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The Fall: The Mind Is Its Own Place (2014)
Great episode
People need to pay real attention. They didn't catch him because they need him to lead them to Rose. If they catch him it's very likely she'll never be found, dead or alive.
First Lady (2020)
Just wrong
Mix a corny script, bad acting, loose ends, historical inaccuracies and cheap political propaganda and you get this joke of a TV movie. It's so bad that for me throws away any respect I had for some of the actors. If this was meant to create some sympathy for a political side and rejection for the other, the only rejection it creates is for itself.
The Handmaid's Tale: Heroic (2019)
Not for action superhero fans
So many low ratings for this episode and it's been one of the best from every angle. It's about June losing it after so much she has been through, being punished by the sadistic system she lives in. She's not a hero, she fails, she loses her mind. The whole isolated atmosphere, the long shots of her changing expressions should get you into her state of mind, but you can't get into it because you're looking for "action". if you're looking for heroes, i suggest you keep watching your favorite marvel and dc movies. If you would have rated it higher if June had actually killed someone or if there was more "action" or faster pace, you're watching the wrong show. This is different. Don't get it? Keep watching and be prepared for even more disappointment or just wait for the next Captain Marvel vs The Hulk movie. Action guaranteed!!
The Devil Inside (2012)
An average demonic possession movie
Just saw this movie on cable and I found it very predictable and loaded with many clichés from both demonic possession films and found footage films. It's just not surprising or scary anymore. It also has many goofs and loose ends. (But hey, it's found footage, you can't expect found footage to give you all the answers...) Average performances and the typical plot. So, I guess I enjoyed it because my expectations weren't high considering how predictable this kind of movie has become lately. What makes me sad is that most of the keyboard critics rate it the lowest possible because of the ending. Why? Is the movie so predictable that you all need it to end the same way? Would it be better if the daughter freed her mother, maybe dying in the process, leaving at least one character to have a happy ending? the priest sacrificing his life to save the rest? the cameraman, as dumb as he looks, being butchered by a horde of "transparenting" demons? I think the ending is one of the things that may differentiate this movie from others. It's abrupt, inconclusive, violent. Not that I believe this could happen for real, but isn't it a very likely outcome if we imagine a situation like that happening in real life? If you don't agree then you must be clear that you want realistic, found footage movies to have Hollywood style, highly predictable endings.
Ich seh, Ich seh (2014)
A very good drama that reminds me of Antichrist and Babadook
With over 100 reviews to date, I will only add that this movie is a great depiction of denial, grieve and guilt. The rest is cinematography and acting, which are as good, by the way. It's sad to read so many bad reviews criticizing the badly hidden twist, when it was never intended to be hidden. It's shown very early what's really happening and we just have to watch how these characters deal with the terrible situation. Whoever doesn't get it in the beginning should watch fewer teenager horror gory flicks and pay more attention to what happens below the surface in films like this one. It reminds me of the Antichrist and Babadook psychotic managing of guilt and grieve.
Drag Me to Hell (2009)
Yes, please. Drag me to hell.
A quick one just for my own detox.
Every single Wayans movie is way better than this, even if you took them seriously. This isn't horror nor comedy. Perhaps it could do good with kids watching horror for the first time and getting shocked by all the vomit the old woman throws at the blondie. Every time that old witch appeared on screen I grabbed the remote to stop it because the acting and the situations are so poor, but I just can't do that with any movie and I had to watch it completely just to confirm how mediocre the whole thing is. It's depressing, poorly made overall. Special effects are cheap, the plot is as predictable and lame as any bad B horror movie ever made. Acting!! even the word is too much for these performances: Alison Lohman??? Awful. Justin Long??? looks like a bad satirical impersonation of Keanu Reeves, yes, even worse than Keanu Reeves. Adriana Barraza???? Disgusting. Did anybody take this production seriously?? They all seem to be rehearsing and taking it very lightly before the actual shooting.
Drag this one to hell.
