Three quarters of the movie has long drawn out uneventful sequences of Pitt explaining his story that make you ask yourself why you're wasting your time.... it's not going to improve or go anywhere. And it doesn't. Pitt eventually and accidentally kills the crew of the rocket he stows away on, after being excluded from the mission and thus has to continue the search for his father who's somewhere at the end of our galaxy, on his own. The travelling takes up a large part of the movie till he eventually finds his father who's a demented husk of a human being set on exploring and photographing the rest of the universe at the expense of our galaxy by using antimatter which is causing widespread destruction. Time spent between father and son is extremely short ending in the father not wanting to go back to earth (as if it that was even remotely possible), so Pitt let's him drift off into space and he goes home. More travelling and when finally he reaches earth is carried out of his landing Pod. The end.
The story is empty. The exposition boring and enough to put you to sleep. I found myself hoping that they'd all die and and finally end this extremely boring and futile movie. Pitt is supposed to have a continuous heart rate of 80 bps even under pressure so I guess this was supposed to explain his underwhelming performance. I'm sorry I bothered watching the movie. Tightened up and a bit more character development to make you care and interested as well as a more realistic emphasis on the science of billions of light years of travelling would have maybe made me like the movie. It's a straight to video movie at best.
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The Girl in the Spider's Web
(2018)
Feminists action movie.
11 November 2019
It was very disappointing. The 3 originals were drama based and the storyline built up to a climax, which made the characters interesting and you could invest in them. Salander was never an action based character, but she was a damaged, highly intelligent young woman who took care of her own problems. The story was emotionally complex and raw.
This movie throws you into the deep end immediately and Lisbeth is a full blown action hero with an infinite knowledge of computer hacking and more. The villains are uninteresting and one dimensional. There's no in depth understanding of them and they just come across as robotic and bland.
I can't view this as a follow up to the Stieg Larsson books, they're more like a disappointed feminists idea of a female James Bond. Plus the casting was not great Claire Foy was too old to play Lizbeth Salander and didn't portray the character as well as it was in the original Swedish movie, and Sverrir Gudnasen was obviously far too young to be playing the mature Mikael Blomkvist.
Great movie for , the tough women, weak men and the obligatory minority. If there's a next movie I won't be interested.
Succession
(2018–2023)
An empty, shallow excuse for a TV series.
21 October 2019
It's basically a soap opera where the people are shallow and don't engage you except with the hope that they'll all eventually die off and out of the show. After watching the 8th episode of the 1st season I've realised that it's never going to improve and that I was right about the shoddy writing after the 2nd episode. Always trust your first instincts. This show is pathetically bad, watching the actor's try to be convincing is cringeworthy.
Fractured
(I) (2019)
Disappointing.
19 October 2019
This type of movie has been done so often before. A simple plot with one fake out after another. It was easy to see where the story would end. Sam Worthington as always put his all into it and was convincing just a pity that the story was so predictable. I wouldn't recommend this to anyone and it's time I'll never get back.
The Name of the Rose
(2019)
Totally lacking inspiration.
7 October 2019
After watching the first episode I was extremely disappointed. Sure the costumes were wonderful and helpful in providing atmosphere but the writers decisions left me bored and disinterested. Umberto Eco's story was both pictorial and gripping yet the writers in this mess dilute it to such an extent that I kept thinking that there was something else I should be doing. Even when they strictly stick to the word's spoken by William of Baskerville and Adso it feels forced and artificial.
As far as I'm concerned this conception of The Name of the Rose is mostly a fail.
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