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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.
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- 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.
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.
This film is the living thing that brushes up against your leg under the sheets in your bed when you're asleep.
There were many original concepts in this film (the blend of horror and drama, the conflict, the body horror scenes and insect closeups...) but the narrative arc and the ending ate away at the good parts and left the film with some fairly obvious holes.
Still, there are enough elements of above average French horror to make the film worth a look.
Pirates of the Caribbean meets Indiana Jones.
Nice try, just entertaining, not a masterpiece.
"Sara and Jess not twins but are one singular person in a split personality. There are TONS of clues to this.
1) The hair color is an obvious choice. It plays a role later, but to tell the difference, we see two dramatic changes. Could just be cinematic ease, however it does play a role later.
2) She always says that when her sister makes bad choices, she has to come and save her. Sara is the passive personality, and "comes forward" during times of high stress or trauma. This split originated during the trauma of the parents murder/ suicide. Sara said she never saw the scene, so when Jess faces that sadness it sparks Sara to the rescue as Sara can hide behind the idea that she never saw the trauma. One very specific case of this is the second suicide attempt. Sara said she had not heard from Jess and could not reach her on the phone, so she had 911 check on her. You call 911 locally. You do not call it across states, so Sara called 911 when Jess took the pills to save her. Another thing is the use of pills, which someone dealing with this level of scarring would have high amounts of medication, like the ones seen in her bag. If we were to look closely at the pills, I bet there would be heavy medications for schizophrenia.
3) When Sara tells Rob that she needs to go save Jess, Rob looks like he has dealt with this before. What he sees is that Jess has relapsed into Sara, and is doing his best to keep her grounded. By "sleeping on it," he is trying to buy time for Jess to take over, but in the morning she has all ready left. One small aspect is we never see her in a plane, only in an apartment and then in Japan. Jess was actually in Japan teaching when she had a snap, and Rob did not have to fly to catch up to her. It may even be possible that Rob is her psychiatrist, and the apartment was his office. More on him later.
4) When she dreams about Jess in a tent, you see two silhouettes, but when she opens only 1 person is in the tent, which is Jess.
5) Sara knew exactly which direction Jess' tent is in. We never see the two together ever, except in pictures or during the split event. Jess was lost for 5 days, yet when she runs to the rescue party at the end she was at her tent.
6) When Sara searches her apartment, she looks at all of the hair products (which I bet hair dye is one of them)
7) When she sees a picture of Jess on Aiden's phone, it was actually a picture of her he had taken for the article. She does not recognize it is her because she views herself as blonde, but Jess is the real person so any picture would be of Jess and not of her perception of blonde hair.
8) The Sara Teasdale poem
"And not one will know of the war, not one
Will care at last when it is done.
Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree,
If mankind perished utterly;
And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn,
Would scarcely know that we were gone."
Translation: No one knows about her splits warring for control, and no one will care about the Sara's death as she is not real. Neither bird or tree relates to the forest gaining another spirit upon the shedding of the sadness. When she awakes at dawn, she barely knows the war took place as she never acknowledged she was split, but she does scarcely know she is gone.
9) When she explains the twin link, its a sound or buzz, and when the other is dead, it is silent. That is the quiet in her head after the split no longer occupies her subconsciousness. In this case, both personalities have a reality, but only one exists. The noise is the presence of the other personality in her subconscious.
10) When Jess comes out of the forest, Rob says "Sara?" They have opposite hair, so he should recognize that it is Jess. When she says nothing, he changes the name to Jess. She then answers. To further this, he strongly asks her if she has seen Sara. Knowing Sara is the trauma, he needs to know if Jess has regained control. When she says she is still in the forest, Rob knows it may mean Sara has been eliminated from Jess. She also says "she came to save me," which I think is when she realizes that Sara took control. More than likely, Jess understands their is a Sara, but is unable to control when she takes over.
So, to sum up the story. Jess moves to Japan and takes on a job as a teacher, but has been dealing with this mental health and trauma from the child's view of the horror. She knows the forest is where people "find themselves" and can "face their sadness." She had a tent, brought along reading material as she is their for a walkabout to finally face her trauma. During this, Sara takes over while she is in the forest. Two things could happen here. Since the story is told from Sara's view, most of the Sara adventure is just a completely false reality happening while Jess is in the woods, or Sara completely takes over, changes clothes (why Jess' clothes are hanging in the woods) and goes back to her psychiatrist in which she believes she is married to. Then the story goes as we follow Sara through backtracking to Jess. Jess said she was lost for 5 days, meaning she was in the woods for 5 days, but that is also how long we have followed Sara.
