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Farzar (2022)
2 is being generous.
This whole show is just trying way to hard to entertain the 14 year old edgelords. I refuse to believe any adult will laugh at a single joke in this show. And not to mention there isn't really a cohesive plot or character development it's just spamming violence and sex for the sake of being different.
Oats Studios (2017)
Had a few good ideas, then they needed to finish a season
I didn't see any reviews or recommendations for this show before stumbling upon it in my netflix browse. Upon the first two episodes I thought I had stumbled upon a hidden gem. The first two episodes are really great, good effects, average to decent acting, somewhat thought provoking, and which each episode being different they didn't need to deal with complex character growth.
Then I clicked on the third episode and it felt like a completely different series. Episodes 1 and 2 were gritty, and very well put together. Where episodes. 3,4,6,9 and 10. All felt like they were based off of one liner jokes you tell your coworkers. "wouldn't it be funny if the president was like a frat guy" (episode 6). "or what if god was really just some guy playing a board game and we were like little people he controlled like in sim city" (episode.4).
To think Oat Studios heard these one liner, not very funny or interesting and certainly not unique ideas and thought they could stretch them to full episodes is bizarre to me. They don't even achieve stretching to a full episode because each of these already short (less than 10 minutes including credits) episodes into multiple parts which breaks any hopes of immersion or interesting perspective they could've hoped to display.
"Adam Episode 2" while having OK animation in a cool scenario builds up to absolutely nothing, where you need to watch part 3 for it to start to have any kind of rematch value. Towards the end of the series i was genuinely thinking some of these episodes have got to be a parody or something as they reminded me of 2010 Smosh videos in an 2009 video game animation format.
The only episodes I thouroughly enjoyed were the longer ones , being episodes : 1,2,and 5. With "adam episode 3" being decent.
First and Last (2018)
A worse version of 60 Days In
60 Days in on its own isn't amazing, but it's an interesting look into prison with intriguing character development.
"First and Last" milks the least interesting exposition portions of 60 Days in and turns it into the entire series. Every episode is a different set of inmates so you can't follow the characters and their experiences. It doesn't show the life inside the prison, so it provides no insight into the life of an inmate.
I don't understand how this has any value over more in-depth shows like "Beyond Scared Straight" or "60 Days In"
The Speed Cubers (2020)
Made for Cubers, good for anyone
This docu-film is definitely aimed at the speedcubing community as they know Max Park and Felix Zemdegs outside of the movie. However, it is still an intriguing story for anyone to watch.
It's a cool series of events to show progression in friendship and social development, as well as just a short history of the cubing records. And it's short so no point in not watching.
Batman Begins (2005)
A great exposition for upcoming movies
This movie, as a standalone is great, In my opinion, better than "The Batman"(2022). There are some downsides, but if you only watched this out of the trilogy, you'll still be satisfied.
The sound design is good, but left a little to be desired at points, and the cinematography was basic, which broke my immersion at a few points. And the movie of Ra's al Ghoul seemed slightly illogical.
But for what this movie fell short, it made up with 5x over in what it did correct. The character development, realizing the universe, the costume design, and base in realism, all these things were done PERFECTLY.
This movie has a great cast who fill their roles perfectly, and as I'm re-watching this long after release, I know it's just the beginning of the Christian Bale Trilogy. So I can recognize the beautiful setup for the next two movies.
The Human Centipede (First Sequence) (2009)
If you're reading reivews for this movie, you're not the target audience
This movie is not impressive, doesn't have good sound design or acting or anything. And it switches languages mid movie for a bit which is annoying. So you have to use subtitles.
This movie is only useful if you want to see something gross. I heard about this movie when I was in like 6th grade and finally got around to seeing it, and it was so underwhelming.
It's gross, sure, but not really scary. And has no other cinematic value.
Interstellar (2014)
Amazing film, with an unsatisfying ending
This movie is just incredible. Christopher Nolan cannot disappoint. The sound design is whole fully captivating and there are certain moments where you don't expect certain sound effects, and the use of them brings you entirely into the scene with the characters.
The VFX both practical and CGI are both groundbreaking. With visualizations of space phenomena no one can know what they truly look like so Nolan can conjure up some incredibly beautiful shots to take their place.
Matthew McConaughey does an incredible job playing this down-to-earth character in a near-future Earth where the climate change has left so many people struggling, and so few people as smart as him to help fix it.
All of this creates a masterpiece film, however. Unlike Inception, another sci-fi flick from Nolan, the ending in Interstellar is so jarring. It feels so unsatisfying and incomplete. You spend over 2 hours building these beautiful character relationships, find out the moral of the story, and solve the answer to all your questions, and then there is just like 10 minutes of walking around to see each other again. The movie would have been much more emotionally moving if we never got that finish of seeing the characters come together. It would have been more fitting to the theme of sacrifice and family bond if the movie ended without them coming back to earth. As to say, "I can't come back to see you physically, but that doesn't matter, because I was here with you all along watching you from above".
