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All of Us Strangers (2023)
A near perfect masterpiece
Every now and then something happens in the theater. Something changes during a movie screening. It usually goes from "what did my eyes see" to "this is brilliant & I want more". All Of Us Strangers does it. It starts like other movies: a man, a fire alarm, a slow evacuation & - something exceptional for a non-horror film - an empty apartment building. Then an invitation, a rejection, a study of loneliness. A chance meeting, recognition, a nice evening, a farawell, and a promise. Suprising meeting, an invitation, and a wonderful, amazing start of something new and exhilarating. And that's just beginning. The change comes later, it unravels slowly, so slowly you don't see it, you just finds yourself in the middle of it, and you have to ask yourself: how did we get here? Brilliant script, amazing acting, captivating cinematography, excellent directing. A study of loneliness, of being a stranger in more than one sense. A smart, terrific movie that will stay with me for a long, long time.
Les trois mousquetaires: D'Artagnan (2023)
Three Muscats & Dart
Pros: really good take on d'Artagnan, Louis's even more creepy than usual, awesome fighting scenes, beautifull cinematography.
Cons: old Athos looking old, Milady menacingly smoking her pipe, plot? What plot?
Meh: Aramis looking like a scarecrow, boring Richelieu, where did Porthos go?
Still, the movie is good & enjoyable. It could be just a bit better.
Somewhere along the Reine, during long months of preparations, fighting & fencing lessons, the plot was lost. If found, please, send it to the director of the movie. There's still time to improve the second part.
Anyway, I know what to do to enjoy the next part more. I will be prepared.
And remember:
All for one! And one for all!
The Last of Us (2023)
Solid but without true characters
I was waiting for this adaptation. I'm an avid gamer & I love seeing games in other formats. TLOU as a TV-series? Pedro Pascal as Joel? Deadly fungus-zombie? Count me in!!!
And yet... Don't misunderstand me: the series is good, but it's missing a character development. And a plot.
Hear me out.
First episode? One of the best openings I saw on TV. It was soooo good. It was an awesome promise of other goods to come. Second episode? Awesome world-building. Third episode? Another world-building story. 4th? We have some action, we get to know the characters a bit. 5th episode? World-building again!!! 6th - the series jumps time for 3 months, in which Joel & Elli developed a deep connection. (When, why
how?) Also, a familiar face from episode 1. Episode 7 - action, tragedy and look! We go back in time to see what made Elli an Elli! Also: world-building. Next one? We have an action, we have an indestructible Joel, we have a tragedy. And a world-building. And last episode is again: time-jump to Elli's mom, world-building & - finaly- the ending some of us know from the game.
What we don't have is a character growth. We have a wonderfully crafted world, we know a lot about infected, how to avoid them & how to fight them. We know a lot about all other characters except Joel & Elli (& Tommy). We know how their story started and that's all. We have to believe in Joels feelings towards Elli, in Ellis maturity, that their journey together changed them, but we don't see it. We see only some fragments that are more concentrated on world-building, game references & easter eggs that it forgets about the plot, about Joel & Elli, their journey and what connects them together.
We had it in the game. And it's sad the opportunity to see it in the TV-series is already lost.
Tho, probably in the second season we'll have: more time-jumps, more world-building & we'll know more about supporting - dead at the end of the episode - characters than about Elli & Abby.