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How did this show become so "successful" and win all of those Emmys. The show is boring and a waste of time, you do not feel any connection to any of the characters.
That's why I would like to make a recommendation to a Korean tv-show Beyond Evil. It also about a small town where everybody knows each other, and about two cops trying to find a serial murder. Excellent acting! You really could connect to the character's, the show made me cry many times. Similar to M of E but done right! | 2 |
Bradly cooper was brilliant in both acting and directing , I definitely think this is his best work. I thought he should've won best directing but he wasn't even nominated. Secondly , As good as lady gaga was , she definitely didn't deserve winning best actress. there were so many other actresses in other movies that were simply better. Makes me think these awards weren't given for "the best" like they used to but instead given to the most popular person on set. Not the best year for the oscars. English isn't my first language excuse me for any mistakes | 5 |
The Good Guys battle the Bad Guys within a video game for control of the game and its real world fortunes. Very Ambliny. Shallow and superficial. Any hope for real drama lost in the ultra-hi-tech CGI rendering, (the real star of the show), and the fast paced tweeny patter. The moral of the story being, according to the main character, gamers need to spend more time in the real world. At least two whole days per week. Because reality is the only place to get a decent meal. And, of course, a little down home lovin'.
Video game freaks will love this movie. Others? Maybe not so much. Worth the price of admission to see the special effects. Although that can get a little old about halfway through a two and a half hour epic. It has everything moviegoers have come to expect from the Spielberg camp. Except drama. And a soul.
5 stars for effort. | 5 |
This movie manages to stay out of superhero clichés and manages to be a realistic and logical action- thriller. Intro part is very attracting and casting Georges St-Pierre, one of the best MMA fighters ever, as Batroc is a very good choice. Hand-to-hand combat scenes and highway combat scenes are realistic and professional. The movie touches the theme of freedom, which is what Captain America stands for, elegantly. | 9 |
If you wanna enjoyed the show just watch S1 and S2. S3 was soo bad nothing was logical. We didn't get any answer. CGI was so bad comparing to the first 2 season. Bad acting and worst script ever!! Very disappointed! Glad there is the Boys to watch. | 3 |
This movie must have been written by a kid as there is no imagination whatsoever. Non stop unrealistic fight scenes for the first half which after five minutes become boring and monotonous, and then becomes slow and boring for the second half . I believe the only reason this movie gets views and reviews is because of the lead actor Chris Hemsworth who is always a good watch. Seriously if your over 16 years old this movie is not for you . | 3 |
1917 almost like Dunkirk(2017) is an experience of a battlefield with limited fight scenes, dialogues or gross scenes. Just actions. Thomas Newman's soundtrack is brilliant and suiting, photography is decent but color grading is lacklustre and monotonous (compared to Dunkirk). When you talk about experience films you've got to get soundtrack and cinematography matching the tension you want to create. It worked perfectly with Hans Zimmer and Hoyte van Hoytema in Dunkirk but 1917 lacks it for some reason which cuts off the tension a couple of times and then you've to rebuild again. It might've to do with the story too, very flat which allows your mind to wander off whereas Nolan tried to create a puzzle out of the three pieces in Dunkirk.
There's a few very good jump scares that can break a weak heart. | 7 |
I love the series! Don't ever let non-lingual Swedes do Swedish language!!! S2.:S6. It's like.... REALLY! Annoyed Scandinavian. | 8 |
This film is an overrated piece of jumbled mess. The Nolan brothers jammed as many characters into the script and tried to tell many stories in one canvas, by making it so ludicrous they failed to create a coherent storytellling and a narrative connection. Unlike the first film, this one doesn't have a satisfying conclusion or a payoff for sitting through two and a half hours. Overall an overwhelming and dreary experience.
Rest in peace Heath Ledger. You'll always be my Joker. | 4 |
Starts bad and doesn't improve. The actors can't fake a German accent to save their lives. I sadly wasn't close to laughing at any point. Taika's films are hit or miss and this is the epitome of miss. It's not even the type of bad that's good. This almost puts me off seeing any further Taika's films as I just don't know what humour he has left. It's such repetitive childish humour. See What We Do in the Shadows instead. | 1 |
Steve McQueen's '12 Years as a Slave' is a poorly executed exploitation of a classic story, lacking an underlying sense of meaning. It had great potential as an adaption of Solomon Northup's eponymous memoir, yet poor directorial decisions hindered it from leaving a lasting impact of colonial-era American slavery in my mind.
Steve McQueen (no, the other one) has previously achieved artistic and critical acclaim for his previous two works, Hunger (2008) and Shame (2011). '12 Years a Slave' follows a similar model to the former titles - touchy, depressing subjects, whose nature are paralleled with reading Russian literature and listening to Leonard Cohen in a cold, dark abbey.
Consequently, the permutation of this with a great cast (and accompanying great acting), relatively unexplored setting and great cinematography (with the excellent use of pauses) seems to scream 'modern classic' to be.
Fundamentally, the poor character development and abrupt ending undermine this movie from becoming something truly great.
The reluctant slave masters, respectively played by Benedict Cumberbatch and Brad Pitt, aim to represent angst and disillusionment with slavery, yet their true ethical positions aren't really established throughout their screen time.
This film, though its intentions are legitimate and original, misses the point; McQueen relies too heavily on special effects and confronting sexual scenes (some without explanation) to compensate for an underdeveloped storyline (hardly the first offender in recent film history).
While a mediocre title, I look forward to McQueen's next picture and hope the commercial success of this film proliferates the status of Chiwetel Ejiofor, an actor I adore. | 5 |
This is the only Mission Impossible movie I have seen and it was so boring. It's so long for an action movie, most action scenes aren't great. The bathroom scene was awesome, but that's the only great scene in the movie. The helicopter chase was so boring. The plot twists are lame and unrealistic. It's only worth watching for the bathroom scene, but I'd better had seen it on Youtube. | 3 |
The movie felt like a cheap children's TV show, but with A LOT of money thrown into CGI.
It is almost like Marvel had never actually made any movies before... Remember Winter Soldier ? Iron Man ? Avengers ?
What the hell happened, Marvel ?
It is just embarrassing for your whole company, to create such bad movies...
If you can't even teach a girl how to throw a convincing punch, can't write a clever move for the SMARTEST MAN IN THE WORLD, so that he could be instead used as cheap fodder to create a scene of only women fighting for no reason, but you can make the acting of the amazing Benedict Cumberbatch look bad, you really have a problem. | 3 |
Let me just start by saying this.
While writing this, the IMDB rating for this show, over 50% has given it a 10/10. 10 of 10 means, in theory, that 50% actually believe this is the best show in the history of shows.
Anyone else who think this smells of trolling? Or rating-manipulation? No? Just me?
Compared to GoT, it is slow and unoriginal, with few main characters to cheer for. In GoT you had the entire world of Westeros with all its kingdoms and all its protagonists and antagonists. You had John Snow, Arya Stark, Goeffrey, the dragon-lady and so on. Now you just have these two teenage girls, a dad and an uncle.
The dragons aren't really that exciting either. In GoT you followed them from birth until they were fully grown. You knew them, you cheered for them, you cried for them. Now they are just there, and their not really that cool.
The cast is boring, the protagonist is just this small teenage girls, and thats it.
