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Imawa no Kuni no Arisu (2020)
Good show with some mind numbingly stupid plotholes
Why, in the ever living holy hell, couldn't a single good guy simply pick up a gun from a fallen enemy in this entire show. It's infuriating to watch.
Carrie (2013)
More like a DC Comic book villain origin story.
Not a patch on the original. Much more like a superhero type movie. Horribly miscast and misses all the nuance of the original. Bad bad film, and I don't think it would have been half as successful had it not being a remake of a classic.
Nightmare Cinema (2018)
Good, but a very dissapointing ending
I though the segments individually were pretty good. Some good twists, and good variety in styles. Not amazing, but better than a lot I've seen. (Better than the new twilight zone 2019 episodes.)
However the overarching story of "the projectionist" was it's biggest flaw. It started very intriguingly, and you really want to see this is all wrap up together. But it's never fleshed out. It's tied together in such a vague and inept manner that it comes across (and probably was) just a means to an end. Something to tie the story together without much effort or any real payoff. It was a shame, really.
Terminator: Dark Fate (2019)
The best since T2? That's not saying much.
It's not good. It's a complete rethread of previous films, and not only T1 and T2. It also rethreads the other dibacles, like Salvation.
It's almost like they worked off a check list.
*Chase scene with a truck...check
*Self sacrificing hero...check
*Completely ignores the awesome future war scenes frim T1 and T2...check
*Jobs out John Connor...check
It's not a terrible film, it's a regular old mainstream action flick with more cgi than a Pixar movie. It's takes a remarkable person to make practical effects look good. An absolute genious to make CGI look good. But it takes an astonishingly unbelievable person to make supposedly real stunts look like cgi. Either that or they used cgi in some completely pointless places.
It's amazing how this film managed to be too much and too little at the same time. The actions scenes were so convoluted, I legitametly got bored. The non action scenes were better, but not much really came of them.
Also, this is the only Terminator film to date where the odds are stacked AGAINST the bad guy. He barely had a chance. I found myself routing for bad guy.
And of course we have Dani, one more in the long line of heroines written into films who cannot for the life of them even begin to duplicate the success of previous great characters such as Sarah Connor or Ellen Ripley from the Alien franchise.
Anyways, once again the cannon of a beloved film franchise has been reworked, and important points altered, just to fit in nostalgia pleasing older actors, and of course bland new characters to issue in a brand new trilogy, which will never happen.
It didn't work for Salvation, it didn't work Genesys, it doesnt work here.
The Silence (2019)
Medicare to the core
Another by the numbers, don't give a sh#t, lax movie, done simply to make content for the sake of it.
Netflix are making a habit of this now. They aren't making movies...they are making TV movies. And usually TV movies are terrible, but at least have a TV movie charm. This simply comes across as a very bad theatrical movie, or a charmless over produced b movie.
The CGI is laughable by today's standards, and apart from a single scene where SPOILER...they use a woodchipper in an excellent way END SPOILER.....there is no logic in this film.
It's a good cast, but woeful writing. All style over substance, while not being particularly stylish either
Disney's new streaming service will cut Netflix to ribbons if they keep releasing movies like this.
Alien: Covenant (2017)
You canceled Blomkamp's Alien 5 for THIS?!!!
After the amazing Alien and Aliens, (and I believe the hard done by Alien 3), we had a string of utter tripe from this franchise, and this is no better.
Character development is almost non existent, with the vast majority of people there simply to die.
Danny Mcbride might as well have had a leash on him, for all the acting he was allowed to do, and James Franco showed more charisma than anyone else in the movie...and he died before even having a speaking role.
The film has gone down this ancient feel/setting, which didn't work in AVP, or Prometheus, and just flat out bores to death in this film.
And the "twist" at the end was so obvious that there was an audible "DUH" and "NO SH*T" from onlookers in the cinema during the reveal.
Ridley Scott's last two films have led me to believe a couple of things.
1. He can't do jack without a GREAT script 2. His movies look good, but are boring as hell 3. Alien was a fluke! It was a mess of ideas that all came together and somehow worked, but that was by accident and not design...or at least not by Scott's design.
Unless Cameron, or possibly Blomkamp (hell even give David Fincher another go) get involved, or perhaps someone equally as talented, we're just going to see Ridley Scott spew his old man, self indulgent philosophical man juice all over our faces for the foreseeable future
It was an OK by film standards...but by an Alien film standards it was pure muck.
And a final note. A TWIN ANDROID FIST FIGHT AKIN TO X-MEN belongs nowhere near an Alien move.