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Monster Hunter (2020)
Took my skipping virginity
I have never ever skipped a movie before. I have not even skipped a single YouTube video ever. I am a process lover and even if I do not like a video material, I watch it till the end to have a say about it. However, this movie, its nonstop scene cuts, unintelligent plot and terrible action scenes made me feel so bad that I had to skip. You cannot sympathize with the characters no matter how hard the director tries, because of the sequence of events and illogical lenght of the scenes.
This movie seems to start out with the emotions surrounding overconfidence. When the characters are traumatized with the fact that their adversaries are far superior than they have imagined the second emotin wave begins: despair. I would like to delve into the emotional state of the characters but scene cuts, continuity (close up scene shadows, far scene in bright sun light in sequential 10-15 scenes within 4-5 seconds) and abrubt flow of the time-line makes it so difficult.
Up until that point of the first fight with monster, the time despair and horror in the characters started to emerge, the flow was fine. But when the main character (Artemis) inexplicably survived a giant spider-lobster hybrid monter's slashing, piercing and poisoning attack without any reason, I felt that this thing is going downhill. Every plot hole is filled with "doh, is there something irrational, then let's make our character immortal and the others incapacitated or stupid" kind of mentality. Otherwise, a 60kg woman, with military training or not, cannot escape the vicious and lighting fast claw attacks of a merely 15 meter monster only by kicking those claws. Come on! Those claws are larger than her torso. I do not want to mention the countless acts of rolling down a 100mt hill and bumping into a hard rock, being flung around by 6 meter long horns of a giant monster either by the flesh or within a military vehicle and most importantly the plane crash while being tied down.
I can say that the actual play time of the movie is not more than 50-60 minutes. I felt insulted while watching this. I had a close impression while watching the new mortal kombat movie. But, hey, this thing is like a monument of how to ruin a movie despite amazing visual effects and credible actors by bad script writing and directing.
All in all, if video-game adaptations are always going to be this irrational, illogical and insulting, I am going to avoid them for a very long time.
2307: Winter's Dream (2016)
Good Story vs Bad Production
The story is not unique, but actually a good one. However when you combine that good story with bad acting, poor CG, terrible dialogues and immense plot holes, the output is inevitably below par.
I say bad acting because any mimic, gesture and voice acting are so exaggerated that you feel an urge to slap their faces to help them back to their senses. Other than a few main roles, every character is either shouting hysterically or acting overly self-confident.
Poor CG is acceptable in consideration of the lower budget.
Terrible dialogues are everywhere. Either there are lots of cut scenes or several writers authored the script individually and than shuffled the pages to make a scrambled innovation. The result stinks like a bowl of deteriorated and uncooked scrambled eggs.
Plot holes. Oh my! Countless. Self detonating non-explosive things, inverted hands with absurd axis shifts in camera view, unexplained relationships, and most importantly climate defying "everything"... In a movie of which the plot is about extreme climate change, some clothing freezes in water, which is surprisingly present in extreme low temperatures and some organic tissues survive in the same water source.
All in all, it would have been a masterpiece, toppling "Oblivion" of Cruise in many ways.
If you really have a two-hour spare time and the movie is free, watch till the end, against all odds. The ending is satisfactory. But the journey may get really boring and your thumb would reach out for the stand-by button any time.