I give it 5/10 because I feel bad for the actors. It's not their fault, poor things. | 5 |
A very well written story and well directed. Abhishek Bachchan 2.0 looks more promising. Given his one of the best performances after Manmarziyaan and Breathe into the shadows in recent times. Rajkummar Rao and Pankaj Tripathi are hilarious. Aditya Rao Kapoor is fantastic in his lovey-dovey role. Overall, a must watch film | 10 |
Only Murders in the Building is one of the best shows ever! My children & I have waited anxiously every Tuesday for the next chapter, have thought about the plot all week long, all the different possibilities, and have really "lived" this show. We can't wait for season 3! The cast is all excellent, brilliant, funny, cool, and the writing is absolutely superb. Suspense, friendship, Manhattan, murder (of course), family, theatre, art, different generations, romance, many interestingly well-written characters, a fantastic plot, and wonderful music: all in one terrific awesome show. Bravo to all! Thanks a lot for this masterpiece! Please make 100 more seasons. | 10 |
After watching boys I feel like there is nothing strange weird messed up stuff I am left to see in this world . Crazy but good stuff. Execution is perfect. The cast, acting was impressive especially homelander and butcher. | 9 |
If you've seen the trailer for this then you'll no doubt be expecting a tense alien invasion movie, with a hugely interesting take on how people survive this apocalypse while blindfolded the entire movie.
Well, this is not that film. I won't spoil anything for you but I do urge you to lower your expectations.
It's just an ok thriller where the "big twist" at the end is simply the question you were asking all of the way through the film. | 6 |
Great set pieces ruined by mr Bay's incessant fast cut edit. Humour abounds and there's some great action, however some scenes would have been much better if edited differently. Whatever plot there is, is so disjointed it's difficult to follow. Every great action film is always able to tie scenes together, and why bother with a flashback opening which then is brought up to a final date, only to dip into the past again. Enjoyable...Could have been been great with a bit of film making | 6 |
I hate it when movies based on reality are, in fact, nowhere near the truth. If you read anything at all about John Nash, you'll see that both his life and his Nobel acceptance speech were nothing like what this movie portrays. I liked the movie, but would it have been such a terrible thing to make it realistic? | 7 |
If not for Cavill, would've stopped watching after the 2nd episode. He is LITERALLY the only saving grace of those first 8 episodes. There's no background for any of the main characters and the dialogue is laughable.
One last thing: many reviewers are bothered by the extra color of the show in comparison to the books or games (not sure because I'm not familiar with either). Is the problem your dislike for the looks of these actors or their talent??? Feel like for most of you, it's the former; which shouldn't be an issue with acting. | 5 |
When the bad world of the old ones(director,producers,actors etc) passes violently into the young ones. Bad language,bad habits,bad lifestyle depicted in this film. Nothing funny too. | 5 |
Absolute waste of time. Such a shame to put out such a loud, incoherent, horribly scripted movie in this day and age. What started with a seemingly exciting action flick, quickly became a snoozefest and eventually an early pullout for me. | 2 |
The First part was amazing and although 2nd part is good cant defeat the first part . Again amazing writing , acting , direction and a must watch . Although the Vito Corleone back story seems weird at first with some absurd editing it is an amazing story of its own . | 9 |
I just remembered why we did not bother to continue to watch this or to rewatch...
Most of the dialogue in this film, that made it cute and funny, has been changed!! I get making a live action film and adding some new parts for originality but there were a lot of cute dialogue moments from the original film, that should have made it to this remake.
What a shame!!! And looking at IMDB, there's going to be a Mufasa film..I suspect it won't be great but we shall see.
I do kind of wish they would stop with these live action movies. Some of these are hard to put in relief and do not make sense!! | 4 |
I was expecting this but at the end I was just been patient until it ends. Very bad moovie from any point of view. | 3 |
This movie has assigns from the first part. Still movie has it differences about the doll and the demons. I would give a better grade if the movie was more realistic and its confusing should be more by the doll. Movie has a perfect ending and that's why i gave the better grade plus 2. My opinion is as well 6.1 out of 10 I would say this movie is for teenagers from 15 years old | 3 |
It was surprisingly entertaining first watch. I didn't know it was a Bay movie, wouldn't have watched if i knew. But we had fun and was happy we saw it. But when you start to think about it.. you realize it's quite a stupid movie. But I don't think they are looking for an Oscar here so don't think too much and enjoy. :) | 5 |
1) Triple S protagonist. Stupid, Selfish, Sassy drama queen who thinks that everyone can read her mind 24/7 and then should do everything to please her and even if it does happen: still unsatisfied and angry.
2) Sloooooooooow pacing. 10 Os. You probably got a hang of it by 2017 in all of those series but... It's just painfully slow here, cause it's a full-drama-kind-of-show.
3) Insignificant problems which lead to a disaster (which is a suicide obviously). I don't know, I not from NA, but I honestly think that if people would be offended so much by things depicted in this show then NA would be a suicide park, not a country. Yeah, there were a few disturbing events but they were never addressed properly and escalated solely because of how stupid and ignorant protagonist is. She's 17, not 7, for Christs sake.
4) The plot thickens. Wait, no, it's not, it's actually hanging by the balls. It's just so painful to watch how those characters doing stupid things and talking bs throughout the whole thing just to advance this nonsensical show forwards. Cringe worthy.
5) Over-dramatization of everything. Again due to our wonderful protagonist. Well, and her "friends" too. This lemon got thick skin, I hate it, it hates me, it doesn't care about my feelings, gonna kill myself, literally.
6) Pointless characters. All kind of them. Generic bully, generic mystery booster, generic douche etc. At some point you'll ask yourself, "Why? Why they are here, what's their mission, what's their purpose? Probably it's gonna be revealed towards the end". Guess what, they are here to just annoy the hell out of you and leave wondering even after credits.
7) Senseless, forced and unnatural dialogues. Yes, the precious plot must go on, this way and no other.
8) Weird male protagonist. He's a shy nerdy introvert, but somehow getting attention from all sort of girls, almost never gets bullied (unlike other similar characters) and turns into cyber-avenger from time to time, depends on his mood. Really weird and inexplicable character. Just be prepared to watch this guy chewing on his snot most of the time.
9) Bizarre parents. 2017, every kid got a phone, laptop, PC, tablet w/e, with all the media going around they still fail to recognize what's going on with their kids and can't decide how to handle them, it's just stupid and unbelievable.
10) Complete ignorance to certain events, again, for the sake of the plot. It only makes it more silly with each episode, but I doubt they ever thought about it.
11) Logic. Nope, not here. You'll be always amused by their decisions, ALWAYS.
12) Gay problems. I am not homophobe, no, but it's just... Too much this time around I guess? "I am gay, didn't you know?", "You have two gay dads", "I am just a thin f****t", "You're too afraid cause everyone will know that you're gay?!", "Why are you spending so much time with this BOY?". These are actual quotes from the show, I sheet you not. I was really fed up with this and so will you, trust me. I really don't think that every other character should be gay just for the sake of it and have those "gay problems" going around in 2017 just in tact.
13) Moral point? Do everything and do nothing then maybe it'll workout the way you want. I need to drink something.
Wait, there's more, I'll add a bonus 14th reason!
