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Dune (2021)
Before reading the book I thought this movie was bad, after reading it I now think it's terrible
On first viewing at release I thought this film was a dull slog. The characters are incredibly thin, the plot is poorly fleshed out, there's no clever dialog. Very little of interest happens over it's long runtime and the set pieces are so ugly with bad CGI that has dull and generic art direction. Even worse than the scenes that are little more than explosions are the hand to hand combat scenes which look completely amateurish. I thought it was flat out bad
Before viewing part 2 I gave it a second chance with a friend who has read the books and found it again to be one of the most overlong and boring movies I've ever seen. However he was able to explain certain things to me that the movie refused to, but the extracurricular world building still didn't elevate it away from being bad.
After viewing part 2 which I liked significantly more I have read the book and now am utterly baffled by this abysmal adaptation. I have no idea how any sane person would read Dune and think that the correct way to adapt the novel would consist of:
-Reducing Dr. Yueh from a lynchpin of the story and an interesting character to a plot device with 2 lines
-Reducing Liet to even less
-Reducing the Atriedes loyalists not named Duncan Idaho to indistinct dudes
-Eliminating the plotline about Atriedes loyalists suspecting Jessica of being the traitor
-Eliminating the party scene from the movie and all references to Arrakeen local politics beyond "the Harkonnen's are bad"
-Making Leto and Jessica kinda dumb
The end result is a skeleton of the first half of the novel with no depth, and yet it takes 2 and a half hours of your time to tell this incredibly threadbare story. With all these reductions this movie could've easily been the first hour in a 3 hour epic instead of more than double that length.
Top Gun: Maverick (2022)
Borders on creative bankruptcy, 70% boring, 30% planes
In Top Gun 2 Tom Cruise plays the fastest plane man and he has to teach other plane men to be fast. He also goes to a bar like in Top Gun 1, has a romance almost identical to Top Gun 1, and plays sports on the beach like in Top Gun 1.
What a thrilling experience, seeing a mediocre movie I've already seen after being told I'd see a new movie is just the best.
This dull repetition of Top Gun starts right after the intro and continues all the way up to the climactic set piece, which to the movies credit is truly great and not just taken from Top Gun 1 (it's arguably taken from Star Wars but I think the massively increased technical detail of the mission elevates it over episode 4).
Are the plane scenes fun? Yes, tons of fun. But they are a fraction of the run time. Don't come into this thinking it'll be like Mission Impossible where there are many interesting set pieces interspersed throughout a well paced movie, there are only 3. To make it worse the second one is repeated over and over and over and over again until they actually run the mission which is the last repetition of it. Fortunately the third set piece which follows is fresh and is also genuinely great, so the movie does end on a high note.
X (2022)
Tame, preachy, and boring
For a movie so preachy about sex and how people view it and are afraid of it, this movie was super tame. It didn't have the guts to be the movie it said it was. It was essentially just an average slasher movie. Actually below average because none of the situations were actually scary because frail old people aren't scary. The few "scares" it produced were jump scares driven by emotionally manipulative music.
Turning Red (2022)
Mixed feelings
I liked the story as a whole. I know lots of people like Mei Lee who have a similar relationship with their parent, if less exaggerated. I liked that it didn't follow the Pixar buddy adventure formula. The movie starts out with a very high energy establishment of the characters and themes which I loved until the energy carried through the entire run time which became exhausting. This feeling was exasperated by the soundtrack which I mostly hated. An hour in I wanted the movie to be over.
Also the movie is weird in the middle. Mei wants to go see a concert with her friends and they need $800 to do it so they sell a look and a feel of Mei's red panda form. Which makes sense because red pandas are the cutest thing ever, but symbolically this is very very strange. The panda is a metaphor for puberty so she's metaphorically prostituting herself. Kids are probably not gonna notice this message and idk maybe the people making this didn't notice this symbolism either but it's a very strange message to send kids.
Also I don't get why Mei's friends are hanging out with Tyler at the end in the concert, that kid is a cunt and they should put up boundaries opposing him. You don't need to be friends with bullies who only like you because of your ""panda"".
tick, tick...BOOM! (2021)
Enjoyable cliche fest
Super cliche feel good movie. Nothing happens in this that you wouldn't expect. However, the songs are quite good and Andrew Garfield gave a nice performance.
Hytti nro 6 (2021)
Predictable and dull
About 5 minutes after the two main characters met the entire arc of the film was pretty obvious. The dynamic between the main characters was fairly interesting but the individuals were not. Also they stop at St Petersburg despite leaving from Moscow heading eastward which makes no sense.
Free Guy (2021)
Better than I thought it'd be
I thought this movie would make me want to kill myself but instead it just put me to sleep. However that one scene with like 100 no effort Disney references does make me want to kill myself.