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Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023)
Just watch the mid credit scene and not the movie
After the desastrous Phase IV Marvel starts the fifth phase with Ant-Man to introduce the new antagonist. This movie feels like a mixture of Star Wars Episode 1 and Mom and Dad save the world. Most of the jokes don't work, world building does not exist, there is no chemistry between "Dad" and peanut, cgi looks absurdly bad, a cameo like Bill Murray gets an underused character etc. So, overall, it's not a good movie. It's boring and predictable. Majors does an overall okay job as Kang, but after seeing the Creed III trailer it seems that this type of character is "his thing", so nothing special here to see.
The biggest problem Quantumania has is that it only exists to introduce Kang for the next Avengers movie and it does this in the mid credit scene, which makes this whole movie unnecessary. They did the same with Thor 4 (Odin) and Wakanda 2 was also only used to set up the conflict of Wakanda 3.
Moonfall (2022)
Bad, forgettable, but we had worse
Moonfall checks all marks which Emmerich thinks he has to check: Family drama, kids, separation, global catastrophe, stupid military, funny charakter and tons, tons of mostly good looking cgi of the moon. But it's not enough to copy the same movie recipe over and over again, while getting worse at it every time. On the plus side, Moonfall had the money to show massive destruction scenes even at the beginning, something which Greenland obviously didn't. But it fails at nearly everything else. I didn't care for the characters and kids. The car chasing scene was boring and looked like a video game. The destruction on earth is shown from far away and you don't feel it. However, the biggest problem is, that this movie can't decide what it wants to be and it then ends, when the story about the only likable character begins.
I really like stupid action movies and Moonfall did check some of my boxes, but it wasn't enough.
Moonfall also has some serious science problems. While I can believe, that the moon is falling down the movie lost me at the beginning: The impact occurs in Mare Crisium, which is on the front of the moon, when Mare Crisium is not lit by the sun. But when the drilling begins minutes later, it is lit. Also, during ten years, no one noticed the huge black hole on the lit side of the moon? Why does it need conspiracy theorist to get data about the moon orbit from a Chilean observatory to notice, that the orbit changed? What happened with the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter or Chandrayaan-2 which are in orbit of the moon? Shouldn't they, well, notice that the orbit of the object of which they are in orbit changed? And don't get me started on launching a rocket through the wave of the tsunami, where the water is pressed into the rocket. But at least that looked cool.
Grey's Anatomy: It Came Upon a Midnight Clear (2021)
I feel nothing
After watching GA for several years it's sad to see the road it's taking. GA always tried to to surprise it's viewer and it has lost this in the second part of season 17.
The Amelia/Lincolns timeline is boring the hell out of me. For some reason, it has to be everyones goal to get married. Being together, loving each other and having kids together is not enough, there has to be a wedding and if, for some reason, there can't be a wedding, you quit the relationship. Stupid. But maybe that's a US thing.
I definitely like that Amelia is moving forward, but I think, this will just be a small moment, she will be together with Lincoln and Jo gets some drama episodes because suddenly she wants to be with Lincoln.
Now, to the next drama, which is once again a car accident and maybe Owen will die, which could mean, that the heart transplantation works, but his sister will drown in depression, which will fill the rest of this season.
Sigh.
The Good Doctor: Irresponsible Salad Bar Practices (2021)
Systemic racism
This episode is about how systemic racism affects your behaviour and forms your thinking. Obviously, many people are offended by this topic and still do not understand, what systemic racism means, so they label this episode "woke" and downrate it. For me, this is one of the better episodes of a rather boring season (for now). It also shows how far Murphy got with respecting trans patients. However, it's also an episode where Murphy is once again sidelined, a pattern, which happens way to often since season three.
Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard (2021)
Stopped halfway through
Baby Driver and Killer's Bodyguard are, for me, current-gen action comedies with BD being more serious and KB being more in the realm of classic action movies. KB had a decent story, great banter between the two protagonists and a good finale. This movie however ditches the decent story and introduces stupid Hollywood computer hacker stuff, which is technologically nonsense. We now have three protagonists, where two of them are just sidekicks to the constantly yelling wife. This becomes boring very fast. Add to that a kinda rogue US cop, who makes fun of his Scottish counterpart, while himself coming from a country full of non-decipherable, mumbled dialects. That's the comedic level of this movie. Also, this time the bodyguard is on a sabbatical from being a bodyguard, which seems very much out of character and is just another comedic element for the film makers: He now uses pepper spray instead of lethal weapons. This movie just doesn't work.
