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Eric (2024)
Requires suspension of disbelief.
This is just nuts. Basically the plot is this:
Wealthy kid apparently hates his parents and runs away deciding to stay for (God knows how many) weeks in 80's NYC underground subway tunnels driven by a "cool signature" of a graffiti artist. His dad is a drunk artist who creates puppets and has a kids TV show. He realizes his kid has designed a Monster based on his bad personality while being drunk and tries to find him using that. All characters lack of emotion, many subplots, acting is just Ok (even Benedict C).
1) Kid runs away and stays surrounded by drugs and bums prefering that to whatever he has at home (it wasn't that terrible btw, just parents fighting a lot).
2)The homeless man who takes the kid does not think he's in trouble by keeping a missing child hidden.
3)The police man ends up entangled with his main enemy (who apparently it wasn't, after all).
4)Mother of child comes yelling to her millionaire in-laws asking ransom money "please" and she's quite rude to them and leaves pissed off.
5)Police goes with his boss accusing a fellow cop while he sees a photo of those two together on a fishing trip.
6) Dad finds kid following a "map" with leads as unique as a NYC sticker a happy face, a pizza image and a fire extinguisher. 🤣
7)Dad goes and asks forgiveness in the middle of a riot and everyone pays full attention to him (even the broadcast channel interrupts transmision) to hear his message, all this while he's dressed as a puppet.
8) It seems thar everyone around them is a pedophile: politicians, tv show partner, nightclub around the corner and even (allegedly) the janitor. However this has nothing to do at all with the kids disappearance.
I gave it a 5 cause it has nice production design and music and decent acting.
Writing and Direction are terrible.
Past Lives (2023)
From wanting a Nobel, to a Pulitzer, to a Tony...
I don't think this is a romance. This is a film about life's choices. I; very differently than pretty much any other review I've read, wasn't expecting for the long-life friends to finally hit it off; actually, quite the contrary. Maybe it's because I've been in a very similar situation, and you realize that those kind of expectations are just idealizations of a life that never was, and you have to be grateful and value what kind of life you actually did get (She's finally in her dream city, with her dream job, with a great guy) and that's precisely what she tells her husband at night while in bed.
I guess it 's all explained by the metaphor of her wanting a Nobel when she was a kid, then wanting a Pulitzer as a young woman, and later wanting a Tony. They're all great awards, but you have to adapt to the best life can offer you according to your current circumstances.
Finally, I wasn't really moved through the entire movie untill at the very end. I was relieved that she took the right decision and was greatly pleased about the husband reaction; which was, in my opinion, the greatest character in the movie.
Good cinematography, great dialogue, great acting, but I thought it was a bit slow at times. I liked it, but I think there are films with this kind of premise (for example Coppola's Lost in Translation or Linklater's Before Sunrise series) to be a lot more romantic and fast paced than this one.
It's still a great film and I liked it very much.
Tout le monde aime Jeanne (2022)
Not very good plot. Good animations.
So I saw this movie in an attempt to improve my french. As a french practice I quite reccommend it, as it was fairly easy to understand (I'm a native spanish speaker with very few knowledge of french). Now, about the film: A lot of it doesn't really make sense; specially how the characters behave: Noisy real estate agents, a neighbor that adds nothing to the plot, a call from her ex intern to reveal nothing important, a children's concert in which nothing happens, a scene in which they shatter plates on the floor, a motorbike being stolen for no purpose at all, and so on. The guy who plays the main character's love interest is completely crazyn, and she knows it, but suddenly (and we never understand why) she decides that after all she does quite like him, and apparently she feels butterfies and all. The ending is as bizarre as the characters: Walking through a port (not knowing how they got up there) full of containers doing nothing. The only good part of the movie, and the reason I gave it this grade, was that the animations of her thoughts made me laugh; they were clever, funny and well made; but unfortunately they were not enough to support the entire movie.
Full Circle (2023)
Deserves a Full Circle: a Zero.
This must be the worst series I've seen in a long time. (And I'm a movie junkie). I can't believe this is a Max Original production. We really tried to like this series but we didn't make it past episode 3.
