This movie is not Zack Snyder at his best, but it's certainly Zack Snyder at his most.
All that being said, I had a great time. Solid movie. Would recommend. Can't wait for Part 2.
First off, my sincere condolences to the families of the 22 victims who lost their lives during the 2019 eruption of Whakaari. Unfortunately, it feels like, in the quest for tourism $$, the government, as well as tour companies and officials DOWNPLAYED the potential for injury and DEATH in the case that the volcano did indeed erupt while there were people on the island.
Hindsight is always 20/20, but, IMO, a LACK of knowledge and training, caused the tour guides to NOT recognize the subtle signs that things were different on that day. The volcano gave ample warnings, i.e., the water in the streams was hotter, the water in the crater lake was white, frothy (steam venting more than usual) and still covered in ash from activity the previous few nights. A lack of an emergency plan contributed to the situation, in that, there wasn't, even a rudimentary (concrete) shelter near the area where tourists could potentially hunker down and possibly ride out such an occurrence. If you're going to put people at risk, as the one couple who survived stated, at least be sure people have a fully INFORMED consent, that, this is NOT a Disneyland ride, and if shizz goes pear shaped, you could lose your life, or have it severely changed.
Mega-Kudos to the tour boat Captain and crew for going back to get survivors from the second boat, even as the volcano was still popping off, as well as the helicopter and fixed wing pilots, who put themselves and their crafts at SEVERE risk to fly into the ash and steam cloud, find a place to land, and pick up the walking wounded, even IF some of them later succumbed to their injuries. You could literally see the trauma in their "1000 yard stares" as they shared their recollections of that fateful day.
However it's BUCKWHEATS for ANY of the Guvment' officials who refused to send additional help to rescue potential survivors, when it was obviously an "all hands to the pumps" moment. Spare us your condolences, do everyone a favor, and retire from public service, as you obviously haven't a clue as to what public "servant" actually means. SMFHID!!
....and finally, BLESSINGS to those who DID survive, who have managed to carry on in spite of the suffering they have endured. In the meanwhile, hopefully, the Māori Chief's words may bring them, as well as the friends and families of the lost, some semblance of closure, that, Whakaari called their kinfolk to join the pantheon of the ancestors, forever to be protectors and guardians of the sacred island.
I quite enjoyed the show until the end. This, however, felt like an amateur film to me. I know it isn’t because of the actors that are involved, but almost every directorial choice in this film makes no sense to me. For starters, it’s really hard to get a grasp on its tone. One minute it feels like a heightened, theatrical comicbook film, other moments feel like they’re being lifted from the Se7en/Silence of the Lambs playbook. The dialogue, story choices, blocking and Andy Serkis’ hair are weird and illogical. Why did we need this prison section? Why does Andy Serkis’ character feel like a mashup of several Batman villains? Why am I supposed to root for a detective who escapes from prison and acts according to his own will ? This takes place in modern day London, not Gotham City, right? Was this a black list script that has been retooled to loosely fit with the show? Cuz I feel like I’ve been tricked into watching a B-movie I’d never watch if the Luther brand wasn’t attached to it. The movie is at least a little elevated by Elba’s performance and a few effective moments of tension, but even a lot of those beats are clearly lifted from other movies. For example, there’s this whole chase scene that takes place in the London underground which blatantly rips off Skyfall (a movie that’s visually “referenced” on multiple occasions). It’s just very, very weak on a creative level. It’d probably be slightly more watchable at 90 minutes, but it thinks it’s this big epic that can sustain a long runtime, which is a little misjudged to say the least.
2.5/10
One could argue that the end is really the beginning of the story, which is left to the watcher to wonder so I understand why some people will dislike it, all in all I liked the atmosphere, style and soundtrack, but the movie does kinda end up feeling like it was more of a presentation of the world and building of it on the midst of the hero's journey of Vesper. It was slow but I really enjoyed and the curiosity about the society in this reality really kept me interested. I don't have hopes but I'd love to see it being explored in a tv show format, perhaps, picking up where the movie left. And no doubt that if you are a Nausicaä fan like myself you'll at least enjoy the aesthetic inspiration of this world.
This is it folks, this is peak television. What we have here is one of the most gut wrenching and masterfully crafted episodes ever brought to screen. Absolutely fucking phenomenal with career best performances from Murray Bartlett and Nick Oferman. Holy shit this will stick with me.
i really, really hope this kid lives a safe and fulfilling life from here on out. he deserves it.
How oblivious is Gilead to their global image that they thought including their clearly pissed-off handmaiden in the background of their staged plea to Canada would be a good idea? That people would perceive any part of that image with sympathy? Big yikes.
Oh my God, I'm gonna be sick.
This was the defining moment for Serena. This was the moment that mattered. The moment she had to decide what kind of person she wanted to be. And out of all the options she had, she chose to hold June down and let Waterford rape her while June screamed and begged her not to. She had the chance to show a little bit of the most basic human decency and she threw it away. I've always felt very conflicted about her and I've loved her arc this season, but this crossed the line big time. I'm shaking right now because I'm so angry and disgusted.
Elisabeth Moss knocks it out of the park every single episode and I don't usually talk much about her acting because at this point I kind of take it for granted, but she destroyed me in this episode. She ripped my heart into little pieces and made me cry so hard that I still haven't stopped. She deserves every award for her performance. Every. Single. One. She just secured her second Emmy with this.
so disappointing, whole Matrix II level with big words sentences with no meaning just science on your face and fancy terms that make no sense just to make you feel dumb and that this is a great show sci-fi. But it all collapses through the awful ending. MY GOD why did they do that so un-creative and copy paste "Life On Mars" ending. You know why ? Because they didn't know how to explain all the things, so the only nice way out of there and take that viewer was that explanation.
