mrpatras Reviews

Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret (2014)

This documentary is for the wokes

[1/10 · 29 December 2020]

One of Murphy's lawas says: Intelligence is a constant, and like any constant tends to preserve but... population increases. That is exactly the point. The 80/20 Pareto's law saying that 20% of any group would provide for the 80% only applies to medium size sets. As the set inflates the law is not valid, the normal distribution becomes a skew distribution and it collapses - see catastrophe theory - (if you're not a statistician, don't think of that). So what does it mean? Put it simply, it is imbecilic to say that we have to cull the cows, pigs, chickens and resort to vegetables because humans are not designed to be vegetarians. Not denying that a lot of methane is produced (although a lot less than the melting of the permafrost) the only viable solution is to cull down to under 4 billion the world population. As a result, there will be less cows, etc, not to mention that people also generate methane (fart) and their contribution will also diminish. This thing of changing diet and start eating grass roots and cockroaches is stupid yet perfect for the 80% of low IQ. But of course, this is a Google movie.....

The Midnight Sky (2020)

Being bored!

[2/10 · 24 December 2020]

Once you attain a pinacle with a handful of Sci-Fi movies, like Interstellar and few others it is a serious task to match, but even more difficult to surpass. No smart dialogues No smart acting, when you think of it. Clooney is Clooney but in the end, keeping quiet (it is a lot of quietness) doesn't add up too much. No smart ideas. We're in the age of quantum computing, and I expect some basic knowledge in science should be known.... An undiscovered planet around Jupiter... really? It sounds like "hey, I just noticed a second car in our garage. How come we didn't see it yet?..." Heated from inside?... I can't even be sarcastic on this.... All planets over a certain mass are hot inside due to gravitational pressure and in some case due to gravitation interference, but... that seems to be a quite tiny since it was not yet discovered. I can imagine from Galileo's time till now, every time we, the earthlings, pointed a telescope in that direction, the phone rang and we always missed it... So, the final score: 1. Originality - 2 2. Acting -3 (having a beard looking at the sky is not exactly acting) 3. Effects - 7 4. Informative - 0 And finally: 5. Diversity - 10 (no comment on this)

Definitely, not a movie for collection. More like, "we have some time, let's kill two hours somehow".

New Order (2012)

Terrible stuff

[1/10 · 22 November 2020]

When they'll end up this cliche of documentary style? It lost me in the first few minutes when I noticed a BD class type transistor stucked onto their foreheads. Those transistors can be bought in batched, like 10 for 50 cents The problem with movies trying to depict the New Order is that being a lot weaker than the good ones (like Brave New World, 1984, etc), they appear in the end to show that the New Order is kind of OK.

Sonic the Hedgehog (2020)

So politically correct

[1/10 · 5 April 2020]

I was just anxious to see this movie with my kids, luckily a friend of mine told me the "content" so there will be no showing to the kids. I'd rather show them xxx movies than desensitising them to whom they should socialize, date or marry.

Mortal Engines (2018)

A nice fantasy for a Sunday afternoon

[9/10 · 4 February 2019]

I'll be short, as typing on a phone is not fun. Great effects, ... the story is OK, the dramatic impression... OK'ish... But, the best lines are: 1. Med-USA (Medusa) - the destroyer of the world. Minions-the American deities. 3. London--the predatory city (these guys have immortal habits)... that's the real story

The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (2018)

There is no end falling in the pit of hell

[1/10 · 13 November 2018]

Basically, this is a white tale played by black folk, and that's about all. This kind of nouveau cine art (?) falls into the same category as poop painting or similar. Looking forward to a remake of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

The Titan (2018)

Such an insignificant movie compared to its title

[1/10 · 2 April 2018]

I don't know how to say "bad movie" in all languages of the world. One bad movie after another one, and the trend seems to continue. Sustaining life at -180 degrees is just stupid in an environment where the gravity is even less than that on the Moon, on a planet that receives only 1% as compared to Earth, light from the sun... in other words scientifically stupid. I can put up with people walking in the absence of gravity otherwise the plot could nor unfold, but this is ridiculous. However, one thing caught my attention and that is the movie seems to be a publicity stunt for NATO, probably financed by NATO. For such terrible warmonger, criminal entity such as NATO, it calls for some advertising, for the simple minds. So here it is, a deeply humane, truly scientific, very well played movie. I was sarcastic.

Orchestra Rehearsal (1978)

One of the best. Ever!

