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The Dead Don't Die (2019)
The "not-joke" of a zombie movie
Midwest, Bill Murray, zombies: How is this not another comedy gold like Zombieland?
This was my first thought when I sat down watching The Dead Don't Die. But I've had to realize that considering this as a failed Zombieland-copy or Shaun of the Dead ripoff, would be just as false as considering Drive a failed Fast & Furious or Gravity a failed Star Wars.
This film isn't even a zombie movie parody, it is a parody of our society. The characters themselves act like they've seen this a thousand times before, all they react with (especially Driver and Murray) is a sort of apathy and introversion. I haven't seen such consistently awkwardly behaving characters in any other movie before.
The things happening around them are both tragic and surreal yet almost everybody treats them with a careless "let's get this over with" routine, because everyone just simply wants it to be over (the slowly passing days make everything feel even more dragging).
The living people offer surprisingly little resistance when facing zombies, as if staying alive was just yet another chore. Nobody really helps anybody, they either arrive late and lament over the bodies, or simply don't help at all, just passing by as their fellow humans are getting killed.
Knowledge doesn't help much either, it only helps people understand that there's not much to do.
Certain elements of the movie are not simply repetitive, but almost hypnotically so, allowing the viewer to feel the same dragging the characters do.
It all was a very intentional depiction of apathy and depression. A movie about a boring dystopia. Don't enjoy it. it's not intended for that. Watch, think and despair.
The Dead Don't Die failed both with the critics and the cinemagoing audience, but I can clearly see it as a cult movie discovered in the near future. Not necessarily among zombie movie fans, but among people who want a whiff of the early 21st century atmosphere.
Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi (2017)
I have no words and I must speak
Imagine if the "I am your father" scene of The Empire Strikes Back ended with Luke's smartass comeback. Imagine Obi-Wan throwing a one liner while Anakin is crawling at the edge of the lava stream on Mustafar. Imagine Yoda sharing a joke with Mace Windu between two wise words.
Imagine the Empire being led by idiots, spineless lackeys and undisciplined aggressors instead of masterful manipulators, threatening strongmen and dutiful officers.
Imagine the Rebel fleet at the end of "Empire" consisting a dozen individuals, and nothing else, all going nowhere.
Imagine the whole concept of learning the ways of the Force means absolutely nothing as even someone without training can move object and stuff.
That's The Last Jedi without any spoilers, through some thought experiments.
I was generous with the rating of The Force Awakens, because at that point, I saw potential, I saw ways the three movie saga can turn out well. Now it all seems finalized and not for the better.
I gave 5 stars, but 4 of them are-as the Resistance would put it- just hope, nothing more.
And whoever is trying to destroy my favorite franchise, because they have the power and education but also lack the soul, this message is for you:
Star Wars was always made great by the drama and not by cheap laughs. The universe was good because it was credible by its own logic, the villains looked like a real threat, the heroes had something personal AND something greater to fight for, not because it had something cutesy in it.
You are not making a Marvel flick for cheap laughs in the Summer season. You are ruining Star Wars with one liners, random gags and characters that just don't fit in their alleged role. You are not providing comic relief, you force jokes on a good drama. That being said, I don't mind humor if it's actually relevant, not just thrown in, as if there was an algorithm that forces characters to say or do something funny once in every two minutes of screen time.
Riddle me this one thing: Which part, which scene, which character of the new trilogy will be the one that people will speak about even decades later like it happened in the case of the last two trilogies? Just name one. If you can.
All in all, my personal Star Wars canon seems to terminate at Episode VII. I refuse to accept anything that happened to my childhood heroes and even to their initially promising follow-ups in Star Wars: The Last Jedi.
The Mummy (2017)
A little rough around the edges, but...
I can't hate this film, even if it seems like that's what's going to be trending. As a Dark Universe movie, it obviously follows the footprints of the comic book movie universes, while utilizing old Universal/Hammer horror movie elements.
I believe most of the naysayers expected a new horror movie anthology, one that brings the same fright that the old ones did we used to watch as kids. Honestly, Universal horror movies can't be that sort of frightening anymore,since we are not the same people anymore either. Universal was never about jumpscares or deep psychological horror like the current trending "horror" themes. It was about slowly creeping fear caused by fictional monsters.
In my opinion, Dark Universe films are and will be meant to be watched as action films infused with classic horror elements and characters instead of the other way around. And to me, those few elements did hit the spot.
My favorite bits horror-wise are the mummy herself immediately after resurrection: that shambling, crawling undead figure with dislocated joints and broken bones was exactly like something you wouldn't want to see heading your way in a dark London alley.
