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Snowpiercer: Setting Itself Right (2022)
No rationale
I know the series rationale takes a bit to swallow but here we are after 2+ seasons and it has been mostly ok.
Nevertheless some thought still need to work out and here it doesn't. This episode is the second in a row which do not deliver.
After learning some loose chance that Melanie is alive they gamble with 3000 lives on a whim. Going after Melanie is one thing but throwing caution out of the window is another. Driving the train into a volcanic acid cloud (or whatever it is) is simply so profoundly stupid it breaks the agreement with us viewers - that creative storytelling and action is ok as long as the story holds. Here it doesn't.
There is no checking of the train before going into the acid cloud and it makes no sense at all. Why the rush?
Of course there will be trouble as the equipment is old and some fake action and death happens. Sloppy writing which talks down to my intelligence. Hope it will be better but this was a serious crack.
The parallel "love story" between Bess and Audrey doesn't actually keep high hopes of the authors abilities - It is predictable and boring. No sense of importance or empathy is build into it and the hard pressed magic touch of Audrey is again out of place. Either we strive for science and technology or we strive for magic - can't do both so late in the storytelling.
Secrets of the Lost: Great Pyramid: The Lost Treasure (2018)
Too much bombastic noise
Well... the title says it all. Even though the subject is interesting enough, with a couple of new discoveries and sensible archaeologists, everything is covered in a thick layer of drama.
This drama is simply too much. I am well beyond 14 years old and don't need a full orchestra and blurry fast moving camera angels here. Come on, the pyramids have been there for 4500 years and it is neither a Jaws or Hitchcock feature.
Turned down the volume and fast forwarded. Such a shame.
Piglet's Big Movie (2003)
Homerun in the wood
Not much to say, above that it is a childrens movie and for a time brings ones mind off the ugliness that most other movies present - when seen as an adult :-).
My thumps up comes forth as my girlfriend dropped a few tears watching Pooh and the gang make drawings of Piglet and remembering him as a good friend.