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Saltburn (2023)
What was all the fuss about?
The acting is good, no complaints there, but the film itself is just weird in a sick and disturbing way.
If this movie didn't have the shock moments then it would be an absolute bore fest. No one gains anything from moments where that make you look away from the screen in disgust and feeling sick.
The end of the movie is just interesting but just makes me feel so disappointed in the rest or the movie. There were points in this movie where it could have been excellent and gone down routes to make a fascinating story but nope...it entered weirdville and got stranger and stranger.
The artsy type will probably like this but it isn't a classic, far from it.
The White Lotus (2021)
What's all the fuss about?
A very disappointing series. I've watched series 1 with my partner and we were desperately seeking the big twist or hard hitting moment especially considering the way the 1st episode starts. If you're looking for something with a big mystery or thriller aspects, don't watch this. This is very much American humour, you know, things that are barely funny being lauded by critics as hilarious, think every Amy Schumer movie you've ever been forced to watch.
Jennifer Coolidge plays Jennifer Coolidge, I swear she was the exact same character in the last thing I seen her in....sadly she is probably the best part of the entire series with her typical dumb blonde character.
It feels more like a faux behind the scenes look at how a luxury resort is run by an alcoholic, drug taking manager. Watch families and newly wed couples have arguments and tantrums. Watch them leave the resort.
We were on episode 4 and saying, I dont think this is going where we want it to go. It just faded out with a whimper.
Snowflake Mountain (2022)
So much overacting
This felt like one of those history channel type shows where everything is staged and the smallest thing made to seem like it was life changing.
The experts who don't ever do anything to show off their skills.
This perception that they're in the wilderness when it was really shot on an estate in England.
The tasks were never really difficult and the experts praised these idiots for doing basic things you'd expect from an adult.
The lack of intelligence in the "kids" was shocking and typical over the top reactions to any task.
Would have been much better if they were really in the wild and not on some comfy estate.
Blood Red Sky (2021)
Just...no
Honestly, if you're looking for the most pointless and painfully brain dead way to spend the next 2 hours, watch this film.
So, the film starts out as a hostage situation on a plane. A mother supposedly going to New York for cancer treatment with her son....but stop!
This isn't cancer treatment, it's zombie treatment!
One day she was in a car with her newborn son and partner. The car breaks down in the middle of nowhere. Her partner goes to look for help. Later on the woman is cold and decides to go looking for her partner, finds a house, blood trail and her partner dead from a zombie.
Fast forward to the present and she is shot by terrorists and uses her zombie powers for good...until a terrorist sees an opportunity to become a zombie also.
It's honestly garbage.
Locked Down (2021)
Made for the sake of making a lockdown movie
If you expect a great heist movie, with in depth planning from the home of two master criminals, building up to a great finale...then don't watch this film.
This movie is 2 hours long, but it felt like 4.
Nothing happens until the last 45 minutes when they FINALLY decide to plan the heist and it all comes together so quickly and easily.
They spend time arguing over tinsel on the wall since Christmas, or pointless facetime calls with family and colleagues that play no significant role.
Some famous faces getting a quick pay day by appearing via zoom call and yeah, that's it.
The first 90 minutes came across like a boring art movie, focusing on a boring lockdown routine and the main male character reading poetry to his neighbours in the street. I get that lockdown really was boring, but this is a movie, use some of that artistic freedom to spice things up.
Extraction (2020)
Repetitive and no real story
The director must have had a really hard job for this one.
There isn't much of a storyline really.
The bad man in prison has a son on the outside.
Another bad man kidnaps the first bad man's son for some unknown reason.
The father orders his sons bodyguard to do whatever it takes to get his son back or he will lose his own son.
The bodyguard tells his wife that he knows of someone who can get the child back, but they won't be able to afford him.
Then all of a sudden Mr Hemsworth and his group are brought onto the scene.
The rest of the movie is one gunfight after another.
In the end we never find out why the father was in jail, who the bad guy was and why he wanted his son. We never even find out if the dad is still in jail or what?
This was like a upmarket Jason Statham film, all action and no real story.
Gisaengchung (2019)
Good but not THAT good!
The acting is great, humour is funny and the first half of the movie is so enjoyable, it has everything you want and is one of those that has you asking questions as to how the family can keep this going. Sadly ending of the movie just takes this film downhill way too fast and the final 20 minutes or so is just odd and disjointed. What happens to the wife, daughter and son who lived in the house? what about Min? Surely he returned from his travels? It's like the writer had the perfect idea all the way up to the killing off of characters and then didn't know how to tie up the loose ends. They instead just play on the political message about the gaps in wealth and class which is why I think this film appealed to the Oscar's.
The War I Knew (2014)
Shockingly bad, one of the worst I've ever seen.
After a few days of watching back to back WW1 and WW2 films both blockbuster and independent, I eventually got down my list to The War I Knew.
I wish I never knew this film existed!
From the very start the script and acting are cheesy, wooden and what you'd expect from a high school drama group, and a bad one at that.
I'm not even being picky about the uniforms, weapons or the landscape chosen for the filming. I'll give them some slack on that front as these things cost money. But to get the colour or consistency of blood is one of the easiest and cheapest things to do, I'll give you a head start! it's not one shade of pink or looks like coloured water.
The acting and the script come across as a mixture of a really bad episode of Dad's Army meets a Carry On film and then all of a sudden they try acting with some seriousness and grit...to be honest, I've felt more real emotion from a episode of the teletubbies when there's no tubby toast.
If they intended to show respect to those who fought in the war then they did the complete opposite. No group of soldiers, behind enemy lines would jump up in the air shouting and whooping, high fiving each other after shooting a German soldier.
This should really be in a spoof comedy genre just so viewers know to avoid it.