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I Came By (2022)
Loved it
It was scary, it was thrilling. Not everything was perfect, but it is an amazing antithesis to the arrogant talentless films that have invaded the cinema and streaming services of the last years. No glimpse of woke culture, narcissism. I am so fed up with narcissism and me-me culture.
There were parts that you felt they could had been different. I wished it ended from the first crime but it kept going for the thrills. The actors were talented, and the characters were realistic, meant to be smart at the right time.
The fact that the police was not efficient, it was part of the corruption, eventually the crimes would come to life, but the characters went to fast in solving it on their own.
It ended on a happy note with the criminal being caught.
I wished more films were like this.
Dune (2021)
Unimpressed
This is not the Dune I know. The film score is not impressive either. The interior and exterior design does not remind of the 1984 film. An arrogant Mamoa didn't do justice to the film either. None of these are your Hollywood humans, you should not portray the characters like hanging out in LA in a bar. Most actors lack acting skills. The actors should have their sinister Dune voice on. The original Dune is not a Scifi per se. This is not Star Wars. This is a mixture with Steampunk. Shame that all films are the same: poor, poor, poor. Stop rebooting things you don't understand. You spend money on caricatures.
The House (2022)
It is amazing
I can't believe people don't rate this one higher.
The film is an attack to snobbery.
The reason I give it 10 stars is because I am tired of modern arrogant narcissistic films that are everywhere on Netflix and Amazon Prime. That arrogance was ok in video games but it's off putting in films.
I like this film because it speaks about our own issues with consumerism.
Giving this film a low rating is exactly what it is. You are not aware you are being mocked about your consumerism by something artistic and you rate it to be poor because it is not made in a consumerist style for profits.
Lack of love (children raised on screens) and the chase for money is killing human values. That's why arrogance and consumerism dominate.
Rogue Agent (2022)
Better than all the dominant arrogant entertainment of the last years
I prefer this kind of film than all the arrogant entertainment of the last years where everyone is rude and cocky. This is the style I miss. It focuses on the lady that caught him.
Stranger Things (2016)
10 for the 1st 2 seasons, an 8 fir the 3rd, a 6 for the 4th
Just like Lost in Space (season 1) they are doing amazing in Stranger Things Season 1 & 2.
What is lost in Season 4:
- the music is shallow, with the exception of the song used to protect from the daemon
- we know that El has no powers and she regains them, but only after 7 episodes, that was boring
- the scenes cycles predictably like in a soap opera divided into Alaska, Hawkins, Lab and Travel/Underworld. Extremely boring to know how long it will take a scene that keeps coming back
- everyone in Hawkins is oblivious to the Underworld, but the Underworld opened in Hawkins to all the population, do they have amnesia. Resetting the setting is tiresome and boring. It's like watching season 1 again, but everyone is more oblivious than before, but somehow the kids got more confident than ever. The moment when one of the character offers to be bait to daemon because she still feels the daemon after he rejected the daemon with music but does not listen to the music to protect herself again is ridiculous. How do you make the daemon choose you.
- some musical queues are for teasing and are not actually part of the film, they are there to make you feel stupid, I don't like it. One scene was visual like they too. It was a stick but they've shown it as a tentacle. It's twisted, too twisted
- the characters are much more confident and intelligent and talk too much and are more like detectives than simple realistic people
- showing El weak and bullied was not necessary. It might seem like honesty, but it went too far.
- the scenes in the tank twisted and confused even more
- the scene with the message to El from the daemon through another character was weird. As a Desmond he could have shown it too El.
All action scenes from Season 4 were amazing. The Russian/Alaskan scenes were well done, and they show effort.
But all the scenes with the Lab and Hawkins were already outdated. They could have shown 1-2 episodes with Alaska/Russia and remove a lot of the talk and emotional scenes from Hawkins. The problem is that they didn't have enough strong scenes for 9 hours: maybe 4/5 strong scenes. In Season 1 you would have 2/3 strong scenes per episode.
Not sure I want to watch Season 5 but I will give it a try. If Season 5 is poor I will have my 10 stars to 7/8 stars.
Man vs Bee (2022)
I enjoyed it
I watched all episodes of Season 1 in a row as a film.
I missed Mr. Bean and this is what I needed. He is an amazing actor with a great talent. I would love to see another season.
The Royals (2015)
Trash
Trash for me. I felt every scene was one and the same. I could not believe that they called him king of England and not king of United Kingdom. The costumes, decorations and behaviors are cheap. It's all kisses and tears and sad music, like a teenager depression. If you are young or into cheesy trashy series this is for you.
