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Supernatural: Carry On (2020)
2 words - anti climatic
Those two words describe it all...
3 stars because I am feeling generous and forgiving in some places.
I read an article on Vanityfair to why this ending ended up being such a wreck or a lackluster, so I will give a benefit of a doubt that it was because of the Covid-19 that things had to change to worse.
As article quotes what actors said and some more people said, that the fundamentals were not changed whatsoever, those were not affected, and in my own interpretation - only things that changed were how they got from point A to B. Basically they try to rest us assured that everything is fine, that fundamentals are all fine and untouched.
Sure, except that these fundamentals, if I figured out correctly, were where brothers are back in their average daily life, and having a typical monster hunt investigation.
Then Dean dies stupidly (whether being pushed by a mere Vampire or being killed by powerful being is unknown). I mean, he had a plot armor for 15 years, suddenly his plot armor was taken away, and killed by monster(-s) who could've finished one of them since the childhood days of early hunter days of theirs. If it weren't for Covid we might've had a different type of fight, maybe more impressive, more enemies, but Covid probably limited to fewer ones, and silly ones.
Next fundamental is where Sam lives alone(without his brother) until old age (cheap wig, no effort placed on Sam's makeup to make him look older, he still looks young with just a wing that makes him look like (like someone already mentioned) Doc Brown. He looked like he was in a comedy/parody movie where effort on makeup is weak and isn't essential for the sake of the joke.
Next fundamental being the fact that Dean enjoys the new Heaven, and it is made known that everyone is theoretically alive in Heaven and doing fine, even Cas whose soul was taken by Big Empty, no idea if Jack forcefully took back his soul or what...but seems like even Big Empty has no say when God himself just does what he wants. Another funny thing is the cheap montage of Dean rolling through the off road forest area with sped up scenes and other weird things that could've been done shorter or differently filmed as he drives without being sped up in some places with same camera pan shots.
Another fundamental being Dean meeting people, it is unknown atm., if he was meant to meet more people than Bobby, and because of Covid it was limited to him.
So basically these things were the ones that were meant to happen, but probably the way these fundamentals got executed was just bad...badly executed fundamentals. I would be fine if Dean died, but if it was done by Chuck in some sort of a way, and without a way to save Dean. Otherwise let us have a time skips of how both of their lives goes by, raising families, and dying of old age, reuniting in the Heaven and driving around, meeting people that died, reuniting, and letting fans to have the last view on these characters...and maybe showing a scene how their sons or daughters finish their hunt as new hunters of Winchester family, killing last monster in the den, having some words about their dads, and then riding home in Dean's Impala, continuing family business. Then cutting back to scene with Dean and Sam saying their last line to fans directly with the filming crew, writers, and director. Done.
Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020)
Honestly I would give 9, but modesty gave 8
The movie is hilarious actually, I could watch the movie with a smile thorough expecting silly and funny stuff, and it didn't let down.
Not so long ago I watched first two movies, it was when this movie was announced, which was at the start of summer I think, basically two months before release if not mistaken. I learned about Bill and Ted movies by watching Angry Joe Show on youtube, and they reacted to the trailer, so they recommended to see first two movies, I checked out trailers and felt like - yea, I could try them out, I trust Joe's and his friends recommendations.
I really liked those movies, they were hilarious, silly, cringy, but really funny, so my memory was fresh considering I watched them not that long ago.
This movie wasn't any different to me honestly, it is more modern of course, quality wise, production wise, but it maintained the silliness it had in previous two movies. It is still cringy and silly because they maintained the humor of first two movies made in 90's, and those two movies watching with modern eyes felt cringy and silly at points as well for me, but it wasn't bad cringe, it was hilarious and funny. Basically it was silly but funny, so is this movie - silly, but funny, same thing.
Maybe some people noticed some differences, something they didn't liked or expected to hear/see, something I didn't heard nor saw, such as policorrectness etc., which I didn't really saw nor heard.
The only thing I wished was to have it longer, up to 2h of length. to stretch out a bit, since after finishing watching it felt like the second half got rushed, like...they ran through the story, maybe I am wrong, just the feels I am having after the watching, but didn't really felt it when watching.
Ad Astra (2019)
It's an eye candy for cinematography lovers.
I will keep it short.
The movie is like I titled this review, an eye candy for people that enjoy cinematography.
