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The Boogeyman (2023)
A frustrating watch
The characters in this film are DUMB. So dumb and uncaring that it's a wonder they survived.
For one the youngest daughter Sawyer is left alone during the most insane situations. Your mother died, a serial killer broke in and hung himself in front of your sister and now your having visions of monsters? Well to bad, I'll be down the hall until the next scene where I play the most neglectful parent of the year.
The sister is somehow even worse since she knows there's a monster and still she leaves her sister alone to fend for herself.
That said Sawyer has no right being as calm about the whole thing as she is. WTF! And pretty much every situation would have been so easily mitigated by a simple flashlight.
The rules for the monster keeps shifting and I hate when horror films do that, if you want to have a believable monster it has to have rules otherwise anything can happen and that kills any immersion.
Silo (2023)
"Lost" in a "Silo"
Yeah so I wanted to see this after hearing Mike from RLM say it was the best written show this year, I don't agree with that but it had it's moments.
I really liked the start of the show where the Mayor and Deputy sheriff where a light in this otherwise depressing saga. Then the mystery box starts unraveling as Juliette looks into the murder of her lover.
First off I think the whole setup for the "Silo" is very suspect. They don't really explain how the silo works, how they get air, clean water or anything like that. You get to see that there is a steam driven generator and there are some planting areas for corn, but the show wants you to believe that there are 1000+ people living in this thing and they manage to have things like coffee, beer and other things that take a lot of space to produce in any meaningful quantity.
The silo is said to have existed for at least 140 years. That is pretty insane in a world where a computer might last for 5 years before breaking down.
Then there is the whole problem with knowledge, somehow the government of the silo tracks down anything from the past and makes it a crime to have or consume any of history from the before times, and at the same time they say that "the rebels" where a group, that for some reason destroyed all the materials from before and that is why no one knows who built the silo or why.
For some reason people don't know what a camera is until they do. They don't know what a video is but then they somehow understand that the view from outside is a video stream from outside.
You can smell the mystery box problems a mile away by the end when the season wraps up. I don't think the writers know what the big reveal is gonna be in the end and that makes it pretty much certain that this show will fail. Just like "Lost".
The Creator (2023)
Was this movie written by ChatGPT?
This movie looks great, that's pretty much the only good thing I can say about it.
The story is very generic and the characters are uninteresting and dull.
I don't get why anyone would spend this amount of effort on this bad script, It's such a shame. The conflict between humans and "AI" in this version of the future is so silly. For some reason Asia is now "New Asia" and the US can, for some reason, just show up with a space station/missile platform and bomb anywhere they like without any repercussions. Killing tons of civilians in the process.
The whole "Sim" thing is also really dumb. Why would we want to create robot citizens? The world is over populated as it is and now we have to create houses etc for fake humans? Robots are usually made to reduce manual labor, not to do whatever these "Sims" are supposed to do.
The biggest problem though is that this movie is so boring. The main character has a very strange origin and motivation. I never cared about him or the child, they have very little chemistry and I usually love this kind of story, even though it's been told a million times by now.
They try to throw in some twist by the end that you see coming a mile a way and makes no sense.
I actually had a hard time getting thru this movie, it's so generic and dull. It almost feels like it was written by ChatGPT. Maybe it was.
Fargo (2014)
Too clever for it's own good
I like the show, I just started S3 and so far S1 is my favorite. It is smart to make each season it's own thing with some ties to the previous ones.
I need to get it out of the way. Every time I see that "This is a true story" in the intro I get really annoyed. I've read people defending it since it can be read as "This is a story", since it's true that it is a story and that they do this as a way to make the story have more weight to it.
Sure I guess but it still is just a cheap trick that brings the overall quality down for me.
At the end of season 2 things really goes of the rails and the show looses all sense of tone and place within a believable world and moves into some kind of "Rick and Morty"-territory and then pretends it never happened.
I like the characters and how they get tested in various ways. It seems like the focal point is crime. Have regular people get mixed up in crime and see what they will do about it.
