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Rubicon (2010)
13 episodes for NOTHING.
I would rate this show 8/10 as it really engaged me, and I was hold in suspense.
I tried hard not to think too much about how little sense lost of it made, the ridiculous going to papers in the digital age. The constructed scenes where everyone has a word to say and the teamwork always shows.
In the beginning, this one walked on thin ice by pretty much revealing absolutely nothing, to a degree that was almost off-putting. Then they trick you into thinking this is going somewhere. They do a superb job of basically still not revealing anything but somehow make you think it's moving slowly, and it somehow actually is, depending on your definition. Again 8/10 suspense.
But here is why I subtract 4 stars. I thought it was all a buildup to some grad super satisfying finale. There is a scene where Will is basically soon damn close to the single most important evidence. You w8ed 13 episodes for it, and the writers torture you by not letting him have it. The last episode reveals absolutely NOTHING. You basically know as much as you suspected halfway in. There apparently was another season planned, but it was cancelled.
So if you are up for a huge cliffhanger, and a conclusion that will never come, go for it!
The 100 (2014)
If bad tasting fast-food was a TV-Series
It's funny, I read some other reviews on RT and here and people have even completely different reasons for disliking this show.
So much wasted potential. I actually LIKE the overarching plot. And I dislike when people criticize games and TV for being "unrealistic" as everyone is unrealistic to make it more compelling. For movies and TV people generally do not say unrealistic but say "plot holes and bad writing" and hell yeah you got that here, a hell of a lot of it.
Season 1 was a mix of interesting and absolute and total cringe, and overall the series writing and execution feels like something someone came up with after reading and "how to make a TV series" tutorial.
I can overlook the forced "teens own people who trained all their life". I can even overlook the forced female badasses. Especially because Raven is smoking hot, and I speak Raven the character specifically, because when I look at the actress with tons of makeup I like her better as the character.
Anyway, overall, there is too much action for an "adventure/drama" series for my taste. It's WAY too much quantity over quality. It's like there have some kind of quota that there has to die AT LEAST one person per episode. And it becomes a predictable pattern that somebody will change sides or plots again one of their own. It all moves too fast for my taste. It feels they're trying to camp too much uber dramatic moments into the series. And it ends up in utterly unbelievable moments like somebody killing their lover and 5 seconds later they say "I can't be with anyone right now" to a GIRL. Well I do not know how much time is supposed to have passed but NO! And OF COURSE it's implied that she is suddenly or always was bisexual. Just unbelievable. I won't spoil what happens, but you can have a guess.
The "we have to sacrifice our own people to survive and somebody will hate somebody else for it" becomes another pattern, but of course they will make up again, only to then repeat to some variation of the same stupid subplot.
There is the like "next time I help the girl" or something like that in S01 and it's so total cringe. I have seen people say the series is like a teen drama or soap opera. And it for sure has some elements of that. But not really, it's just bad writing, and it's beyond me why this got so good ratings.
I feel guilty for watching the show, and I guess I have to give it a bit of credit for keeping me engaged ...
There are so many of these "climax" senes where the music sounds like it's some stock music exactly for that purpose, like something you have heard 100 times already just a worse version of that.
After I made it though Season 1 and Season 2 hooked really hooked me back in when I was starting to lose it. It for sure is less cringe.
I have seen people take issue with the excessive violence. Not me at all, I like Tarantino movies and I have no issue with violence BUT here is what is wrong with it. It's cringy and unrealistic as hell. People are cut open with deep cuts like every single episode, it's OVERDONE. At times, people have cut ALL OVER their bodies and faces, and all they need is a face wash, some bandages and a good night sleep, and they are healed the next day. Its total cringe. And the stuff these people survive. It's NOT a fantasy show. They are not superheroes. They are supposed to be "normal" people from space that can "metabolize" radiation, but that is it. Sorry but NO! There is never even an attempt of explanation for soem kind of supernatural healing capabilities, because they writers apparently have a blood and violence quota that needs to be met, even if it turns the scenes into a cringe fest for fake blood.
And the fast food style of pacing and scenes that, are like having someone cry over a loved one like some deep emotional thing, you get desensitized to over the series because it's happening in like every episode. You know it's coming one way or the other, and it feels less and less and 5 seconds later the characters have sex with someone they just wanted to kill, or some action suddenly interrupts the drama. And someone has to really suffer deep cuts and other physical damage or torture like they HAVE TO at least every 2nd episode. Someone tell the writers that "less is more" sometimes. And that slow buildup can create wonders and make the climaxes actually more feely. This quota BS sucks.
