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American Gods: Fire and Ice (2021)
What's going on?
Is this whole season just a bunch of filler episodes or am I just not seeing the whole picture? The whole Demeter arc was absolutely pointless, nothing set in the first two seasons has progressed in any meaningful way. Wendesday is still trying to get followers (and now this thing with this...demon? Why? Is this going to be like Demeter or is this gonna have some consequences?), Shadow is literally running in circles in Lakeside having random visions he never questions in any way (why didn't he ask Wednesday about them? It's like he forgets them the second they end), Laura is just...boring, Salim only wants to find the Djinn, Mr World changes is appearance for absolutely no reason other for having guest appearances, Bilquis is a walking digression on African culture, Technical Boy is somewhy glitched just because...seriously what the hell is going on here? Is this going forward some kind of resolution? Am I not seeing something?
Mr. Robot: 408 Request Timeout (2019)
This season is on FIRE, but....
I really hope this is all gonna end in a satisfying way, because the only thing that could ruin this incredible show would be an unfitting finale. The actors are incredible, the pacing is astounding, everything is truly remarkable.
The only thing that bugged me in this episode was the plot twist when it was revealed that Dominique managed to get help from from the "Lucky Irish Bastard": the Dark Army (or just Janice, for what we know) managed to find out that Dominique got off on clips of Darlene's interrogation tape, how could they/she not find out about this agreement she had with him? Not a major problem, but still weird.
The Silence (2019)
"The Silence" more like the "Not talking or screaming is enough to not die because the damn things couldn't link a ringing bell to the person ringing it"
This movie is absolutely bonkers, the family acts in the most stupid way possible, the human villain is introduced 30 minutes from the end and the overall message from this movie is totally useless.
But let's go in order:
1)We are IMMEDIATELY presented to the "monsters", called Vesps. No big mystery, no unclear nature. Just a weird bat-like animal which, despite having evolved in a cave for millions of years, has the only resulting feature of having an incredible sense of hearing and razor sharp teeth. Why is their diet made up of meat and not insects? Why do they lay eggs inside of big mammals? Just because it is gross, I dare to say.
2)The main heroine is deaf (and also absurdly bland). Yes blablabla, we've already seen A Quiet Place, but this movie is bad on his own even if AQP didn't exist as a standard paragon for this genre. The main difference is that here it is hinted that this disability should be in any way an advantage, while the only advantage is that they already know how to communicate via sign language (as if people wouldn't develop or try to learn that skill). Everything else? If anything, she is at a disadvantage because she isn't aware of the sounds she could make. But this is never presented in the movie so, moving on.
3)"Please stay in your homes, stay inside", and they immediately proceed to leave without any plan on where to go. And they end up staying in another house in the middle of nowhere. Was it worth it? Hardly, mostly because the uncle and the dog needlessly die in the process.
4)They take a detour to avoid traffic: the uncle's car is destroyed (because of....deers) and he's trapped inside of it. No menace is visible, there's no hint that the vesps are coming their way, yet the uncle decides that they should leave him there, that the dad (yes I refused to learn the characters' names, it's easier this way) should "care for the family". They leave him there when the vesps actually arrive and they shed maybe a single tear...for the dog, who they had to let go because it wouldn't stop barking. Whatever, the uncle was a gun enthusiast anyway.
5)They end up leaving the car and walk to a remote house, where they witness the lady living there being eaten by vesps (it was honestly funny). They have some trouble, but dad activates a shredder which attracts and kills hundreds of vesps in a matter of seconds. Why don't they leave it on to exterminate every vesp in the vicinity? Why don't they tell other people about this easy way to kill them? We've seen deaf daughter using instant messaging to chat with her boyfriend, they can easily post about it anywhere. Also, how did vesps survive if they can't even tell apart living beings from a shredder? Evolution would have killed them a long time ago.
6)Mind this: at this point, we've it the 50 minutes mark. There's still just 40 minutes left.
7)As it is mandatory in horror apocalyptic movies, they have to go into a deserted town in search for medicines. They stumble upon a nest of vesps, who deposit their eggs into eaten up people: the eggs look like they're already hatching, even though just 3 days have passed. Given this rate of reproduction vesps would extinguish any life form in a matter of months.
8)Along with medicines and vesps' nests, they found this comicly crazy priest, who started this tongue-cutting-and-"fertile"-girls-searching cult, composed of anonymous people who, after literally 3 days of this "apocalypse", have resorted to following the craziest person around. Apparently, people have even started crucifixing and burning people at the stake, as the internet tells them (yes, the internet is still on). 3 days in. Apparently there's some "people are crazy at nature" thing going on, but we have less than 30 minutes to end the movie, so we'll just ignore all of this, as the writer did.
9)The evil cult attacks the house (how did they find where they live??) in the most idiotic way possible: they lure our family into letting in a distressed girl, who produces cellphones from under her jacket; they start ringing, luring in the vesps (which, mind you, would just attack the girl wearing the cellphones. And also, if she was meant to be the alive bait, couldn't they just ask her to scream? They act as if cutting your tongue makes you incapable of making any sound!); meanwhile, the cult infiltrates the house (couldn't they just sneak in while the family was asleep instead?) and kidnaps deaf girl, who is saved merely five minutes later by her family. The grandma (ah yes, there's also this useless character: she's terminally ill and...that's that.) sacrifices herself. The priest is beaten up (presumely left for dead). The day is saved.
10)They go "up north, to the refuge, where vesps can't survive because they can't survive the cold". Where exactly is this place? Why can't everyone just wait winter (or better, turn on shredders to kill them all), instead of venturing into the wilderness (roads are somewhy to avoid at all costs) to reach some unknown place?
They eventually find the refuge, after months of searching (conveniently cut away, because we have like 4 minutes before the credits roll in, and presented just by the grown beard of dad). Deaf daughter is reunited with her boyfriend.
11)Deaf girl ends her story telling us that "evolution is the key, but who will evolve faster...us, or the vesps (to cold climate)?"
Quick answer: given how quickly they lay eggs, they would also evolve incredibly quickly. So yes, humanity is doomed (unless they learn to leave on shredder).
tl;dr Can someone please explain to me why Stanley Tucci and Miranda Otto decided to play a role in this garbage pile?