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Mia trelli... trelli oikogeneia (1965)
Hilarious!
Golden age of greek cinema at its best!
This is a film where the writing of legend Nikos Tsiforos shines right through. The lines, the puns, the silliness, the absurdity, the wit, the class!
The cast is top notch as well and all at their prime. These actors not only perform their lines exquisitely, but can even perform without talking, with their eyes! Exceptional performances really.
All the above contribute to a masterpiece of a film that stands easily next to golden age of Hollywood comedies.
Project Power (2020)
I'm surprised nobody mentions Terra Formars!
So, it goes like this...
There's this manga called Terra Formars which got an anime and real-life action movie directed by none other than legend Takashi Miike. The whole concept of scientists creating a way to incorporate animal characteristics and abilities to humans, some of them compatible and others not and specifically the whole biology lesson about the praying mantis shrimp is completely and shamefully stolen from this manga.
Even a scene that tries to explain DNA technology and abilities of other animals specifically the regenerative ability of planarians, is again something very stricking on Terra Formars.
This writer could have done it right if he proposed to write a proper Terra Formars script for Hollywood, have them pay for rights etc and then we would actually have an even better, more interesting and full plot!
I will not even talk about the directing and editing, as the result was so erratic and misleading and the only memorable moments where just the actors faces and some incredible special effects but basically in slow motion as everything else tends to be a blurr otherwise.
It is a shame for the actors, it is a shame for the special effects people, it is a shame for us viewers who want to support our favourite actors and want to enjoy a well written plot!
Midsommar (2019)
Neither hot nor cold
I will accept this whole film only if the makers declare that it is all in the protagonist's imagination, that it is the way she coped with all her grief, her anxiety, her false relationship. That it is her, letting go and starting to belong somewhere or just finding peace.
I could accept that all the horrors in the camp are what she thinks a pagan cult would do, because she knows no better.
BUT
I am truly tired of film makers exploiting the occult, in order to create the most gruesome and shocking images they can. I am sick of paganism being shown as vile and disgusting and its followers being bloodthirsty maniacs who have no respect for anything.
I could even understand if this cliche is deliberately used as a dark joke, so in the end the protagonist smiles realising the joke, that she made all this up in the most lame way her mind could.
Hence the 5/10 because the film has all the above to be figured out by the viewer and because the photography is exceptional.
Into the Badlands (2015)
Not really there.
I've watched all three seasons. I found the core idea of a post apocalyptic future with martial arts and an alien source of power granted or passed on to people, an interesting plot.
My problem is the execution of this plot and the writing. You couldn't possibly believe that you would write about characters that are so hardcore in their beliefs and have a strong moral and abandon it in every turn of events and people older than 15 would be OK with it. And I explain:
They build up Sunny's character to be a non faltering killing machine and yet whenever it comes to him killing his tormentor (Quinn) he just stabs him once in the gut just because they couldn't come up with a better reason for A. having a turmoil between the Barons after Sunny leaves and B. Sunny having to protect and raise his son alone. He should have taken Quinn's head the first chance!
They build up MK's character, he goes back to the monk mountain to find the cure for Sunny, he sees Sunny as a father figure and cares about him, he saw what it was to be a Clipper while he was still a colt, he knew what Sunny had to do while he was a Clipper, he knew what happened with Veil's parents and still, he remembers that Sunny was the one who killed his mother and the only thing in his mind is to kill him for revenge and side with a lunatic he never met before and had no idea what the lunatic was about to do. Well done writers!
The Master. The extremely powerful Master cannot find a way to suppress the gift, like Kannin did for Sunny for example, and she keeps the disciples in a soul tormenting coma!? An easy and stupid plot hole to give reason to the diciples to turn against her and side with Pilgrim. Then no depth in this character, no reasons for her actions, she gives no reasons to her monks and her deciples, keep things a secret until they go and confront her, such poor character writing.
So many deaths of built-up-for-nothing characters, just for the next scene where their loved ones would bury them and mourn, such poorly executed mourning scenes that I had to pass forward disgusted:
A. Veil's death was unecessary and could have been much more interesting in another time with more reason. Sunny would have still be fighting against the common threat to provide a better future for his son, exactly like the Widow decided to do.
B. Lydia's death was unecessary as well. The Widow wants the Witch to be executed, she knows of her cunning, knows nothing about her fighting abilities, and send Lydia to kill her!? The Widow has Clippers and sends the Viceroy to kill an enemy witch?!? So stupid. As if there couldn't be any other reason for Moon to continue the fight and have revenge.
C. Nyx's death, I'm not against it, but the beheading was tacky. Ok I get it that Pilgrim is consumed but that was too much.
The only bits about the plot that where decent where the Widow's character who is someone who manipulates, plays power games, is vicious but deep down cares for the right reasons but in the end cannot keep it together, because from the beginning she is unstable, that I can buy.
The fight scenes and the choreography were most of the times absolutely brilliant, except of when the characters where obviously-flying-with-an-invisible-cord-attached-to-them or when there where too many ''woosh'' sound effects even when the characters would just turn their heads.
Waldo's character was very interesting and Lang is an excellent actor for it.
And last but not least Bajie. Nick Frost saved this series for me. If it wasn'e for him, I would have stopped watching. He brings the comic relief and the seriousness needed effortlessly.
And in conclusion, after Bajie's character and his importance to many plot developments, after all that ovelroad of ''woosh'' and ''cling'' sound effects and close-ups to the eyes of opponents, I believe that this series tried to take itself too seriously and failed for that. It should have been an adventure comedy instead, much more like the Tarantino and Rodriguez style.
And all that production, sets, lovely costumes would not have been in vain.
What a shame!
John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017)
What a mess.
It is such a shame to have all these great actors and waste them in such a pointless, boring, full of cliches movie.
Peter Stormare and Ian McShane steal the spotlight and are a delight, the only thing that makes this watchable. My 3 stars only go for these two and Lawrence Fishburn.
Poor Keanu had the most cliche and boring lines to deliver along with gunning down everybody with a ridiculous suit that stopped point blank bullets just by holding it loose in the air. Nobody even grazed his hands or head, while he killed everybody, it felt like watching Hot Shots! Part Deux...I almost expected to see a bodycount score.
The close combat fights where the only convincing ones and interesting.
And the plot, seriously, the main character is completely different from the one in the first movie:
He is not feared by others, like all his reputation disappeared.
He still mourns his wife, while in the first movie he supposedly moved on.
He violates the rules of the safehouse which is one of the things he respects.
After all this trouble he went through in the first movie to retire, someone blows up his house and that is enough to convince him to take on a job again!?
This movie destroys its main character by making him weak, with no values, not moving on in his life, not evolving.
The plot is non existing. Nothing makes sense or helps the story. The fisrt scene with Wick retrieving his car has nothing to do with the rest of the story.
Him getting so easily to the target, especially when another assassin from the same club is protecting her is stupid.
The only cool part was her choice to kill herself but they could have avoided that by trying to eliminate the culprit, joining forces or something along these lines. Especially after they tell us they are in friendly terms!
The fact that everybody accepts what a spoiled power hungry man wants, with no objections is pathetic.
The very interesting part of Lawrence Fishburn and his ''hobo gang'' gives nothing to the plot either. Yes they tend to his wounds and give him a handgun with 7 rounds, but their interests are supposed to be common and yet they don't help him any further, which shows they are a bunch of apathetic people who don't care what will happen to their city after the main villain take the rains.