8 hours gone out of the window.
If i read another blog "1899 totaly blows the mind of its viewers netflix has done it again" i will cancel my Internet connection.
I can't believe I spent a whole day watching 8 episodes of this junk.
So disappointing.
In the time Melody wasted getting Jess to go, they both could have been halfway to the street. Fire escapes are designed for a quick descent. Use it dipshit.
Melody is such an idiot. She knows she is the one Samuel wants. He told her. It's one of the few things that was obvious he wasn't lying about. So Melody sticks around. Brilliant...
Oh, and she has yet to put up a fight to protect herself. There are lots of F-bombs, but she doesn't ever fight back.
Dan sure does know how to waste time. You have five minutes. So let's spend 3 minutes with a family that isn't your family. Then, let's wander around only calling out Melody's name once every 30 seconds. Oh, and let's stop to waste time looking at empty rooms. Then, let's keep changing channels on the TV while dipshit Melody wanders off. Yeah, let's do that for at least a minute. So far, Dan has managed to completely waste most of his time doing idiotic crap. Why would he ever let go of Melody's hand? What a dumbass.
I have mixed feelings about this show.
On one hand, it’s incredibly well made, well acted, historically accurate and entertaining.
On the other hand, it’s almost exploitative in its usage of these stories in order to entertain. Relatives and friends of victims are saying that this series is retraumatizing them, which to me doesn’t feel right. Whatever commentary or whatever the creators are trying to “teach” us with this series is completely overshadowed to me by the sheer entertainment value found in this show.
So while I can’t say I agree with the ideology and the making of this show itself, I will say it was a very fun watch for me, and even as a fan of serial killers and true crime, it shed new light on Jeffrey Dahmer for me that I wasn’t familiar with before. Definitely not for the faint of heart, though. Dahmer’s actions are truly horrendous, and they are shown pretty extensively here.
Some of these episodes truly make you consider both sides. But this one... No. The moment the victim's family said he was abusive toward her, which is not something he ever mentioned in his version of events, not even to express regret, I knew that this guy was full of shit. You're already in prison for the rest of your life, if there's ever a time to admit your wrongdoings and just be honest with yourself, that would be it.
Can't even imagine the emotional and financial damage he inflicted upon so many women. Victim blaming is easy when you haven't been in the shoes of the other person. I'm glad they got their power back in some way, 'cause many of these assholes take advantage of discretion and these women made sure he was known for who he really is: a piece of shit, like one of them said, pathetic, definitely, and a criminal. Whoever's with him now won't be able to say they didn't know what they were getting into.
Funny as shit. And then sad as hell when you realize it's basically just a documentary.
The real question is why the hell did the guy charge money for snacks at the white house?
If you don't like this movie, wait for next parts. They will be released in the following order:
Father iOS
Brother Linux
Sister Windows
Grandpa Cobol
Uncle DoS
Nephew Basic
Pet Python
Ruby on Rails
Aunt Symbian
Niece Unraid
Brother Java
The Meg.
Alternative title: Everything wrong with contemporary Hollywood in 2 hours.
Alternative title II: This one’s for you, China.
Just shut up, Meg.
2/10
Like waiting at a bus stop for the scares to come but they're behind schedule so I just ended up sitting there for most of it.
TV shows fans: "man that 'Battle of Winterfel' episode was so dark, I couldn't see sh¡t for like 90% of the episode. I mean, the white WALKERS scene in the hallways was a bunch of blurs running on the screen... "
The Walking Dead se10ep9: "Hold my beer"
Another great episode in this season. I know some people complain that there isn't enough action but I feel like the story doesn't always need the blood and gore to maintain a strong story, in fact, these in depth episodes make me bond with characters more and they make them more relatable. I think a lot of people (including myself) suspected that Dante wasn't a good guy. He appeared somewhat out of the blue in this season and they focused a lot on him, now finally we have confirmation and I gotta say, it makes him cooler in my opinion. At first he was just an annoying character that got too much screentime but now we know he is there for a reason. Poor Siddiq, I believe he could've gotten out of there alive if he had kept him cool, he didn't. I like that Dante felt somewhat bad for killing him. He kind of lulled him to sleep. I like that they went full circle with this episode. From 'open your eyes' to 'close your eyes'.
Even though I suspected Dante to be a whisperer spy, the clicking of the tongue followed by Siddiq's flashbacks still got to me. I actually think the way his story was told, the trauma, him dealing with it and his ultimate death was told very beautifully. tragic of course but again without the gore. They could have shown a lot there, with all the head chopping being done in that shed, but they didn't. Good choice.
"what a man gotta do to get eaten 'round here?!"
"little pig, little pig... Come out, come out wherever you are"
JDM shines every time he's on screen. It's like that part was written for him.
I could totally handle Negan only episode. Maybe something like "The New Adventures Negan and Lucille" or even better - " Negan - Apocalypse Nut Smacker"
Everyone out here complaining about the ending. I’m just really upset my dude died his hair that hideous red color
I'm a quite sensitive watcher so you can imagine how much I cried during this episode. Like a baby. So sad yet brilliant!
Ah, yes, whenever I go wake a partner up, I always aim for the neck.
producers: how many deaths in the first episode?
squid game creators: yes
goddamn that was intense
