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Oderbruch (2024)
Not what it pretends to be...
First of, the acting and cinematography is very good for a public-service broadcaster production. Setting, mood, everything very dark and a certain resemblance to the tv-series with the same name, even some of the same actors.
But if you expect a dark crime show you might be really disappointed, like I was, because this series is nothing but a misleading vampire tale. The first 4 episodes are still good because you might be tempted to think it's going an almost True Detective's way in the sense of occult sect or serial killer, but no, it's just a very blunt and uninspired vampire tale, with the usual "bad guys" and essentially about having to drink human blood and the kid struggling with it.
If stereotypical vampire tales don't bother you, please go ahead and watch it. I just wished I would have known before I started this.
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)
waste of time
WOW, what a waste of time. I convinced myself to watch this no-brainer. Nothing against "popcorn" cinema in general. I love watching some action-packed well made movie once in a while. But, what a piece of garbage this one is, and frankly not (as I feared) because of Ben Affleck as Batman. He actually did the "best" acting. But if you have Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luther, Henry Cavill as Superman, or Jeremy Irons as Alfred... wtf? Is this a movie about worst choice for a role? ...it's like putting liberal idiot "scientist" Neil deGrasse Tyson in a movie ...oh wait.
The story line, if you can even call it like that, has huge gabs and leaves lots unexplained, almost as the producers wanted to tell everything about both main characters but in the end failed by focusing on trivial stuff. This doesn't do either Batman nor Superman any justice.
On the good side, I'm now at a level where I actually might try to watch the Ghostbusters remake, just to have something truly awful to wipe this from my mind.