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The Menu (2022)
Satire? I didn't really need, can't say I enjoyed this much!
Yes, some fine actors and I get the poncy foody satire side of things, but overall way to bizarre , weird and gross.
If the "valid" concept had been woven into a realistic story, then our heor-villain, psychotic fed up disillusioned chef, could have done his menu and delivered his verdicts on the guests without involving all his loyal admiring staff... but that's it, it wasn't in the slightest realistic, from the shocking moment the menu starts, to the flamboyant Flambé at the end. Girl on the boat had the righ idea... but to have to try "enjoy" (grimace) this movie just for the girl on the boat?? No... sorry... not my cup of tea. I'll vote for PIzzaExpress.
Scorpion (2014)
It's all been said before, fun to watch but it's sooooo un-realistic!!
I have been wondering why it gets such a high rating.. I find it fun to watch as the characters are intriguing.... but the plots are indeed laughably extreme and the science used to solve the problems incredibly poorly interpreted. The scriptwriters have absolutely no concept of what is technically possible in the real world with a little science fiction thrown in... So we know about savants and their unique abilities. which gives them an edge over normal people under some circumstances... and that is plausible. But to build these episodic catastrophes which are solved at the last instant using a piece of wet string is tedious and irritating. Let us take the 23rd Episode season 3 as an example. The team have to create a fire barrier to stop a coal seam burning underground... They use 3 or 4 car engines revving furiously to build up a charge to create a big spark underground to melt the sand to make glass.... This is naff beyond words!! A single bolt of lightning is about 5 Billion Joules, and you would need a huge capacitor to store that energy and a suitably high voltage to create a deep underground high energy spark in sand. Cars generate about 14V, and it doesn't matter how much you rev the engine the voltage is fixed to protect the battery. So 3 or 4 cars in series isn't going to cook it and there is no huge storage capacitor to build up charge, Sticking a couple of pick axe heads in the ground wouldn't be very much of an earth, and the the lumps of metal stuck in the ground on the surface would not amounted to very much at all... So none of what the team did makes any sense and it was extremely poor science... always with minutes and seconds to spare... So Good fun but really really poor science and laughable script in that respect... Toby with his behavourable science is about the closest to real life....
In the Shadow of the Moon (2019)
Rubbish Science fiction, not a political message!
Apparently this movie has generated some critique about inciting violence and attacking one part of society or another.... ie go back in time eliminating people to see what effect it has ion the future? eg go back in time and kill Adolf before his ideas take hold and whooppie dooo we have a much nicer present, except for some disgruntled Nazi's without the leader, but maybe another one more powerful... so where do you draw the line?... but of course time travel is FULL or paradoxes and it takes very clever writing to circumvent them. But there have beeb a few really good time travel movies and they are better than this. For example "Time Crimes" and "Predestination" to name just two...
So forget about the "political" critique, IMHO that's a very small issue with the movie!
Having said that, it is kinda entertaining.... But overall disappointing, because it's poor science fiction... Try "Timescape" or "Timequest".....
The Model (2016)
Young aspiring model loses her way
A 2016 movie about a young model who is taken advantage of (a little) by some of the people she meets in Paris... I agree with the previous reviewer; it's well made, good story line, well acted, giving a balanced picture of the modelling industry, and one girl's story of how things can go wrong, & survival. There was another 2016 movie about a model, "Neon Demon", and this was 100 times more worthwhile, and probably cost a lot less to make! The audio & visual impact of Neon Demon was awesome, but it was a hollow waste of time, and the publicity machine made it look attractive. If "The Model" was treated the same way, it would still have been good, but it didn't need the gloss or powerful audio track to make it work. Some of the dialogue is in Danish, but you don't really need subtitles to understand what's being said.
The Neon Demon (2016)
Soulless Visual Stunner
Pretentious, thin, shallow, disjointed, lacking any strong cohesive plot & story line.... The so called "controversial" elements are only visited fleetingly and there's not the slightest element of eroticism to arouse the living, let alone the dead!
Visually stunning with a "thumping" sound track, but nothing that hadn't been done before, & not really enough of a reason to breathe life in to this somewhat dead turkey of a movie.... The posters make this movie look awesome, & it does "look" awesome, but a hyped up movie needs much more! Big green tomato!
It's good to see really high quality (Audio and Video) movies being made without resort to multi-million dollar CGI & big budget special effects and sets. Shame their is nothing to make this into a story worth telling. You might as well just put it on a "loop" hang it on a wall & call it multi-media "art"
It isn't a testament to the "art" of the movie maker though...
iZombie: Blaine's World (2015)
What's a poor Zombie Girl to do?
Brought things to a stomach churning & squirming, spine tingling season ending with twists and turns, almost a happy ending! It did indeed leave enough tension, stress & unfinished stories, to warrant another season... But I do wonder how long can the basic plot be kept running if a Ravi "cure" is in the distance? I mean we don't want Liv to be chaste lovelorn Zombie Girl for ever, or do we?
I don't want to give anything away, I think most key people are all in the stew for another season, well why not, it must take a lot of skill to actually kill a zombie right? so how do you know if a body in a bag is really dead or not...
The romance opportunities for Liv, Major, Peyton, Ravi are still there, and Clive Babineaux has yet to be let in on the secret threat of Zombie Apocalypse, which more and more people are becoming wise to....
Ultraviolet (2006)
Really disappointing
This has less value than the box it comes in.... An abysmal "plot" and an abysmal attempt to transform real human action into a cartoon style graphic novel movie, or was it the other way around? The CGI effects are so bad, they do nothing for the movie or the actors. Even a bad plot can be lived with if the CGI is good enough. I can appreciate actors have a hard time when being "placed" into a CGI rich movie, but I sincerely doubt the lead actress Milla Jovovich would have bothered to make this film if she'd have known and understood what a pile of tosh it was going to turn out to be. It's not worth renting, let alone buying... (maybe I should have waited 'till I've sold my copy on ebay)....