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Station Eleven (2021)
Too pretentious to be interesting
Alone thing that the major and first arch of the story is about "shakespeare theatre" is the one that should warn me that the show will end in the artsy fartsy pseudo-post-apo mess. And it happened.
If someone after apocalypse would name himself a "lightouse of culture and civilization" and making ONLY Shakespeare plays as a travelling theatre troupe I would rather run away to amazonian rainforest to not get bored to death. Whole theatre plot is so pretentious that this hurts watching.
Moreover, everything is spiced with off-beat pseudo-classical score that don't match anything on the screen. Because classical score is so hip.
Rest is a complete chaos - story, plot, characters without any purpose, a lot of nonsense peeking out of every corner...
Maid (2021)
Shocking portrait of the degenerate society
From eastern european POV this picture is so intensely harsh that this is simple shocking. You see the picture of quite degenerated so called "highly developed capitalistic democratic" society, where single person means nothing if he has no dollar bill sticked to the face. Where "procedure" and civil servant is a master of life and death. Where people are extremly selfish, taking care only about their own business (yes, literally, business = as a pure balance of profit and loss)
Selfless help? Pragmatic approach? Simple human altruism? Humanism? Not at all. No dollar = no help.
If this picture is real in even smallest part, then the US society need to worry. Seriously.
Shocking, shocking. Greetings from Poland :)
L'amica geniale (2018)
Ruined by the bad acting
First episodes gave hope of well written and interesting show with excellent setup. After skipping time episode when we meet adolescent characters everything goes to a snore fest. Story is slow, not developing. All characters are very dull, not likeable. What is ruining the show are main roles of the friends. Actress playing Lenu is so incredibly stiff, emotionless, numb and mute - she barely says anything. Few lines for entire season. She looks like a tired person all the time and she looks like she is not having any fun playing in that show. Her acting drives the show down totally. Her friend Lily is on the contrary - her emotions are overacted, overplayed. Everyone in this show is sad, beaten or totally mean to everyone else. I don't find it any romantic. There is nothing cheerful in the show as everyone acts like he's going to literally kill somebody soon.
Despite well scenography and setting, the story is told in a very hard way. I don't know if book has the same feeling but the show makes you tired.
The Great (2020)
Insulting, vulgar show, infantile humour, tasteless...
I was expecting real deal - humorous show about Katherine II and those wild times in Russia and Europe even when I was pretty sure it would be totally loosely related to the history and inaccurate. This would be fine for me without any issues. What I just watched threw me to the ground.... This show is insulting to so many people/nationalities/history on so many levels that it is unbearable to accept it. It blows with vulgarity and stupidness straight to your face, telling you that this is funny. Humour is infantile, heavy, just stupid. Whole plot and story revolves around sex - everyone with everybody, everywhere. Nothing more. People are depicted as savages, brutal and barbaric. Everything is served without any sense of taste.
Casting is bad or very wrong. Understanding of reality even for inaccurate historical-like series is terrible. Maker even don't know who is the father of main character :) They simply don't care. Like they don't care about anything ps. I'm Polish but I can't stand such tasteless joking about Russians and about any nationality in general.
One star because of costumes and scenography. This is really fine thing.
Heat (1995)
This is total snorefest, overrated and overhyped movie
I watched this movie because of it's "cult" status. Never managed to went through it due to it's length when aired on TV with commercials. Now, I must say it is totally unwatchable - acting is overdramatic, plot is chaotic without any logic or consequence. I was trying to figure out anything for 1.5 hour but still I wasn't able to do so despite some obvious points in the plot. Filming is also very very bad - you can easily see bluebox pasting of characters. Colours are washed and scenes are set in very uniteresting way. There is nothing exiting in the movie, boring to the ground.
Acting is another story... Al Pacino - usual "show stealer" do here what is worst with his acting. Shouting, overacting, overdramatizing, wanting to cover everyone with his devilish performance... no. This doesn't fit here.
Atypical (2017)
How deeply society can fell and cope with problems - this show is all about it
I must say, that this show is very much disgusting to watch. It shows how "high developed" society has fallen down and collapsed completely. Where the family relations, managing illness of family member, managing relations between people are completely chaotic, emotionless, stripped of warmth and totally formatted to some kind of template. The picture of society totally reliable on psychoanalysis in every area of the life. Where your shrink and support group has strict rules, while anyone else has none. Wow. If this show depict something at least 50% true, then we're doomed. Very, very sad show.
Last Breath (2019)
Real story told in most boring way it could be
I expected this documentary to explore some background of a guy struggling for air and breath on the bottom of the sea. Accidents happen, so this one is not only and not unique. Instead of this we get extreme boring story, with a lot of suprising statements of the ship crew and divers that makes the whole thing quite hard-fetched. Then we get a lot bloated emotions. And that's basically it.