The story comes to an end in the ranger's cabin when she kills Aiden, and then is faced with the basement scene. She protects Jess from seeing the scene, telling her to not look, but then Sara sees the scene. Sara would not know what this looks like, as she said she never saw it but the scene was obvious to her. This is where Sara is forced to face the fact that she saw the horrible scene, and cannot hide between a split that is a witness to it and one that is safe from it. She then finally, once and for all, faces it, by literally asking her dad why, and then cutting him away from her. This of course is the suicide of Sara, but it is the killing of the split, leaving Sara to die in the basement where she was created. After the suicide, Jess awakens, and both can be seen running parallel to each other, indicating the return of control by Jess. This is the moment where they pass each other in the main control of Jess. Jess comes forward as Sara is running, causing Jess to run. She eventually emerges from the forest, having faced her trauma, and left behind a soul for the forest to keep. The Yuri are the remnants of the sadness left in the forest by the people who faced their sadness, regardless of suicide or success.
Nichi could not handle the sadness of losing someone under his guide, and this is why he is now susceptible to seeing the spirits, and Sara comes for him in the end."
I'm quite surprised to see so many high ratings for this film - 10/10? Best film ever? Really??
This film had a germ of a good idea and the special effects are a plus point, there are even some solid jump scares. That said, the characters are pretty flat and underdeveloped (an antagonist for the main kid character, Cody (Jacob Tremblay), is literally just referred to as "bully" and is a generic character with no rhyme nor reason to be picking on Cody) and the storyline feels like it could have done with about an extra half hour to unfold more, e.g. it was quite ridiculous that grieving parents Jessie and Mark, played by Kate Bosworth and Thomas Jane, just accepted and immediately exploited Cody's special powers, as if superpowers are a very unremarkable thing. I think perhaps one of the biggest WTF moments for me was when Cody's dreams killed Mark but Jessie didn't take a moment to morn him or feel angry at Cody for taking her husband away from her, especially after she had tragically lost her biological son. She even ends the film continuing to live with and look after him!
As for the ending, it was OK and probably sounded better on paper than the actual execution. There was also no explanation for why the kid had these powers; it just was, as if that was all that was needed.
If you've got a spare 90 minutes or so and want to watch something fairly unchallenging and that is occasionally creepy, then Before I Wake fits the bill. Beyond that, though, there are plenty of better films out there. I found the plot too ropey and the characters too flat to recommend this outside of a "it's not terrible but it's not great".
Super fun watch.. woulda made a great tv series
Not going to lie, I was expecting hoping for more Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga.
A very nice thriller in treasure hunt mode with a pretty dark mood. I'm not too much into thrillers but I always appreciated treasure hunt movies where the characters start with one clue that leads to another, that leads to another until the end.
Here the first clue happened to be the main character's daughter's phone number found inside the head of a dead body he's autopsying. Original, morbid, a good start. The rest of the clues happen to be on an unaccessible island because of a storm so he ends up directing a random girl on how to inspect and autopsy a corpse over the phone. Again, a great idea, that's the best part of the story, pretty gross and funny at the same time.
The suspense is perfectly handled, combining Paul's current search for clues, the links to his past, his daughter's situation, Linda's stalker story, there's almost no slow part. Adding the night and storm into the mix, the whole thing feels a lot like Millenium-like nordic thrillers. There are also false clues which are very well used. Ingolf which is suspicious af for the whole thing but turns out to just be a convenient mean of transportation. Linda's stalker ex boyfriend that could very well have been there but is just not. Great thing is that they're not on purpose false clues that would only be there because of a very precise scenario that would lead the viewer to a theory just to be able to turn it around later in the story. They're more like natural real life random coincidences, and that makes it so much better.
On the same level, an interesting part is that the whole clue hunt doesn't go at all like its creators intended, not only because of the storm preventing to go to the island, but as we can see, because Sadler is not dead. On one hand that makes it more pressing and suspensefull.
However on the other hand, what the fuck ? When you think about it a little, what would have been the goal if all went according to plan ? A very complex and morbid 4-5 dead bodies clue hunt that would probably scar Hannah for life, where all the participants have already killed themselves and the main culprit, so all of it just to play a sick game of "I told you so" to a guy who just refused to break the law and lie about the evidence in a police investigation ? Really ? It was worth going through all that, the whole thing is pretty extreme, that's a lot of imagination and work, and even hurt an innocent girl like their daughters (and as we see, it could have gone really bad for her because they fucked up), even after already having their vengeance, when the only goal is to behave like assholes to a guy that did nothing wrong.
Though because the story is well written, with a good rythm and you only discover information a piece at a time, this incredibly stupid starting point is not really visible until you take a step back after the end. During the movie you're just jumping from clue to clue like the characters and it's a very masterful story that catch you from beginning to end.
Works as both a horror movie and an examination of the immigrant crisis, with themes that extend to guilt, displacement, and the horrors of ghosts past. A great film, stylish and unnerving.
Halfway through the movie I was already blinking like detective Loki.
