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Hypnotic (2023)
Terribly bad, waste of time...
This movie was so badly constructed I had to fast forward some
parts.
Clearly is costed some money. It is Ben Affleck after all. Possibly one of the most expensive actors out there. And, there are certain expensive scenes. Oh, my gosh, the outcome: zero.
It made not sense, it never moved, it never made me think, never got me involved or interested, rooting for any one of the caricature characters. Nothing.
If this movie was a drink, it would be lukewarm, watery coffee from yesterday.
The ending was, for want of a better word, puerile. That monologue must have hurt Ben Affleck to the core. I think, at the end, he had had enough and just wanted it to be over with. It was literally embarrassing, cringey.
I don't believe I have ever rated anything 1(one) but this movie (?) deserved it. Not the people who worked in the movie, of course. I am sure they did all they could. It is the director, it is the script. Just doesn't work.
Sorry guys :(
She Came to Me (2023)
Dinklage, Tomei, Miller (insert a big heart here)
I thought I was over romantic comedies. Not so.
Miller's movie, with Peter Dinklage and Marisa Tomei, and a perfect cast, brought me back into the fold. The writing is insane and fabulous at the same time. The acting, immaculate. Miller's hand at directing is so gentle, so kind, so freeing.
I loved every moment of this movie. Hathaway with her obsession with cleaning (the dream like scene of two women cleaning...), Dinklage with his Woody Allenish intellectual and artistic anxiety, the beautiful young couple with love in their eyes, Joanna Kulig's portrayal of the immigrant mother, cool and calm in her dedication to her child, and Marisa Tomei's (I miss her on screen) crazy, beautiful, strong, fragile captain, Katrina...
I loved this movie for many reasons; the script, the acting and directing, photography, the dog, the tugboat, the music... I could go on.
Not every love story ends well, we are aware of that. This is more like a fairy tale than reality. We know. But isn't it a wonderful idea sometimes to escape real life into a make believe story that is sweet and fun, joyous and surprising, reassuring and affirming?
3 Body Problem (2024)
More of a soap opera than sci-fi thriller...
I watched 4 episodes of this series back to back after reading about the book (haven't read the book yet, no bias there). So, I am not judging it for accuracy but for whether it works or not.
There are instances when it does and many more hours when it doesn't.
The Chinese story is close to perfection. Acting and photography is mature and with depth. Older characters such as Cunningham, Chao, Wong and Pryce bring a lot to their roles, as well as our GoT hero John Bradley in possibly the most interesting and real character of the entire show. Alex Sharp in his melancholic role is pretty fantastic, as is the young Ye, Tseng. But it all ends there.
Although the premise is quite fantastic and bold, the execution is simply very boring, unbelievable, uninteresting. The casting of Gonzales is very sad, Adepo is extremely out of place. What are they doing, how are they relevant? We will never know.
I desperately wanted to see more science, but sadly, it is just the fiction we see, not the science in this sci-fi adventure.
I leave 5 stars here for the amazing actors who will shine in whichever role they play.
A Gentleman in Moscow (2024)
Great setting, great book... But the casting?
I see that I am not the only one who fell in love with the book, looked forward to see it realized on the screen and is shocked out of her slippers when faced with the casting choices of the director.
Ewan McGregor is an unlikely choice, not perfect, but acceptable. He is an excellent actor after all and here, he is truly "acting" a bit. However, it all stops there. It seems like half the cast is African American/British. What? It 1917 in Russia and half the population is black. I would bet you anything 99% of the Russians died without seeing a single person of African origin back in those days.
This is a period drama. Mishka is a Russian man, and here is his full name: Mikhail Fyodorovich Mindich. Who would believe that if he is played by Fehinti Balogun? How plausible is it that half of the population in Russia is of African origin, even of nobility. (Apologies for reiterating.)
This is no different than Napoleon played by Will Smith, or Mahatma Gandhi by Leonardo di Caprio.
I managed to watch the first episode, for the sake of my love for the book. Seeing the hotel that I imagined so much while reading the book take shape on the screen made me happy. But it stopped there. The second episode started with Mishka (?) and ended all for me.
I don't believe I will continue watching and it is such a shame for this could have been such an amazing piece of work with such amazing source material.