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The Wrong Missy (2020)
Run away
Very few movies prompt me to actually write a bad review. This is one.
Predictable. Irritating. Not funny.
The Accountant (2016)
Stupidest idea ever.
The idea of some kind of super accountant who's also an assassin is simply laughable. Trying to make accountancy epic is laughable. And Ben Affleck is terrible as usual - and laughable.
Love it when Kendrick screams, "BUT YOU'RE AN ACCOUNTANT". It sums up how ridiculous this is.
The Purge (2013)
Dumbest premise ever.
It's simply hard to believe that several people gave this the green light. The premise is the stupidest ever. Nothing makes any sense from there. A complete, irritating waste of time.
Annihilation (2018)
Pretentious crap and terrible CGI
I can hardly believe the positive reviews. This film is weak in pretty much every aspect. Everything just feels like it was shot in a tiny studio with green backgrounds, and adding fake plants doesn't make a jungle. The editing is incredibly ostentatious (the close-ups on the faces of the characters, in case you didn't really see what they were expressing). The acting is awful and feels exaggerated the entire time. Natalie Portman basically has the same look on her face throughout the entire thing (let it out Natalie, you'll feel better, or take a laxative). And my god is it a slow film. Even though we all know where they're going, and why, the movie spends a solid 20 minutes or so (it felt like an hour) to establish the premise.
And again, the CGI looks better in Sharknado... This film is an absolute waste of time that thinks it's a big thing. First time in my life I take/waste time to write a bad review. But people need to know this is complete crap.
Finally, careful if you have taste in music, you'll feel violated.
Sense8 (2015)
Worse than Tomorrow People (and that says a lot)
Pretentious, long, boring show. The first episode shows all 8 characters having visions one after the other in a horribly repetitive manner. WE GET IT. No need to redo the scene eight frigging times (have a vision, shed a tear, look like you've seen a ghost, eight times!). Acting is way below average. The direction is ostentatious and often futile. The whole thing looked like a very expensive ad for a travel agency. The characters are all unlikable (not a single one appealed to me). The worst with the first episode is really the fact that you know from the very plot it's about 8 people having a mental connection and yet the whole episode treats the telepathy thing as if it was a mystery and drags it across the whole thing. It's an insult to one's intelligence. I rarely write a review, especially a negative one. This show irritated me so much I felt compelled to warn others. Don't waste your time. The Wachowskis have the IQ and the tastes of a 13 yo. This thing doesn't even deserve one star for the effort.
Mon oncle (1958)
a man belonging to a dying world is sent away by his nephew's parents because he is not a good example
Tati was fascinated by the collision of modernity with a dying world he had a lot of tenderness for, full of innocence and nonchalance, unproductive, lazy and contemplative. The whole dynamic of Mon Oncle is based on that.
In a beautiful frame at the beginning, we see a breached wall, an old wall, with bits of a fence in it, an old askew lamp, and that broken wall gives a view on modern buildings : big concrete cubes surrounded by a minimalist white fence, a modern street lamp standing erect in front of it.
This opposition of two worlds, two aesthetics, two ways of living - gives Tati the basic material for an amazing number of inventions and clever visual twists. It ALWAYS delivers a terribly funny, generous message, full of hope in the future as much as nostalgic for the past, with innocence looking at the present. nostalgic : at one point M Hulot steps over that particular breached wall from the beginning, makes a brick fall and PUTS IT BACK in place. He wouldn't make a thing change if it were only for him. But the world moves on and so he swings along with it, nonchalant and clumsy as he is. There is no drama in a tati movie, when M Hulot is sent away at the end, "because he is a bad example for Gerard" (the nephew) he makes no fuss, just leaves and says a very french "eh oui" to his neighbour. (c'est la vie!)
Yet if Tati does not condemn he comments what he sees and he is VERY attentive. In return, he expects the same from his audience, in a way that i find very similar to Kubrick's even if the comparison seems odd at first (The two directors, even though they achieved very different goals, had the same obsession for perfection and watched over every aspects of their films : directing of course, sound, settings, - plus acting for tati). Watching a Tati movie does not require to be concentrated, it requires your attention, which is different. It's talking to you in that very particular riddle-like way of old comic strips.
It's a finite work that presents infinite combinations (just like a novel by Joyce), images, sound, editing, - each build their own series of gags at their own rhythm, each stream mixing with the other at unpredictable moments for explosive results.
Tati is funny, witty, clever. He is not depressed. not hysterical. not morbid. Full of ideas, he's right in what he observes and light in the fashion he conveys it to you : that's why he'll make you laugh. Laugh heartily at all the people you'll recognize in the characters he draws, each of them being a bit of us.
Dead & Breakfast (2004)
lots of flaws, yet some gems
This lil movie is pretty good in spite of other comments i've seen on here. Sure it does not compare with the hilarious Shaun of The Dead, which totally OWNS. Yet...
there's quite some fun in this. I had the impression that the people who made the film had had great fun doing it, which i always appreciate. It has flaws... that's the least you can say... bad rhythm, scenes that are too long or too short, bad jokes that are heavily stressed, but altogether it's damn worth a look. Some scenes are truly nice and exciting. Any zombie/demon lovers will prolly appreciate it. I especially liked the nerd who counts dead animals on the road while he drives. Cute detail.