So damn good. Got some old Breaking Bad feels on this one
I am sad, disgusted. If I were dexter I would kill trinity again
Ever since the mid 90s, Roland Emmerich has attempted time and time again to repackage and recapture the ideas from Independence Day. After many failed attempts, I wonder why there’s still a theatrical market for films like this. Or rather, it’s odd that Hollywood thinks there’s still a market for it, given that all of Emmerich’s films since 2012 have flopped at the box office. And, he’s about to add another one to his resume. This should’ve gotten a streaming release at best, as it belongs in the same category as a film like The Tomorrow War. It’s background noise you throw on while you’re doing the dishes or folding the laundry. It's too disposable, phony, poorly acted and boring to pay any serious attention to, let alone pay money for. There's a sense of authenticity and fun to dumb action movies like Independence Day that you're never going to capture with the way these kind of films are made now. You have to applaud Emmerich for making a big, original studio film, but it’s still generic schlock that doesn’t have a single ounce of personality. Fuck whoever financed this.
Edit: after a little bit of digging I found out that the primary investor of this thing is a Chinese company called Tencent Pictures. They’re also responsible for financing other great films such as Terminator: Dark Fate, Warcraft, Kong: Skull Island, Men in Black: International, Monster Hunter and the 2 Venom movies. To put it mildly, it appears that it’s this company’s sole purpose to flood the market with trash, and not exactly the fun kind. Now I know what you’re thinking: maybe their involvement helps with receiving a Chinese release from the CCP? But here’s the problem: Venom 2 was banned in China. So, they’re clearly just a bunch of incompetent investors, given that all of their films (the Venom films excluded) have been massive financial and critical flops. The takeaway for Hollywood should be pretty simple: if Tencent wants to invest in your production, cancel all plans before you have another Moonfall on your hands.
2.5/10
Watch it if you’re a fan of Toto, or genuinly laugh at any point during the first scene.
I can’t begin with to tell you how dumb this movie is. About half way through i decided I had been subjected to enough of the terrible story and turned it off. Don’t waste your time on this.
Season 5 of Dexter was referred to as a “re-imaging of the series,” and it succeeds brilliantly at this. A character drama at heart, this season does an incredible job at developing the main characters and giving them compelling story arcs. In the wake of Season 4’s shocking finale Dexter finds himself broken and lost, and attempts to find redemption in helping a traumatized rape victim track down and exact revenge against the rape gang that abducted and brutalized her; meanwhile Det. Quinn starts to suspect that Dexter is dirty and hires a P.I. to investigate him. The serial storytelling is especially well-done, as the stories move fluidly from episode to episode; staying remarkably coherent and organic. And the guest stars this season, Julia Stiles, Peter Weller, and Jonny Lee Miller, deliver extraordinary performances. Dexter has come a long way, and this new re-imaging in Season 5 makes for an exciting time for the series.
A fun "whodunit" that offers little to write home about. Though Death on the Nile is quite lively and enjoyable, I'm afraid the story and most of its performances are quite forgettable. Honestly, I have little bad to say about the film, but I also have little to rave about, and I believe many people will feel this same way.
I I cried so much at et the end. I thought he died when he faded away. But apparently it ment life moves on, We all die, but not today, Enjoy it while you can.
I think I get it! The snails are supposed to represent the snail-like pacing of this awful movie.
they say good movies don't easily get out of fashion but the one liners in this movie man, they didn't age well at all
I love it when Sandler plays these more serious roles. While I love him as a comedic actor I genuinely feel like he excels further when he shows his range and is cast for these more serious roles. Hustle isn't really anything groundbreaking and doesn't particularly break any new ground in what we've all seen in most sport movies. But the cast, the tension, music and everything else just works despite hitting all the usual cliches. Just a solid 'feel good' and motivational film. Highly recommend for Sandler fans, my wife who has zero interest in any kind of sports sat and watched the whole thing and enjoyed this one so please don't think you need to know basketball or enjoy sports to enjoy this. Solid 8/10
This the definition of an average movie. Good enough to not be bored for 90 minutes. Bad enough that afterwards you'll forget everything about it because nothing actually interesting happened.
The funniest, most original thing I've seen in a long long time man. These two are superb. They are brilliant at what they do. They've completely changed my mind about improv. A true gem indeed!
You know this is Cinema when the movie makes you cry over rocks.
That Moses is such a bad actress, damn. I get so bored. Aren't there any good actors left?
They shouldn't give parts only because they are black. They should be good actors!
I couldn't make it thru this series due to Moses Ingram's terrible acting skills. It was just too much to endure.
Classic South Park style. Even the classic Randy design returned (I'm tired of the stupid Tegridy Farms story).
Bruh!
This episode feels like a classic episode. Kids being kids.
What a great movie! What movies should be like. This needs to be viewed in theaters! Highly recommend.
The show had its ups and downs through its season, but the final two episodes were game changers and made up for every little bad thing. The show is amazing and can't wait for next season.
i don't... what.. i just can't breathe aright now... holy holy damn
Genuinely one of the most horrifying death I've ever witnessed in a TV show. The entire final sequence is scarier than most horror movies these days.
So here’s what happened: Some guy played GTA V and his stoned friend, who happened to be a producer, said: Come on, let’s make a movie out of it! I dare you! They laughed, called Michael Bay and the rest is history.