I also liked Cruise being chased by the undead Crusaders under water. The relatively slow movement all while being underwater, half-drowning, really is a nightmarish situation even if it is not meant to make you jump out of your seat (which I still find to be the cheapest sort of thrill, therefore a bad idea).
The makers deciding not to use CGI in an exhibitionist way was another one of these good bits: in many scenes, the overall darkness leaves just enough for our imagination to fill in with scary ideas instead of showing off so much, we start noticing how sterile and unfrightening CGI looks in general (I'm looking at you, Alien: Covenant).
As for being an action flick, yes, it definitely wasn't a John Wick or a Rogue One. Not terrible, not great either, and had a little problem with unnecessary action sequences. The fight between the characters of Cruise and Crowe was lacking any motivation other than showing off. Improve it in the following movies, please (which I do hope to come).
How could it be better? More detailed characters: okay, we know, the girl is cute, Tom Cruise is bringing the Tom Cruise we know from most of his movies since the 80s and Crowe is Jekyll/Hyde, but who are they as characters in this very universe? If you're building a universe, you need strong, memorable characters to build it upon, glory of the past and eye candy is simply not enough.
More inventive action scenes. Watching Dracula and the Ottoman army duke it out from the reflection of a wobbling sword in Dracula Untold was a good one. More like that, less "Tom Cruise gets the umpteenth pimp smack the very same way from an obviously stronger enemy".
Giving some power to the Good, if Evil has so much would spice things up. Jekyll's self-sustained evil is nice, but why stop there? Let's make it really interesting. What if the reanimation of the dead Crusaders backfired and they tried to fight Ahmanet due to their once holy life? They were trying to guard that gem after all, keeping their oath in their death would have been a nice addition. I understand that the franchise is more about monsters than heroes, but reducing the possibilities of what *could* happen in a still forming universe is unnecessary and even harmful.
These three points are the three missing stars from my rating (based on the axiom of this movie is meant to be an action movie). The Mummy is by no means a bad film, but whatever you may expect it to be, you will find it at least a little disappointing for one reason or the other.
Drive (2011)
to: everyone who worked on this film
Dear everyone
WTF was this?
Sincerely
Me
P.s.: aside from the first five minutes (seriously, if that part was made into a 2 hours film, I'd have given 10/10) the whole film is terribly boring, sometimes interrupted with unnecessarily violent scenes. The latter is like a question to the audience: are you still awake? No? Then here is something loud for you. The whole movie is just... SLOW!
The conversations have some long pauses in them, seriously, I didn't pay to watch two people staring at each other without a word for minutes! If you don't have enough content to make a feature film, don't make one. Even the more action-based scenes (not too many, believe me) were slowed down for sh*ts and giggles. I never used to be the guy who gets off on special effects or blockbusters, but there is little to none actually likable features in Drive.
I'm not the one to decide if it's worth watching or not, but if you like movies with actual plot and dynamic action, Drive might not be your film.
Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008)
Hey, that's just great!
My whole family is watching this series! Some people say that Anakin's padawan is annoying. IMHO, Ahsoka is at least less annoying and cliché-like than Padmé and they needed a female character who is in the middle of the war.However, i'm curious about her disappearance later. (I'm afraid that Dooku will kill her). It would've been harder to keep Padmé alive during the missions. The series itself resembles to the Starship Troopers one (my old favorite), we can feel Order 66 more cruel and hate Palpatine much more if we compare those scenes with the troopers nursing the little twi'lek girl at Ryloth and seeing Aayla Secura rescuing Bly, the clone who later kills her. Not perfect, but the best for SW-series. Some answers for the critics: Movie_Reviever123: Palpatine WAS the leader of CIS, but in those times, officially, he was the leader of the republic army. I'm pretty sure that he gave commands to his CIS commanders, but because of his status, he couldn't command the CIS personally. The clone warriors DO die many times and Anakin IS vulnerable (He wasn't in the best shape after that crash-landing). And please forgive them they don't kill their protagonists. And the whole stuff is cartoon-ish. Why must Yoda be an exception? Andariel Halo: Bro, this is Clone WARS! There is less time for love, so IMO the sophisticated romantic scenes would be odd here. Only masters can train jedi? Obi-Wan was barely a jedi knight when he started the training of Anakin! Master refers to the leaders of the jedi order (like Yoda or Mace Windu) and a name that padawans use for their umm... master. But that's not their official title, sometimes they are just knights. Gregory, at least you've got some points: the clash of R2-D2 and R3-S6 was indeed ridiculous and i feel sorry for the droids created too clumsy. But Grievous is acting normally. Neither I would start a fight against an infamous enemy without learning his movements in some quick ambush-retreats. This series is good for filling some plot holes of the whole history and a fun to watch! I Just can't Get enough of it!