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Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (2023)
Big contrast between Cringe and Awesome moments
It's really hard to judge this movie, there are some really big cliche and cringe moments where you keep facepalming yourself, but also some really great and cool scenes. The main character fits pretty good, but his dialog is not always great. The human part in this movie is a bit less but they made it really important and it all kind of pivots around humans which feels really forced and unnecessary. I wish there were more shots of my favorite Cheetor. There were some moments where they had to give more information. Optimus is kind of meh here, also has some really bad dialog. The verdict I guess is: go watch it but be prepared for the emotional rollercoaster!
Sex/Life (2021)
So good till last ~15 mins
It started with unlike-able behaviours which are actually real, I know some people with similar priorities in life. It discusses real life issues, relation routines, secrets... It went through a pretty rough arc and everything got to their right places till last freaking 15 mins. I was ready to rate it 9, but now I know why everyone is complaining, why the hell did the writers go with such and auful ending? What did the smoke when writing these last minutes. Overal the series is pretty good like I said till last 15 mins, interesting story arc and resolution. If you want to enjoy this skip the last ~15 mins of last episode (you'll know when). Giving it a 6 even the ending is a strong 1.
To give some ideas about what you'll be skipping, imagine building an eiffel tower just to blow it up at the end, that's exactly what happens and it's sad it went this route. But I get it, it was one of possiblities. Don't look for morals if you look till the end.
The show title seems to be an indicative of the plot Sex/Life could be read as Sex or Life (family life), you need to choose one in case of our main protagonist.
Also I think the point writers tried to make, is that some people are just super toxic in our lives. They destroy their lives, our lives and other's lives on their own egoism, instincts, naivity and fake feel of control. They just never change and they can change you into a monster.
Enjoy.
Colossal (2016)
Good setup no conclusion or life lessons
While I liked the movie setup and it did a pretty good job on setting the characters initially, there was really no character evolution or conslusive life example we can take from this. In the end I felt like I just hate all the characters or at least I dislike them. I was expecting for an inner change, not just a heroic actions. The fight should've been connected with internal fight and life changing events. Taking the right path in life even after so many mistakes were done you finally realize that and you start working on yourself. But the heroic fight instead was just parallel to their lives and there was no change at all. She is an alcoholic selfish girl who can't decide what she wants from life, and ended like that, her "boss" was an envy dude who always hated where he stands and his status, and the ended in the same way. The quiet guy ended... as the quiet guy. The normal thinking boyfriend ended up as an attached boyfriend. Maybe that's the actual conclusion writers wanted to tell? I don't know. But seems like you don't end up with anything meaningful after watching it. Just entertainment.
So my advice is if you want to watch a story without an actual life lesson, it's a good movie to watch. But don't expect a monster fight movie or a life story that brings anything meaningful with a good or bad ending. It's just... an ending...
Bird Box (2018)
Good idea - lazy writing
The starting of the movie feels promising and leads to some interesting predictions. Sadly it fells into a lazy plot trap, bringing crazy people as a threat and other non interesting stuff. The movie would've been much more interesting if the plot would go like this: Remove all the crazy people thing and dark creature drawing. Use the actual biblic apocalipsis, where Christ/God comes to earth and revive all dead people and takes the ones alive. Imagine if at the end of the movie she finally takes the eye cover away and sees the being, which calls her to leave here body and join the it to the heaven. That would explain people wanting to kill them selves and seeing/hearing already dead people!