[10/10 · 24 February 2018]

When I first saw this movie sometime back in early 80's I remember leaving the movie house without able to mutter one word... and disturbed. The plot in this movie is NOT an orchestra rioting against the conductor, it is actually the History, the Present and the Future of the World. There is one actor, the World. Maybe this interpretation is just personal but this is what I instantaneously knew even before the movie ended. The orchestra is the world, countries, nations, people, the conductor is a leader. Throughout history people revolted against their leaders, children revolted against their fathers. Chaos emerges followed by destruction and the end implacably comes with the bang of a demolition ball, the End. From order, to bickering, small little parties, degradation of morals, open sexuality, unpressed hatred develops exponentially. Every one is lost, injured, desperate, then the only one who has the character strength to pick up what is left and responsibility to lift of what has collapsed is a leader. Crowds are destructive, mobs are criminal or heroic but invariably end to be criminal, the leaders whether Moses, Caesar, Napoleon or Hitler (I saw same connotations about), it does not matter, are those who can in the end unite and lead. Nations, people without a leader are just mobs, bodies without a head. The movie describes such a cycle in human history that has repeated itself incessantly. From order to chaos, back to order in a new cycle. We know it will repeat. People have this little habit of learning hard and forgetting fast.

Reset (2017)

OK-ish

[7/10 · 23 February 2018]

This is perhaps not a 1982 Blade Runner or Brazil, but it is not too bad either. Lately the American movies are getting stupider by the day, especially the SF ones which are just buckets of PC, and the Chinese market tries and succeeds in dethroning Hollywood from the pedestal. What goes up will go down. I suspect that in few years we'll see really good SF Far East movies. We'll just have to adapt to a different language. The movie keeps up your attention and for that, it's great.

The Cloverfield Paradox (2018)

Got tricked by the name...

[1/10 · 10 February 2018]

So politically correct! It looks like the American dream machine has turned to shale ideas (hurting the environment to squeeze out a drop of oil... I mean ideas). I've seen bad movies before and I could put up with them, but this one... it is quite good in a peculiar way: Plan 9 from Outer Space has suddenly rose to a genius production!

The Legend of Tarzan (2016)

It's time to pack the bag and leave

[1/10 · 21 September 2016]

I don't wonder when this malignant nonsense is going to end, but rather how. Already the politically correctness slimed in for a while, with remakes and sequels that fit only for brained dead and hypocrites. Again, the good and moral black, and an the ape man... guy(the main character) unaware of the world of evil, disrupting a racket orchestrated by the white villains and so on and so forth. I cringed to every scene change, but... the end made me throw up. Tarzan, settling with Jane in an African...(not sure if I could call it village). Many years ago I watched a Soviet movie in which the character, a woman decides to change her skin color in support for poor Africans. I was a kid at that time, but I still felt throwing up. Why good actors accept to play in these movie (Ch. Waltz)? These stories are so taken out of their context to fit the current political trend. I look forward to a remake of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs". Grimm should get a posthumous libel. So going back to my first question how all this is going to end? I could write a tome about it, but in a summary the answer is BAD; as the movie.

Prometheus (I) (2012)

El sueño de la razón produce monstruos - Goya

[1/10 · 25 October 2012]

I don't know where to start. I saw it on the plane trying to kill 9 hours of flight. I watched it and could not make any sense of it. I got hold of a BluRay two weeks later, and the perception was unchanged. I cannot divulge the plot as I believe that there is no plot. A kind of a (pre)Alien thing adding a lot of CG, keeping some names in the line of action such as Weyland. The first Alien was great. I loved it from the beginning. I liked the following three as well. At the same time with the first Alien I saw Predator I (Arnold), second one – I cannot remember it well. It came along Alien VS Predators (acceptable), then another Alien VS Predators that I also cannot remember and further Predators. I feel like counting hundreds and still counting. Mr. Scott's latest puzzles me. A talented director that seems to have ran out of imagination and perhaps because of the fear of taking up gardening as a new hobby starts milking a quarter of a century old cow. With the current computer capabilities people can do ANYTHING. Why not take up on Clarke, Asimov, Klein, or any of the brilliant science fiction writers that can bring substance and intellect to the big screen? Why pursuing on Alien CXVII? Every line of this movie is an attack to intelligence. What was the purpose of the old Weyland? David? The ship commander that looked like a guy that sells drugs in Hillborow – no stance, or charisma. A biologist and geologist both red necked. For a mission of such magnitude to use such characters is bizarre. It reminds me of Idiocracy. As a matter of fact if the name of this movie was Idiocracy 2 I would have probably marked it up. The basic science in this film is trashed. The reasoning does not have major flaws; it does not exist at all. And, of course, the film ended in suggesting a continuation which is bad news already.