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This is the first time we see the girls in real action. Debbie and Ruth wonder to find true inspiration for their finale match. And then what's the song to fill their epic training montage? "Dare" from the Transformers movies. Not the Shia LeBeouf one. The one where every 80s kids dreams were made of. The Animated 1984 movie. And damn I didn't know that song would work to any other moment but it fit perfectly like a missing puzzle to the 80s heavy style of GLOW.

The first GLOW show also worked. I was pumping my hands to the air like an idiot, and I didn't know why. Evidently, GLOW is not a stupid idea, audience.

Dragging... dragging... dragging... great fight sequence... then dragging again... that's what it feels like watching Sri Asih. If you only depend on your super hero fight sequence, you can just be a syrup commercial, because we have those type of commercials here.

I'll point out its flaws as many as I can in this review. First, inconsistent and unlikeable characters. Pevita pearce is sometimes patriotic, but in other scenes, she's like a slacking of character. Her fashion isn't believable either, and it doesn't help make people root for her.

The directing of the opening scene is woeful, was it on autopilot? Also they can make the movie more entertaining by mixing up the plot a little bit, going back and forward. Adding up a little humor wouldn't be hurtful either.

Stealing a bit from wonder woman? I agree. But again, the fight scenes aren't the main problem here.

Plot holes, or can I name them plot holes? It's more like a massive giant hole, were there even a plot to begin with? It's like "where did this character come from?", "where did that character go?", "what is the purpose of this character?", "why is the antagonist doing this?"

I always questioned the decision of making this cinematic universe because I've even seen the best studios crash and burn in attempting to build one of their own. Well if it does succeed... Give a million thanks to the ignorant viewers who support it.

Okey, so it's got a 50 something metascore and a 50 something tomatometer. But hey, I've seen bad movies in my life, and this third installment of Ant-Man is definitely not one of them.

It introduces Kang, and Kang is cool, check. Many to anticipate for that one in the future. M. O. D. O. K steals the show, check. Every time he's on screen you'll have at least a little giggle. It is very "star wars"-like, check. It's a movie about a conqueror stuck in a quantum realm filled with quantum people, you connect the dots. Michelle Pfeifer and Katherine Newton live up the movie, check. They are refreshments and they look-like they've been hanging around in the MCU from the very start.

So all of those are good things. Even on top of that, it's an every routine Ant-Man movie, where Paul Rudd is funny, heist things are cooking-up, he grows big, he turns small, full of smacking and kicking, and that just adds up the fun. There are no need to worry about anything turning bitter and hateful. Just go to the movies and throw your money at it. I even liked this more than Thor 4 and Dr. Strange 2.

The force is strong in this one. It hits hard on the emotion as well on the action. Full packed, exceeding anything you hoped for from it. Do you want your money back after watching this? Not at all. You'll be wandering if you payed enough. Maverick gave me 10 mach, and I'll give him 10 stars.

You know great entertainment can give you all sorts of feelings and what this episode gives you is dispair. It took me some days and some other episodes actually to see the light again. The direction of this Anime especially this episode is really something else.

Gareth Evans moved taste from The Raid gangster movie to the pagan horror movie, Apostle. Do I, as a true lover of The Raid 2, feel betrayed? No. Because I'm a pagan horror lover too. I just watched Midsommar and from there I started my pagan horror adventure. As a result I watched the original wicker man and was very impressed.

Midsommar is very satisfying but if you feel "defeated" in the film, then Apostle, on the contrary, will reciprocate that feeling. In terms of its homage to Wicker Man, this film is like giving a different perspective to the film. This film feels like the "what if" version of Wicker Man.

Dan Stevens might be the new "Iko Uwais" for Gareth Evans, and if Iko Uwais is very good at being a hero by stating, this can't be done by Dan Stevens in the same way. So Gareth Evans is very clever to give us the same bloody film but wrapped in horror, not crime.

The funny thing is, what Gareth Evans has done is arguably the opposite of his director friend, Timo Tjahjanto. If Gareth Evans moves from Crime to Horror, Timo who was famous for his bloody horror, Macaber, now handles Crime films like "The Night Comes For Us" very well.

