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Ted Lasso: Signs (2023)
Can't understand it
Characters lost depth, no longer a Ted show but everyone else's. Why is it rated 12 while it has all that sexual stuff in it?
Ted's call with Michelle, how not showing her face? I'd say the scene should've had much more importance as it is a struggle of the main character.
Why all the sexuality stuff popping up everywhere? How justifying just turning Keeley to gay?
Players, especially Rojas, are turned to shallow characters. Zava's introduction then sudden disappearance! Roy's less and less lines and the shallow conversations he makes. Where is all the building of the psychologist?
No development has been done to Leslie although we started to see him as an integral character but now he's just to fill lines.
Paranormal (2020)
Excellent production and props mastering but dull characters
The movie has a lot of details that would easily transfer you back to the era the movie was shot at, this is something new to the movie industry in Egypt. The main characters can be looked as follows:
Refaat Ismael: Amin has made a brilliant role but the character wasn't rude in the books, Amin depicts it to be a rude, indirect and hesitant character which from the original book series was never like that. The character was also somehow religious with so many instances showing strong faith and demonstrating it, this is never referred to and is basically non-existent.
Maggie: I'd say a clear miss in casting, the accent, the awful wig and the Arabic pronunciation were all poor besides her role doesn't add much to be the co-star neither has it been in the book series.
Reda: a very good actor with extremely poor lines, the character build up is nothing for the viewer, if you remove the character and with very minor modifications you wouldn't feel any difference in the final outcome.
Raeefa: a very good actor with good lines and presence on the screen, however not given any chance to be more than a light comedy in the background.
Howeida: the actress didn't change her nail polish color for the whole 6 episodes, she's not living her role.
Louis: a very good actor and realistic in every glimpse although again the scenario isn't connected for how he is connected to the scenes.
Shiraz: the girl is a beautiful actor that needed time to understand her role and play it better.
Storyline: the directors and script writers have severed the original book script in what they'd call the "screen adaptation" where I see that they killed it. The story doesn't have characters build up, not matching the fans expectations to see what they read which is rich enough and didn't care less about the main character.
CGI: how poor with such production not to hire some good specialists, the gorilla scenes are extremely similar to those of the old King Kong movie or the cyclops in the Sindbad where you really get confused how much would that take to deliver a good thing. The flower they were looking for grew in a cave but was green and bright colored with no sunlight, basic botany for a good series sake. And where would a silver back gorilla come from to live in the desert?
The Succubus was just ridiculous, although the scenery was well constructed but not well shot.
Original book series adherence: almost nothing, even his neighbor who has been a main character in the books was not existent.
Bottom line: a production that was highly anticipated and delivered good quality production but compromised on a lot of details mainly the characters. My rating is high enough as a thank you for the Props. manager and production
7500 (2019)
Enough with Muslim hijackers
So we have a would've been excellent movie with limited camera space, smart moves and scenario within the plane cockpit but ofcorse who should be evil, you guessed it, ofcorse Muslims and they want to do a suicide crash of the plan over a city. It's really enough with this theme.
The pilot Tobias as a character is also very ill developed with strange reactions towards his colleague Pilot and his girlfriend.
Munich (2005)
Good directing, reality falsification
The movie depicts actual events showing the Palestinians as terrorists. In a scene Avner (Bana) speaks to one of the Fedayeen and tells him that they, the Palestinians, had no country which is really question the ill intention behind such statement in a Hollywood movie.
The hostage situation was known as poorly managed by the German authorities however the mishaps were never mentioned in the movie.
The group of Fedayeen taking hostages at the Olympic Games had demands to free hostages in the Israeli prisons which also were never mentioned to the why.
Avner is thinking/recalling the killing and empathizing with them although there are almost no clear records to what happened exactly in the Olympic hotel room.
The world stance from Israel is falsified during the movie as ignoring their agonies while acknowledging the Palestinians' which shouldn't be the case if they have a state over the ruins of an invaded land.
The Israelis in the movie are all the time talking about Jews and that they're representing the Jews, as far as known the assassinations were done by the Israeli intelligence for Israeli citizens not all Jews would acknowledge.
Segn El Nessa (2014)
A very successfully told story
The characters are closer to your mind and heart from an episode to another. You live with them and have is getting you to understand the hidden layers of the society, their problems and their day to day struggles.
I didn't feel the bluntness and rudeness of showing those under the radar societies unlike what has been a trend over the past years.
I didn't like the close ups at all, the photography could've been much better and would've delivered better results.
Wonder Woman (2017)
Boring, expected, Cliche' and overall not worth watching
The movie doesn't add anything to the DC universe, if you are a fan of Nolan's trilogy and how he rebooted the character in a way or another you'd get bored of this plain acting and boring one.
The first scenes with the Amazonian have poor graphics, to my taste at least, later on the cliche' of a man hero who falls by chance to her island and she falls in love with, again!!! Haven't we seen that theme thousands of times? A reverse Pocahontas style storyline.
Going to the city where everyone is charmed about her, then she has this lethal weapon of banging her wrist bands to destroy others but she uses that very late.
I found it very boring and even tried two times to watch it maybe I'm missing something for all the propaganda it took, but honestly nothing. I've lived Hathaway's catwoman performance more.
If I'd present a female superhero and I'd be keen really on showing the female real powers and to best do that I'd get an actress that knows how to act.
El-Badlah (2018)
Tamer Hosny is even more horrible
Tamer Hosny clearly looks older in this movie than the character age, not to mention that the director tried to make him the main character but failed. He has no comic charisma and you'd feel waiting for Akram's scenes seeking a joke here or there which was mostly a cliche' in the majority of the movie.
The film can be enjoyed in the background but not really worth watching.
Ali's Wedding (2017)
Interesting but not as expected
The movie is a big cliche, first scene then last scenes you know where the story is leading but how it was made is funny enough to keep you watching.
Depictions of Muslims aren't accurate and certainly the scenes of arranged marriage aren't a common example of what happens around the Muslim world.
The implied struggle between the want-to-be imam and Mehdi reminds me of Scar and Mofasa in Lion king for some reason.
Youmna (the bride-to-be) should've been with more lines on the screen.
A nice movie to watch on a Saturday night but I think wouldn't be a movie I'd remember for long.