14) Just kidding, I want to thank IMDb and it's users for this beartrap-of-a-show with 9.0 rating, seriously - thank you very much, it's my 31st birthday today and I've spent it watching this atrocity. Never forget. 3 Stars for the (usual nowadays) high production values, decent acting and a few other minor things. | 3 |
RATED 8/10 Language: English RECOMMENDED
Non stop action masala with superb CG work... There is not much on story and acting, its just pure entertainer.... I enjoyed throughout the movie... It was fun filled with good enough action sequences.... Perfect popcorn entertainer for the weekend. | 8 |
This latest remake of the classic series is a good example of the genre I call stupid scifi. The brightest minds of humanity send out the very pinnacle of our technical development out there, only for everyone to be constantly in trouble when the characters do the stupid thing over and over again. You can guess for most parts what's going to happen and you'll be hoping it won't be as bad as you had feared.
The positive thing about the series is that they put on some new spin in the story when it comes to the robot, although for some reason this being is still unable to say anything but its classic line.
The CGI is pretty standard for a 2018 series, the dialogue is from mediocre to really bad. Acting is average at best, with some really bad cringe moments.
The script gets very repetitive fast. Immediate doom awaits, it needs a solution in this episode and when things are back in order, it's something else in the next episode. There's a very light seasonal story arc present but it's not the kind that wants you to keep on watching. | 4 |
Having not watched endgame and having just watched Shazam I would say DC Comics has completely missed in this genre of movies | 3 |
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I had forgot Michael Bay directed this and when it was all over and I looked I said, "Ahhhh yes, that makes total sense." As it was a sensory overload. An excess of action, rapid edits, objects in the camera frame, blood spraying and splattering, guns endlessly firing and people dying graphic deaths. The theme of the movie is there is a lot of evil in the world, how extreme would you go to change things? A pack of highly trained soldier type people take matters into their own hands after erasing themselves from the lives they once knew and are now freed to fulfill their passion of ending tyranny around the globe. The main story is some Middle East dictator is oppressing his people. I forgot the country which is unimportant as maximizing action is the goal of this shoot 'em up. The movie kicks off with an outstanding long opening action scene with entertaining car chases mixed with immature and irreverent humor compared with the professional seriousness of Ronin for example. Later it turns into the current modern action movie template for high energy, over the top, brutal gun and explosion bloodbath. They do poke fun at themselves and at least know their place. To sum it up, it is an energy drink mixed with Nerds mixed with spicy Doritos. | 6 |
Yelling on top of yelling and then more yelling! 2 hours of my life I'll never get back. | 3 |
Total waste of time unless you're into further making men look like complete idiots. Only the women have any brains and the men are driven by their "other head." Only smart "man" is Will Robinson but, he's just a boy. I'm sure once he grows up he will be indoctrinated to the fact that women are the only humans with brains. God, this show is pathetic beyond words!!!! | 2 |
Charlie and Rakshith had a fantastic performance. Sometimes we forget Charlie is a dog because he has done so well. Excellent work on the part of the filmmaker. Really powerful and poignant plot. Comedy abounds in the first half. For ten years, there won't be another dog movie released. Please watch, and be ready to cry for the entire thirty minutes. Every character has done themselves honor. You can't help but be hooked by music. Excellent cinematography is used. The shots of Kashmir are excellent. Really watch this movie guys and will never regret this. So emotional and lovable. After watching this I also want to do something for animals. | 10 |
Well, acting in this movie was great. I enjoyed the movie because of this, but this movie is once again an attempt of Jews to sympathies with them, what happened in the Second World War, as if there is no ending in these story's. Why do they need us to remind what happened...is this a way to justify themselves what they do in Israel to the Muslim's? I personally don't believe that 6 million Jews were killed. If I think of 6 million...that's to much to be done in those years, and why do we forget that there were also Gypsy's and handicapped people??? Why no movie about them? As if the war was all about the Jews and as if it gets worse whit every movie they make! | 5 |
I liked (not loved) 70% of the movie, it was fun, it was charming and the characters were great. But those other 30% destroyed my experience with La La Land. | 5 |
Started off pretty good, spot on to the details of the game, as we as some interesting back story etc. However the last 2 episodes 3 and 4 are boring... Nothing happens, at least nothing worth watching, it's typical content already been done in TWD or any other zombie show. Just a lot of talking and a whole lot of nothing going on... He has been in the apocalypse for 20 years and he does not know better not to drive his very well maintained, fully loaded truck into an apocalypse ridden town? That whole thing was super stupid! Oh wow now we have no car or way out of here and a whole town full of armed, paranoid people that want us dead.... Again nothing happens. BORING! | 4 |
Big fan of Quentin Tarantino but this has to be his worst movie. Could have easily been saved in the editing room. While I enjoy Quentin's conversation, that wasn't the problem with this film. Pointless story telling and over shot scenes make up the first two hours of the movie. Although there was meticulous detail to the period it wasn't enough to cary the film. While the end didn't play out as expected, that could have been regarded as fresh had the first two hours contributed anything to the film. The audible collective 'what was that' in the audience when the credits started to roll pretty much says it all. This was Brad Pitt's movie and he carried the film. Easy way to fix this movie, remove all scenes without Brad. You would have a tight continuous narrative, an interesting story without all the unwanted excess, and a much more reasonable running time. | 4 |
I was bored out of my mind -- not because of the slow pace, but because none of the characters responded to situations like real people. They don't laugh, cry, rage or shake with anxiety and fear (unless a monster attacks). Most of the time, they just stand around "thnking, " but they pose no interesting questions about the nature of life and existence for the audience to ponder. I do not blame the actors for this unrealistic nonsense. It is a misconceived script and poor direction that are to blame. And as many others point out, plot holes abound. | 2 |
I bet; you ll enjoy more if you play PUBG for 20 minutes rather than watching video game like this. | 1 |
I'm all for giving shows a chance but I couldn't get past the first twenty minutes of this one. The Witcher himself sounds like Christian Bale's Batman voice (shocking!). The CGI creature in the opening scene was laughable. It was diabolical. Wooden acting. Poor introduction of characters. Poor scenery. Boring and lacked promise. I turned it off it was so bad. | 1 |
I have read many King novels, but his adaptations have usually fallen flat for me. After the first few episodes of this series I thought I may be seeing one of the best King adaptations ever.
Nope.
Relationships barely progress episode after episode, and when they do, it's out of nowhere. Direction, story and acting are good for the most part, but the script seems to want to flog every horse at Dead Horse Ranch.
