Reviews

Soooo....this is the last episode of the season and the writers decided it was a great idea to spend a numerous amount of time on 2 elongated sex scenes and a very loooooong boring conversation scene between Jamie and Claire?? (Honestly I fast forwarded all of it, just wanted this season to be over with!) Like I said in my review on the previous episide: Outlander has been turned into a soap opera instead of a proper series this season. Unfortunately lacked all the excitement most of the other seasons had. Why did they keep babling about the revolutionary war being at their doorstep when none of it actually happened this season?? Please just let next season be better so it won't have the same fate as Game of Thrones!

Well...this one surely left me with a feeling of "wtf have I just been watching??" Sometimes that's a good thing. Unfortunately this time it most definitely wasn't! The end was simply weird AF and the inbetween was boring as hell. I fastforwarded about half of it just to get through this episode! It could have been told in half an hour instead of an hour, that's for sure! Wish they would have given that half an hour airtime (mostly existing of excess scenes where she wasn't doing much else than continuously scratching her face) to the first episode so that one didn't have to end so abruptly. And I'll just add another sentence to meet IMDB's ridiculous minimum amount of character requirement!

I was hoping this would be a 'real Flanagan' but it almost feels like I've been watching something from a totally different director. Maybe this series wasn't framed right and is meant for teens only or something, but then they should have called it what it is: just a teen drama for a teenage public. I mean I get this series is made based on a book from a writer that writes for teens, but if you frame it as 'another Flanagan fright series' then at least alter it so that adults enjoy it as well!

Apart from that, the stories were boring and didn't add anything to the main story so after about 2 of them I kind of got the feeling of "why am I watching this exactly? What's the point??". Well, apparently there wasn't any! Also the main story fell flat after a while. Probably also because there was no pace in it with at least 30 minutes on and off breaks when another pointless, not exciting story had to be told again! I mean seriously, even the stories of the teen series 'Are you Afraid of the Dark?' were much better than this!

I also felt the 'terminally ill' thing was not credible whatsoever. These teens looked healthy AF and acted like that as well! Flanagan apparently has never seen a terminally ill patient before! The only one who looked even remotely ill was Anya, but the only reason was because she sat in a wheelchair. And being in a wheelchair can be caused by a lot of things obviously.

So yeah, this one was one big disappointment unfortunately. I hope Flanagan will turn to series/movies for grown ups again after this, cause teen drama is just really not his thing!

You know, I get it. Her life wasn't just glamour and fame. A big part of her life was indeed tragic. When I first read about her life I did feel sorry for her. She was indeed used and exploited by producers and men many times in her life. But the thing with this movie is, if you mix up fiction with reality to this extend then the message isn't genuine anymore. This script goes way further than some 'creative interpretation for the sake of the story' like they did with the series Dahmer. Also, shoving almost 3 hours of misery down the audience's throats doesn't make a movie more likable or admirable. It jus flattens you down to the point where in the end you just think "finally the misery is over, now rest in peace!" If they would have just stuck to the things that did really happen in her life instead of making half of it up (her real life was already dramatic enough!), plus would have shown some nuance in her life story and not just 3 hours of misery, this could have been a way better movie! Instead it just fell flat and makes you feel that Norma Jean was once again exploited...this time for the sake of 'shock value'.

Now I have to add I truly feel bad for Ana. Cause she really did her best in this movie and she played very convincingly imo. It's the script and the artsy fartsy editing that ruined it. Plus the other characters felt like cardboard characters to me. They completely lacked any depth. Like they were just brief passengers that came into her life, abused her and then left again.

