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Save Yourselves! (2020)
A stupid end. As stupid as can be snowflakes facing the end of the world.
Yes, I admit I enjoyed these two good-for-nothing snowflakes in the trance of facing the end of the world... but then towards the end the story started becoming more and more absurd. Things happen for no apparent reasson and there are so many things that should have been explained... As for the end... what else can you expect from snowflakes other than pretending to be safe insde floating glass pods in the middle of the universe?
Lore (2017)
Pretentious and simplistic at the same time. Rubbish
I had kept this series as a favorite to watch whenever I had the time to... and I am so disappointed by it!
My disappontment grew as I watched episode one developing, and at the end of it it simplu touch bottom listenng to the claim that this case is the genesis of Dracula... come on!!! Don't they know Polidori's The vampyr from 1819? Don't they know the Hungarian and Romanian legends about it? They go back tll the times of the ancient Greek! But not, it had to have an American origin...
El tiempo de los monstruos (2015)
Técnicamente muy buena, buenas actuaciones, pero...
... pero es infumable, te la vendan como te la vendan es una película horrenda aburrida y hasta bastante estúpida por pretenciosa.
Romantic Comedy (2019)
BAD
I had marked this flm as a favourite to watch some day... now how do I regret having seen it!!! Not really, i regret giving it my time, a time it didin0t ¡deserve at all.
First of all... if you make a documentary on romantic comedies, at least make it funny, make it witty, no matter what your message is, don't make it the most boring movie to watch.
And then... the message. Really? That's a sick point ofs view, ever from the director's absurd fanaticism as a teenage spectator to her vital disappointment and how she blames romantic comedies for her failure in her love life. I have always claimed, before you start spreading hate, check your therapist for a couple of years...
Gretel & Hansel (2020)
One more prove of how a gender perspective can ruin one of the the best stories ever
I am so fed up with "feminist" versions of movies! They screwed up Ghostbusters, they did the same with Ocean's 8, and even the latest American Pie movie... The history of cinema is so full of strong woman characters that it is absurd to create a new genre focused on empowering women... plase, open your eyes: they just want your money!
This movie is boring, slow, apparently beautfully shot... (but not, is merely an empty exercise in cold stylism!) But what annoys me is the fact that Hansel has been reduced to the role of a bug flying around whereas SHE is the only charcater there.... When i read the tale as a chld I always thouht the two siblings had more or less the same age, and both of them were clever enough to fight the witch, but the fact that they made Gretel almost twice the age of Hansel so she could be the only hero in the movie... agh, such a clumsy display of utter rubbish!
And let me finish this with Pedro Almodovar's words about the subject "You cannot revise cinema with the ideology of the new feminism".
War of the Worlds (2019)
And do you say there will a second season to this awful series? oh my!
Maybe they shouldn't have called it War of the Worlds at all... but still, it is boing, the characters are dull, the plot is dull... the acting isn't very good...
Fear the Walking Dead (2015)
Just what I expected... bad!
Five years ago I just saw the second episode... it was so bad and boring I decided not to wattch it at all. Five years later and with this awful corona confinement thing going on, I decided to give it a try. It happens that that the episode I watched five years ago was probably the best of them all... uninteresting characters, unteresting plot. How is it possible they filmed more than one season?
And this is personal, but that Johnnydeppesque actor is so bad!
And Then There Were None (2015)
Disappointing, awfully disappointing!
I was so excited to see it was on TV this week! And then I watched it and it was over. After a pretty nice starting... starts a most boring adaptation of this amazing book. They should have never made it last three hours!!! The direction is bad, pretty bad, and slow. No emotion at all...
The last alcohol and drugs night scene is simply preposterous and the end was pretty horrid... are we going to believe she could manage to resist the judge's loooooooooong, uninteresting and boring explanation on a chair that's swinging on one side? Come on!
One of the worst adaptations of anAgatha Christie's story I have ever watched... along with Kenneth Brannagh's Murder on the Orient Express.
Hereditary (2018)
It could have been a great movie...
After so many years watching movies I have come to an only and simple rule: not watching movies that lasts over 100 minutes... Of course there are exceptions, and if someone wants to turn a very long book into a movie I can give it a try, but someone filming and original script and a making a 147 minutes long movie... that's simply telling me about a director's huge ego, and that's no good. And i think this movie is the perfect example to confirm my theory... the plot is great, the acting is fantastic (Toni Collette creates a wonderful character), but it is soooooooo slow. I swear I tried, but I was feeling so bored watching it... and then, suddenly, after 90 minutes of slow movie, the plot takes a twist... and there's still one more hour to get to the end. Such a fantastic story could have been told in 90 or 100 minutes. The long, silent scenes, make no impact as drama, they just happen to be boring.
