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Parallax (2023)
Good idea for a film completely wasted
I just watched Parallax encouraged by reviews, both here and elsewhere, and I'm terribly dissappointed. Is this somekind of a guerilla marketing campaign with all those 9/10 reviews? The movie is based on an interesting collage of, let's say, a bunch of fuzzy reality ideas. None of them are actually original, I'll skip details to avoid spoilers but suffice to say we know them already from other films. However, if delivered properly this could have been a good experience nonetheless. Unfortunately this did not happen and the only good things I find in this film are the lead actress performance and music. Cinematography could also deserved praising if only they have not decided on reusing just a handful of identical shots almost in a repeating pattern. All actors' performance is bad (except for the lead one) and dialogs are unrealistic. The storyline is very slow, maybe even boring but that's not the problem, there are lots of movies that are probably too slow but overall turn out very good. The bad part here is that for the 3/4 of a movie it keeps the same slow pace and is generally consistent in it, only to suddenly change into some lower-then-B-grade student's action movie in the end. Did the screenwriter's dog ete their only copy of a script book a night before shooting and they had to improvise or something? Seriously, the director and the screewriter should consider career change - I believe it is the same person so that explains why we've got so many issues related to acting, dialogs and plot at once in this film.
No Hard Feelings (2023)
Failed attempt at (unspoken) remake of The Girl Next Door
Nobody officially said that but it's an obvious attempt at 2023 take on The Girl Next Door. The problem here is that the original was properly targeting youth audience: there was stupid but funny story, the humor matched the age of the viewers, Elisha Cuthbert was still young enough (22) to be genuinely attractive to high-schoolers, and there even was a moral to the story.
No Hard Feelings serves us even less believable story directed at youth, with unfortunately unsophisticated humor directed at adults. Jennifer Lawrence acting is great as usual but I doubt her obviously 33-yo face attracts younger viewers even remotely effectively as Elisha did back in the days. And I'm having trouble finding any moral in this story.
Who is this movie supposed to be for? Certainly not for me.