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Funniest thing of this show is the fact that there's more detail in the blood and guts than the animation. For instance, there's a scene where Mark, the protagonist, crashes into downtown Chicago and does a rolling animation of like 2 or 3 frames per roll while all the 3D-generated civilians around him explode like zits.

Beyond superficial observations, there isn't much depth or charisma found in this show. The main characters are mostly uninteresting and/or unlikeable, safe for Robot (the most fascinating character in the show), Cecil (who's interesting mainly b/c he's mysterious) and Debbie (who emotionally goes through a lot).

The main problems with the show is that it has nothing though-provoking to say (that hasn't been done way better) and there's no rewarding payoff when the show ends, other than there's a season 2 (yey?). It leaves no long lasting impressions other than a wtf moment every episode, usually as cliffhanger. But with so many good cliffhangers, there's disappointingly little payoff after the mandatory "epic showdown finale".

I might watch season 2 though, not because I'm invested in the characters, but because the world that Kirkman made is quite unique with a lot of stuff to play with.

A boy disappears mysteriously in a small village next to a forest and private facilities. The story is played by different characters of the town, including the family of the disappeared and a policeman who works alone. Sounds familiar?

Dark is essentially Stranger Things with time travel instead of a parallel universe, has better cinematography, and less interesting characters.

The characters are so monotonous that it is difficult to be invested in them; there is no character to relate with. The protagonist seems to be Jonas, but ends up being one of the characters with less screen time. The most interesting characters are Mikkel and Hannah, but for each Hannah, there is a Charlotte.

The series is mainly science fiction with elements of mystery and drama, but it focuses more on the melodrama of the characters with not much happening in each episode; the story seems to only progress in the last 2 minutes of each episode. Where is the notion of adventure? Where is the intrigue?

It's no spoiler to mention that the show uses the Novikov self-consistency principle as the rule for time travel, since it's the first thing they mention in the show: "everything is connected". So much so, that the show opens up with a quote by Einstein: "The distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion". The principle affirms that it would be impossible to create time paradoxes, and yet the show contradicts itself with paradoxes, just like the watchmaker acknowledges in the last episode.

The ending leads to nothing, and only creates more questions than it answers. In conclusion, Dark is a series with an interesting concept featuring not so interesting characters.

So I just binge-watched Cobra Kai and it was as good as I expected it to be. Not great, but good, at least slightly better than the original Karate Kid mainly because it added layers to the rivalry between Daniel LaRusso and Johnny Lawrence. The character arcs of the kids were also entertaining to watch.

This could have been a great show if it was handled better. It was cheesy at times and the behavior and psychology of some students were primal. There are also things that don't make sense, for example, Daniel didn't ask or look up his most trusted employee's last name. Maybe he trusted him so much that he didn't need to know his last name (???)

I'm still looking forward for next season though.

One of the main reasons the movie fails is because it doesn't have any of the music by Jimi, and instead focuses on the uninteresting relationships. The editing is weird and slow paced. Some dialogue was layered on top of alternate dialogue and 40% of the movie is complete silence (people smoking or just staring at things). The movie is 2 hours long, so there is a A LOT of fillers due to the dullness of the script, which is also inaccurate. Hendrix was not aggressive and disrespectful to Kathy, and Clapton was never jealous of Hendrix.

As much as I love Hendrix, this film was nothing but an insult to Jimi's legacy. Honestly, the only scene worth watching is the band's performance of Sgt. Pepper's.

Nothing really happened in the first 40 minutes of the film.

The plot looked very interesting, but the pacing was too slow and it felt too long too. I blame the editing, the movie could've easily been cut down 20 minutes short. Luckily, the film is saved by the great performances and the ending, which was completely unexpected (if you didn't know what happened already).

This documentary is about the interpretations and perceived meanings of Stanley Kubrick's film The Shining and pretty much a circle-jerk around the film and praising Kubrick as a god.

Most of the "clues" that they talk about in the movie are just coincidences that appear on frame. Other things they talk about are continuity errors which they claim are intentional. So, apparently continuity errors are well thought out works of genius.

And what the f*ck was up with the narrator checking on his crying baby? How did that get through the final cut?

Stanley Kubrick was one of the best directors ever and The Shining was a masterpiece, but this "documentary" kinda makes me hate the movie now... and that's saying a lot.

