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Exit (2019)
Interesting movie gone too political
I started watching the series because of the typical bate (based on real events).
The show is well directed and interesting and the acting is good. The characters are obnoxious but the show dwells deep in their psychology.
After a few episodes it seems so obvious that 95% of the script is made up and not real stories, even though the writers say that 70% is real stories.
People who make money in finance can be very obnoxious and heartless, but it's hard to believe that they do cocaine and drink even in their office, while working. That would obviously lead them in bad decisions. Also it's hard to believe that people in finance told them about a murder and a false imprisonment...
The last season is way over the top and ends up a typical anti-capitalist girl power - kill the rich movie.
It's also funny that the only guy from the company of 4 who made it clear, is the one who had no concience!
All the other guys who had second thoughts end up cheated and decieved.
Makes you wonder how the writers really missed the point and actually made that statement...
In the end, all the well educated heartless bankers... end up being deceived and loose all their money by un-educated trophy wives and a fisherman! How ridiculous!
Oppenheimer (2023)
typican Nolan movie buy nothing more
The movie is well directed with intense music and suspense, but it's not something we haven't seen in the past.
It seems like Nolan is trapped inside a loop, just like the ones he uses in his movies!
What is even worse is the politics of the move.
Do we really need to see a movie where the protagonist, Oppenheimer is viewed as martyr and Strauss and Teller as villains?
This was supposed to be biographical movie, not a marvel movie with good guys and villains.
Strauss and Teller were not actually villains. They played important roles in the nuclear project.
Oppenheimer wanted to take the fame as the inventor of the atomic bomb and then just switch the atomic program with an off switch.
Teller and Strauss were not wrong when they said that Oppenheimer was holding back the H-Bomb project after the war.
He was probably doing it out of guilt and not because he was a traitor.
Also the notion that Japan would have surrendered without the use of the A-bomb is ridiculous.
We re talking about a country with suicide kamikaze pilots where surrendering was dishonoring and prisoners of war were executed or tortured because of that.
This Is Us (2016)
used to be good for the first seasons
It used to be good for the first seasons.
It was really interesting to see the story and drama about the Pearsman family and it was unpredictable for a while.
After they revealed what happened to the father, it went downhill and became totally boring and predictable.
I could literally predict every word, before the characters spoke!!!... i watched it with a friend and he would laugh when i said everything before they did.
I also think that they run out of material. At the beginning it was a story about the pearson family... and then it become about their, kids, grandkids and they grandfathers and cousins etc.
Other than that, after a while the political agenda became overwhelming.
They even did some Floyd episodes... where the white kids of the family (Kate and Kevin) where saying sorry to their black brother Randall for Floyd's death and just for being white!
Before the Floyd murder, Randall was actually a priviledged kid and total jerk. After the Floyd incident he became the superhero of the show and everyone else a total idiot. They even resurrected his dead mother to make him the lead character lol...
He was very ungrateful to the family that adopted him, and romanticized his biological family that abandoned him...
Even though i supported the covid measures and vaccinations, i think that the covid /quarantine episodes were stupid and not subtle at all.
In every episode at that period, whenever the characters met, they would say that they had a 20 days quarantine and they were tested etc.
The Last Duel (2021)
Another great epic from Riddley Scott
A tale of rape in medieval France as seen from the eyes of the people involved. Every chapter tells the tale from a different view.
Matt Damon is unexpectedly very good as the noble knight, Adam driver good as always playing a squire favoured by the king. Also the female protagonist is quite good. I didn't care much for Ben Affleck...
Photography is great as always in Ridley Scott's movies.
I would prefer it if the 3 chapters were more different and ambiguous, but still the story is good and it keeps the viewer's interest to the end.
The script slightly favours jean de carouse's wife , but in the end, le gris just before his death still holds his claim of innocence leaving us with doubts and giving another twist to the tale.
The final battle is truly epic and historically accurate from what i have read.
I disagree with people that find political or metoo references in the movie. Riddley Scott is subtle in matters like that.
The Water Diviner (2014)
Awful amateur movie- ridiculous propaganda
This is Russell Crowe's first attempt as a directors and probably his last.
His directing is amateur to say the least. Cinematography on the other hand has some good moments and scores some points.
The story is "inspired by real events" but it doesn't really seem believable in any way.
Russell Crow with his magic powers, manages to find his sons in a battlefield with 100.000 dead people. He goes to the field and says: "you can dig here, i found them".
The historical accuracy is laughable.
At first he tries to convey a neutral message, but in the end the movie is totally one sided and inaccurate.
The turkish people are portrayed as saints/victims and all the other like devils.
He somehow forgets to mention the genocide of 3.500.000 million christians from 1900-1923.