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The Daughter (2015)
When you don't know how to wrap up your story
24 April 2019
Warning: Spoilers
Most of the movie was kinda okay, although some drama definitely felt forced. The actors in general did a good job. The story itself was not all that good, I would have just given it a passing grade a 5.5, so on IMDB a 6. The main reason I would have given it a 5.5 because it was way too predictable or the few times it was not it felt a bit forced. I can't give any clear examples too consolidate my arguments as that would mean spoiling parts of the movie. If you have seen plenty of movies, this movie will feel predictable for the most part. Still as it was it was okayish.

However the ending of a movie can make it or break it many times. This ending felt like the easy way out. Almost like they were scared to offend people if they had chosen 1 of 2 two options, death or life. An open ending can be very powerful and good but it just didn't fit the moment they left it in.

An amazing example of an open ending and how it should be done is, "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri". The daughter wasn't that amazing to begin with. However if you then decide to end the movie in such a way, then you just ruin it completely.

It left me with a feeling like I listened to someone telling a long story without any meaning to it. Basically the movie is a joke because it has no punchline, if you like this kind of movie so should search for "jokes without punchline".

This is a story that should remain in the circles of gossiping (wo)men when they don't really have anything better to do. It just didn't belong on the screen, at least not it's current shape and form.

Maybe someone will redo the movie and make it a nice movie that would be worth a 7 or an 8 but not as it stands. Do understand that the actors were definitely doing a good job nonetheless someone's performance can not fix something that's just not good enough.
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Grain (2017)
One big flaw
19 August 2018
I'm sorry but this movie was a complete waste of time, why 2 stars and not 1 because the actors were still quite decent.

This movie goes from one fallacy to the next, irrational and uncohesive for the most part. Clearly had some propaganda in it for the Islam as it had a decent amount of quoted lines from the Qur'an and some clearly Islamic habits.

The only thinking it got me to do was what next stupid thing is the producer going to bring out next and what is his next flaw going to be.

It's clear the writer and producer where the same person and it was just a terrible move.

Let me do some guessing, I FEEL like that the producer was trying to produce a masterpiece like other great philosophers have done, such as Plato and his Plato's Cave, however he failed completely miserably. Probably due to not enough skills in being a philosopher, writer and/or director. It's a shame because the plot/synopsis looked very promising.

Edit/addition: People, animals and everything living thing does things with a reason. Sure people might hallucinate or dream. However why would anyone want to watch a random dream that's not cohesive at all.

Also gray-scale makes it look more apocalyptic, however if you need to use gray-scale to achieve such effects than you did a horrible elsewhere, such as in the scenery/decor or costumes. Talking is also kept to a minimum with dialogue that is either uninteresting or doesn't have much of a point (or both). It's basically watching an old movie with a bit of sound added. The difference, old movies did a good job conveying their plot and having a (interesting) plot. Again the movie does NOT at all show what is written in the synopsis. Again I suspect one (or a bit of both) of the following issues. Director/writer either thinks to highly of his work (or himself) and feels like he's spreading knowledge, like a Plato, Socrates, Aristoteles, etc. Or the director/writer/etc just took on too much work for 1 person.

Btw plot/synopsis, last time I read it doesn't describe the movie well.
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