This movie started off with good pacing, but in the second act, the movie just slowed down and tumbled apart. It started out very promising, but after Astro got lost in the junkyard, the film went downhill. The second act mostly served as filler. The third act picked up most of the movie, but still you are left with a sour taste in your mouth.

It had a few continuity issues, for example: How did Astro know he had the core in his chest when he was bringing that robot back to life?

It also had a LOT of clichés like the "Positive" and "Negative" cores.

The best part of the movie was hands down the Robot Revolutionary Front. When the comedic relief of a movie is the best part of it, that's when you know the movie has a big problem.

This is a 6-story anthology movie directed and animated by different people.

1) "Have I Got A Story For You": I caught this part of the movie a while back on the TV and my first reaction was "wtf is up with the animation?". The lip- sync was atrocious, like terribly bad. And the story made no sense. Some random kids were telling stories about Batman and just as the last one finished talking, Batman appears out of nowhere fighting a bad guy for the sake of the plot. And then one of the kids saves Batman's life?????

2) "Crossfire": This one focuses on two policemen who end up getting in the middle of a crime battle. Sounds dumb? It is. Because it's very convenient, like the previous one. The animation looks like cheap anime, but looks WAY better than the first one. Kevin Conroy sounded way off as Batman in this one, almost as if he was replaced by someone else. The only good aspect of the story is that the story centers around officer Ramirez and we get to see Batman through her eyes. This character is later used in The Dark Knight in the same year.

3) "Field Test": We get to see Lucius Fox creating new technology for Batman. For some reason, Lucius looks really orange in some scenes. And this Batman sounds different too. And he looks really dumb... he has a huge bat-nose.

4) "In Darkness Dwells": This one features Killer Croc and Scarecrow kidnapping a priest. Now this is a good one, this is what the whole movie should've been like. Story centered around Batman and showing his detective abilities. Simple, awesome, effective.

5) "Working Through Pain": It's not clear if this is directly after the previous chapter, but it goes through flashbacks of Bruce's training. This one wasn't as good as the previous one, but it was very a interesting take on his lore.

6) "Deadshot": Finally, this last chapter focuses on the titular sniper assassin and adversary of Batman. The animation in this one is top notch and by far the best. It's very detailed and polished. The plot is solid and very entertaining.

In conclusion, this movie goes from horrible to great. Honestly they should've just cut the first half of the movie and release it as an episode on whatever Batman TV show was airing at the time... or something, I don't know.

6/10

This movie was one of the most disappointing movies I've ever watched. I remember I was actually excited when this movie was announced because I'm a big fan of the comic book. But after watching it, I felt betrayed. Betrayed because I defended it online from haters that started shitting on it by just watching the trailers. The truth is, this film was a disaster, and here's why:

1) No chemistry. You couldn't feel like any of the actors liked each other. You didn't feel any kind of bond between them. The Fantastic Four are supposed to be a family. This felt nothing like that at all.

2) No character development. Or at least, it had a shitty one for all of them. You really didn't care for what ever happened to any of the main cast.

3) Bad pacing. Some scenes looked really out of place and unnecessary.

4) Boring as f@#k. This movie was not entertaining at all. I don't remember enjoying any part of it.

5) Origin story butchered. This was supposed to be an adaptation of the Ultimate Fantastic Four written by Brian Michael Bendis and Mark Millar. I saw little to no resemblance to the comic book. It was completely unfaithful to their Ultimate comic counterpart.

6) What the hell happened in Act II and III? Around the second half of the movie, the film took a twist in a totally unnecessary way. And the third act of the movie was one of the worst endings I've ever seen in a movie.

7) Terrible CGI. The whole movie looked like CGI crapfest. But the scene that took the price was when Mr. Fantastic had the "face- lift".

8) Horrible villain. Doom looked like manure. When I saw him on the trailers, I thought to myself he would look better on the actual film, but no, he looked even worse in the movie.

This documentary is all about the "secret world" of voice actors. And inside scoop if you will. They don't just make voices, they create characters. In some way, they're better than physical actors.

