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Saturday Night Fever (1977)
Saturday Night Fever
I am sitting here, minutes after watching the directors cut of this film, and I am realizing how much I misunderstood this film at first.
A few months ago I first rated this film 7 stars. I didn't really like it. I thought that the protagonist (Tony) was not really was that interesting. The only reason I gave it a positive rating is for its well choreographed dance scenes (which I feel is worth for full admission to the film). Otherwise I thought that the horrid subject matter was very distracting and doesn't sit well with this film.
After re-watching this film I realized that this film isn't about dance, it is about a kind character who is in an environment that turns him into an animal, that being fueled by his friends who are degenerates, and to cloud that fog he goes to the disco, where he loses himself and truly feels free. And after winning the top prize in a dance competition in that same disco, while having rivals that he thinks are better than him, he realizes that he also being cheated by the place where he feels free. He then realizes that he truly deserves better.
So if you were to view this film in that perspective, you come to appreciate the characters, the amazing dance scenes even more, and for sure the movie.
Fallout: New Vegas (2010)
Fallout: New Vegas
(200+ hours experience)
Yes I review more than movies...
Fallout: New Vegas is the best RPG games I have played.
This game actually pulls off something that many RPG games fail to do... and that's provide freedom to the player. In this game I can do whatever I want, what should I do to this clan... spare or exterminate, should I wipe out this entire town but get a ton of profit, how should I finish this quest, do I even want to even do it in the first place? In many games it is simply broken down to "can't progress until you do all these missions we want you to do." That is to me what makes me like Fallout: New Vegas more than any other game. It allows you to make a character. And this character can be good or bad, dumb or smart, a pacifist or a man who swims in negative karma. You can make your character however you want and how you make it reflects off scenarios in the game. For example, if you work for this person called the "King", you have to be escorted by a bodyguard that is suspicious and has to be tested. While you are testing him he runs ahead of you and fires 3 bullets into an alleyway that isn't in view of the player and you see 4 bodies when you walk up. When you talk to the bodyguard if you have high intelligence your character questions how he killed 4 even though he fired 3 bullets and you learn that the escort is a set-up to deceive the "King" into trusting him. But if the character has low intelligence the character isn't smart enough to know that the scenario he/she has come across is not possible, so therefore you can't confront him about it. Or if you have a skill that is high enough called "Medicine" you can learn that the bodies are pretending to be dead. It's stuff like that that make me love games.
In the GTA games or Fallout 4 (those games are still good though) you need to follow a path "want to progress this boring mission, sorry, have to finish it to progress". Fallout: New Vegas isn't like that. Believe it or not you can kill everyone in the game (even essential or game changing characters) and still finish the game. YOU CAN SHORT CUT TO NEW VEGAS OFF THE BAT IF YOU WANT TO... SERIOUSLY, YOU HAVE SO MUCH FREEDOM IN THIS GAME TO DO ANYTHING. This game is awesome and is my favorite game of all time (while I'm typing this).
Battleship (2012)
Battleship
Is the movie good... no. Was it entertaining... YOUR DAMN RIGHT.
I found this movie to be entertaining, I bought the characters, the action is well choreographed, the CGI is believable, almost everything on a technical standard is great and some of the writing is good enough that I don't have many complaints to the point that I dislike the movie.
If there were objections on my part it is just the believability of the actions in the movie and the extensive use of clichés and plot armor. But these complaints don't phase me much.
This is to me how to make a wacky action movie, it is more that just explosions for 2 hours. It at least has great characters and a plot that I am willing to follow.
Fargo (1996)
Fargo
Is this a perfect movie... YEA. This is to me (at the time I am writing this) my favorite movie.
The acting is perfect, the writing is clever, the story is original, and so many more things I can praise about the film. There are so many scenes that are so memorable. But my favorite is the part where Carl and Gaear are pulled over by a ranger, and when asked for his license he gives it to him but with a $50 bill just barely sticking out the top. The film doesn't explicitly say that he is bribing but there are so many hints like the lines that Carl says while he is looking at the wallet and the brief long pause that the ranger has while staring at the wallet. That is to me how filmmaking should be done and one example on why this is my favorite movie.
Das Boot (1981)
Das Boot
First off, I am a person that is not easily terrified, but this movie achieved that. There are only 4 movies that I can recall that really terrified me, this, Come And See, Elephant (2003), and Schindler's List.
This movie achieves being a terrifying anti-war movie because of how it shows the struggles and horror that the soldiers have to face to survive. I truly felt for each and every one of these characters. And what it depicts is so utterly horrifying that I would not even wish my worst enemy in a situation like that.
Honest Thief (2020)
Honest Thief
When I saw this movie I was disappointed on how similar it is to Michael Mann's "Thief". For example the cops in the picture is basically the Mob taking advantage of a thief who is striving for a better life. Although it lacks heist scenes, unlike "Thief", I found it eerily similar.
This whole review I have been complaining with it being similar to "Thief" but not pointing out its own flaws. Well first, it is extremely predictable and clichéd. Containing cliché action movie elements and dosent try to invent anything new. I also predicted some of the turns that the movie offered, being presented in a way we hae seen multiple times over the years in action movies.
If I were to be positive, it would be probably over Liam Neeson's performance and some fun action scenes.
But after the film was finished I was pretty disappointed.