Everything is just awful: Terrible writing, nothing makes sense, all the characters make bad decisions for no reason at all, important parts of the plot are not explained and the characters are definitely not likeable. There is a woman who works for the Postal Service and acts like she's CIA. We were all the time making jokes about confiscating stamps; cause, to be honest, that would've made more sense than the actual plot. Terrible acting (even from seasoned actors such as Claire Danes and Dennis Quaid), the mood of the series is just weird: it's like that friend of yours who makes weird jokes all the time but you don't really know if they're joking and you don't know wether to laugh or not. To top it all, the camera movements make you dizzy (I guess in an atempt to be more immersive/artistic). It just doesn't work. The series is so ridiculous that we were laughing out loud (several times) as if this was a comedy. That's why I gave it a 1; cause it made us laugh.
The Boss Baby (2017)
So I guess almost no one got this.
The whole plot of this movie is based on a story of how a 7 year old kid justified hating the arrival of his little brother, how he hated him at first but also how he eventually got to love him and accept him. "My parents said I had a crazy imagination but I clearly remember how he arrived in a taxi". The movie starts explaining how thia kid had extreme imagination and we also see an action movie like persecution scene in the garden and then we see the actual velocity at which the whole thing was actually happening, which was very funny. The whole thing is a metaphor of how when a newborn baby arrives they're quite literally the new boss in the family and how a 7 year old sees this arrival. He sees him as a villain and an outsider. It's also a very funny and very heartwarming movie. At the end a little girl asks his dad: "Did this really happen?" And he replies: "Well, that's how I remember it". Before proceeding to see his newborn baby who also comes dressed as a boss. It was hillarious and I loved it.
Midnight Mass (2021)
More holes than gruyere...
I enjoyed the show, however the story has a LOT of holes. Here are some of them:
1. Why does the blood of a vampire in small doses have healing/miraculous properties? How did the priest know it would have this effect in his congregation?
2. How did the Angel/Demon came on board to do this? They couldn't even communicate however he actually agreed to even get dressed as a priest and act all serious. 😆😆
3. How did he put the angel/demon in the trunk?
4. Why did he put him in a trunk in the first place? Couldn't he simply fly there?
5. Why is the angel/demon strolling at the beach wearing a hat and a coat? Is he cold? 😆😆😆
6. Why is the angel/demon peeping on everyone's windows? Is he bored? He doesn't seem to attack anybody.
7. If the blood was supposed to be miraculous why did the baby died?
8. Couldn't Riley just have thought that Joe lied to the priest and told him that he was visiting his sister because he wanted to get some alcohol?
9. What was the whole point of turning off the electricty?
10. Does this demon feel anything? He seems to feel fire but not feel knives cutting through his "flesh" nor gunshots.
11. What was the whole point of lighting the whole island on fire? Are we supposed to believe it was all an apocalyptic delusion from this crazy lady? Didn't she know she needed somewhere to hide from sunlight?
12. Why did the zombie muslim kid converts back to muslim once he is already "dead"? 😆
13. They said something like: "If even one of them gets to main land it will be the end of the world". Didn't they came precisely from main land?
14. So this was a thriller that became a zombie/comedy movie that also ended on a philosophical note?
The Godfather (1972)
Am I really the only one who thinks this makes no sense?
Ok, the music is fantastic and I loved Al Pacino, Marlon Brando and James Caan acting. Other than that the movie is just average. Also there are lot of nonsense I found and I thought I was crazy as in.. Am I really the only one who thinks this makes no sense? This is what I mean:
1. Who in their right mind will go and ask a favor of the big shot mafia boss not only the same day but at the exact same time of his daugter's wedding?
2. Old guy gets shot 5 times all over and he's perfect after a while.
3. How did they manage to put a beheaded horse at the feet of a person while he was sleeping without him noticing it? A mystery.
4. Michael learns about his father shooting a day after because he sees it on a newspaper. Are you telling me the mafia doesn't know how to find someone and deliver a message?
5. Who dares to beat the pregnant daughter of a Mafia boss not once, but twice? And then become the right hand of the leader after that?
6. Why does Kay appears to be disgusted by mobsters killing people and then goes and gets married to one?
7. Who was that cop that was preparing to kill Corleone's enemy? Was he even in the movie before?
8. While they are smothering Carlo inside the car and he's kicking and breaks the windshield the guy who was behind the wheel decides it's a good moment to start driving.
These are just the ones I remember. The cinematography is not spectacular and it could easily be one hour shorter.