This flick gathers the best of the best in the business. Billy West, Mark Hamill, Seth Green, Phil LaMarr, Nolan North, Hank Azaria, June Foray, Tara Strong, Jim Cummings, Nancy Cartwright, James Arnold Taylor, Daran Norris, Rachel McFarlene, Bob Bergen, these are just a few names from the industry.

This film really does justice to the real heroes behind animation. Watching this will make you appreciate their job more as an art. I watch it every now and then just to remind me how great this is.

10/10

The film starts off with an awful song, which is the worst first impression a movie can have.

The plot line is one of the dumbest and unconvincing story lines I've seen. Despite that, it had some funny moments.

The production value was very low, like the punching sound effects were laughingly and unrealistic bad.

The movie really didn't go anywhere. It's like if the whole movie was made as long as possible just for the plot twist. And the reveal isn't very exciting either.

Overall, it's meh.

Grandma's Boy is about a 35 year old video game tester has to move in with his grandma and her two old lady roommates. This is one of the few movies starring everyone Happy Madison except Adam Sandler. No wonder it doesn't suck likes most of his movies.

It had a good plot, only bad thing is that it didn't have much of a storyline. But it didn't matter that much because their shenanigans were entertaining and funny.

Grandma's Boy is a cult classic and stoner film. It's a shame it didn't do well on the box office, it's truly an underrated comedy. Maybe it was the title of the movie, I don't know.

The movie seemed to go nowhere from the start, and was just making time for the "climax". The first hour just shows Simon Pegg being an annoying paranoid yelling, talking to himself, being a nut and being scared all the time. It would've just been a short, if the whole movie could've been cut and editing and it could've been a good short movie.

The first 2/3 of the movie is garbage, but the last 30mn was not bad. It even has a nice motif that "connects" the protagonist to the villain.

I might not watch this movie ever again, sitting through the first hour of the movie was painful.

Les Miserables is a movie set in 19th-century France about a man, Jean Valjean, who agrees to raise a factory worker's daughter. It's based on the musical of the same name which is in turn based on the 1862 French novel by Victor Hugo. It stars an ensemble cast led by Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried, Eddie Redmayne, Sacha Baron Cohen and Helena Bonham Carter.

All the actors deliver an excellent performance, both acting and singing, especially Hathaway. But the movie felt unnecessarily long, especially all the singed monologues. The diagonal camera angle and extreme close ups were a bit distracting.

There were parts that didn't make sense. For example, why did Fantine bring an incriminating letter to work for no reason? Or how did Marius and Cosette fall in love so quickly? There's another one that I can't mention without spoiling the movie, but it's in the first act.

It would've been nice to see the plot drive the movie instead of the music driving the whole movie. It felt more of an opera than a musical.

7/10

The show was getting better and better with every Season. But Season 5 was much better than Season 6.

Season 5 had one of the best episodes. "Lawless" was the best episode by far. It had some amazing moments. Obi-Wan in a mandalorian armor? How badass was that!? And the duel between Sidious vs Maul and Oppress was awesome as well. The season finale was perfect, it tied up well why Ahsoka wasn't in Episode III

Season 6 messed a lot with the continuity instead of filling in the gaps. Clones with chip implants? Really? That's the reason of Order 66? That's just lazy writing. The Clovis arc was boring. The Jar Jar arc was dumb and unnecessary. The only good part of the season was the Yoda arc. And even that messed with continuity too. Like changing from Korriban to Moraband, and implied that Shaak Ti was killed in Order 66 like in the deleted scene of Episode III (which is NOT canon, but was actually Starkiller who killed her.)

To me, Season 6 ended on a low point. They should've just ended with Season 5 and be remembered as a great show.

The way Jack White opens up this rockumentary by demonstrating how to create your own guitar out of household objects is perfect. One of the many things why I love this rockumentary is how musicians with such a different influences and styles get together to discuss their love for the guitar.

For example, Jack White and The Edge are so different. Jack prefers a raw sound for his guitar like the Big Muff pedal, and The Edge prefer a more technical approach of the guitar using audio settings and pedals.

Curiosly, they were both influenced by punk rock, but in different directions. U2's sound was post-punk and The White Stripes' was more of a garage punk and punk blues sound. This is were they realized they both shared an admiration for The Jam, also known as "The Godfathers of Punk".

The bad thing about the movie is that it didn't show enough footage of them playing together, which was pretty much the best parts of the rockumentary.

