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3 Body Problem (2024)
Pseudo-Science BS and Plot Holes Galore
I haven't seen so many plot holes and pseudo-science bs since Lost came out. I have to admit it started quite alright if you could get past the pointless beginning, but after Episode 3 it turned into the most predictable borefest I have encountered lately. They should've ended it there and I'm almost scared of what nonsense Season 2 will bring. Hopefully, they will not waste more resources on it.
I have yet to experience a series that starts as a drama, switches to sci-fi, and then turns into pure comedy, because I could not stop laughing at the absolutely ridiculous plot devices the screenwriters employed just to get the story moving where they desired, even if in total dissonance to the story arch or to any logical narrative progression.
Such a waste of an offering book, could've been turned into a fantastic 2-hour film written by Charlie Brooker and directed by Dennis Villeneuve.
Malmkrog (2020)
200 minutes of dialogues in monologue format
It is really difficult to call Malmkrog a film. This wants to be the epitome of Romanian "cinema" that started decades ago the obnoxious trend of long wide shots of people standing at the kitchen table doing nothing, excruciating never-ending dialogues about nothing, 15-minute hand-held shots of people walking on the street, discount photography and barely no sound design, not to even mention the sub-par audio engineering, mixing and recording. It's hard to understand why anyone would finance something like this, except for Cristi Puiu's name, a director that to this day is better known for his commercials than his movies. And those commercials were created and written by an ad agency, go figure!
Anyway, Malmkrog can be better catalogued as a cinematic talk-show rather than cinema. It contains the fabulations (or ranting if you will) of a drunkard with split personality that keeps rambling on and on about... basically about nothing. This should've remained in its book form or at least made as an audiobook. But definitely NOT a movie!