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You're Nobody 'til Somebody Kills You (2012)
One of the worst movies ever made
I started to watch this movie with no expectations at all, still it actually managed to disappoint me.
You're Nobody 'til Somebody Kills You is basically a film about a serial killer killing a bunch of hip hop rappers one at a time, with a small knife by the way. The plot is incredibly awful, but it gets worse. The actors are as credible as a clown fish would be portraying the same roles, the script is horrible and a baby straight from kindergarten would do better in cinematography. The murder scenes looks like a Z-budget slasher film from the 70's.
Unless this movie is a parody of everything great about movies, then this is one of the worst examples of filmmaking ever. Don't spend a second with this movie, since it won't work as sleeping medicine either, since the first five minutes will make you cry and scream all night over the truly horrible filmmaking.
Terra Nova (2011)
An Epic Series Met With Hatred
I have never wrote a review on IMDb before, but after reading other people's reviews of Terra Nova, It felt like I needed to.
I discovered this series a month ago. A series set into the future, where the human race is at the brink of extinction, because of our own greed and ignorance. But there is one last hope: Terra Nova. Humanity is given a second chance at survival. A blessing they might not deserve, but still they've got it.
A chance to travel 85 million years into the past. A chance to start all over again, with dinosaurs, clear skies and oranges. A couple of days after the premiere of this truly great series, I saw the ratings. It hit me hard. A sad shock went through my entire body. Only nine million people saw Terra Nova...
Americans, they have a horrible eye for entertainment. Truly horrible. Great series are cancelled every year, while horrible sitcoms are renewed. While nine million people witnessed this year's greatest newcomer to the television, Terra Nova, over 20 million people watched Two and a half men. I can't believe it. There is one question I can't get out of my mind. Why?
What it is Two and a half men has got, that Terra Nova hasn't? Bad plot lines? Horrible jokes, or maybe mediocre actors? Dear Americans, you do not know what entertainment is. You've got no idea what a great series is supposed to be like. It is too bad you've got as much power as you have.
Terra Nova is an extremely expensive series to make. You see, it is not about a couple of guys drinking in a bar or watching television at home. It is about dinosaurs and a new world, far far away. It is speculated that the show will be cancelled if it doesn't get 17-18 million viewers steadily through every episode. So: Thank you Americans, you are about to erase one of the finest series we have seen in years, because you prefer crap television.
Some reviewers says that meanwhile the dinosaurs might look real, the humans don't. Well, I feel the opposite way. Jason O'mara plays Jim Shannon, father of the Shannon family the series is about. You might know him from Life on Mars (U.S Version). He is a great actor, and he proves it once again. The actors is not the ones who look a little bit fake. It's the dinosaurs. It's not like the dinosaurs in Terra Nova looks like the T-Rex from the original King Kong, but I expected a bit more, considering the money spent on the pilot episode. The dinosaurs look a bit lifeless.
There is some truly beautiful scenes in the pilot. Right from the very first minute, we follow Jim Shannon, the father of the Shannon family who are the main people in the series. He brings home an orange to his family. They are very surprised, almost shocked. As we see the orange shine as everything around it is grey and colorless, Elisabeth (the mother of the Shannons) says that she can't remember last time she saw one of those.
Zoe is the youngest daughter of Elisabeth and Jim. When they had just entered Terra Nova and was heading straight for the "village", she looks up and witnesses something beautiful. She is used to the grey, depressive clouds anno 2147, but now she sees a blue sky with bright clouds. "They are so white", she says. At the end of the episode, she asks her parents if "it's going to fall on us". She was talking about the moon. The family gathered together outside the house, fascinated about the moon which had never been that clearly nor beautiful.
We take these things for granted. Tasty fruits, clear skies and romantic full moons. The Shannon family also took these things for granted. Humanity in general did. It resulted in an unrecognizable world. A world which got grayer and grayer every day, and the air thinner and thinner. But the Shannons are among those who got a new chance to start over. And that is what Terra Nova is all about. A second chance to make things right.