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Boudica: Rise of the Warrior Queen (2019)
great film, don't believe negative reviews
This was actually a pretty good film, perhaps not entirely what you'd expect from a film about Boudica but definitely an interesting historical film, a bit more of a focus on drama than on warfare perhaps.
It's definitely worth a watch if you like historical films and don't mind that it's not constant action and fighting, although there's definitely some fighting in there.
Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)
all the ingredients are there but... there're just too many!!!
I have to say my expectations of this film were high, especially considering the impressive cast (which included my fav actors from Stranger Things, Bates Motel and GoT). And I really love Godzilla movies and monster movies in general. BUT this film as a whole just really didn't do it for me, unfortunately!
The special effects and the monsters themselves were truly GREAT. The actors were great as well. The use of a flashback into the past in the beginning of the film and the situation itself somewhere in the nearby future, was also perfectly acceptable for such a scifi disaster film. The slightly futuristic technology in the weapons and transport vehicles was also interesting. BUT the PLOT totally WRECKED this movie!
Why? Because there was just too much of it! Too much plot, too many strange, unlikely and often unexplained events just following each other in a seemingly random sequence. I think that maybe too many people tried to write the screenplay for this film, and apparently they all had very different ideas about what kind of movie this was going to be... so they ended up with this strange, totally-over-the-top mixture...
Too many monsters behaving too erratically and without much insight into their behaviour given (yet at the same time these monsters are attributed very human characteristics, cause apparently they know whose 'side' they're fighting on...). Too many strange, not or poorly explained behaviours in the characters as well. Also the jumping all over the world in the blink of an eye didn't exactly help to make things more understandable for the viewer and leaves me wondering just how fast these creatures can run/swim/fly?
And too many different genres. What kind of scifi film is this? A disaster movie that doubles as an environmental drama? A mix of legend, archeology and scifi? A film about prehistoric monsters come back to life? Or a film about aliens from outer space? Make up your minds!!! By throwing all of those different ideas together in one film, they've just completely wrecked this.
Such a shame really, cause with this cast and those special effects, they could've made a great movie about Godzilla. Perhaps a movie about just Godzilla and possibly some other monsters, without all of that other stuff, would've been a better choice!
I think that whatever was wrong in Pacific Rim 2, was definitely VERY wrong in this film...
Haunted Boat (2005)
Interesting, unexpected plot!
This film isn't nearly as bad as people say!
I actually thought this film was interesting in unexpected ways. We've all seen plenty of 'regular' haunted house / ship / shark attack on teenagers films, but this plot is something different entirely!
It's a bit of a B movie perhaps and somewhat confusing at first (kind of unavoidable with this plot), but it's definitely an 8 for plot and well worth your time!
Stargate Origins (2018)
Definitely BETTER than many people say!!!
I've no idea why so many people gave this series 1/10, for me this was a solid 8/10!!! So don't allow those bad reviews to stop you from watching this series at all, cause it's definitely worth a watch!! ;-) Shame about the 10 minute episodes though, I'm not sure why they didn't just stick all 10 episodes together to make this into a movie then...
It's different than SG-1 obviously, but that's to be expected as it takes place in a different time and has different characters. You may have noticed that different Stargate series often have a different feel, take Universe for instance, you couldn't really compare the atmosphere of that series to SG-1 or Atlantis either, but that didn't make Universe a bad series, did it? Personally I didn't dislike the Indiana Jones feel in this Origins series at all, even if it leaned more towards an adventure family film with the added humour and a little romance on the side. And although this series started out a bit sentimentally, the death toll by the end added to the seriousness of the series over-all.
I thought the idea of sending early 20th century archeologists from Egypt through the stargate was interesting. I mean, come on, studies of ancient Egypt pre-dated Daniel Jackson, didn't they? So it's not that unlikely that an earlier archeologist could've come across the stargate! How else did they find it, what, general O'Neill dug it up? LOL :P But what I truly thought interesting here is Nazi's meeting Goa'Uld!!! I mean, they actually have quite a bit in common but come from totally different worlds, so it's interesting to throw them together and see what happens!
