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Star Wars: The Bad Batch: Entombed (2023)
No sense
This episode makes no sense at all. I can understand some tribute to Indiana Jones and a filler episode for a fun quest for treasure. But it's not really fun. And at the end completely stupid. I mean they found the crystal and take it from its stand. The machine wakes up and start destroying everything (why?? What's her motive) so they try to put the crystal back and it starts to melt and the machine stops. Can someone explain how this makes any sense ? It's like they wanted to do à fun episode of treasure hunt but could find à good story. Just dumb images. You end this episode without any more that you started it. At least the former one Tech was in the spotlight and it was a change. Here it's a complete abysmal void.
Gisaengchung (2019)
Not worth the hype
OK so after years i finally succeed to convince my wife to watch this film with me for the first time both.
I had heard all the hype, the Palme d'or, tje oscar etc.. that i was conviction this movie was going to be exceptionnal.
During the first hour i had that feeling that everything i thought was going to happen, happened. I was skeptical because i thought something special, subtle, inexepected, original. But not at all. Everything expected happen. The boy hired, the girl hired, the father, the mother. Not even with some big originality.
Suddenly i must say the basement thing. OK we're going somewhere different but for what ? Even this idea is not really going deeper.
Some tallk about class fighting. Rich vs poor ? Really this thing so.. already seen. With a family of poor people almost sociopath ? We dont root for them, as we dont root for the rich either (questionnable..).
The only thing i like was the last scene. The boy responding to his father that he will become rich and buy the house. And as all plans do go well we can think that it will never happen and the father will surely die in the basement. And with (good?) reason.
Bref. All that for that. Not worth an Oscar for a long shot. Hollywood and cinema world love themselves too much to make us believe what they think is great is. Let's not be fooled.
Ahsoka (2023)
Fans can't make it good by saying it is.
I really love SW. Postlogy was horrible. Mandalorian S1 and 2 were a really good step in a good direction, and a breath of fresh air.
This, is not good. There is no story. No good dialogs, no emotions. Ahsoka is an empty vessel with beautiful images and that's all. A story that could be told in 2 episodes but extended on 8 ! Every episode you ask yourself : when will i learn something new about the plot ? Why people act like they arr acting, why nobody would act the same in real life ? Why i dont care ? Why am i almost rooting for the bad guys cause you are making no sense and are annoying me ? Why i'm not afraid of Thrawn, that you told me he was so macchiavelic ?
The exact opposite of Andor.
What a miss opportunity.
And lets not talk about Ahsoka, the most boring SW character ever.
House of the Dragon: The Heirs of the Dragon (2022)
Insane rating
Not a 10 in anyway. People have lost their mind, or simply dont have any more degree in their opinion.
How are you gonna judge other episodes by giving 10 on that one ? 14 if better ??
This episode was a good start but have room for improvement. Somehow we have to digest new characters, new time and new interactions and go deeper in each character. But nothing grandiose nor exceptionnal.
Really hope to be able to rate higher next episode, and even more a 10 !
Moonfall (2022)
What was that ?
At the end of the movie, just realized it was R. Emmerich. Could'nt believe it. I was shouting at my TV for completely dumb scenes and protagonists.
Seriously this is nonsense all along. I'm ok for non plausible things when you know what you're going to watch, but here it's just plain stupid. Script is bad, sometimes you have one scene in a place, and next frame protagonists are in another place magically.
Kids watching the spaceship take off whereas huges apocalyptic tide waves coming right on them..
They decided to shut down electrical and power the ship old fashioned way... in a meteor field, come on ! One rock and the tail goes off, they should'nt have lasted more than 1 min in such a situation..
Tide is ravaging the est coast, they are in their hotel, as soon as the main character manage to pull off the science guy off the water, they just rest on the stairs ? The water decided not to go further high.. ?
They decided to get oxygen and the same guys that robbed them before came again and pursue them, whereas the world is collapsing, they dont have anything better but a car chase to do ?
So on and so on..
And let's not talk of the general - ex husband who has no charisma at all, as all the military who want to nuke the moon..
At least in The Day After Tomorrow was intelligent and fun, 2012 was still ok even if less good, but this one is.. i can't say, everything seems rush (and the movie is more than 2h!!).
What a waste. CGI is good but it does not make a good movie.
Broadchurch: Episode #2.2 (2015)
Deception
First season was quite a good surprise even if not revolutionnary.
