With all the resources that obviously went into making those movie, you would have thought that they worth have started with a storyline - something to tell - and built from there. But no. Nothing really happens and continues to not happen until the very end. In between the very long streaks of boredom some dramatic scenes have been added to keep the audience from dozing off or plain turning off the TV, but the events are pointless, leads nowhere, does not forward the nonexistent story. In the end it just ends as confusingly void of meaning as it started and you're left wondering how this waste of resources ever managed to make a journey longer than from the writer's desk to the wastebasket at the door.
Reviews
6 Reviews
The Creator
(2023)
Holes with a sprinkling of storyline
20 January 2024
Warning: Spoilers
It's not uncommon for a movie to have a plot hole or two, accidents of aggressive cutting room debates etc. This movie is practically unique in that it consists almost entirely of plot holes only vaguely connected by a very tenuous storyline.
The only reason I can this horrible mishmash of a dozen sf movies from five decades has gotten such high grades must be that the oversized FX budget blinds people from realising how awful the movie really was.
The all too predictable - and totally meaningless - ending (including a cheery reenactment of the ending of Independence Day) leaves the viewer unimpressed and unmoved. A fitting ending perhaps, but why oh why was this movie ever made??
The only reason I can this horrible mishmash of a dozen sf movies from five decades has gotten such high grades must be that the oversized FX budget blinds people from realising how awful the movie really was.
The all too predictable - and totally meaningless - ending (including a cheery reenactment of the ending of Independence Day) leaves the viewer unimpressed and unmoved. A fitting ending perhaps, but why oh why was this movie ever made??
Inheritance
(I) (2020)
Gloom and doom
20 February 2022
Yet another movie where lack of adequate ligthing stands in place of a decent script. The non-surprising - except to the protagonist - finale is delivered after what seems like an endless series of gloomy sequences from a badly lit bomb shelter. A sad waste of otherwise talented actors, not worth the effort nfeither for them, nor us...
Overrated and pointless
10 January 2020
I don't understand the point of this movie. So many good actors doing so very little for no good reason what so ever.
Tarantino obviously is a very overrated director as seen the past few movies and I have to assume that's the only reason he gets to turn out movie after movie. It's not that they are badly put together, to the contrary in this case it's very well filmed. It's just that there's absolutely no point to it, none what so ever.
If you haven't seen it yet, it's no loss. Don't bother. If you've already seen the last Avengers or Star Wars, go see one of those again instead of wasting money on this one. It will give you a lot more satisfaction for sure.
Tarantino obviously is a very overrated director as seen the past few movies and I have to assume that's the only reason he gets to turn out movie after movie. It's not that they are badly put together, to the contrary in this case it's very well filmed. It's just that there's absolutely no point to it, none what so ever.
If you haven't seen it yet, it's no loss. Don't bother. If you've already seen the last Avengers or Star Wars, go see one of those again instead of wasting money on this one. It will give you a lot more satisfaction for sure.
Ad Astra
(2019)
Prententious disappointment
22 September 2019
This is one of the occasions where the producers have managed to secure a big budget and good actors but failed miserably when it comes to the screenplay. The story is a pretentious attempt at recreating the feeling of 2001, the enigma of Solaris and the stunning visuals of the Martian, yes, even the awful Gravity, and failing miserably.
Apparently the story itself was deemed so important that considerations about physics, the "hard SF" that Clarke excelled at and later Weir managed to repeat which gave us 2001 and the Martian, was considered secondary to the story telling. Unfortunately they didn't have the sense to keep it out of the screenplay so a lot of the movie still relies on this really really bad physics (way too many instances to list here), continuously chafing at the viewer's sensibilities.
Ignoring the... very strange pseudo-scientific basis of the story then... well, It's very hard to understand the motivations of the characters. They waver between some kind of blind loyalty to the space agency (so strange!) and personal relationships with no clear motivation for either one or the other. The endlessly recurring psych evaluations and self-administered amateur psycho analysis sessions in combination with the spoken narrative of the internal mental process of the main character are bewildering to say the least. The final meeting between Pitt and Jones only makes sense after having been worn down by the previous two hours of strange storytelling.
Here and there completely unnecessary action sequences have been injected (forcefully) in a desperate attempt to keep the attention of the viewers as the director apparently must have realised that the goal of recreating the riveting sense of mystery in 2001 simply wasn't there.