The Meg (2018)
Dumb? Yes. But also very enjoyable with great CGI
It's a movie about a giant shark with Jason Statham, so we all know, that we get a kinda stupid action blockbuster, okayish acting, some grumpy lines and will have some fun. The Meg and The Shallows are the two shark movies I come back to again and again, for very different reasons. While The Shallows is the story of one girl trying to survive the attack of one shark by herself, The Meg is the big action blockbuster with tons of CGI thrown at us: The Meg looks amazing, especially when watching in 4K Dolby Vision. The underwater facility, little submarine speed boats and of course the shark amaze me every time with how good they look. The movie obviously checks every possible box (drunk hero, revenge plot, reckless hero, stupid rich guy, explosions, sea monsters, ex wife, little child, beach scene etc.) that you might yawn while reading this list of generic shark movie items, but The Meg is well paced, less stupid than Jaws and has a good cast (especially Shuya Sophia Cai as the little daughter is amazing: Finally a kid in an action horror movie which does not scream all the time but actually can talk and act!), so that you can enjoy a nice shark evening without rolling your eyes too much.
ER: Everything Old Is New Again (1995)
I'm quitting now
When ER showed up on Amazon Prime I was excited: Finally I could see the best medical show there was! Now, 25 episodes later, I'm quite disappointed. The way, this show is written and filmed makes every 25 episodes blur into each other into a hectic but not very interesting plot blob. To start with something positive: Anthony Edwards is absolutely stunning as Mark Greene. The episode where he spends the night with a dying patient was heartbreaking and of an intensity, which so far only the first episodes of Grey's Anatomy season 17 achieved! But he (and Susan) can't rescue what's not working for me:
The medical drama in each episode is intense and chaotic. It's filmed on long shots, where the camera follows through the building or rotates around the table. There's always a heart condition, a rash, drug addict and some gunshot wounds. Have you seen one episode you have seen them all. That's a problem many medical shows have, but I never felt this so obviously thrown into my face than in ER. Maybe this worked good when watching one episode per week; when binging you get tired of more of the same in each episode.
The personal drama is only shown in fragments. Most of the time, important events happen between the episodes and not in the episodes. What happened with Mark and Jennifer? She allowed him to stay in Chicago, then he leaves him because of that and a week later they are together again, but now he has to commute 2 hours, while she doesn't wanted to accept moving into a city where both could commute only 1 hour? Nothing of that is explained in the show. What happened to Benton, his mother and the nursing home? He didn't want that, his sister wanted. At the end he chooses the home by himself, ignoring his sister, who said that this is a decision for all of them. And what happened to Susan and her valentine days joke friend? Or her ex boyfriend? That's where Grey's Anatomy and even Chicago Med deliver: Consistent stories of the staff so that you care.
The last thing which does not work for me are the jokes. Workers which crash through the ceiling on top of a patient? No hospital especially in the US would allow this to happen. They would be sued immediately. And "Bob"? Put aside the stupid joke about her name: She is polish and does not know the difference between thanksgiving and eastern? That's lazy writing. And in season 2 they make a joke about germanic ancestry. Most polish are slavic and I would be VERY careful to tell them anything about germanic ancestry. You do not joke about a war in which Poland had about 6 million losses.
Stargate Universe: The Greater Good (2010)
Visually spectacular; storywise going into the wrong direction
This episode looks amazing. Destiny meets an alien vessel and they try to salvage parts from it. After the alien vessel fires up its engines the away team has to jump back through open space and we get to see some amazing visuals of both ships.
Besides this major storyline this episode sets some things up: The bridge is discovered as well that Rush having had the Master Code for several weeks. We learn the task the Destiny was built for. Rush and Young find a common ground. Ely gets to know Ginn better, so his friendzone days with Chloe are finally over. Also Amanda Perry is back and helping with the propulsion system, which is always a pleasant thing. This episode feels interesting and wholesome.
