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Kate (2021)
Blatant John Wick rip off
I swear, there are even scenes that are IDENTICAL.
It works as an action movie. It do try to mimic the JW experience but it's quite shallowing in it's attempt, like using lots of CGI.
Not a bad movie. It was clearly meant to be a feminine version of the guy, it delivers but there's not even a bit of originality.
Nobody (2021)
Minimalist John Wick
The movie is very clean in it's aesthetic and plot. It does not explain much, but gives enough hints(visually) to what it wants you to know.
The action is great, soundtrack is great too. This movie reminded me of that game Doom from 2016. Same feeling here. The background they give you is enough for it to workout.
At first glance it may look like cheap action, but it's truly well packed and the execution is top notch.
What more could you ask for?
Dancer in the Dark (2000)
Good performances, but awful writing
The story is poorly written, predictable. You see from miles away what is coming and it is constantly trying to shock but how it connects don't seem functional to me.
There's no depth to the story, the characters are ridiculously stupid and he tries to shove it down your throat, it's not plausible.
The performances where great, the film extends itself a lot though, unnecessarily as it's obvious what is going to happen.
A bit of a pretentious piece, a lot of aesthetical showcase, but not quite depth.
The first line side of the characters is good, but it don't work beyond that.
Godzilla vs. Kong (2021)
Predictable CGI presentation
Terrible movie. Worst plot I've seen in a while, but I guess it wasn't the focus here.
The direction was horrific, they have a merit in that they managed to seem like a rushed story and a filler at the same time.
Everything was super predictable and boring. Even as action scenes go this is boring stuff.
The Queen's Gambit (2020)
Overrated
I would say this is a historical drama and romance. Everything is very predictable and centered in a way to be clear about the message, mostly saying how things used to be. They wanted to make a not so subtle critique of the xx centuries society and went with a fictional character put in many emulated scenarios. It's how they think it would have been, but there are many holes in their emulated scenarios, exaggerated behaviors and not accurate depictions, but the overall aesthetic are very good for a travel in time.
The acting is decent, production is good but story is poor and predictable.
Enola Holmes (2020)
Literally Propaganda
It's a movie made for 12yo girls to feel empowered. The plot is very clear, no layers of depth and very unidimensional. The girl does a decent job but everything else is terrible, from the bad plot to the horrible cgi cities and historical background.
The movie is constantly sending a message of how men suck and are incapable, lazy and arrogant and how women are good, capable, smart and yadda yadda.
Everything is so predictable and cliche, you just know something is not as it seems and that person is not really dead but the solutions are even more dumb and even unrealistic.
Netflix is making a high effort promoting this movie, but it's just not good.
Westworld (2016)
High quality material but felt hollow after first seasons
Season 1 is quite good, season 2 is ok and season 3 is so bad that I lack words to describe.
They clearly over extended with the series and are on a lack of ideas. Things just get dumber and dumber with time.
I would suggest to people that they only watch the first season, no further watching and it's gonna be a good experience.
El hoyo (2019)
Snowpiercer but vertical
Decent movie, but it's too explicit on it's arguments. Everything is very obvious here as metaphors, that is not exactly bad, but there is a lack of depth.
Take on mind that this is an low budget movie, The Platform has it's moments and is overall ok.
The actors are decent, the direction is ok too.
Not bad, but there's also nothing new here. Washed up critique and vague.
The Witcher (2019)
Good show, but not spectacular
It's good enough entertainment, expectations seems a little but too high here.
This is not the next GoT, it's some degrees below in terms of scale and overall quality.
Everything is okaishy. The story is good but may seem rushed and fast paced, the fight scenes are good, the acting is average, the settings are beautiful but don't get explored and the characterization is kinda odd with everything looking too much clean, everybody wears clean cloth and makeup, the ambients don't look like people actually live there. Also, there are no transitions, you are always jumping from one stage to another, it looks like they had little space for the records and used a lot of CGI to render the scenarios. This last point is very important because it sets the tone when it comes to medieval stuff, there is never a big scenario with lots of elements and actors, it always seems like the scenes are recorded on a small stage and it's limited enough so that you never see them going to one room to another without a cut - there are too many cuts here.
Sometimes you get the feeling that this in a cheap show and the direction really sucks, it's often misleading at times.
