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Invincible (2021)
The biggest problem of the series is its lack of management.
This series is so poorly managed by amazon that I am speechless. Why is Amazon, which pours a lot of money into producing terrible products for famous brands, so reluctant to pour money and resources into this series that people like? The lack of resources and cheapness of the series is so obvious that they included a sequence in which the 4th wall is broken, explaining how they are trying to cover up the inadequate resources in the series. This is the same reason why the second season was divided into two parts and released with such a long interval. If I were the head of Amazon, I would directly fire the managers who squandered it, ignored it, and did not allocate resources after releasing a valuable product.
Cobra Kai (2018)
Lazy writing
The series constantly creates drama with misunderstandings between characters in order to move the story forward. I don't really like this concept anyway, but I can accept it happening once or twice in a good story as a plot catalyst. But the series throws one after another at you. Watching the dramas of unnecessary, meaningless misunderstandings unravel over and over made me so faint that I couldn't continue watching the series.
The part of the movie that I liked is that the main character tries to get out of his bad situation in life with effort and effort. Learning from his mistakes and then improving his behavior. Questioning what happened to him and what he did. Trying to come to peace with his past enemies and personal demons. If the series had focused only on this, I would have watched it with my mouth watering.
Fallout (2024)
Amazon has finally found a brand that they have chemistry with and that they can adapt successfully.
Apparently, the budget was generous. I loved the stage designs, costumes, and visual creation of the world. I think the creators of the series have the right hearts, and I am convinced that they care about the world in the games, become familiar with it, and bring it to the screen. I also felt like the actors absorbed the characters.
The most likely criticism that I guess people will bring to the series, especially from fans of the first two games and New Vegas, is that the series is made too comedic, the seriousness is reduced, and the serious concepts in the source material are lacking. I strongly disagree. Fallout was always a bit of a post-apocalyptic world parody. The intensity of this increased in the third game. In the 4th game, this became the dominant atmosphere in the story. As someone who hasn't played 76, the series continues from where the 4th game left off the brand, so it didn't bother me at all. Moreover, I find it quite shallow those who believe that a work becomes valuable only with serious topics and philosophical depth.
Grimm Kumikyoku (2024)
Only the first is truly a variation
The first episode is perfect bait to keep you watching. A new perspective on the original story and characters. It's a representation of what this series should be. All the remaining chapters use almost only the names of the stories and characters. In them, it seems like they did it not to produce a variation, but to push the concept as much as they could from the original. And the places they bring the stories just feel forced.
'Cinderella' is so good. 'Little Red Riding Hood' and 'The Elves and the Shoemaker' had good ideas for the subtext in which they wanted to shift the focus of the story, but they could not implement it very well. In the remaining three, they simply threw story ideas at the audience that they thought would look cool, without giving them any serious thought.
I think they handled a child abuse element very wrongly in the last story, and that bothered me most.
The Hunger Games (2012)
One casting to ruin them all
It was truly a wrong decision to cast Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss. The lack of chemistry and compatibility with the role was so glaringly obvious to me while watching.
People might think that looking older than a young girl is not an issue, but I believe it's quite problematic. After all, the age of the main character has significant implications for many plot mechanics. If the main character appears too mature in appearance, it could make it much harder for the audience to buy into the drama of the story, which revolves around a teenager trying to fill the role of her mother.
The real issue is indeed the complete lack of compatibility between Lawrence's acting and the character. She plays the character with an incredible emotional constipation. It's clear they wanted her to portray a character who struggles to express her emotions, but I can't think of a word better than "cringe" to describe how she translates that onto the screen. The character's intended pride, strength, and personality all got crushed and vanished due to Lawrence's attempt to sell her shyness through an edgy, forced role.
The strong concept, storyline, and world-building are undermined with Lawrence's acting. The main material of this film indeed has a truly solid. The screenplay does have plot convenient events happening, but these could have been seamlessly integrated into the film with good acting. However, the mismatched casting of the main character makes it glaringly obvious.
Interstellar (2014)
They said it was one of the most scientific space movies. Was it really?
We can say that the film is truly the most realistic film about relativity and the flow of time. These already constitute a very serious part of the movie. I think the movie also taught people that they need to think in three dimensions when imagining a wormhole or black hole. I applaud this too. The limits of the film's scientific nature are drawn here.
