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1899 (2022)
Secondarily and untalented story
I am not against of re-use of tricks and concepts. The problem with this movie is that they just randomly dropped in. The story just has no solid causal relationship. The events and dialogs unimportant to the story. You can take out 99% of events and dialogues and swap with something else and it will not affect the storytelling in this. Which means, it is terrible story telling.
Nothing felt fresh in this. Just a reuse of tricks and events told before in different movies and video games randomly thrown into one mess.
Highly disliked and dropped on 6th episode. Then watched a spoiler review and realized I did just right. The final twist seen many times. And it would not be a problem if the story was solid and thought. But as the story is flat, unthought and all over the place, it felt just like untalented rip off.
The Matrix Resurrections (2021)
I agree the action was so so, but overall the movie was good
I think what bothered me most, is that Neo looked like John Wick. Other than that I enjoyed the movie. It's rather an adventure movie where hero saving his princess because they are in love with each other. I was alright with this. I am kinda fan of the original Matrix. Watched it multiple times and read stuff about it. I was not disappointed. Of course, I wanted a sequel of a different kind. But I can accept other points of views.
I don't think the movie deserves the hate it's getting now. I don't know what the problem with those people.
The best thing is that it's still a smart movie with deeper layers, links, easter eggs. I wait for people to analyze this and find explanations to many things happening in the movie. I remember some explanations helped me to understand things I did not realized in the first Matrix and helped me appreciate it very much.
Psycho Goreman (2020)
Entertaining in style of 80's
Fun horror-comedy. It's a trash movie which doesn't have to be correct. So it's really refreshing to watch something like this. It goes with jokes and creativity that high budget movies can't allow themselves. Made in style of 80's with a plot kinda similar to 80's as well. Kids find an evil overlord and the nasty girl got the control gem over him. As I see in google the budget is just 1.3 million. That is like 200% of efficiency use of it.
Outside the Wire (2021)
Great action with a meaning
The action was great! Very cool battle robots. Camera man did really good job. Also the movie brings up questions about robots and AI. Thought provoking. Enjoyed very much.
Kol (2020)
My ending explanation
Lots of people gives this lower score because they say ending makes no sense and no logic. Here is an explanation. After the events in the past Young-Sook was captured by cops and got to jail(or asylum). She escaped around the moment events happen in present for Seo-Yeon. So when she call to herself in the past that makes perfect sense. She was in jail all this years. But was able to escape and now she came into the house and can take the phone.
Crimewave (1985)
Great black humor comedy
This movie is a bit cartoonish. Maybe that's the problem for many people? I had no problem with that. So it was very enjoyable. The bad guys was especially superb. I don't know what's wrong with movie critics who say this movie is so bad. Seems like back then movie critics was just same simpleminded stereotypical people as today. To call this a bad movie? I don't know. Screenplay is simple, but it doesn't need anything complex in a comedy. The acting is great and some even brilliant. The jokes are great. The style is great. Watched it now(2020) for the first time and very satisfied.
Joker (2019)
An example explaining why this movie is very bad written
My native language is not English so I am sorry if I say things in not natural ways. But I hope you can understand my example.
This movie is not just overrated. It's actually really bad movie. The events in the movie are so made up. For example. That show on TV. It would not happen that they would take a video with an obviously sick laughing psycho to the show to make a humiliating jokes on him. He is not famous, no one knows him. TV takes trending stuff with buzz around. There was no any reason for them to show that. It also doesn't seems like the kind of show where they ridicule people. So this is very made up from all angles. Then they invite the psycho to the show. And of course those people working on such shows are not new born kids. There are a lot of experienced people who've seen a lot. They would know that psycho guy can be dangerous. But there was not a single security steps taken. They just allowed him to walk in and do whatever he wants. This is very made up. And this would not happen anyway. Because really they would first check if he is even sane enough to be invited to she show. And the records would show he is sick. And any doctor would tell them, "well, this guy is not sane so I would not recommend to invite him". Tho it is quite obvious even without doctor's consultation. So even if somehow they would invite him, they would take security steps. And would find out the gun. But they didn't. Why? Because it's all made up. Bad script. Also the TV show host would not be so naive and silly to start trolling and provoking a psycho. So this whole episode again all made up from all angles.
The whole movie consists of such made up events and things. Who wrote them? I'd say some amateur person who actually do not understand much about human behavior and how things happen in real. Sadly a lot of the movies today are written as poorly as this. Because people consume this and don't ask for something better.
Made up events is not the only thing I would blame the movie for. But this was more easy to describe.
Nekrotronic (2018)
Really entertaining
Demons vs Necromancers may sound a bit ridiculous, because necromancers are usually not the type of good people fighting demons. But lets take it that in the world of the movie they are. The movie is quite simple minded. Like a roller-coaster. Do not expect something serious. It's just a fun action with some demon possessed villain, run and gun, a bit of supernatural powers.
Critters Attack! (2019)
Good
Tho it deserves 6/10 at max but I give it an 8 as it was cool for me as a retro 80s style movie. It has terrible scripting at times. It has terrible acting even more. But it looks a lot like a true sequel to Critters 1,2. The black humor jokes were good.
