gaijintendo Reviews

Collateral Beauty (2016)

So much acting

[4/10 · 13 March 2018]

Everyone is acting so hard. Right in front of the cameras. They are doing all their acting tricks. They are saying all these lines. Someone put so much effort into every line. Too much effort?

It is all about emotion, but everything is so in-human. Nothing sounds like a human might have ever said it. Everyone speaks with such singular purpose: to do some acting. No small chat. No warming up for the big emotive message.

The ambient sounds feel oppressive. The music feels like it is trying to make you fall into a dream-state.

I don't understand why people love this movie, but I am happy for them.

Oscar's Oasis (2011– )

Ages well and is almost like mood music

[9/10 · 27 February 2018]

I have this on as the perfect character driven comedy for my kids. It demands your attention due to it being fully unscripted. It has a very unusual quality of being immensely familiar - for example you will begin recognise a particular cliff with crocodiles below - and sufficiently varied, that you can watch them again and again, and enjoy the familiarity and never precisely remember what is coming next. It is such a lovable show.