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Monsters (2010)
Dumb with even dumber characters
This could have been really nice movie, it really could have, but unfortunately the plot has huge holes and the dialogue is absolutely mindbogglingly idiotic.
You see, the main character is in Mexico and needs to get to the USA, but she has lost her passport on the most idiotic way possible (I won't spoil how) and decides "Everything is okey-dokey here, my daddy is rich as hell and I have a diamond ring worth $20,000, I could go south and get a ticket on a plane to America, or better yet contact an embassy and get them to haul my sorry hide back home... Naah! I rather hire few Mexican hillbillies to take me and my douche-bag photographer pal through a jungle filled with giant dinosaur-octopusses!"
During their trip they have these completely out-of-place conversations about how they have gotten fed up with their meaningless bourgeois lives and how nothing they have seen during their happy forest-trip matters... not even after they find a bunch of dead Mexicans (including a little girl) half-eaten by the octopussy-elephants, no sir-ee they just continue to complain how USA has build giant concrete wall to keep the alien-octopusses at bay... it's like a bunch of goth-kids who watch TV-news about some foreign war where thousands have died and go "Meh" in the comfort of their home, not at all how real people would react if they would be in a life threatening situation that just keeps on continuing and getting worse. On the other hand, they are not in any danger as the giant octopussy-crabs don't seem to like to eat or harm white people at all. If there's three cars with the white couple in one of them, the aliens seem the be very careful just to trash the other two.
On the plus side I have to say that the cameraman has been bloody excellent and the movie has some really beautiful shots from the rainforest and the river. The beautiful photography alone is just not enough to create any significant atmosphere for this movie, it would require some chemistry between the two main actors and dialogue that wouldn't sound like it has been written by some 16-year old spoiled brat.
Witch Hunter Robin (2002)
Looks pretty but nothing much else
Boring and slow series with horrible pacing.
Characters don't seem to have a clue about anything, nobody's given proper motivation for doing anything and the scary Solomon organization seems to be more disorganized than kindergarten aged children's "My Little Pony" fan club. The main character seems like a melodramatic parrot, whose only offering to any conversation is repeating the last word from previous speakers sentence.
For some reason the music is happy j-pop instead of darker, more heavy metal/rock/classical which would have fitted the series better. Art and characters look pretty, but animation is actually quite lazy, with the characters just mostly sitting or standing around and maybe moving their heads a little bit.
There is no atmosphere of mystery, oppression or horror, just boredom.