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2/10
Fails Even at Being Good Trash: A Monument to Missed Opportunities
26 September 2023
It's astonishing how many logical inconsistencies this movie has. Usually, I can turn off my brain and enjoy films of this sort, but that's difficult here. Many scenes come across as thoughtless and shallow. The film does attempt to include exaggerated moments with a wink, but fails miserably at it. These scenes are so poorly executed that you can't help but shake your head at the wasted potential. It seems as if these over-the-top scenes are there just to distract from the lack of attention to detail in the screenplay. If you're going to make a trash film, at least have a love for the genre. But here, it seems the sole purpose is to exploit the genre and visuals to crudely lure people into the theater.
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House of the Dragon (2022– )
6/10
High promises and limping fulfillment of hopes
31 October 2022
The series is really just very long winded so far. Nothing special happens and the whole first season feels like a prequel. I don't understand why it has such a high rating, because in direct comparison to Game of Thrones, there's a lot missing.

Besides the few and lengthy storylines, the series lacks sympathetic characters above all. Seriously, who would come up with the idea of making a series with only unsympathetic characters? There is not one character with whom you can sympathize. I hope that changes with the next season.

The series still lives very much from the Game of Thrones universe, which we were really looking forward to. That's what makes up the majority of the series, and that's why I watch it. I hope the series creators learn from the first season and see what is missing to turn a good mediocre series into a great one. Because it's still a long way from that, even if the hype around the series so far is window dressing. I think without Game of Thrones, this series would only bring fantasy nerds back in front of the screens every week.
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8/10
Tatiana Maslany is wonderfully refreshing
11 October 2022
I can understand why there are so many bad reviews. After all, the main actress doesn't just knock everything down and beyond that, She-Hulk is very normal. But I wouldn't have expected so much charm from a Marvel series. If the people would watch the series, to which it fits, it would be a blast. Probably most of the people here are just Marvel fans from the beginning. Blockbuster cinema is just not it. And for real nerds, the female cast is nothing. There is too much real woman in the role. But that's exactly what I love about the series: charm, witty dialogue, real humanity and no evil vs. Good (black and white thinking). Keep it up, brave, then word will get out to the audience.
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The Wheel of Time (2021– )
9/10
It unfolds with and with
15 December 2021
At the beginning, I might have given the series a 6. Which would still have been worth watching due to the visual and elaborate realization.

But I almost once again made the mistake of judging the series with the beginning. Because the power series unfolds only with and with. And somehow I like that. It reminds me of the old days when you really took the time to listen to an album from front to back several times and each time the music got better and better.

Somehow I have a similar feeling with the series. It gets more intense with each episode, without it being obvious. Like a creeping process, I like it more and more.
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5/10
Nicely done but lack of interesting storyline and characters
25 October 2021
To be honest: I just get it to the end of the first episode. The filming is well done but there is a lack of authenticity, the dialogs are not very interesting and the characters are a little bit too exaggerated. The storyline is although not really interesting.

Propably a must see for fans, but right now not for a guy who didn't know Julian.

But it's just a beginning. There is much space for becoming better and I think there is potential. Julian seems to be a german influencer with a lot of followers in real life. And in germany there is are no big high quality film industrie where you can profit from. I believe he and his team will become better, because they know the path with all the struggles. Projects like this are perfect to become better and better.
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Good Girls (2018–2021)
6/10
It was a surprisingly good first season
2 May 2021
Warning: Spoilers
For the first season I would give 8 stars. It has nice turns. It had ups and downs. But with the 2 and the 3 season it just has a downward spiral of more and more tension without any releases. Every solution to a problem directly creates an even bigger one. I watch it just because I hope there will be any release. To be honest I'm glad when the series is over right now.
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3/10
It was surprisingly unfunny
1 May 2021
Warning: Spoilers
These comedians are really great in doing their program on stage. They are very good in doing their stuff and special humor. Even if I don't like the humor of all, I respect that they are really funny for their kind of audience. But in the show they were really blocked in their creativity because they all just thought about not to laugh. And on the other side to be funny as hell to get the other into laughing.

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At the end the one had nearly won (Teddy) who just thought about making nonstop nonsense. The really unfunny more just silly kind and didn't think to much about not to laugh. But it was not funny enough for me as a passive audience. So in my opinion the show concept itself blocks the creativity of the comedians.
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9/10
The first super hero movie with a great message
28 February 2021
I am really positively surprised. It's not that dump than other super hero movie stories. It really has a deeper message. And the characters are really good. Even the "evil one" isn't really evil, he is just a hurt person. Like in real life. Maybe not as easy as a simple good/evil storyline and maybe for some to much emotions. But that's why other people, who probably wouldn't watch a marvel movie should watch it. A really entertaining movie.

But if you expect a typical marvel story with just one action scene after another and hundreds of dead people you probably will be disappointed. And that is, in my opinion, a good thing.
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I Want You (2012)
2/10
Good start with an unbelievable ending
27 September 2020
It started really good but the end was just too much drama that it was too confuse and unbelievable.

One happening after another and one more drama story after another. Even dramas of persons who aren't important for the story. Just a strange and unnatural way to add more and more feelings of drama. At the end it was just stupid, silly and unnatural behavior.
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The Mandalorian (2019– )
5/10
Highly overrated (good but not very good)
2 May 2020
Warning: Spoilers
In my opinion the only good things are the original star wars vibe and baby Yoda.

The story is very normal and could be an old western. The main character is not real interesting and there is no interesting development. Some episodes are just all about atmosphere (S01E05) an with a very uninteresting plot.

And the most powerful about the original movies I am although missing here: the hero journey and a bunch of real charismatic characters.

A real good series is having emotional boundaries between characters and at best a classical hero journey or at least a lots of good twists.

At the moment it feels more like a tourist journey (for me as a spectator) through the star wars universe with the atmosphere of an old and slow western.

In my opinion if it wouldn't be in the star wars universe it would not get a lot of attention.
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8/10
A great Adventure for a younger Audience
26 March 2020
I think the most people here doesn't like it that much because they compare it to much with a series like Game of Thrones, the witcher or movies like Lord of the Rings which are made for a mature audience.

It is a classic hero journey for a teenager audience with a great cast and a lot of really great filmed scenes. Maybe the dialogs could be better and the characters could be more detailed but all in all it is a great Netflix production.
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8/10
One of the best german movies in the last 20 years
16 November 2019
To be honest I mostly don't like the movies of my country. I'm always thinking why they don't make movies on a quality like the french. So I was a little bit upset as my girlfriend wanted to see this one. But this movie is really good. The story and acting is in a really good balance. It goes deep but not too deep. It is dramatic but with the right amount of releasing laughter. And without an to dramatic end. Although we had a fun time after the movie talking about real intimate stories with our friends. I really enjoyed it and I really hope other german movie maker watched and learned about what is possible even in germany.
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Prank Encounters (2019–2021)
6/10
It's really good and entertaining
15 November 2019
I can't understand all the bad reviews. I watched the first 5 episodes and they are really good. The people how are getting pranked seems to be acting, but of course the will act because it's always the it first working day in a new job. Everyone would 'act' a little bit in such a new situation.

Only the end of the pranks could be better. The peak of the prank should always be the end and not someone how run suddenly run into the scene and makes scurrilous comments.
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