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Thor: Love and Thunder (2022)
Disney has ruined Marvel rip Stan Lee
I feel sorry for Stanley Lee he is turning over in his grave.
Disney has ruined Marvel and I can no longer take it.
I write very few reviews but I cannot stand by and watch this and let this movie get away with desecrating desecrating his memory.
Almost everything about this movie is terrible.
The writing , the acting , the actors and the directing unbelievably bad.
I don't know why I gave it 2 stars I believe a one star would be disingenuous since there were maybe 10 minutes of the movie that had some entertainment but otherwise not not worth the 2 hours of my time. If anyone at Disney is listening or reading this please go back to the original Marvel movies look what they did and make the appropriate changes to future Marvel movies.
Wonder Woman (2017)
Horrible badly written acted and terrible special effects
ONE OF THE WORST MOVIES I'VE SEEN IN A LONG TIME WITH A ACTORS. I AM NOT GOING TO RANT TOO LONG, ALREADY WAISTED TOO MUCH TIME WATCHING THEMOVIE.JUST KNOW THIS IS THAT BAD. UNFORTUNATELY I HAVE TO WRITE A CERTAIN NUMBER OF Characters IN ORDER FOR IMDb TO PUBLISH MY REVIEW. I ALSO WISH THERE WAS A WAY TO BE REIMBURSED FOR THE $ AT THE THEATER I SPENT BUT WE ALL KNOW HOW THAT IS. I WAS ALSO VERY DISAPPOINTED TO FIND RACE AND POLITICS IN THIS MOVIE, I WILL MAKE CERTAIN NOT TO WATCH ANY OTHER MOVIES DIRECTED BY Patty Jenkins. TO Quote ANOTHER REVIEWER HE HITS MOST OF THE PROBLEMS.
" Weird accent. Gal Gadot couldn't fake an American accent, so they had everyone else try to talk like her.
- Young Diana. The primary purpose is to elicit a 'cho chweet' response. She is a demi-god. There is no self discovery... why is she different, stronger than everyone else; how does that affect her?
- The 'train her, don't train her' non-issue. Diana gets combat trained despite her mother (and Queen!) not consenting. The arising conflict should have taken more than 2 lines of dialogue to be resolved. This would have also impacted Diana, her mother didn't want her to learn combat and suddenly wants her to be the best. Why? This is a page right out of Zack Snyder's Martha handbook of resolving issues.
- Fighting. The creative decision was that Amazonians don't fight, they ballet. Every jump, swing from a rope, shooting an arrow, getting off a horse is a dance move. It just looked ridiculous.
Strike a pose: WW literally poses in each and every shot. She has her shoulders pushed back like she is trying to make her shoulder blades meet. It looks unnatural and odd. The poses are the exact same as in BvS. There is...wrists crossed in front of the face, crouching behind the shield, standing in a wide stance and the jumping pose with one knee bent. And they are shot exactly the same as in BvS. They probably just reused clips. They are not poses in the middle of a range of movements. It's pose, pause for 5 secs, next pose, pause for 5, repeat.
Humour: This is not comic relief. They dedicated a continuous 15-20 min segment and it all stems from the cultural differences between the Amazonians and us. The bath scene, sleeping in the boat, the secretary, the clothes trials... all stems from the same issue. It's the same material stretched for 15 mins and frankly gets tiresome.
Villain: In a weak attempt to create twist, the villain is introduced late in the film. There is no time to associate with the character. The villain exists simply as someone to be fought.
Final battle: Visually, this sequence is identical to the doomsday fight in BvS. If someone mashes these 2 scenes up, it will be hard to differentiate one from the other.
The McGuffin: There is no reason given why WW goes into hiding. What is the entire deal with the photograph and the secrecy? There's so much focus on this but it's not resolved.
Gol Gadot: O!M!G! Could there possibly be a better WW? But she's posing and grunting though the entire movie. Very off putting. Her acting skills fluctuate quite a bit too. Perhaps since her character also fluctuates. WW goes from being head strong, doing what SHE wants, to naive and easily persuaded, to emotionally distraught by the horrors of war, to a super hero that's reckless. BTW since she has no clue of the real world, how does she know if she's fighting on the right side? Also considering Amazonians are warriors, for whom battle training is the only form of recreation, why is she horrified by war?
Fight Choreography: Other than the training sequence, the choreography is a close second if not at par with the fights in Captain America 2 but the slow motion ruins it completely. It's not used to accentuate the fight, every punch goes in to slo-mo. If! everything! is! accentuated! nothing! stands! out! This coupled with the grunting just spoils each fight."
Crossed the Line (2014)
Not enough money in the world to make this movie watchable
the lead guy does have solid presence it wasn't until half way though that I realized this was some cheap b grade rubbish. All the mafiosi tropes are here getting gunned down at a restaurant to the rat to revenge to you get the idea. The soundtrack shifted the tone so wildly that it gives you the feeling of different editors. They should have stuck to the gritty rock stuff instead of Italian arias at the hit whilst everyone does in slow mo...I kid you not. All of it reeks of some student effort: Constant time shifts...excessive narration...useless scenes. Bad acting with washed up actors, who are the 9 persons that gave this a 10 must have been paid by the director. Just awful.
Shutter Island (2010)
Very bad movie, jumps all over the place, does not make any sense
I have no idea how this gets such a high rating, but this movie is terrible. Very unrealistic and full of flaws. I would not waste my $ on this one. I would rather keep this short but I have to keep writing in order for this to be posted. If you have nothing better to do with you time, and like Leonardo Decaprio, then you may have to watch but have something else to do while it is on.Not sure what else one can say about this, in order to comply with this sights policy, when a movie is bad, its just bad. it goes off in all different direction, not making much sense. I watch all kind of movies and this one will be on the top of my least liked.
Damages (2007)
Liberal motivated unrealistic and poorly written
Please don't waste your time just another Hollywood soap opera, same old stories, different faces. The show is rarely overambitious or pretentious, mostly just dull and unoriginal. The first problems are a couple of incomprehensible moments. Young lawyer Ellen is being interviewed for a job at a law firm and the head interviewer is apparently upset that she didn't tell him earlier that she had been contacted by a rival firm. Presumably this was a response to her hesitating to sign the contract placed in front of her, but it was never conveyed that that was what she was even doing. Obviously you read a contract first, not just sign it immediately, right? So what logic is there in him assuming she has some other reason for not signing immediately? Doesn't make sense. Then later he goes to a bar to find her, and has her "autograph" the back of a business card, which makes no sense, and she does it as though she thinks it's normal, which makes even less sense.