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Mimic (1997)
The writers of this film clearly evolved from apes.
If you've already seen the film then you'll recognize that my title for this review is from a certain dialogue in the film, "It only took 40 000 generations for apes to turn into humans"; it's unusual to say the least how that's a specific established fact in the movie. I reckon we'll just have to overlook how it was only the apes capable of evolution into intelligent life, anyhow that's another matter.
Any respectable sci-fi film is based on a solid concept of story, an element entirely missing in this one. Their Judas insects evolved only into a single colony with a single male making it so conveniently easy to destroy an entire race of intelligent insectoid-mammal hybrids derived from another hybrid of insects. I wasn't expecting this of Guillermo del Toro, thoroughly disappointed, I had thought my judgment of films had become quite accurate up till now. The dark lighting throughout the film reminds me of Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem which was similarly a huge disaster in terms of visuals as I was having difficulty seeing anything clearly. Perhaps they didn't have the budget to create clearly visible creatures with detail or rather just didn't care for it. Is that how an uneventful and moronic plot is meant to be intriguing and full of suspenseful mystery? The dialogues are so poorly written as if they had written the script in a day or so. The one black guy that these Hollywood fools always have to include in order to not be viewed as pro-white, racists or whatever would just keep on stupidly swearing up down right and left at everything while panicking. Characterization is a disaster of biblical proportions. I can't even hope to properly convey the absurdity of the little boy's role. His supposed genius of being able to identify every kind of shoes from a distance by just it's sound and how they incorporated this with him being able to somehow engage with the creatures. Not to mention his utterly unnatural or psychopathic behavior upon witnessing his own father's death or his attitude towards the big bad ugly creatures, how fear is absent in him. They were supposedly imitating their only predator, man, in order to overcome this threat so why would they hope to communicate with one of them. Another unexplained phenomenon in this is that one of the creatures abducts the biologist responsible for their creation, is this meant to imply that they're intelligent enough to want to meet their maker with simultaneously wishing to destroy the human race? I mean what is happening, totally incoherent and diverging/contradictory plot lines. It always annoys me how they portray people as being so selfless nearing their death or in general. I don't think that that is how one would behave in such a circumstance. Where is the one guy at least who's only thinking of his own survival?
If you're uninterested in my little observations or frustrations with this mess of a film, at least just don't bother seeing it.
Summary: The writers of this film clearly evolved from apes!
Tales from the Loop: Loop (2020)
A decent execution of an idea(s) too reminiscent of others' work
I''ll begin by saying that I don't intend to persuade you into forgoing this series or in particular this episode having watched only a single episode although I don't expect too much going forward. It's not as if I've to pay for it. Moreover, this isn't even a critique. I just wish to convey that I couldn't help but notice that there are some very obvious aspects of it that reflect influence and unoriginality from other well-known pieces of cinema.
I've been observing this for a while now, how Interstellar has vastly influenced the genre of sci-fi film and Tv-show alike. The concept of love or relationship between two people transcending space and time, or other variations derivative of this idea that has been made greatly popular by this thought-provocative blockbuster. I should add that the black sphere of mysterious origin is hardly a testament to their creativity and consideration for this script.
I may be reaching a bit far about this but part of the music in the 2nd half of this 1st episode reminds me of The Fountain (2006). Although I'm certainly glad that they didn't try to merge a bit of mystical/spiritual significance toward the plot with the scientific aspect of it, keeping it solely science-fiction was right and I've always been greatly irritated by the union of these two entirely different ways of looking at the world. Frankly I'm getting tired of having to repeatedly sit through these messages of love portrayed as the ultimate truth in life at the center of science-fiction which most of us are lured in to watch by.
Not everyone can pull it off without seeming cliched and exhaustive. There is no intimacy in science, outer-space and all it's accompanying aspects. These are cold, characterless and neutral parts of our existence. So does our love for one another need aliens' approval to appear worthwhile and meaningful, why does there have to be a whole journey through time for it to mean anything? It's because it isn't about love, it's fundamentally about excitement and thrill disguised as false noble principles and inspirations.
There is no originality anymore, intellectually embarrassing themes made with extravagant expenditure. All to feed the entertainment machine which subtly sways you into their narrative and imagined life undeliberately and collectively.
It takes strong will to view something from one's own rigid perspective and to stay true to it by not being swayed by sentimentality of things with utterly no connection to reality. How did we allow melancholy to become art and be viewed as sings of advancing civilization when it is no more than a sign of societal decadence. As Jung has alleged the Devil being responsible for the rise of western civilization and it's own illusory appeal for it.
Thank you for your patience toward my abstract, unorganized and perhaps irrelevant expressiveness.
Amazing Stories: The Heat (2020)
A cold lifeless unamazing story
It's offensive, the sheer audacity to assign cosmic, supernatural and religious significance to a love between two young girls and their mutual love for the sport of running!
Aren't you already tired of Hollywood stereotyping the dichotomy of heaven and hell, and all the established Real beliefs of afterlife? 'Love conquers all' is an underlying constant in all these concepts of afterlife in movies and Tv-shows alike and that has become quite boring and old. First they establish a concept of what love ideally is, if it even exists, and then they center all purpose of life and the greater truth around it! Outright absurd.
Would the creator who designs such a perfect and grand design of the universe, the world and all life not demand recognition of His sovereignty? Are they/you really that arrogant/prideful to assign such importance to yourself and your invented meaning(s) of life.
Such disdain Hollywood and the entertainment industry in general has of religious beliefs that they only ever make an outright mockery of them and expect fools like you to be gripped and swayed by them.