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The Brothers Sun (2024)
Detailed, but the fighting scene need improvement
Sometimes its funny, sometimes its sad, sometimes its heartwarming, lots of mixed things but it works together.
Depicts quite accurate of how chinese descent ppl house usually looks like. The detail of the house is amazing. To a point where there's always plates on the drying rack.
I really enjoyed some of the fight scene but some are really slow and some have weird movement. The gun fight was so not real especially the gang war at the episode 7.
I enjoyed the fight of michelle yeoh with xing.
I enjoyed the fight where Bruce ran and makes all the funny movement to avoid thr attack on him.
Improving the fight will have such a huge impact on the movie i think. The story is quite decent, plot twist over plot twist over plot twist.
Leave the World Behind (2023)
Too long for something unimportant
The story starts really well and the suspense start building up. But for 150 minutes, the movie itself has 0 conclusions. Second, there's so many stupid things happens. For example the stupidest person that cannot drive without GPS and don't know the town were the one sent out to investigate.
There's a maid that cannot speak english at all. Like,,, dude how do you work.
When the older kid gets sick, they didn't think to visit the pharmacy. And they know it's an almost apocalypse but they get drunk? Are you sane??
And it seems that everyone point of view only 20meters far. Cause they should be able to see things beyond by going on a high place.
Give me back my 150 minutes or finish that movie by making a part 2.
Panggonan Wingit (2023)
Nice Effect. Weak Story.
Pros: a very nice SFX, Make-up, Costume etc. The suspense especially at the beginning of the movie was quite good.
Cons: the story is situated at early 1980's in Semarang where the people speaks with quite a thick Javanese accent, and this is not reflected in the movie.
The dialogues are so rigid, it feels like I'm watching a high-school drama. Even though it is the correct form of Bahasa Indonesia, but it is not how we speak in daily basis.
The story itself has a huge weak link and plot holes. For example the owner of the Hotel knows that the third floor is restricted for all people. IT CAN CAUSE DEATH.. and let's see how do they prevent people from entering that floor. They just say that "it is closed due to renovation." and just locking the door with no padlocks. The second time someone dies because of the ghost living in that floor, they just use padlock instead of sealing that floor. Like come on just use plywood to close the stair to that floor.
Third the main character hearing a cry of a woman from third floor where it is padlocked, instead of asking employee to help (this is a hotel where definitely there's a security guard, one front office staff at least to help and ask for keys), she just broke the padlock using a hammer.
The high school girl was told to go to the school warehouse to pick up a mannequin, she just get there on the 2nd day. Come on. And she was cursed for the first day and almost get killed by the ghost.
Last the curse itself does not have consistency. The ghost tried to kill the cursed ppl even before the deadline. And they don't use the real "Menur" tree.
Sôsô no Furîren (2023)
Refreshing, calm but deep
Something new. Since most anime or manga focus on the heroes and their adventure. This one focus on a POV of one of the member. The story itself quite unique and reminds us how to be human again.
Maybe it's quite equivalent on how we spend our college times with those special persons. When we graduate we drift aparts but what connects all of us are those memories and fun things, and crazy stuff that we did. Sometimes as life goes by we forget those people and actually being left alone.
The stories itself and each episodes presented beautifully. It's fun to watch but also it felt a bit painful to watch as each episodes also reminds us on lots of small but important things that we might have forget.
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023)
It's a fun and light movie. Don't expect something where you have to think.
First of all, the plus side. I really like the special effects. The magic, the transformation etc. There's a bit of weird special effects (yes you halfling and the deer).
I really like how they use the source material. Even though there's forced "diversity", it is still at acceptable level cause they are cameo.
Story wise, it is a light and fun story. Some jokes thrown here and there, not as funny as a real comedy movies but it will make you chuckle a little.
I cannot give it a 9-10 cause there's still a lot to improve but overall it's enjoyable especially for someone that really likes dungeons and dragons.
Dragon Age: Absolution (2022)
Game has a good storyline and people to root for. This series, NOT
From the beginning of the series, i know this is going to be Politically correct and diverse. The fights are not realistic as they looked like GOD tier fighter instead of normal character in Dragon Age. For example they can wipe hordes of undead army. It's just not reasonable especially in this kind of universe. Lots of the spells are according to Dragon Age. What i dont understand is how a knight with shield can deliver same attack as dwarf with two-hand axe.