Another thing I really liked about this series was the Goa'Uld character of Aset! I've always been fascinated by the Tok'Ra and what makes them different from the Goa'Uld, and I always thought the assumption that all Goa'Uld who weren't Tok'Ra were evil was a bit superficial... Surely, you can accept the idea that the Goa'Uld have a natural tendency for violence, but surely they wouldn't all be the same? So having Aset situated somewhere in the middle of that moral scale between the evil Goa'Uld like Ra and the good Tok'Ra was very interesting! I don't entirely understand what was going on between her and that child though, was it an orphan child that had triggered her maternal instincts perhaps? I do like how Aset having a forbidden human child brings out a nurturing, caring side of her. In her own way Aset was a bit "against Ra" herself, despite having started out as his ally! Interesting look at the hierarchy among Goa'Uld, for even if they're all considered gods, some of them are apparently less so than others...
Another very realistic thing here? The language! It's strange isn't it, how you can just walk through the stargate to another planet and still communicate with everyone there in American English! Especially since nobody even opened that gate since old Egyptian times and there wasn't a language even remotely like English around back then! So even if these linguistic difficulties in this series pose a bit of a practical problem for the characters, it makes the overal feel of this series more realistic than many other Stargate series. ( Like in Atlantis everyone just happens to understand each other? The only time language even comes into the picture is when they're discussing it in written form, like texts written in Ancient or Wraith. But what language do Wraith even speak? We don't hear it spoken in the series at all, very strange... I guess the characters could be speaking Ancient or something when they meet new alien people, but nobody ever mentions this and we only hear English so...).
Admittedly, most of the characters act rather foolishly and are ill-organised once they get to the world at the other side of the stargate. But most of these characters are not military or trained for combat, so it makes perfect sense that they wouldn't be able to fight properly and be somewhat disoriented when travelling to an alien world... If I'm completely honest I thought it a bit strange how quickly the characters in SG-1 behave so confidently when put in these totally unexpected circumstances, even from a military experience! So I don't think the stumbling about of the main characters or their lack of expertise brings the series down at all, if anything it adds realism and makes it easier to identify with the characters as a viewer.
Then for the female leads here... So what? We already know that Goa'Uld are essentially genderless, so I'm guessing Aset likes the look of female bodies better, which would explain why her Jaffa fighter is a woman as well. ( What I do find somewhat strange here though, is the complete and utter lack of women at the human encampment on the planet? Perhaps it was thought that to have human women around the slaves would be a distraction from their work? ) Catherine of course is a strong, independent woman for her time, I even sensed an echo of sorts of Sam Carter there. But it's not impossible that the smart daughter of an archeologist who basically grew up around digsites in Egypt would be stubborn and independent, especially if she later becomes the infamous Catherine who is basically the founder of the stargate programme! I don't imagine a woman like that could've been a good little push-over housewife... Nobody ever questioned the strong presence of Sam on SG-1 and claimed the whole thing was ruined by feminism, so why do it for Catherine in Origins? :-S
The humour and romance then. Yes, I can see how that could be a bit much for some die-hard scifi fans. We're not used to having these dynamics to this extent in scifi films or series. But why not? It needn't always be so serious! I mean what would SG-1 be without O'Neil or what would Atlantis be without Sheppard and McKay? Some humour in the mix is good! Although Origins contains more humour and banter between characters than any of the other Stargate series, but it definitely has its serious moments, I mean, it's not a comedy obviously! Then the romance, I thought it was sweet actually! It's a pity how such romance is often lacking in the more militaristic setting of SG-1 and even in Atlantis it's not common among the earthlings to express their feelings.
