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The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: Adar (2022)
I really tried...but it's not worth watching
In episode 3 we find out that Galadriel somehow managed to act even more horribly to people. The harfoots showed their true colours of being absolutely evil to even people in their own town! And Arondir achieved....nothing? How did his friends even get there? Oh what an episode...it seems like Amazon had to write Galadriel as the most insufferable pain in the backside imaginable as that's the only way to make her a believable love interest for Sauron/Halbrand.
The one thing that's really sticking with me is that all of the budget evidently went onto the CGI and setting. But all the good CGI seems to be very sparse. And let's not even get into most of the sets, a good bit of the CGI or any of the costuming and props (that sword Muriel gives isn't exactly the one that Aragorn took from Elrond). For over a billion dollars spent, 97.10% of this show looks so cheap, weak, amateurish and incredibly painfully fake.
Add that to the completely nonsensical writing, iffy/bad acting, and slow-mo pacing -- you get an expensive disaster that fails in almost every way to pull the viewer in at all. But no one can really point any of this out without being labeled a bigoted a-hole. Perfectly sensible.
Autómata (2014)
Pseudo-philosophical treatment against insomnia
I just left the movie at the Zurich Film Festival and have a sour taste in my mouth. Having seen the trailer, I expected a science-fiction movie with a solid plot but was massively disappointed.
Apparently, post-apocalyptic thrillers don't come cheap, so perhaps there wasn't enough left over from the "Automata" budget to pay for a decent script writer. The story is told quickly - set in the near future, when a vastly reduced mankind is assisted by robots that suddenly become self-sufficient. While the movie heavily borrows from flicks like "Blade Runner," "Terminator" and countless others, it unfortunately never creates a character of its own.
When Automata comes to its long awaited ending, the viewer is left with plenty of plot holes. Unfortunately, these won't be filled anytime soon, possibly because the writers themselves don't seem to know. Instead, they've chosen elements from other dystopian films and put them clumsily together, uncertain how to build character or logic beyond basic outlines.
It's safe to say that you can skip your money on this one!