The rest is the drama of the time difference that relativity creates between family members. If you were to ask whether the film is more drama-focused or science-heavy, it's definitely overwhelmingly drama-focused. At one point, the film almost says it in its own words: drama over science. The time travel part was specifically designed to serve drama, not science fiction. I find the portrayal of time travel as a loop in movies very cheap, clichéd, and unnecessary, so that part always deducts a lot of points from the movie for me.
Of course, none of these comments mean that the movie is bad. A film with high visual and emotional value. The science and space part is imagination nourishing. But marketing or referring to it as hard science can be a mislabeling.
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023)
A movie that can even be said to surpass the main trilogy
Very good decisions were made both while writing the source material of this film and during its production.
Let me start with the source material first. I hadn't read the book yet when I watched this movie. Readers say that the film is faithful to the main material almost word for word. That's why I will write everything I liked about the plot as plus points for the book.
As a prequel, I loved where the story positioned itself regarding the hunger games. I loved that the anger and pain of war were still alive here, while it was an established culture and entertainment in the main trilogy. I loved that games were not a cultural acceptance, but an innovation that people still question morally. I loved that they were making games so amateurishly and simply because they were decades behind from the main story in technology and experience. I loved that Snow, as a villain, was a real character stuck between what life had thrown at him, the system, and his loved ones. For a youth literature work, I greatly appreciated both its fiction and characters.
In terms of the decisions taken during the shooting of the film, I loved their aesthetic choices. Considering the futuristic atmosphere of the original series, I liked the atmosphere of the 80s and 90s America in this story, which takes place almost 70 years in the past. Casting was perhaps the biggest problem in the main trilogy. Here, the harmony of the cast with the roles was very successful.
In conclusion, I think this movie is not appreciated as much as it deserves.
The Office (2005)
Was there really a need for the last few seasons?
I started the series with prejudice. Humor through cringe is not a genre I prefer. My sense of shame for someone else is very strong and makes me very uncomfortable. That's why I didn't think I could really warm up to this series. I was so wrong. Dwight, in particular, is an exceptionally written character and brought to life on screen with great talent. Towards the middle of the series, I was completely absorbed.
With Michael's departure, the series is already in decline. But I don't know if they ran out of ideas or the writers changed, Dwight and Andy's character changes completely and they are thrown somewhere far from their original ones. Dwight and Micheal are the pillars that carry the series, and when one of them leaves and the other becomes unrecognizable, the series loses its solidity. I don't prefer romance in sitcoms, so Pam and Jim were always the weak point of the series for me. Andy might not have been that much of a problem, but since the character has turned into a despicable one that goes beyond cringe, it reduces the pleasure of watching.
Maybe it would have been better if they left the series while it was at its peak.
Friends (1994)
Friends, lovers, spouses
It was a really nice journey. But I am one of those who say the less romance and love in my sitcoms, the better. Even though the name of the series is Friends, there is only 1 person out of 5 who has not been romantically involved with anyone other in group. Interestingly, that character is the only one which I didnt like in the series and would never be friends with in real life.
It's hard not to like Joey and Chandler in particular. The bromance scenes between them gave me more pleasure than all the other flirting scenes in the series. Not just them, all these characters, written beautifully and equipped with unique personality traits, are brought to the screen with good acting.
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
I don't get it
It's never happened to me before that a movie's sense of humor didn't resonate with me at all. There were some works whose sense of humor I did not like, and there were some that I liked but did not appeal to me. But there was never a one that I couldn't understand. 'Is this a comedy element?' and 'I think I should laugh' were the things that came to my mind more. I didn't experience the same thing with Life of Brian, I appreciated and laughed that one.
Still, I didn't want to give a lower score, I generally prefer to give lower scores to productions that have created some negative feelings or repulsiveness in me due to their subject or the way they were made.