The ending? Well, it had to somehow all fit in with the beginning of the SG-1 series. So the rebellious GoaU'ld Aset wiping everyone's minds and Ra taking over and destroying that particular stargate and everything around it doés make the whole thing more likely. I would've liked for this all to be a bit more gradual though, cause Ra basically shows up and destroys the whole place within minutes! Usually the minutes last a lot longer in Stargate series, so it's strange how this whole ending was so fast-paced. Possibly the makers had intended to spread this ending over another episode but then lacked the finances to do so? But there WAS a clear ending that also explained how the whole series could fit in before the beginning of SG-1, so thank you for that! Cause there's nothing as annoying as a scifi series or film with a cut-off ending without any sort of explanation... like say how they cut off Universe for example! Horrible! Why?!...
ALL IN ALL I ENJOYED WATCHING ORIGINS VERY MUCH and for me it was pure nostalgia, it just totally brought me back to the exciting beginning of SG-1, so the title of the series was well chosen! Yet the series brought new interesting elements with it as well, such as the Indiana Jones archeological feel of the early 20th century (Nazi's VS Goa'Uld!), a bit more realism, a bit more humour, and a less black-and-white approach to the Goa'Uld. A possible downside of the series though is the possible overdose of humour (and to a lesser extent romance), which I understand could be considered a bit too much for a scifi series, making it a bit too Hollywood or making the characters appear somewhat too incompetent and silly.
But I'm very glad the creators of Stargate have picked up a new series, it means they're still alive and still interested in continuing the most EPIC scifi series of all times!!! :-D I do prefer them coming up with ideas for entirely new spin-off series than having them drag out SG-1 indefinitely, cause by that final season it was getting a bit old, right? The invention of the Ori pretty much saved what was left of those last seasons of SG-1 in terms of plot ingenuity... I'm pretty sure they could've kept Atlantis going a while longer, as the novels that do continue the plot of that series can attest. Why they cut off Universe so early on, I don't know! Perhaps the added dimension of drama didn't sit well with many scifi fans? I personally didn't like the "soapy" sentimental element in there either, I thought it was a bit much, but I liked the scifi aspects of it enough to keep watching! SO IF ANYBODY READS THIS PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE CONTINUE UNIVERSE! OR COME UP WITH SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT BUT DO CONTINUE THE STARGATE FRANCHISE!!! :-D There's a whole universe left to explore, so why stop now? ;-)
Stargate Origins (2018)
Definitely BETTER than many people say!!!
I've no idea why so many people gave this series 1/10, for me this was a solid 8/10!!! So don't allow those bad reviews to stop you from watching this series at all, cause it's definitely worth a watch!! ;-) Shame about the 10 minute episodes though, I'm not sure why they didn't just stick all 10 episodes together to make this into a movie then...
It's different than SG-1 obviously, but that's to be expected as it takes place in a different time and has different characters. You may have noticed that different Stargate series often have a different feel, take Universe for instance, you couldn't really compare the atmosphere of that series to SG-1 or Atlantis either, but that didn't make Universe a bad series, did it? Personally I didn't dislike the Indiana Jones feel in this Origins series at all, even if it leaned more towards an adventure family film with the added humour and a little romance on the side. And although this series started out a bit sentimentally, the death toll by the end added to the seriousness of the series over-all.
I thought the idea of sending early 20th century archeologists from Egypt through the stargate was interesting. I mean, come on, studies of ancient Egypt pre-dated Daniel Jackson, didn't they? So it's not that unlikely that an earlier archeologist could've come across the stargate! How else did they find it, what, general O'Neill dug it up? LOL :P But what I truly thought interesting here is Nazi's meeting Goa'Uld!!! I mean, they actually have quite a bit in common but come from totally different worlds, so it's interesting to throw them together and see what happens!
