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The Night House (2020)
Stop Making Movies That Ought to Be Short Stories
This might be the laziest storyboarding I've ever seen. It goes:
1) We meet the widow
2) She finds bloody footprints
3) She finds a book on the occult
4) She hears voices
4.5) She finds bodies that her husband might have killed for some occult-y reason
5) She meets a demon
6) I guess she resists the demon that killed her husband who I guess killed girls through him?
Just because a movie is set in the woods does not make it a thriller. Just because a movie has occult imagery does not make it a horror.
I'm not sure why this movie was made. There is not a single thing that is original.
The Little Things (2021)
Decent
Great actors delivering mostly great performances. Setting/lighting/feel is right on target. Has the bones of an interesting story and reminds me of True Decective. About 70% in, this script should have ratcheted up and brought more chills and twists. Unfortunately, it ends rather flat, albeit somewhat unpredictable.
Score was well made but completely out of place. Really distracting. Sounded like the score for a network crime drama.
Worth watching. Not very memorable.
Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011)
Cool directing
Should have been a 15 min film. Watch the first 15 minutes and you'll get everything you need. This is shot and crafted well.
However the script is almost nothing and there is literally no plot. It is a slice of life of someone being confused and that's supposed to make the viewer confused, I guess.
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018)
One of the worst shows ever; I watched the whole thing
The first two seasons aren't great, but it's at least interesting and original. Season 3 jumps the shark and makes very little sense. Then season 4....probably the worst writing, acting, plot that has ever happened to my television. The acting is just atrocious. The actors do not behave like people do. The script is intentionally cheesy, I hope. And don't even bother with continuity or an intelligent storyline. Only threads of it make any sense, and those threads are simple, stupid, and predictable.
Father Blackwood, Prudence, and the aunts are the only redeeming part of this trainwreck.
BoJack Horseman: The Face of Depression (2019)
So beautiful
After being rocked back and forth through so many seasons, this episode definitively gives us hope for everyone. It's so beautiful. To see Bojack grow like this nearly brings me to tears. What a journey it's been.
Dark (2017)
Not nearly as good as it thinks it is
There is very high production value. Scenes are shot well, drone shots are beautiful, sound track is professional. Everything else is a shallow version of Stranger Things mixed with True Detective. This is not a sci-fi show. This is not a mystery show. This is not a crime show. Much like True Detective, the show creators use a crime/mystery plot to just tell the story of families and their relationships. Through 6 episodes, there are only hints and fragments of time travel and nefarious/dark plot points. The writers could have EASILY fit everything that has happened thus far into two episodes or less. Cliche characters. Acting is okay - I still don't have a care about any of them though. That's probably due to the fact that we cut from scene to scene after about 45 seconds of mostly dullness. What takes the cake in eyeroll, however, is whoever scored this. My gosh, there's a bass drop or eerie orchestra playing EVERY. SINGLE. SCENE. Man locks his car *BOOOOOOM* girl laces up shoes *oooooooeeeeeeEEEEHHHH* boy walks to school *BOOOOOOM* It's so much more distracting and lame than any laugh track I've heard on a sitcom. It's not a bad show but man, it's really not as good as it looks.
Mandy (2018)
Not for me
I'm not big into grindhouse/arthouse/genre. But I do like artistic films. I hated this movie. I'm pretty confident in saying that it is only for people who are like, really into all the 70s & 80s grindhouse horror gore genre. There's the tiniest stream of a plot that moves so insanely slowly it's aggravating. Nearly the whole thing is shot with red gel over the lights. The fight scenes that should be the smallest bit of payoff are poorly lit, and so worthless. Just because you're going for a vintage movie doesn't mean you have to make it look bad and write a bad script. Oh yeah, there's like....300 words in the whole movie? Music is good. Cage is pretty good. One of the worst movies I've ever seen. Pure misery. Thank goodness it's finally over.
Game of Thrones: The Long Night (2019)
Take your fadoras off
I'm sorry that "acshully, the dothraki would never attack in that type for formation" and "ugh the old GOT would never have let that many main characters live through a battle," but can't you just let an awesome 60+ min battle be awesome? Was it not chilling to see the dothraki swords extinguish? Was is not inspiring to see Brianne, Podrick, and Jamie fighting together? Sansa and Tyrion in the cripts was unfulfilling?
Or you could be mad about the battle tactics I guess. Whatever, I had a lot of fun watching this episode. It's really too sad that some couldn't wrap their minds around a purely great battle.
Oh and if you're complaining about the scenes being too dark, did ya think to turn your lights off? I had zero issues watching this on my basic 32" TV...