But mainly I am giving this a one for the last two episodes. Complete and utter garbage. the script is trash, The directing is trash. The ending is basically an insult to the viewer. After the glacial pace and all repeated set ups and foreshadowing, the last episode is nothing short of outrageous. | 1 |
Probably the worst DC film ever, unless you're a seven year old...! Childish crap...! xx | 2 |
Enjoyed the show! You can binge-watch it in one evening. Loved the production, sound design and storyline. | 9 |
So Happy death day, was a self aware knockoff of a Groundhog day with some goofy and sometimes funny added elements that do work as a B comedy. It was about a girl, that gets murdered on her birthday and wakes up the same day to try and figure out who keeps murdering her. Russian doll is a knockoff of Happy death day, which wasn't that good of a movie in a firat place | 1 |
Very disappointed from this movie. I was expecting something better than what i saw and not to be bored while iam watching it | 6 |
(Upfront, I'm sorry for any misspellings) I'm under the belief that there hasn't been a bad film in the Harry Potter franchise. At worst, they're enjoyable, so I would definitely say I'm a fan of these movies. However, I haven't read any of the books(though I do own them). I've always remembered the movies way more, they're kind of like another Star Wars to me. So when I say that Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald is a bad movie, you have to understand that it's coming from someone who really wanted to say it was good. I'm not saying there isn't good stuff in here, because I think there is a good amount. First off, Eddie Redmayne as Newt Scamander really works for me. I like his charm and he's a protagonist that I enjoy watching. Dan Fogel also continues to be a highlight, being the comedic relief character, a character that could go completely wrong but ends up keeping me entertained. In terms of new inclusions, Jude Law was amazing as Dumbledoor. There was a specific moment where it felt exactly like a younger version of him, but also took on a while new personality, seeing a new side to him that we haven't before. Most of the other performances were fine, though one stood out as not bad, but kind of disappointing in Johnny Depp's Grindelwald. Without spoiling anything, there was a certain piece of information that he reveals that is really important. However, I couldn't hear a thing he was saying because he mumbled the line. I asked my friend after the movie and he didn't understand it either, so good thing I was with someone who uses a closed captioned device so I knew what he said. Other than that, I thought his performance was fine. I would get into the characters themselves right now, but I would like to save that for when I go into the story. However, I would like to talk about Grindelwald, though if you want to remain completely free of what some would call spoilers, I would recommend skipping this section. I found there to be a significant flaw with his character, that being I don't know why he's doing what he's doing. I'm only told he's a really dangerous guy without being shown or actually finding out WHY he's a dangerous guy. I'm going to get into some more topics along these lines later, but I wanted to mention that while I was talking about Johnny Depp. Music is great as always and that's all I can say on that. The score always feels magical. Directing is also great as always. Okay, now I want to get into the issue of this movie. That's the story, or the lack of one. The best way I can describe this movie is that it begins as a normal movie, has the exposition and goes from there. Here's the thing: it never GOES from there, it just keeps giving us some exposition, and most of it feels useless. It's just a bunch of events that happen but don't add up to anything. I honestly don't think there is a plot in this movie, it's only trying to set up for the next one. So when I brought up the characters, I mentioned I couldn't talk about them because I don't think they have any arch's, at least they have no visible growth. I think this reflects the nonexistent story because it adds to absolutely nothing going on. When I say that, I think it's an exaggeration, because there's a lot that happens, but it's almost impossible to follow. Now I do know people are saying it's hard to follow(which is true), but I feel like people think they can't follow it because they aren't big on Harry Potter, which I disagree with. The plot is just that messy. Wrapping this up, I like the characters(some of them anyway), music, and directing. However, the plot(or lack of one) is so bad that I can't bring myself to recommend this movie to anyone. I was honestly kind of sad that I gave this movie a 3/10, and you could say "just move it up", but I don't feel like I can. In my objective opinion(if that makes sense), I think this movie is bad, and I don't know if I can watch it again. | 3 |
I found there to be two films within this film. One worked better than the other.
The first half of the film worked better for me. There was a veritable tension as we decide if Bradley Cooper's character is still crazy or not. The film didn't rely on silly plot triggers in this half of the film.
The second half fell into too many pitfalls. I cannot see for the life of me see why there had to be so many secondary characters. Not a single one of them worked and the gags seemed tired. I've seen the Indian guy stereotype cutting loose at least five times in other films. What did the black character bring to the film? The brother subplot underdeveloped and I'm forgetting even more secondary characters..This film did not need to explore to it's depths these characters and whatever tension that was established in the beginning quickly fizzled away as we followed pointless subplots created from space ie; the dance competition and betting.
The film was also too long and a bit of cutting/editing and winding up some scenes quicker than they were would have added a greater vigor to the film. However, I enjoyed myself throughout the film and did not want it to end.
The absolute shining light is clearly Bradley Cooper, every other character cannot hold a candle to him. His female counterpart was particularly grating and painful to watch. Hats off to Bradley as he carried this film on his shoulders and it's a performance hauntingly difficult to forget. | 6 |
The first movie was decent, but The Winter Soldier stands on it's own. I applaud the Russo brothers for doing what they did to this movie, Captain America was kinda like an underdog in Marvel's The Avengers, but this is everything Captain America movie should be like! The Cap that kicks ass and fights for his country, a good man who hasn't change a bit since he got the serum, a man that might be out of time but is adapting very well! The plot,the CGI, the acting everything was outstanding, but what I mostly was surprised by were the action fight scenes, the choreography's were excellent, these scenes put to shame many other superhero movies and their fight scenes. What also was impressing is that there was plot behind every single one, which is not happening that much in nowadays movies. Whoever thought Marvel movies couldn't get any better, well think again. Because this is the top! | 10 |
FIRST SEASON I think this is the best series about superheroes I've ever watched.
There's almost nothing wrong with it. The casting is perfect. The dialogue is perfect. It never gets boring. By the end of the season the drama is just epic.
It's good enough that people like it even if they aren't fans of the genre.
There are some explicit scenes.
SECOND SEASON Had to lower my review to an 8. The racism theme seems kind of underwhelming. | 8 |
Very well impressive movie , Very special entertained movie , only songs are boorings . | 9 |
This is the best crime suspense thriller movie. Everyone should whatch this. | 10 |
It's a drama with a very depressing plot. Although the story is ridiculous, but it is about the life I yearn for. So, I love it. | 8 |
Talk about just collecting a check! It's time Marvel went for quality instead of quantity. A character we didn't know about, throw in a touch of Xmen and this still couldn't make this good. | 3 |
The movie was lacking something. It wasn't as cool as the movies from the 90s. When Bruce was Batman, he talked in this really deep voice which sounded really stupid. The "batcave" was also a huge empty room with nothing in it but a crappy desk with a few computer screens. Batman was also really skinny and old looking in this movie. The main girls were also very unattractive in this Batman movie. The only good actor in this movie was the Joker. Wished they could have explained what happened to him, whether he died or what since that was unclear...I mean they say this movie sticks more to the comics.. and the 90's ones are more "movie" inspired ones.. but I mean common.. the Batcave in this movie sucked! We are moving towards the future people..the 90's Batman had more futuristic high tech gear than the new one! What the heck!
Sorry Batman.. you're going downhill. | 6 |
Considering this show was hyped to have the most brutal fight scenes in the MCU, you would at least think that they would have the foresight to show them on-screen. What is there is fine but it is such a copout to constantly foreshadow visceral fights and then barely deliver. The acting is fine with the exception of Ethan Hawke but the big draw for this show was the choreography, hardly any of which we get to see.
Presumably they'll step it up if there is a season two but it seems that hype with no payoff if this series forte. | 2 |
This is the worst movie I have seen this year.
The story can be written on a stamp. Maybe talking about sex was a discovery for the American people but in France, we got tons of empty movies like this, so we are immunized!
There aren't any locations: all happens in bedrooms, kitchen or living-room.
The cast is awful between the husband, the sister and the "angelic" director. Poor Andie is terribly alone.
Music is silence and if you think the director (the real one) played with the editing, mixing between tapes and reels, you are wrong!
