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The Flash (2023)
The worst cringefest I ever endured for more than 10 min.
I gotta say, I didn't finish it. I stopped when "past Flash" gets his powers. The sheer amount of cringe attempts at humor and the abysmal CGI... I mean, the worst CGI I've seen in a blockbuster by far.
Ezra Miller's acting is almost as pathetic as his real life persona too. Just as cringe as his running antics.
I like to watch something while I eat, but this "movie" made me lose my appetite. It's a shame so many cameos came to a movie this bad. DC should've just cancelled the movie when Ezra was first arrested. It was guaranteed it was going to fail, but they managed to exceed my expectations by releasing a movie with unfinished visual effects.
To everyone who liked this, I gotta say that you are a case study of why democracy is flawed.
House of the Dragon: The Heirs of the Dragon (2022)
Better than last few seasons of GoT, worse than the first few.
When it comes to cinematography, House of the Dragon so far isn't lacking. The only thing that I have to say is that the dragon CGI has been downgraded from the previous dragon depictions of GoT. However, figurines and scenarios are on point.
Also, I thought there would be much more "wokeness" to it than it had. Next episodes might prove it differently.
The main thing I have against it is how linear and predictable the plot is. "Oh, but this is a prologue", sure, maybe, but I can bet my left nut that these things will happen:
- The king dies of that infected wound.
- Rhaenyra will be of romantic interest of that other brunette girl, Alicent Hightower.
- Otto Hightower will support Rhaenyra and will be one of the first few "main characters" to be gruesomely murdered.
- The plot will be this everlasting struggle between uncle and niece, and how patriarchy doesn't want Rhaenyra to rule, since this was already the reason Rhaenys couldn't rule.
On the first episode of GoT, we were introduced to so many characters and prospective plotlines, so many possibilities and all of those characters progressed into major plotlines, with the sad exception of Rickon Stark. On the first episode of HotD, we were introduced a handful of insteresting characters who are all part of a very obvious plotline. The saving aspect is: the plotline is still much better than the disaster that GoT ending was.
Halo (2022)
When will they learn who their target audience is?
I wish I could understand the logic behind "Hey, let's take this franchise that has a loyal and huge fanbase, and completely ignore everything that made that fanbase exist in the first place and focus on what twitter bots apparently want"
Do they actually think that loyal fanbases will be loyal to strange writers even if they take a huge dump on our beloved franchises?
Have they not seen what happened to GoT and Star Wars?
Have they not seen the success Mandalorian was as soon as someone reverted Star Wars back to it's roots?
Then how can anyone think that they can do better than the already loved and acclaimed source material? I really can't understand.
Moon Knight (2022)
Surprising
Well, while I found the overall story cliché and full of plot holes, it was quite entertaining and that credit goes almost entirely to Oscar Isaac.
I always found him to be a B- tier actor, and that mostly isn't his fault because his character in the Star Wars Parody trilogy was so bad that I most likely grew a bad bias about him, but he did convince me of being an A+ tier actor in this show. Hollywood is so filled with actors that can only play the same character over and over again that seeing an actually outstanding performance is quite rare. 7 stars show, 10 star performance for Isaac.
Rick and Morty: A Rickconvenient Mort (2021)
Where has the creativity gone?
It feels like the writers only want one thing in the show anymore: sex.
Rick and a hive mind entity
Rick and a planet
Rick and any alien
Now Summer and any alien
Morty and whatever likes him back
Beth and Jerry willing to try a threesome with the king of the ocean.
It feels like they hired Amy Schumer as a writer.
Rick and Morty: Rickdependence Spray (2021)
Disappointment all around
Like every good show, they lost all creativity and now it's just all about sex. Every episode.
I mean, the first one of the season was still funny, even though heavily sexual.
This one was even worse than the dragon episode from last season.
I guess the show has ran it's course.
The Umbrella Academy (2019)
Pretty good, but tries too hard to be meta
Here's the thing. I like the plot, even with all the usual plot holes of any series/movies that deal with time-travelling because time travel in itself is impossible to write without plot holes. I like the acting, each cast member has given a pretty solid personality to their characters and that is also writing's good doing. Overall, this would be an 8/8.5 show for me, but it just really tries too hard to give you the whole "retro music/awkward dancing 5-min long scenes" that EVERY single show and movie has been doing lately. For example, "La Casa de Papel" does it so much that it is barely an enjoyable show anymore. You simply know that on every episode, you're going to sit through an unnecessarily long sequence of either a weird remix of a famous song or a song that you never heard of, all while the characters dance awkwardly, stare unnaturally at each other, and do the same moves every time.
