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Fifty Shades Freed (2018)
Anything more than 2 stars is overrating
At this moment the film still has over 4 stars on imdb, and I find it surprising that anyone would give it more than 1 or 2.
Its possible the worst film I ve ever seen, its hard to imagine that some people got payed for this script. Its a collection of random scenes glued together.
The sex scenes are boring, nothing sexy or too scandalous about them. There seems to be no chemistry at all between the leads.
In either genre this film is a major fail.
Westworld (2016)
Found it mediocre
Was first very excited by the premise, but after the first 3-4 episodes I got more and more annoyed and disappointed. There are many plot holes, and coincidences, and the story is very incoherent sometimes. I found the original idea very great and interesting, but the show felt dated and "B" category by the second half of it.
The most unbelievable things for me were, why the technicians helped Maeve all the way along to reprogram herself etc. And also, how it is possible that it was not discovered by anyone? Another very bothering detail: Even if the guests can't hurt the guests, but how come the guests never hurt each other if you can't tell the hosts from the guests? The guests could also die from hunger/thirst, no? When the guests seemed to be in danger (for example Logan when William makes him ride into the desert naked (?) and without water), or when the hosts started to act weird, how come nobody noticed, when the whole park is under constant monitoring?
The list goes on and on.
There was also a lot of exposition in lengthy scenes, when Ford, one of the creators of the park decided to explain some new details to his subordinates/hosts. But WHY?
Some of the hosts have some memory flashbacks sometimes inconsistently.
What was the whole point of the maze storyline?
Although the violence towards the hosts is obviously disturbing, and shows how twisted humans can be, but it doesn't change the fact, that the hosts are still robots, and even in the last episode, it seems that they still just act the way they were programmed to.
So... what is the point of the whole show?
Based on the premise I expected an intriguing and engaging smart tv series, but it soon became a mediocre action show.
I gave five five stars because of the visuals, actors, and the premise.
Never Let Me Go (2010)
So many things don't make sense in this film
Questions I kept asking myself while watching this film:
If the children are cloned and raised to be organ donors only, why do they go to a seemingly normal boarding school? It seemed they had more or less similar classes like any child would in a school. For what?
After leaving school, what people who don't become "carers" do to live? Do they work, or does the state provide for them? What do they do?
Why don't they not even think about changing their fates? Especially because they didn't seem to be brainwashed too much in the boarding school.
Why is it Ruth's fault that Kathy and Tommy couldn't be together? Why would a guy choose to be with someone, and stay with someone for years, who he doesn't love, especially when the girl he loves is obviously head over heals in love with him right from the beginning?
How can someone feel for so so so passive characters, who do not seem to have a will or the capability to think or act, and just go with the flow ALL THE TIME?
One thing in the script which I think was a poor decision:
The filmmakers decided to make the new teacher character TELL the children (and us, audience) about their terrible fate, while in class. In my opinion this decision killed the suspense, it was such an anticlimax.
I expected a very engaging movie, but it felt slow and dull at many times unfortunately. But still would like to read the novel, I think its probably better.
Cloud Atlas (2012)
You'll either love it or hate it
I am not surprised seeing that the film have mainly gotten very good or very low scores.
I think this is the kind of film, which you shouldn't logically analyze while watching it, you just have to get lost in it, if you want to enjoy.
You ll know if you like it after the first 10 mins.
I liked that many of the different characters were played by the same actors, but in some cases they pushed the envelope a little too much, many of the make ups looked really weird in a bad way.
Le jeune Karl Marx (2017)
Don't really understand the point of this film
I don't think that the film was terrible. It had decent cinematography, music, acting. I really enjoyed listening to so many different languages in the same film. It is watchable once, especially if somebody is interested in this topic and period of history.
But I think it lacked any artistic vision or imagination, depth, or entertainment. I don't know if it was because the filmmakers wanted to stay very true to the historical facts (which would be understandable), but watching the film felt a little bit like listening to a very basic two-hour lecture about Marx and his work.
The plot fell quite flat, without twists, without changes or even a real climax. (I guess Engels' speech in the end was supposed to be the climax of the film, but I only came to that conclusion after thinking about it for a while, since it didn't have too much emotional impact.) In the beginning, Marx works on articles and talks about his theories, after he meets Engels, they work on articles and talk about their theories with each other and others, finally, in the end, they still write articles, and talk about theories. So basically they do the same things and talk about the same things. Marx is having financial problems and has a loving wife, Engels doesn't have financial problems, and has a supporting girlfriend/wife throughout the whole movie. So their circumstances, their private lives do not change too much either. It is great for them, but not so great for the viewers. (Although I am sure that in reality they had quite a bit of drama in their lives, like Engels going against his father, their marriages, the effects of the financial problems, the eviction from France etc.) The glimpse we get into their private lives in a way feels too much, since it is portrayed in a rather uninteresting way, but it's too few to get to know them on a more "personal" level. It still feels like we see two characters who just walked out of the pages of a history book, as opposed to real living people with complex lives and feelings. If you want to know more about Marx, as a young guy, as a person I think this film doesn't do the job. If you want to know more about his work, or this part of history, you are better off reading a book, if you want to be entertained, than maybe it's also not the film for you.
From a different point of view, for a commercial film, it's not really entertaining enough, for an art film, it doesn't have a point of view, and as a biographical film, it's probably not detailed enough.
The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981)
Love only triumphs in fairy tales
I think the film shows us how difficult it is for people to achieve true love, regardless of the age they live in. Although it might seem that today there is less direct pressure from society, but there are other different reasons to make people stay in the status quo, convenience can be very powerful too. In the very beginning of the film Anne watches herself (Sarah) in the mirror, which in one hand is the beginning of Ana's, the actress's transformation into Sarah, and in my eyes it is also a nice allegory of how the two parallel stories in the film reflect on each other. They are in fact more or less the same, except from the ending. In the film Ana and Mike are acting in, Sarah and Charles end up together, but Ana and Mike don't stay together. For me the overall message of the film was, that romantic love only triumphs in tales, in a romanticized world, but not in reality.
I liked the contrasting cinematic styles of the two story lines, the acting was great, and also liked the different endings. For me the main flaw was that the "present" story-line felt very much overpowered by the Victorian story-line, it felt it was less important, and we also didn't get to know too much about Ana and Charles. Even if portraying the two relationships in an equally significant way would have been very very difficult in two hours, but I think it would have served the theme of the film better. Plus because I don't believe in love at first sight, it's always hard for me to believe that two characters can fall deeply in love with each other as fast as Sarah and Charles did.
The Beguiled (2017)
Empty
On the positive note, I think the film is visually beautiful, I enjoyed watching the costumes, the settings, the lighting and cinematography were beautiful. I don't mind slow films, so the slower pace didn't bother me.
I think the actors probably would have done a great job too, but didn't have the opportunity, I feel they were restricted by the script. The audience doesn't really get to know too much about the characters, so they remain very one-dimensional, and I found it very difficult to empathize with them, or even care about them. It s hard to understand their motivations, feelings, cause it seems they have none or almost none, and everything they do seems very random. After a while I just gave up trying to be drawn into the films world. Maybe that is why I was not even shocked when they cut off the colonel's leg, or when they decided to poison him, and he died. I don't know how these characters were intended to be portrayed. I didn't particularly like or dislike any of them. After seeing the trailer of the film I somehow expected that there will a big turn in how the audience feels about the characters, but there were no turns or anything whatsoever, and the whole film just felt very very flat.
Im looking forward to seeing the earlier 1971 version, cause I think the story could be interesting. But this new version just felt empty and I felt empty after watching it.