Reviews

I was not expecting a lot from Disney who is notorious for destroying ips but still they managed to outdo themselves.

Somehow they managed to do even less with goosebumps than that old cheesy and low budget old series. At least that one had clearly honoured the feeling of the ip despite it's shortcomings

This one however fails in every respect. The characters are gen z caricatures, not atypical for Disney characters Some like Isaiah tend to show growth but honestly most are wooden and the actors performances aren't much better.

I do not hate the idea of the continuous plot but it's very poorly executed. Cause apart from the main plot it makes it impossible to explore the stories of the books adequately but then what's the point of calling it goosebumps if you don't actually develop these stories? Indeed it never feels like goosebumps and when the show attempts to show tension it is resolved rather boringly and poorly.

The show isn't scary nor suspenseful and the plot even of that main story is bare bones. Lazy writing, hardly any well written revelations ( the show basically shows you what happened pretty much in the first episodes) but mostly stories that do not represent those of the books neither in execution nor in feeling. At no point you'll feel like these stories offer anything in regards to suspense , plot or intense feelings. They seem mostly like cheap scary stories you read on some Reddit thread.

This show is the epitome of how CW ammased a huge debt by producing garbage like this.

It's a classic cw teen show formula with brainless plot, cringe dialogue and teenage millenials angst issues. The only difference is that cw is also dragging the ip of batman to the mud along with the show which is not surprising given the amount of ips cw have destroyed we're used to it by now.

I don't think people were expecting much from this and after the pilot they still managed to dissapoint us. Cause what people wanted from a barman show was ofc CWs insight into teenage problems and talentless writing.

First of all let's establish something. This isn't the classical Verne story. It's another victim of the modern lunacy that has classical stories and art changed to suit the political beliefs of a certain group. The entire series is a political commentary rather than a well crafted story because well studios like the BBC don't really care about that anymore

I don't like using the term woke because i don't sympathise with certain groups that use it but this tendency to ruin great stories to satisfy a toxic group that eant everything to be in their image because they are insecure has to be mentioned

This script is so bad they even managed to make David Tennant look bad. His character is basically a wimp who can't do anything by himself. It's insane how bad they treat the story that this is based on. Doesn't deserve anything but 1 star and honestly that's very flattering.

How in the hell was this made? Someone brought this project to a network and the network decided let's waste money on that crap? This money would be 100 percent best spent on charities.

Possibly the worst animation series of all time with zero quality and redeeming features.

Another example of Marvel serving something ill designed , with minimum effort and expecting their hardcore fans to buy it no questions asked. Why? Because it has Hawkeye in it.

It's basically a street level superhero series except it has nothing memorable. It's like marvel have forgotten everything that made Deadpool an excellent street level superhero series and just except to sell by having Hawkeye on it.

The fights are mostly ok but everything else is bad. No character development, no big reasons why our heroes are doing this, no important personal struggle to elevate them.

I like Jeremy Renaire, he's a great actor but in this instance and with his role in the mcu basically over it's painfully obvious he's there for the last cash bag. As for his female counterpart well, .... she's a female Hawkeye. That's all there is to it. It falls to the category of newer marvel heroes/ villains where they just change gender or race to a hero because they're too lazy to create new original ones and they're like" voila we have a new hero" who they don't even really try to pretend they're not a copy paste.

Classic example of Marvel sitting on their success trying to make max money wity minimal effort thinking their fanbase is stupid but what do you know they keep making money so they must really know their fanbase.

First thing you have to understand is this is not a black widow movie. It's a movie intended to introduce her sister as a character to the MCU. And that's the most dissapointing part because it means no plot, no effort in the movie just a regular cashgrab as it's often the case with marvels projects nowadays. Black widow as a character has no depth in this movie other than making stupid jokes.

And the villain is just as bad. Taskmaster is one of the most compelling characters in the villain territory and in this movie it feels like he's irrelevant. We're talking about a movie that doesn't care to develop any of it's characters in what it's black widows farewell to the mcu...

Let's say you somehow manage to tolerate 1) anne Hathaways cringy performance 2) her intolerable ,awful and cringy attemp at an accent 3) the narrators continuus attempts to sound funny in his narration

You'd find a remake that not only doesn't have any of the positives of the original but is lacking even in basic aspects like acting ( Hathaways worst acting btw like ever)

They do say you can't be disappointed if you don't expect anything and after what they did to "colour out of space" needless to say my hopes weren't high.

This certainly seems to be the case for this series.First things first let's clear the fact this isn't a Lovecraft series.You expect a lovecraftian story to be well written, story driven and have the element of madness and despair taking over the protagonist like it usually happens in his written work.

The whole aim of the series is using Lovecrafts name to drag it down to the mud and project mr Peeles political agenda as it's usual the case with all his work.

The problem with that is that there's no interest in creating an interesting story whatsoever.I could understand if there was some effort put into it but mr Peels moto is "why work and do your job right when you can just promote your agenda?"