While Umbrella Academy doesn't do it nearly as often, the few times it does attempt to do the meta "music + awkwardness" mix, to me, it just breaks the mood. However, there were several scenes where the music was very well placed and it improved the setting.
I'm just getting a little tired of the cliches. It seems like there is no creativity anymore and every show became a parody of themselves in anything they did well for their first season.
But basically, it is a pretty good show, it just tries too hard to be cool and accepted.
Glass (2019)
Disappointing, unfulfilling and badly executed.
- spoiler alert - no specific spoilers but context may give away some things -
Well, as someone who loved Unbreakable and Split, this was very unsatisfying. I'll be fair and make it clear that it isn't because of the sudden twist in the end which leaves wondering what the hell you just watched. Shyamalan's movies are usually full of twists so you'd expect that. Anyhow, the problem were the several plot holes, a few minors and a few majors; the poor cinematography with the constant POV which I believe were meant to immerse the viewer but all it did for me was the opposite; the very poor writing with cliché bad nurse who abuses impaired patients, repetitive and unnecessary dialogue; badly directed and hardly believable fight scenes and some other directing issues.
James McAvoy is amazing. Not as good as in Split, mostly due to a rushed writing and sense of overusing of his personalities, but still very impressive performance. Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson also disappointed me, with below their average of performances. Bruce's fight moves were stiff and hard to buy, but I get it, he's old. Samuel L. Jackson's twitching is also hardly believable and had an unimpressive performance, but not bad. Just less than what I'm used to from him.
As for the plot, it felt like shallow, overcomplicated attempt to bring something new to the table of superhero movies. It falls very short of the grace and smoothness of the plot of Unbreakable and puts a very unforgiving and unsatisfying end to a series of movies we weren't aware before that were connected.
To certain degree, I enjoyed my experience with Glass. Most of the things that bothered were about the directing and writing. Would I watch it again? Maybe one day. Open your mind and expect much less than Unbreakable and Split and you will have a decent time
Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
A worthy tribute to an eternal legend
A came to the theater solely on the hopes of seeing a decent movie about one of my favorite idols, and left with teary eyes after one of the best movies I've seen.
Don't mind the completely inaccurate critics from "professionals" like Rotten Tomatoes or Metacritics, they can't agree on anything. Go to the theater, watch the hell out of this movie and feel like you are in the middle of the crowd at the Wembley Stadium.
Simply amazing. And I hope Ramy Malek gets an oscar for his performance!
The Walking Dead: Some Guy (2017)
I'm out of words.
Let me just say that while the zombies in the show are not strong enough to walk properly, stand properly, or push and hold someone down properly, they are still able to kill a tiger with bites and their hands.
Like 10, 15 zombies. Literally bit a tiger to death in seconds.
I don't even know how to critique the rest of the episode. It was just so awful.
But still...
HOW DO ZOMBIES KILL A TIGER???????
The Walking Dead: Mercy (2017)
What an episode!
- Spoiler alert -
I mean, wow.
After 110+ episodes, they really did it this time. I thought last season's finale was just a chaotic mess and horrible writing, defying and denying all possible logic.
But boi... They really can surprise me.
First of all, I am really impressed how smart Rick's people are with planning. I mean, they calculated the average speed of a zombie and calculated that with the factors of a zombie horde of thousands and the exact distance these zombies would travel across the state and in how much time they would do it exactly! I mean, they were wrong like 10 seconds, but damn! I am impressed. Google maps should hire these people, they can predict rotting zombies walking miles and miles to the second.
Then we have Negan's compound surrounded. Maybe 30 rifles pointed at him as he steps out the front door with a bat and the same clothes as ever. Then Rick, the trained policeman, the dude who hasn't done anything for the past few years other than using guns and shooting stuff up, pulls out his rifle and starts shooting. We see the enemies fleeing unharmed as a rain of bullets come down upon them, but it was all to a purpose. Little did we know that Rick had found out that Negan's powers and strength originated from the sunlight hitting on his favorite set of stained glasses. Rick and his crew proceed to fire 300, maybe 400 shots at that unholy glass wall, rendering their foes senseless, powerless. We even see Negan falling to his knees as his powers are vanishing. So that is why Rick didn't have to kill Negan when the dude was completely cornered and surrounded. I mean, what will Negan do now without his windows? He's done.
Isn't it sad that this makes more sense then what actually happened in this episode?
If the first episode of the season already set the bar so low, just imagine what's coming next. We're in for a treat.
The Walking Dead: The Damned (2017)
A fast paced nothingness.
Alright, at least this episode wasn't completely full of meaningless pointless dialog (more like monologues).