No. Save your money. This was a huge disappointment.
Apparently the story itself was deemed so important that considerations about physics, the "hard SF" that Clarke excelled at and later Weir managed to repeat which gave us 2001 and the Martian, was considered secondary to the story telling. Unfortunately they didn't have the sense to keep it out of the screenplay so a lot of the movie still relies on this really really bad physics (way too many instances to list here), continuously chafing at the viewer's sensibilities.
Ignoring the... very strange pseudo-scientific basis of the story then... well, It's very hard to understand the motivations of the characters. They waver between some kind of blind loyalty to the space agency (so strange!) and personal relationships with no clear motivation for either one or the other. The endlessly recurring psych evaluations and self-administered amateur psycho analysis sessions in combination with the spoken narrative of the internal mental process of the main character are bewildering to say the least. The final meeting between Pitt and Jones only makes sense after having been worn down by the previous two hours of strange storytelling.
Here and there completely unnecessary action sequences have been injected (forcefully) in a desperate attempt to keep the attention of the viewers as the director apparently must have realised that the goal of recreating the riveting sense of mystery in 2001 simply wasn't there.
No. Save your money. This was a huge disappointment.
Aniara
(2018)
So disappointed
28 January 2019
I had... great expectations. The poem made a profound impression on me as a young boy when I read it the first time at around 12 or 13 years of age. The vision of the ship with its hapless passengers drifting endlessly across the infinite void, unable to change their ultimate destiny, descending into inevitable darkness struck a chord that still reverberates within me decades later.
Unfortunately the directors lost the ball. Instead of a much anticipated visual retelling of the epic poem we get bad acting and strange decisions on the cutting board. It seems to me the problem with the actors is that they seem to have been recruited more or less directly from the theatre, obviously a forum they are more comfortable with. The dialog is presented in a strange intonation making it stilted and unnatural. It feels false, recited rather than truly experienced. Neither are the characters given much room to become people in the eyes of the audience. Mostly they lack depth and feel more like paper cutouts, hastily put in place and given a token smear of storyline just enough to separate them from the others, rather than as real living people. Transitions between scenes ar... BLAM STOP BLACK SCREEN almost in the middle of a sentence and then a written text proclaiming the next chapter. So strange. So unnatural. So disruptive.
Yes, the movie had a limited budget which explains some of the shortcuts that had to be taken, but... 20 million actually is quite substantial sum as the story doesn't need much in the way of special effects or expensive sets, not really. The focus on the poem is not on the surroundings or the interior of the ship, but on the interactions between the people on board. No, lesbochock nudity and explicit orgies does not cover the vast rifts in the storytelling, though predicibly the attempt was made. The end result isn't bad, not really. It's worse, it's meh. Meh meh meh.
No, I am not a script writer, nor a director, in fact I have no experience with film making but... this could have been done better. So much better. So disappointed.
Unfortunately the directors lost the ball. Instead of a much anticipated visual retelling of the epic poem we get bad acting and strange decisions on the cutting board. It seems to me the problem with the actors is that they seem to have been recruited more or less directly from the theatre, obviously a forum they are more comfortable with. The dialog is presented in a strange intonation making it stilted and unnatural. It feels false, recited rather than truly experienced. Neither are the characters given much room to become people in the eyes of the audience. Mostly they lack depth and feel more like paper cutouts, hastily put in place and given a token smear of storyline just enough to separate them from the others, rather than as real living people. Transitions between scenes ar... BLAM STOP BLACK SCREEN almost in the middle of a sentence and then a written text proclaiming the next chapter. So strange. So unnatural. So disruptive.
Yes, the movie had a limited budget which explains some of the shortcuts that had to be taken, but... 20 million actually is quite substantial sum as the story doesn't need much in the way of special effects or expensive sets, not really. The focus on the poem is not on the surroundings or the interior of the ship, but on the interactions between the people on board. No, lesbochock nudity and explicit orgies does not cover the vast rifts in the storytelling, though predicibly the attempt was made. The end result isn't bad, not really. It's worse, it's meh. Meh meh meh.
No, I am not a script writer, nor a director, in fact I have no experience with film making but... this could have been done better. So much better. So disappointed.
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