The history of cinema teaches us that limitations are good. No good, wonderful!. Time limitations made wonders to create an effective cinematographic language; budget limitations did the same to create wonderful ways to tell something without actually showing it, even censorship was great to force screenwriters to tell what they wanted to in a clver way... but a writer and director's ego of today doesn't understand that. It's HIS work and he feels it has to be perfect like that...
So sad, because it could have been an excellent movie.
I have also seen Midsommar, by the same director... and the same can be said about it. It really freak me out that the director's cut lasts almost 3 hours. It's a beautifully filmed movie, but three hours for such a movie is way too much!
Don't Blink (2014)
A mediocre remake of Fin, a mediocre Spanish movie
As I started watching this movie I realized the plot was based on the FIN movie, a 2012 Spanish movie based upon a novel by David Monteagudo with the same title, only that where the Spanish movie and novel built characters with a background story Don't blink just takes the shallowest part of it to adapt it to the Amercan public... and make quite a mediocre movie
Arde Madrid (2018)
Técnicamente buena, pero excesivamente pretenciosa
What technically is a good series, with even good acting (which is not that easy to find on Spanish TV series anymore, nor even in actual movies), isn't but a silly account of more or less good jokes and topics on the Spain of the time. But there ar things I don't like at all....
1) Being filmed on black and White makes no sense at all... Well, the Spanish TV of the time was in black and white, but the moves were in color and if the director wanted to recreate an image of the time he'd better used some color that would remind of the magazines of the time, for instance.
2) The acting is excellent. The actresses are all great and, quite rare for a TV series in Spain, or even for a movie, you can understand the actors (is a shame Spanish younger actors and actresses cannot declaim). The only one i didn't like is that of the main actor and director, who always does just HIS role... the role he's ALWAYS making ALL the time. And it's not a nice role to repeat all the time.
3) Ava Gardner's life in Spain, should give tons of wonderful ideas for a TV series... sadly the director turns the whole series into a feminist allegation in the last chapter and quite wantonly. Pretty sad.
The Pledge (2001)
Another absurd American remake of a wonderful European movie
As a kid I remember watching the movie Es geschah am hellichten Tag / The bait (Ladislao Vajda, 1958) several times and it was an always exciting experience, no matter I already knew exactly what happend on it, who was the murderer and so on... Today I've seen Th Pledge on TV (did't even know a remake had been made of the great movie I enjoyed so much in my youth) and recognized the story at once but has really been annoying watching how can a great story can develope into such a boring movie. by the way: why does Penn need 2h 4m to tell it? Removing the useless footage this movie could have lasted little more than one hour, I think it's stupid Penn makes it longer than 2 hours!
Also the end, completely different to the original story, is pretty stupid and disappointing.
Awful movie...
Alien Siege (2018)
Just awful!
Yes, I know I almost wasted 2 hours of my life but once I started I couldn't leave it because I guessed the end had to be "brilliant"... and it was! (in a trashy way of course).
Did anyone noticed that where the kid gets the lightbulb from his father ('cause it's a blooming lightbulb) it breaks and at least half of it falls to the the ground?
Nine (2009)
Pretentious, pretentious , pretentious
Just seen this movie in TV.
Words to describe it? pretentious... and so boring. I was one of those who liked Chicago and I cannot imagine whatever happened into the director's mind to create such different musicals. To start with... the music is... awful. I happen to be very picky about musicals and this is the kind of easy plain American musical of the kind amateur companies do, and he songs are bad, the lyrics being simply ridiculous.
The acting is good... even Cruz acts decently on it, but with that music and the European approach" of the director to the subject... there is no way they can save the movie.
Murder on the Orient Express (2017)
Why, why, why, Mr Branagh?
Went to see it with my friends this afternoon... as one thinks that a title like this has to be good and there's somehow no way they can destroy such a wonderful story, but the changes made by Mr Branagh to the story are absolutely meaningless, they add nothing to the plot and simply answer to... do they ever answer to any reason? Maybe the market. Let's check out a few of this changes...
1- The character of the Swedish nanny has been changed and now is, I guess, a Spaniard... a Spaniard because Pilar is a thoroughly Spanish name, although... Estravados? Such name doesn't exist in Spain but, yes, there is a Pilar Estravados in Christie's book Hercules Poirot's Christmas. Really can't think of a reason for this change. My compatriot Penelope Cruz isn't a great actress, let's face it, but she's well known here, in Italy and in Hollywood -I wonder why-, so maybe... are you using her as a decoy to trap the Spanish speaking public? As for the name... are you perhaps thinking Mr. Branagh, that if this movie works well -I very much doubt it- you can start directing an Agatha Christie movie every year and maybe you want to include Ms Cruz in one or more of them? Heaven forbid!
