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Napoleon (2023)
Sadly a miss oportunity and big dissapointment
This version of Napoleon is not faithful to history. It's a bad biopic, with many omissions, changes, inventions, and inaccuracies.
It's closer to being a Marvel "What If...?" than anything else, and this is a big problem if you're going to make a movie called Napoleon.
But that shouldn't stop it from being an entertaining movie. Right?. Gladiator was not faithful to history and it was a very good movie.
And that is the real problem here, Napoleon is a bad movie, not just a bad biopic, but a bad movie itself.
The narration and presentation of characters and situations are totally abrupt, there's no reason for the things that are happening, suddenly it teleports to Egypt without apparent reason, it goes from being accused of deserting to being consul, and two minutes later it's suddenly emperor... Things happen without explanation or reason. There is no evolution in the characters. The battles, besides being few, very few, lack any epicness, you don't know who he's fighting, where, or why, what does he achieve with the victory?... all questions without answers.
The film focuses too much on the relationship with Josephine, but there's also no connection between the characters that could make the movie considered a romantic one. Napoleon is treated at all times as a mean, despicable, stupid being...
In general, it's one of the biggest disappointments of 2023. The figure of Napoleon did not deserve to be treated this way, nor did the viewers. Doubt that the extended version of 4 hours can save such a mess.
Citadel (2023)
A lot of money on action scenes, none on script
Citatel is a TV series that tries to be a sort of futuristic 007 like series, but fails miserably.
The script is so poor that it makes the characters look like idiots, the plot twists are predictable and illogical, and the dialogue is full of clichés and nonsense. The bad guys are super bad, the good guys are super good, they are spies that not work for any government, because of course governments are bad and they are white knights.
Who paid for all super high tech and resources? No idea.
The actors try to do their best to deliver, but they can't save this train wreck of a show.
Citatel is a waste of time I do not recommend it to anyone who values quality entertainment.
Amazon has expenses 300 million of fancy action scenes but zero on writers.
Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021)
This is the way
This should have been the first version of this film. Hope Warner takes some notes and continue the DCEU following this path.
Lovecraft Country (2020)
This is not Lovecraft
Quite disappointed here. I was expecting something more like Penny Dreadful the original and I found something more like City of Angels...
Sorry but this is not Lovecraft or Cthulhu at all.
I see good actors, some goods dialogues, but bad script, bad CGI and not Lovecraftiam atmosphere.
See (2019)
Good idea, photography and actors... but a nonsense
The idea behind the show is good, the actors are good, the photography, landscapes and the lore in general is nice. But, the script is bad as hell. A total nonsense, a lot of unrealistic situations. There is no logic in a lot of things.
A shame.
Ad Astra (2019)
A total nonsense
Not only in a scientific level, even in a logical level this movie has no sense. I understand this is an introspective movie and the important part is the philosophy and psychological one, but you need to have a minimum of sense in what you are telling.
Stargate Origins (2018)
Apocryphal
Cathering never traveled throw the Stargate until the SG1 series, and also they didnt know about the seventh symbol.
This miniseries is absolutly apocryphal. Even a fanfic series would be better than this.
The Terror (2018)
I expected more from this show
I see so many positive notes, let's see, the series is not bad, but I think it had much more potential.
A few drops of Lovecaft's cosmic terror would have suited this story very well.
It's extremely slow without need, I think with 6-7 episodes they could have told exactly the same thing.
And they could have added something more terror or paranoia.
Maybe I got too excited when I saw the trailes.
Lost in Space (2018)
Very disappointed
Absurd and incoherent. Just watching half of the first episode makes it clear that this series will not have any kind of sense or logic.
If you leave in blank your mind and make a kilo of popcorn, maybe you can enjoy the CGI.
Annihilation (2018)
Disappointed
An attempt to mix Alien, Arrival and Interstellar in a low budget movie.
A pity, the film proposes an interesting approach, but from the first minutes you can see script failures and nonsense
Britannia (2017)
Disappointed
I really expected something much better, maybe more in the tone of Vikings or Rome. But I found a series that could have been produced by The CW...
I understand that the series does not try to be historically faithful, but sometimes it seems like a joke from the Roman legions.
Everyone knows how to speak Latin (English) perfectly, it's like in Stargate, it does not matter if you come from another planet, here everyone understands you perfectly.
In short, entertaining, but little else.
Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi (2017)
Welcome to Spaceballs II
Disney has transformed the saga into a big joke. Every five minutes there has to be some kind of joke, even serious characters become comedians.
The script does not make any sense, there are absurd scenes everywhere.
I liked all the movies until today, even episode VII ... but this movie ... it's just a giant joke. It's like Spaceballs 2... just a parody.
I hate you Disney, you just have ruined Star Wars.