Another thing I really liked about this series was the Goa'Uld character of Aset! I've always been fascinated by the Tok'Ra and what makes them different from the Goa'Uld, and I always thought the assumption that all Goa'Uld who weren't Tok'Ra were evil was a bit superficial... Surely, you can accept the idea that the Goa'Uld have a natural tendency for violence, but surely they wouldn't all be the same? So having Aset situated somewhere in the middle of that moral scale between the evil Goa'Uld like Ra and the good Tok'Ra was very interesting! I don't entirely understand what was going on between her and that child though, was it an orphan child that had triggered her maternal instincts perhaps? I do like how Aset having a forbidden human child brings out a nurturing, caring side of her. In her own way Aset was a bit "against Ra" herself, despite having started out as his ally! Interesting look at the hierarchy among Goa'Uld, for even if they're all considered gods, some of them are apparently less so than others...
Another very realistic thing here? The language! It's strange isn't it, how you can just walk through the stargate to another planet and still communicate with everyone there in American English! Especially since nobody even opened that gate since old Egyptian times and there wasn't a language even remotely like English around back then! So even if these linguistic difficulties in this series pose a bit of a practical problem for the characters, it makes the overal feel of this series more realistic than many other Stargate series. ( Like in Atlantis everyone just happens to understand each other? The only time language even comes into the picture is when they're discussing it in written form, like texts written in Ancient or Wraith. But what language do Wraith even speak? We don't hear it spoken in the series at all, very strange... I guess the characters could be speaking Ancient or something when they meet new alien people, but nobody ever mentions this and we only hear English so...).
Admittedly, most of the characters act rather foolishly and are ill-organised once they get to the world at the other side of the stargate. But most of these characters are not military or trained for combat, so it makes perfect sense that they wouldn't be able to fight properly and be somewhat disoriented when travelling to an alien world... If I'm completely honest I thought it a bit strange how quickly the characters in SG-1 behave so confidently when put in these totally unexpected circumstances, even from a military experience! So I don't think the stumbling about of the main characters or their lack of expertise brings the series down at all, if anything it adds realism and makes it easier to identify with the characters as a viewer.
Then for the female leads here... So what? We already know that Goa'Uld are essentially genderless, so I'm guessing Aset likes the look of female bodies better, which would explain why her Jaffa fighter is a woman as well. ( What I do find somewhat strange here though, is the complete and utter lack of women at the human encampment on the planet? Perhaps it was thought that to have human women around the slaves would be a distraction from their work? ) Catherine of course is a strong, independent woman for her time, I even sensed an echo of sorts of Sam Carter there. But it's not impossible that the smart daughter of an archeologist who basically grew up around digsites in Egypt would be stubborn and independent, especially if she later becomes the infamous Catherine who is basically the founder of the stargate programme! I don't imagine a woman like that could've been a good little push-over housewife... Nobody ever questioned the strong presence of Sam on SG-1 and claimed the whole thing was ruined by feminism, so why do it for Catherine in Origins? :-S
The humour and romance then. Yes, I can see how that could be a bit much for some die-hard scifi fans. We're not used to having these dynamics to this extent in scifi films or series. But why not? It needn't always be so serious! I mean what would SG-1 be without O'Neil or what would Atlantis be without Sheppard and McKay? Some humour in the mix is good! Although Origins contains more humour and banter between characters than any of the other Stargate series, but it definitely has its serious moments, I mean, it's not a comedy obviously! Then the romance, I thought it was sweet actually! It's a pity how such romance is often lacking in the more militaristic setting of SG-1 and even in Atlantis it's not common among the earthlings to express their feelings.
The ending? Well, it had to somehow all fit in with the beginning of the SG-1 series. So the rebellious GoaU'ld Aset wiping everyone's minds and Ra taking over and destroying that particular stargate and everything around it doés make the whole thing more likely. I would've liked for this all to be a bit more gradual though, cause Ra basically shows up and destroys the whole place within minutes! Usually the minutes last a lot longer in Stargate series, so it's strange how this whole ending was so fast-paced. Possibly the makers had intended to spread this ending over another episode but then lacked the finances to do so? But there WAS a clear ending that also explained how the whole series could fit in before the beginning of SG-1, so thank you for that! Cause there's nothing as annoying as a scifi series or film with a cut-off ending without any sort of explanation... like say how they cut off Universe for example! Horrible! Why?!...
