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Barbie (2023)
Pleasantly surprised, but maybe it's a bit too much
I went to see this movie without even seeing the trailer first. I'm a 42 yo man and people kept posting stuff about this movie on social media, so when a friend asked me to go watch it, I said yes...
I was expecting some kind of dumb movie, but this is not. It appeals to teenagers but also to an older audience. I loved the sense of humor, Mattel was sometimes laughing at themselves too. I found that very nicely done. The acting is amazing. However I liked the first part of the movie more than the second one. It starts to analyze the patriarchy a bit too heavily for my taste. They want to make it clear that this is a feminist movie. They want to clear Barbie's image of the stereotypes she's been associated with for decades: she's not a blonde and skinny perfect bimbo girl. Barbie is a feminist, she represents empowered women. I keep questioning myself about this point of view: little girls have been associating the idea of beauty with Barbie for so long, so my idea of Barbie has been quite the opposite throughout my life. I find it hard to accept it.
Now let's talk about Ken. He only exists because Barbie exists. In Barbie Land he counts nothing. There is a deep criticism toward the patriarchy which I can understand but goes slightly too far for my taste...
Run Sweetheart Run (2020)
Could be much better
I like movies that talk about empowered women, but I think this one went a bit too far with sexism.
If you watch the movie without taking it too seriously, it's worth watching it because it's pretty original.
Now, the fact that this demon (or what it is, we never get to see how he really looks or the whole story) clearly represents "white men" and he's helping humanity by "keeping girls like you (the protagonist, an ambitious single mother) at their place" sounds like the director is making feminism a very naive concept.
Lots of missing explanations, over-simplification and holes in the plot make it hard for me to like this movie enough.
A Dark Song (2016)
This is beautiful
A woman whose child has been murdered is seeking for revenge. She hires an occultist and goes through a complicated, long and extenuating ritual in order to be able to communicate with "superior forces" and obtain her revenge. This will turn out to be more complicated than she expected.
This is a horror movie that is about a personal journey which will lead to something extraordinary. Not the typical "haunted house" movie, but a story of faith and personal growth. A few jump scares, but mostly a psychological horror movie that will keep you wanting to know how it ends. The ending almost made me cry. Well done!
Blonde (2022)
A well-done, disturbing, movie
First of all: this is not Marilyn Monroe's biography. It is an adaptation from a fictional novel. The comments that say that this is not a realistic portrait thus don't make any sense, people should know what they watch!
I found this movie very well done. Ana De Armas plays the character very well, although I've seen her a bit distant sometimes, especially at the beginning. We must consider though that Norma Jean is playing herself the role of Marilyn Monroe. The dramatic scenes are quite heart-breaking. The movie has a Lynch vibe, often at the border between dream and reality. Although this is not a biography, I read about Marilyn's life and some parts definitely fit what she could have gone through. It's more about emotions that ultimately lead to the decision she made, not about facts (which we don't know exactly anyways). I like how the director portrays the feelings and the distorted reality she may have experienced in the last weeks of her life. The distortion can be seen in the pixelated face of her husband, in the face of the paparazzi and the crowd as the real world is slowly crumbling down. Definitely a movie I enjoyed watching.
Chosen (2022)
Loved this show!
I watched this show without reading the critics first and... oh my! I've never disagreed so much with IMDb ratings EVER. I loved the story, it's quite original and kept me hooked since the first episode. The acting is pretty good too, the protagonist gives a lot of credibility to the story and plays the part of the rebel teenager very well, I believe her character has quite a lot of depth. No, I didn't find it slow, neither I've seen the protagonist staring at the empty space without any dialogues like someone wrote here. This is not a Hollywood movie, it's a well done European show that maybe looks different if you only see Hollywood stuff with constant action and fights, but maybe it's time that these people accept something different? Hey it doesn't have to be Matrix to be entertaining... I also disagree completely with those saying that the protagonist "lacks morals" because she had an affair with 2 other characters... who wrote this? Some Mormon? She's a teenager who is evolving and experiencing life! What do you expect? Where do you live? The terrible thing is that Netflix will probably rely on these critics to decide if they will do a second season, and considering the low rating... well I think there won't be another season. If you liked this show like I did, GIVE IT A 10!!!! Do I think that this show deserves a 10? No, this is not history of cinema, I think it deserves a 7. But it really kept me entertained and was pretty well done, it really doesn't deserve the actual rating of 4 something, this is not trash. GIVE THIS SHOW A 10!!!
Feria: La luz más oscura (2022)
Not bad at all, worth the "slow" beginning
I think this series is quite more original than other supernatural series on Netflix.
The first episodes are a bit slow, maybe a bit too much drama for my taste. Definitely the last episodes have a lot more happening, and it is worth the wait.
The story is well written, intriguing and coherent. The acting is pretty good, the soundtrack is nice. I see the main negative comment is that the series is "too slow", unfortunately this kind of comment is more and more common as people have forgot to enjoy a good story and have too little patience for a story to develop, it seems.
Nine Perfect Strangers (2021)
Not even the title makes sense
As someone pointed out 3 people out of 9 (33%) are family members... why do they call the series "nine perfect strangers"? Call it "6 perfect strangers and 3 family members". Anyways, this is not the main problem. I'm watching the series in Spanish so I can't judge NK's Russian accent, dubbed it sounds terrible so I think they did a "great job", but I can say the first 3 episodes are very boring, slow and full of clichés. Take people with pretty common personal dramas, avoid any complicated trauma with a subsequent deep analysis or something that could raise people's interest, just make it plain boring lives of the type "I'm no longer a successful writer/football player/etc" and you have these 9 people who you can't care less about. I have no idea of where this will go but I start feeling like I don't care anymore. There will probably be no 4th episode for me, they really had the time in 3 whole episodes to make things more interesting.
Katla (2021)
Characters are just... really stupid
I've seen the first 4 episodes. I'm enjoying the story and I would like to know more about this mystery. However, there is a big problem in this story that makes it much worse than it could be. Everyone in this series is clearly stupid. They meet people who have disappeared years before, or "clone" of themselves, and don't ask any question. Apparently it's just "normal" to find someone who shouldn't be there and nobody is wondering why. It also doesn't make any sense that people from the past recognize people from the present without saying: "is it you? You look different" or "oh you look much older now". No questions at all. They don't call the newspapers, scientists, the president or whoever... at first I thought these people living in a small town in Iceland could maybe look a bit "cold", but it's not the case, they are just stupid. Period.