The problem I have with the writing is that it looks competent and even good on the surface but if you look at the series of events depicted in each season it leans hard on coincidence. Someone just to happens to be driving by the killer at just the right time as they are talking about them on the phone. It just happened to start raining fish all of a sudden. The killer going unnoticed while switching out a bottle of pills just a couple of feet from the searching home owner.
There are so many more examples in this show and it's a lazy way of getting from A to C, just don't bother going from A to B and you'll have an easier time.
I don't want to be too critical here, it's one of the best character driven crime shows I've seen in a while but I wish it was given more time to develop naturally instead of relying on twists and coincidence to entertain.
The Fall of the House of Usher (2023)
I don't get Flanagan
I liked "Midnight Mass", other than that I can't finish much of his work.
The main issue for me is that I feel very disconnected with the characters, in the same way I do with Wes Andersson's films. The stories often revolve around a bunch of characters but never from ones point of view. "Gerald's Game" being one exception.
This makes it really hard to relate to any one character or get invested in the story. It's all very cold and disconnected.
I made it thru the first episode and felt nothing. I didn't care about the story or the characters. I felt like I was watching Mikes take on "Succession". Corporate family intrigue now ghosts!
So I guess it's not fair to review the whole show after watching one episode but this time it really clicked why I don't like Mike Flanagans shows.
Blue Eye Samurai (2023)
Great show but the man hate is strong with this one
Yeah I would give this show a lot higher grade if it wasn't for the grating use of man hate as a lazy way of invoking sympathy and anger.
I long for the day when this is no longer a thing.
The show is probably the best looking samurai anime I've seen and the action scenes are actually well done.
I appreciate that the main character isn't unstoppable, she gets humbled a lot and gets back up for more, that is good. Her motivations are somewhat out of wack and I think it will be hard to keep it going with another season.
The worst part of the writing is based in the heavy leaning on all men being awful. Even when you might think the show has some nuance it throws in a twist to double down on the notion that all men are either dumb, evil or both.
The only men capable of being good are disabled, either blind or literally handicapped. There is one exception to this but in the end the shows leaves him standing with his heart in his hands looking like a fool to prop up a female character.
I don't understand how the writers of these types of shows don't see the insane amount of prejudice and ill will they add to the writing. If they switched the genders around this show would never gotten off the ground, and rightly so.
I rewatched "Mad Max Fury Road" for the 50th time and it's still one of the best action movies ever. The film has critique of male dominance but it's made with nuance and not as a crutch to gain forced sympathy.
Also I hate how unearned power is granted to a character like Mizu. I get that she was able to become a great smith working for a master black smith. But becoming a master swordsman without ever even trained with anyone other than the backyard air is ridicules.
It reminds me of how Chang Chi's sister was able to surpass him by watching him train and recreating it. It doesn't work that way. Fighting isn't a solo activity. Ever heard of a champion boxer that never sparred?
Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City (2021)
A disgusting mess - Yuk!
So this movie is just nasty on so many levels.
1. Characters are all unlikable.
2. Everything is dirty.
3. The color pallet is sickening variations of yellow and green.
4. The dialog is obnoxious and grating.
5. Fan service and callbacks that make no sense.
6. Zombies have the flue.
Yeah I was looking forward to a new take on the RE universe but this is just so damn unappealing. The director/writer of this seems to have gone out of his way to stay away as far away from the Anderson RE series as possible.
Anderson did ultra clean labs and Matrix style over the top action so I'll cover everything in dirt and grease and have people holding guns be enough to count as action.
Anderson wrote goofy characters so I'll make every character be as nasty to everyone around them as possible while dropping f-bombs every 10 seconds.
I don't understand how this director got away with doing this bad of a job. Leon in the game is a pretty flat character but that is intentional. He's a rookie and so are we. That said we respect his courage and like him for hist boyish charm and naivety.
The character named Leon in this movie is just the worst at everything. Hes lazy, stupid, incompetent and goofy.
