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Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023)
Pretty good
It revived the Indiana Jones atmosphere well. And the fact that Harrison Ford stayed made things much better. It has mystery, action, historical flavor with fictional twists, family ties and issues. My personal opinion is that Ford's age doesn't diminish the quality of the story, nor of the action scenes some of which of course are adapted to better match the situation. I respect that they didn't force unrealistic super-hero actions. Overall, a good ending to the Harrison Ford era. Personally perhaps I would have preferred the alternative ending to Indy's saga, an alternative that opens before him at the end. But that's subjective.
Last Man Standing: The Marriage Doctor (2016)
Pathetic cult of personality
This show is asking for such comments. Of course, one can ignore the strange disturbing bragging of the main character Mike Baxter indefinitely, just to go with the fun of it, but there are just too many situations when there's really nothing funny about it. It's pure cult of personality regardless of being wrong, misogynistic, hurting other people feelings or having plain dictatorial preferences and opinions. A normal show would point at such traits by contrasting them with the opposite feedback, more humorously or more seriously, but this show more often than not actually uses the other characters in a gross, highly unlikely manner to strengthen the opinions and cult of personality of the "dictator", like in this episode (The Marriage Doctor). Yikes.
Uncharted (2022)
Weak draft of a rehearsal of an attempt of a...you got the idea
Full of cliches. Blah-blah dialogues, B list movie action, momentum depth of a sidewalk puddle. None or weak driving passion, involvement or genre magic. It seems that today's writers/directors share the same kind of glasses - if it's meant to be light and enjoyable, then it got to be empty witless talking muddle and robotic copycat action. If it's meant to be more serious and have some depth - then they toss in tiring heavy language and bloody tortures. No wonder people go less to the movies at the cinema - most of the time you feel cheated and wasting your time when you could rewatch Indiana Jones, The Mummy 1&2, or relax with The Muppets Show...
Don't Look Up (2021)
What a waste of time
Not entertaining, not enriching, not factual, not... just not.
Half way through the movie most probably you'll want to fast-forward, skip, somehow stop the pain. Unnecessarily aggressive, inexplicable idiotic. Perhaps the actors thought the film would turn out a satiric acclaim, and they didn't foresee the tiring mud mush it turned out. Would rather watch a stereotypical asteroid/comet/disaster old movie. Good parts? I don't know, maybe that people are not as crazy or society as low-brained as this film ostentatiously try to portrait. Also that luckily we have about a century of enough good cinematography to re-watch when mistakes like this happen.
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (2022)
The problem with this show is...
Okay, there may be several problems with this show. But one major problem is the intended public. It's quite obvious that they were aiming at the audience of Game of Thrones and NOT as much at LOTR fans. And this may count as a huge mistake: as a LOTR fan I've seen enough in the first two episodes to not intend to watch any further. The flavor, the atmosphere, the characters, the dialogues are too far from what I would have expected - instead of a LOTR/Tolkien (hard to match) universe, we receive something like "here's your Young Adult fiction, here's your regular roughy toughy heroes, here's your monsters + bonus new ones along the way that, rest assured, will get slayed in bloody countless battle scenes". (Oh, and has anyone else got the feeling that Elves+Humans remind of YA Divergent / Maze Runner etc? Kind of a marketing salad then)
Too bad they used the LOTR brand for this show, they should have created a complete new fiction - at least they wouldn't have gotten reviews such as mine. From now on I guess the remaining viewers will start making bets on who will die next, or things like that.
No Time to Die (2021)
Is there a "pestering sob story" target at Hollywood lately?
I mean, supposed top movies are more and more over-forced efforts at squeezing emotional response. They are not trying to entertain us anymore, but they are after our brains and tears in a repeatedly annoying, exaggerated manner. I think this is the modern quick recipe to show some "depth". It's like they have a sort of checklist, and each producer follows these points in more convoluted and more of-a-stretch "implementations". Not to mention excessive: bang, some tiring visuals, bang, some shocking/troubling events, bang, some out of the blue drama. Making the air thick is a sort of achievement. Not to mention the desperate "solution" of adding a child in the middle of aggressive scenes (poor kid). After such a movie, I usually feel like watching something else, a good classic or something relaxing, to wash the bad impressions.
Luca (2021)
Beautiful. Touching. Great for the whole family
It's a while since an animation like this has been made. Most of the modern animations are tiring, noisy and feel like kicking your brain. This one is lovely, both visually and story-wise. Highly recommended.
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (2019)
Er...dull
I like good action movies. I also like when they are funny. But this one was a struggle about almost everything in it: from dialogues, to facial expressions and forcing the actors to mingle. Plus the new standard of visual and audible kicks in your brains when the movie's lacking quality. And the action...unbearable. I left before the end.
Xena: Warrior Princess (1995)
Much more than a show
This show is on the short list of shows that went beyond an empty, brainless, commercial goal of its producers/stakeholders (including the first two Star Trek series, M.A.S.H., Matrix, Evangelion and other goldies, each in its genre, of course). Meaning it stands and will always be standing above the vast majority of movies and shows currently on TV and in theaters.
I am so grateful that the producers/writers chose to explore the human condition in so many aspects. While keeping the stakes high with fantastic and true emotional scenarios (with ups and downs-especially in the last seasons-, but, in the end, that doesn't really matter).
Questioning. Relevant. Essential points. Testing and analyzing good and evil, at personal and universal levels. All under the light of love and truth.
So many times inspirational. Thank you to both the writers and the actors.
Alad'2 (2018)
Enjoyed
It's funny, it's silly, main actors gave thier best and succeded. I find it strange that many people rated it so low. I hope it was not because it lacks crappy fart-jokes and idiotic vulgarity.