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28 Days Haunted (2022)
The most ridiculous thing I've ever seen...
Honestly, I have difficulties believing this show is actually serious. Nothing in this is actually believable. Scientifically, nothing is backed up, we have to believe that everything is the real deal based on just what they're "feeling" or "hearing" or "seeing". There seems to be a contest between these "Paranormal investigators" (give me a break) and "psychics" (mwarf) or "demonologist" (don't start me on that one) for who will "feel" and "sense" the most things in a minimal time. I mean, seriously, they haven't been in the various places 10 mn and they already go "oh something touched me on the head" or "I feel a lot of blood has been shed here". And everything is on par. Everything looks set up, fabricated, faked, they say it's been shot in 28 days, but it could have been done in three days or a week, there's nothing to prove otherwise.
The top of the top being when the "demonologist" (*giggles*) starts an exorcism and, when something falls from a shelf (emphasis on "falls" as opposed to "is hurled across the room at the "exorcist"), the guy start to yell "don't try to attack me, I will not be repelled" (or something similar). Burst of laughter guaranteed.
To make things clear, If you want a scare or a ghost story, go watch the first Amityville or one of the Conjuring movies, they're much more believable (considering they're fictions, that tells a lot).
On the other hand, If you're looking for a good laugh, you might want to consider watching. But just the first and last episodes, more would be too much.
Lumière! (2016)
A must see for anyone really interested in cinema
Others have explained the details so let's just say this :
1/ this is a collection of some of the first movies ever seen on a big screen, cinema being invented right in front of your eyes (first film that's been projected in a movie theater (or what would pass for a movie theater at the time), first travelling camera, first special effects, first everything !
And 2/ what you can see right in front of your eyes is the real 19th century (even when it's shot in 1905. The first years of the 20th century were not very different from the last ones of the 19th). Not a recreation. It's the real thing. People, clothes, technology, transportation, everything. And just for that, it's priceless. And a bit unsettling when you realize that people at the time were not that different from people of today (Like that woman in London waving at the camera or those kids in Jerusalem making fools of themselves because they know they are filmed. Cinema is just a few months old and they already behave like it's been in their life forever).
And don't miss the reel with the vietnamese kids running after the camera, it's lovely.
(Some say that you can see these reels on youtube. It's true, but the image quality on the bluray is much, much better).
Gantz: O (2016)
Impressive animation and a rather good adaptation overall
This is one of the best manga adaptation I've seen, right after Akira and Ghost in the Shell (Mamoru Oshii's version). Well, that might be a bold statement since Gantz: O doesn't have the depth of these two, but it's a rather good adaptation of a segment of Hiroya Oku's manga, quite entertaining, and very, very well made. The motion capture is impressive, the best I've seen so far in this kind of production and leaves far behind the various declensions of Final Fantasy, Halo, or resident Evil (the animated ones). It's so good that I often had the impression to be watching live actors. The facial expressions are perfect, down to the glittering eyes that gives these animated characters the sparkle of life that's often missing in Asian CGI animation. No doubt this movie will be a reference for future productions of that type. Otherwise, just an advice, don't look away or be distracted in the five last minutes or you might be baffled by what's going on (I had to watch the end twice because someone talked to me at the worst moment and I missed the one sentence that was the key to it all).