There is too much drama for irrelevant characters, you really develop no feelings for them. They are there and you are not interested in their story, it feels like filling after filling.
Overall it's a good show, not bad, but don't fool yourselves to think is the next big thing. There is clearly a gap in budget between this and GoT.
Netflix should balance better between marketing budget and production budget. It could have been much better but it ends being a mediocre-good show. Nothing special but not bad either.
J'ai perdu mon corps (2019)
Bizarre yet beautiful and touching
This is the kind of movie that may cause stress in some viewers due to the brutal nature of some images.
That being said, it's a beautiful and very emotional story. You can feel the characters.
The Edge of Democracy (2019)
Very emotional and personal perspective
The documentary offers a very intimate view on the events surrounding the last decade of Brazil's democracy.
It shows some background on the historical political forces that dominate the country but fails to present a broad perspective of the context. It's clear though that this was never the objective when the narrator presents itself with her views.
The documentary does very good at reminding us and offering a more static showcase of the ongoing forces that threatened democracy in an attempt to circumvent investigations and save themselves.
I had more expectations related to the informative content as I'm a native myself and the actual playtime of the documentary being a bit long but i won't say I'm frustrated.
I concluded it's a good resumé for foreign audiences to understand the current events in Brazil and a very intimate display of the effects of a political crysis in a borderline democracy.
Avengers: Endgame (2019)
The most epic mess
The movie is great. They try to present itself as the ultimatum epic movie and i believe it succeeded. There is an epic moment on every corner.
The overall plot is a lot of mess, too much fan service and the action is good but could have been much better. A lot of mess in the battle scenes too.
The movie is pure entertaining and fun. Don't bother too much about quality and technical stuff.
Game of Thrones: The Long Night (2019)
Expensive fan service garbage
The whole plot had not depth, was very predictable since last episode and had ridiculous scenes.
Episode 2 talked every minute how safe was thr crypt, we then knew what was gonna happen there.
The dead here looked quite like World War Z zombies and there was even a tribute scene that looked alike when the zombies start climbing each other in the walls of Jerusalem.
The poor itself was very very very poor, characters looked so plain lately.
The worst part for me was the ridiculous fan service, which some may like this stupidity.
First, who the hell would alllow a little girl to be in the frontline of a siege?? Especially if she has an army, she is no tactical leadership neither can fight. Also, her character it's blatantly over the top, she was a bit on last season but now it's just too much. In a medieval society there was a very structured hierarchy, she being an insolent and inconsequent girls it's so much off.
The worst part is that RIDICULOUS scene where she got punched by a giant, didn't go unconscious, then the giant grabs her, smashes her bones and she still can move enough to hit him with a dagger and kill him. What.
Also, this idea of "hey, you got me but i have a hidden dagger or a nice move to hit you with a knife" was very overused in this season too.
It seems it's the only way a weaker character can kill a stronger one.
It's all part of a movement of the producers changing the series to give it a move feminist fans approach, thus making it more modern.
The problem it's how they subverted the society in GoT for that to happen.
It's a shame because the series has gotten so much over the top for the fan service.
There is a scene at war where they used Sam and Brienne in constrast.
He got hit, felt on the ground, was a bit scarred and when he looked to his side there she was. Brienne standing still killing everyone. Then Sam runs away from the fight because he was reduced to a simple coward.
They already used this idea of a useless coward man counterpointed by a brave strong woman in last episode, with the SAME characters!
They have so much subliminar messages about men, masculinity and women.
It's grotesque having to bash men for a women to shine.
Show has gotten so bad at having new ideas.
It seemed for me that a lot of the scenes added the dead after. For ex, there is a moment when they are guarding Bran and one of the archers is approached by an orde of deads but he is still holding his bow, normally he would have taken his sword. It seemed he didn't react because the dead were added latter on CGI.
Also, this part was very strange overall. Starting with they using archers to guard a close quarters are in a stormy night against super fast enemies.
If you ever used a bow you know it is not fast enough, but the producers circumvented it by super cutting and accelerating the scenes.
The whole episode is quite beautiful, you know where the money went. This episode is far better directed than the last one.
But you expected this the whole show and when the war really happens it's so Meeh...
Did Arya just did that really? The Night King died like that? She could have just grabbed a bow, no need to overexpose herself or having to do a stupid super jump.
The build up for the end it's frustrating. They got me at first, it was had some tension.
