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Reacher (2022)
Highly predictable and generic
If you have watched movies for at least a couple of years you would know immediately what happens to each of the charracters a couple of episodes in, it's really not made for a sophisticated crowd. This is the TV show equivalent of Marvel movies, if you enjoyed detective shows in the 80s and 90s you would probably enjoy this , but otherwise, especially nearing the season finale, it gets highly predictable and boring. All the good guys are invicinble GI joes and all the bad guys are intellectually inept. Yea, it's one of those shows. Acting is decent, so is the production value, for a casual evening it's passible.
Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)
Good but not like the first one
I think the bar has been set too high, if it does not surpass the first one in every respect, it would be seen by some fans as utter rubbish. Which is sort of what happened here with the user reviews. Is it a good movie? It is a fantastic movie, but is it revolutionary like the first one? It definitely is not.
Visually it is very impressive I think that just goes without saying. Story wise, it is on the weaker side, though it is by no means, bad. Majority of the screen time is invested in one of two things, a documentary about Pandora's sealife and high school drama surrounding Jake's kids.
Colonel Quatrich lacks presence this time around, he hardly did anything or scored a bodycount, for a while I was wondering if he's even meant as the main villain of the movie. The lack of a majorly evil, imposing and convincing antagonist is one of the issues I take. Also Quatrich's team of Navi soldiers contributed next to nothing.
The emotional and moral trigger points also lead me to believe the movie was produced for a younger audience. There was almost no screen time on the side of the humans. Why did we, the sky people, also the main villains make some of the decisions we did? What would have helped is a few layers of complexity showing we are not just generic bad guys looking to hurt children for no reason.
Tulsa King (2022)
Very watchable but a B-lister
Didn't know much going in, just Stallone and Italian mafia is enough for me to check it out.
You just sort of follow Dwight around as he does regular, mundane things and slowly get to know him and his team. There are very little mafia-ing going on. Feels like watching a PG13 version of Scarface. On the Godfather scale of 1-10 this would be a 2-3. Some things are done with zero legal consequences and events just magically resolve in his favor. So far the body count has been depressingly low, and the violence has been very mild, as this show goes out of its way to not become a serious crime drama.
If you are a Stallone fan and just want to kick it with him as if watching a talk show, then this is pretty good. It's moderately entertaining and well made.
Ambulance (2022)
Boring
Typical bay, just a lot of fast camera pans and people yelling, not much happening after the first 20 minutes. A lot of "action" with zero consequences. Main characters have the sensibilities of 14 year old school boys. Highly predicable plot.
Halo (2022)
not made by very talented people
Pacing way too slow. Almost no action. Probably should have been called Halo: Archeology. They spent a lot of time with these slow moving flashbacks or characters getting touch with their emotion side. Being a Halo player I cannot not watch this show but at its current stage, it's frankly very average. Probably a high 6 or low 7.
Snowpiercer (2020)
Almost soapy
Actors/events carry no significance. In the movie tailies are stuck in the tail section for years, trading body parts etc really having it hard. In this they sort of just walk up and down the carts freely. People from different tiers of the train all seem very energenic, well fed and in great spirit. They look and behave exactly the same the only difference being the clothes. No depiction of the psychological effects of having to wear the same clothes for 17 years, no shower, having to sleep next to hundres of others each night, trading scraps and barely surviving on protein blocks. Wilford being a genius of epic proportion doesn't seem very bright at all. His henchmen should behave like Gestapo but they're more like random henmen 10086 which makes everything the good guys are trying to overcome seem less significant.
Chang jin hu (2021)
Good movie
Overall entertaining war movie, distinct main characters, great visual effects, plot is OK. Cheesy and overally emotional moments here and there where credulity is stretched a bit much for entertainment/political value. That said, China being the rising superpower of course you'd expect waves upon waves of anti china propaganda from the west, nothing from China can be praised for fear of not being politically correct, so adjust the points upwards accordingly to get the real rating of contemporary big Chinese movies.