Really interesting to be able to continue the story and see how it goes crossing it with the previous investigation of the main character.
BUT this episode is insulting. People acts illogically, emotionnaly and without coherence. Ellie is a major collateral victim of the crime commited. She lost her husband, murderer of a child. She suffers from not being able to see that. Her life is as broken as Beth's. And Beth acts completely without empathy..
There is a video confession of a murder, timestamped before Ellie kicked him in front of 3 other officers and this is dismissed at trial ?? Come on ! And Beth blames Ellie again for that ? Whereas she acted completely normally for someome who discovers her husband killed a 11 year boy..
And finally the so called worst detective of England has been hiding a key witness undercover for 7 months, and of course everything went wrong and the witness dissapears, by organising a meeting in the worst place on earth where - or course - Beth is coming to confront Ellie again..
Everything is wrong in this episode. It's as the writers searched how to make the story go but lacked ingredients to do so and choose the least good ones..
And i dont even mention Mark spending time with the boy of the murderer of his son. Seriously !
Criminal: France (2019)
Horrible
Watch the entire UK serie, outstanding writing, acting, tension and plots !
Discovered that it was in 4 countries so i watched the first german and still the same feeling, what a strong first episode.
As a french guy myself i was enjoying the fact to watch in french and see what they have done.
What a disappointement ! First episode was okay even if i Sara Giraudeau voice is cringe worthy it was kind of well done. Second episode was a confirmation of some premises seen in the first : the two female actresses are extremely annoying and their acting is horrible ! Even Nathalie Baye was bad ! The group leader is not credible, she acts as if she was but nothing seems authentic. The second one acts completely crazy out of nowhere ! Those guys are supposed to be really accurate psychologists or having really good skills in human relationships and acts as amateurs ! They stopped interview yelling at suspects, are completely submerge by emotion everytime.. Compare to UK version there is a huge gap !
Will wait for other UK episodes and finish the German ones.
Quelle déception !
Ricky Gervais: Humanity (2018)
Weird
Fake laughs, no audience, really weird to watch.
Why doing this ?
The Predator (2018)
Ridiculous
What on earth this film has been done ?
The story is a joke.
The actors are bad. Olivia Munn is so bad even when she runs and hold a gun.
The CGI are obvious.
The script and dialogue are lame.
This movie makes the other ones masterpieces.
A Predator MUST be scary. It HAS to be difficult to hunt and kilo. None of what you see here makes and sense or does make you feel frightened..
What a shame, Shane Black !
"Predators" was finally a better contendent for the two first original Predator movies. Let's stick to those ones.
Jack Ryan (2018)
So cliché
Tom Clancy's books are great. A few adaptations have been done and are quite alright, especially The hunt for Red October.
I was quite surprised by the 2 first episodes, really good. From the third one everything is going down ! The writing is horrible, so much cliché on every level. Tom Clancy deserved better. They tried to adapt Jack Ryan at our time but with always the same bad guys and the same good ones.. This show is not Homeland, for Tom Clancy universe, what a shame !
The Handmaid's Tale (2017)
Almost
Great first season !
Season two is just torture. Both literally and figuratively.
The actress is good but her character begins to act completely unrealistically in a story like this one. From there - and the fact that the authors love to add over the top sadism in their story - it begins to be difficult to watch !
Thor: Ragnarok (2017)
Garbage
Piece of garbage.
I feel i just watched a movie that has nothing to do with the two others..
We never know if it has been written for 6 years old, or moron adults.
Dialog is bad, jokes not very subtle. What a waste ! Waste of talents like Cate Blanchett, Jeff Goldblum..
We never care for anyone, we just have pure action all the time.
It's like if they said "Let's mix Guardians of the galaxy spirit with Thor and we will have some goo money to do..
La La Land (2016)
Nonsense
First review. Because this movie is totally overrated ! I love musical movies, but what on earth happened for it to be so praised ? Just had to watch a few sequences from My Fair Lady after to be sure my judgment was not wrong. That is a great musical. Not this. Another Oscar winning movie who will appear in 10 years in the "Movies that shouldn't have won" list. You don't make a good or great movie because you do it in the style of the great ones. And even that should you have a good story ! And good songs ! Even in this area, i could not remember one ! And you don't feel any connections with characters. In short terms : don't waste your time !