Story in the movie isn't something that one should hope for to see or...hear. It's straight forward story, but with small events along the way that can feel natural, yet at the same time mind bugling because they can feel rando. These events have small introductions, small explanations before they happen, or at the moment of it happening. Events themselves are short, thus it creates this feeling to which we are not accustomed to feel, but can be frustrating or...weird to some viewers. These are basically meaningless events that are happening, meaningless to the general story, but at the same time, when you think about it, these events gives this natural feel to the movie, natural events to the story, like...movies and their stories tend to show things that are mostly if not totally relevant to the story or subject of the story, this one shows basically daily or weekly, or monthly, or just time to time events that are happening in the universe of this story.
For example, some pirates and bandits on space rovers trying to kill main character and its team, and that's it, one random event happening along the way, it doesn't tie with anything besides the universe as such, showing what the future could be after colonizing Moon for example, having these rogue groups.
Next thing is a travel to Mars from Moon, they stumble upon station with distress signal, it's basically another random event that has nothing to do with main story, but it gives a feel that it's a situation that could happen in future.
But overall...for the cinematography, which seems to be the core point here, I give 8, maybe too high for some, but I enjoyed it for what it was.
Westworld: Crisis Theory (2020)
Stop the cheap police/security "armored" outfits
It just wont ever end, will it? While everything is great with the episode, had no problems whatsoever in general, but I keep having problems about something else...something that keeps happening in movies and shows about future and its dystopian relationships, where private security or militia for a corrupted private company, or police force like in this episode, where everyone is constantly wearing motorcyclist protective gear that is meant to protect the driver from impacts when falling from a bike, not from bullets.
It's just too obvious and cannot not be unseen, especially by someone who keeps noticing and seeing those suits more and more, and thus that person will keep noticing more, since that person will start to pay closer eye every next time.
Even riot gear is not cheap plastic or whatever it is made nowadays to protect motorcyclist, riot gear has special purpose armored vests - probably some portion made of Kevlar, but not everything - knee and elbow pads, as well as forearm protection of same material of body vest.
Just use military gear and paint it out or whatever, like Marvel's The Punisher.
It doesn't look futuristic to have those motorcyclist protective gear, it just looks silly, so if that was the idea, to make it seem futuristic, then why military used body armor vests? It's not that hard to get modern body armor vests...
Replicas (2018)
Wasn't bad as the overall 5.4 shows. For a late evening, just-to-watch-something, this works.
I am no professional critique, haven't studied in acting performance schools to spot small differences in acting, or be a nit-picky about all that.
I can place a decent 6 or 7 on this movie. My eye is sharp on CGI, and I can spot it without a problem whether it's a good or a bad CGI. In this movie CGI was bad, you don't even need a trained eye to spot it, amateur work. But the good point is that the CGI is not heavily used, it's very minimal thorough the movie besides the Augmented Reality usage here (of which I am unsure if it counts as CGI or not, since it is in a sense an Computer Generated Imagery).
Basically only at start where it's(the CGI component) the most active, and at the end. And the only such amateur CGI component is, is the robot itself, and it wasn't the focus of the movie too, so the influence of bad CGI was forgiving and not much taken into account. It could've scaled the rating up to 8 probably if it was high grade CGI.
Overall I liked the idea of the movie, didn't noticed dialogue problems and acting, except maybe here and there, those were small confusing places without huge impact, but that would've been a nit-picking stuff, since overall acting was good. It sure isn't a high budget John Wick sequel, but it's done well to scale at least on 7 mark if not more, or 6.5.
Sure there was some weird logic behind one or two things, or something that didn't made sense, yet it wasn't a huge deal anyway, but if you want to watch a movie for decent enjoyment at late evening, then this wasn't an disappointing movie, and was enjoyable.
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Option Two (2018)
Mack is special kind of stupid
Mack has been irritating me for quite some time, his lack of trust, his ignorance, stubbornness and lack of belief is really pissing me off in this episode, and some before. He is trying to be so right and so good, that he is blinded by it all, he doesn't learn at all, he keeps being the same wanna-be-right.
The way he keeps responding to JoJo, that attitude, as if he is better, yet so ignorant of all the facts and possibilities that he has encountered over the seasons since joining up. He should already be a believer just like Coulson, who isn't surprised to anything anymore.