ALL IN ALL I ENJOYED WATCHING ORIGINS VERY MUCH and for me it was pure nostalgia, it just totally brought me back to the exciting beginning of SG-1, so the title of the series was well chosen! Yet the series brought new interesting elements with it as well, such as the Indiana Jones archeological feel of the early 20th century (Nazi's VS Goa'Uld!), a bit more realism, a bit more humour, and a less black-and-white approach to the Goa'Uld. A possible downside of the series though is the possible overdose of humour (and to a lesser extent romance), which I understand could be considered a bit too much for a scifi series, making it a bit too Hollywood or making the characters appear somewhat too incompetent and silly.
But I'm very glad the creators of Stargate have picked up a new series, it means they're still alive and still interested in continuing the most EPIC scifi series of all times!!! :-D I do prefer them coming up with ideas for entirely new spin-off series than having them drag out SG-1 indefinitely, cause by that final season it was getting a bit old, right? The invention of the Ori pretty much saved what was left of those last seasons of SG-1 in terms of plot ingenuity... I'm pretty sure they could've kept Atlantis going a while longer, as the novels that do continue the plot of that series can attest. Why they cut off Universe so early on, I don't know! Perhaps the added dimension of drama didn't sit well with many scifi fans? I personally didn't like the "soapy" sentimental element in there either, I thought it was a bit much, but I liked the scifi aspects of it enough to keep watching! SO IF ANYBODY READS THIS PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE CONTINUE UNIVERSE! OR COME UP WITH SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT BUT DO CONTINUE THE STARGATE FRANCHISE!!! :-D There's a whole universe left to explore, so why stop now? ;-)
Revenge (2017)
very EXCITING feminist REVENGE survival THRILLER !!!
This is actually a very exciting, edge-of-your-seat revenge survival thriller!!! :D So don't believe any of those negative comments that say this film is bad, cause it really isn't ;-)
And I love the underlying feminist philosophy of this film, as far as realistic feminist avenging-angel films go, this is a very convincing piece! Also the desolate desert setting and the use of electronic background music is very interesting in a modernist sort of way.
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017)
No Jumanji level film at all!!!
I thought the new Jumanji film was a huge disappointment!
I'm not saying that in and of itself the film was bad or that there were no good elements in there... But when you compare this to the original Jumanji film it's just nowhere near it!
One of the things that irritated me throughout the movie was the silly humour... I don't mind a little humour in an action movie, but there's a time and a place for it and it's not supposed to be constant... I mean, this film isn't meant to be a comedy, I take it? How is this supposed to be suspenseful at all with the constant bickering and ridiculousness? It just gives the impression that we're not supposed to take anything that happens seriously, for example one guy even throws another off a cliff just cause he's angry? OK, they have 3 lives, but still, in that situation they had no idea when that extra life might have been needed, so that's just way too careless to be realistic.
The second thing I disliked about the film is that it's simply adding way too many things to the original concept, which leads to a great deal of confusion. The idea of having Jumanji turn into a videogame because that's more relevant today and then having characters sucked into the bodies of avatars in the game is not a bad idea. But then a lot of other stuff was added to the plot and also a lot of elements I felt did not quite match the jungle setting.
When you're talking about something that roars in Jumanji, you're expecting a lion or a leopard to make an appearance, not a biker gang...
Then there was the setting of the bazar which I felt would have been more at home in a desert setting than in a jungle. We're expecting an African traditional village populated by Manji's, nothing quite as large or civilised as the city of the bazar, I mean, there were even sewers! I'm not even going to go into the unlikeliness of an adventurer in the jungle avatar having cake as a weakness. Where is he even supposed to get cake in a jungle? And what kind of allergy to cake makes you explode?
And the setting of the warehouse with vehicles is even more puzzling. I mean there's even a schoolbus there, in the middle of the jungle! There could have been a wreckage of a plane or a helicopter there that the characters had to fix up to get to where they had to go. But a whole warehouse full of vehicles with two guys guarding it while listening to a radio?
