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3 Body Problem (2024)
You better be watching it for the fiction, because the science has left the room
Spoilers ahead!
I don't know about you, but I like it when a series makes sense.
And here's the thing, up until ep4 I think, right before the Villain's Macguffins start being explained, the series was pretty good. Solid entertainment. Really. But then the device by which the Aliens have been proving humanity are revealed and explained, the series just couldn't hold its good senses.
We're talking about 2 super Ai computers that can fold to the size of a proton, and unfolded for just one of them to cover the entire planet. They can meddle with people's maind and make them see things. They can interrupt any electronic circuit, including autonomous cars, toasters, plain, watch, cellphone. You name it. They can make us see and hear whatever they want (they also made their earthling followers build a virtual reality set that hacks directly into the brain), but for some mysterious reason, they can't know what we're thinking.
And so, the plot is as follows: These aliens will be arriving in 400 years, and so their plan is to mess with all of our scientific experiments so we don't get that advanced so that when they come, they will just conquer us easy peasy. We, brave humans, finally find out about their masterfull plan, get into action, dismantle the human network they've formed over the past 30 years here on earth... and so, they reveal themselves by making appear humongous creepy eyes in the sky.
But we're fighters! And so we fight. We figure a way of kind of kick some dirt into the aliens plans by building a base on the moon. We organize and all. We're awesome. But here's the thing, with such powerful aliens devices here on earth at the aliens disposal, they could easily, waaaay easily plunder us into the most deep of the dark ages until they arrive. Before we knew abouot them, it made sense for them to walk in the shadows, now that the jig is up, it makes no sense to hold back. Just fry all of our electronics. Fry every promising human's brain. Make us see and hear things until we lose our minds, and then after 400 years, when you finally arrive at earth, you'll encounter no resistance. The end
And that's the problem with creating such a powerful Macguffin. You can't write your way out of it. You should know better "Co creators" of Game of Thrones series.
Law Abiding Citizen (2009)
Timid ending, aka Hollywood ruining an other movie, yet again
Guy... you got the villain wrong. It's actually stating Guy Fawkes is the villain. It was going so well, and it even could have had kind of like a Seven (the one with Bard Pitt) ending. But it chickened out at the very end, flipping on its own, bending over to some studio executive I'm almost sure. But no, and I think that's why, it's not that someone recommended it to me, it's just that I happened to... run into it, it caught my eye for sure (everything until the very end is a good, more than good, movie) but omg, it jumped the shark so hard. And that's all I have to say about it, see you later.
The Gray Man (2022)
Not good at all
Idk who was in charge of photography, and the art department, or who in this green good earth pitched the idea of it being a drone shot in between every sequence, but omfg, none of the choices made in this move made a fraction of sense. Even if you were to take it as mindless action movie, even at that, it fails miserably.
Greenland (2020)
An entertaining appocaliptic movie, but...
But they just had to go for a hollywood ending. They just couldn't let it be. No, sir.
Devs (2020)
What on earth is wrong with you?
I'm talking to you, the ones who scored this series with an 9 or less. You've truly lost your way.
This series is awesome. Period.
Goodbye
Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker (2019)
Garbage. Anyone; and I mean anyone who knows and cares about the star wars lore will look the movie as what it is: garbage.
If you found it to be a good movie, congratulations.
If you enjoy and know something about the star wars universe, its laws and its lore, then you're gonna suffer this movie. Yes: suffer.
But if you think you're star wars fan because you like light sabers, please stay out of it and go back to whatever it was that you were doing.
The Expanse (2015)
A 10, for sure. But the main character... OMG, wtf casted that guy?
That's it, all in the title... The series is amazing, the only thing hard to get through, is our main character face and his completely lack of acting skills.
The Handmaid's Tale (2017)
Well... this is sh#$t.
George Orwell died again by the hands of this series. If you're to steal from the best dystopia ever produced in human history (1984), do it right.
The handmaid's tale contradicts itself from episode to episode leaving behind a very lazy screen adaptation. It is never clear what the point of it all is (the point of telling the story, I mean), and so the characters arches are clumsy, the different directors can't agree on what to emphasize on from episode to episode, so therefore we are left with a mess with an open ending because... of course, why not?
The editing is sh#$t. The photography is also sh#$t, the master takes they ended up choosing are sh#$t, and while we are at it, so are the color palettes.
But the thing that bothered me the most were these flashbacks. Why? A mean, really; why?!