People don't walk around talking to each other using their first and last name like they do in this movie. "Oh Leon S Kennedy", "I'm Ada. Ada Wong", this makes no sense for people that know nothing about the games and to people that know them don't need things spelled out to them like they are 3 years old.
This movie is bad on so many levels, I really hate it. I feel dirty after watching it.
Shadow in the Cloud (2020)
What a mess
First, Chloe is amazing in this. I don't know what made her put in this much effort in the otherwise crappy movie. Yeah this movie is pretty much as subtle as a piano falling down a flight of stairs.
The tone is all over the place and the characters except for Maude are just there to be awful. Awful men being awful, incompetent and weak. How original. Aside from the terrible writing that switches from Sharknado physics to Oscar Bait in the same five minutes, the movie tries to be funny, exciting and scary and failing on almost every level.
I did like the stylistic choices of subjective images inside Maudes mind and the base idea of a monster onboard a WW2 bomber plane is really cool. But then stacked on top of that are millions of other ideas that all clash together and wrapped in a feminist bow.
The writers took all the wrong things from Aliens and just cranked it up to eleven.
Don't waste your time on this plane crash of a movie.
The Leftovers (2014)
Pretty good but far from perfect
I watched one of two episodes back in the day but it made me pretty depressed to be honest. I think I heard someone say that the premise is that the "best people" disappear and that the leftovers are bad people.
That isn't really the premise for the show but some people within the world of the show think that is what has happened.
The idea of having 2% of the worlds population just disappear is brilliant and it is the constant focal point that the characters circle. No matter how hard they try to go on with their lives the "departed" won't stay forgotten.
The acting is top notch specially from Carrie Coon, she steals the show in every scene shes in. I hope she gets more great roles like Nora Durst because she really sells the impact of having your entire family gets erased from reality in a blink of an eye.
There are some issues like the supernatural elements that never really get explained. At the end of the show we sort of get a somber resolution to what has happened but not how it happened.
Then there is some episodes that I outright skipped since they are so tonally off and I think you will now what I mean when you get to them. It feels like the writers got tired of writing serious drama and wanted to make some lame James Bond rendition in limbo land.
They try to add some kind of symbolism to justify it but I really feel that kind of storytelling is cheap. There probably are tons of explanation videos out there that try to make everything make sense but it just feels like a bunch of things thrown at the wall at times.
The show is way better than "Lost" but I still felt annoyed at how the mystery was dragged out until it lost pretty much all momentum.
The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023)
Shipwreck
I was going in hopeful on this one since I the best part of the Dracula novel was the bit aboard the Demeter. Not that it was particularly eventful it's comprised of a number of ships logs just about the mysterious events aboard the cursed ship.
The power lies in the gaps of the logs where the readers imagination fills in the blanks.
The movie does little to stray from the standard plot points one might imagine for a premise such as "Dracula aboard".
The movie is predictable in more ways than just plot. Of course both of the major characters in this movie are perfect victims. A black man and a woman. Both seemingly without any real flaws. One a scientist, doctor, sailor and all around generic protagonist and the other a woman sacrificed by the patriarchy to be Draculas blood cow. She speaks english, is brave, knows how to use weapons, and is generally there to make the men seem like incompetent and evil.
Yeah a boat filled of veteran sailors and not one of them is portrayed as being competent at anything more than being an a-hole. Damn I hate this kind of writing.
Going back to my initial point of this movie not leaving much room for imagination. Dracula is about as scary as a moth banging at your porch light on a summers night. "Oh there he is...", fine.
I think the most effective depiction of the Dracula as a force of nature was in the TV-show "The Strain", at least in the beginning of the show. Where we only go to see a hooded figure that still managed to have a huge presence.
I was sad to see this movie being this dull and generic, hopefully someone might get more enjoyment out of it.
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023)
Mediocre end to a great series
Guardians has always been my favorite series in the MCU and this was very average. The writing is not at all as good as part 2. There is some good stuff like the Rocket story line but other than that the sentimentality is way more forced in this one than in the other two.
It also looks a lot worse than the other films and I guess that is intentional or something but it really makes it feel like James Gunn has gotten tired of cranking these out.
