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Outlander (2014)
Cliché ridden unrealistic female fantasy
Every cliché in the book. A damsel in distress, the hero that always comes to save her from even the most direst situations in the most unlikely ways. Everything caters for the fortune of the main character just as things are impossibly difficult, with inconsistent unrealistic forced twists of events, character behaviours and plots.
And then there's Claire's morals. She's a frontier for morality in this primitive place, where she rebels against an entire clan and their laws and cultures, putting her life on the line to uphold that morality at all costs. But when it comes to being a married woman who's only strive is to get back to her grieving husband... that and all her morals are suddenly abandoned. Somehow all her cunning and rebelious nature in upholding justice and morals doesn't hold when it comes to wedding and having actual intimacy with that dashing young knight in shining armor (who, surprise, surprise... is a virgin). She's able to apply all her cunning into lying about her true origins and consistently maintaining that lie at the risk of her life... but to apply that same cunning and will to uphold morals to simply lie about their marital intimacy was too difficult.
For a stranger in an unfamiliar land her privileges are also very inconsistent swaying from one side to another inconsistenly and inexplicably. At times she has no privileges, is a captive, and all she wants is to simply traverse to the stones for a chance to get back. Other times she has privileges, but home is all but forgotten. Poor forgotten husband back at home.
Having witnessed magic and the supernatural first-hand, her belief and skepticism in the supernatural is also highly inconsistent. Not to mention the huge lack of plot lines exploring this supernatural, magical universe, being a huge missed opportunity for depth.
This is 50 shades of grey in essence. It's a female's fantasy that entertains female pleasures at the expense of abandoning everything it originally sets out to establish. It's simply disingenuous with many missed opportunities for depth.
Where it shines is the amazing setting, scenes, cinematography, cultural richness and historical references. Such beauty ruined with flat writing.
X-Men: Dark Phoenix (2019)
I felt embarrassed watching this Simon Kinberg
And I didn't even write it. You should feel more embarrassed and look for a career in something else. Maybe something involving numbers.
In the meantime, if I see "Simon Kinberg" anywhere on a movie, I'll know not to spend a penny on it.
The Shape of Water (2017)
A potential masterpiece that starts great but is utterly ruined.
I feel like Del Toro rewrote the movie around act 3 to suit the current time's issues and agendas to be a part of the bandwagon and thus ruined what was originally destined to be a true masterpiece.
There are movies that were originally meant to be about a female group (sex and the city, the devil wears prada), a character or a relationship was meant to be gay or lesbian (brokeback mountain, gigli) and they fit, or even a love story of completely different worlds or species (beauty and the beast, casper) and it isn't forced or out of place. It isn't uncomfortable or vulgar, they were not made to jump on a bandwagon, to solely fit the current global agendas or issues, they were purely about the art and the story they told. They were great movies and depicted a proper portrayal and a true image of the concepts they told the stories of.
In contrast we now have movies that are solely created to jump on the bandwagon, to fit an agenda or forcefully incorporate them while uncomfortably out of place, all female reboots (Ghostbusters, Ocean's 8), gay and lesbian relationships forced into scripts with almost no true chemistry of love or affection between them in countless shows and movies, and movies such as this where interspecies relationships are depicted so out of place and distastefully, so vulgar and lacking true chemistry that it's simply uncomfortable.
I am all for LGBT rights. But it's very obvious this movie wasn't meant to be about that, but somewhere along the line Del Toro seems to have steered the movie off it's original course to be a part of that bandwagon and it's very obvious how they were forced. You see, your likelihood of winning oscars skyrocket when you fit the current agendas set by the industries involved.
That's exactly what happened here.
Beauty and the beast did it right, this movie did it distastefully and uncomfortably.
A potential masterpiece of art ruined by external agendas.
Shame on you Del Toro.
Derren Brown: Pushed to the Edge (2016)
The show itself is as much a sham as the events in it.
