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Red Oaks (2014)
superficial "high"life dripping along
Ok so the pilot tries to catch people with boobs and more comedy than there actually was. Red Oaks maybe tries to be a bit of beverly hills 90210 .This entire run was mostly emotionaly empty not catching me in an dramatic way , it's just like the river life slowly drying out in the end didn't even feel up any panache or trying to leave that much of a message. The show is a coming of age and depicts a few everday problems of what to do ,jobbing, family and lovelife. Just maybe 1 experimental funny episode with a bodyswap.
The best thing about the show were the actors most of them did a very good job.
Unfortunately most of the characters aren't developing that much and there are many not so likeable characters which you just dont care about.
The show tries to be 80s but only by the surface, the whole feel isn't very 80s from the way they talk the non existent expressing selves through styles, cliques isn't getting through.
But the 80s sound was mostly present it had a few cinema references also put in to support that.
Also it was disturbingly important to the show to emphasize especially the jewish and also the christian religion despite it not distributing any depth or comedy at all.
Overall the series had a good watchable pacing which is kinda expected with short episodes and so much music, but the show induces a fastfood(surprisngly goodlooking) watcher experience quickly and easily taken aswell as quickly forgotten and left me feeling a bit more wasted.
Killer Joe (2011)
Deceived by the Score . Shady Pointless Violent Softporn
I only review this to warn people who expect a well done dark thriller you will have to sit through a tedious one dimensional movie with a very violent debatable end, don't trust the high score on this...it's maybe one of those polarizing movies you either hate or like .
(Spoilers) I checked the scores and was expecting a good movie - nope around ~85 min a deal is being made and isn't working out as it should,whoever believes there will be pulled much dark humor is wrong there are just 2 moments that could referred as dark humor on top of that anybody who seeks lynch style has to look closer Lynch's movies are way more metaphorical,thorough and atmospheric. Oh i forgot most importantly there is some nudity in this flick. Basically the whole movie just desperately tries to build up for the last 15 violent minutes and it's not like you are anticitpating them highly.
This Finale has some sudden gruesome violence very graphical remembered me of "The Killer inside me" it also includes a "mind" rape scene and ends in a fiasco which is borderline stupid cause the tortured low lifes even take the side of the punisher . Yes i'm angry i've seen this.
The movie is very misogynic it likes to be seen as a dark social criticism it went wrong and turned out to be plain boring and stupid yea she's gonna have a baby - this will be our bad future violence, sex sex, a endless lower class who struggle so hard and are being abused by the law... ha ha ha
Anyways i always want to see something good in movies here i can tell you that the acting was well done and the camera wasn't shaking still the story was bland and the movie just too boring , the characters too simple (Ok Matthew was a badass ,but a character whom you don't feel you want to know more about or has more to him than that) and the whole movie too senseless to recommend it also the pacing was terrible.