As I am a supportive fan for Iko Uwais, I also follow Dan Stevens from his films such as The Guest, the Legion series, Beauty and The Beast, and Colossal. Dan Stevens always shows a different character in every film and he carries it well. In this film he also shows his versatility by giving a character that he had never shown before.

Bravo for Pagan Horror, violent films, Apostle, Gareth Evans, and Dan Stevens.

So many people here fighting to sound the real values vs the godzilla sized bad reviews about the movie so here I am joining the fight: Godzilla-KotM is all about Giant Kaiju to Kaiju action, so unforgetable that people can't stop telling tails about Godzilla, King Ghidora, Rodan, or Queen Mothra.

So theres a part in the beginning of the movie where Godzilla does a little "Top Gun Maverick" fly by in front of the "Kaiju Lover secret organisation" The Monarchs. The Monarchs were off their seats, stunned and terrified and so were the audience. That scene was probably a representation of the reaction of the audience throughout the whole movie.

Cool fight scenes. Rodan's introduction in Mexico was probably the most intense part of the movie. From cool jet manuvers, giant futuristic flying motherships, city chaos, even a david stathairn cameo. The bomb probably struck the audience because we were all holding our breathe until ghidora made his awesome mountain stance.

The king vs king rivalry starts far before that so what we're having here is a fast burner movie, compared to the mellow first movie staring quick silver and scarlet witch.

So many characters involved but none of them wasted. Interesting dialog (not at all stupid, if you want to know what stupid dialog sounds like, watch a transformer movie).

Charles Dance making deep voice Tywin speciality speeches. Vera Farmiga touching as always. Kyle Chandler helming the action. We all missed Ziyi Zhang, and here she is now (speaking english).

Milly Bobby Brown, I never heard of her before but now I'm all aware. Sally Hawkins and Ken Watanabe re-introduced to welcome new characters. Thomas Middleditch from Silicon Valley, throwing worthless comic relief we probably needed more than we knew. Bradley Whitford delivering scientific speech from all kinds of departement (I can't imagine all the degrees his character has).

Aisha Hinds from 9-1-1 and Oshea Jackson Jr. (a.k.a. Ice Cube Jr.) Also introducing Elizabeth ludlow in the mayhem and artilary section.

So many aspects. I appreciate Director Michael Dougherty (Krampus) at least blending all these together with right balance without any of them disrupting the other. Mothra was probably the loose canon here, but you can judge by yourself.

Can't wait for another giant monster showdown. King Kong? Gamera? Bathra? Mechagodzilla? Ultraman? Bring them on and let them fight!!!

No it's not my first time watching it in 2019. Godzilla King of monsters is out in theatres and HBO decided to capitalize and show us this on their channel. So considering it will be a long time until I watch the new version (I'm broke after Endgame, John Wick, and Aladdin hit the theatre, I don't even have a penny to watch Detective Pikachu) I'll do an update review of this movie.

When you are a grown up and watch something that was so hyped in the past you get a chance to have two points of view, the old one, and the new one. On before, I watched MIB like this and was amazed that the new point of view of MIB was even better than the last time I watched it. In fact, I remember having a really good time seeing it when I was a kid, so it's pretty brilliant to top that. And now it's time for 1998 Godzilla. Well, I'm giving it to you straight, Godzilla did the exact opposite effect of MIB.

So I was wondering, what would 1998 top notch visual effect look like in 2019. I have to admit, very very bad! I would like to elaborate two sides of that very very bad aspect: 1. the good side: 120 million dollars as to be said of the budget of Godzilla (that would be a Godzilla size budget for 1998) shows its worth. I was amazed how all the cars in a new york street jumped simultanously each time godzilla thumped a step, neatly done 2. the bad side: Every godzilla moment in the city from CGI aspect is awfull, so you can say, god-awfull. It's like your not even trying to become an all time legendary movie with this effort. Whereas I can remember, the soundtrack of this movie was super, and every movie trying to be the best must have a super list of soundtrack, so why the bad cgi? as for the animatronix were basically awesome, so I think it should've done better. and probably that's my one most problem with this movie.