If you are a Lovecraft fan and expect to see something lovecraftian,an interesting story or at the very least a story driven series to begin with then this is not your series.

Cool plots with a lot of hilarious and memorable scenes and great chemistry among the actors.

Ever since Alex Kurtzman became administrator of the franchise it pretty much died.

To say i had expectations for the show would be a lie.Terrible stories, complete disregard for the established lore , Kurtzman himself has been caught not knowing lore facts a tone of times in interviews and on top of it terrible actors, their qualification for taking the role being their diversity as Kurtzman has told (cause who needs good actors right?)

And excluding all these Kurtzman and partners attacking the fans for not liking the show

First of all it is absolutely essential to establish initially that this movie is in no way a lovecraftian movie but rather advertised as one.People who expect something remotely reminiscent of Lovecraft will be absolutely disappointed by this movie.

I was excited to hear about it's announcement and shocked to see who was the protagonist.I could hardly imagine an actor more unsuitable for the role than Cage.Of course anyone who's ever read Lovecraft could tell you the same which in turn shows that the director has absolutely no clue about his subject.That was the first clue of what was about to come.Still the colour out of space is one of my favourites novels and i tried to keep an open mind.

Let's start by the positives.The movie is visually perfect. The special effects are stunning and the scenes depicting the colour are flawless.Unfortunately this is where the positives stop.

The movie fails in every other aspect to be not just a decent lovecraftian movie but also just a decent horror movie.The plot is slow which is not necessarily a bad thing but the action is stagnant.It has no climax.You don't feel like the horror and anxiety are actually escalating partly because the main protagonist fails horribly to deliver a performance that reminds us of all the terror and uncertainty a lovecraftian character feels and partly because the plot doesn't help.

You see the thing about the plot is that there's hardly a plot.A very small part of the movie actually has to do with the plot which is very sloppy since no effort was put on it.Instead what you'll mostly see is the desperate attempts of the protagonist to fit in the shoes of a lovecraftian character trying to emulate a feeling of terror which he has never been able to accomplish in his entire career as an actor and some flashy special effects which in the director's mind are more crucial than building a plot .

But although the plot is hardly relevant to Lovecraft's work the worst by far is that the movie fails spectacularly in the most crucial part of actually being a lovecraftian movie.At no point in the point it makes you feel the terror and escalating madness that Lovecraft's works are notorious for and Cage's attempts are hilariously inadequate to mimic the feeling of helplessness that Lovecraft's protagonists have in his works.

The absolute terror that they feel when confronted with something that is not only greater than them but also incomprehensible to them and the dive into madness they take when they realise how small and irrelevant they are in the face of Lovecraft's eldritch abominations.

To sum up this movie failed because of a director who completely neglected or made an effort at all to understand his subject and because of his bad choices regarding actors as well as his inability to present a plot that was already written perfectly for him.Somehow Lovecraft's written work seems more alive and impactful on generating feelings than a high budget movie made in 2019.

There are plenty of movies made regarding Lovecraft that although they were made 30+ years back are actually closer and depict successfully his dark and twisted world managing to enter deeper into the writer's mind that this movie would ever hope to do.

Movies like from beyond and Re-animator which although old would eat movies like this for breakfast with their majestic plot progression and flawless and meticulous look into the very essence of Lovecraft's work.

We can only hope that the director of this movie won't attempt to murder Lovecraft again for the third time!

To understand what went wrong with cpt marvel you have to understand the circumstances in which it was made.

First of all Disney decides to create a movie based on a hero not well known.Im a legitimate marvel fan for decades,i grew up with comics and first time i heard about this movie I thought the hero was actually miss Marvel not cpt of whom ive never even heard before.No material meant poor writing in this case as generally all material regarding marvel movies comes from comics as far as main stories go.

Then there's the pc aspect which sadly becomes more and more often.From the beginning this movie was advertised both by Brie Larson and Disney as pc with Larson pointing it out everytime she opened her mouth in interviews even being directly hostile to journalists because she didn't like their colour which as she pointed out was (too white)Then there is the thing with thousands of reviews in numerous sites being deleted per Disney's request cause they didn't like to be criticised.

As for the movie itself you realise something is wrong throughout the duration of it.Cpt marvel is too strong and never makes mistakes contrary to every other super hero.It just has no point to have a hero that never struggles to get better.Compare that to spider Man who passed through 1000 problems and challenges to be what he eventually became and you realise how vague, poorly written and indifferent of a character cpt Marvel is.There is simply 0 character development 0 reasons to feel connected with that hero.

To sum up it is a Marvel movie, even if it is quite possibly the worst one and one of the worst about super heroes in general which means its too big to fail despite the poor writing,pc agenda and especially a bad uninspiring and indifferent actress in Brie Larson who just leaves every viewer emotionless. I highly recommend to all who haven't seen this to pass this and just rewatch Wonder Woman instead.