And yeah, almost NOTHING makes sense in the series, almost nothing feels really believable even if the overarching plot is OK and interesting. It all feels forced, generated, and unlogical. The general "there are no good guys" theme emerges, and I generally LIKE things like that. In this case, however, I really crave at least one "good" anchor characters. And of course the main character is supposed to fill that role, but it's not really enough.
Many people say it's bad because it's predictable, and yes SOME THINGS are predictable, but others are not. That is both a testament to how bad the writing is because every stupid nonsensical thing can happen every second. But also make it kind of interesting that this makes it actually NOT that predicable overall. You make predict that something will go wrong or different from planned, but also not exactly how.
Even though I said enough, I still feel it's very hard to describe why this series is wasted potential and why the writing is just bad.
I just finished watching season 3, and I guess I will finish watching it, even though I already read that people hate Season 7 and say it ruined the show and things like that. I now just want to know, and there is not that much to ruin, actually. Season 3 actually had several very interesting twists, it's just the overall composition that make the series bad.
At least there is a "person" that, at least for now, feels like a straight-up bad one, and this is actually a bit refreshing.
I just watched too much superb drama series lately that I can't give this a good rating.
Dark (2017)
Cool
After 2 or 3 episodes I thought. "Well kind of thrilling but also kind of standard crime/horror. The constant spooky sounds and the birds falling on out of the sky felt unoriginal to me (do not worry I do not spoil anything with this). I was getting ready for a disappointment and also had "little boring" in my head.
But boy when the time travel aspect kicked in it got superb, because it's not just standard time travel but special in a way I won't spoil.
The few criticisms I have are, these constant SAME exact music and spooky mood audio effects that get repeated over and over again and the repeating of slow motion scenes with music playing again and again. It's actually cool but when binge-watching it feels like a bit stretched and overdone at times.
What is really cool about the concept and the writing it how complex it gets and the deeper it goes the more complex it gets and only more questions pop up rather than questions being answered. BUT at the end of season 2 something happens that I am actually NOT really fond if. They again, instead of answering and exploring the already complex world of time even more open yet another element into the mix that I do NOT think the show actually needs. I think it's actually too much and feels like overdone to me. But I am ready to get surprised and am thrilled but skeptical. I fear the show can not keep up with the first 2 seasons, I hope I get positively surprised with season 3 and beyond. Not sure if more than 3 are revealed but this show should not try to stretch things.
I also wonder how German the show actually is, the cast for sure is but would not surprise me of the production team is actually not really German. This feels like a top-notch Hollywood production.
6 Underground (2019)
This movie was to bad to watch on a 2nd screen while playing a Videogame.
Man the first ~15 minutes or some so utterly annoying and pretentious I only looked a few times. There was nothing funny about over the top annoying action. Every minute another stupid song you already heard 1000times. Never ending motor sounds ....
I had to shut it off because after that the movie suddenly from one second to the other want to get serious because someone died. After that? WTF? No sorry not up for this.
The Irishman (2019)
Boooring. Should be considered a failed experiment.
I get who Scorsese is, I share his opinion about superhero movies that he used to promote his own movies recently.
But there is no thrill in this. I was exited at first when he saw the playtime at first but after just a bit over halt of the movie was soooo bored out, I did not even care what happens next.
I thought there would be some great thrill in this and there is some in the beginning but the long stretched out cliche gangster conversations turned me so off at some point. If feels like a directors cut for superfans and the ratings will sadly make Nextflix and people think it was a great idea. I am all for putting no restrictions on things and my guess is that is why he got the deal with Netflix to try something out. Have not read anything about it other then there is no wide cinema release in another negative review and sure wonder why . or maybe not.
Rememory (2017)
This is great drama movie with thriller and mystery elements - it NOT Inception.
The overall bad reviews (in the press, rotten tomatoes lists this as totally rotten with almost every critic trashing it) really surprised me on this one.
I have this feeling that people expected this movie to me some science fiction action or something with a super twisted story ...
The science fiction in this movie is "just" the base of the story, everything else plays out like a Drama/Thriller/Mystery. And for me it really delivered that. Especially the conclusion about the accident was something I did not expect at all. Although the part that the machine should never go into production was very predictable from early on and that memories should probably kept as they are. The ending kind of expects the audience to assume this is what happened after, at least this is how I saw it. I expected that Lawton would be confronted, some great reveal of the truth to the public ... but it was OK without that.
