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Fear the Walking Dead: End of the Line (2019)
Worst episode of the worst season (1 spoiler)
This season, unlike the first ones, was full of unrealistic dialogues and conflicts. Everything that made the characters compelling and their stories resonate was destroyed.
Take Morgan for example. He was the first ever living character that Rick crossed with, 9 years ago, in season 1 of TWD. The character was beautifully developed and made history by crossing from one show to the other. At first it was okay, but then things started to go down hill. Characters are what make us follow a story. But since season 4, and mainly during season 5, watching most episodes felt like a chore: the motives and actions did not match the character's personalities, the conflicts and dialogues would completely throw me off the immersion state.
Alicia went from a bad ass independent woman to a ridiculous fragile girl needing assistance to everything. Charlie was ridiculous: every scene with her was so melodramatic that it made me want to quit the episode right there when she started to talk. Morgan, who was always a great character but never a leader, appears in FTWD and start giving orders and being followed by the then main group. And to make it worse, one scene after the other without a clear relation of cause and consequence other than the morale of "helping the others" being repeated 20 times every episode. Helping the others without any care for security of the group. They would cross bad guys again and again and seemed not to care for the risk.
And then, when you thought it couldn't get worse, there comes the season finale and the good guys didn't even put up any resistance (very unlike their personalities). Okay, now it can't get worse, you may think. But then Morgan is killed without clear real, logical motivation. He posed no threat of rebellion, he was always the one with the pacifist discourse, he would be the one Virginia could use to keep the others behaving well since everyone followed his lead (which again was unlike their personalities as well in the moment he appeared). Also, I must highlight this: a character that has been being developed since 2010 dies a st*pid death with no clear motivation or respect to his importance on the show. He died the death of a 1 episode character, not that of a protagonist.
The show runners of season 5 and 6 should be ashamed. The writing was pathetic. The dialogues, motives and actions were unrealistic. The execution was anti-climatic. The season couldn't have been worse.
Ready Player One (2018)
Really bad acting, made it painful to watch
It's a good movie for children. When I saw the sinopse for the plot I expected them to explore more the idea of people escaping the reality to live in a virtual world, but this idea is not developed in the movie.
Instead, it's just one more of those super boring and predictable plots in which there's a clear end goal since the start and the hero will chase after it during the whole move, fighting vilains and making allies along the path.In the end, there's gonna be some kind of morally correct happy ending in which the good defeats the evil.
It's really that kind of story that we all know, the recipe is followed 100%, there's nothing new at all. The one thing that could have made this movie different was the idea I mentioned before, about ppl seeking to escape reality, but that is ignored so I am really disappointed.
The acting is really bad, nothing is convincing. It doesn't make you enter that flow kind of state which happens when you're really into a movie. You just force yourself to finish the movie even though you're really bored and slightly annoyed for the bad quality of the plot and the acting.
I would suggest anyone thinking of watching this movie to skip it and watch something else. Maybe children might enjoy it though, since they aren't aware of anything I mentioned above.