Then it start to become slow and slow and suddenly every character is in checkmate.
Problem is you know that every important character can't simply die at that time at peak of tension. So this build up clearly points out that some deus ex machina it's about to happen. This is so frustrating, even more with the way it happened...
There is also the scenes with the dragons lost in the storm. That lasted way longer than it should be and was very chaotic.
The dragons also had a very minimal participation in the battle, which doesn't make sense considering they are your stronger force.
And there is a scene where they needed to light up the barricades but no one could get a torch there. Then they show Jon mounted on the dragon on the wall doing nothing, he could have just used the dragon!
It's not even close to Battle of the Bastards and the overall quality of the series has gone downhill. It makes you want to grab the new books and see what really happens because this storyline can't be the real one.
The director seemed to be the same and i check other collaborations and he has very expertise in battlefield screenplay. So i don't know what happened because he too could have done it better, maybe he wasn't independent enough to direct here.
This episode was beautiful but very ridiculous at the same time.
Game of Thrones: A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (2019)
Feminist Propagandist Medieval Soap Opera
It's no surprise that GoT has had a lot of women in positions of power. We are ok here.
The problem lies on the level of the plotting.
Every take there is a women subverting what would be "expexted", acting insolently against higher hierarchy men or overleading in arrogant ways. The producers clearly overdosed on the "let's empower" stuff. Women here are taking actions that would normally be expected from men, it goes from a baby girl saying she wants to fight and protect the realm to Arya "taking initiative" and sexually harassing a man. They had to portray men as useless pigs for the women to shine as the heroes, It borderlines a ridiculous level of writing.
There are others problems with the episode too, for me it signals a oversimplification of the series. They turned it on a big budget medieval fantasy soap opera.
First, it's utterly predictable, it signals everytime what is about to happen.
Second, it's shallow, characters are interacting and saying irrelevant things just to fill time. When they are not saying irrelevant stuff they are trying to spoill what is about to happen. For ex, how many times you heard they saying how safe was the crypt? I wouldn't be surprised if next episode the dead start rising on the crypt.
Deadpool 2 (2018)
Great movie until the half part
I won't say the movie is bad because it isn't.
It's just great until a certain point, then it starts to be repetitive and at the last third is absolutely totally crap.
If you can get away with the second half you will probably think it's a very good movie, but it's not consistent.
This kid, Julian Dennison, he absolutely ruined the movie. I don't know what was up at he casting but he just ruins everything little thing, he is terrible as an actor and looks too apathic here.
Why do they even have to do that much close ups on his face when he is that bad?
The overall plot is ok to bad, at the second half its plain bad writing that forces tagging people as pedos to justify the massacre of civils.
I'm not being politically correct here, they didn't have to do it, they did and did it very poorly.
Even the characters motivations feel shallow at the ending, it feels rushed.
The boy plot is meeh and you just can't feel nothing for the boy because he is so bad.
Also, the final third is just forced meta.
The jokes don't work anymore, too much repetitive, they over use the meta to try to cancel the bad writing by saying it is bad.
The action it's very good, Leitch it's top notch at it and he did deliver even in a over the top movie like DP.
The action is bad, at some point you just don't want to look at their faces anymore. Reynolds and the girl are the only acceptable characthers, the others get boring too fast and they don't work. And I'm not even talking about the boy, his whole thing, plot and terrible acting, ruined a movie that could be very good.
It's not a bad movie, it's just not balanced.
Some things work very very well and others are so bad that have negative impact on the good things.
The movie works much better that the genre average at it's core elements, the action it's good, the jokes work until certain point and etc.
Some people will overlook the bad aspects and say it's a great movie, you might be this person or not.
Overboard (2018)
How to get away with rape
They needed to remake a movie from 87', the original plot would sound too 'overboard' the political correctiness yatch. Having a man basically kidnapping a rich, young and beautiful girl? naahh...
So what did they do?
They swapped the genders so with the feminist wave it could look ok for a woman to kidnap a man, use him as a labor, abuse him and basically rape him.
Some might say the movie is just a stockholm syndrome justified.
Apart from this discussion, the movie has some flaws.
The two main actors are very bad, the plot is predictable, you don't really get the feeling of the movie, it never makes you think she is really poor. But, the movie can make you laugh, i laughed at it sometimes.
Overall, it is not a bad movie, it's just not good either.