Seriously, the movie makes no sense, is absurd and absolutely senseless. Most of the scenes are just a usual day in GTA. I couldn’t stop laughing at the bs story and absurd „story“. Crank was better because it was funny with a purpose. This is just embarrassing and at the same time it’s not even the worst movie I’ve watched this year.
[9.0/10[ An incredibly tense hour of television. What's so impressive is that Better Call Saul accomplished this despite us knowing that, of course, Jimmy and Gus both survive. It comes down to such fantastic performances from everyone involved. You immediately buy how shaken and terrified Jimmy and Kim are, and how frightened even the normally steady Gus is at the point of Lalo's gun. Vince Gilligan's direction is outstanding, with a Hitchcockian flair for light and shadow that sets the foreboding mood of all these set pieces. And the score does the rest, helping the audience to feel the emotion of these scenes even if we rationally know the fates of several of those at the most risk.
My only mild beef is that Gus' survival feels like a bit of a cheat. It's still not clear to me why he did the gun in the superlab, and the dialogue kind of shrugs at the idea. Even in the dark, it seems like Lalo would have done better against Fring than he did. But details like Fring seeming to make one last desperate ploy to survive, still suffering wounds despite his body armor, and admitting he was over his skiis with this whole thing in the end helps make it passable. On a moment-to-moment basis, the scenes absolutely work, which covers for a lot.
What struck me the most is that closing image -- Howard and Lalo, two very different men, sharing the same fate and the same grave. It's a sign that the barrier between Jimmy's legal life and Saul's criminal life has been firmly shattered. Both lives, both worlds, are bound up in these deaths now, with the psychic weight hanging over Jimmy and Kim for the last five episodes. This never happened, but they, and Mike, will all still have to live with it. I can't wait to see how.
EDIT: If you'd like to read my usual, longer review of the episode, you can find it here -- https://thespool.net/reviews/tv-recap-better-call-saul-season-6-episode-8/
sobbing HE CANT KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IT!!
(by "he" I mean Vince Gilligan and the rest of the cast and crew and by "it" I mean making this show so consistently high quality)
I can't imagine how this show will end at this point. There's still so much we need to know. What an episode though. The beautiful overlap between "Better Call Saul" and "Breaking Bad" prove that the idea for a prequel was well thought out and considered as to not ruin the unforgettable legacy of its predecessor. It's fascinating to see some blanks being filled in that true fans will come to appreciate.
Did anyone notice when Walt was asked about his greatest regret he quickly looms down at the watch Jessie gave him, does this mean the regret he'll never say out loud is possibly how he treated Jessie or at lease how he left him behind?
LOL I almost thought that was it for Fuches in the opening. Bakery guy Mitch is so hysterical in his every bored "wisdom", hope that wasn't the last we see of him. And as I thought this veers towards being a (very good) transitional episode, that chase happens. Loved how striking the action scenes are shot this season, with deadpan distance and miniature feeling, almost like some violent, twisted Wes Anderson.
Parks and Rec is one of my favourite pieces of television and for the better part of its run on television, I was genuinely awestruck by its superb ensemble cast and characters and its emphatic sense of worldbuilding that gave way to so many memorable side characters on the show. The utterly unassuming first season therefore stands out in stark contrast relative to the show it would go onto become and its central saving grace is that the first season is as short as it is at just the six episodes.
In my opinion, the show manages to get right some aspects of Leslie's character such as her infectious joy and optimism in government work but it seems to get wrong her overall tone, opting more for bumbling and incompetent and less for confident and assured. In the early parts of the season in particular, she plays out like another version of Michael Scott, obnoxious and overbearing and it only spells out more clearly how Parks and Rec initially operated under the shadows of NBC's The Office.
Ann is perhaps the only character in my opinion that they manage to get right from the start but that might also have to do with her being one of the more easily defined characters on the show. She's effectively the "straight man" of the series and Rashida Jones plays that part without any difficulty whatsoever. Going back and seeing Ann and Chris being a couple on the show is so strange and difficult to re-adjust to seeing where these characters would go onto.
The problem with Mark's character is a) there is already a "straight man" in Ann on the show and b) Paul Schneider just isn't very charismatic onscreen and he just doesn't quite translate the more nuanced aspects of his character whereby he can be both sleazy and empathetic and what not.
A big problem with this first season is how April is almost blatantly pushed to the side. She gets so little screentime and only a handful of completely unsubstantial lines of dialogue in this season that she's not even a caricature of the apathetic adolescent. Through April's complete lack of character, the season loses one of its pivotal voices that makes the show so goddamn endearing. Speaking of personalities, Ron Swanson is also a weak voice in the first season even if he gets a handful of moments that work well in retrospect. To extend that idea another step further, Jerry and Donna are also pushed aside for the most part here or maybe, they weren't initially conceived to be part of the show's ensemble.
Season 1 barely hobbles its way to the finish line but it's not absolutely reprehensible or anything. It just isn't very convincing and at all and there isn't much humour or even fun to be found here. That all changes with the second season and by the end of that second season, the show would completely find its voice when two of the greatest personalities on the show make their entrance.
The first few episodes start off a bit shakey and a lot of the characters initially start off a bit dense and/or one dimensional. I would urge you to give it another go and get through a couple of episodes. After that, this show proves it is entirely worthy of the score and praise it gets.