Dodgeball is a movie about a group of misfits that enter a tournament to save their gym. Timing is everything in a comedy, so the editing in this film was very important, and they nailed it. I liked Vince Vaughn's character, for once he's not the prick or douche in a movie. Vince Vaughn and Ben Stiller have a great chemistry, their stature difference was really funny.

The movie has many classic comedic moments like the car wash or their first match with the girl scouts or the suitcase with a million dollars. Justin Long has one of the funniest slapstick moments. One of my favorite ones is the wrench thrown at him. It gets me every time. Hank Azaria as young Patches was perfect casting. Though the girl that played better than everyone else was a bit cliché.

Overall, it was a very fun movie.

Let me start by saying that the soundtrack is great. The musical score was composed by James Newton Howard, while the songs were written and performed by John Rzeznik, frontman of the Goo Goo Dolls.

The story is a futuristic adaption of the classic book Treasure Island. The animation is sublime, it blends 2D and 3D perfectly, the steampunk design is also pretty cool. It's a rreal shame it was a box office failure. At least it was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.

If you haven't watched it yet, do it now. It's worth your time.

First of all, let me remember that this is the person who directed Planet of the Apes.

This is the first collaborations between Johnny Depp and Tim Burton and the start of a long friendship. The intro was very cinematic, but the rest of the movie sadly wasn't.

The movie really didn't have a story, it just went on to show how Ed works around a new environment. It has a good but overused moral: Everyone has a special gift, every "disability" becomes an advantage and bla bla bla... we've seen that many times.

I hated the fact that everyone in town was a douchebag except for the family that adopted Ed. The town made the family look like saints. It was really unrealistic. Like where did he get the giant ice blocks? But the stupidest part of the movie was that the cop in his car couldn't catch Edward running.

It started out good, but it ended in clichés.

Seven Pounds is about a man who goes on a journey to forever change the lives of seven strangers.

First of all, the first scene tells you what happens at the end. It spoils the entire movie, which makes the rest redundant since nothing really happens. They barely show Will Smith's character helping out the seven strangers. The movie focuses way too much on his relationship with Rosario Dawson's character. I just couldn't wait till it was over.

The acting was good, which is probably the only good thing about this movie. Overall, the movie was slow-paced and boring. I would not recommend this movie or watch it again.

Sean Willian Scott is a hockey newcomer in this comedy written and produced by Jay Baruchel. The jokes weren't that funny but you cared for the protagonist and wanted to know how it turned out. The funniest parts of the movie were Jay's character, he should've been in the movie more.

Sean Willian Scott was perfectly cast as the nice guy who can beat the sh*t out of you. They didn't waste time introducing the character into the biz. It's really inspiring how much blood and determination Doug puts out on the field when he is playing.

The romantic relationship between Doug and Eva felt really unnecessary, I feel like that was the low point of the movie. Though I think letting Eva's ex beat him was the most honorable thing he could've done. It really builds the character development of Doug.

Super Troopers is about four state troopers that do shenanigans and have a rivalry with the police. That's the whole plot.

The intro and ending were great, they really tied up the story pretty well. But I'm afraid the rest of the movie wasn't that good.

The film wasn't that funny, the jokes were not amusing at all.No wonder this is considered a stoner flick, you'd have to be pretty stone to enjoy it. And honestly, I don't know why it's considered one at all, they smoke weed once in the entire movie.

The movie had no character development at all, although it had good dialogue.

Farva reminded me of Gomer Pyle from FMJ and the moustaches were a nice touch to the troopers.

Overall, the movie was OK.

The product placements in the film were shamelessly annoying. The jokes were surprisingly funny, I was glad they didn't use the best ones for the trailer. They focused the story on the relationship with Machin's girlfriend more than his career, which bummed me out. It would've been cool to see more of his career and the showbiz. The flaw with the story is that there were too many coincidences. What made the first one work, was the relatable background and real story. The best parts of the movie were the scenes with former cast members of the sitcom Pataclaun. The ending was a bit too feel-good, but the bloopers in the credits made up for it.

The sequel is just as good as the first one.

That last quote is from Movie 43, and as the title implies, this movie is in fact this century's "Howard The Duck", so I guess they intentionally made it bad... right?