Yellowjackets (2021)
Good but slow paced
The show jumps between 1996 and 2021. Exciting premise but a bit slow, especially on the modern story line, slowly trickling out tiny details about each characters, which are frankly not that significant nor exciting. 5 episodes in, each of the main character in 2021 are just normal unexciting people with their mundane problems. Much more interested in the 1996 line where perky and pretty high school soccer girls turn into hannibal lecter.
Ojing-eo geim (2021)
good not great, def not an 8 plus
Like the movie parasite, the koreans have achieved fantastic ratings with mediocre productions. Everything about the squid game is mediocre to pretty good. Decent enough one time watch. Imdb ratings are so watered down these days.
The Last Kingdom (2015)
Good enough to watch
The show is good enough to watch with decent production value, plot acting and battle scenes. The main character never faced any sort of real danger, not even when trampled and dazed by a charging horse, everyone will hollar, clashing swords and wait patiently for him to recover, battle after battle he hardly ever gets injured. He sleeps with just about every single young and decent looking girl in the show, who conveniently is introduced one at a time so he remains "loyal." Behavior becomes very much predicable half way through season 2. I donno what kind of binary minds rate this a 10.
Nobody (2021)
Predictable
Same ol story, invincible one man army taking down 1000 idiot henchmen. If this came out 10 years ago it would've been pretty cool.
Godzilla vs. Kong (2021)
Exactly what you would expect
Great movie for what it is. Big titan monsters wrestling. That's it, there is nothing more to it. Enjoy the show and ignore the human characters, they are more than irrelevant. Only gripe is that I am not sure if it's the colors or VFX or a matter of perspectives, the action seems a bit too fast, seems like regular sized monsters fighting, the sense of scale isn't as good as the first godzilla movie.
The Dead Lands (2020)
Love the bare feet tribesmen with pingpong bats
Big fan of the movie by the same name, tried hard to look for the furthest thing from the mainstream Marvel and Disney stuff.
The show is very fresh, characters, wardrobe, set design all feel very authentic and cultural. Decent story, very engaging and heavy on fantasy elements, sprinkled with a little humor here and there.
It is lacking the strong sense of tribal tradition seen in the movie, and the level of savagery has been toned way down. The english dialogue isn't helping either. It is gravitating towards mainstream, which is my only complaint.
Gisaengchung (2019)
Good movie, not an 8.6 IMO
Good show, fun ride, quite fresh, definitely not overdone. But at a 8.6 rating, the community is saying it's better than The Green Mile, Whiplash, Interstellar, Gladiator and Terminator 2. I personally do not think it's on that level yet. Maybe its score has to do with how all the indian shows are highly rated on here.
Seuwiteuhom (2020)
Decent watch during Covid TV drought
I'm big fan of zombie/disaster type, loved the Kingdom. Sweet home is walking dead against monsters instead of zombies. Everything is taking place inside an old apartment building. Feels like character development, relationship building is about 70% of the show, 30% being fighting monsters.
Pros:
1. Top notch production value, acting, lighting, cinematics, music.
2. Distinct main characters
3. Decent story
4. Very interesting creature design, good variety in that you never know what monstrocity an "infected" person will turn into.
Cons:
1. Main character's go to response for a question or statement being a stunned, silent stare, lasting 10, 15 seconds at times.
2. People are way too emotional than they ought to be, and crying too much. Scenes get dragged out, trying too hard to elicit an emotional response.
3. Monster threat level could be cranked up a few notches. I was more worried at a later point in time when our group of survivor is facing a different type of threat. Much more unpredictable and way more damaging than the monsters.
The Stand (2020)
haven't read the book, not familiar with the story
Did not know anything going in. Watched 2 episodes so far. Solid performance, production value, really not a bad show. Story is intriguing, at this point the main characters are just being revealed and developped, the opposing forces has not been properly set up yet but it's slowly getting there.
Being an post apocalyptic show, it has very little tension, some of the characters smile and waltz around an extremely abrupt end to the world like they expected it. People are extremely composed and cool as everyone is dying around them.
Story telling likes to jump around a lot. Showing different characters acorss different times. Some of the plot branches will develop normally, then jump years down the road, showing you the result then jump back to the current. Not hard to follow but it would have been better to proceed chronologically in my opinion.
Any fan of post apocalyptic/zombie/disaster genre could consider giving it a shot.