Pompeii (2014)
I loved the reconstruction but bad CGI and bad historical inaccuracies
Mount Vesuvius is a somma-stratum volcano. Mount Vesuvius was mot on its own before the erruption or after but in the film it was always dramatically visible in the background on its own without being partially encircled by Mount Somma making it weird, as if people were next to a volcano but always ignored the volcano, but in fact they were next to caldera-stratum volcano disguised as a mountain. Even today, you wouldn't be able to tell there is a volcano unless you see it from above or by climbing it .
This was the most major details that shows their lack of involvement with historical accuracies.
I gave 3 starts as I enjoyed the reconstruction of the streets and the villas, but the CGI was bad, acting was mediocre, realism was worthy of the film 300. Not enough Roman faces. Too much English-speaking gestures and behavior. The actors should at least have Italian behavior or Mediterranean behaviour.
In the long run, you will think. Why would anyone watch this film 100 years from now? To hear their bad accent and acting, to watch the bad CGI?
I would only watch it for the reconstruction and those are mostly pictures, like 5-10 of them, and the rest is clearly studio work around ruins.
I know it was 2014 when it was made, but still.
Gods of Egypt (2016)
Almost everything is bad, not worth watching unless you are really young
A list of it:
- carriage that can steer, they appear millennia after Ancient Egypt
- modern design overlapping ancient Egyptian
- cocky teenagers that can decide the plot just based on their mutual trust, and not trusting Horus
- the disrespect, cockiness and bad acting of all actors, women looked like walking on a podium
- bad CGI: the fire or the smoke were unbelievably cheap
- the only moment that I enjoyed was the one with the trap, it felt so much like a video game tough
- oversaturated images, it could be my TV but this one was too much
I gave it 3 starts, as I think it's good for children under 7 years old, but then the violence is too much if you are too young, so perhaps it's not fit for a lot of people.
Uncharted (2022)
I am tired
I am tired of:
- young characters that are nothing like the future character
- plots that don't follow and arch and pretend we love the characters already
- young cocky characters that have no respect for anything
- killing a character of a well known actor like Antonio Banderas to continue this perversion of youngster nihilism and triviality, this is not TikTok
- action that are physically impossible; like jumping against the wind while attached from a plane, attaching yourself to a car while flying, while they are ok for a video-game a film has to be realistic, more tools to compensate for the lack of realism, or scenes that don't do it but find smart ways
- picking actors that don't look anything like the character in the video game, so many actors out there that would look just like the main character
- music that plays in the wrong moments for infinity with no need, drama music when it should be silence and enjoy the scenery. Why not using short stings and play them only when it's needed, choosing instruments for the right moments and synchronising it, video-games and cartoons have done it for decades
I feel like since CGI Hollywood has lost the connection with art and reality. It's all about hooking people to the seats it's loudness and visuals, for the financial gains and security, not for the legacy.
Hollywood is like a child with the best toys in the world that suffers of ADHD and all it wants if more and more toys, not the best toys.
I feel all the films are the same, a pile of desperate noise.
Ranting here as I don't have the chance to do it often. This film failed. Well done for the energy, visuals, action, but that's all, nothing else.
Russian Doll (2019)
One of the best series of the last 20 years
Daring to mix European history with American comedy. That's unique, that's new, that's holistic.
Those that give little starts to these series don't understand history or the acting difficulty of the role, or are simply against the values presented the series.
I love the first season, it was simple, but didn't not expect such an amazing plot twist on the second season.
I am Romanian mixed with distant German and Hungarian ancestry and enjoy the second season greatly.
Anatomy of a Scandal (2022)
Buller Buller Buller
If it was not real, I would have not paid attention to the series. I made the connection with Boris Johnson and Oxford from the first episode. My intuition said: "oh, you have to watch these series about Boris Johnson".
While some of the fiction does not seem real, let's not forget that the Bullingdon Club is real.
<< In 2013, Johnson - who reputedly still greets former members with a cry of "Buller, Buller, Buller" - described it as "a truly shameful vignette of almost superhuman undergraduate arrogance, toffishness and twittishness". He added: "But at the time you felt it was wonderful to be going round swanking it up." >>
More here:
theguardian
oxford-bullingdon-club-boris-johnson-sexism-violence-bullying-culture.
