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Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
Everything is overkill
Almost dropped watching after the below belt visual jokes and tricks, forced myself to finish just to learn that it's somehow family drama and all that multiverse BS is nothing more than a background. Could have been a nice and thoughtful movie but they made something so annoying and repetitive that I to take a few breaks. Finally, I thought it was a comedy and the producers decided to make fun of outdated kung-fu moves.
Everything is overkill, too many fights, too many universes, too many repetitive elements. It was not just me as I learned many of my friends suffered trying not to leave a movie theater in the middle.
Yes, there are great visual effects and the underlying motive is nice and worth watching but why that long and that complicated?
Oppenheimer (2023)
Watched the entire movie holding my breath but had some reservations in regards to the montage
Except for some forgivable goofs, the entire story is a masterpiece. It demonstrates how a talented and complex man achieved both, great success in managing a team of brilliant physicists to perform one of the hardest tasks possible in an extremely short time and in propagating the ideas that would restrict the use of the invention he managed to bring to life.
While I enjoyed the movie in general and the way the title person was presented especially, the montage was sometimes a bit chaotic, the music is a bit too loud to understand all the details of the conversations for a non-native speaker. There was also too much focus on political aspects and too little on the substance of the physical or mathematical issues. The team efforts and the way the underlying problems were resolved which were perfectly depicted in The Imitation game not to mention Chernobyl, were not well pronounced here, that's why just 7 starts. On the other hand, the first of the abovementioned movies was less accurate in presenting the title person and this one was so true to history that I could hardly find anything that would cause rejection.
Panic: The Untold Story of the 2008 Financial Crisis (2018)
This fancy celebratory style movie presents the whole different and wrong perspective
First, the initial vote in Congress was on a 3-page plan and that's why it was rejected by angry congressmen who were willing to know how the money would be spend. There is no mentioning that the Congress requested Bernanke to present a detailed plan and a few days later it was accepted. Secondly, under Bernanke the treasury and SEC were doing virtually nothing to monitor financial institutions and to alarm the public. All of a sudden the credit rating agencies that failed to properly assess risks before announced a massive downgrade of 400+ companies at once, which triggered the huge panic. And finally, Paulson did very little to prevent a crisis in 2007 and could push much stronger to cap bonuses and CEO's salaries and did very little, nothing to be proud of. GWB proved his incompetence in selecting a treasure secretary as in almost everything else he did. Those "heroes" brought significant wealth to their friends among bankers and robbed millions.