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Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024)
So bad it redefines "bad"
The original story had something for both kids and adults.
That's how you can actually enjoy going to the movies with your kids.
THIS redirection of the franchise drives a final nail into its coffin.
Instead of building on a decidedly interesting universe, the screenplayers have reduced it to a stumbling domino of barely related events that doesn't even try to handle suspension of disbelief.
It's a kid movie, a kid movie only, with no subtelty and zero interest for adults.
I have not been able to watch it to the end.
Do i recommend it?
If you ABSOLUTELY need to go with your kids, take a pillow with you and try to sleep.
Foundation (2021)
Asimov's legacy betrayed
This is bad. Not bad-bad, but abysmally bad.
Asimov has ALWAYS put science as a luminary in all his novels. The foundation series' beatific contemplation goes 180° to that.
Additionally, this is a "politically correct" and watered down version of foundation that barely brings ANY RESEMBLANCE to the original besides the names of the characters and places.
The only thing worth one star is the CGI and the acting of Lee Pace and Jared Harris. The rest is horrible.
Isaac Asimov must be rolling in his grave enough to produce detectable seismic activity.
By now, the most humane thing to do would be to pull the plug on that travesty of Asimov's great work.
Ad Astra (2019)
Lack of imagination
Here is a movie which had potential and benefited from modern special effects to succeed in making something original.
Yet, the whole story is shot through with lame and clicheed scenes, unnecessary happenstances and long LONG contemplative moments.
I am astonished at the lack of imagination which is obvious during the movie.
While there are such great stories to put on the screen, we have to waste time and money for "this.
So I beg producers to consider the work of Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, David Weber, and all the new generation of writers, a generation rich in vision and stories, as well as talent.
48 Hrs. (1982)
I never give 10 stars
But for this movie, I'll make an exception.
Everything is perfect in this movie.
The story, the pace, the acting, the violence, and even the music.
Nick Nolte at his best, grumpy and bad tempered, with a gravelly voice that makes you rasp your own throat.
An obnoxious Eddie Murphy at the top of his game.
Seriously badass/bad attitude cop killers.
Great detonation sound from big revolvers.
They don't make movies like this anymore.
I saw it in the theater when it was released, and I feared it had aged badly.
But. No. This thing aged like a good wine.
I loved it (again) and I highly recommend it.
The Blacklist (2013)
Cringe
Mr Lennix, Mr Tawfiq, and Mr Spader save tge show from being a total wreck.
Megan Boone simply can't act, and her efforts makes it teethgrinding.
I'm watching the show for its quickly resolved Black list items in each episode, yet hating the continuity of:
1 Elizabeth Keene's overinflated importance
2 The Méxican telenovelas' style character genealogy relation-with-each-other kind of "plot🙄" . (Mysterious father, mother, etc. Which has become sooo cliché.)
3 The pathetic unendingly non-declarerd love stories.
4 The naiveté of the crime resolving pace.
But... All that mentioned,
I'm a fan of Mr Spader's volubility, Mr Tawfiq's quiet competence, and Mr Lennix's solid acting..
I just wish Elizabeth Keene had died at the end of the 3rd season.
I'm now in the 8th season, wishing I could bury Keene myself.
Why am I watching?
It's on, but I'm writing this. So I hope things will get keenxorcised in the 9th, because this is so stupid it's almost unbearable.
Bullet Train (2022)
An idiotic waste of time
I cannot fathom how this absurd thing they call a "movie" can actually get a 7.4 rating.
I couldn't even finish watching it (yes it's THAT bad).
I loathe these dialogues which exist only to "give context" , even a "comical" one to the story.
If context needs to be explained, either by off screen voice or worse, by the actors themselves, or WORSE within a totally unnatural dialogue... Believe me, grab a book instead, or even an audiobook.
FURTHERMORE, when those "contexts" bring NOTHING to the story, you know you're in the presence of mediocrity.
MOREOVER, when the story itself doesn't start to make sense before 20 minutes of painful watching, you know that it's even more interesting to watch paint dry.
Why do these actors (who admittedly have great movies in their past) accept to act in absurd efforts like these is flabbergasting.
AVOID AT ALL COST.
Beast (2022)
Cringing bad (but for Mr Elba)
This movie seems to have been made bad on purpose.
Even newbies wouldn't have made so many mistakes as the characters of the movie.
Doors left open, wandering unarmed in the night when everyone KNOWS there's a maneater on the prowl, etc. Etc. It goes on and on with predictable naiveté and bad scenario.
The girls acting is amateurish too which does not help the already hard to achieve suspension of disbelief.
If not for the usually great acting from Mr Elba, I would probably not have been able to watch it without groaning of pain.
Even his last scene (battling a lion barehanded if not for a knife) was so Unbelievable as to roll my eyes to the ceiling.
In comparison, "The Ghost and the Darkness" with Michael Douglas and Val Kilmer, is an absolute masterpiece (which, for me at least, it was.)
In any case... A was8of time.
Halo (2022)
Finally! Good story!
Don't believe the naysayers here.
Halo s1 is probably not as good as the Expanse, but it's light-years ahead of the botched job they did on Asimov's Foundation.
Finally there is a cinematic story for Halo. And it's good. The characters are interesting and the tech is fun.
Watch and enjoy!
Goliath (2016)
Great, going headscratching.
Season one was a masterpiece.
Season two was slightly disappointing in the end.
Season three got lost in flash backs and I abandoned it
Wiil check season four with little expectation.
Dune (2021)
Dune, the way Frank Herbert would have wanted it.
This movie is pure poetry. It plays at the pace it was written for, vintage 1965. The scenes perfectly fit the narrative, the movie makes perfect use of state of the art graphics, and the acting is right on the money.
It's a dark story of betrayal and stunning rise.
I don't say this lightly, because I usually find imperfections in SF movies. Not in this one. Yes the pace is slow, but that is how it's supposed to be.
Watch it. If you appreciate art, you will not be disappointed.
Missions (2017)
Disappointing
I was thrilled at the idea that a SF series in french had been released and I started the first episode with anticipation.
What I saw was abysmal.
The script is weak, the cast is poor, and the acting is so bad I had to cringe.
The only reason why I even managed to go through the first episode is some ill-inspired solidarity to French since I'm a native french speaker.
If you want to watch quality SF, go to the Expanse.
This is clearly not on the level.
Mad Men (2007)
Telenovela Mexicana... without the drama
I was really excited about starting to watch Mad Men. The Attention to detail in era reenacting is excellent, and the idiosyncrasies on misogyny, racial discrimination, inappropriate professional environment are all there if sometimes over the top.
The first episode was a great introduction and I literally licked my chops in anticipation.
Then...
Nothing.
Absolutely NOTHING happens during the whole season up to episode 8 where I abandoned it altogether.
You'd get more thrill watching paint dry.
Such a huge disappointment.
Avoid.
Skylines (2020)
Bad. Couldn't finish it.
I expected B movie category. Sadly this movie didn't even get that far. The plot is childish and full of holes. The science is... Not science. The tech comes from a hodgepoge of pieces gathered from a 70's tech level dump lighted in blue or yellow. The acting is wooden. The cgi makes no sense. The progress of the story is best described with a "???"
I couldn't even make it to the end "to know how it ends".
Avoid at all costs
Tenet (2020)
Unwatchable
There are few movies I walk out of before the end.
Tenet is one of them.
I went through an hour and six minutes of absolute boredom and inability to achieve suspension of disbelief.
This is a movie that attempts to play on pseudo scientific "tenets" and fails miserably.
Avoid at all costs.