The whole story line with the Counter Earth was so silly that I could not take it seriously in any way, really detracting from the emotional core of the story.
Some things I like is that the movie dares to show the consequences of violence in a way that no other marvel movies(except maybe DP or Logan) do and that is to be commended.
I wish that Gunn and the cast would have made this the best in the series but sadly it is pretty forgettable and it feels tired in many ways.
John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023)
A tired formula goes: bang, bang, bang...
So I was hoping this one was gonna deliver more in terms of story and character but sadly no. All the same beats as before, all the same tropes from the previous films and the only thing holding it together is Keanue and Donnie Yen.
The world of John Wick is a small world, everyone in it is an assassin and that makes assassins mundane and boring. The movie takes place all over the world and characters teleport at a moments notice making the world feel even smaller.
John is not a very interesting character, he was in the first one where we got to know him, but now that we do know him there isn't much going on. His persistence and skill is the only thing interesting about him and that's not enough to carry a movie this long.
The whole "High table" thing is so lame. They really don't know what to do with it and now that the series has been all over the world and killed everything that moves 100 times over the threat of the HT is pretty much like being scared of the IRS.
I hope they keep making films with this level of skill and love but for christ sake, put some effort into the scripts!!!
Star Trek: Picard (2020)
I changed my mind - season 3 is awesome!
The first two seasons is pure sacrilegious filth and I hate what they did to the characters, the lore and everything in between. Terrible writing. Makes me gag how bad it is.
Season three on the other hand has alot of problems in its first half, I was rolling my eyes most of the time, but then something happened. It started to become awesome.
There where real stakes, interesting character development. Fan service done right and by the end I was crying tears of joy, as a die hard Trekkie I got to see my friends again.
No just in name, the characters I love where there. Picard as a character has been pretty much destroyedbby season 1 and 2 but they still managed to give him a little bit of respect back.
The last few episodes where truly epic, the music, editing, direction and visuals are so damn good. It's far from TNG in tone and pretty much the whole show is set in darkness, but I feel and hope that the future of Trek is as bright as the final send off for the crew of the Enterprise D, that this season was.
Skip season 1,2 like the plague.
The Last of Us (2023)
The game is a masterpiece this is generic
The opening and ending of TLOU game is some of the strongest in game story telling.
The start does a masterful job of experiencing the end of the world from an innocent little girls point of view. She is small, scared and totally dependent on her father for protection.
In the car ride from the house she peeks out at the chaos around them and we here Joel and his brother being really scared. Inside we know what's coming and it isn't good.
We switch to Joel in the see of chaos, we are the father, your child in mortal danger and you can't do anything about it.
You hear her fear and you want to make it go away by doing anything you can.
The show first of all does the mistake of casting a Sara that's too old. Making her less helpless and it looks really bad when Pedro runs around carrying her, it looks like he's holding a grown woman not his child.
The show is shot very generically, the feeling of seeing thru Sara's perspective is not there at all. The car scene is just standard coverage and looks like any other zombie show.
The part with the neighbours could have come from a Resident evil film it was so unoriginal.
I don't get the praise. The performances in the game are what made it great and this show is just standard fair.
Ambulance (2022)
A waste of action
So this movie has no substance. The movie feels like it's 3 hours long even though there is so much action nonsense going on. It's pretty frustrating to watch since this must have cost a fair bit.
So the movie has two central characters and both of them are paper thin, one is the good guy soldier that has to do bad to help his family. The other is a lady boss ambulance medic that also is a super model...
There is so much going on at times but I don't care at all. The movie tries to be a mix between Speed and Heat but without the charm or the grit.
Such a shame since this kind of 90s action setup is really something I enjoy.
1899 (2022)
If you like good looking nonsense, this is for you
I've only seen a couple of episode or Dark and I hope it is more deserving of the praise than this pile of crap.
Without spoiling anything this show relies heavily on mystery boxes.
Every episode just keeps pulling out more and more and by the end of the show you are meant to be awed by the twist that you are overloaded with questions to the point of defeat.
