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Sense8 (2015)
Hilariously corny and cringe
There's so many badly acted scenes that are unintentionally funny because of poor writing. There's slow motion dance scenes that drag on for 5 minutes. There's constant slow motion scenes where music is the intended highlight and nothing important is going on. There's irrelevant slow motion sex scenes in overly artistic lighting 10 times an episode, with orgies involved with all the main linked characters; the gay people having straight sex, the straight people having gay sex. What is this supposed to even represent? The "Sense8" people have a psychic connection that is almost entirely sexual for some reason. It's trying WAY too hard to be politically correct to the point where all realism is thrown out the window. There's a transgender who happens to be a hacker, which is a huge cliché in so many movies. They try to cover every spectrum of gender and sexuality and it feels so forced and offputting. The whole show is like self-masturbation by the siblings who directed.
There's a 5 minute scene where all the main characters have a vision about the day of their birth, complete with a close up of their heads sticking out of a wide leg spread genital shot, and they smile and laugh as if it's some cathartic moment. There's just so many corny, nonsensical, over the top artsy cringe moments. Sexuality doesn't offend me; I watch way too much art-house and erotica that is more subtle and relevant to the story than what is displayed on Sense8. This show just does it so often, poorly, and for no reason that it comes off as trying to hard to celebrate race and gender equality.
There's a lot of parts that are intentionally funny, though, particularly with the Spanish actor that constantly tries to be macho and fails. A lot of nice looking cinematography. As for the story? I don't even know; I'm on episode 13 and not much seems to happen. There's so much redundancy, sex, music, and slow motion that accounts for half of each episode, and it's completely filler.
This show doesn't come off as genuine and charming like Heroes (which it borrows heavily on) Most the characters suck, boring backstory and drama,way too slow paced, and just a stupid premise in general. Conflict is almost non existent most the season, with the "bad man" only popping up a few minutes. Can't see this appealing to any one who has already seen shows that have told this kinda story before, and pulled it off better.
Underbara älskade (2006)
*Yawn*, are we there yet?
My post contains extreme spoilers, be warned. Mostly because if I summarize the whole movie, I'll be doing you a favor.
Movie revolves around a father and son dealing with the loss of his son and wife, that die during an accident.
The entire film is them on vacation, trying to forget the bad.
Jonas, the son, meets a really hot girl on the beach, that, despite being so attractive, has no friends throughout the entire movie, and spends too much time stalking Jonas and hanging with him at her house, all day.
Jonas is a completely unlikable character, both from our point of view and the girls; he hardly speaks, says nothing interesting, and only talks about how him and his dad never talk. All the girl does is tell him to talk to his dad, and get over the loss of his mom and brother. At times I had to pause the movie and go job a mile, just to stay awake. Jonas is just unbelievable dull and has no charisma or personality, no one can feel sorry for the character.
There is no real conversation for 70 percent of this movie; just people complaining to other people about their dead family, and the man and son lashing out on anyone that mentions the past if it's related to the dead son and mom, even if they just bring up a "Wedding", the dad starts to cry and yell.
Slow paced, frustrating dialog(or whine-alog) and no satisfactory story or ending. Avoid it. It could be a 20 minute short film if you cut out all the dead air and repetitive "my families dead and it really sux" talk.
Heobeu (2007)
Beautiful movie
Very emotional movie about a controlling, protective mother, and an officer that falls in love with her mentally handicapped daughter.
To give away more details would possibly spoil the movie, since it is a very simple, focused movie on her, her mom, and the man she falls in love with; all I can say is it is a very depressing film, well worth seeing, and what I believe to be a decent portrayal on the way people (mis)treat and care for handicapped people, and how hard love is when the people they like are ashamed to be seen in public with them.
My only gripe is the occasional behavior that I disagree with. For example an off duty officer getting beat up by girls and instead of taking the logical route (threatening them perhaps?) he goes the emotional, whimpering and telling them to leave. This happens throughout a lot of Korean movies, "overly dramatic" is a term I would use. People getting smacked on the head and across the face seems to be popular In Korea, but it pesters me that no one attempts to at least block it, which seems like human instinct.
Minor gripes, and obviously cultural differences that are hard for people like me (American) to understand and tolerate. After all, critics knocked on Brotherhood of War for being too melodramatic, but this is trend in most every single Korean film, so what may seem "melodramatic" to us, is the dominant behavior for their countries. Directors of these movies obviously bring true to life behavior and Korean society into their movies, just as we do with ours, so when watching movies like this try to keep that in mind, that way the "corny" factor wont bug you so much.