It's incomprehensible how this movie can be awarded by the "Palme d'or" at Cannes festival but it is his unique merit! | 1 |
OK, don't get me wrong. Daniel Day Lewis is excellent and Paul Thomas Anderson is a great director. I love Boogie Nights which is one of my all time favorite movies, I liked Magnolia a lot, The Master was great, Inherent Vice was very good, hell even Punch Drunk Love I liked. But this is such a drop in the bucket. The whole time you're just waiting and waiting for something to happen, and on top of that, there is no payoff. I watched this a second time to see what I was missing, and I had the same thoughts. The whole thing was pretty much pointless. I will give this a few things though, Daniel Day Lewis is fantastic, the film looks beautiful, and the concept is pretty interesting. But the movie itself is not. If you want to see a better movie that came out the same year, watch No Country for Old Men. If you want to watch a better PTA film, watch Boogie Nights. If it weren't for the good things I mentioned before, I would dislike this movie WAY more! | 4 |
Am I the only one who enjoyed Season 1 so much more? I thought the overall vibe of Season 1 was better. It evoked a feeling that the second season just didn't do. Maybe it was the intimate romance between Geralt and Yennefer, or the delicate music which was just so beautiful, or the fact that Geralt was more of a lone wolf and didn't have a sidekick accompanying him on his journey. These little details are what made me fall in love with The Witcher, but what Season 2 was lacking. | 9 |
Avatar The last Airbender first appears to be a series for really young kids with some lighthearted storytelling and some neat action scenes - perfect example how one can be so damn wrong! Without spoiling anything it's really hard to review this series but if you get right down to it you get everything you could wish for: Expanding, complex and really developing characters with really advanced choices between "right" and "wrong" - if I would teach my children the difference by a TV-show this would be the perfect example since you even you may be adult, you'll maybe learn one or two things about being truly "correct behavior" - a good story that keeps getting promising until the end and, of course, bender-battles.
As the title may already assumes, Avatars takes place in a world populated with benders and non-benders. Those who are lucky posses the power to bend one of the four elements (and every advantage given by them as you'll later see) resulting in some serious battles. Those battles, the highlight of the series, are without doubt some of the most choreographically and astonishing once you'll seen in an animated series.
You like animated series and haven't seen this one? How dare you? Go watch it! ;) | 10 |
If you like Pina Colada,
and other alcoholic drinks,
If you leave long pauses,
Cause it gives you time to think,
If you like bad Karaoke,
from collagenous lips,
You will love Japan,
where you never have to tip.
The basic plot is similar to Woody Allen's Manhattan. A beautiful young girl (married this time) has an affair with a much older man, primarily out of boredom, and because his gentle jokes help pass the time.
The movie start by discombobulating you by showing how madly different Japan is from America. The movie looks full of comic promise.
The movie slows to a snail's pace, and nothing happens. At least a lot less of interest happens than on my own explorations of foreign cities. The film feels sloppily and lazily ad-libbed.
The running joke is Japanese people persist in speaking Japanese, because they can't think of anything else to try to communicate with Americans. What is the matter with them? Why don't they speak the English?
The biggest mystery of the film is how did it come to be that a young married middle class couple are living in a luxury Japanese hotel next to faded 70's action star there filming a Japanese whiskey commercial.
The movie projects a mild racism, sneering at the Japanese, not as different, but as inferior. There is no affection or sympathy for them. They are often portrayed as robots or buffoons.
Scarlett Johansson as Charlotte was a good casting choice. She is extremely beautiful, without being flashy or glamorous. She has a unique wholesome look. She confused me only once when she donned a short pink wig, and I did not recognise her. I usually have a lot of trouble telling female actresses apart.
Bill Murray plays Bob Harris a faded, restrained, sad, hen-pecked, defeated character similar to Don Johnston in Broken Flowers, his earlier much more emotional and engaging film.
The moral of the story is, if you are bored, money will not help. | 6 |
This film is an one of the master piece in Indian cinema. Actors acting, location settings, music is the soul to the movie. All crew members of the movie done a remarkable work. | 10 |
The first 20 minutes seemed a bit goofy and Henry Cavill's Witcher character a bit makeup heavy. I was worried I was watching a fanboy's tv show - something difficult to relate to unless I digested a series of 10 books in my parents' basement. Then I finished the episode and realized I was wrong. Very wrong. I quickly watched two seasons in no time. It's that good.
I find it on a par with Game of Thrones. While it lacks some of the breadth of GOT, it presents a fantasy world full of adventure, magic, romance and danger. The action scenes are beautifully choreographed. The interactions can be blunt, whether violent or sexual, but while GOT seemed to celebrate offending the viewer with graphic and gratuitous sexuality in picture and sound, the Witcher presents it in passing, as a routine part of life, focusing more on storyline.
Another divergence from GOT is that the Witcher does narrow its events and its characters, making them easier to follow. GOT felt unwieldy and perhaps that was exacerbated by unfinished writing or writing that went off script of the book. Here it seems tighter. I particularly enjoyed the story of Yenefer, in addition to the other main and secondary characters.
Now, I'm going through Witcher withdrawal until season 3 is released. Go watch the bloody show. | 9 |
I didn't understand the love that the community fans professed over this sitcom until I caved in and gave it a go. It is a somewhat weak and uneven experience through the first half of season 1, as the writers find the right pace. But later on the season, they strike comedic gold. Season 2 through 5 are just perfect. Unfortunately, the departure of several main characters made the 6th season weak and almost a different show altogether. If you are in a hurry, skip season 6. | 8 |
This is a movie that I saw in the theater originally. I caught up with all the Marvel movies to that point as this excited me. I knew a bit about the story in the comics and the idea of bringing that to the big screen intrigued me. Jaime and I watched this as we worked toward Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame.
What I've realized in revisiting these movies, Captain America's storylines intrigue me more than some characters. I wasn't even excited when the first one came out, but it has come around for me. I don't necessarily love him as a character. What they do with the social commentary is what gets me.
For this movie, the events of Avengers: Age of Ultron has the world wanting the Avengers to have checks and balances. In this case, they want the United Nations to oversee when they're called into action. Currently, they're too powerful and can do whatever they want without repercussion. What complicates things here is the Winter Soldier references and he's accused of a terrorist attack. Captain America tries to protect him. Iron Man feels bad for what he did and wants to make amends by siding with the government. Winter Soldier has done some bad things, but there's a new villain, Zemo, who is framing him as well.
This movie plays an Avengers movie. We have Black Widow, Falcon, War Machine, Hawkeye, Scarlet Witch, Ant-Man and Vision all back. We also get introduced to Black Panther and Spider-Man who will have movies in this phase. We also get some great character actors like Frank Grillo, William Hurt and Martin Freeman. The acting here is stacked for sure.
Once again, I love the real government implications here. There is a feeling that movie is calling out America for things that we do and I'm for it. This is a still a popcorn movie with good effects. Some of the CGI doesn't work, but not enough to ruin this. This movie has a bit darker feel as well. It didn't hold up as well after my first viewing, but I did enjoy this and where it takes us from here.
My Rating: 7.5 out of 10. | 8 |
Barbie is everything expected of it and so much more, a self aware and meta comedy made for fans and newcomers alike that's also incredibly profound, layered and really funny. It's the best version of itself and just immensely satisfying that the Barbie movie that got made on this scale is so weird and unique.
Margot Robbie is perfect casting as Barbie, she nails the movement and switches between the eccentric Barbie Land and more emotionally tolling real world effortlessly. She has a terrific arc that's full of emotionally resonant moments and the almost parental nature with Gosling works beautifully.
Ryan Gosling is phenomenal as Ken. Note perfect casting that gives him another welcome chance to move away from his usual introverted roles and tap into his impeccable comedic timing present in The Nice Guys, only here it's dialed up to eleven. It all culminates in a musical number that is painfully funny.