Sorry to say this since many of the actors in this show are great, the look of the show is earthy and dark - beautiful.
I don't understand why people call this contrived hollow nonsense intelligent. When the facade falls and you literally see the machinery behind the mystery it is "rule of cool" before logic and coherent story telling. Sad.
Watcher (2022)
Hitchcock on the back of Maika Monroe
So this movie isn't that bad. It's pretty well made but totally falls apart at the last section of the film.
The story is told very subjectively from Julias perspective, and it is nothing new to find here in terms of plot lines but the actress Maika really sells the feeling of being alone and unsafe in a foreign place. The concept is great!
The issue I have is when the mystery is revealed, the tension falls flat. I don't understand why they choose this actor for the scary neighbor killer. A guy that is as imposing as a stack of apples.
Height isn't everything but as far as how they portray the ominous neighbor as a tall man makes the reveal really lame.
This movie is okay. Maika is great though.
Loki (2021)
This show is terrible and destroys the MCU
"Loki" is the worst show in the history of the MCU. Not just because of how it destroys the character of Loki, making him an incompetent fool that only serves to prop up a new female version of him self(eh what?), but also because it makes all things in the MCU pointless.
Even in the first episode they completely remove the importance of the what the avengers did by making the Infinity Stones nothing more than pocket lint. Oh wow what scale does this show take place on if the Infinity stones are pretty much garbage by these writers standards?
Surprise surprise its just a lame attempt of humor and making this shows story seem more impressive than it is. The setting of the agency is so lame and laughable that it is very hard to take anything seriously.
Loki gets smacked down by some enforcers that recently raided a party store. They look about as imposing as a couple of janitors on a smoke break. The big lady enforcer knocks Loki on his ass without as much as breaking a sweat. Loki, the god that can teleport, shape-shift and fight on par with Thor, yeah he gets bested by a female mall cop with a stick.
The problem with multiverses is just one thing that this show makes infinitely worse is dwarfed by this shows inclusion of timelines. That mean that there is an infinite number of universes and an infinite number of timelines to go along with those universes and all of it is managed by a bunch of tweed wearing bureaucrats with plot devices up the you know what.
This is so terrible any so many ways, I don't see how Kevin Feige could have approved this. Everything that was built till this point means nothing if this show is canon.
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: Adar (2022)
Galadriel is extremely unlikable
So Galadriel is aggressive and unpleasant in pretty much every scene. The only scene she smiles is really creepy and makes her look like an orc, I don't get it. It lingers for like 10 seconds and is clearly put there to make her likable.
The only part that was kind of interesting was the elves in the prison camp but the orc designs where just lame and really shows that the budget wasn't used used effectively. At times you can see the actors bare arms under the costumes without a lick of special effects makeup, making them look like people larping.
The only good part of this episode is the inclusion of Isildur and his father. The actor that plays the father is very good, and the character is likeable with a sense of weight and inner conflict.
This show somehow makes the Tolkien world feel small and one-dimensional. Remember in LOTR how the fellowship had to actually travel to get somewhere? In this show, people just teleport hundreds of miles in between scenes without any time passing, its insulting.
The harfoots are just plain silly and somehow downright evil, leaving the last caravan to fend for themselves just because. This after having a long drawn out speech remembering the people they have lost(that we don't even know or care about).
It really pains me to keep watching this show at times. The main problem being Galadriel and the overall lame and lazy writing.
Thor: Love and Thunder (2022)
Marvel should sue Taika for this movie
This is far the worst Marvel movie in my opinion.
It's like watching a bad improv class, if this movie has a script I'm scared to read it.
There is NOTHING of substance of weight here, it is insane. The movie accomplishes the impossible: diminishing Thor even more than previous films.
After seeing the making of I know that not only Taika is to blame for this, even Chris seems to care little about the character anymore and just wants to goof off.
The whole plot about Jane Foster is so uninteresting and forced I had to shut the film off halfway and resume the next day, being more prepared for the level of writing I was in for.
