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House of the Dragon: Second of His Name (2022)
Something is missing...
Let's start with what's good: visually the series is amazing. The costume design is on point, the sets and The CGI look amazing and the actors are generally doing a good job as well. But the show still fails to suck you in the same way the earlier seasons of GoT did.
The story in general has been pretty predictable thus far, but I guess that's not the fault of the show runners since the story is already set in stone.
The two biggest problems are probably that the characters aren't very interesting and that the dialogue is pretty bland. Writing good dialogue is hard, the earlier seasons of GoT excelled at this due to GRRMs writing which they were based on, but the dialogue in HotD reminds me more of the later seasons of GoT after they run out of material.
But this is just episode 3 after all, maybe it gets more interesting and complex as the season progresses.
Regarding this episode specifically, the last battle was pretty bad in the sense that it didn't make much sense, I hope that's just an outlier though.
Dune (2021)
Beautiful visual effects but that's it.
Story can be build down to good guys vs evil guys and the chosen one saves the stupid tribes people. Characters are completely one-dimensional and uninteresting. The movie is like a 2.5 hour long moving wallpaper. Nice to look at but nothing else.
Louis van Beethoven (2020)
Great potential, but has its problems
The movie is separated into 3 different time places, the child, the young and the old Beethoven. The movie started of amazingly, with astonishing acting by the child Beethoven. Also the cinematography and costumes/ sets are great.
Now to the bad parts: first of all the acting of the young, middle, Beethoven was unfortunately horrible and it kind of broke the immersion and made Beethoven look pretty dumb. But the most important part: the movie had a strong focus on the live of Beethoven but not the music. It was never shown how Beethoven wrote his great pieces, what the reception was, what influenced Beethoven's music. The movie completely skipped over the time periods Beethoven wrote most of his most iconic music. If you don't know the history yourself you are left kind of wondering why Beethoven was so popular in the first place since it is never shown. People only talk about him being great.
In my opinion, in a movie about Beethoven his music should be in the main focus, or at least some focus at all.
Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker (2019)
More plot holes than a French cheese
No matter how nice the shots look, if it doesnt make any kind of sense you can't enjoy even enjoy the most beautiful scenes. Bad and lazy writing coupled with ridiculous plot holes takes any joy out of this one. But I guess people who only care about the visuals will enjoy this.
The Mandalorian: Chapter 4: Sanctuary (2019)
Disappointment
Hopefully the series goes back to the style of the first 3 episodes. This one felt like a series of cliche TV tropes coupled with bad acting and the characters being completely out of character. Please let this only be a filler and not set the tone for the rest of the series.
Game of Thrones: The Long Night (2019)
Worst episode
I don't even no what to say, it didn't make any sense from start to finish
Game of Thrones: Beyond the Wall (2017)
Great visuals but the story didn't make any sense
Lets start with what was good. The visuals and the action were amazing, no doubt. The scenes with the dragons were one of the best in movie history. But the whole feeling got immediately destroyed by the amount of plot holes that didn't make any sense.
Let's start with the first scene were they encounter a white walker with a group of wrights. Very convenient that there is such an isolated group that we have never seen before but OK. So when the white walker dies all the wrights did except for exactly one. Again very convenient for the group. But now it stops making sense. Now they send Gendry back to the wall to send a raven that they have captured a wright and are coming back. To do this at all doesn't make any sense from my perspective but OK. Then Gemdry has to run to the wall and send the raven to Daenerys. Why would Dany interpreted this as they being in danger and she has to rescue them? Gendry didn't know anything about that. Despite him walking to the wall and a raven flying to Dragonstone and Dany flying back would probably take around 2 weeks. So they were just standing there for 2 weeks in the middle of the lake? Normally I don't mind the "teleportation" in the show because it's justified with a lot of time passing in one cut. But here there can't pass a lot of time because of them in the lake. And if it actually takes only 5 minutes to walk to the wall how are the white walkers not already there? Then Jon just refuses for some reason to go on Drogon and the rest flies away. Now comes for what is supposed to be a very emotional Scene with Uncle Benjin rescuing him but with using only 10 seconds screen time for him, there is no time for the viewer to emotionally connect what so ever. It just feels like the whole show is now in such a rush that it is really hard to keep up. For the distance that Gendry walked in 2 minutes, in previous seasons it would take the protagonists a couple of episodes. Maybe the problem is the 7 episodes per season, maybe D&D just want to finish it as soon as possible but it just doesn't feel right.