Near the end of this episode everything seems to be set up great and cozy for upcoming episodes: We now know why Destiny is out there. Will we pursue the mission? With Amanda, Alien-Chloe, Lucian-Ginn, Eli and Rush we now have a decent science team to learn everything about the Destiny and its mission. Also, with Ginn and Amanda, the tone of the series is less dark and harsh. Rush is rather cute with Amanda and the same can be said for Eli and Ginn. Which leaves only Simeon as the one dimensional bad guy.
This might have been a good path for SG:U. But they chose differently: Simeon kills Ginn, Amanda and several military guys, then leaves to a wasteland planet (what for? To die?). Eli and Rush want revenge. Earth now knows, that the part of the Lucian Alliance Simeon and Ginn belonged to will attack earth, but more information is not available, because everyone is dead. Sigh.
They even thought, that bringing back all the useless people from that paradise planet would be a good idea.
Stargate Universe: Cloverdale (2010)
Filler episode; don't bother
This one is a filler episode based around Matthew and Chloe. Half of this episode is a vision on earth, while the other half is set on a planet, where the team tries to save Matthew. The final try to save him might have severe effects on Matthews future on board of the Destiny, but it doesn't, because they ignore it in future episodes. Therefore, just skip this episode. It's nonsense and irrelevant.
Stargate Universe: Incursion: Part 1 (2010)
Worst ambush ever
Let's recapitulate what the Lucian Alliance is: A combination of smugglers, terrorists and traders, who harvest kassa and sell it. After several misunderstandings and Tau'ri interventions they are basically at war with earth. Somehow they "need" to get on the Destiny to... well, I still don't know why. What do they want with a 100.000 years old ship several galaxies away with no power to dial back home?
But they try. Since their own science is not good enough it helps, that Rush is there using the stones to help them achieve a way to reach Destiny. That could have been prevented with disabling the stone connection.
The "plan" of Destiny's military is to let the enemy come through the only door in full strength and then depressurise the gate room. This obviously fails, because Talford comes through the gate and they don't want to kill him. Let's recapitulate this plan: You have a single entry point, where enemies can enter your ship. Coming from another galaxy these enemies don't walk through, they get shot through the gate, are disoriented and maybe injured. In front of the gate is a platform. The easiest plan would be to put your military on the platform, seal the doors (even weld it from the outside using civilians) disorient the enemies even more using grenades and shoot them FROM THE PLATFORM.
But then there wouldn't be a chance for the authors to add some Voyager Maquis crew blending, wouldn't it?
I still rate this 7.5 or 8, because it's a fun episode, we get plenty of action and see old friends and old enemies.
Stargate: Atlantis: Irresistible (2006)
I do not consent
Some guy uses a drug to force females into non consentual relationships (let's call it that, IMDb seems to filter the r-word), tries the same thing at Atlantis, fails, the Atlantis team removes his drug and makes jokes about lots of upcoming divorces (seriously?). At the end of this episode, McKay tries to keep a part of that date r*** drug for himself, which everyone just smiles away.
What was wrong with the writers of this episode?
Stargate: The Ark of Truth (2008)
Struggles because of lazy writing
After ten years we finally arrive at the finale of SG:1 and get a movie (or double parter) for it. What will it offer? Action? Drama? Destruction of earth? Atlantis crossover? Epic battles with the fleet of the Ori?
No, none of that.
We get more of the same errors - or lazy writing - which are responsible for some of the dull moments of that show: Anubis' death, the possible death of all Ori and old enemies.
Spoilers:
- They have to find the ark of truth. A device which shows the one and only truth and transforms Ori believers to non-believers.
- As usual, generations have searched for the Ark, but it's SG:1 which founds it immediately. It's in a box. Next to a path. #sigh
- They have to use it on one Prior. All Priors are connected and therefore all Priors get transformed.
- After that the energy of believers is gone and Adria can be killed
But that shouldn't work: Adria gets its power from all believers, not only from the Priors. If the Priors could manage to convince every believer that the Ori are not gods, Adria would loose her power. But this does not happen. Adria immediately looses all of her power.
After that comes the final fight between two ascended beeings. It takes about 5 seconds in which SG:1 stands around and that's it. Ori and Adria are gone. The finale of ten seasons of SG:1 is a fight where SG:1 does nothing. Great.
