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Station to Station (2021)
Excruciating watch
The acting is... terrible. I'm talking worse than community theater. Worse than a middle school play. I'm not trying to be funny. It's embarrassingly bad. Not one person in this is a good actor. Not a single soul on screen is meant for this.
I am the exact target demographic of this movie, if you know what I mean, and I have plenty of favorites in my collection of "so bad it's good" campy movies. This is not that. This is just really, really bad.
EVEN if you just want to watch it for the eye candy, it's about on par with fruit stripe gum. You'll only get about 30 seconds of flavor out of it.
And it's over two hours long. Could use a HEAVY edit. But then it might only be about half an hour.
Anyone But You (2023)
Embarrassingly bad
This is not a "standard rom-com," as others have said. Standard rom-coms are by definition romantic and comedic. This is neither. The writing is offensively bad. The acting is about as good as a high school play.
Sydney Sweeney has been great in other things I've seen, and maybe this was just bad direction, but I was embarrassed for her when I watched this movie. Her nothing-delivery sometimes felt like I was watching a first table read. Glen Powell's character could have been played by a golden retriever. Talents like Rachel Griffiths and Dermot Mulroney were absolutely wasted on overwrought and often cringeworthy dialogue, and oddly aggressive reactions to normal events.
The tension was so forced, nonsensical, and messy, I felt like I was going crazy. I found myself thinking "no human being has ever acted like this in this situation" for most of the movie. I was really looking forward to this movie, and it was just an excruciating watch.
The Teacher (2022)
Easily figured out early on
The reveals were far too blunt and obvious, I figured out the entire story by the beginning of episode two. A lot of the acting is overwrought and soapish, to a distracting degree. Silly camera effects to evoke "drunkenness" belong in the late 90s.
The US version (called "A Teacher" starring Kate Mara) was far better and a much more interesting and better acted story.
I find it difficult to believe that this is the best writing that could have been done for this series. The story is convoluted in irrelevant ways to drag out the play length into four episodes when it could have been a movie half the length.