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Jerry Maguire (1996)
Overhyped?
I mean, it has good quotes, it is kinda funny, and a bit moving. But the story is at the edge of cheesyness and makes often no sense. The whole story is so unreal
Fearless (1993)
Boring
Just boring. I think the movie was too unfocused, as it flirted with several themes, but nailed no concrete idea. Was the man really now fearless of death? Is he just going nuts? Did he discover a new purpose in life? For the most part, he just appeared as a jerk.
Either way, the most memorable scenes for me were the last 10-20 minutes, as more it's shown of what happened in the plane as it was about to crash, and his reaction in such a difficult situation.
Cidade de Deus (2002)
Good. Though Sin Nombre is better
It's a good movie. But the often happy-sounding music makes it all look much lighter and without consequence. The recent movie Sin Nombre is more cruel, which I think it's the point of such a movie type.
Black Mirror: USS Callister (2017)
Predictable
Didn't surprise me at all. The ending was flat.
Is this really season 4's best episode? :(
The Hunger Games (2012)
Avoid this
I just watched it to get to know this pop-culture piece. Overblown, terrible performances, worse script, ... what's to like?? I could have perhaps enjoyed the thing more if there were really more hunger games, but +1 hour was dedicated to bs sentimentalism and other blah. And well then, watching kids killing each other is also not my thing.
WTF and why is this movie so beloved????
Zen for Nothing (2016)
Too slow
I couldn't finish the movie, way too slow. It was half-way through the movie, and there was pretty much zero story development until then. I'm fine with slow movies, they just have to tell something in between, either with images, emotions, music, ... I think this movie tried to do that, but, IMHO didn't achieve it.
What I liked: the zen-like Japanese voice over messages.
Aliens (1986)
Insipid: Aliens is Alien but with more Aliens
It was a total disappointment for me. Why? Parallel plot to Alien 1, but without any surprise, nor horror or anxiety atmosphere.
It's almost the same script:
*-At the beginning everybody ignores Ripley, then she turns to be the heroine. Of course she has more abilities than any trained soldier. *-At the beginning everybody underestimate the real danger, then are wiped out. *-Same characters, the one to hate worried about science/money, the hysteric, the brute/warrior. *-If in the first movie a cat survives, and nobody knows why, in the second is the turn to the cute girl. Once you see her, you know she is gonna make it. *-The end the same: same last destruction of the complex, same alien in the last ship believing they are safe, same way to kill it.
So you end with the same storyline but without the surprise elements:
*-You know already the Alien. In the first it's totally uncertain. The only way to give more excitement is simple: more aliens. *-The characters are so recognizable, who is important who is not, that almost you can predict the order of their death. *-Another Robot. In the first movie he was the bad + Ripley hates immediately Bishop = the robot is good in this movie. *-So who is the bad? Again the one that is friendly, so predictable. *-The anguish in the first is achieved because they are in the space, unnatural environment for humans, and without no way to scape. In the second they are on ground settled in a base. *-There is no way Ripley, a child, and a paralytic robot, could avoid being vacuum by the space. *-James Cameron hasn't any original idea in this movie.
Conclusion: the title is perfectly chosen, Aliens is Alien but with more Aliens. It would be a good movie if the first didn't exist. Because it does, Aliens is not a good movie.