The other half of SG:1 is by the way occupied with fighting some replicator variant of the Terminator because the writers wanted to bring back this enemy once again for no reason, as the did in Atlantis.
So, while this movie removes some loose ends it's disappointing.
Stargate: Atlantis: Sateda (2006)
Revenge, but what about other runners?
Ronon gets his revenge, for Sateda and for having been used as a runner. It's a "Ronon is angry" episode which adds nothing new to the series but is entertaining. There's a flaw, which makes me angry: Ronon gets his revenge, but they don't help other runners. They know where they are. They could just fly to them, beam them up, remove the tracker and save these poor runners from the Wraith. Especially since they killed the main villain and now there my be runners out there who are safe but still think they are being chased.
Stargate SG-1: Arthur's Mantle (2006)
So, how come I don't fall through the floor?
Overall, this would be a 5/10, but the script works. There's the mystery of the ancient device, Teal'c on his solo warrior mission, some kind of Ori zombie soldier and a possible solution for the Ori problem. And then there's the out of phase thing.
To quote S5 E12:
Yolanda Reese: It says that I am out of phase, that I can pass my hand through solid matter. That I can walk through walls?
Director: Yeah, yeah, that's right, because you're "out of phase."
Martin Lloyd: Um, exactly.
Yolanda Reese: So, how come I don't fall through the floor?
So yes, they blew that out of phase thing once again in season 9, as usually. What bothers me more is Doctor Lee. Why is he still there? He is obviously not suitable for his work, makes stupid mistakes and endangers others. And killing that zombie fighter? Just shoot three times with a Zat. Problem solved.
Stargate: Atlantis: The Intruder (2005)
Logical errors
Atlantis was never a show which is very good with logic or consistency. Most of the time you can ignore it, but here it's the complete story which makes no sense and overall you can skip this episode because nothing happens.
The main story: The Daedalus tries to return from earth, they have a Wraith virus on board, try to remove it, succeed and continue to Atlantis. There are some flashbacks to some moments on earth: Weir can still lead the expedition and Sheppard gets promoted to be able to lead the military part of the expedition.
The major error is one typical for SciFi shows or movies: Every computer can talk to every other computer, infiltrate it, execute software in it and move freely. This time it's Wraith virus which somehow infiltrates the Daedalus. The virus is an AI, which seems to be the magical explanation as to why it can interpret video signals, copy itself to other computers and even fly spaceships, with no effect on cpu power available for ship tasks. The elephant in the room is the execution of code. You cannot run a Windows program on a Mac and you cannot run an ARM program on an intel machine, unless you programmed it for that operating system and architecture. When did the Wraith had the opportunity and time for that?
The next major error is the solution: Just restore a backup. No, you don't just restore a backup from a compromised system if you don't know when the system got compromised. You might restore the virus. And how many backups from every computer on the Daedalus do they keep? Hours? Days? Maybe just two and the original version which is just the operating system without any data? It doesn't work this way.
Then there are the little things like Sheppard getting beamed out sitting and arriving staying or the great idea of the AI to kill everyone on board with radiation of a nearby star, while it could just disable life support or suck oxygen out of every part of the ship.
This episode made me angry.
Stargate SG-1: Nightwalkers (2002)
X-Gate
Would this had been an X-Files episode it would have easily been an 8 or 9. With Mulder noticing, fascinated, every quirk of the village people, Scully finding rational explanations for everything, Mulder more and more desperately, trying to proof to Scully that something is off and of course a finale where Scully does not see the big UFO built by these bodysnatchers. But, this is Stargate, and while SG-1 also has these comedic spooky episodes, this does not nail it, we have another broken ship put into Area 51 and still have to believe, that a 20cm creature inside you body just gets destroyed by antibodies and absorbed, without creating any harm.
Another Life (2019)
When Starbuck meets Danny
This show is basically Starbuck (Battlestar Galactica) meeting Danny (Doctor Who) with a Storyline meddling with Alien, Stargate Universe, Contact and Star Trek holodeck problems, trying to work with a crew of 20somethings which never would have survived the first year of "space school", a science consultant, who went missing before the first briefing and a bunch of surprisingly good CGI artists for the space stuff.