I don't really care about the silly cast every body is talking about, they work on their own way as far as I'm concerned. The plot is also not that bad. Worm scientist? French Agents? Bad old girlfriend journalist stealing tape? None of them is a problem for me, it's actually quite a good twist. Jean Reno was a powerhouse in that time, so putting in the french country intervension plot was probably the best Idea.

As for every aspects needed for a Godzilla movie? I think the movie checks out all the important points: 1. wrecking cities: check (the most important city in this case) 2. emerging from the ocean: check (with great memorable visual effects). 3. great footprints in the earth: check. And then, one more: spitting fire, It took so long for godzilla to spit some fire so I'm quite disappointed in that too.

Also, baby godzillas pretending to be raptors? bad jurassic park rip-off! Steven Spielberg and all his fans and crew should be mad! and also they move silly so there's not much tension in that part of the movie either.

I'm starting to wonder what Roland Emmerich is doing these days because He's probably surprised how rich he is from repeatingly tricking everyone into watching all his movies.

1998 Godzilla you are not more than a good memory with a bad taste, now I should probably fill in the bad parts with, what, the good dinosaur?

At the end of john wick 2 you would probably be sceptic by asking yourself "what else can they put on the table".

But then in john wick three the creators simply answer "a lot, like really a lot, you aint seen squat"

This chapter of john wick does't only expand the universe but also our experience, not only in watching the series, but also watching movies.

There are many to see here, from over the top typical every minute bloody john wick action, to fancy dialogue. My wife screaming "Thank god we didn't bring our kid" in the first five minutes would probably give you an imagination of what to expect.

My only complaint is probably the loose ending, but I hope time gives me a better perspective.

Also it ends with a cheer for an even more exciting and broad universe of chapter 4.

I like how the creators gave us 4 episodes of honeymoon to give us this.

The one thing we've been missing from the show: terror, horror, and no mercy!

I was searching for a Islamic themed Indonesian movie and I came across this movie. Although it doesn't have the signature "hijab in X foreign country" attribute it still checks several important marks.

The movie tries to preach a lot about Islam and Islamic marriage and islamic husband character, islamic wife character, in a good fashion, but still bargains for a sub-par "sinetron" (soap opera in Indonesia) like ending.

It could have gone for the high notes by adding messages of "tawakal", a part of three strong Islamic characters to carry the main characters through the movie but didn't so. So I couldn't give more praise.

I do give a lot of credit for the two main characters (even for the supporting characters in this case) for their acting, especially for Velove Vexia who looks so drawn deep into her main Islamic woman character. The story also brings the audience to some high point emotions although like I said before did not go for the kill to end the movie with a great bang.

I appreciate the development of Indonesia's movie making. Character developments aren't as narrow as before, more three dimensional characters are introduced in each movie.

If you think this is Indonesia's TV Show wake up call, then you're wrong. This is not it! I wrote this review just so people would not hope so much from the series.

I watched most of the first season just because I hoped things will get better the next second, but it never happened, well it was sometimes "it's gonna happen", but it did not. The development was so slow, when the finale came it was like the story was still trying to start and then it was end time. Probably my cruel judgment was because Halfworlds had the same schedule as Game of Thrones so I'm unconsciously comparing this serial to one of the greatest serial ever made.

In my opinion the acting (of some of the characters) were bad. This goes to Coki, Sarah, and Pinun. Acting is not the same as being a snobbish socialite. You can't blame Ario Bayu for all the experience he has, but his acting was too theatrical. One sentence per minute will not bring us anywhere. It is the time of fast development stories. If the audience can't catch up they can re-watch. I give extra credit to Adinia Wirasti and Arifin Putra for outstanding acts.

The fighting choreography were sub-pare. They weren't bad but if you want a movie to be half mostly about fighting you should make the fighting scenes something to wait for, right?

The kissing and nudity are out of place. If you want to put nudity in art it must mean something. All the kissing and swearing were like they are telling the audience "Hey, we're Indonesians but we're kissing and swearing, ain't that cool?". No it's not cool, it's a pity, and it's ironic.

At the end, this serial just looked like a rude mess. Please comeback with a full cooked plot and casts with serious intentions.