Will Ferrell is essentially playing Lord Business again and him and his whole team of execs are just as cartoonish as the people in Barbie Land but it actually really works as a nice bit of satire that emphasises just how out of touch all of them are.
America Ferrara gets one of the biggest speeches of the film and really makes it work and her relationship with Ariana Greenblatt adds a lot of heart to the film whilst allowing it to have its both ways when it comes to acknowledging the history of Barbie.
Greta Gerwig's direction is excellent, getting the bigger budget she absolutely deserves and uses every penny. Magnificent dance numbers, a fun car chase and a Barbie Land that is as vibrant as possible and despite fully embracing its own artificial nature it feels more real and visually stunning than so much of what's out there.
The soundtrack is another standout element, a great selection of songs from some of the best artists currently working all at the top of their game. Like the film, some are just really fun, some are very profound and every single one fits in effortlessly. | 10 |
I really enjoyed this movie, venom is a great charactor, the anti spiderman that is.
Hardy does his work very well, and that is what brings this movie to a higher level.
Great movie. | 10 |
It's insane how all the characters evolve, especially zuko | 10 |
People are stupid as hell if they think this is not as good as the first Iron Man or think it is worse... I haven't had so much fun watching a movie in a long time since the first one! I'm 20 years old and I woke up this morning wanting to be Iron man and I wanted to have a black sidekick best friend to be by my side as we kick the s**t out of evil robots that are trying to rule the world.. People say there's too much going on all at once in the movie with it's plot and story but that's not true if they'd read into it a little bit or found what the Avengers and Shield is all about they wouldn't be so confused and they would see how they're trying to setup a awesome movie coming up with all the main marvel characters! Anyways this movie should have a higher rating then 7.7! At least an 8 would be more fair and do not listen to the critics for your newspaper or internet websites unless it's good! The action is great and everyone had great performances including Don Cheadle surprisingly but anyways I recommend it to everyone at all ages.. Go watch this!!!!!!!!! | 10 |
Didn't like it at all....just rubbish. Downey is just wasted in this..liked Downey as Sherlock Holmes, but this is just poor. Well at least one of the grandchildren likes it. | 3 |
"The Witcher" on Netflix is a dark and harrowing series that follows the age-old cliché of all good guys meeting grim fates while the bad guys triumphantly endure. Set in a world filled with magic, monsters, and political intrigue, the show introduces viewers to a morally complex landscape where the line between good and evil blurs, leaving audiences disheartened and weary of the relentless cycle of suffering.
From its very inception, "The Witcher" presents a grim and gritty atmosphere that permeates every aspect of the storyline. The protagonist, Geralt of Rivia, is a brooding and seemingly invincible monster hunter. As he journeys through the treacherous lands, his encounters with those in desperate need of help only end in misery. Each time Geralt chooses the path of righteousness, it inevitably leads to more death and despair, reinforcing the show's bleak outlook on life.
As new characters emerge, eager viewers might find hope in the possibility of change or redemption, only to be mercilessly crushed as the plot unfolds. The narrative consistently shatters any glimmer of optimism, leaving audiences grappling with the cruel reality that goodness is futile in the face of relentless evil. No matter how noble, honorable, or selfless the characters may be, they are destined for doom, serving as mere pawns in the hands of fate and malicious forces.
The constant cycle of good people dying while the bad ones thrive becomes an agonizing spectacle to watch. It raises unsettling questions about the nature of storytelling and the underlying messages that permeate popular media. While it is true that exploring the complexities of human nature and the moral ambiguity of choices can be compelling, "The Witcher" seems to revel in its desire to crush any trace of hope or positivity.
Furthermore, the show's relentless violence and brutality add to the distressing experience. Scenes of graphic combat and the merciless dispatching of beloved characters contribute to a feeling of helplessness and despair. It's as if the show's creators have a sadistic fascination with tormenting both their characters and the audience alike, leaving them emotionally drained and unfulfilled.
In addition to the harrowing themes, "The Witcher" struggles with pacing and convoluted storytelling. The narrative often jumps between timelines, making it challenging to establish a clear connection with the characters or their motivations. While this non-linear approach attempts to create intrigue and depth, it instead becomes a confusing and frustrating experience, further alienating viewers from the already grim narrative.
Even the impressive cinematography and well-choreographed action sequences fail to provide solace from the overwhelming gloom that pervades the series. Though visually stunning, the beautiful landscapes and artful compositions only serve as a haunting backdrop to the suffering and injustice that define the show's world.
In conclusion, "The Witcher" on Netflix is a show that revels in its ability to showcase a relentless and disheartening cycle of good people perishing while the wicked flourish. The unending stream of tragedy, brutality, and hopelessness, combined with a convoluted narrative, makes it a hard-to-watch and emotionally draining experience. While some viewers may appreciate its grim realism and morally ambiguous themes, others will undoubtedly find themselves yearning for a glimmer of hope or a respite from the unyielding darkness that engulfs the characters and their stories. If you seek escapism or uplifting entertainment, "The Witcher" may not be the right choice for you, as it willingly and unapologetically embraces the darkest aspects of human existence. | 1 |
The 80s has been magically captured in this series, Season 1 and Season 2 are as equally exciting and popcorn-scattering crazy. The children are so loveable and funny. High points are well-deserved by these newcomers as truly , they remind me of a lot of people and things we have done and had during the 80s. What may be seen by millenials as a lack of gadgets, fancy bags, hovers etc is more than compensated by the aura of simplicity and being happy with what you have, family and friends. Who will forget those neon boards and posters and not to forget those hairstyles. Watch it and just enjoy, can't wait for the new episodes . | 9 |
Pros:
Violent at times. Not for kids really Not too cheesy Charlie Cox isn't so bad as daredevil
Cons:
Slow, scattered story Low on suspense Repetitive action (fights scenes are all the same) Some poor acting here and there (Fisk, Foggy) Kinda cheesy
The show is meh.. boring at times.. kinda replays the same scenes over and over. Hopefully the writing in season 2 gets better. Overall it is worth watching.. its not great.. its not bad.. but falls a little short on being really good. | 7 |
But Season 2 was lame and weak. Season 3 I won't watch. | 5 |
it's the most average movie I've ever seen...not enough effect, no philosophy... I really got bored when I saw it. It's said that it is 3D but most of the scene don't contain 3D things. If you skip it, you wont be regretful I think.it's the most average movie I've ever seen...not enough effect, no philosophy... I really got bored when I saw it. It's said that it is 3D but most of the scene don't contain 3D things. If you skip it, you wont be regretful I think.it's the most average movie I've ever seen...not enough effect, no philosophy... I really got bored when I saw it. It's said that it is 3D but most of the scene don't contain 3D things. If you skip it, you wont be regretful I think.it's the most average movie I've ever seen...not enough effect, no philosophy... I really got bored when I saw it. It's said that it is 3D but most of the scene don't contain 3D things. If you skip it, you wont be regretful I think. | 2 |
What to say... massive let down...
Super boring... good action scenes but it is more story of Jennefer not Geralt.