But don't hate it too much.
Danny does it's "Danny thing" which is basically being friendly and neutral to everything (he is an AI) and Starbuck does her Starbuck thing, which is the combination of friendly, charming and badass. These two put together in a space mission to visit the creators of an artifact found on earth could result in a very good series, but sadly they hired the authors of season 12 of Doctor Who, so we also get an idiotic, unprofessional crew and most of the time the logic went missing and you simply cannot understand WHY so many problems they have are the result of very, VERY dumb behaviour.
But is it really bad?
No! The first episodes are horrible, but after some "events" the characters tend to be less annoying. The whole series looks gorgeous (especially with Dolby Vision on an OLED). The two storylines on earth and in space both want to solve the mystery of that artifact, which adds to the tension and gives hope for the next season, where they will meet again. I felt myself entertained, which is nothing I could say for ST Discovery.
Besides being unprofessional idiots (with the exception of Starbuck and Danny) I also liked that it's a diverse crew, where nations, races, religion and sexuality are just normal things. It does not feel forced and being set in a future (after some catastrophic events like "the flood" happened) his seems like a better place than today.
Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)
In 2D: Don't bother
Nearly everything which should be said about this movie, the actors, characters and story has already been said. I rate it as 4 and not 2, because in the second half it's a bit less annoying.
Everyone seems to love the action scenes and how they look. They might have been gorgeous in 3D IMAX but on a 2D television they look worse than the first two movies and often become ridiculous when they were optimized for #item to be thrown into the cameras' direction again and again and again or $character is displayed in front of a destroyed city, which was obviously designed only for the 3d effect.
It's 2019. There's a 4K HDR version of Transformers 2 which looks amazing on a huge OLED tv (check YouTube). Transformers 3 looks like it was produced years before that.
Chicago Med: Lock It Down (2018)
I still don't care
It's amazing: It's season 3 and besides Reese and Charles I don't care for any of the staff. The characters are deeply underdeveloped and so is the story.
In this episode we have a kidnapped baby, the hospital goes into lockdown mode and the rich guy has to get into the hospital to save the life of a patient. As usual, everything just happens, there is no action, no drama, nothing which sucks you in. How do you get into a hospital which is in lockdown? Of course there's a corridor available. How do you save that patient? You rotate him, get a better angle and can do your stuff. Where do they find the baby? In an unused area of the hospital which they forgot searching, where it takes about half a minute of talking to get the women to hand over the baby. Sigh.
Chicago Fire always had filler episodes and you get used to the 3-5 episode "long" story arcs which then just get dropped and never mentioned again or fade out with no real changes to everything. But there is action and you care for the characters. It's sad that the best Med episode so far was its introduction in a Fire episode.
Star Trek: Discovery: Through the Valley of Shadows (2019)
Couldn't they ask someone with a decent idea of computer stuff?
Ok, nevermind the crap S1 was. We got the first half of season 2 which felt like Star Trek finally made it to Discovery. Then they switched the tone and it felt like Marvel Discovery, with Thanos/Control, Nebula/Airiam and Red Angel/Captain Marvel with stories which absolutely made no sense, had wrong pacing but where fun. And now this. Nothing makes any sense. It gets absolutely ridiculous when they are doing anything with computers. And then there are time crystals and visions, which means, that some writer finally saw an older episode of Star Trek but it was DS9 and they liked the idea of the Orb of Time. Sigh. Lets just hope that it will get better with episode 13.
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles: Born to Run (2009)
Amazing ending
I just finish my rewatch of SCC and the ending was amazing. I do not see that much holes like other people, but maybe I'm remembering some things wrong: It was mentioned earlier, that John was rescued from a camp and it looks like we see that rescue at the end of this episode, which means, that this is the start of the journey of John Connor as the leader of the resistance. Kyles travel back in time (as well as Dereks) and the death/transformation of Cameron will occur in the future (if they occur). It was also mentioned by Cameron (therefore knowledge coming from the future), that there are different fractions on the metal side. We see that in some episodes of season two. This explains the fights between the two ai "brothers" in the present and that one fraction will join the humans. It might also explain why we see metal in the resistance.