Also the character of Van Pelt is nothing at all like in the first film and his biker gang just comes falling from the sky without hardly any introduction or explanation. Afterwards we just get a quick, confusing explanation about them being cursed because they took the emerald, but what exactly this curse entails or what abilities the emerald can give those that carry it are not explained at all.
I think if the movie didn't refer to the original Jumanji movie that often, all of this could be explained as simply a different, less serious interpretation of things. But the references to the first movie are just everywhere, not only when it comes to the form the game presents itself in but they even find a hut built by Allan Parrish? But somehow everything Allan said about the Jumanji jungle in the first film is inaccurate? There definitely wasn't anyone all that frightened by strange noises at night and the sound of something eating and nobody was hoping that they weren't its next meal, no, they were all just chilling and drinking margaritas...
So not a terrible film in and of itself, but it's nowhere near as serious, coherent or suspenseful as the original Jumanji film. If you're planning on watching this, it's probably best that you don't expect anything at all like the original and that you don't take the movie all that seriously.
P2 (2007)
very suspenseful thriller!!!
Wow!! I truly loved this film from beginning to end! A truly suspenseful thriller that had me sitting at the top of my seat the whole time!!!! A real struggle just to survive the night!
I highly recommend this film to all thriller lovers!!! :)
Science Fiction Volume One: The Osiris Child (2016)
brilliant scifi!
Absolutely brilliant scifi movie! The best I've seen in a long time except for the latest Star Wars. Don't believe the negative comments on this film, it's good ;) I hope they'll make an entire series of these!
Basically it takes place on a newly colonized planet where the main character is working and has his daughter staying over. At the same time there is also a prison labour camp on the planet, and it is here that the trouble begins when a virus breaks out that turns people into violent monsters. To fix the problem, the corrupt company that basically owns the planet decided to just blow the entire planet up, killing all witnesses in the process, so they can then pretend the whole thing was to blame on a group of terrorists who supposedly took over the prison. This scenario gives the main character only 24 hours to escape his work place, find his daughter in the middle of chaos and seek shelter in a secret bunker out in the wilderness.
Revolution (2012)
great idea, evolving characters, realistic, why no batteries/diesel?
I think it's just a GREAT idea, it's kind of the same concept as in "Survivors" and "The Walking Dead" but now it's not a virus that sends the entire world back to the "middle ages" but a black-out! I just think it's an amazing show, especially the whole "militia vs US rebels" concept, that makes the whole show more realistic in a way. It really gets us thinking on whether or not it's such a good idea to make ourselves rely on electricity for absolutely EVERYTHING, what if sth goes wrong with it one day? Then maybe the next generations will still have clay tablets, papyrus scrolls and parchment books from other era's so they can study history, but everything "digital" will be lost forever...
As far as the execution of the idea is concerned, I don't think this show is that bad. There are a lot of interesting characters and they're all evolving throughout the series and their entire "history" is made clear in the flashbacks you get of their lives before the black-out. So you can really get why a character has developed in a certain way... Even without the whole "science fiction black-out"-idea this would be a great show cause it's got a varied array of interesting, non-static characters!:D I keep on reading everywhere that everything on batteries and diesel (basically cars depend on batteries as well for their jump-start so same story I guess) should still work but... that requires electricity as well guys! If there are like some sort of "nanites" in the air preventing electricity then there's no reason why they would ONLY prevent equipment powered by the net/that needs to be charged from working. Whereas for example things powered by steam would still work because there's no electricity whatsoever involved in that...
Sb also said "why don't they use bikes", well, I just keep on wondering "why don't they use horses more often?" lol! I'm guessing it's because they're not prepared for it? I mean they probably only used horses in the pre-black-out world for entertainment and maybe nb used a bike anymore or they were all electric?:P Quite a bit of plausible reasons I guess... Also everything is happening while the generation that witnessed the black-out is still alive, so I'm guessing there hasn't passed enough time for people to really adjust to their new "powerless" situation...