Very mediocre... Expanse FTW :-) | 3 |
The timeline and story make no sense, it just jumps from place to place with no explanation. Can't say I'm too surprised, the books weren't enjoyable either. | 2 |
I panned "Superbad" in my review of "Booksmart" (2019), a movie that's essentially a gender-reversed, politically-correct updating of this teen party flick--not that there's much novelty in a coming-of-age comedy of drinking and sex played to pop music and full of gross-out and otherwise juvenile humor. Anyways, I don't like to dismiss movies I haven't seen in years, so I reviewed "Superbad," and it's just as bad as I remember. Unfortunately, it's only ordinary bad, rather than super such, whereby one would've been afforded more laughter at its expense instead of the unreliable intended gags. Why, then, the picture begins by cribbing its title and opening-titles sequence from the blaxploitation film "Foxy Brown" (1974) is beyond me. What does that have to do with this generic piece on sex-crazed, middle-class white kids plus, seemingly more obtusely, two white cops. Bafflingly stupid.
Sure, I chuckled here or there at a few of the other stupid jokes, but most of them are duds. I couldn't care less whether the friendships are mended in the end, or whether the boys hook up with their dream girls--not only because the conclusions are obvious--but also because it's a thin veneer of a plot put onto a picture that follows the chaotic rhythm of partying. And, this is where "Superbad" is especially, well, bad. Looking back at this, there's a considerable amount of dead space; it isn't propelled forward by the soundtrack in the way "Booksmart" is, or as with, say, another Michael Cera-starring party picture, "Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist" (2008). "Booksmart" also benefits from some creative filmmaking, including drug-induced fantasy sequences and underwater photography. Other than Jonah Hill considering a few possible scenarios if he tries to steal liquor in one scene, there's nothing here that's not pedestrian. The camera views and cutting are entirely straightforward. To cite another film that "Superbad" references obliviously, the "Citizen Kane" (1941) of sex comedies, this isn't. | 3 |
This is visually beautiful, but empty to the story and characters. First, I do not understand why was chosen this part of GoT world for a spin off. I would be much more interested how the Targaryens got to have dragons than this...Second, all the characters are appearing and disappearing at the same time. There is no time to develop any kind of sympathy or antipathy against them. Not interesting plot. It's shallow and feels weird to watch. It's almost like HBO rehired Dumb&Dumber again... And that recasting? What is that for? I mean, new actors are just fine in their roles, but why? Why there is a change in Rhaenyra, Laena, Alicent and Laenor and Ser Criston Cole remains same? I mean Robert DeNiro can play same character through all age in The Irishman and here is the problem with 10 years gap? I continue to watch just because of the nostalgy to the original series, but I am deeply disappointed. | 6 |
I'm a huge movie musical fan and have been happy to see a minor resurgence in the genre. It took me a while to get to La La Land. It was pretty to look at and a slight charming story with a wonderful big finish. But gosh darn it, if you're making a MUSICAL put real singers and dancers in it! Broadway caliber stars would have made this great. | 6 |
Don't waste your time!!! Normally a big fan of Ryan Reynolds, but what is he doing signing up to this.
Terrible plot, terrible cliches, story jumps all over the place, I could go on and on. This really is a Michael bay movie of steroids, creating a grotesque version.
I'll admit some of the action is spectacular, so if you must watch, the first 15min gives you enough...after that it's 1hr 45min of repeat.
In all honesty I'd find something better on Netflix, it's not short of options. | 2 |
If a five thousand foot three falls in the woods, does it make a sound? Yes, now we know, it sucks.
Yesterday I've watched Avatar 3D and I have to say: 3D gives a total new meaning to sucking. Its suckiness created whole new dimensions, wow. This was bad!
Even the bad guy was just Lumberg on a chopper. Seen the cup a Joe?
Just one 'I'll be back' would have saved it from the abyss, but that would probably have destroyed it's monumental effort to have the worst dialog ever in a multi billion dollar fiasco. On the other hand. This one sank even more beautiful than the Titanic.
To end on a positive note. The future is looking bright for 3D porn. The breasts of the chopper babe really reach out for you. Unfortunately she had the worst lines of them all.
That is why I'll give it an extra star for the visuals. They were astounding. Although I noticed the 3D-effect worked best in the small and confined places.
Conclusion: The gap between art and eye-candy has never been this deep. | 2 |
Making a Barbie movie about feminism is a cool idea. Having Barbie comment on the patriarchy just like Animal Farm about communism and Wall Street about capitalism. It's admirable and the message gets through.
The problem is that the actual movie is so bad. Even though you buy in on the two worlds, etc, etc. In the end, it was like reading a textbook instead of a novel. Normally, the strengths with fables and allegories is that they are profound on many levels. Here, everything is spelled out from a a teacher's desk and the whole film comes across as bit thin.
I would not watch this movie again. | 4 |
The show started with promising concepts and set-up, wasn't great but watchable. Halfway through the first season it quickly ran out of steam. The story became more and more absurd, and jokes were just tired cliché. I can't imagine anyone with IQ above room temperature find this kind of stuff funny.
I get the show is making a mockery the whole time-travel, gaming hero saving the world concept, it's a good design, but executed poorly with very little taste or class. It is ironic that it didn't rise above the same core it's making a mockery about. | 1 |
Couldn't watch more than 3 episodes. I couldn't be engaged in this show at all. | 1 |
This movie is not good. The high reviews are probably studio people or friends and family of all the cast & crew involved in this film! I really like both Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling, but neither can carry a tune in this movie! I'm not saying these two needed to be Shirley Jones and Frank Sinatra, but at least find 2 people that can sing!! We know Emmy Rossum can sing and they could have cast Patrick Wilson. For a musical, it's not just star power, the leads have to be able to sing! (or at least dub some beautiful voice in, like they did for Natalie Wood in West Side Story).
Plus, the story is quite boring and very slow. Girl meets boy, girl gets boy. Girl loses boy. (Yawn!!) Then there's the issue of maybe only one semi-catchy tune, add that to the boring story and you've got yourself a snooze-fest. Which no self respecting "musical" should ever be.