I will absolutely still watch this film again, just slightly disappointed the movie didn't end on a more emotionally impactful moment, as Nolan has shown possible with Inception.
Inception (2010)
One of the greatest films of all time
When I say this is one of the very few movies I would even dare consider perfect I mean it. This movie does everything right. The sound, VFX, acting, character development, novel movie concept, dynamic plot, interesting thought-provoking moral dilemmas. This movie does it all.
I first saw this movie several years ago in my high school Psychology class, and I remember loving it then, and have watched it once since I believe. But just today watching it a third reminded me why Christopher Nolan is so highly praised.
The atmosphere set by the beautiful VFX shots, the fact you as the viewer are learning what is happening with the characters so you are put in the same boat as to learning about this seemingly impossible reality that Leonardo DiCaprio's character can enter dreams.
This movie is a MUST WATCH for everyone regardless of film genre interests. This movie supersedes sci-fi, it supersedes action, or suspense. Inception tells a gorgeous story about pride, guilt, family, love, even our mere perception of reality is questioned with lines like:
SMALL SPOILER
Cobb: "You're waiting for a train. A train that will take you far away. You know where you hope the train will take you, but you can't know for sure. Yet it doesn't matter. Now, tell me why?"
Mal: "Because we'll be together!"
Just absolutely brilliant writing and attention to detail throughout the movie. I cannot recommend this movie enough. The fact it isn't rated higher is a crime. Absolutely wonderful.
Time Trap (2017)
Embodiment of low budget film
Overall, the acting wasn't good, the VFX was good in some parts, and passable in others.
My biggest gripe with this movie is the plot and acting though. The premise is decently interesting and it could've gone somewhere very unique and intriguing. However the plot just kind of doesn't. They don't explore the concept much at all. They spend damn near 80% of the movie figuring out the movie's main premise, then quickly throw in some random plot points to make use of it.
The main premise isn't even entirely consistent, with how the border between the cave and outside world works.
The movie didn't have a comedic element, didn't have character development, or some moral lesson, it was just a bland story.
Tenet (2020)
Amazing effects and concepts, but plot falls short.
I, like many others, are going to compare this movie to Inception, another mind-bending movie by Christopher Nolan which is highly praised. I for one loved Inception, but where this movie falls short is the overall plot just left me asking "why? What was the purpose of this scene."
The visual effects, the concept, score, and the acting are all amazing, and there are some great fight scenes. Overall a good movie. But once you finish the movie I was left feeling like the plot didn't go anywhere.
This movie feels like Christopher Nolan had the idea of reverse storytelling first, then tried to mold a story to fit the concept. Rather than building them together, so the plot got left behind the primary goal of exploring this new movie concept.
OnlyFans: Selling Sexy (2021)
Generally just uninteresting
This "documentary" if you want to call it that just shows a few creators and has them explain how they can make money on the platform despite starting with little intentions of doing so.
There isn't really a plot to follow or character development, so it's just kind of a boring docu-film.
They come at the topic fairly level headed which I appreciate. They at least have the mental capacity unlike some reviewers to see that posting a twerk video isn't the same as being sex trafficked, so it's a safe way to get some money on the side, while they do lay out the social risks that are associated.
The Big Scary 'S' Word (2020)
Decent film to shift the Red Scare view on Socialism
I will start by saying I didn't feel this film was some mastermind propaganda film to convert you to socialism. However if you are right leaning or far right you are probably going to disagree with me on that.
The film doesn't spew a bunch of leftist or liberal talking points for 80 minutes. Rather it tries to shine some light on the history of socialism, and leftism as a whole but particularly in America. Laying out the factual events in history that people both on the left and right would agree are morally good, actually have roots in socialism, or leftist ideology. So to equate any form of socialistic thought with the USSR or poverty and hardship is just illogical and oblivious to history.
The movie brings many collegiate historians and people who identify as socialist, in order to state some points which from an objective point of view should be universally accepted, but aren't because of the McCarthyism and red scare era politics that has been engrained into most American's brains.
You Can't Kill Meme (2021)
An ironic film of alt-right hypocrisy.
First off this movie is not good. It's just many interviews with people who are so desperate to feel intellectually superior to most people that they result to Vudu magic in order to get their candidate elected.
Many of the interviewed people in the film mention how society is influencing everyone, and how they somehow are one of the few that actually have life figured out, and everyone else is blindly following what is shown to them. They then describe how they blindly follow what is shown to them on message boards as absolute truths and deny all fragments of reality which would have the chance of showing them how batshit crazy they've become.
This movie's only value is really to see how insane the far-right has become. You aren't going to learn anything of value other than such.