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Broken Flowers (2005)
Great stars, but disappointed
I hadn't run into this film before, but was excited to see the listed stars in it. I felt the film was disappointing. I was very slow paced. There was little character development, even among the major roles. The major stars in this movie desterved better script and direction. We stayed along with it watching, hoping things would get better and that something would be resolved, Sorry, but this was a waste for me.
The Undoing: The Bloody Truth (2020)
When I saw what I had missed, I was impressed
When I first watched this last episode, I thought it was not up to par with the complexity and suspense of the previous five episodes. I let it sit for a few days and re-watched it. I picked up on more of the plot in the little bits of dialogue that were so important and that I had missed the first time. Just goes to show that the writing and the direction were smarter that the viewer. I'm glad I re-watched it and picked up on all these things. And yes, over the six episodes, Nicole Kidman was brilliant in each one. Hope you liked it too.
Snowpiercer (2013)
I like scifi movies, but not this one
I understand that this movie has something to say about global warming and how we can go too far the other way. I understand that this movie has something to say about income inequality and how we treat each other. However, most of it is so unrealistic and gory it turned me off.
That people would be subjugated like that for 17 years (!) in the back of a train suffering unspeakable horrors (spoken and revealed towards the end of the film) and only then rise up in a do or die effort to the to the front of the train was strange.
I could understand how the train could run for 17 years if it was nuclear powered, but it never has a derailment in all that time despite snow and ice slides (in one sequence going up on one side wheels only a couple of times)? In the very gory full out fight scene late in the film, the insurgents are fighting a full train car of well equipped ninja-like guys, but they win by swinging blindly in a blacked out car? The shooting scene across the gap over a great distance between cars moving in opposite directions with shots hitting the glass right on was ridiculous.
I stuck with this all the way to find out how it would end and who and what was in the locomotive only to be dumbfounded that the insurgents, having achieved their goal would throw it all away and initiate an exit from the train that winds up, through unforeseen side effects, erasing humanity. Go, bears, go!
The One I Love (2014)
Not what I expected... it was better!
This is listed on our cable service as a romantic comedy. It's not, it's better than that.
I agree with other reviewers that the less you know about it the better. It has what all great movies have - it makes you, no, it actually lets, you think about yourself, other people, and emotional situations in new and different ways.
Hard to believe you can get all that out of a such a small cast and such limited locations. Many thanks to the writer, the director, and the editor. Please, does anyone know where this was filmed??
Give this movie a watch and you'll see.