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Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023)
Way too much unecessary talking
My first viewing of this was amazing, had fun, but on a second viewing everything is a pure snorefest between action scenes. You can cut all the talking out and be left with just 15 minutes of action.
When are we going to learn that you can have action and storytelling at the same time instead of keeping these blocks separated, resulting in scenes that are completely skippable considering the story is told again in the action scenes?
The action scenes are also not super impressive, as none of them are on a tight schedule, apart from the finale, and I genuinely don't understand how you can watch this twice.
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)
Jarring animation, more generic, boring plot than the original and hollow characters.
I have watched probably every anime out there, and this movie doesn't even come close to the worst stories I've watched. Sure I loved the comic book art style, even though I never read a comic book in my life, and I absolutely fell for how astoundingly jealous Gwen's looks make me, but the story is simply far too depressing to make me happy or enjoy the time there. The "To be continued" at the end came out of nowhere for me and the movie didn't earn the right to end with that.
The worst part? The main trailer is the same as the movie. The plot is the same, all the locations are shown (apart from one minor one), and you already see all characters and conflicts laid out.
Please tell me that you see that there are simply no twists, no character development apart from the main 2 characters (the other characters are all one-note, paper thin, and help our main characters on a whim, even though the side characters are mistreated they still help our main characters despite not even knowing them)
I wouldn't say that I rather watch another movie, because the animation more than makes up for everything, but I'm yet to see a studio that pays at least 1/10th to the writers as they do the animators in one of these Miles Morales movies.
Fast X (2023)
Exciting, realistic, depressing. (Never seen any other Fast movies before)
I loved this movie, but the fact that the villain kept winning with an ending wrapped in despair rubbed me wrong.
The stunts were believable, clever. Even more realistic than most anime justify logic, but the fact the villain always hit and never got hit back (even the big scene where he finally takes a few punches was a giant set-up as the "good guy agency" was a traitor after all)
I also kept confusing the lady who rescued the girl who got captured in Rome with the girl who shows up to the helicopter bridge shootout and loses the God's eye thing. This made the final scene with the submarine very confusing.
I loved the ball rolling in Rome scene, the race was cool but short, and the ending on the highway had real Matrix vibes. Absolute must watch in 3d in the theater, wouldn't bother doing it at home though.
Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)
Extremely generic plot, dissapointing, mostly leaning on nostalgia.
You may disagree with me when it comes to the second half of the movie, but especially the first half, drags on and on about conversations, Doctor Strange acting extremely out-of-character and the "Wong" race against the clock becoming meaningless extremely quickly.
There is no plot here. It's just characters from other dimensions who have no emotional connection to the main character whatsoever fighting each-other. No background stories for these characters, no emotional weight considering they are all cameos anyway.
Aunt May dying is sad of course, but she's the least emotional weighted character for the audience over the course of the 3 movies. It'd be better if she hadn't died at all, it feels forced.
The fan service and nostalgia overwhelms immensely. The old movies were wrapped up, why do we only get cameos from some of the characters, what about all the fun side characters from the old movies?
This movie is worse than Space Jam 2, because that one at least had a conflict between the dad and the son.
Total Forgiveness (2019)
Mediocre series, at least a couple episodes are fun to watch, although everything looks very staged.
If you didn't realize, the protagonists of this show present a fake reality about college loans. There is no possibility that two very famous critical writers/actors have student loans while they don't even pursue a career nor do they have a small income.
The Emoji Movie (2017)
A literal emotional masterpiece.
Would have loved to see more of the outside world, or inside the twitch app, but afterwards I think it has shown exactly enough, worthy of a 10. The story follows a little generic path of love, but in the end it has so much more. It adds another layer of being yourself, which is a way stronger message than the Darwin message of the strongest survive.
Avatar (2009)
This movie gave me hope in life.
Now that I have watched this movie, I have gained new hope, as I hope to life like the Na'Vi in the movie. This is what happened in real life in a lot of wars on earth, but now it's up to nature to help the people who haven't neglected their own planet, by building concrete and buildings, instead of letting nature do its job. Mankind literally stopped their planet from functioning how it was in the beginning times. It is impossible NOT to like this movie for its originality, and accurate representation of how earth would have looked like when people lived in peace with nature, instead of destroying it. Also when alien life forces attacked earth when they were one with nature. It is a beautiful thing. I would definitely recommend watching this movie with a clean mind, not judging everything, and just let emotion overwhelm you. Preemptive judgement ruins most experiences of movies, as people force themselves to watch it, just to ruin it for themselves. Such phenomenons can also be seen in modern media, Americans generally dislike Russia, and as a result, they find evidence hidden for any suspicious activities to blackmail that country, while they can blame any country for all the bad things they do, but don't. That's why I recommend everyone to form their own opinions, and not to be blinded by what other people say and do.
The Lion King (1994)
The honest voice, of this movie being too old and lame in terms of quality compared to titles of this time.
This movie is way too overrated to be in the top 1000 of any lists. Why? This movie's plot is way too generic. A lot of movies that were made before this had the same plot of someone trying to impress the people around him and becoming the hero while a villain tries to stop them. Movies like avatar are WAY underrated for their fantastic storyline and effects. Be sure to like this review, so people can get their ratings right to today's times, and not let NOSTALGIA get in the way of honest ratings. If you haven't watched this movie as a child, you definitely won't enjoy it watching it now. This is not the only one, as series like avatar: the last airbender also confuse people into thinking that the movie Avatar is in any way linked to that series, which is not true at all. It's all nostalgia feelings and will pass when the next generation of people who haven't watched this empty movie will start writing reviews.