He doesn't understand simple fact, especially after being in future, that everything they are doing, everything they are saying, it already has happened, and you can't tell right from wrong, because that might as well have already happened. The best option is to trust on almost every JoJo's decisions.
She actually wasn't sure about the Destroyer of Worlds, we didn't heard whole story from the future JoJo except that Coulson must die, and that is basically the only lead we got, but despite her thinking she saved the world, Coulson is still alive.
But man, the arrogance in these people... heck, even Daisy is acting all arrogant like hell, someone who shouldn't ever be a leader.
Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018)
It was ok...mostly, but not after one major event after the middle of the movie.
Everything was ok, and like an average movie I would give it 7 or 8 out of entertainment, but I placed 6 because...the moment gate got blown up by few petrol and probably oil barrels, I mean, looking at the damage those few cans, plastic bottles, and barrels with fuel and what not explosive stuff that were placed on that truck which went into the gates, it couldn't be possible... The damage done by those fuel barrels striking the gates, that was shown soon after the explosion, seemed like as if it was blow from inside out with a lot of strategically placed plastic explosives of high explosive value. It was so perfectly torn from inside out, that showing a truck rushing into the huge gate meant to stop almost everything rushing into it, probably 10 meter thick gates of steel and what not, was way too far away from even damaging the gates.
After this event, which in time showed and proved to be the determiner of the end of the story, just ruined everything that came afterwards with insensible choices. Newt's infection was rushed unrealistically as well, in a comparison to many examples we had from previous parts, where people had enough time, but the lame drama build was necessary for the creators to implement here...heck, even Teresa said that Newt still had time, she is professional and knows the estimated time. Assuming that only few days passed(around 1-3 maybe) since Newt showed the infection up to the moment of breaking in.and out of the city. He had barely on his wrist, and in 1-3 days it shouldn't have progressed that fast, since he had it for long time, and it progressed pretty much slowly until the moment he revealed, since then it unrealistically progressed through his body up to his head.
He should have been saved, he wasn't required to be dead, he had enough time claimed by professional. Same for the city itself, that gate was supposed to hold off such dumb explosions, but no, lets make unrealistic explosion that breaks not just gates, but some part of the wall as well...and thus resulted in a good city that shouldn't be destroyed, into destroyed. The suspension could have been made without blowing up gate. Otherwise it doesn't make sense afterwards.
And the ending when the helicopter was saving both Teresa and Thomas, pilot said he can't get closer...not sure, I saw plenty of room where he could've gotten close to save them both, and in much faster time. Since those propulsion engines weren't taking air from below, but from above, the flames wouldn't be sucked in and damaged engines, so they could have saved the both easily.
Heck, everyone could have been saved, but noo, people just have to be stupid.
Basically the score went down because of the gate being blown, it just created a chain of some illogical and unnecessary plot twists, or to some maybe even obvious plot twists.
War Pigs (2015)
From simple person
Movie was good, It's not that bad as some of these people criticize it to be. Yea, it has half of the movie introduction, about how a higher ranking soldier comes to order new squad, and he has a bad record regarding his last squad, but many rewards and high ranking rewards, though. But the squad he meets has one of those slackers that thinks negatively and doesn't respect new lieutenant, so the first half goes with basic introduction on how this lieutenant gains this slackers respect and vice versa, and it happens through training, nice conversations etc. I see nothing wrong with that, I do not expect a movie to start with full explosions and war through whole movie, though it had at start small scene for few minutes, and that was enough for intro.
At the end, movie was fun, and these negative critics delayed my watching, but at the end I did watch it and I was satisfied(don't listen to those negative people, if you liked FURY, or something like that, but it's not on the same level of course, and nothing like Saving Private Ryan, not even close, but it is a good and simple movie to watch, trust me, I'm not so much picky like some of people that require...I don't know what exactly they want), and I'm no cheap budget movie watcher, this movie had a lot of people involved, though CGI stuff was hilarious, which was only at the end, except weapon gunfire, dunno if that was real or CGI, but it was looking good, so no worries there, only the last scene where a tank shot... (spoiler)...at the artillery, and the whole artillery blew up, and it was silly, don't know how it would be in reality, but it seemed silly to me, not to mention that CGI explosion was hilarious, but at least that was only at the end, through out movie there were practical explosions and fights.