Black Mirror: The National Anthem (2011)
Awesome
I've read so many negative reviews about this episode based on the impossibility of the whole plot to happen in real life, that it makes me want to leave this world, just like the kidnapper did. Because it shows that people don't get the many points this story makes, beyond its plausibility. For me, the most important statement is that the whole country and probably the whole world stops, freezes, just to watch the British PM have sex with a pig on live television. As tensions builds up towards the deadline, people get more and more excited realizing it's really going to happen and they will get to watch it live! The princess is secondary for the crowd, they just want to grab a pint and enjoy the show. But then, the show is so awful everybody is ashamed, hopefully of themselves. Bottom line, we rather have a beer and watch the British PM have sex with a pig on live TV than do something for ourselves. Also, there's the PM. He is ultimately portrayed as just a public employee at the kingdom's service, forced to perform the act, even threatened with his life and his family's if he doesn't (as made clear by the same adviser he almost hit when he still thought he had power). All the power he apparently has vanishes as it becomes Clare that every effort they make to stop the kidnapper fails. He's just the frontman and after he completes the task he saves the princess (for the people's eyes) and becomes a hero, so he can continue to be the frontman (or the puppet?) There's as well the thing about sex. It gets everybody's attention, no matter if it's a pig or the PM or the journalist sending nude pics to the guy who can (and does) give her info in return. And finally there's the media. Social media blends with traditional media to guide people's thoughts about what the PM should do. In the end, after everyone has tweeted, retweeted, mentioned, listened to "experts" on news channels, got the latest poll results, everybody wants the show to happen and everybody watches it on live TV. I believe these are the main statements the kidnapper wants to prove and by doing so he realizes how rotten society is. It's a very twisted way to make a point but it does perfectly.
12 Rounds (2009)
Hollywood cliché at its best
Why Hollywood keeps doing these awful movies? It's the same script over and over again: Hero cop with a hot girlfriend. Cop does his job catching a very dangerous foreign bad guy and the bad guy's girlfriend dies. After a year, bad guy escapes prison and plots a revenge on hero cop by making him play a deadly 12 round game, while keeping hot girlfriend kidnapped. Hero cop successfully completes the 12 rounds and kills bad guy. Add the killing of hero cop's black best friend, ruthless FBI agent, black as well, who turns into a good guy to help hero cop in the last minute and a bunch of classic cliché punch lines such as the "do you trust me?" one that hero cop tells hot girlfriend to convince her to jump into a rooftop swimming pool from a falling helicopter which was being operated by hot girlfriend. So many clichés it would take hours to write them down. AND to round it up, add very bad acting from all actors, including Little Finger, and lots of goofs and there you go. An instant Hollywood classic thriller worth two sequels.
The Hurt Locker (2008)
One big propagandistic cliché worth 6 Oscars
If I ever thought the Oscars were biased and given according to criteria different from those of cinema, this film proves it. The Hurt Locker feels like taken from the cold war propaganda, only set in the 21st century and in Iraq. We follow these three soldiers as they do their duty in Iraq. Three incredibly stereotyped characters, lead by a hot head who doesn't care about doing right or wrong and who in the end reveals his only love is for war, despite having a wife and a newborn son. How patriotic and altruistic a man can be? The kind of man you would want to go happy to war, not once but twice or more. You can spend the whole two hours feeling confident that something worth 6 Oscars is about to happen but nope. The guy ends up being a hero and is hungry for more. So, how come this Sunday afternoon there's-nothing-better-on-the-TV film wins 6 academy awards, including best writing?? Maybe the whole Iraqi occupation thing wasn't doing well on public opinion and a few awards would attract viewers and instantaneously improve the support for the war. Some vets and war connoisseurs have explained here how inaccurate this film is, regarding what happens in real life, from military discipline, chain of command, tactical stuff to the highly unlikeliness of going around Iraq alone, shooting "natives" and easily getting away with it. Of course, there are some details that deserve recognition, like sound and some photography. The only surprise is the killing of Guy Pearce, perhaps the best actor in the film, at the very beginning, only to be replaced by this cliché of a brave man. Guy Pearce's presence in this movie is as good as Samuel L. Jackson being killed by a shark during his motivational speech just a few minutes in in that terrible shark movie. So the movie is just a thriller full of fantasies and clichés, disrespectful to real war victims – soldiers or civilians -, the kind of movie that invites the unaware to join the military with the promise of becoming a hero, no matter what you have to do to achieve it. The kind of movie made to subtly impact on public opinion.