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Dune: Part Two (2024)
Sequel is a masterpiece
This sequel is a masterpiece of art, looking at its peers like Avengers Endgame this has created its own stratosphere. The slow churn of the part I sets this film to create what Marvel took a dozen films to do.
Although I must admit when I rewatched Part I I still felt like so many bits didn't stick, the planet, the race, all the family names. I felt like this didn't impact me for Part II, like any piece of Art it's better to appreciate more than once and over time.
It makes me think, this is like if Star Wars was created again from today, pure escape, pure cinema.
The visual and sound effects (Hans Zimmer) are perfect, not a futuristic city, just a desert wasteland captured in its essence. Just know, not every film maker can pull off riding giant worms.
Flowers have to be given to the casting and acting, each of these charectors stretch further into the best they can be. Timothee Chamelet's arc is spot on, Austin Butler makes a great psychopath. My favourite has to be Javier Bardem (Jilgar) who turns from a Jedi master of his craft to an absolute religious zealot, humorous throughout.
And let's not forget, as transported as I was throughout the quickest 3 hours of my life, many of this films themes of belief, power and control are clearly show influence from what happens in the real world. Just wish I got the popcorn bucket.
True Detective: Night Country: Part 5 (2024)
Head scratching material
I have not been a fan from the start, but I am in disbelief you can get close to several episodes and not find a good little turnaround or a few decent scenes out of this mystery that unfolded at the start.
Isn't True Detective all about unravelling the characters while they are working a case. What is this? They don't even have a basic outline of the case they are following. This is a stain to the True Detective branding. The writing is all over the place, you seem to know less about the characters the more they do.
I've feel like I have spent more time being a detective of who would approve this for a weekly release or why Jodie Foster thought this was a good gig.
True Detective: Night Country: Part 3 (2024)
Season5 will be a straight to stream film.
I had to write a review to lower the rating because at the moment it's misleading just like the True Detective brand this falls into.
It's slightly painful when you're watching something and as the character is talking and slowly divulging more you just want them to stop because you do not care about their story. This production needs to earn it. Build up the story, why this research centre? Why this part of the world? What is the significance of this detective looking into the case? We get the spiral signature 🌀 is there, you don't need to show us it 12 times, I very much enjoy watching shows that assumes the audience is smart, I avoid the ones which don't.
Like many others, I was drawn to the season in the hope that Season 4 would resemble anything like Season 1. Season 2-3 being average. Come on 4, do something.
Top Boy: If We Are Not Monsters (2023)
So there is no Top Boy?
A London Game of Thrones type season finale has turned up here. Seems lazy writing although some good performances remain throughout the cast. Barry Keoghan (Johnny) the new Irish contact is a good additional casting but the back story and depth of insight of the relevance of an Irish family removing the Moroccan connect lacked all kinds of creative storytelling. What was their value add there? Just chucked in a new opp for villains sake. A lot of the comparable Narco type seasons we watch now are much more detailed in the backstory of how operations work and the oppositions which crop up.
Kano's acting has been admirable throughout and Dushane's finale is commendable especially the closing relationship which entails by the garages.
Jaq's and Kano's character deserved a better close it would have been more interesting to show her taking the top spot than just stealing the food. At least show her locking off Sully now that she has grew a conscious for the first time.
The Pez Outlaw (2022)
A heartwarming master outlaw story.
Love Pez who didn't when you was a kid but had no idea about this story. What a light hearted very entertaining re-production of this warming tale that not only stroked the chords for a plan of a master outlaw but also the importance of family at the end of it all.
The main character Steve is a quirky kook who is worth the documentary on its own. The angle of the documentary shows just how simple it was many moons ago to arbitrage the supply chain of global markets. Similar things happen today on such a smaller time scale online but back in the Wild West (in this case Eastern Europe to America) these opportunities, and greed of man would stay open a lot longer !
Sweet to the core, had to share the review just to express how much I rather enjoyed it.
Yellowstone (2018)
Ranch Sauce!
This show to me is the idea of sticking the TV on for a spot of escapism. Instantly transported many miles away into the North American Yellowstone, Montana. The local ranch life, power struggle, chess playing politics and a lot of bodies quickly follow that!
We have here a great selection of characters to appreciate, relate and dissimilate from. John and Beth Dutton, plus Rip one of the wranglers on the Ranch are all fantastically written and portrayed.
Also does Kevin Costner age? He looks the same as the first movie I saw him in.
Some of the story writing I do struggle with though - how many people can you kill on these ranches and still fly under the radar!? Also is Jamie Dutton really some kind of malice character. They seem to write him to be in and out but I struggle to pick it up sincerely when his in the scenes.
You People (2023)
Great cast, awful script
This film did not need every conversation to be racially driven to be funny.
The cast were well picked and placed - some great comedians, good scenes and also the fashion was good too making it likeable and modern but the constant racial undertone of white this, black this was like a broken record in every scene.
Unfortunately I feel like half way through I was trying to work out if it was even funny or more annoying - weird to think when you have Jonah Hill and Eddie Murphy in the same sketch. Due to the constant racial commentary the romance storyline also seems to flop out of the bottom.
Fell short here could of struck it off better.
The Last of Us: Infected (2023)
Are we watching the same thing?
Surprised by the majority of super reviews of 9+. Whether you have played the game or not the series needs to me merited on its own accord.
Ellie is already annoying and clearly a liability to the cause. I'm not sure you ever walk around carelessly or juvenile in this environment plus I am not sure I can watch a dozen more scenes of Joel babysitting her at every step.
Tess, who is also in charge of protecting her in this episode managed to instruct her to get run away and ultimately sacrifice herself to save them some but then proceeds to stand there and do nothing but watch a dozen dead run past her before doing anything but kissing one in the final scene. What?
This world and the scenes they have created are clearly brilliant but I really need more here to give it a better creative writing review. Expected more out of the first two episodes. Can I restart the game?