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Downsizing (2017)
Wow! Unexpectedly interesting (IMHO, the trailer very much misrepresents the real movie.)
From watching the trailer, my wife and I thought this would be a light, semi-romantic comedy for a Saturday night...and it does start out that way.
BUT: the movie keeps getting deeper and deeper, continually moving in unexpected and interesting directions. We were always intrigued at these turns as the movie explored the wider and wider, deeper and deeper implications of physical downsizing.
Underneath the thin veneer of small mansions and perfect lives, lies a world not so different than the one they left. As some of them consider downsizing AGAIN to solve the problems which followed them, the hero considers that perhaps the place for him is not further escape, but fully living the life in which he is living.
A MUCH better movie than the trailers show.
I Care a Lot (2020)
Dumb and pointless
That about sums the whole movie. Looked pretty good in the beginning, especially with some great actors, but became dumber and dumber until it fizzled to a pointless airheaded farce in the end. A complete waste of a nice evening.
Alien Worlds (2020)
Way better than I expected!
Many reviewers here seem to have missed that this show is not just making up all kinds of weird creatures, whether they make any sense or not. It examines what we know about creatures on Earth (predatory birds don't necessarily fly faster than others, they go up to great heights, tuck their wings in, and plummet far, far faster than any other birds can go, smaller creatures can win if they hunt in packs, etc.) and then does great speculating about what they might ACTUALLY look like on another world. For example, a planet with twice the gravity of Earth...or half the gravity, or much colder, or much hotter. The CGI is excellent, and the CGI artists have created some amazing and compelling creatures that are actually feasible. (No pie-in-the-sky-anything-goes-Bruce-Willis-hanging-on-a-cable-in-a-hurricane-dangling-over-a-speeding-train-with-a-nuclear-bomb-planted-by-a-terrorist Hollywood BS.) 😁
House of Cards (2013)
Deliciously wicked and compelling
Compelling stories, razor-sharp script (perhaps "rapier"-sharp is more apt!), authentically crafted settings, gorgeous cinematography, and extraordinary acting from the entire cast. (With more than a nod to the continually enjoyable opening credit sequence with its subtly driving "great-deeds-are-afoot" theme and flashing images of Washington D.C. which deposit you directly into its landscape where the machinations of power unremittingly proceed.)
Truly, I have rarely seen any production this brilliantly crafted and directed. While we may detest some of the characters and it may be seen as less "authoritative" than the beloved series "The West Wing", the extraordinary production values make the outrageous plot twists and breathtakingly wicked conversations no less believable.
An extraordinary achievement by everyone concerned.