Trakt for iOS
Works on iPhone and iPad.
Even if you don't care for a story about high school / love / jealousy / drugs / crime (and this one is way better than, say, Riverdale) - watch this for the style. Lighting, colors, music and camera angles /movement are unlike any other TV show you've seen. The soundtrack might be among the best of any TV show - and I hate this kind of zoomer music. The episode in the diner? The musical? Masterpieces.
Everybody should watch season 1. As for season 2? Let's see:
Anyway: watch season 1 no matter what. Season 2 is way worse in regards to the plot but still very watchable (and you need to see the musical).
THE GOOD
Surprisingly fun old-school adventure movie in the line of Romancing the Stone or Indiana Jones. Good performances by Radcliffe and Tatum, especially.
Interesting location / treasure (although not really fleshed out) and characters.
THE BAD
Sandra Bullock's face looks like she's had surgery and it's not okay. Cher, anyone? Killed the immersion for me and made it absolutely unbeliebable that a young dude like Tatum would fall in love with her.
In general, the love story between the protagonists was the weak part of the movie and completely unnecessary. Letting them become good friends would have been wholesome and a nice change - this ending is an unbelievable version of what we've seen in Hollywood movies for 80 years now.
Also, some of the locations (the tomb surroundings, the beach at the end) had way too much CGI.
THE UGLY
Come to think of it, the nude scene Tatum had to go through for the laughs seems like something from another era. Imagine James Bond staring at the naked butt and vagina of a woman for several minutes, making funny remarks. Feminists would BURN THE CITY DOWN. But oh well. It's just a guy.
OVERALL
This review might not sound like it, but I enjoyed the movie a lot. Watch it with some friends and popcorn.
7/10
PROS
+ Dunno
CONS
- Terrible visuals. The CGI and lighting is completely off, destroying any sense of immersion.
- Woke diversity nonsense kills off the remaining realism: random people are now gay or black. The latter is especially cringy, because no black woman would have been accepted in Gal Gadot's school for rich aristocracts in the early or mid 20th century. This kind of historical revisionism is dangerous and kinda racist.
- That same black girl is portrayed like an aggressive tank girl full of self esteem, hurling insults and btchy comments at everyone, including a potential EMPLOYER. Bro. Instagram egirls might do this in 2020, but not black girls in 1937. At least try to aim for some realism.
- Three days since watching the movie, and I can pretty much only remember the 4 main characters. The other 10 were completely forgettable.
- The final scene was terrible! Poirot standing at one end of the ship, shooting a gun for no reason, trapping the entire cast in one room and a camera drone flying around him like its some action movie. WTF.
- The proof that made the murderers give up? I didnt get it. And I know the old movie by heart.
Only watched Season 1 and man, it had some TERRIBLE episodes with absolute trash writing. Stop comparing it to masterpieces like Breaking Bad. There are no trash episodes or seasons in Mr Robot or The Wire.
It starts off with literally introducing the Mary Sue female programmer wonderkind (feminism doesnt care about reality or history) and I was tempted to stop watching right there.
After that, the first 3-4 episodes are actually decent before taking a nosedive.
Gordon is a whiny kid that changes direction in every effing episode and makes absolutely no sense.
Joe is supposed to be the great mystery man with an unknown past, and is probably the most interesting one of the bunch even tho he's painted as a sociopath early on - just to take a 180° and discover his heart later on. Again, realism, schealism.
Season 1 hits rock bottom with episode "The Giant". Holy mother of Jesus, what a huge pile of steaming whatever.
It's like the writers looked at great TV shows and tried to emulate good scripts by stiching together tropes and dramas and revelations they could think of but simply lacked any skill doing so.
End of season 1 is a little better, but still. Nowhere above 7/10.
If there's a masterpiece waiting in Halt and Catch Fire, it's not in season 1. According to critics, s3 and s4 are awesome - not sure if I ever make it so far tho seeing how s2 apparently "focuses on its female protagonists" instead of focusing on quality writing or consistent character arcs. Sigh.
This show changes from "best show ever" to "what is this trash" every 100 minutes.
GOOD
+ There are several action scenes that are OUT OF THIS WORLD. Camera, choreography, pacing... you haven't seen anything like this - especially not in a TV show. If you're gonna skip this show, at least watch episode "ronny/lily" (till the end of the supermarket scene) and the motorbike chase in 3x06 (until the shotgun shootout at the car dealer)!
+ Hank
+ Several hilariously funny scenes (especially season 1)
+ Just when you thought you were watching a comedy, the show hits you with gut-wrenching drama or violence.
BAD
- After season 1, the overarching story goes down the drain. Don't try to make sense of what people do in season 2 - it gets a little better in season 3.
- WTF is Fuches' storyline? Or Sally's? Or Barry's? There is no growth, no change, they repeat the same sht over and over and over.
- Everyone other than Hank is terrible and you soon wish they would die in a fire. Yes, even supporting characters like the acting students.
- Barry oscillates between 500 IQ mastermind and stuttering idiot that falls into every amateur trap available (see ending of season 3).
