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So Far: "Game of Thrones" Season 8 (2018)
How to bury a show 101
Now, if anyone wanted to learn how to ruin a potential best tv series of at least the last decade, just watch season 8. I have no idea, i can only speculate what "in the seven hells" could have motivated the writers to take this turn, but at this point it's all gone and done so it doesn't matter anymore.
Character development stages of the past seasons all taken and chucked in the trash and replaced with some sort of switch that they just flick like in a B-movie. Almost all the decisions of the characters are not unpredictible in a good way as before, but nonsensical, seemingly made on a whim, like children playing at a game, not holding the fate of all the kingdoms in their hands. From the second episode to the last, it is all a giant mess of bad decisions and very very poor writing as if they had no idea about anything and this was the very first production they ever worked on, except it was one with a big budget, that's all. As someone else said, do yourself a favor and skip at least the last 2 episodes and imagine the ending all by yourself.
Allure (2017)
Some will love some will hate no doubt
I saw Evan Rachel Wood and knew it had to be at least a decent movie. I was not let down. She renders a believable character, with realistic emotional expressions , with good and bad. And Julie Sarah doesn't disappoint either. It's pretty much a given that this movie won't be everyone's cup of tea and not just because of the plot which is touchy to begin with. It's not quite your run of the mill movie, it doesn't follow the pattern you see in most movies, it doesn't really offer the kind of gratification and structure many people are used to when viewing movies that are considered good. Rather it's pleasantly and/or painfully realistic both in the backstory and the emotions that are conveyed. It's meant to be that way, it's meant to represent a kind of drama that happens in real life whether we want to acknowledge it or not. In several respects one can draw a parallel between this movie and for instance Lolita, but not the movies in which the plot was altered somewhat to be allowed on screen, but the book. The lines are blurred, and there's no clear cut value of right or wrong that we are mostly used to in movies. And after all is said and done, can we really say where an abuse victim ends and an abuser begins? No, we can't but what this movie may force us to do if we allow it is to empathize with the characters and that isn't meant to bring any closure or relief either. There are joyful moments and gut wrenching moments but overall there is an underlying heaviness that never leaves throughout. There's just two people in need of rescue, in need of feeling loved and understood who happened to be on the same orbit for a while and this is a fragment of their lives. No happy ending no explanation. It's up to the viewer to understand and feel what they're going through.
The Meg (2018)
Rather dissapointing
Seeing the trailer i was excited but that excitement quickly faded after seeing the first 15 minutes... The script is nothing new but that could have gone very right had there been any other redeeming quality to this movie... First of all it's the poor acting, combined with the lack of any film effect and the frames per second we've come to be used to in a movie, makes everything seem contrived, cheaply contrived at that. Or should i say the higher frame count simply is less forgiving of the acting. Then there's the characters who are utterly stereotypical and they would be fine if the movie were a parody and not trying to be a serious thrill. There's also the "science" which is quite nonsensical. That too could have potentially saved the movie by making the scenario seem the slightest bit plausible. There are a few tense moments that's true, which are helped a bit by the special effects we've come to expect in the age of computer generated graphics but those aren't quite enough to classify this as more than a B movie one watches when there's nothing else.
Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)
Independence day returns bigger than before but somehow all the lesser for it
I was really anxious to see the "sequel" to the great Independence Day but it wasn't long into the movie that i noticed i was actually bored. It just didn't pull me in. The story is there but ultimately goes nowhere and serves no purpose other than to create an excuse for the movie. The characters come off as generic, bare-bones and none of them can really make you feel any empathy for them in the end. In my opinion the only thing this movie has going for it is the CGI. It's an action movie to watch when you're really really bored. But please don't tell me it's an Independence Day movie because it's not. It has none of the great acting that mattered in the previous one, none of the directorial flare that gave the other movie a personality of it's own. A good movie makes you feel something, it pulls you into it's world. This one does nothing of the sort. Just tons of CGI thrown in there and the globalist idea of "one world, no borders, united we stand" sort of thing. I must admit, at times i felt like that was the only idea the movie tried to convey.