Crazy, Stupid, Love. (2011)
The feel-good romance and family movie that just perfectly works
A very refreshing movie. There are no cartoonish villains, no overly dramatic scenes, no artificial suffering created by unnecessary misunderstandings. There is a group of people who are just humans. There are children, adolescents, adults and middle-aged people who are trying to cope with themselves, their situations and their relationships. They want to be happy, they chase what they want. When you say it like that, it sounds very serious or deep. That's not it, it deals with a wide variety of relationships with very good humor. I think it's impressive that it managed to handle such a wide range of relationships, from the ex-wife to the platonic older girl in the next door, by doing justice to all of them and making the audience laugh.
Joker (2019)
The fact that the audience is so inclined to connect with Arthur sends negative messages about their perceptions.
I'm behind new interpretations of the characters and stories as long as they don't embarrass the original.
They wanted to tell a joker origin story whose mental distress got out of control and pushed to extreme behavior due to society and the system. I found 'The Killing Joke' more compelling as it delved into the swift and intricate changes in human mental health and psychology , fragility of sanity. The plot that Joker was already a disturbed person and started killing people when he couldn't get what he wanted from life and his medicines didn't impress me to the same extent. I didn't like that the audience was so enthusiastic about such a drama. Arthur is too much of a victim, too weak, to be a villain or anti-hero that I can appreciate.
Also, there is a cliché in this movie that some of the plot or characters are not real and are only in the mind, and I am one of those who find this form of storytelling meaningless.
Of course, it is very successful in terms of cinematography and acting. With such a qualified team, no one expected anything else. I was able to appreciate the movie in this sense.
Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016)
The film was made so carelessly and just for the sake of making it that it is pointless to even criticize it.
It's obvious that something really went wrong behind the scenes, but as a viewer just looking at the final product, I don't care about the details.
No matter how cheesy, popcorn or even fanservice it was, the series was consistent within itself until the end of the 5th movie, and each episode was following the path opened by the previous one. The direction that the finale of the 5th film drew for the 6th film showed that we would say goodbye to the series with a good finale. Then, behind the scenes, the consistency and continuity of the series was completely thrown away. Plot convienence reaches such an absurd level that no argument such as I want and get the brainless action can be defended anymore.
For me, I would be happier if they didn't even attempt to close the curtain with such a lack of effort, hitting rock bottom in indifference, but instead left the series unfinished, allowing people who enjoy it to speculate with their imagination about what could happen next.
Jimmy Carr: Natural Born Killer (2024)
Jokes toned down on offensiveness compared to previous
I am someone who follows foreign standups almost only on Netflix. Jimmy Carr has his own offensive humor. When I searched for something similar, I couldn't find it, at least not on Netflix. There was no one who gave me the feeling of "You couldn't have really said that" as much as this man. In this show, I don't know if it was Netflix, Carr's advancing age, or the current structure of society, I felt like he wasn't using his punches fully and was holding back. There were a few positive messages squeezed in that you sometimes come across in standups. I wonder if this was a Netflix commission or the artist's own choice. It made me laugh out loud in a few places, but I'd like to see a Jimmy Carr getting filthy beyond comprehension.
Rebel Moon - Part Two: The Scargiver (2024)
If you so disliked the first movie, why did you rush to watch the second movie as soon as it came out?
The crew that spewed hatred for the first movie, then watched the second movie in one breath as soon as it was released, and then ran all the way here to complain about it. I swear, I really can not understand this behaviour. The lynching frenzy in the first movie still continues.
This movie is not a masterpiece. It's not as bad as people make a fuss about it. It's a movie that has enjoyable aspects, cheesy aspects, cheap aspects and good/bad aspects. You might even call it a popcorn space opera film. I think there is progress after the first movie. The first movie was more messy. The fact that the movie takes place in a single location this time is also a factor in this.
Seriously, the guy who made this movie loves slow motion, I understand a lot of people don't enjoy it that much. Frankly, it appeals to me because, when you are someone who consumes a lot of movies, too much rushing around the screen can tire you out. That's why this movie felt soothing to me.
Especial de Natal: Se Beber, Não Ceie (2018)
When satire is made on religion, I prefer it to be based on a sharp intelligence and not just crude.