I really enjoyed the previous film but I found out that Taika had nothing to do with the script so that explains a lot.
Being one of the people that thought him to be a fresh voice in the dull and stiff world of the MCU, I now back down from that stance and apologize.
I was a mild fan of Jojo Rabbit but that wasn't even an original idea of Taikas...
This film is utter garbage on so many levels. It looks, sounds and feels cheap. At times even the lines are mumbled and the scenes with the guardians are just embarrassing. This cost 250 million dollars! That is insane. Someone must have pocketed that money because it doesn't show anywhere on screen.
The Boys (2019)
The problem with Homelander
They will never be able to kill off Homelander, and don't even have the balls to off any of the other cast either.
Its really sad but this show feels so creatively bancrupt. There are too many characters that has no real point in staying around. Like the Deep, A-Train and Starlight.
Severance (2022)
Asks some great questions
So I was hesitant to see this show, mainly because I am not a fan of the hipster "look at how quirky we are" shows that keeps popping up. And that is the feeling I got from seeing the trailer and hearing the premise.
The second reason is I watched some episodes of "Devs" and I really didn't like it. The whole mystery box thing is getting very tired.
This show has both of these elements but the story and the characters are strong enough to keep my interest.
At first I got really put of by the whole setup with the cubicles and dweeb coworkers but I am happy to say that all of these characters get really good character development.
Even the foul mouthed sourpuss egomaniac gets his time to shine and really comes into his own as a dependable and likeable part of the team.
There is also Helly R, a character that starts out seemingly to be the token female of the group but who really becomes the driving force of behind a lot of the shows momentum. She turns out to be a complete bad ass. In the real sense of the word and not some forced gender swapped muscle head way.
The real strength of the show is the question at the heart of its main conflict. What if we split a person in two, where one of the versions was free to enjoy all the luxuries of what a it means to be a person - and the other is property.
Would you be okay with enslaving your other to gain the privilege to completely separate yourself from your work life?
If you don't want to suffer through a day of monotonous tasks and stressful situations, what makes you think that your other you wont suffer equally as much? Without any of the benefits of free time, relaxation, hobbies, family, friends or love to soften the blow of the everyday grind.
I rate this show as it is a 9. I hope it can live up to that with season 2, but for now it is up there with many of the great tv-shows of all time.
Obi-Wan Kenobi (2022)
Pointless...
4 episodes in and I see no point to this show.
It really doesn't add anything to the overall story of star wars. One could maybe argue that it is a character exploration of Obi Wan, but a sad one if that.
He is a very passive character, he is more like shoved into action by the annoying people trying to make the plot seem important.
I haven't seen Boba Fett yet but I imagine that this is even more boring then that.
From (2022)
Fun premise, mediocre writing...
I like the Stephen King-esque setup, the gore, and some of the mystery elements.
That said, this show is rough.
The writing is very inadequate, what I mean by that is that the show writers don't seem interested in explaining much of anything.
Where does a whole town of people keep getting a constant supply of food?
Noone seems to do any work, just farting around talking.
Then there is forced conflict, parents leaving their children unattended in a place ruled by vampires, yeah sure, like that would happen.
The talismans they use, what the hell situation would clue someone in that would stop a horde of vampires?
The child acting in this is some of the worst I've seen.
Against the Ice (2022)
The problem with movies based on true events
So I love me a good old survival movie. Movies like The Edge, Arctic, Castaway and so on.
Movies not just focusing on the survival aspect but also manage to deliver an emotional and interesting story about people getting thru bad situations.
Against the Ice might be the perfect film for any history buff out there wanting a nice retelling of this actual story that took place, but as is the case with many of these historical movies is that fiction is sometimes more interesting than fact.
Not to say that some of the events of this movie aren't exciting or emotional, but for a movie this long I felt pretty bored much of the time. The film didn't really explore anything new and I mostly wished I was watching The Terror season one instead.
I think the acting was decent and the production value was pretty high. I really wished for more meat on this bone but as it stands it was a pretty unsatisfying experience.