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Hello Tomorrow! (2023)
Refreshing! We need more, we need season 2!
I was attracted by the aesthetics of this show, a refreshing nostalgia of how we imagined the future in the 50's. Done with today's technology, it is very creative and looks like a real 50-60's show down to the smallest details. Far from this intoxicating era of today, it is a wind of freshness. No smartphones, no (a)social medias to eat our brains slowly and suffocate. How good! Why is the "future" not like this?
Now, after a year, still no news of a follow up season 2? That isn't good. At least, give us a conclusion, even if it is a shortened season 2. Respect your viewers, don't cancel this show before it gets a proper conclusion.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023)
Stinks! They use of a franchise to push some filigree ideas into your throat!
The graphics that repelled me in the first place were finally the only good part in this movie (once you get used to it, it's pretty well done in its own style, loved the lightning and volume rendition). However, sadly, it really stinks like hell the p*litical correctness pr*paganda. Kids from the 2020's era may like it. I disliked it. It's just exploitation of a franchise for ide*logical pr*selytism. I'm watching movies for entertainment not to get pushed pr*paganda into my throat. And that is what this movie is doing. Very annoying. Just as the "puke girl", that movie made me puke. If you pay attention, there are so many subliminal background little references to the 2020's p*litical c*rrectness style pr*paganda (did you notice that numberplate on that truck saying "Go V*gan" at some point on the movie? I'm not watching Ninja Turtles to be pushed to become "v*gan"!! Seriously!! You should be ashamed to use beloved characters and movies to push your ide*logy on us.) And that is just one thing amongst many...). A bit like in the movie "They Live" from John Carpenter. A shame. No, it's disgusting. Musically, they try to give it an 80's feel mixed with 2020's style and it results as an abomination. Is this movie some sort of another brainwashing machine to push their ide*logy into youth's throat? They just forgot the purpose of cinema, which is entertaining first and not a p*litical tool for pr*paganda. Oh yes, this movie fits very well in its time and it's not at all a compliment.
The 1 star is for the graphic efforts only.
Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
Doesn't make any sense! Extremely confuse...
I wonder if the writers were under cocaine or if they smoke their carpet while writing this... This movie doesn't make any sense, we see things happening, while we can enjoy some fat humor and the acting of Michelle Yeoh, this is 2h of "WTF is going on here?". People are shooting and fighting everyone without really understanding what is going on. They die and then they're back alive, even if they switch bodies and so on, you must at least have some consistency with that, which this movie doesn't have. We see images follow one another without any sense. I lost 2h watching this stupidity. Was all the movie a dream? The ending seems to erase everything that happened... Maybe we could consider this as such. I don't recommend this, and don't understand all the praise for it.
Black Christmas (2019)
Childish. Nuanceless. Grotesque. Full of shame.
That's the more accurate way to qualify this movie. Even the worst B-movie is better than this. I don't get how the ideology spread into this production has passed its way into the theatres. Well, it's clrearly infringing some guidelines but then how to speak about the main subject of this movie without myself infringing these same guidelines? I'll just say it bashes a certain group of people, without any nuance in an extremely grotesque way. It feels like it's been written by a frustrated kid that has just been dumped by her boyfriend. A pretty juvenile revenge movie, in all it's worst glory. This is important to denounce what this movie is really about under its inaccurate title. First of all, this movie could have been called Black Easter, Black Summer, Black Carnival or Black Whatever, that wouldn't have changed anything to the plot and storyline. The original left the identity and the intentions of the killer as a full mystery, then we could imagine stuff and so on, the 2006 remake gave it a clear connection with Christmas, but here, this 2019 version has NO connection at all with Christmas, naratively speaking. They obviously used the notoriety of the original 1974 movie just to spread some disgusting ideas in the mind of the public. Again, I can't say more about that here without crossing the established line. This movie is ludicrously full of clichés (in every aspects...) and fall into the same deviance that what they are supposed to denounce. Fighting clichés by spreading a ton of other clichés. Insane. Nothing seems to save this movie from the disaster, except maybe the play of the main actress Imogen Poots that gives her character some welcomed nuances, and a few scary scenes (reminding a bit "Scream" actually...). And justifying that by saying "to each their turn" is just pathetic and irritating. I would have expected to watch an entertaining movie, but that's all but that, it's a high moralizer flick, worthy of the inquisitors burning the "dirty witches", which they actually do literally and figuratively. This film shows us that you must fight back the supposed oppressors... by taking their place. Just do to them what you don't like they did to you. It doesn't push reflection, it just arouses hatred. Don't loose your time on this! I would have put a zero star if there was the possibility. So it gets 1, the worst rating ever.
Shootfighter II (1996)
Disappointing!
While the first movie was ok, with some plot holes and non sense scenes, it at least succeeded to give the main characters some developpment and give empathy/emotion (the relationships with the girls, Shingo's mom, etc) to them. Altough with an abrupt ending, it had something between Bloodsport and Karate Kid (not only with its cast). But this one doesn't have anything of that! All the drama, character developpment started in the first movie is wiped out and worst, they came up with an all made up character (Eddie) out of their magical pocket, supposedly a well known guy (friend?) they met in the first film, except that he doesn't exist in the first film! So, it felt a bit awkward here. We would have expected some follow-up with what happened between the boys and their girlfriends (Nick's sister, which was Ruben's girlfriend) but nothing at all, not even a mention of them. Did Ruben broke up with her? We don't know but suppose yes as he goes with another girl. He wouldn't cheat on her in front of her brother! And then, they came up making Joe Son as the brother of Bolo Yeung. We've already seen him in the very first scene of the 1st film and it didn't feel like he was his brother (which he wasn't supposed to be at the time). It could have been a good film but poorly done unfortunately. Good to see Bolo Yeung and William Zabka, but that's about it. The scene were the girl wants to call the police in front of the armed guys was ridiculous, who would do that? At least, wait that they are away! We don't really feel any emotions here. To me it's a fail. Good point with the musical theme by Alex Wilkinson tough. A shame it's never been released on CD.
Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation (2004)
Not the same as the first, but very nice
It's not the same as the first one, but I enjoyed it. It's different, don't wait for big space battles with a lot of CGI, wait for a close-up and psychological horror movie. It's more horror movie than sci-fi but very enjoyable. BTW, some parts of that movies reminds me Babylon 5 ... already on the first movie with the bugs (very close from the shadows of Babylon5) but now with the "psy corps" and the aliens taking control of the body (well, not especially only from Babylon5 ...), it reminds me the Drakhs (still B5). The characters are attaching and I was sad when Dax died at the end. Hope to see a 3rd movie one day, a movie that will follow up this movie and the new elements related in this.