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Civil War (2024)
a film that could have been much more
What should have been a case study in what could lead people to civil war was just was a voyeuristic look into what an American conflict would like. Its told through the lens of photojournalism (which was bit annoying and added incessant cuts in the film). From a character development standpoint it just wasn't there , the film is full of caricatures but not characters. The plot is pretty thin and as someone who is a Garland fan I felt dissatisfied with this film. The movie is an antiwar film and its clear the director wants to pacify an American audience that might feel like civil war is a viable option in our current political climate. To achieve this he makes the president look cartoonishly evil. And in way he also reflects the mania and cruelness of the rebel forces. The film functions as a kind of cathartic thought study to quell very real divisions that exist in modern American society by exposing the audience to worst case scenario outcome. Overall, the movie felt less like a story and more like a long drawn out warning.
The Garden: Commune or Cult (2023)
This is about a cult
This show is definitely about a cult. A left wing eco cult but a cult nonetheless. This shows the lifestyle many hardcore anarcho left wingers want to engage in. Living in the wilderness. Reverting back to some dystopian techno bronze age where you go to the bathroom in hole and never take shower. Where you live in a commune, do all types of backbreaking manual labor, then melt your brain on drugs all day and drive busted cars from the 80s. The problem is that it also shows many communes don't work and how democracy can be abused to just be coercion of the weak by the strong. It lays it all bare. It shows the experiment of communism doesn't work it just leads to uniformity and coercion where secretive insiders rule everything. So yes, it's an interesting case study of why modern left wing anarchism doesn't work and how it's ultimately weird and culty. Thank you HBO for making this show.
The Creator (2023)
Beautiful movie dreadful acting
I think my problem is I don't understand why John David Washington was cast as the lead of this film. I haven't seen any film where he is good tbh other than Ballers. I don't understand how he is booking these roles for big cerebral sci fi movies because it ain't him. I feel like the movie needed more depth from the lead actor and because their performances were so flat the material as whole fell flat. The script wasn't amazing but I think with right depth it could have been more believable. Overall, the story was bit cliche but not completely terrible. I wish I could see this movie with a better leading man.
Resident Evil (2022)
Hollywood, Please Stop filling quotas and make good art
This show is garbage and disservice to the original storylines and characters. Couldn't finish the season as it deviates so far from canon that it's not resident evil at all. It's just a new crappy dystopian film with the title and character names of resident evil. All these modern filmmakers and producers are not artists. They are imposters who don't care about making good art and instead using the hard work of their predecessors to advance some kind of political agenda. I'm an so tired of this. Thanks Netflix for ruining another great franchise.
Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
Everything Extraordinarily overrated
This movie is terrible and weird. I hated the characters and performances. All around artsy garbage designed to push the approved Hollywood agendas. Cinematography was interesting and shots were interesting but overall the story was so corny and riddled with cliche and common tropes.
The Wolf Hour (2019)
what is this movie about?
I left the movie wondering what they were driving at in the film. The themes seem like the person was tangling with different ideas but doesn't really reveal what conclusion is drawn. Really leaves you hang. Film offers nothing except it reminded my that I have PTSD from the antifa and blm riots of 2020.
Elvis (2022)
nihilistic and uber liberal take on elvis
I really hate this trend for every movie to paint America in bad light. This movie was less about Elvis and more about racism and greed. Also they make elvis a but more gender nonconforming and weak crybaby mommas boy. Very left wing stuff and emasculating from hollywood per usual. Disappointing.
Nacho Libre (2006)
Love this movie
Quirky, fun, and beautifully shot comedy. Some people won't really get the more subtle points in the film but still worth the watch. Jack Black really hits a home run with his ironic over the top performance. I also admit its funny hearing people speaking incorrect english in a spanish accent. Maybe this is because I am hispanic and always laugh at how my grandparents speak english. Something about this film really does it for me.
Immortals (2011)
Enjoyed on second watch 10 years later
I saw this is theaters back in 2011 and hated it as a rip off of 300. But watching recently I get the film a lot more. I don't think it was trying to ripoff 300 at all but rather trying to make a film in the classic moulding of Jason and the argonauts but with modern Singh visuals. Watching this film with fresh perspective really changed my mind on this film.
Rang song (2021)
Too many recycled ideas
The backdrop of Thailand is beautiful. Some of the shots are truly great filmography. The film is also good at immersing you in the culture and people of Thailand. Other than that, the film steals too many different ideas. It takes from Paranormal Activity, the Exorcist, The Ring into a rather unoriginal and predictable story. That being said, there are some rather disturbing scenes in the film for those into shock value and still worth the watch for those that like found footage genre.
Hell House LLC (2015)
Lazy Low Budget Garbage
I love the found footage genre but this movie is really subpar. The scares are cheap. Essentially the acting is at the level of your local theatre group running a haunted house. Truly corny stuff.
The Pale Door (2020)
Squandered chance
What could have been Bone Tomahawk meets Dusk Till Dawn with witches was in reality an absolute low budget joke. The movie has some good actors but overall was shot so cheaply and un-artistically that it was hard to really immerse yourself in the film. The writing was subpar as well. This film must have been a tax write off for the studio. Skip this one.
3 Women (1977)
Surreal Anxiety
This movie is truly brilliant in how it captures the surreal yet familiar nature of a slow moving anxiety nightmare. I actually think this is Duvall's best performance and up to this point I thought it was The Shining. Shame on me.
Don't Look Up (2021)
Pandering and smug film
A smug and sanctimonious film that panders to the element of society that feels like every problem we face is existential and that they are the enlightened saviors with the only viable solutions to address all problems. McKay sacrifices what could be good satire to instead go muckraking for cheap jabs at the people he wants to portray as inferior. Ultimately, the film is cheap red meat for the adherents of its political message.
The Matrix Resurrections (2021)
Leave well enough alone
This was a B movie. The cinematography was cheap. The costumes were cringe cosplay versions of the first film. Everything about this film felt cheap, The writing was cringe. The performances were canned. The movie had clips from the original films. It felt like a low budget fan film on youtube. Truly an awful cringe fest of a film and god have mercy on Lana Wachowski's soul for making this film.
Counterpart (2017)
Bait and Switch
The story begins with a promising sci-fi concept and even weirdly deals with a global pandemic(way before 2020). But what seemed like a sci-fi thriller just deviates into liberal moralizing. Anyone in a hetero relationship is either divorced, in the closet, or a sexual deviant. Show was more interested in making lgbtq relationships appear innocent and beautiful while making heterosexual marriage look pointless, deceptive, and difficult.
White Boy (2017)
Power Corrupts Absolutely
An raw look at the the corrupt Detroit political machine and all the hypocritical politicians that drove that city into the ground. White Boy gives insight into a criminal organization that stretched into the highest reaches of the Detroit power structure. Unfortunately, White Boy's story is an important lesson on the political corruption most major American cities contend with to this day.
Synchronic (2019)
Woke Nonsense
The concept of the movie is cool but the dialogue is corny and of course they had to insert alot of laughable woke moments. The movie jumped the shark for me when "police" in kkk garb tried to kill the black guy.
ZeroZeroZero (2019)
Beautiful story telling.
This was truly a beautiful storytelling. A sweeping adventure that shows all the turmoil, suffering, and violence the drug trade leaves in its wake.