JK Simmons is really good in the 2-3 minutes he's in the movie, but no one else is even remotely memorable. In a role any male actor could have played, they waste Tom Everett Scott. By the way, the opening production number is very clever, but the song is not good by any means. I've already forgotten the tune or even the name of the song! The story isn't worth summarizing here as it's too boring to repeat. Very, very disappointing! Don't waste your money and wait for it to hit cable. | 1 |
Season 1 was good. Not great, but good. Season 2 is BORING. The production quality is there and the acting isn't bad but the plot and constant talking is a borefest. Action scenes, what little there is, are good but again Henry Cavill is getting pushed aside in his own show and for what? Elves. Elves being oppressed by humans. Elves having babies. Elven women, doing it for themselves, yay. Who cares about elves? We a witcher killing monsters. How hard is that? | 4 |
This is basically a who done it? Not special!!! The acting is was makes it great!!! The writing leaves less to be desired. I just love that Kate Winslet is not afraid to show the ugly sides (the real sides) of middle age...you'd never see Jennifer Aniston in a role like this..And Jean Smart is unbelievably amazing...where has she been hiding since Designing Woman. | 8 |
This movie certainly is the full works, Ryan Reynolds, Jason Bateman, Leslie Mann and Olivia Wilde. All did phenomenon on their characters; being funny, loving, touching the crowds hearts, amusing them in every way possible. Many movies had the same same idea, 2 people switching bodies and they go through each others daily tasks and life. We have the same idea here but much more on detail on the daily life part, that is because it's not just daily life we are shown here we also see life turning or changing events a normal person must go through as well. What was also great about this movie was not just the amount of details shown on the daily life part but also how Ryan Reynolds did great playing Jason Bateman's character and Bateman doing the very same for Reynolds' character, the writer really did write the story and script for this indeed carefully. This is my favorite comedy of this year for sure. Usually when you enter a great movie, you feel like it passed by soo fast but this actually feels like a long 2 hours movie, which is enjoyable. | 8 |
Fargo is well-titled, since the region as a whole, up-front and friendly to an absurd degree, is a major character unto itself, albeit stuffed to the seams with the Coen brothers' infamous wrinkles and eccentric dashes of character. That it all feels so strangely authentic (our auteurs grew up in the area) only makes it even harder to turn away; it's the unimagined point in time and space where Strange Brew meets Reservoir Dogs. Offset by the cordial, affable nature of the general population, this film's frequent forays into spontaneous bloodshed and calculated, if bumbling, barbarism are downright hypnotic. Despite fantastic performances from Steve Buscemi, Peter Stormare (the most visceral villains, scumbags with neither principals nor reservations) and William H. Macy (the real monster), the floor belongs to Frances McDormand. She thoroughly owns the screen as police chief Marge Gunderson, a pregnant ball of contradiction whose peachy exterior masks a tough, no-nonsense detective's intellect. Dense, rich and pointed, with an impressive appreciation for small details, this is a loaded hundred-minute ride that's most definitely in the argument for the Coens' best. | 9 |
This is the most intelligent game of cat and mouse you'll ever see. But, surprisingly, after dozens of episodes of mind-bending battles of wits, your brain starts to get tired and you forget who to root for and why. The two main characters are unique and well-developed, and you may find yourself changing your mind about who the protagonist is. However, there are only so many despicable acts that one can forgive. In the end, I was left pondering the big picture: what other potential uses for this power would their be, and why did the show creators choose to only explore the "power-trip" scenario? | 8 |
I honestly really tried hard not to fall asleep watching this film as it's disrespectful to the people around me and the film writers/actors/etc, but it was inevitable. The story line was absolutely horrendous and had no meat to it. Absolutely nothing was explained. 7.4 is an extreme misconception of what the film actually deserves as a rating. Please save your money and watch another film that is worth watching.
Growing up as a child, I was a huge fan of magic. I've actually been to a couple magic shows as well. So...I have an appreciation for magic. I just couldn't believe their "magic" portrayed in the movie as I thought it was very poorly thought out. I was extremely disappointed throughout the whole movie and I wouldn't recommend anyone to watch it. | 2 |
Oh my
where to begin?
About an hour into watching the Blu-ray release I decided to critique what I'd seen and add to the list as I continued to watch the remaining hour and fifteen minutes. I went over the IMDb character limit and had to delete a lot of it. Never a good sign. Here's what remains after editing!
* The intro where the Guardians are fighting a giant space slug monster could have had a lot more depth to it, but instead it's the backdrop to Baby Groot (who can't be any help) dancing around to Mr Blue Sky by ELO. Merchandising for Baby Groot toys, that's why it's there.
* The people they're working for on this job are gold Egyptian statues, living in the discarded sets from the old Flash Gordon movie. Quill says "hey, don't offend these people" or words to that effect and then does, followed by Rocket stealing things they were hired to protect. Then him and Quill have a pointless argument in a magic asteroid field, which destroys their ship. Pointless conflict.
* Talking about destroying the Milano, it's reminiscent of a scene from Star Trek: Generations, where the saucer section from the Enterprise D crash lands on a forest planet. Here, Drax is trailing behind the ship on a cable getting bashed around on the trees unrealistically like some sort of video game character. I know these movies are about fantasy storytelling but this is just ridiculous.
* Nice to see Sly Stallone in this movie, I thought. Until he mumbled and stumbled his way through the main scene he was in. Using star power to shill a crap film? Check.
* Kurt Russell is an actor I like. He's an action star but able to do decent dramatic scenes too, got a bit of range. However here he's given some sort of deranged Christlike figure to play, who walks around on his acid flashback planet opening his arms wide, doing animated Powerpoint presentations using white egg pod things designed by Apple. This seems to keep most of the main cast distracted while Rocket and Groot are captured and there's some mutiny subplot involving Yondu resulting in them all being kept against their will.
* There's so much weak comedy shoehorned into this. The comedy in the original film had better pacing and built up to the moments nearly perfectly throughout. Case in point, the long drawn-out and not at all amusing scene where Rocket and Yondu are imprisoned and Groot has to try and find a replacement for the red arrow-controlling Mohawk on Yondu's head. This is so he can arrow through all the story problems - I mean prison bars and mutineers, sorry. He brings back item after item that isn't right and it's just tedious. In the first movie the arrow tricks were amazing because the story built up to using it just once, and then the scene where he did was so quick and well-executed it had a huge impact. Here it just doesn't.
* It's too heavy on the CGI and slow motion shots. It feels mercilessly overdone, like it's trying to distract us all from the massive story problems. Yondu/Rocket/Groot going through the jump points with giant wacky eyes or Gamorrah attacking Nebula with a ginormous Gatling gun that even Drax would struggle to carry, that's five times the size of her, Quill and Ego playing "space catch" with a ball made of energy for that family values in space moment - just three examples.
* Ego's plan is both baffling and disgusting. Basically he's some kind of immortal man-whore who's been spreading his seed across the galaxy, who comes back to enlist his children to help him turn all the planets into copies of his acid trip one. He does this by draining their life force, going back to their home planet via some weird glowing plant thing he's put there when he visited to knock up some poor unsuspecting girl, then using some weird blue energy mass that then consumes that particular planet. Using - I kid you not - a cheesy special effect reminiscent of that awful David Duchovny movie Evolution, or Galactus in Fantastic Four: Rise Of The Silver Surfer. It's just
horrible. Such a whiplash tone shift from what they were doing before as well, not that that was any good either. If I was a kid that would give me nightmares.
Overall this reminds me of the Star Wars prequels, by which I mean Episodes I-III. The cartoon set pieces, the endless overdone action scenes, flat characters, poor dialogue, story holes. Worst of all the jumping from planet to planet to ship to planet so quickly that it becomes hard to follow what's going on. It genuinely feels like this movie was written and directed by late 90s George Lucas, more concerned with cramming in merchandising opportunities than making a great movie. All those great character moments between the main cast have vanished here, they're all off doing random errands until they're obligated to meet up later to stop Admiral Nutcase aka Ego and be the heroes again.
I started grading this movie as a 4 after watching the first hour. Now I've watched all of it I can't give it more of a score than 1 because it's just dire. I got up to take a whiz at the one hour forty minute mark and actually turned to my girlfriend and said "Oh my god there's still over half an hour of this travesty left". Even the Stan Lee cameo was a roll eyes moment, they couldn't even get that right!
Avoid. I cannot stress this enough. One of the worst movies I've seen in years.
Best bit? Cheap Trick playing over the credits. Ruined by so many random extra scenes
just end the movie already! | 4 |
This movie sucks don't waste time watching. I don't know how they got nominated and how Lady Gaga was nominated for singing!!!! | 2 |
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Watched the movie last week as family since daughter wanted to see it. The marketing engine has been working overtime as there is a lot of hype generated by placing Barbie topic everywhere. The actors did great job in the role and script they have been given, but the movie falls short on delivering experience. The storyline is mediocre at best with gaps in places and the ending is confusing as if the writer hit a brick wall.
Mattel is only eyeing profits from movie and metch sales and paying zero attention to actually creating good movie. Comparing this to LEGO which was far better all round. | 5 |
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