Holmes & Watson (2018)
I am shocked with the low rating
Why is this has so low rating? The movie was hilarious. Especially around the middle. The ending was OK not a blast but OK. Overall it's a great comedy to watch once and have good laugh.
The Helix... Loaded (2005)
Really great parody!
I give it a 10, tho it deserves 7. But I give 10/10 to balance the low score which movie did not deserved. It is a nice parody on the Matrix. A lot of really funny jokes there. There were few jokes which I laugh to tears and replayed them many times. I am very thankful that there some people did this funny movie.
Unfriended: Dark Web (2018)
It's way too dumb
The problem with the movie is that authors have no idea of human psychology. And this movie was all built on that. The behavior of characters is bad written and makes no sense at some points. For example they clearly show that one of girl(Nari ) has very big urge to call to the police but once she having all the possibilities she does not make anything. Also she saw how 2 of her friends being killed but she just walk to the station and stand there ready to be pushed under the train. She did not tried to reach for help from guards or police or other people because her friend in the train with a maniac killer. While it's the first thing most people would do in extreme situation like this. This just makes no sense at all. The movie has enough of super dumb things like that. I was waiting maybe there will be some interesting twist or something at least. But there was nothing.
Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)
Probably the best Marvel movie
Usually I don't like Marvel. And after a while stopped to watch anything Marvel. So my assumption about that this one is probably the best can be wrong, because I haven't watched much of Marvel. Marvel movies are usually very pathetic and dumb. Like ultra dumb. The Ant Man and The Wasp stay away from this because it is comedy. And doesn't have to deal with all that "serious" things. What I especially like is that every character in this movie has a clear motivation and they are all working together for the whole plot. It's really well thought out. And it has a lot of characters. It's a great action comedy for any age.
The Jurassic Games (2018)
I am here to protect
The movie was great as a movie. It probably deserves 7/10 because it really has issues like bad GCI and some silly things. But to make a little balance I set 10/10. The movie was highly entertaining. The story concept is simple. But the situations are inventive enough. The name of the movie probably hints that it is a mix of Hunger Games and Jurassic Park. And it's kinda is. But it starts from the action right away. The movie also has some ingenious irony. Also inspired by Hunger Games I guess. This irony probably will not be catched and appreciated by majority as it is an irony on majority.
The movie is a little bit a parody.
Tho there is nothing really smart in this movie, but I would say it is smarter than most of the high budget action movies.
Very enjoyable movie.
Hobo with a Shotgun (2011)
A little bit smarter than general audience
Very good movie! It has great pace. And each time when I felt like it's gonna fall it kept it. It's a bit unusual thing. One one side it's a parody, on the other side it's actually pretty serious. It's all filled with black humor, but also I really got empathy for the characters. The execution of the movie is what called trash movies. So don't expect fancy effects. The intelligence of the movie is a little above general Hollywood movie maybe. It might be one of the reasons people not accept it well. It happens all the time. When a movie is a bit smarter than general Hollywood movie, then it has big chance people will call it dumb. Tho the reason is actually people are not smart enough to understand something. Also usually Hollywood not allows anything smart. It sticks with "idiot proof" rule 99.9%. And this one is not a Hollywood movie I suppose. Not sure if it's the case here tho. Maybe it's just marketing fail. Overall - funny, creative violence, dramatic, simple plot with strong humanistic message. Very enjoyable.
Alien vs. Ninja (2010)
Very funny at times
I think this movie deserves 6\10. At first half it has some boring scenes. The special effects sometimes are cheap like it was made on youtube. However the jokes are so cool and free and same time they not evil and hypocrite like I see in all same and predictable Hollywood movies. I really hate Hollywood movies this days. They are morally retarded and primitive. Like Avatar for example. Amazing visuals yet so dumb and retarded.
AvN mostly seems to be a parody. The fights are funny at times. Some moments are completely bizarre like that f*ck you episode. I think fights made pretty nice here. Good funny movie.
I liked the music played there. Reminded me of video games music.
The actor play at times is prolonged. And some moments are prolonged.
The overall feel after movie - that was fun.
It gave me good laughter. I think jokes were creative and not hypocrite.
The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
Wow, I didn't know it was awesome
Back then in 2003 I thought the movie was horrible. Not solid and stupid pointless plot. The stupid ending. But then some years later my knowledge of the things used in the movie raised. Mostly because I had to deal with psychology to solve my issues. And what a surprise! Some friend told me that names of the people on the Mobil Aven station has some hindu mythology meanings. Like - Sati symbolizes justice, love and sacrifice. This intrigued me a lot and I decided to read some information about mythology and such used in the movie. The effect was amazing. The movie began to has meaning and that meaning was like something unreachable by conscious. I also was amazed by the beginning of the Matrix Revolutions. Back then it was just a computer effect but last time it had a point! It has something like Dao idea, it has a holographic reality idea. Whole mirrored in particles and particles mirrored in whole. It has fractals. It has psychedelic perception. Wow, back then I would give it 3/10 now I excuse and give 10/10. People read what stands behind all of it - mythology,archetypes,transpersonal psychology researches,religions,quotes from comics and computer games. Without this knowledge it seems just impossible to understand/feel what is going on. The movie is amazing. Whole trilogy is amazing!