Because we are curious about how we got there, to the dystopia. OK, I get it. But then it turn into a sort of explanation about how the character chooses one thing over an other, and about their feelings over their circumstances when doing so. OK, but then the flashbacks begin to serve the purpose of returning to certain plot points in order to follow another character journey. But here's the thing: all of these reasons are valid ones... with the condition of not using all of them at once, because it ends up being a fu#$%ing mess which is in fact what this series ended up being.
Anyway, I just wanted to explain my 3 stars to it.
The Intern (2015)
Are you fuc#%&ing kidding me?!?!
I don't know what to say really. I mean; what the f#$k was i expecting? I didn't know it was a Meyers movie when i started watching it but i would have eventually after suffering those poorly written dialogues, mostly at the end of the movie. */spoilers/* Precisely at the husband-wife scene right at the very end. You know: that totally unrealistic conversation between to people whose arc was a fuc#$%ing and total mess. But i liked the De Niro-Hathaway relationship. Wasn't not remotely close to save the movie though, but i liked it. So, that's it. What else could be said about the movie? Anyway, Sorry for the excess of words here but i have to fill ten lines of text in order for this review to be considered as one. May the force be with you all.
Continuum (2012)
Jumped the shark
It really did, jumped the shark i mean, somewhere along season three. Most probably towards the seasons end. It gives me the impression that they didn't think a second season would ascend from that enjoyable first one. Only it did. And a third one came after it too. I say this because it is almost evident that by the third season they were improvising so that everything ended up kind of almost making sense, but quite not really.
They managed to needlessly over complicate the plot to create more interest i guess, but exactly the opposite occurred. We started loosing our interest.
A shame. It was a very promising sci-fi show
Man of Steel (2013)
extremely disappointing
This entire review has spoilers. Please don't read it if you haven't seen the movie.
And it may even be my fault because maybe i was expecting to much of it. But then i thought: It was all set for me to expect a lot of it. I mean, Snyder did a very good job with watchmen and perhaps the reason he didn't do it this time is because he got to have Nolan in one ear an the other ass"%#le of a screen writer (Goyer) in the other. But then again the trailers presented us a great idea, and vision if you like, of what Superman was going to struggle with: Himself. A divided Man of steel who was treated as a freak for most of his life feeling an outsider because... He was and with out-most drive to find out who he really was before anything. And all of that is taken care of just by introducing him to his holographic father whom speaks to him for about half an hour (inside movie time) and presents him with his suit. Then, superman gets out of the spaceship as if he's finally free from himself. F%&#k it! It shouldn't be that simple but then again somehow i can imagine Goyer saying "F%&#k him and his journey of self awareness lets have some fiiiiights!" And so it is that after surviving the beginning of the movie, cheese simplistic and with a "totally out of what is going on" rhythm we finally have ourselves a SUPERMAN. The rest of the movie is not worth it. I still can't understand why Zod wanted Luis Lane on board of the ship when he takes superman. I don't understand why Jonathan Kent puts himself in such a danger for a dog. F$%&kiiiiiing sceneeeeee!!!!! Do you really think us to be THAT stupid? Sorry, got carried away, and so on.
Thank you, i got it all out now. That will be all.
P.S.:The trailers are far more better than the movie.
P.S.S.: We miss you Marlon Brando.
Fringe (2008)
A review near the end of the series.
At first i did with fringe the same thing i do with every show i get to see. I watched at least 7 episodes of it in order to see were it was going. I have to admit I did it with glee
And even with revolution. Two shows with very poorly written scripts and, in the case of revolution, with a lame leading actress. So, then again, what I have to say about fringe is that it is a very good science fiction show. Here it is what I think was and is well proposed and achieved by the show: If you get to see x-files by any chance, you will see two things: when it comes to a fringe event (in every episode) they put too much attention in how afraid one should be in the happening of such event and the other, the barely enough explanation of the paranormal or "unnatural" occurrence. The exact opposite happens in fringe. Now, if we take the show as what it is, a science fiction series, then you have to make THE decision which is whether to believe them or not. To make that decision you do not start by wondering if all your questions have been answered because in a SCIENCE FICTION series or movie or book or whatever you won't ever get all your questions answered so what you do is see if what is been proposed to you is plausible according by the same rules that the show, movie or book is proposing and then there has to be a certain lack of contradictions (as few as possible). If that happens then we are talking about good science fiction which, rest assure, you can believe in. "I, for one, believe them".