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FUBAR (2023)
recipe gone wrong! :)
These dreadfully lame scripts must be the work of high school students. I have no other explanation about the material:). Watching one and a half episode was complete waste of time. Poor acting and recycled clichés. The scenes are delivered with amateurish filmmaking, the actors are reciting the dialogue....also lacking any comedic moments or thrilling action despite the constant attempts at jokes and stunts. It's a disappointment on all fronts, leaving no room for laughter or excitement. It's baffling how such uninspiring scripts made their way into production, but alas, it seems the blame falls on the network and producers that put little or no effort in creating meaningful content.
You People (2023)
Lazy, pointless filmmaking at its best!
This is a great example of how Netflix destroys the essence of filmmaking by producing and promoting tons of pointless movies and comedies with soulless, washed-out stories and formula scripts that can't deliver one single true emotion for the whole film. Who's producing these empty films? Why do they all look visually like episodes from some cheap TV series? How is it possible that someone matched these actors in casting? Was there a director on set? Are these films produced and written by humorless focus groups, market research companies, or maybe robots? Let's pray someone turns this around on the producers' side and brings real stories, characters, and situations back to filmmakers that understand the language of films and know how to tell an engaging story. It's sad that most of the actors in this film were really important to the genre of comedy back in the years when they had something to work with. And what's going on with the sound? There is just no background sound anymore; the whole film sounds like a podcast.
Stutz (2022)
Inspiring and enlightening
A human and sincere emotional film shot masterfully in black and white, in few scenes resembling Cuaron's "Roma". Even that it's filmed during "one" therapy session and in a closed studio space the film never gets really boring or claustrophobic. Maybe because of the themes that inspire us to reflect our own lives or the humility of the subjects in the film (each with a very personal story that resonates a great deal with everyone trying to make sense with what life brings). The precise editing and visual effects, the drawings and music of this film makes us often "fly" outside of that confined space and add to the quality of the conversation. One can feel that right from the beginning this film brings a feeling of calmness, unpretentiousness and being in the moment. But it will also surprise us at different times. Near the end it carries a sense of relief for the authors but also for the viewer that it was made, so that these profound ideas could reach even more people. This film is maybe more than anything else a sincere portrait of the relationship of two different humans that bonded through therapy in difficult times, sometimes the therapist being also the patient.
Capharnaüm (2018)
Interesting premise that doesn't deliver
Take out the scenes in the court and the whole premise of the kid suing his parents. Take out the philosophical thoughts of this kid about life, take out the artificial conflicts, the slow motion, the arguments with his parents, the dramatized running after his sister or running with the knife. Take out everything that feels fake, constructed and for the sake of being liked or being profound, take out all the big messages that this director so hardly wants to convey and you might end up with a much better, honest, true to life 90min film after all. A film that sends the same messages about parenting, kids and poverty on a more subtle, believable way. Unfortunately, now we can only witness this long set of scenes that have the occasional sparkle (especially in the second part) but feel utterly disconnected. So at the end it leaves us unimpressed or not really interested in the outcome for this boy, court hearing or anything else that is of great matter to the authors of this film. Sometimes less is more.
Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood (2019)
Watching this movie was like being stuck in an elevator with a boring person for 3 hours!
It's painful to watch such talented authors bring such an empty movie. There is no story so don't wait for one. The acting is fine but without a story it becomes repetitive and boring to watch. A lot of driving around, empty dialogue, remembering old times and movies, flat characters. The length of this movie is complete waste of time, you could cut 1 hour and no one would ever notice, only it would bring a much better result! Even the ending which delivers the expected twist with the classic Tarantino approach seems out of sync and out of touch and you wonder how hard was it to make such an energetic misleading trailer out of this material. That person should get an award!