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Maggie (2015)
The Best movie from Arnold, thank you!
To put it simply: This movie had to be made.
Both Arnold and Abigail are doing a superb performance. The movie just feels real, like it's really happening. I've heard many criticism about the movie being slow, but it has to be slow to give time to those fine details that only come through the fine print. And they do come through.
I'm still stunned - something that not many movies managed to achieve. And this movie definitely deserves some serious awards, terrible shame that it didn't get in front of the mainstream audience.
It is a unique addition to the zombie genre, making it believable and realistic.
Powerful and horroristic. Not jump scare way. The brutal realistic way.
If you have liked The Road, you don't want to miss this one and vice versa.
It is a true gem in Arnold's career. Sad twist that this movie wasn't successful in the box office.
iBoy (2017)
What a waste of talent and opportunity...
In short: terrible script, lack of useful message.
The movie tries to be realistic. Other than the superpowers of the protagonist, everything tries to resemble to reality - or at least how the writer of this movie perceived it. But then very quickly you realize that plot holes are everywhere:
There is a teenager who is raped by a gang at her own home. A bystander gets shot in the head. The whole f*cking country would be all over about this story. No way that the police wouldn't be all over it asking them if they recognized their attackers? They even know the attackers and their motivation! And they don't f*cking report it to the police?! Just let's go do some vigilante!
Later down the line, he realizes that he can't bring them down, so he plant's on those guys fake evidence - which is highly improbable if not impossible to carry out the way the movie implied it, as we didn't even see him planting the fake evidence. WHY NOT JUST TELL THE POLICE THAT I KNOW WHO SHOT ME IN THE HEAD?! As stupid as a cabbage can go!
So many missed opportunities. Disappointingly shallow characters. Even Maisie's powerful performance is doomed by the utterly terrible script. And everybody knows that this trash of a movie would have never been seen by anyone if it was not Maisie in this role.
The plot is FORCED to flow in the direction in such an unrealistic way. And always by chance. The drug dealer leaves his door wide open and ALL of them leave the flat that they should be protecting, when its obviously a BAIT going on. They haven't seen any Godfather I suppose.
And come on, that Darth Vader & Luke Skywalker conversation was the lamest of all. I'm your father!
The pure black & white characters make it even more shallow.
And the thrown in plot elements that have NOTHING to do with ANYTHING - like the grandmother who writes. That information has nothing to do with the story-line. A good movie gives you information that is either interesting, or has something to do with the story at some point.
The conclusion of the movie is that London is full of psychopathic criminals and that ain't gonna change. Not even a "superhero" can make a difference. This terribly depressing message held me hurting throughout the entire movie, feeling utterly powerless, I can only accept my faith that there is no hope of change here. Thanks garbage scriptwriter, that was refreshing! Just checked it, it was 4 of them who managed to stockpile this amount of trash. You really need 8 hands for this :D
Yeah, unfortunately a serious writer wouldn't start writing a plot around the ultra-lame base story of having a cell-phone-propelled- superbrain that is injected via a gunshot.
El laberinto del fauno (2006)
How the hell can you enjoy this film?
I can't understand people who enjoyed this film.
I've acknowledged the quality of the actor's work. I also admit that the film perfectly presents a disgusting, horrifiing, mindless and brutal violence, etc.
But I would take the question: Is this the movie that should be claimed as the best film of 2006?
In my country it was commerced to be the best film of 2006.
I think the topic of this film is dealt enough times in other films and in a better way.
It is a very unfair thing to hide this brutal film under this 'fantasy' dressing.
It is aberrant and violent.
Why can't we rate higher a film that shows the good value of humanity?
Is this a sort of sarcasm, that we love the unreal amount of violence?
I wonder about these questions and I really HOPE that I'm not alone with this!!!
Thank you.
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