I really don't get the hype. It was a horribly paced, slow-moving mess of a movie, with massive exposition dumps all throughout. Took two and a half hours to make one half of the story and didn't even remotely deliver. Waste your time on some other sci-fi.
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Squid Game
(2021– )
Super underwhelming
4 October 2021
I really don't get why everybody's gushing over this piece of mediocrity. Honestly, it does not deserve the 8.6, and it does not deserve all the hype around it. There wasn't anything original or anything others hadn't done better before. I'd give it a 5/10, for being perfectly average if it stole only 2-3 hrs of my life rather than a whopping 9, but here we are. I kept watching in the hopes that something crazy was about to happen, right until the end, that justified all the craze, and was left disappointed when it finally ended. Give it a pass if you have anything slightly better than average to watch instead.
Thoroughbreds
(2017)
Quite good, really
24 February 2020
It was really quite good. The dialogues were well written, and both Anya Taylor Joy and Olivia Cooke did a splendid job.Characters that lack some fundamentally human part in their demeanour and behaviour (Looking at you, Lanthimos) never cease to fascinate me and this movie definitely delivered on that department. The movie seemed to me to last some 20-30 minutes rather than 90 which probably says something about how enjoyable it was. I have no idea why almost all of the reviews are creepily talking about "sexy babes" and all that. Sure, the actresses are attractive but this is far from a movie like, say, Knock Knock. All in all, it wasn't groundbreaking but it was much better than what I expected going in.
Annihilation
(I) (2018)
A Visual Masterpiece
12 March 2018
The film was quite interesting. It was never boring, except maybe for the first fifteen minutes. Visually, it was immaculate. From the colours to the scenery, it was most definitely a feast for the eyes. The plot gets you invested, and it certainly wasn't uninteresting. Even the ambiguity of the film isn't off-putting, but rather satisfying. The only problem I had with it was the many plot points that went nowhere and the "scientific explanations". Without spoiling anything, all I can say is that they could have gotten away with anything they wanted by simply not attempting to explain anything at all. Instead, they came up with scientific explanations that make no sense at all.
All in all, it was a very well made, incredible looking, interesting -and unfortunately annoying- movie.
The Neon Demon
(2016)
A great opportunity, wasted.
9 May 2017
Warning: Spoilers
I absolutely loved most of the film. The acting was good, the plot was, though not captivating, interesting, and the casting was incredible. It was well directed, and the characters and lines seemed quite natural and well written. I very much enjoyed it and kept wondering why it got a 6.2/10 on IMDb throughout the movie. I was more than ready to give it an 8 at least. (It's worth repeating that there are spoilers from this point on) Then, Jesse (Elle Fanning) died. It was striking, and would have made for a great finale. At that point, I was awe-struck, impressed that they dared to kill off the protagonist. But the movie didn't end at that point. It kept going, and going, and going. From that point onward, everything was just... how to put it... weird. The movie got very alien, and while that is not grounds to dislike a movie, this particular one was a very "normal" movie for an hour and a half, and only the last twenty minutes were like that. To me, it was out of place. That last part was as if it was stitched to the movie. It may sound cruel or unjust to lower my rating from at least an 8 to a solid 5 only because of the last twenty minutes, but that last twenty minutes utterly ruined what could have been an incredible movie. A real shame, honestly.
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