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Das Signal (2024)
Horribly over pretentious and dumb story
I kind of had some hope for this series. I was hoping it would be better in any way than Constellation, which is also horribly bad. The acting in this is ok, not great, not bad. The absolute failure in this is the story, it is an actual and very drawn out piece of garbage. It was almost intolerable to watch, the characters lame and mostly stupid, the pretentiously bad ending...
To say something positive, well the scenes onboard thr space station are ok.
Don't watch this, even Constellation might be a trifle better or maybe worse, they both are madly bad. I kind felt they were trying to give off a vibe like from Interstellar, but failing miserably in every way.
Do yourself a favor, don't watch this.
The Creator (2023)
Beautifully created visually - horrible writing.
I had high, well more than normally high hopes for this movie.
It did deliver on the visuals, which were quite stunning and very nicely done. Photography and visuas were really good.
Then there was that part of a movie that is a story, preferably something you can't understand AND where almost every character is not a total fool, or moron. Then there are the plot holes, the story is riddled with them. Multiple times the story and dialogue deliver major information which just seems to fly over every characters head and is not in any way continued on or brought up again.
The AI which it very much was not, is incredibly non-intelligent. It was just made as dumb as it gets. The writers seemed to have no understanding of AI and General AI at all, nor did they seem to have any understanding on modern tech and those magical things like radio or light based communication. The damn robots had to talk to eachother to communicate... I mean really.
So I give this movie a 4, I even feel that is a bit high, since the writing and story should be lower. It is compensated to some degree by the visuals, photography, FX, music score and sound effects.
The acting was ok, more or less on the main characters, they seems confused which is understandable with this story writing, the antagonists are so flat from a charater perspective they are basically 2D. They seemed played by an old AI...
My guess lots of the story was written by an AI helper and the humans did not read what the AI wrote, just cut and pasted it altogether.
Dark Matter (2015)
Bad in almost every way, no science and really badly written fiction
This was a horror to watch. It started bad, the science is not in it at all, the guns come out faster than you can say "bullet".
Swords, really, swords?
I only watched most of season 1, that was more than enough...
The acting is at best, "so so", the script/story is terrible and this is the difference between this series and Firefly.
Firefly has really good actors and a well written story. Firefly is witty, funny, serious and has decent action scenes
This does not. It is lacking in every way.
All the reviews praising this are either purchased, fake or plain unknowing of good SF and any series in general.
Don't watch this, it is a total waste time.
The Visit (2015)
Just another dumb and badly written horror story
Do not watch this! Save time for something worthwhile!
This is just really really bad!
There are no spoilers here, but the movie itself is really spoiled....
Horrible story, stupid characters, bad dialog, bad direction, idiotic photography. There is more or less no story and what is there is not understandable.
In all it is a bit creepy, but not really scary and as stated massively stupid!
The acting is in some places pretty much ok. But with a story this bad it seems it must be very difficult to get any really good acting in there
There was nothing to like about this waste of time....
You have been warned.
In the Earth (2021)
Don't waste you time! Horrible bad and boring!
This was a fast-forward until nothing ever happens with a terrible story.
Acting was decent, but there was not much to act on.
Stay away!
Another Life (2019)
Another movie/series of idiots in space
So it pretty much just starts awfully, and then just continues in a downward spiral of stupidity.
My recommendation is to not waste your time on this.
To bad, production seemed fine and acting is quite good.
Nightflyers (2018)
Utter garbage
Having read and seen more than my share of SF books and movies, all I can say is that this is utter garbage.
Horrible story line, everything and everyone is utterly stupid.
Then ending is at best a joke and also just really badly written and acted...
Just don't watch it....
Believers (2007)
Utter crap... did someone say formula?
I'm sorry this movie sucked. Terrible acting, really really confused story that never really explained anything. If at least a small attempt had been made do actually explain the story or show a plot or something it might have gotten i bit higher grading from me. All the foolishness about a formula was almost making sound like a commercial for toothpaste.
My vote of 2 is for decent music in the movie and for at least a twist of an ending.
Unless you really don't have anything else do do like operating on yourself with a worn out spoon, then do not see this BORING movie.
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Kôkaku kidôtai (1995)
A piece of animated art.
Once again Masamune Shirow shows us what great animated movies can become of his stories. The animation, the atmosphere, music and characters of the movie are great.
He lets us again think about ourselves as individuals and human beings in a philosophical sense.
The creators of the movie also gave the feeling of gravity as the characters pace through this film.
Even if you're not into anime, animated movies or cartoons, watch this movie.