Its a really sad movie and I have read reviews complaining about that. I mean what do you expect when the first listed genre says Drama.
I get there was potential for something else with that machine story, but it was not needed for a good movie in my opinion. In the end we see Gordon delete a memory and do also do some settings on the machine never seen before. It was always just about recording and playing basically. Based on that it could be a entire different movie, memory alternation, deletion. Making people think memories of others were their own forgotten ones ... its probably thought like this that made critics not like this movie.
Compliance (2012)
Struggling on how to rate this one
When I read "Inspired by a true events" at the beginning I thought. "Oh well that gotta be even more far away from actually happened when "based on true story" films. But I think I got this one wrong.
Not sure if one of those many reported incidents was exactly like this but this does not really matter.
All the time I was annoyed by ALL Characters, and I was thinking "Unrealistic BS - sane people would never ever act this way." I somehow understand all the bad reviews of people, but they are angry with the disgusting stupidity of totally purposely dumbed down Americans who are so brainwashed that they will do whatever someone with "Authority" says. And as much I wanted to punch the Manager in the Face all movie, and es much her f*ing pathetic excuses on the end are, on one point she is right, the victim complied with everything! She could just run out, run to her friend use the freaking phone to call someone ... whatever, she is so scared to go to jail for stealing some money its sad.
I did not really like that the whole rape thing was cut, not that I want to see the rape but what actually happened? Did the guy tell him to rape her? Because that really really is the end of "ok fine I don't like it but It's procedure I guess". I guess the Man just had this sexy obeying girl on his crouch so he could not resist and was donging it because he wanted to not because he was old to or maybe both but ... well it not really matters.
I actually thought until the end that this was unrealistic BS but then the message appeared that over 70! Incidents like this happened and I was WTF. But I get it, Americans are stupid as hell. They are giving Fluoride in the Water with is the same as rat poison, its banned the EU (at least most of I think), it has be shown in studies that is lowers IQ. On top of that they are exposed to all kinds of chemicals trough plastics ... eat all kinds of GMO junk food that makes them fat and stupid as well. The Elites want A stupid docile underclass that obeys every order and is just there to be "used as pawns in foreign policy" to quote Henry Kissinger. I could go on and tell you to watch the Zeitgeist movies and a fews Alex Jones movies to get the picture, oh I just did that. But I guess people will call be lunatic now, and vote this movie down because this could not possibly happen in a way close to this, even if it did.
People voting this down is like People voting Youtube videos from PETA or something down because they don't like what happens on them but they actually like to watch the videos to get informed and they actually do want others to see but they don't get it they use the Youtube voting system wrong and cause it to being less suggested to others with their stupidity.
Bottom like, People are Brainwashed, especially Americans and this movie shows it in all its brutality. I was thinking about giving a bad voting but I like it now because its about something real, it raises awareness ... and that more then most movies do.
Synecdoche, New York (2008)
This film has everything i like about movies but still i don't liked it somehow.
My favorite movie genre is drama, i love weird and surreal films, i love films about memory loss or illusion or whatever this should be. Mulholland Drive is probably my most favorite movie ever. I liked Memento ...
But this somehow feels constantly lacking something, it's very hard to explain for me. I kind of knew what was going on all over the film, and somehow i struggled because i now knew. What does all if it mean? Does he really have affairs with his actresses? Why everybody likes him while he is a total wreck? Or is nothing of it "real"? Well it's a mix-up of the play and the blurring reality, kind if what i like in Lynch films, but not here for some reason.
The Story itself feels like it was just inverted to have as much weirdness as possible put in one movie. There is no evolving, no progress from minute 30 to 90. It's just repeating depressing surreal moments over and over again. We get it he's falling apart.
Also i think there is is to unrealistic, who the hell pays someone to build such a play, and who practices there for years with a director who is out of his mind? Somehow i was disappointed with the ending, i have this often lately but somehow i hoped for a happy ending, that he gets his memory back, or at least that something more gets revealed and he comes a little bit to his senses. But that he was that old and that this was hie whole life feels just like "oh this is not depressing enough lets make it even more depressing as much as we can".
I expected the end to be a more from the final play, unfiltered like it really happened, than just one short scene and i wanted to see at least something more revealed.