No Time to Die (2021)
A great film but had imperfections for its budget
I loved the film:
- the scene with the car in the piazza and the secured windows and then the exit
- the flying submarine
- the style of the doctor that was dragged all around
- the scene with the young lady that "trained only 3 weeks"
- the cemetery scene
- the intro scene with the ice
I noticed several bloopers:
- the gutless cat was sent upstairs before Bon's entered the house, the cat was in the kitchen before Bond came, after it went up, the cat was still in the kitchen
- when they sent the girl to bed, the sunset felt fake, no shadow moved, the same horizontal light went through the windows for the entire time, it was lovely for the first scene, but when the same light is at the beginning of the scene until the end you realise it is a lamp in a studio
- color grading missing from many scenes, it could had been filmed with a phone, and not for a big budget film
- the smoke of the missiles when initially launched from the boat looked very cheap and fake
- Hans Zimmer is a great composer that I admire. I watched him on MasterClass. I feel that bringing him at the end of the Daniel Craig series might be a good choice for the next series but a bad choice for the end of the series. He did great in reviving the old style of music, but sometimes came with Batman-like music, which was not fit for a spy-movie. He had deep emotional music, but well fit for other more drama films. The ending tune was fit and amazing, perhaps the only place it made sense to be a real Hans Zimmer drama.
Some things were rushed and not revised. It looks like a film that was only once in post production.
Dracula (2020)
Cheesy
Another cheesy series from Netflix. I don't know but 70% of them are emotions, visuals and no brains.
The Romanian words are very bad spoken, no Romanian assisted on set.
Some of the young actors are not skilled enough.
The plot mixes characters as they please. Bad script.
The reflexion in the mirror exists and sometimes it doesn't.
The series were rushed to exist, not to resist. It will age so badly in time no one will want to watch such cheesy cliche-istic series.
Netflix needs to stop wasting money on cheap TV series. It will be the death of Netflix one day. Another competitor will come with better series. All you need is better scripts, better sound editors and better actors. The visuals are good, the ideas are good but the intelligence of the plot is missing.
Ad Astra (2019)
First half good, the second...
The resting heart rate doesn't change from 45 to 56 in some days, and 56 is not a pride for an astronaut. Also, a maximum of 80 resting gear rate is impossible to any human being while walking as suggested in the film.
The script is bad, very cheesy and full of cliche. The second half is predictable after the first half.
There is no progression in entertainment or suspense in the second half, just dropped to a cheap drama.
His voice at the arrival on Neptune could had been a bit more tired. He is taking cheesy risks in every moment for Neptune.
He seems shocked in the beginning of the film. He is an intelligent astronaut. He must have plotted hundreds of variants in his head, but he is calm in the beginning that he is either dead or alive.
The Crown (2016)
10 stars but awful disturbing music direction
10 stars for the effort, idea and what it is.
Critic:
The most disturbing music direction I have ever witnessed in TV series.
Epic music for Duck Shooting?
Hans Zimmer and Zimmerish music for The Crown? Is this Dan Brown?
Fear and suspense in every episode?
Are our lives in constant fear?
I started enjoying the music in S2E5, when it made sense and synchronised.
The Water Horse (2007)
Amazing film, actors, music and visuals - bad script
The film is amazing, the idea is great but the script is just bad. A lot of illogical decisions in the script. The villains are villains just for the sake of it, more like video-game characters than humans.
We can clearly see that the boy, that the main character is only taking decisions for the visuals and emotions of the plot, not for his own protection.
I feel the script writer might be specialised in photography directing or film producing, or the editor, as it has huge logical gaps in the script
Time Trap (2017)
The idea is great but the kids are rude
The kids are typically rude and unintelligent. Highly emotional and accusing each other on trivial stuff. The film doesn't promote cooperation or compassion. It's a stereotype on cool girls and dorky kids, on male teenager roles. I am watching it because the idea is great but the script and acting is empty.
Lost in Space (2018)
Good first season. Bad season 2
10 starts for the first season, 1 star for season 2. Cheesy, impossible to watch!
The Witcher (2019)
Cheesy
I watched it as people were excited about it. I find the quality very cheesy.
Emma. (2020)
Just like an amazing book.
Amazing mood and music, just like a book, I cried at the end. It makes me think of a calmer world.
România neîmblânzitã (2018)
Realizing what a beautiful country Romania is
I loved it so much, I din't know that Romania is such an amazing country. I visited it as a child and loved it but I never realized the immensity and importance of the flora, faun and its entire geography. Well done. I wish the creators to move on a be trustful in creating similar projects like this.