Change Your Image
omerkaya-38238
Reviews
Beni Affet (2011)
The ultimate guide to 90% of turkish tv series out there
Giving it a 5 because I'm quite neutral on this. It's a huge waste of time so don't even consider binging this for a story or a message. no. binge this if you wanna have an understanding of how 90% of turkish shows nowdays are directed/acted.
most of the characters you see in the first season are dead by the final season. because the plot has to continue somehow. except there's no real plot. it's just an endless cycle of one of the 4 protaginists getting in trouble and later on somehow solving it. so once you've seen this. you don't need to watch the others.
in fact in turkey we refer to this as "klasik ask dizisi" which translates to "classic series about love" and it means a series that is poorly directed and safely played for the sole purpose of getting the attention of middle aged women and abandoned men (there are alot)
some series that didn't fall into this stupid love series dilemma are: leyla and mecnun or mucize doktor.
it has good soundtrack to some extent. but other than that. once you've seen one you've seen all
Killer Bean Forever (2008)
very powerful for an indie animation.
What can i say? it's simply too good. especially when you consider this isnt some lame animation a team of 20 worked on. it's just one guy. jeff lew created a masterpiece of an indie movie. the only thing keeping me from 10 stars is that the voices could be edited (such as tv static fx when the news channel is on) and the fact that ragdoll physics were used. but that easily gets overshadowed by the pure originality of the story.
in short. go and watch it. it's powerful and puts you in a state of flow real fast!
Black Mirror: San Junipero (2016)
holy hell this is great
When it comes to black mirror episodes i know better than to be misguided by the brief summary of the episode found on google. i thought this episode wouldn't be interesting but christ this is just splendidly done
just the thought of a database stored in some gigantic facility is fascinating. but as a person who had trouble taking homosexual relationships very seriously. this one was immensely powerful. it started slow but once it picked up it got better and better.
in short. one of my favorite episodes of black mirror. i could go into way deeper detail but if i talk about the things this episode did right i might exceed the imdb review cap.
go and watch it!
Joker (2019)
Overrated
I honestly don't get why so many people are in love with this movie. some even consider it the best movie they've ever seen (which could be their personal opinion) or the best movie that ever existed(?)
I don't understand the general "amazing best movie ever wow!" shield this film formed around itself. People are obsessed with teaching people that violence is not the way. and when arthur resorts to violence after getting discriminated (killing 3 people on the subway) somehow he's an icon and idol. (not that I'm saying it's wrong. it's just contradictory)
I spent a rough 25TL to watch this movie 3 days after release because of how people told me that it's a must see or it's the best movie ever. hell it even appeared in our english exam.
but after seeing how stale it was it just felt like a waste. there wasn't even any real message to get out of it. maybe "if you discriminate a man on the subway with a laughing disorder you'll get shot in the head" or "if you get discriminated in the subway shoot em in the head". other than that it didnt really do much except maybe exploring the faults of society which I think more than half the population is aware of.
Overall It's not a bad movie. I'd rate it below 5 otherwise. but it's really not the 10 stars people keep giving.
Mucize Doktor (2019)
All the elements of a good show.
This is the best series turkey has seen for almost over 2 decades. Given that the turkish TV is littered with terribly written lame love stories month after month a series narrated this well was truly a refresher. The acting and filming is peak in this version of the show. and it doesn't rely on lame gimmicks to make the audience feel emotional. of course it also has its faults (f.e the dragged out episodes) but I'm not complaining.