I really don't get why people are making such a big deal about this episode with Vanya transforming into Viktor. We all knew she became a he long before this season aired, so what did you expect? For him to play a girl the rest of the season?? Or for Vanya to just be Viktor from episode 1 and just not mentioning the transition at all?? Or for Elliot to be written out of the series just because he decided to change and some random snowflakes can't deal with that?? I mean with the obvious wig (terribly made btw) and the voice and facial features already being very boyish, him having to play a girl in the first episode personally gave me cringy feelings. I think they dealt with it well though. They dealt with the transition and pointed it out, without giving it too much attention for it to take away from the rest of the story. This has nothing to do with 'woke messaging', the fact that people perceive it that way says more about them than about the series writers really. The writers just had to deal with a change that needed to be dealt with to keep Elloit in this series. If that's really such an issue for you, then why are you still watching? You knew it was about to happen! 🤷‍♀️ My reason for giving this episode 'only' a 7 is because I felt most of it wasn't really going anywhere. The storylines felt a little random. As if the writers created something (a new 'supergroup') and now were at a point where they didn't really know where to go next with their storytelling.

It took me about 2 to 3 episodes to really get into the flow and to appreciate the style of filming. It's a bit 'slapstick-ish' every now and then and it shows very clearly that the director has mostly directed videoclips (the fast pacing, sometimes 40 shots in one minute and so on). However once you get used to the way of filming, the humour and just go with the flow I think it's quite enjoyable! Bill Skarsgård (and all the other actors) seem(s) to have much fun in filming this and it really shows. Everytime I see Bill he just reminds me of a mixture between his older brother Alexander and...well the insane face he could pull while playing Pennywise the clown lol!

Seeing 2 actors from the movie Midsommar did snap me out of it for a moment or 2. Not because those actors aren't any good or anything, but that movie just stil haunts me :-s.

Ok so if you like chainsaws and lots of blood, this is your movie! If you like a proper storyline (even when it's a slasher horror movie), this definitely is NOT your movie! I found myself fast forwarding around the last 20 minutes, cause I just got tired of it. The storyline made no sense, the characters were mostly disposable, so why should I care if they get killed off? The reason why Leatherface turns up and starts murdering again also makes no sense. Like what, he just lived there peacefully for years until his adoption 'mom' died and then suddenly decides to start murdering again? The movie set also looked like one of those old western movie sets. It literally looked like a movie set and most likely was one as well.

Well what to say about this one... I don't even know why I watched it to be honest. I have no memory of Scream 3 and 4. Scream 3 I'm not sure of, but definitely haven't seen Scream 4 because I got bored with the franchise. But when I saw Sidney, Gale and Dewey would be part of it after such a long time, for some reason I decided I wanted to take a trip down memory lane.

Anyway, I do like how they made fun of franchises and thus basically of their own movie in this one. Though I'm afraid they were right. This franchise is dead. I got bored somewhere halfway. And by the time they entered that house I already figured out who the killers were. Nothing was really surprising in this script, apart from the fact that people who should have been dead or at least unconscious can still stand up and fight..over and over again, while others get killed with one stab or one gunshot... Plot armour much? What actually surprised me most is that Skeet Ulrich doesn't seem to have aged at all! Anyway, I do have to disagree with Tara though, I didn't really like the Babadook either. I guess I'm more of a Flanagan fan by now.

The visuals are beautiful. Oscar Isaac is beautiful (but his role is smaller than you'd like). That's basically all I can say about it. Story is rather boring, characters are boring, there's plotholes and illogical behaviour all over the place, and the end takes about 15 very looooooong minutes! Too bad, I was hoping for more!

I just don't know what to think of this film. I expected the character of Phil to be a serious bully. You know, the one that could drive anyone insane. That's how the story was depicted in the discription at least. And even though he was quite harsh towards Rose, annoying even, somehow I just couldn't stop myself from thinking, ok this it's it? This is driving her to become a drunk? Why didn't she stick up for herself? And mostly, why is her husband not sticking up for her? Instead he just willingly takes all the crap from his brother. Actually most of the time it felt like George was absent all together! Like litteraly, he didn't even have half the screentime that Phil or Rose's son had.

And how did they manage to make Keith Carradine and Frances Conroy, 2 excellent actors, show up all the way in New Zealand for just 2 scenes??

