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An error has ocurred. Please try againI know all of these films are fairly recent, but that doesn't mean I don't enjoy older ones. I do love many films from all decades, its just that films, it seems, from the last 20/25 years appeal more to me.
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Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024)
Crazyness unleashed
Okay, this movie was definitely crazy, but I'm not sure yet if it was crazy good or crazy bad. This is the type of film which had everything, the story kept driving its audience to unexpected places (sometimes very weird places), but somehow at the end it felt like something was missing.
I have the feeling like Wingard, the writers and producers. Wanted to emulate the craziness of movies like Thor: Ragnarok, or even the previous Godzilla V Kong, and that was all fine and good. However, it's also evident that they never had much idea what to make with Godzilla in this entry, and as a result his screen time felt much reduced. Most of the occasions he was on screen, though, they made sure for him to take over the show.
Most of the fighting scenes also felt quite short, and I don't understand why Godzilla felt so threatened by the villains, but whatever. Kong was the real star of this movie, along with his "little" sidekick. The human characters were good enough, and Jia was specially good.
In the end, I won't deny I had fun watching this movie, but to me it was a downgrade when compared with Godzilla V Kong. Some aspects of the story definitely felt rushed, which might have been solved if given just a bit more care from the screen writers and the director. Oh well....
House M.D.: 97 Seconds (2007)
House or the writers: who actually has an awful memory here?
So House decides to personally find out if near death out of body experiences are real by almost committing suicide. That would be pretty cool and all, if it wasn't because back in the very popular episode "Three Stories" it had already been confirmed by Dr. Gregory House himself that indeed he already had experienced one of those near death experiences when the surgical procedure to alleviate the pain caused by the leg infarction that left him crippled almost took his life.
So yeah, I think the writers seriously dropped the ball here. I love this show, but this is the sort of mistake that makes it a bit hard to suspend my disbelief.
Besides that, this is a pretty good episode though. The patient of this week and his companion have one of the saddest and most tragic stories during the course of this show. It will probably make you cry. Too bad it had to be part of the same episode in which the writers made such an ugly mistake.
Supernatural: Nihilism (2019)
The writters really messed it up this time.
Sam and Dean keep reminding us episode after episode just how extremely desperate they are to find a way to stop Michael the archangel before he gets to destroy the world. In this episode, Sam, Jack and Castiel somehow find a way to take him prisoner and turn his powers off for at least several hours while he's inside his perfect vessel.
I mean, it's interesting that non of the characters realized that this was the perfect opportunity to simply take Michael's grace away and remove the threat of Michael once and for all. Instead, they figure their only move is a complicated trip inside Dean's mind so he can find a way to take back control of his body over the all might archangel.
Who do you think is being an idiot here, the characters or the writers? Or perhaps it's us the audience...
Scrubs: My Monster (2002)
What Scrubs is all about
Scrubs is one of those rare TV shows out there that actually knows how to mix hilarious and "in your face" kind of comedy with both subtle and passionate human drama, My Monster is one of the best examples of such trait. In this episode we are shown, through some massively hilarious situations, how the hospital messes up with the lives of those who work there (Turk and Carla ain't as romantic as they used to be, JD is so grossed out by what he sees in the hospital day by day that he has totally lost his sex drive, Elliot can't find a place to live, etc.). But, as is often the case with Scrubs, these situations ain't as lighthearted as they originally were presented to us the audience; they are actually being used to develop this characters in some of the most authentic and human ways that TV writers can conceive.
All of what I just described at the end of the first paragraph is actually standard for most episodes of the first three seasons (and also of some of the later ones), yet, this episode stands above most for two reasons in particular: one is how much delightful insight we're given into the relationships of the main romantic couples of this show. The other one is, as is often the case with most great Scrubs' episodes, the end sequence. Trust me, you don't wanna miss it! Is one of the most perfect moments in TV ever, so erotic, beautiful and full of life, with great music and amazing acting.