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Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024)
A complete pile of garbage, a non-movie
Had to write this after seeing the 8.0 score...
Quit the theatre after 45 minutes to avoid this lobotomy through the eyes.
Scene after scene, shot after shot, line after line, action after action of completely random, nonsensial, illogical, unneccessary, uninspired, CGI overdone, artificial looking, miscasted, disjointed mess.
It's pointless listing the flaws since the flaws are the only ingredient.
No rootable characters. I wouldn't care if a swarm of AH-64's came and wiped out everybody.
Fury road was a Shakesepearian drama compared to this.
I suggest you watch Civil war for some real, thought out postap atmosphere and action.
Une année difficile (2023)
Feels like a script draft, not fleshed out
Interesting premise - combine eco-activism with a debt situation, since both are due to overconsumption.
Two guys without jobs and in debt find their selves while bluffing their way into eco activist group. There is a girl that both of them are interested in. She maybe later becomes interested back. There is a crisis, and a redemption, and a shock. Cliches so far, not a problem in itself...
But it feels like move added no additional depth to this, barely a summary, that I've written. That screenwriters went from this, to final product, too fast. Why did they end up debt, why the romantic theme?
We don't learn not much about global eco or economical situation. We do see that they are all just people and it seems that their cause is futile, since no impact is ever shown. Support groups for people in debt are shown so I became aware that they exist, nice.
Handheld cam, fast cuts, annoying overhyping music don't help the movie. Some jokes are funny, many of them just too basic or repetitive. The two main heroes are not particulary interesting. Half an hour too long.
Great opening, though!
Kimitachi wa dô ikiru ka (2023)
Too boring, he lost me after 45 min
Just to warn average movie fan that likeas Mononoke or Nausicaa that this movie is very boring, even more than the one with the ww2 aviation.
I am literally browsing the web on my phome while waiting for the movie to end. I would recommend this only to Miyazaki's biggest fans, that have seen all of his movies.
Just seems like a random dream world...
And now to add more characters to the review... Rewatching Nausicaa or Mononoke or Chihiro would be a better time investment. Turns oit that people I am watching this with have seen nome of tbose. Had I known I would organize a movie night at home.
The Creator (2023)
The future of AI filmmaking
I measured Naked gun at 4 jokes per minute. This movie is a continuous stream of nonsense, at least 1/min. I literally couldn't believe it. It's worse by the fact that this poses as a serious movie.
It's got plain retarded nonsense as modern blockbusters do, but it also has also terrible world building, dramatic and situational nonsense.
But it's all mixed with solid camera, partially interesting soundtrack, evocating landscapes, reminiscences of known movies, good actors. That's why it's just like the generative AI made the movie - it looks good, it's not boring, it just does not make any GOD DAMN sense.
DISCLAIMER: Unexperienced moviegoers I was with were fascinated by the movie.
SPOILERS FOLLLOW
Space station looks 2 km high when seen from the ground. It looks 500 km high when seen from space. It changes position on a whim although it travels very slow judging by it's targeting beam. What a joke.
Main idea of the space station is orbital bombardment. During the whole movie the station apparently must be directly above target to engage. In the end, we see that it can strike at dozens of targets in the whole world simultaneously. What a joke.
Guy looks for his wife, who he though was dead for 5 years. He finds her in a coma in a secret base somewhere, and is explained immediately that she can't ever wake up. Literally a minute later he shuts her off from life support. Can't he sleep on it? Talk to the doctor? Sit by her side a little?
That woman is he most wanted person on the Earth. Secret base is in a dome, covered in gold, looking like a research facility, on a top of the mountain.
What's with the retarded space station anyway? Where are the satellites, strategic bombers, ICBMs? It's just this one station? What a joke.
They get attacked by very slow moving tanks / fortresses 50-100m long. You could see them by naked eye from 10 km. They literally go 10km/h. Attacked - BY SURPRISE. Drones are everywhere, nobody saw a thing.
Android literally has a standby button on it's neck. It's a fully conscious synthetic person, engaged in warfare. And can be shut down by a short button press at any time. It is used in the movie all right, in the stupidest way.
They use some plasma guns whose one hit leaves a 5 inch see-thru hole in a robot body. However, when 10 cops fire it at a plain car with children in it, bullets don't penetrate.
Robocops communicate by gestures and voice, never heard of wifi, bluetooth etc.
Why are asian rice fields manned with 3 poor people with no teeth? Where's China? Why do they think or don't think AI's are conscious? How does AI war on west look like?
Ah yes, team of soldiers behind enemy lines walk on the ridge of the mountain in the middle of the night with strong LED headlights on.
WHAT A JOKE.
Tons more stupidity, I would recommend seeing with your own eyes.
An Inconvenient Truth (2006)
The movie is a lie (ask High court in London)
Though High court addressed only 9 false statements in the movie, and in fact there are 35 false statements. That includes even the most important "facts", like that increase of CO2 creates increase in temperature. I remember noticing it myself, purely visually, upon first seeing the movie. I started Photoshop and compared graphs. To me it seemed like 1/3 of the time Co2 predated temperature, 1/3 was the other way around, and I couldn't decide for 1/3 of the graph. Reading the SPPI report, it seems science knows temperature actually predates rise of Co2. Other statements are not just exaggerations but pure lies. See for yourself... http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/monckton/goreerrors.html
Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie (1972)
Discreet charm, explicit boredom
BEGIN RANT I'm writing this as the movie nears its end. Nothing is happening. Obviously nothing will happen. There have been 2-3 laughs and 1-2 scenes resembling a plot. And the 3 dull bourgeois chicks are bangable. I have literally nothing else to write after seeing this. Maybe this could be a precursor to Monty Python... but Python existed for a few years before this! Jesus the film still hasn't finished. I will soooo forget it, that in 10 years I will probably try to see it again, remembering half way that I already did. It could have been called "Dull people are dull", or "When do we eat?". Or "Boring people try to eat together". But it could be turned into a decent porn movie... END RANT Thank God, the end credits started rolling. I guess that watching any other film by Bunuel (haven't seen any other yet) could have been more interesting. Sorry for the rant :)
The Expendables 2 (2012)
Symbols of awesomness become expendable again
6 stars would rate it a good movie. 4 stars rates it below average which it is. The movie isn't better or worse than the first. Action is without suspense and there is no sense of space or logic in the gunfights. There is some choreography, mostly Statham and Stallone, but gunfights are pure randomness and good guys win. Camera and editing was mediocre, soundtrack was generic.
There was only enough character humor to miss more of it. Almost all actors are underused and references to their previous famous roles are rare without any depth ("I'll be back". That's it for Arnie. Really? Did he come back only to say that?).
Anyway, you will like EX2 exactly as much as you did the Expendables. It could have been made into proper action, or proper trash or an absurd comedy like Top Secret. Or characters could have been fleshed out, for a change. What a waste of awesomness.
PS Van Damme is pretty good as scumbag. Lundgren is actually funny when drunk, sadly it's about 17 seconds only.