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The Terminal List (2022)
Decent enough but...
Series was decent - didn't give the entire story away at the start which was nice. Well made.
But at the end it just went south where the hero turned into the villain. The entire story is about how a dozen of his men were killed to cover up a medicine trial gone wrong. Yet in the end the "hero" has no problem killing countless secret service agents - yet they had nothing to do with this coverup at all.
Makes you wonder a bit who the real terrorist is. And the quote 'You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain...' - Mark Carrigan is so accurate for the Terminal List.
See (2019)
Only watched 10 minutes
Sorry but I just simply cannot watch a show that is simply impossible. There is just no way for humans to survive as a species whilst being blind. It would be better if they just had absolutely terrible eyesight, I could kind of buy that.
But try making a fire blind, good luck with that. Or forging a blade for that matter.
I mean at some point people reading the script must have thought "hmm wtf is this writer smoking and where can I get some?".
Ad Astra (2019)
Shouldn't have been a scifi
How to easily remove all the scientific faux pas? Don't make it a scifi movie. This movie's story should have taken place 400-500 years ago. Then the distances could have been relatable to people not familiar with any astronomy. And because they are not relatable or understood by even the writers themselves...It would just be easier to write it to take place in the 15th or 16th century. Here are a couple of things I noticed at the theatre:
1. Why exactly does he have to go to mars to send a message? The laser was destroyed on earth is the reason they give in the movie. Have you heard about radio waves to mars then laser that to neptune?
2. He sends a message to neptune and then they wait for a response. Something that seems to take minutes in the movie. In reality this response would take 8 hours. The distance between Mars and Neptune is 28.5 AU roughly, in light minutes that would be 4 hours. Round trip: 8 hours.
3. Why do you need a zero decibel room on a mars base? Guess just adds to the scifi feeling?
4. If your pulse has never gone above 80 you probably have a heart defect.
5. Falling from very high altitude is no joke. You break the sound barrier within 90 seconds - didn't see anything like that in the movie. Seriously missed opportunity.
6. So a antimatter reactor sends off some weird electro-storms or something that destroys equipment 29AU away...But is unaffected itself? Radiation and sound waves and such degrade exponentially with distance. On earth they would get the radiation dosage inversely proportional to the square of the distance. And 29 AU is quite some distance.
7. Ride a shockwave home? Do I even need to?
8. Stop the ship for an emergency beacon? The writers obviously don't understand how much energy it takes to start and stop ships in space.
9. He travels from Mars to Neptune in what in the movie feels like days. The distance is 50 times longer than it is from Earth to Mars. And it takes a long time to travel from Earth to Mars.
10. Talking about #9, I really feel like this is the same issue we have with mercato projections of maps. I really wish we'd stop doing them. If you can't depict what you're trying to describe in a elementary school textbook correctly - find a different way to do it correctly without using math that is beyond the reader.
I got bored writing now. Why is the movie nice? It's a high budget movie with all that it entails. Nice cinematics, familiar faces, decent music.
Nobility (2017)
Beauty filter? Why?
You start watching and the cast are actually fairly successful actors - well some of them at least. If you've seen other sci-fi series like Star Gate, Star Trek, The Expanse, The Strain etc...You'll be familiar with a lot of the cast.
The problem is that the budget seems to have gone into that cast almost entirely. The set is comparable to what they used in the 60s. The special effects about 15 years old I'd say, or well of that quality at least. I.e a good kid with a computer and time can probably pull something better off nowadays.
The acting is alright I suppose but the camera angles and the writing of the show is not. The jokes seem very forced and there's just too many clichés. When the show starts you think you're watching a parody, which is alright - but you're not. And then it's not alright all of a sudden.
But the worst thing is the apparent bad use of green screens and the HORRENDOUS BEAUTY FILTER. Seriously the entire thing is shot with a beauty filter which makes EVERYTHING look slightly smudged out. It just blows my mind how you can do this.
Återträffen (2013)
The definition of passive aggressive
So this is a revenge flick basically. But instead of blood and gore, you'll get awkward scenes with the antagonist and the protagonists. It kind of feels like when people get in their mid 30s and 50s they completely forget how children think and act. And all bullying is because the children are malevolent and evil.
This is one of those movies where it's not clear if the main character is really the hero, or if she is actually the villain. Using her newfound power -she now being a successful filmmaker. To take revenge on people that had unintentionally hurt her in the past.
The movie is so incredibly passive aggressive it's just mind blowing. And the storytelling is so incredibly one sided - her perspective of all the events that were bad in her childhood. She has zero empathy for her classmates as an adult, which is probably why she had no friends as a child.
But because this movie is about bullying, everyone must rate it super high. It deserves 3 stars out of 10, and that's for successful awkward scenes.
Wild (2014)
Uh
I like Reese Whiterspoon, I think she's great.
However, this movie is just so incredible boring. I ended up fast forwarding through most of it.
It's about a girl in her 30s that has gone through an emotional ordeal. To get back on her feet she decides to walk from Mexico to Canada without any experience walking at all.
For hikers this movie is going to be a joke. For me, it's just mildly entertaining in its attempt to depict possible problems that arise from walking.
In the end, this movie is not worth seeing if you don't completely adore Reese Whiterspoon and has seen every single movie she has starred in. Sorry but this movie is not for me.
Hodejegerne (2011)
Good movie but irrational behavior from rational characters
As with most people I haven't seen many Norwegian movies. I found this flick whilst googling movies and I just saw it. It is excellent, the acting, the characters and the scenery. All excellent.
However, what's very confusing is the irrational behavior from rational characters. You'll leave the sofa wondering, why the heck did the character do that to obtain this when he could just have done something else and it would have been so much more believable. It would have been fine if the movie had characters that were impulsive and irrational. However, these weren't.
For spoilers: What I meant with the above text was that the character Clas Greve (played by Coaster-Waldau) had obtained hes objective almost instantly in the movie, but he went ahead and slept with Roger's wife and completely fubar'ed the entire situation for himself. For me it is impossible to believe that a CEO of a large company in hes 40s can't keep hes dick in hes pants when there's a billion dollar deal on the line. You don't get to that position by being irrational.
The second half of the movie is a dark farce where Roger gets into more trouble for each minute. And the movie does it magnificently.