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Shawn Mendes: In Wonder (2020)
Boring, dull
This boy is the definition of the white male privilege, he's so dull and boring and I don't know how he's filling stadiums. The documentary could have explained how he got there, which is what I was really expecting, but instead decided to be a documentary about nothing! There is no message! No story! Congratulations to those involved for filling so much time with so little content, that's a real talent.
Artemis Fowl (2020)
The worse "adaptation" I have ever seen
Whoever wrote this script should never be allowed to write anything ever again. Not even a text message. You abused your right and is being revoked.
All the Bright Places (2020)
Predictable, boring, shallow (visually beautiful)
In about 20 minutes I could already tell what the story was kinda The Fault in Our Starts but with mental health, and I actually thought it would be a better story but boy I was wrong. The beggining in interesing, I wanted to know why Violet was on that bridge, I wanted to know Finch's damage and how they would help each other. The problem is that I only got one of those things. The development of the story was terrible, everything happened way too fast with little to no explanation and then it ended, but still it seems like it lasted five hours. Violet lost her sister and best friend on a car accident, she was sad and traumatized. Finch was a mystery at first and made me want to learn more about him, but I ended up with nothing. It seems like there is a back story there, but the movie just didn't show it,. there were all this elements being throwing around and nothing really made sense or put together. I went from wanting to know more about him to actively not liking him. All the post-its on his bedroom remembered me of Every Brilliant Thing but in a problematic way, meaning: it seems that it was copied (*explanation in the end). The Bright Places project seems like a deviation from this concept and a excuse for Finch to force himself on Violet's life, but it wasn't charming or cute, it was wierd and stalking. He sleep on her front yard! He seemed to exist purely to "fix" Violet, a true Manie Pixie Dream Boy. It all fell flat, there was no emotion, no connection.
On the plus side I have to say that both Elle Fanning and Justice Smith did a really good job with such poor material and the movie was visually very beautiful.
On the really bad side: mental health is really important and this movie was a TERRIBLE representation. As a person who struggles with bipolar disorder and anxiety, it was a real disservice and one of the reason why I really didn't like the movie.
*Every Brilliant Thing is a play (?) with a guy telling his real life story, he started as boy writing notes with brillant things to help his depressed mother, and then continued to do it for himself. So Finch's room and the Bright Places project were a little too similar. Watch Every Brilliant Thing!! Is incredible!!!
Ghosts of Sugar Land (2019)
Empty, useless, ridiculous
The documentary gives the city name on the title, a lot of photos with only the supposed radicalized guy's face and after calling him by a pseudominum the entire movie it gives his real name at the end. Why exactly did all his friends wear masks? It's not hard to find who they are. There's a thing called Google, you know. Also, the guy being interwied in the middle of a store with people walking around? All the secrecy is GONE.
We don't actually know anything about this guy's beliefs, what he tries to make his friends do. I understant not wanting to show radicalization, but it's the entire point of the movie, it just doesn't work without showing it.
The question as if he is a FBI informant of not is an empty one without context. They talk about Houston but never explain the a case of a radicalized guy who wanted to go joy ISIS and talked about it to a FBI informant and got arrested. I just gave you more information than the movie did. You are welcome.
A big waste of my time.