At age 88, Clint still has it. I'm a big fan and have seen all his films at least once. I can understand how someone who does not like him finds this movie rather boring. One thing this movie is not is a thriller. But you have to give it a chance and maybe find something valuable in it. You have to invest some time. Nowadays, it is rare to find a slowly moving picture that is not overloaded but straightforward. This tells a story about a man for whom you can actually sympathize, even though he does something criminal.
I watched a fantastic video that focused more on the murderer Chris Watts’ abysmal turn in the interrogation. It focuses a lot less on Shanann (which is a good thing because the documentary throwing mean comments towards her did nothing for the story). Check out JCS Criminal Psychology Chris Watts for a better analysis if you are interested in the case.
If you don't know anything about the Watts case, this is a great way to become familiarized with it. And that's why I like this documentary because it's a good introduction to the case and it shows what an absolute piece of shit Chris Watts is, which I believe is something everyone on earth should know.
However, I wish it was more in-depth. I do like the fact that they used all this real footage and allowed them, both Shannan and Chris, to present themselves in their own words. But I wish it went beyond that. There's SO MUCH MORE to this case. I've watched so many videos, interviews, and I also read the case file, which is almost 2000 pages, and I wish they would've explored all that more deeply.
This is one of the most heartbreaking, shocking, and disheartening cases you'll ever come across, and this is coming from someone who constantly consumes true crime content. That much is clear from the documentary, so it's a good one. An important watch!
A good and worthy film; more revenge flick than political drama. And because of this, the film was far more entertaining than I thought it was going to be.
Kind of obvious but still entertaining. Mediocre plot from start to finish. Like a lot of movies in this genre, there was more potential but they went for a pretty obvious route.
The minute Hayden showed up it became clear to me that it was him behind everything. They tried to throw in a twist with the 'Adam could've known the guy who robbed the diner' arc, couldn't sway me from my own suspicions. A plus in this story was that the female detective knew that Katie was innocent and tried to offer her a lifeline.
The ending was awful. Up until that shoot out between Adam and Hayden they had the suspense, I feel like they wrapped it up way to fast and why would Hayden want to drag this out? He could've killed Leonard, searched the house top to bottom and left. He didn't need to show his face over and over to Katie. The diamonds weren't THAT hard to find. Katie stumbled upon them.
Also, in four months time (at the end) we see Katie - now pregnant - working in her garden because she stayed in the murder house but whatever, and it hasn't rained in that entire time and she hasn't used the sprinklers or watered the flowers in any other form for four entire months thus not exposing the diamonds that are LITERALLY right THERE?! It's details like this that make or break a movie for me.
Here is what happened: the writers got so confused by their own story, that they left and got replaced by an apprentice (who actually was just the pizza guy), and he finished the script, leaving everyone so clueless that they called it a day and Netflix released the movie accidentally, because they forgot to delete the file in their trash bin. I'm pretty sure this explains everything!
I’ve seen some fucked up hairstyles in my day but damn.
The script is the only thing that you can save in this poor acting movie. A story that could have been pleasant turned boring. Is not possible to empathize with any character neither understand what is their motivation. Also there are some holes on how Tomás is not able to demonstrate Lara that he isn't lying.
While looking for the dragonballs Kylo Vegeta Ren finds the emperor and he reveals a clown car with 10 trillion death stars in it. Instead of conquering the galaxy the emperor chooses to just give it to Kylo as long as he kills Rey, because she is a sayan prince or something.
Meanwhile Rey is also looking for the dragonballs and to find a dragonball she needs a wooden stick that some guy made 10 days ago.
Luke and Lanpedo have been looking for this stick for 10 years, but Rey finds it after falling in a hole and helping a snake. She blows up 10.000 people with a kamehameha, but is sad because she lost her dog. Their robot needs to talk with an alien monkey on another planet because it can give him red eyes. Rey goes on Kylos ship to find her stick, kills a few hundred more people with a gun and finds her dog. Rey notices the stick looks like a death star so they go to the death star and find the dragonball. Vegeta comes and is killed by Rey because his mom calls his name. Rey brings him back to life because she wants to smooch and kills his mother. Kylo finds his sayan spirit and becomes a good guy (he only killed a few million people no big deal). Rey rams her ship into another planet for fun and finds another stick that points to the emperors clown car. The emporer wants to get whipped, by his granddaugther, because he is into that. Rey charges a spirit bomb with the power of her 10 trillion fans, but the emporer snaps his fingers and kills all her fans in 1 hit. Kylo comes to help Rey whip her granddad, but he slips and falls down a staircase. Rey grants her grandad's his dying wish, but because the she used the wrong whip they are both dead now. Kylo revives Rey, they smooch and he turns into a ghost. Also his mom now is a ghost. Rey uses the dragonballs to destroy 10 trillion death stars and become a dirt farmer with a different last name, because some ghosts nod their head. Somehow her 10 trillion fans are back alive, her dog gets a medal and Lanpedo starts an inappropriate relationship.
10/10
