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Game Changer: The Official Cast Recording (2021)
That was amazing
Hi ho, friends! I just loved this episode, all the players brought their A game and I wished the episode would never end. As Sam Reich says: it was like a tiny house I wanted to live in forever (or something like that).
A lot of things had to come together for this episode to work as well as it did and I feel privileged to have been able to watch it.
The musical show left me pretty speechless, which is not coming in handy, as there's a character limit to these reviews, but I'll just add that I hope a lot of people will see this one way or the other.
Also, very glad Gladys' name got cleared, those old ladies sure did her no favor.
Carnival Row: Carnival Row (2023)
Rushed and not living up to its potential
It feels a bit like you're read a bedtime story where the parent gets bored and ends it prematurely with "They all lived happily ever after, now go to sleep".
They did a decent job of trying to tie up loose ends, but you can tell that this wasn't the original scope and that messes with the pacing.
It also didn't help the New Dawn was introduced relatively late and felt a bit tacked on. I'm sure that was meant to be flushed out more in Season 3, but now it was a quick come and go.
Which is too bad, the world they build was pretty great, but it had more potential than this, and as a result the whole thing leaves me a bit underwhelmed.
Avengers: Endgame (2019)
Thanos would be disappointed, this movie is far from perfectly balanced.
The Marvel Cinematic Universe has given us a lot of great characters and pulling of a final movie that uses all their unique abilities equally was always going to be a near impossible task. Endgame is proof of that. It didn't feel like the Avengers became a real team or learned much during these 22 movies. Their plans and tactics felt amateurish. I was hoping for something deeper and cleverer, but that never materialized. It was entertaining, well produced and acted, but for me it never got near masterpiece territory.
A Religiosa Portuguesa (2009)
Unconventional Movie shows why conventions were established
I've only walked out a few films in my life. This was one of them. What annoyed me most was the unnatural way the actors were instructed to speak their lines. It took me out of the movie. And they were taking their sweet time too. Line - pause - line, like those learn-a-language tapes. Though intentional, this style was not consistently applied.
Also, there were only so many close-up shots of Leonor Baldaque's Bambi eyes I could take. Or panoramic shots of Lisbon. They are nice at first, the whole movie is aesthetically pleasing, but they lose their power the umpteenth time they are used.
Half-way through the audience was getting giggly. Not a good sign, as this isn't a comedy by far. It's just so ridiculously pretentious at times, that it's hard not laugh, or sigh.
When chapter V began, I darted out. Far from the only one in the audience to do so. Experiments are necessary, too bad this one failed as badly as it has.
On a positive note: for fans of decorative tiles, this is the must-see movie of the year.