But here's what bothers me about it. It starts with a intense music tone with intense shots of the protagonists and as usual, while TWD think this is innovative, it was a flash of the end of the episode. They may think this is something cool but if you do that pretty much 1 out of 5 episodes, it gets old.
Anyway, it jumps to a scene of some saviors at an unexplained and unidentified location cleaning some weapons outside. After a bit, an attack unveils and Rick's people show up shooting and made me wonder how much are those extras getting paid for because dear god, they are so bad. Their acting of being shot to death reminds of that scene in "A Bug's Life" when the kids are putting on a play and go like "I died". Except the kids acted better.
Then they engage in this huge fire fight where people are relentlessly shooting each other from 10-15 yards out and still can't hit crap. It bothers me so deeply how unrealistic it is. You unload a 30 clip magazine on a target 15 yards away and if you can't even hit a little bit, you're either blind or just plain retarded. Anyone who's ever been to something like even paintball knows that if you are behind cover and your enemy knows you're there, the second you stick your face out, you're getting blown out.
But enough of that scene. It was so poorly made that I don't want to remember it.
Then we go to the base with those giant antennas. Morgan uses "I don't die" cheat code, turns on God Mode and Infinite Ammo and just kills everyone he sees while casually walking down the hallway. Then after a pointless scene about this guy pretending to be nice completely blows his cover for no reason and attacks Jesus. Then we go back to the hallway where we see this dude firing an M1 carbine and it's fully automatic for some unknown reason.
And then we go to Rick's scene where he kills this dude and suddenly remembers that everyone he kills is an actual human being with friends, family, etc.
Now okay, at least it was a fast paced episode, packed with action. But to what purpose? To herd a horde of zombies into Negan's house? To cripple his supplies? To take away some outposts and gain territory? Not clear. It's only presumable that that is the plan.
But even being a fast paced episode, I can't help but wonder if AMC has cut the budget for the show dramatically since they can't even use real special effects anymore. It's been a couple of seasons since the last time anyone actually fire a gun with a blank. It's all CGI. It's all poorly written and poorly planned. It just looks like it was rushed. A show who has seen an exponential growth of viewers should have an exponential growth of resources but it's just gone downhill.
I'll give it a 4 because at least I was entertained. I couldn't let the poor quality of it's direction and production slip past my senses but I can at least say I wasn't utterly bored.
The Walking Dead: The First Day of the Rest of Your Life (2017)
Holy mother of fudge...
- SPOILER ALERT -
First of all, I'm being waaaaaaaay too generous giving this episode a 2. The only reason why I'm giving it a 2 star is because Sasha is gone and that's praise worthy.
Anyhow, what the hell is wrong with the writing, directing, and management of this show?
I literally had to skip 10 minutes of it because it's Sasha high on acid tripping about her dyed ass dead redhead in the most boring conversation of all time. Every time they showed her face with those headphones, I started skipping cause I just couldn't take anymore of pointless, meaningless dialogue.
Then when it finally gets to some action, it's the most ridiculous battle I've ever seen in movie/series history. So here's Rick's group, surrounded by enemies at all fronts, outnumbered like 3 to 1, but somehow, because Zombie Sasha tries to get it on with Negan, all of Rick's foes are suddenly stunned and unable to fire. So Rick's group goes out shooting in every direction without anyone shooting back.
Then they finally get surrounded as it would naturally happen, and suddenly, unnoticed, like 50 people with a god damn tiger come in without anyone noticing, again, shooting in every direction and everyone of the like 5 different factions there knows exactly who to hit, without any friendly fire. Not only that, they just stand in a line of fire wide open, like it's one of those 1700's battles.
And even tho Negan has his window rolled down in his truck and has his arm sticking giving everyone the finger, none of the like 50 people shooting the damn truck is able to even come close.
Well, summarizing. This was the worst action scene I've seen in a very long time. I can't even think of something worst right now.
I tried very hard to give this show a break, but it's no use. Millions of dollars of budget for CGI gunfire (not even like dummy ammo), poorly organized scenes, terrible dialogues, and horrible, HORRIBLE, acting. I mean, some exceptions on acting, but mostly horrible.
How dare does anyone compare this show to Game of Thrones? This hardly compares to Bollywood movies.
The Walking Dead: The Well (2016)
Give me 45 minutes of my life back
This episode summarizes why I can't get to like this show.
You know in Family Guy when Peter falls and keeps doing that thing where he holds on to his knee and sighs in pain for like 5 minutes, but it's funny cuz it's random and a persistent joke.
Well, TWD does that in this episode but trying to be serious and dramatic, like a 10 minutes long scene about a choir singing this awful and out of context song where nothing else happens. You just sit there like "I think the song ende- no. Another verse"
This entire episode could have been just a 10 minute long scene in another episode, but...