They managed to gather an incredible ensemble cast, but not even the amazing powerhouse of all these actors could make this horrible script any good.

Well, I'm gonna briefly go over every sketch in order:

1) The Catch: Or as I like to call it "neckballs". We start out really bad with a segment in which Kate Winslet has a date with a Hugh Jackman that has testicles in his neck. It's very "Adam Sandler" type of comedy. It's as if Sandler wrote this idea for Grown-Ups 2 but was later dropped because it sounded so stupid.

2) Homeschooled: Next up, we have Liev Schreiber and Naomi Watts have a teenage son, whom they have home-schooled. It's not hard to imagine they got both these actors in the movie since they are married in real life, so the chemistry is real between them. The awkwardness in this sketch was mildly funny, it would've have been OK in an SNL episode.

3) The Proposition: This is where it gets really ugly. Chris Pratt and Anna Faris play a couple, and surprise surprise! They are also married in real life as well. This whole segment is all about poop jokes. Really, this is the epitome of stupid. I'm not even gonna go into detail because it's sick.

4) Veronica: Kieran Culkin is working a night shift at a local grocery store and bumps into his ex-girlfriend, Veronica played by Emma Stone. Stone's performance was amazing even for a crappy film like this, but the comedy was just too dull and unoriginal.

5) iBabe: This is one of the stupidest segments in the movie, and is what perfectly represents this movie in one scene.

6) Superhero Speed Dating: This one stars Jason Sudeikis as Batman and Justin Long as Robin, with Uma Thurmanm as Lois Lane and Kristen Bella as Supergirl. This is my favorite one out of all the crappy skits that are on this movie. The reason? Jason Sudeikis. His comedic chops are great as always. Victory's Glory was pretty funny too but we'll get to that later

7) Middleschool Date: Chloe Grace Moretz and Christopher Mintz- Plasse are brothers in this sketch, which is nice because we have half of the Kick-Ass cast reunited. I'm actually impressed Nicholas Cage didn't appear in this, he's in everything! Patrick Warburton is always awesome to have around in minor roles. But this sketch was just too boring and badly-written.

8) Tampax: Was this intended to be funny?

9) Happy Birthday: Johnny Knoxville captures a leprechaun for Seann William Scott. Pretty sweet to have the cast of The Dukes of Hazzard reunited, by the story so freaking stupid.

9) Truth or Dare: This whole segment with Stephen Merchant and Halle Berry was just downward offensive and stupid. Halle Berry hasn't done anything good ever since her Oscar win, its actually pretty sad.

10) Victory's Glory: Terrence Howard plays a basketball coach in 1959. They should have ended with this sketch because Howard's performance was just as funny as Jason Sudeikis' in Superhero Speed Dating. It wasn't as funny because the joke wasn't elaborated at all, he just kept repeating the same thing over again.

11) Beezel: This is the one that really p*ssed me off. It actually amazed me by how stupid it is. Beezel is an animated cat who is jealous of his owner's new girlfriend, Elizabeth Banks. Every single aspect of this segment is infinitely hate-able, especially that f**king cat. Later out, I find out this was directed by James Gunn, the same director of Guardians of the Galaxy, which made even more p*ssed to know that this incredible director was involved in this piece of crap.

12: Find Our Daughter: I later found out that there was a last skit in this movie, but I was so frustrated with that last entry that I had to stop the movie and light a cigarette. Apparently Bob Odenkirk stars and directs this, but I couldn't give a f**k about this anymore.

It's pretty amazing that this excuse of a film took more than 4 years to be made. It seems this whole movie was written by 12 year-old kids. I'm so glad I didn't pay money to go watch it... on the other hand, I just wasted 90 minutes of my life that I will never get back. There is only one question to this whole movie: WHY?

We start out good with a theme song performed by Christina Aguilera. The soundtrack is pretty good in general. But the film goes down from then on...

The best part of this film is it's sense of humor at how it pokes fun of the genre. Many of the locations are models and stages, but they make fun of their low quality, like in the White Cat sequences. The acting is overacted since it's parodying soap operas.

However, the story is boring, it only becomes interesting in the wedding scene and on forth which is the 2nd half of the movie. I think what most ruined the movie was the extremely cheesy love story.