2- The character of the Italian chauffeur has been changed and now is a Latin guy!!! Are you being politically correct Mr Branagh? Really, if dear Mrs Christie wrote about an Italian driver we want to see an Italian driver on the movie adaptation, if she included in her story a sweet Swedish nanny, we want to see a Swedish nanny. Especially because the change you've made ads Absolutely nothing to the story. As for the name... Biniamino! are you inventing names too? You're such a creative guy! A Mexican guy with a misspelled Italian first name, so very creative. And the last name, Márquez... maybe because Márquez is the only Spanish name you remember after the famous Colombian writer? But including Manuel García-Rulfo in the movie you're calling for a Mexican public... you're a clever guy, Mr. Branagh!
3- And yet another change. The role of Colonel Arbuthnot isn't a Colonel anymore, it's a doctor and, oh my, he's black. You're so very politically correct, Mr. Branagh! You could have used a black actor in the role of the colonel... but wait, I very much doubt there would be retired black colonels in the British army in the early 30s, so to be politically correct you've made a believable Scottish character vanish from the story to create a black doctor in the 1930s Britain that travels around the world... I don't find quite believable this part of the story. The story takes place around 1930... not in the 80s. Of course the change of character here changes something in the story: Dr. Arthbutnot shoots Monsieur Poirot... wooooooow, that's a bit of exciting action in the movie! Really, Mr. Branagh?
4- Why changing the character of the French conductor from the father of the poor French maid who is falsely accused and commits suicide to the brother of the poor French maid who is falsely accused and commits suicide? Wait... Marwan Kenzari is a good actor, and he's a hot guy. Also he's a Dutch of Northern African descent. Once again, you're catering for all public, don't you Mr. Brannagh. There are great French actors of Northern African descent who could play the role of the father. But they don't attract young girls, don't they?
4- I'm not going to talk about more character changes, but really, is there anything less convincing than a Hungarian duke that's a classic ballet dancer? And this ads SO very much to the plot, really!
I couldn't help but laughing at Monsieur Poirot running after and fighting with Mr. McQueen... so very not Agatha Christie's, but some action was needed in the movie, wasn't it Mr. Branagh? Really, a movie like this relies -or should rely- on good acting and a good director. The acting isn't bad at all... not too sure about the direction.
The main reason for not liking this movie is that changes on the plot can be made when adapting a novel (or maybe should be made), and so did Mr Wilder when he filmed Witness for the Prosecution, and it even seems Mrs. Christie loved it and congratulated him for the changes made, but changing characters in a story that ad nothing to the story in order to attract every possible public that's plain bad direction, that shows no interest in the story, just a wish to make the movie more profitable.
Finally, I absolutely hated the final moment when the British officer tells Monsieur Poirot that he's needed in Cairo... are you really thinking of filming an unnecessary version of Death on the Nile? Are you perhaps trying to turn Monsieur Poirot into a sort of Art Deco James Bond? Are you threatening us with a Hercules Poirot franchise? Oh my, they're right: the movie business is really f*cked up!
Bye bye Mr. Branagh, I guess we'll never meet again at the movies.
Walking on Sunshine (2014)
The answer to Mamma Mia that no one asked for...
First of all I have to admit I never was a big fan of modern musicals... although surprisingly some I find great (just like Chicago), but this one I could only see as an unplanned parody of the genre... The acting was bad, the singing was worse, the dancing... can that even be called dancing?; the way the songs were introduced in the movie was atrocious, the story so old... and the dialogues so stupid.
The reasons why I ever gave it a try? One lazy afternoon after lunch after a busy morning, one lies down on the sofa and everything they broadcast seems to be pure rubbish... I really should have switched off the TV the moment the blond girl starts singing Holiday at the passports control...
And yes, I admit I enjoyed the movie laughing at (not with) every line, every dance, every stupid moment in this movie.
I think if anyone asks me to describe it with one single word I'd say laughable, not enjoyable as a comedy, not so funny I can't stop laughing... but laughable at
Aftermath (2016)
It's so bad, so, so very bad... it could never be even decent
I still wonder why am I wasting my time watching this series every week... surely because I love a good laugh, and I always laugh at how bad Aftermath is, especially how very absurd the story is and how it can become more and more absurd as new episodes come out... the story is bad, the acting is bad...
La tortue rouge (2016)
Nice but nothing great
I seriously am starting to get bored of movies and TV series where the plot is something that only exists in the main character's head either because that's a way for it to cope with adversity or, like in this movie, because he completely loses his mind...
Technically, and you learn it when you see the movie with someone who works in the animation industry, it's a difficult movie, but one has the feeling that the it was made for the only purpose of creating those images... And I really didn't like that feeling that you're watching a black % white movie.
At least watching it isn't a completely waste of time and money, but you really won't regret not seeing it.