rob_c_69 Reviews

Land of Dreams (2021)

...just a bad movie....

[1/10 · 3 February 2022]

I am of the idea that a movie should tell you a story, within its own terms and following its own rules, HOWEVER, keep it coherent or adhesive and it'll all go well... also, just like Wes Anderson can only do Wes Anderson movies, or Guy Ritchie can only do Guy Ritchie movies, the Cohen brothers, Christopher Nolan, etc. Etc. *only* David Lynch can do David Lynch.

I get it, maybe the intention of the movie is it to feel like a dream, with no coherence, vague, surrealist and confusing, but you have yo bind it all together with some intent... which is, what? Otherwise, is there a porpoise, *at all*, with this movie, other than confusing its audience?

Interstellar (2014)

Interstellar is everything 2001 Space Odyssey pretended to be

[10/10 · 19 May 2020]

Beautifully filmed, technically magnificent, great acting, rock solid original story, scientifically accurate, and most importantly, it doesn't have a weird floating baby as an ending. Interstellar in near about perfection. Everything that Kubrick, very pretentiously wanted to achieve, Nolan made it look effortless. On addition, McConaughey's and Chastain's performances are simply breathtaking.

Run: Tell (2020) Season 1, Episode 6

11:24 into episode 6 is as far as I'm going....

[2/10 · 19 May 2020]

Very disappointing is how i'd describe this series. The first 2 episodes were great at setting the pace and story, there was a sense of mystery as to the intentions of both characters and it was pretty entertaining to see how awkward the story was evolving; too bad it got stuck there and never really picked up after that. After the 3rd episode it felt like falling into the same loop every 15 minutes, and just when the story had the chance to start getting interesting.... it felt into the same loop. And it started getting non-sensical... Merrit Wever, who otherwise is a great actress, feels one dimensional, same goes for Domhnall Gleeson (also otherwise great actor). Feels like both characters change their intentions on the drop of a hat, a bit like the writers are just pulling ideas out of random with no porpoise whatsoever other than to keep the idea of the 2 main characters running away together. Feels like the story had plenty or opportunities of going somewhere but missed them all for sticking to the formula of pulling random ideas off the hat... feels like a waste...

The Traffickers (2016– )

Good journalism, millennial style

[7/10 · 12 June 2018]

Over dramatic, naive, and, yeah, annoying (!) is how I'd like to describe Ms Hedayat's on camera performance. But, who knew an entitled, opinionated, frankly over-acted (we get it, you're enraged over something, you don't have to act like you're in "Days of our life", Nelafur), and ever SO naive (I did mention annoying, right?) 20some year old, could actually pull together a GOOD journalist series. She tackles every issue from all sides, and I mean it, FROM ALL SIDES. Almost every piece of the puzzle is given it's time and sound examination, without leaving any of the nuances out, because it succeeds at proving that there's even more shades of gray than we thought, and that goes for every subject matter in this series. If only it was someone else on camera....