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Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023)
Another one bites the dust
I could go on on how we see decline in MCU writing quality that has plagued last two phases.
Plot is just dumb, makes no sense on any level even if you work really hard on suspension of disbelief. It would make a way more sense in 30 minute cartoon than in what was supposed to be a blockbuster movie.
Dear MCU please stop making movies with plot driven by character stupidity. Cassie Lang is just a step to far in how dumb a character can be rivaled only by Janet Van Dyne. Whole plot can be summarized as with new Star Wars trilogy: if only characters would talk to each other, if only any of them had a trace of intelligence nothing of this would happen.
Gran Turismo 7 (2022)
A loveletter to car culture
**A disclaimer** I'm a hardcore PC simracing player. And it reflects on my thoughts here **
It's been almost 10 years since we've got full Gran Turismo experience. And I hate to say it - I'm slightly disappointed.
Not by content - there is a LOT of cars and activities.
When it comes to tracks it's not as good - stable selection of known tracks and way too many of imaginary ones that games tends to focus during single player campaign.
Missions, quests, licenses guide you towards progression that means new cars and track. And it is slow - after 20hrs in i'm still somewhere near the start. Of course game pushes microtransactions everywhere to remind you that it does not need to be that slow, and you can buy progress.
What is not really bad is that very often you are forced into worst possible car/track combo that is just not fun to drive. On top of that those involving "AI" are basically putting you in the end of an computer generated cars (it's not AI) that are glued to their line and don't react at all to your presence, so they end up being more of an annoyance than competition.
Multiplayer is still fun, just got turned into "find best combo of tuning parts for win" instead of be faster for win. Differences in cars are way bigger than what you will get using default setups vs custom ones in real simulators.
And what is worst - it's a failure in technical department - not graphics as those are excellent for console standards but all other aspects - want to change FOV? Forget about it - forced to sit really close to 75" TV and feel like a kid in a truck with everything out of scale and problems with judging distance and speed? Bad luck pal.
Want to adjust pedals deadzone? No way to do it.
Want to adjust details in forcefeedback? Nope
Want to adjust wheel angle? Not even nope - even if you want to do it from the wheel itself on start of every race game will autoadjust to what you've set on a wheel making it virtually impossible to change.
Want to adjust UI so it does not burn out your OLED? Nah
Want to move around UI elements so driver list does not impose on rear view mirror? Not here
So still a Gran Turismo game. Nothing more.
Army of the Dead (2021)
Dragged down by most stupid character to ever walk this earth
It's perfectly executed mess of a movie. Great production value and visuals contrasted with mediocre story and brain dead characters. And no I do not mean zombies - those are actually pretty cool. Thing is main crew lead by Dave Bautista is composed of people that have problem with logical thinking that a random six-year old would have no problems. Every thing they do is stupid and usually makes no sense. Daughter of main character is most annoying idiot I've seen in movies for years - think 90's teen horror stupid. During whole projection I was not able to focus on premise or visuals on great zombies as EVERYTHING they did was driven by them being literal morons effectively committing suicide by stupidity.
Some people complained about it's length, and when I approached movie it was strange - as longer runtime usually means more story, more character development or at least some more cool visuals - in this one it only meant - more stupidity.
Maybe if you are "under influence" it can pass, but other way I would steer clear from this morronfest.
Mortal Kombat (2021)
Another Game based movie ruined
When you have a game with full fledged story, characters world and you use it in worst possible way you get 2021 Mortal Kombat.
Main character is crime against viewers (or at least gaming community) - both from arc and acting perspective. Only thing vaguely remaining from original stories is Scorpion vs Sub-Zero arc, that of course they needed to ruin by somehow attaching Earth countries to them (chinaaa baaad!!).
Fighting sequences are what can be expected from B grade movie - 1500 cuts for one move, some of CGI is atrocious (Reptile and Goro look worst than in 1995 edition).
BTW Ever heard of this great Mortal Kombat turnament? Yeah, neither did creators of this movie.
What a terrible waste of potential and budget.