Making fun of religion is something I greatly appreciate. Especially on the illogicalities and contradictions in the nature and content of religion. I think parodies of religious characters are also a great thing. But this movie just makes me feel like a group of weed lovers who think they are smarter than they are, made a skit about what it would be like if religious figures were like them. People who like to party, are fond of women and getting high, and have a crude sense of humor. Perhaps, the fact that they portray the evil figure in religion as a sane ordinary person may be evidence of how superior they subconsciously see themselves to decent people. It's not particularly bad, but on the other hand, it doesn't have much to praise about. One inevitably compares it to Life of Brian, which stands out in this field, and this work is inferior to that film.
The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)
The best inspirational biopic I've ever watched
You know the so-called inspirational, pseudo-personal development biographical success stories, the most common type of this genre. All of these follow certain formulas. From here you can understand that they are not related to real life. They are very motivated and obsessive about something, they first fail, this failure does not deter them, then they work hard and succeed. They come first in a tournament or make a big breakthrough. The film closes with victory celebrations. On the other hand, their love life is definitely squeezed in between. This is not that kind of movie.
While watching this movie, you see a man struggling with real difficulties and trying to find solutions to real problems. We have a main character who has to constantly strive and find solutions in various areas of life, such as family, career, basic needs. At the end of the movie, all his problems are not solved and he does not climb to the top of the world. If you are going to watch one inspiring life story movie in your life, it should definitely be this one.
Resident Evil: Retribution (2012)
You was betting on the wrong horse
As a viewer not-familiar with the games of this franchise, I found what I wanted, sexy women action with reasonably fan service outfits in a non-ordinary world. There is also no inconsistency in the story flow of the movies, no matter how cheesy and popcorn it is, that would bother me. In order to attract the audience who loved the movie series, they included the actors of dead characters in the script. And even in this, they have done it properly, in a way that does not disrupt the flow of the movie and is not lazy.
But they also tried to play to game lovers, and this was a decision that was doomed to fail from the beginning. This point is now the 5th movie of the series, 10 years have passed since the first movie. You have created an adapted but irrelevant world of your own, ignoring the atmosphere and ambiance of the games. You can find actors who are very similar to the characters in the game and bring as many of those characters to the screen as you want. You can also refer to them as much as you want. But in this point, at most you can make cheap imitations of them and you won't be able to sell them to game fans. Actually, I can't say that I'm complaining personally. This way, I saw an Asian who got into the action and killed monsters in a sexy local dress.
Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010)
There is no fanservice like before, I wish there was.
I'm not sure I would have enjoyed the movies if I wasn't binge-watching them like a popcorn series.
I like that they do not break the rules and consistency of the series' world and adapt to an inconvenient situation. The inconvenient situation in this movie is that Alice has become overpowered like a game character. That's why the character is nerfed very quickly.
In this movie, they also added a mini boss. The boss looks pretty decent, and the fight sequence is relatively successful. In general, I thought stage designs and vehicle designs were decent according to age's standards. I think the last boss fails compared to the mini boss. I can't believe they still haven't achieved this after 8 years and 4 movies. The monster at the end of the movie has to have some weight. Even if it is a popcorn movie. The final fights in this series are always very cheesy and anticlimatic.
Still, if you're watching this movie, you're watching it for one reason only, to see the models taking on monsters as if they were walking down a runway. The movie delivers this in one way or another.
Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)
Hotties vs evil corp in zombieland
In a major character development, Alice eventually learns that she would have an advantage in a zombie crisis if she dressed a little more protectively in the time between the previous movie and this one. She's still wearing a post-apocalyptic garter, but that's okay, there's progress.
Jokes aside, the dose of fan service has been toned down considerably and something close to a Mad Max style action movie with a zombie apocalypse has been shot. Still very popcorn movie though.
The final boss fight, which they screwed up with CG in the first movie but was relatively not bad in the second movie, is quite anticlimatic in this movie. It comes to an end in a very short time and does not offer much in terms of choreography. But apart from the boss fight, there is the pleasure of watching the action-packed fight of the survivors and a now completely superheroic Alice against zombies.
I find it enjoyable that they took the series in a relatively planned manner, moving from the laboratory scale in the first movie to the city scale in the second movie, and moving to the world scale in this movie.
As they do in every movie, they didn't forget to figure out where to take the subject in the next movie. The fact that they confidently shoot each film as if it were a series episode, as if the next one will come, makes me feel that there is a solid support behind them, both in terms of audience and production costs, even if the ratings of the film do not seem good.
Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004)
Still popcorn, still cheesy, still fanservice, still entertaining
Now I can't help but say it. Fanservice is all well and good, but in this work, which I wouldn't dare call a horror movie, there is upskirt footage while running away from zombies and there is a man who is horny for stripper zombies. Why, just why. Apart from that, those who made this movie really know how to push the male audience's buttons. After the first movie, while Milla Jovovich was continuing at full speed, they also added Sienna Guillory.
The CGs and creature visuals are much better overall. There is a huge improvement in the fight sequences and choreography. Good but in the cheesy category. Like the first movie, this movie is definitely not horror, it's more action adventure with gore and body horror.
Even though new films of the series have been released years apart, efforts have been made to build on the previous film, pave the way for the next film, and provide continuity. Apparently they treated it like a TV series episode rather than a movie.
Forrest Gump (1994)
How many times can a person find a treasure? I have never seen an actor as lucky as Tom Hanks to act in masterpiece scripts.
An excellent script and excellent acting. The film deals with almost every issue related to human life from a very humane perspective, through an egoless person. From love to war, from family problems to social problems. Tom Hanks did a great job playing Gump. But Gary Sinise hit me just as hard in the heart as Lieutenant Dan. It's incredible how a supporting character in a movie can complete such a deep, compelling story arc and character development. I think the most successful part of the movie is the way it deals with ordinary people serving in the American army.
It's really hard to like the character of Jenny, I guess a lot of people can't connect to this character as much as I do. She, too, goes through its own story arc and character transformation in a fairly complete way, but it leaves a bit of a bitter aftertaste because it's a bit too tragic and toxic. This doesn't take away any enjoyment from the film because her presence adds depth to Forrest's character and is the catalyst for some very powerful scenes.
It's definitely a masterpiece that must be watched.
Resident Evil (2002)
Despite being a rather cheesy and popcorn adaptation of a game, they know how to hypnotize the audience.
Yes, the CGI is awful. Yes, you can see the arrival of the plot twist from a mile away. Definitely a horror movie that lacks horror. But what can I say, the subject and concept are enjoyable, and they know well how to enchant the audience with a few clear formulas.
I had never thought that the horror genre could be pornofied. Even their attempts to choose actors in the film who are as handsome or beautiful as possible seem quite innocent compared to their other actions. Millo Johovic is almost always wet in a horror movie, she wears nightgown-like clothes, she undresses completely at the beginning and end of the movie, and in the middle of all this chaos and creatures, she flies and kicks zombies, half-naked, without fear in any scene. Even though there is always a corrupt company, hidden secrets and experiments going wrong, which are intriguing plot elements, but obviously the movie was tried to be marketed from somewhere else. That's obviously Milla's face and legs.
But definitely not from the boss. When the CGI of the main monster of the movie is this bad, it is very difficult to be afraid or take it seriously. So, although the zombie parts are not bad, every time the boss appears is like a joke.
Blood Red Sky (2021)
There isn't much in the script that will impress you, but the scenes look good.
Do not watch the movie for things like scenario, dialogues, logic, etc., this is not that kind of movie. I am already a fan of thrillers about being trapped in closed spaces such as planes, trains and ships. With good cinematography, make-up and visuals, this movie was perfect for me. I also like to see vampires with a successful monster aesthetic that will make you wet your pants when you see them, but not overly grotesque. If you're like me, give it a try.
There is nothing good to watch, either you have watched the popular movies of that period or they are not of interest to you. You are scrolling on the streaming platform, looking for a movie that will pass the time and give you moderate pleasure, but you do not have any expectations in general. This is the movie of those times.
Pardon (2005)
A work of tremendous mastery from one of the most valuable comedians produced by Turkey.
Ferhan Sensoy's death left a void in political humor that may never be filled. He was perhaps the only theater actor and comedian who could raise the morale of Turkey's secular and Kemalist people, who were used to being oppositionists and minorities, and who could make them smile on issues that upset them and reflect their pain, resentment and anger. A satirical movie that reflects the problems related to justice and society's mentality so well is something we rarely see on the screens, even in old Turkey. Now there is no one doing it. I am sure that Ferhan Sensoy and Rasim Oztekin are at peace in the tavern in the sky right now.