It says the subjects are unaware of the experiment. The real hope is that us, the audience, are unaware they actually are. If the subjects really were unaware, the experiment would end pretty quickly and there wouldn't be a show and so obviously, no money to be made. In fact this is quite an insult to the audience to take us for such fools that people really can be gullible and compliant to THAT extent. Sure, to some level we are, but not to that extent. The moment the ambulance wasn't called is the moment I'm sure a vast majority of us would take action. Stop taking people for fools Derren.
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
No longer trust reviews. Boring, dragged on, flat story. Good visuals.
I'll keep it short, unlike the unnecessarily long movie. It's simply too boring. The whole movie, the story can actually be done and dusted within less than an hour if it wasn't unnecessarily extended and dragged on, and if the characters weren't always moving so inexplicably slow.
Sure the visuals and cinematography is great, but a movie isn't just a photography slideshow, or a TV demo. I mean, had it been called that beforehand we would all know that's the only thing we're in for.
Also learnt for the last time not to trust the reviews anymore, especially for new releases. I've seen time and time again that it's not as reliable as it used to be. I predict the rating will fall in time (actually has since I've seen it). Back to pre-internet days where word of mouth is more reliable.
Delibal (2015)
Unoriginal, cliché ridden, typical.
The hot young boy with typical university student looks, the typically beautiful career driven young girl. The typical challenges that stand in their way, the grumpy father that doesn't approve, the friendly understanding mother. The overly exaggerated so-called "tragedy" that befalls them that's blown way out of proportion, and the conclusion we're being forced to believe is out of love but is actually just immature and hypocritical.
You know when you go to the toilet during the movie and worry if you've missed anything, well you can stay in the toilet for the entirety of the movie and 5 minutes will be more than enough for a friend to draw it all to you.
There can only be two explanations for the existence of this movie. The writer/director have never seen a single romance movie, or as a money maker towards a very naive young crowd that are still moved by romance that stems only from good looks.
Change the lead boy (I'm specifically using the word boy) to a less good looking one and the early romance can very rapidly be seen as creepy stalking and the entire premise of the movie will collapse.
A perfectly fair rating for this movie would be a 4, thanks to a good cinematography only, but I've given it a 1 to counter the suspiciously high rating it's at now.
Jessica Jones (2015)
Disappointment
Starts out promising but quickly has you scratching your head, not because you're confused but because you are wondering how Marvel let this happen.
Most motives are weakly justified and you can't help but think "isn't there a better way to do this?" on multiple occasions. The villain's motive is one of the most vague ones. When the writer actually seemed to decide to clarify a motive, it really isn't convincing.
Speaking of the villain. Though David Tenant's acting is a good effort it's truly not the best (Eka Darville playing Malcolm deserves most credit here). Tenant unfortunately brings no substance to the Kilgrave character. He's like Doctor Who gone bad, and just a little more serious. A villain who in the early parts of the show was portrayed as terrifying quickly becomes a player in a cat and mouse chase which keeps switching sides for questionable reasons.
Lots of unnecessary characters are introduced and left half developed. Not only do we not care as much as they are made to look like we should, but most of them play no real role in the advancement of the plot and at best are used as excuses for key events.
The director takes huge shortcuts in the portrayal of the powers. You could almost hear the words "that would be too expensive" as you watch the embarrassing scenes. Just about excusable for a low budget feature film but for a Marvel, Netflix original with so much hype and expectation, it's shameful.
---Could be considered slight spoilers ahead--- Promising plans are made and abandoned at the smallest let downs because how else would the season be 13 episodes long if it was that easy right? So lets try a worse idea and then abandon that too. It's shameful how the reasons for pivotal actions which you expect to grow, develop and cause tension and hysteria are quickly wiped over once what's done is done simply used as a reason for it to be done sometimes even unnecessarily. It's a pathetic attempt at justifying adding tension elements and abandoning them half baked.