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Dune: Part Two (2024)
Disappointing ending
I really enjoyed most of the movie, the action was fantastic, a lot of the elaborations to the world building made sense, and the worm riding scene got me screaming "Lisan al-Gaib" just as any other guy. But some things I loved in the first movie were pretty annoying here. For instance, I grew tired of everybody using the Voice on everybody, this just didn't produce the same effect as in the first part. And come on, the ending, really? Why introduce Alya at all when her role is reduced to that of a talking embryo? Even Lynch did her better justice. And why this series of rushed bald baddie executions? Did you need Part Three to wrap things up properly?
The English Patient (1996)
Never again am I putting myself through this
I tried to watch this till the end three times and finally made it. I guess I had to be paid for putting myself through this overrated, long, and boring Oscar bait. There's nothing wrong with you if you don't like it, there's no deeper meaning, you don't have to educate yourself and watch it again. Yes, it's as much of a shallow and boring tear-wringer as it seems from the first watch.
Hollow and unlikeable grown-ups acting like they're 15, an out-of-nowhere love story between annoying rich people that you couldn't care less for, cringy romantics, sex scenes even more cringy, pretentious dialogs, the timeline is all over the place, the running length is excruciating. Gets halfway bearable during the last 30 minutes. Still, one of the worst movies I've ever seen.
Death on the Nile (2022)
A letdown
Watchable, with great cinematography and good cast. Unfortunately, in contrast to the Murder on the Orient Express, this movie is not about a smart detective solving an intricate case with lots of plot twists. It's about an obnoxious guy randomly shouting "you did it!" at everyone while bodies keep piling up, and then suddenly pulling a correct conclusion out of nowhere.
The Social Dilemma (2020)
Too manipulative itself
For a documentary whose main point is manipulation through social media, this movie is itself too manipulative. For its fictional subplot, it invents a non-existing social network with ridiculous features, just to prove a point. It portrays an AI as a bunch of nefarious smirking guys, just to get to your emotions. It even goes to such depths as presenting unsubstantiated graph correlations. Not that I directly disagree with anything said by the interviewees, but the framing is everything, and the framing sucks here.
Snowpiercer: 994 Cars Long (2020)
The dumbest plot I've ever seen
The script wasn't very intellectual from the start, but this is just brain dead dumb. So much stupidity in a single episode. By the end I was simply screaming "JUST DISCONNECT THE LAST CAR" at the screen, but who cares, since the authors seem to have forgotten what happened a couple of series back, and decided to shoehorn a mediocre cliffhanger into an already failing plot.
Salinui chueok (2003)
Overrated
Don't believe all those reviews that say "the last scene will haunt you for ages", it might as well not. If you're like me, you'll probably won't get any closure at the end, just sitting there with a "was that it?" face, wishing you wouldn't spend two hours of your life on something that dull and shallow.
Comparing this to "Seven" is ridiculous. In "Seven", you had a gripping story, gory killings and a few "holy sh.." plot twists. This movie is a linear narrative about couple of stupid clueless cops running around in circles, randomly busting and torturing vulnerable people without any reason. Most of the traces go nowhere, most of the "Chekhov's guns" never fire.
I didn't like "Zodiac", and I didn't like this movie. Looks like the writers of both just tried too much to recreate the "actual events", forgetting that the real life isn't so interesting to watch on the screen.
Oh yeah, some good cinematography. But that's it.
Far Cry 5: Inside Eden's Gate (2018)
Why?
Why did someone put money and effort into this mediocre short with cookie-cutter story and absent characters? If this was supposed to be a tie-in, then it doesn't give any background at all, above what we already know from trailers and featurettes. If this flick intended to drag along some audience that prefers live action instead of CGI, well, such shallow introduction could grab the attention of only really untempted movie-watchers. Hell, the opening scene of the game itself was not super-great by industry standards, but still an order of magnitude better that this dull movie.
Black Mirror: Metalhead (2017)
Solid
Negative reviews about "lack of exposition", "no dialogs" and "no context" prove that the viewers nowadays completely lost the imagination and need to be spoonfed with worldbuilding, just to understand what could possibly go wrong in a world where deadly metal robots were created as warehouse sentries.