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The Creator (2023)
Ghost in the Shell, but bad.
The Creator has very nice visuals and the cast performs well on a really predictable and poor script with washed out clichés.
It is 2024 and still a robot can hack wirelessly into a lawnmower because is a robot. Of course it is a machine talking to its kind, why not.
The plot is about a secret agent having a love relationship with his target unknowingly. His love partner and unknowingly target is the ultimate artificial intelligence engineer, who is never seen studying or using a computer, either by movie watchers or the secret agent apparently.
The movie reeks "Ghost in the Shell inspiration" all the time, but still fails to provide a coherent story.
Rebel Moon - Part Two: The Scargiver (2024)
Bad
Very disappointing, like part one of The Creator. Nice cast and premise but weak plot and undeveloped characters. This show steals from Star Wars as The Creator steals from Ghost in the Shell, and both fail to get even close. Like the directors don't understand what made those movies great in their time.
Having an asian looking actress to be the "ninja like" character, the black actor to be the "african warrior like" character and so on, are just the cherries on the top of a terrible script and forced back stories.
Still the cast does a good job. But those lame dialogs and slow motion fights with cheap epic music is just cringe. The fake beards look terrible too.
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024)
Poorly written
Ghostbusters Afterlife was a good story continuing the franchise. Unfortunately although Frozen Empire first half is very good, but all of a sudden the story quality drops. For the first time ghosts can talk as a very whack plot device. A daemon trapped in a ball blackmails a Casper-like teenager ghost into trick the smart character into using an absurd functionality existing just for plot convenience. The relationship between Casper-like ghost and Phoebe does not develop enough, causing that Phoebe is portrayed as a gullible fool. The movie loses rhythm in this moment, and it does not recover from it.
Ghosts don't talk, that is why Eagon couldn't, right? A machine to extract the ghost of a living human, really? Completely unnecessary.
Don't get me started with the "master of fire" thing... Really whacky and lazy storytelling.
The Predator (2018)
Opportunity lost
It could have been the beginning of our "avengers" with Boyd as our Steve Rogers/Tony Stark. The plot is not bad, but the script is just plain stupid and clumsy.
How the hell they get money to do movies like this?
I am glad Prey succeeded. More warriors and yautja and less american cowboy fantasies.
The Sandman (2022)
Starts amazing ...
First arc is amazing, captivating, really something. Once the ruby is recovered it becomes a washed up ordinary sitcom with flat and uninteresting characters.
Spriggan (2022)
Netflix does not understand anime
It is sad, but the original movie had a better tone, and I always wanted to be a more extended story like Evangelion.
But this Netflix series is a cheap usage of the movie characters and story. From magic forests to very chatty villains ... it is a showcase of anime cliches, including mechas and "oriental" fighters.
As with cowboy bebop, Netflix please stop.
Spriggan: The Forest of No Return (2022)
Oh no, mediums!
The series was going well, true to Spriggan. But this episode about a magical forest and a medium that talks to dead people is really anoying.
It seems the good material was over in two episodes and now it will be no sense. I hope I am wrong.
Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)
Sad movie
I loved all those actors coming back to reprise their roles, it made my day. How do you downvote a movie with so amazing actors?
But the movie is very sad. It is a movie about Spiderman leaving the MCU and descending into the shabbiness of Sony movies. Aunt May dies, everybody else forgets about him and even loses ties to the Avengers, so he has to do his own suits. The movie happens when high school is over, so no need to come back to school. Full reboot. Nobody knows Peter Parker now. Spiderman is back in a self-made lycra pyjamas.
It is not a movie. It is a Spidy-cameo special, where old figures walk our hero out of the MCU back to Sony.
The Tomorrow War (2021)
Please stop time travel plots
Time travel plots are always flawed. Back in the day with Terminator and Back to the Future was less obvious and more tolerable. But nowadays we get a time travel story every month, and is really boring already.
The movie is just a bad story with good production. Daddy issues, the Rambo nobody asked for travelling through time under made up constraints for the story sake. And the ending is the cherry on the top. Have you ever dreamed of saving the world with some useless trivia you know?
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance (2019)
Beautiful
I have enjoyed every bit and detail of this series. I can't wait for more.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014)
Horrible
When I watch a remake, I expect another angle, a darker or deeper story... That is why the Batman remakes were so good. In the TMTN comics, Splinter was a samurai master, and betrayed by Shredder almost died but he transformed in a rat and found the turtles. He trained the turtles to kill Shredder, to avenge him, it was not a bed story for youngsters, it was dark.
This movie has nothing of that, plain argument, sexy girl... damn, what a waste of time. It makes me mad, not only the money spent, but the opportunity wasted... Bad actors, bad argument, terrible adaptation of the story, bad characterization of the protagonists... This movie is exactly the same thing than Transformers.
Now I will have to wait 10 years hoping for a new remake like The dark knight...