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Hot Fuzz (2007)
Best comedy of all time, a masterclass in writing
If I would have aspiring filmmakers watch a single movie to see how to write a film script, it would be this one. Not a single wasted line. Everything is either a set-up, continuation or pay-off to a joke. Sometimes all 3 at the same time. Seemingly random lines come back later to hilarious effect. Additionally, this movie mixes horror, British murder mystery and cop action movie, all while being a comedy, and does it all perfectly. Only one minute into watching this movie, I knew it was going to be a masterpiece. Knowing how small the budget was and how little time they had to film it, only makes it more impressive. Additionally, no one does editing better. Edgar Wright can take things that are mundane and boring, and present it in a visually very interesting way.
Breaking Bad: Crawl Space (2011)
Last minutes are the best thing I have ever seen on the screen
Not just TV, movies as well. An absolute masterpiece. The writing. The directing. The camera work. The sound design. Maybe Ozymandius is a better episode overall. But in my opinion, nothing in the show beats this. Watching Walt react in disbelief as Skylar says she gave the money away, then scream, then laughing maniacally as the camera pans away and the screeching sound enters... Absolutely unbelievable just how good this is. One of the first episodes that truly established Breaking Bad as the greatest TV show of all time. This is what happens when a creator truly cares gets the chance to end the show at the right time without dragging it on for too long.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine: He Said, She Said (2019)
People are leaving out another legitimate criticism
-The Gina/Terry part has been brought up multiple times, I don't have to repeat that.
-Amy refusing to do her job as a detective, aka someone meant to be the neutral fact finder, rather than believing one person over the other due to a personal bias, has also been brought up multiple times.
But what hasn't been brought up is the line (I'm slightly paraphrasing here, I don't remember it verbatim, but it's close enough) from the victim in the show : "It's going to be he said - she said, no one is going to convict on my word alone. Face it, it's a broken system." Even though the character spoke that line, it felt like a stand-in for the writers of the show.
And no, it is not a broken system at all. That's how the system is SUPPOSED to operate. And I mean it in two ways. 1) The system is set up to operate this way, if a system works the way it is intended, it's not a broken system. 2) It SHOULD be this way. The idea that the word of an accuser alone should be enough for a guilty verdict is absolutely insane, and directly goes against foundational principles of justice.
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023)
Wost movie in the franchise since 2
There's nothing about this movie that isn't worse than what the previous 4 movies did. The action scenes are far less impressive. The only somewhat exciting one is the motorcycle cliff scene, which was already shown so much in the previews it lost much of its wow. What makes it worse that there's virtually no way Ethan could have landed on the train while traveling to it at a 90° angle. But no so bad that out of the hundreds of windows, he just happens to land through the one window he needed to save his ally, at the exact moment it needed to happen.
The story is a jumbled mess with a villain that's supposed to be linked to Ethan, but there is nothing in the entire franchise to draw upon.
And not a single surprise mask reveal, a staple of the franchise.
The Last of Us: When We Are in Need (2023)
The biggest butchering of the source material in the entire show
The fact that the entire winter arc got reduced to a single episode, is the single biggest mistake the showrunners made. This had to be a 2 episode arc at least. In this version, there is no growth in dynamic or a part of Ellie that starts trusting him, or vice-versa. David claimed to have been unarmed the entire time, only to pull out a gun when infected show up. Having to fight for survival together will automatically create a level of trust, and this made Ellie realize he could have used his gun to get the upper hand any time, but he didn't. All of those elements were cut by removing the fight of Ellie + David against the infected, massively rushing the relationship between the two characters. Absolutely terrible choice to make.
LFG (2021)
Purely a PR spin where CNN lets the women's team repeat demonstrable lies
Almost every claim made by the lawyer in the documentary is a bold-faced lie.
-The women's team was offered the exact same pay structure as the men, but they did not want that contract, they collectively bargained for a different type of contract. Afterwards they realized that the original contract meant they would earn more, and so they claimed discrimination. Let me emphasis : They claim the contract that they wanted, that they negotiated for (because they didn't like the pay structure of the men's team) is discrimination against them. A complete joke.
-This contract includes paid maternal leave, health care plans, and about 2 dozen other benefits that the men's team simply does not get.
-This contract meant that when all soccer was cancelled due to covid, the women's team continued getting their guaranteed 100,000 payment. The men earned 0 dollars during this season.
-So if anything, the men's team gets to argue pay discrimination, not the women's team.
-The women's team wasn't being paid less than the men's team, they were being paid MORE. Not just in total, but on a PER MATCH basis.
-The women's team gets a substantially larger cut from the women's world cup earnings than the men from the men's world cup.
The women's team does not want equal pay. They want the low risk contract that they had previously, combined with the high reward that the men's team wants. In other words, they want a contract that is superior to the men's contract in every way.
This whole documentary is nothing but lies and a PR spin to back up pure entitlement.
Edit : Addressing some of the arguments made in the other reviews :
-"The women's team brings in more revenue." No, no they don't. They bring in more revenue in the United States, but international soccer is an international sport. On an international level, the women's team brings in substantially less revenue. The women's world cup finale only brings in as many viewers as the average men's world cup match. And even if only the revenue in the US counts, the revenue split was about 100 thousand out of around 50 million. The difference in revenue brought in was SMALLER than the difference in pay. And to emphasize this again : The women's team earned MORE. Not just in total, not just per match, but also relative to the amount of revenue generated in the United States!
-"They work 3 times as hard." That's another demonstrable lie. The women's team only has to play a maximum of 3 matches in order to secure a spot on the women's cup. The men's team has to play a maximum of 10 matches to secure a spot on the men's cup. In 2018, there were 210 men's world teams who try to qualify, while there were only 46 women's teams in 2019. Which leads to the next argument.
-"The women's team is better, so they deserve more." The women's team is only better relative to the other women's teams than the men's team is to the other men's teams. Only 4 other women's teams have won the world cup, while 8 different teams have won the men's world cup. Considering national women's teams tend to not have any other women on the same level to play scrimmage matches against, they instead opt to play against teenage boys. At which point they lost 7-1 to boys under 15. They're not even better than middle school boys, how are they better than adult men?
Game of Thrones: The Long Night (2019)
This is not the show I fell in love with
This used to be a show where it doesn't matter how important they are, there is no character that can't die. Now there are several characters that cannot die."Oh look at _this character_ being swarmed, they're surely dead. Oh no wait, they are still alive. Rinse and repeat.
This used to be a show that went against the tropes, now it uses all the tropes. Yay, a last second save.
And the death fakeouts.
This used to be a show where there was no character that was pure evil and just wanted to destroy things, characters had motivation. Now the Night King is a purely evil character who just wants to wipe out humanity.
How is Arya able to run at the Night King without any White Walker noticing her, and then able to jump 30 feet through the air?
This episode is a major disappointment.
Avatar (2009)
Most overrated movie of all time.
Let me start out on a positive note : Avatar's CGI is ground-breaking. It's absolutely stunning and amazing. But that doesn't stop the rest of the movie from being completely mediocre.
First of all there's the story-line. The concept of Pandorra, the Na'avi and unabtanium has some originality. After that, the story gets riddled with heaps of clichés. If you hadn't watched any trailer or read anything about the movie, and then watched the first 10 minutes, anyone with any brain activity whatsoever could have predicted the rest of the movie.
The action sequences bring us nothing we haven't seen before. And none of the acting surmounts to anything more than decent. Not a single performance that made we think "wow".
I can't believe how the movie's prettiness distracted so many people from the fact that Avatar is nothing but overrated mediocrity.