I think the biggest problem with this film though is lack of continuity and a proper storyline. I felt like I was watching some random snapshots from a much longer timeline that, edited together, just didn't add up to a proper story.

So when it comes to the other PA movies, indeed it has nothing to do with the previous ones. In fact, I don't even get why they decided to attach that name to it. Probably in an attempt to attract viewers. In any way, it's more a found footage themed film than a PA film. This story evolves around a girl trying to find her family and trying to find out why her mother abandoned her as a baby. It actually started off promising, but soon I felt I could draw out the storyline, which unfortunately went more or less the way I predicted it. The ending was downright laughable. Anyway, I actually feel sorry for the Amish now, having their name and way of living drawn into a movie like this..

What the hell were they thinking? I really wonder! The first half of this season started out so good, but then for some reason they decided not to give it a proper ending but to make an entirely different story instead which felt uninspired and only half finished as well. I mean it felt like they just thought "let's rewrite history and pretend the aliens were behind it. Yeah that would be fun!" But that's basically all there is to it. Throw in some bad actors and there you have it: a hot mess of 4 episodes! Such a missed chance to actually create a decent season if only they had properly finished the Red Tide story!

I actually saw Anthropoid a few days ago and this one just now. It's kind of hard not to compare obviously. Whereas in Anthropoid they focus the story solely on the perspective of the assassinators instead of Heydrich, in this movie they try to do both. And that is too bad, cause both parts therefore felt rushed. The first part focusing on Heydrich's history felt like a bunch of scenes highlighting his most important moments, but it failed to drag me into the story. The second part focusing on Jan Kubis and Jozef Gabcik felt equally rushed. Plus well, let's be honest, the actors just can't compete with Cillian Murphy and Jamie Dornan. I think they would have made a better movie if they had focused solely on Heydrich's story and point of view instead of trying to do both.

Sooooo...why did they not just make an entire season around the storyline of Red Tide? I mean, AHS stands for American Horror Story, not American Humour Story, right? The scenes from the past are watchable, and well it is amusing how they're sort of rewriting history and incorporated the wellknown conspiracy theory that Kubrick directed a fake moon landing. But apart from that the present day part is just ridiculous. The actors are over the top in their acting and storyline is laughable. Where did the horror go in American Horror Story??

People saying "not like GoT"...well then apparently I'm the only one who got GoT vibes with these 2 final seasons! To me it felt like the (in this case) historical information was lacking so they had to make up their own storylines, which basically turned this series into a mess. This last season was so hard to get through! Storylines that went nowhere. Endless monologues or dialogues about virtually nothing. Boring new characters that did nothing for the story. I mean I remember the actor who played Othere as Titus Pullo in Rome. Now that was a character! In this series he plays a boring old man.. And the return of Floki was even more ridiculous. He had basically been turned into an extra with a few (meaningless) lines to say, Floki deserved more than that! Too bad this series had such bad last 2 seasons.. To me in hindsight I feel they should have stopped when Ragnar died.

Wow just when the story is starting to grow on me part 1 of this series already ends next week! 😕 Ryan Kiera Armstrong is the masterpiece this season, the way she plays evil Alma makes Damien of The Omen look like a model child! 🤣 I hope she'll also be in part 2 this season!

I don't even know why I bothered watching this, but mea culpa, I did! Well what should I say? If you want to see 1,5 hours of Chris Rock yelling at people combined with at least half an hour of flashback scenes (in case you really didn't get the plotline 🙄) and a weak and véry predictable plot, then this is your movie!

There's a few actors that can both nail comedy and more serious movies. Chris Rock is not one of them! 😐 This movie could have just as well been named "Chris Rock and Sam Jackson needed a some money" if you'd ask me... I also don't get how Max Minghella, after his role The Handmaid's Tale, thought it was a good idea to take on this role. If you want a serious career in Hollywood, this isn't the way Max!