There's almost 0 story in the almost 6 hours of series. It seems that it can be made as mini series like 1-2 episodes but make it a really good one instead of this steaming pile.
Mr. Midnight: Beware the Monsters (2022)
Such potential wasted
I live in peranakan culture and i know that the Nusantara archipelago has a lot of culture including the assimilation of a lot of culture.
One thing that baffles me is the mismatch reality of how crowded singapore is and how it's potrayed in the series, which almost empty. The problem is that most horror movie does not really goes along with modern technology, its just makes all the mystery illogical.
Second, there's too many ghost that's not even in south east asia. For example Jikiniki is japanese. The chinese hopping vampires are not South east asian culture, and the lore itself does not match it. If you're bitten by a vampire, then you're become a vampire and you are mortally damaged by sunlight. In this case, the vampire immune to sunlight.
The dialogue is attrocious especially when they try to use Bahasa (indonesia/melayu) in the series. They speak even more rigid than a formal news anchor. And i "love" how they have no accent at all, makes it very "believable".
For example, Thai movies are making horror comedy, but they are still scary but funny as well. I don't know what genre is this series. It's not horror and it's definitely not comedy. More like, "look at me! I'm a diverse movie!"
And lastly!! I love it when they somehow can read ancient java/sunda script out of the blue.
The Dragon Prince (2018)
Fair Warning. Watch only S1-3 avoid 4.
So my rating is 6 because S1-S3 were 8. Total of 24 divided by 4 cause season 4 is 0 point. I stopped at 2nd episode cause
1. It's already loaded with agenda. And its an animation where it was supposed to be for kids. The rating is 18+ now. And everyone gets an elf boyfriend/girlfriend. They were sworn enemies for ages!!
2. The characters are all dumbed down. For example soren was stupid but quite funny now he's just annoyingly stupid.
3. Lots of unnecesary dialogue. Like "i love books!!" "Yes books are awesome!." Wtf?
4. And they change the animation style, it was from like you know avatar of Aang style, now it's more like 3dimension which in my opinion it made it worse.
Kuntilanak 3 (2022)
Indonesia's witchcraft and wizardry school
I gave it 3 because the CGI is on point!!
The lighting is attrocious. Everything is so bright when it should be dark if they want to make a horror movie.
The plot is so bad. There's so many plot holes like how can 2 kids go away from their homes and no one looking.
Their power is so amazing almost like super heroes power.
The siblings are so different that they seemed to be from different fathers. There are 5 siblings. And the mother is old enough to be their grandma.
There's a freakin maple tree in Indonesia.
The conversation/script are so rigid. Costumes are ridiculous, some using western clothing while others traditional indonesian.
To sum it up, the only good thing is the CGI. The concept if polished can achieve such a good movie.
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (2022)
Too many ideas, too many heads, too many unnecessary story lines
The story are just confusing. I've watched LotR and this makes me questions lots of things.
For example, the elves should be the wisest and fairest of them all. I don't see a hint of "fair/beauty" and wisdom. Galadriel character is just so reckless and annoying. I want to kick her teeth in.
And isn't Sauron/Anatar supposed to tempt/trick the Numenor?
Was there even an orc invasion during that age? Aren't they waiting for Sauron?
I dont know why they messed up the timeline. I mean that's literally the backbone of a story. Timeline. Imagine writing a world war I story and there's adolf hitler in it. Just because the writers wants it to.
God's Favorite Idiot (2022)
It was fun and light. and glowing.
Fun series. Please don't take anything seriously. It's been a nice experience seeing Melissa McCarthy again. Especially after several "unfunny" movie including a movie about a ghost buster.
Boo, Bitch (2022)
YA series with actual content
I never thought that the episodes were actually teaching us something instead of only eye candy like usual YA series. Not a must watch but if you have time, it's only 4-5 hours for a full season. Def worth to watch if you have time to spare.
The Boys (2019)
Thin line between superheroes and supervillain
Everyone is not squeaky clean, and when you're with superpower, every flaw will be magnified. This show really expose that.
The writing is good, the acting is good, SFX is nice. Perfect combination of all things creating a good series.
Punching "left" and "right". Good series.
Altered Carbon (2018)
What's going on with S2??
All protagonist are superheroes somehow, can dodge all attacks. All praetorians are similar to stormtroopers which miss 100% of its shot. Plot holes are as big potholes in my country. I fell asleep 2 times at least watching each episode. The antagonists weren't as smart as S1. Basically waiting a year for something much much below expectation.