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Black Adam (2022)
A Sunday afternoon popcorn muncher that you will quickly forget.
It might as well have been entitled 'Superhero Movie- The Movie'. It didn't make me want to shut it off, so at least it's got that going for it. And that seems to be the state of the DC movie universe today, I'm mildly impressed when the movie doesn't just suck.
Good Stuff: cinematography was better than average, and the direction was good as well, the acting wasn't terrible, one day The Rock will find his breakout role but I don't think this is it. A surprising amount of violent death including a guy getting ripped in half... that's refreshing.
The Bad: GENERIC, very, very, secret-super-jet-hanger-hidden-under-the-mansion, generic, so many characters I know nothing about and care about even less, the only one I recognized was Hawk, or The Hawk, or Hawkman, or whatever he's called, not exactly at the top of my fanboy list.
Watchable once, probably won't watch it again. Sometimes that's enough.
The Lair (2022)
Bad, but not unwatchable...
Let's call it entertainingly bad. It looks like it was made with the budget of a TV episode. The monsters look like ripoffs from the first Resident Evil movie but thrown together in somebodies garage. Why are all the Americans using English slang? And what is that baffling accent supposed to be, Texas by way of Forrest Gump? You know you could spend an extra $20 from the budget and buy a really nice eye patch don't you? 'We need a bunch of bad-ass military types. I know, let's hire the skinniest, wiriest actors we can find!' 'Fall back!" 'But we're already inside our own base.' 'Fallback even more!'
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (2022)
By far the best Trek in recent history
Episodic, simple, good. Just what I'm looking for in a Star Trek series. There seems to be a bit of review bombing going on here, ignore it. Sure there's some SJW, woke social gender stuff in it, but at least they have the decency not to beat you in the face with it all the time. It's fine, whatever. For the people slamming it for having inconsistent writing and a cast that doesn't seem to click sometimes, go back and watch the horrific first seasons of TNG. God it's painful. Considering how decent this shows first season has been I'm expecting the following seasons to be even better, I don't think these are unreasonable expectations.
The Suicide Squad (2021)
I don't care what anybody says, it was terrible.
I must be out of touch. It's the only answer. All these 90% ratings. I thought it was as least as bad as the first movie, just in different ways. Apparently I'm in the minority.
Occupation (2018)
Hey look, it's Alien Invasion® - the movie.
It's nice to see that other countries can make cringe enducing alien invasion movies. This one is so generic it's entirly possible the script was created by some machine. Want to die of alchohol poisoning? Take a drink everytime you spot a alien invasion movie cliche. I sprained an eye muscle from the intense eye rolling caused by the "Take care of my baby!" line.
Di Renjie zhi Sidatianwang (2018)
Another Step Downward In The Series
Where to start? I don't think Hark understands what made the first Detective Dee exceptional. It wasn't the action, it wasn't the fancy special effects, or a cast of hundreds, it was a solid story, mystery, and a likable lead. Action, fancy wire work, and fancy special effects can be found anywhere nowadays.
I found this episode to be very muddled, overly long, overly heavy in 'epic' special effects, and weak on story. Overpopulated too. There must be two dozen main characters. It takes forever to get going too. The plot doesn't even get into gear until a half hour in or so. There's a 'romance' that feels completely tacked on, like it was added as an after thought. And for a Detective Dee movie, there's not all that much Detective Dee in it. Lots of fighting, and not much actual detecting. It feels dumbed down and flashy, like something made for specifically for kids. The first film felt more grounded in reality. Well, as grounded in reality as a film like this can be. And then there's the ending which is just the most annoyingly dumb conclusion to a movie I've seen in a while. If you removed all the overblown special effects maybe it would have had actual impact. A guy we know nothing about, riding a giant white monkey to the rescue just comes off as nonsense. If he had simply WALKED in quietly, no giant monkey, no epic fight of behemoths, simply defeating this evil with his serenity. THAT would have been impressive. Instead we get a monk we've seen twice before, for all of like 3 minutes, swooping in and saving the day. It would have been nice for them to explain who the hell he is in the fist place and how he came about this Buddha like enlightenment.
It seemed like part of the ending was missing too. Maybe the movie was re-cut or re-shot. When they send random-love-interest to the rock garden to collect Buddha-monk, it shows the place wrecked, everything broken, and no Buddha-monk. They never explain why the place was wrecked, or where the monk was. I'm betting there was an attack on the Temple scene that's been cut from the film, probably because of how overly long the film was already, and because it wasn't important for the central story. But leaves me wondering why they didn't bother editing down the first half hour of the film which was mostly filler. That's the real 'mystery' here.
Tokyo Ghoul: re (2018)
It's awful.
At a meeting somewhere in Japan an anime executive must have stood up and asked, "How can we make this anime series sequel terrible?" It's as if someone systematically removed everything that was unique, different, or interesting from the Tokyo Ghoul franchise, and replaced it all with tired, worn out anime tropes. Now it's full of cocky, brooding, posing, hero-types. And a sword, someone needs to have a plain old sword (fans love swords). And all the main characters, let's make them all kind of 18 to 21, young and sexy, that's what we want (marketing says the demographic skews this way). And only one freak half-ghoul? Screw that, lots of them! And they fight the ghouls because... well, whatever. They can be tortured souls then, who cares.
I don't know what show people were watching when they left their ratings, but it couldn't be the same one I watched. The show I watched was so thoroughly generic it was like it was designed using every anime cliche they could think of. I don't think there was a cute mascot creature-thing, but don't quote me on that, I didn't watch it all the way through. I couldn't take much of it. And I didn't see any cute super-deformed bits, but again I wouldn't be surprised to see some in it.
Save yourself the disappointment I've experienced and skip this.