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Dune: Part Two (2024)
Why does everyone keep whispering?
Firstly there isn't a scene in the film without someone whispering, even completely alone in the middle of thousands of miles of dessert they keep whispering, to the point inner monologues and voiceovers are whispered. It makes no sense at all and is almost as jarring as Zendaya sounding like the only member of the Fremen who is from the Bronx. There are soliders in it that for some reason have the sound effects from Predator. The visual effects are the only decent part of the film. The fight scenes are some of the worst choreographing I have seen and I was confused as to why they kept doing forward rolls and how many people wearing armour were killed out right by having their calves swipped at by the people doing said forward rolls. It's a very lazy film that doesn't expect you to remember what you saw a few minutes ago. The first real battle we see from the Fremen has them destroying a giant machine by getting close enough to touch it, a load of them get killed. The following scene we are shown they can destroy them from miles away with zero casualties using the same weapons.
If you want a good drinking game drink everytime someone whispers, You'll be in hospital with alcohol poisioning before you're half way through.
In short they have taken a good story and turned it in to an unthinking lowest common denominator mess.
The Goldbergs (2013)
Why the incest
Loved this show when it started but Im confused and disapointed at the recent series including incest. Erica Goldberg is marrying Geoff Schwartz, Erica's brother Barry is dating Joanne Schwartz, Geoffs sister. They have even made jokes about the fact that they are sleeping together. Frankly disgusting.
Muppets Haunted Mansion (2021)
Lazy
We have seriously lost something here and its truly sad. We've gone from seeing things like Kermit riding a bike (Which was an impressive feat of puppeteering) to having muppets whos mouths dont move at the time as the voice over and CGI flames on a candle stick. I found myself asking questions like, Where is Rizzo? Who is Pepper? (Its Pepe) and why doesnt Kermit sound anything like, well Kermit? I really don't think Jim Henson would have let this pass, There are far too many points where CGI is used instead of puppeteering. Over all this just feels lazy. If this is the future of the Muppets I am saddened to see something that really was special cheapened so much.
How to Train Your Dragon (2010)
Its ok I guess
Not as great as everyone makes out, It was clearly made with very little care. I spent most of my time watching confused as to why everyone looked liked Vikings yet all the children have American accents and the adults all sound Scotish, Lazy.
War of the Worlds (2019)
There are no aliens!
Watched all of the first season, The Robo-dog things were no substitute for the tripods and it took a long time to not get going. I think the worst part of it was the end of the season when we saw the 'Alien' was 'A guy in a chair' Yup a whole season of watching for a guy in a chair. With the effects we have on hand (and how much easier to produce and cheaper they are) the best this series could muster was a guy in a chair, Take note, Not a blue/green/red guy, Not an really weird looking guy, Not anything really alien, Just a guy in a chair. I'd love to meet the person who signed off on that and ask them why, The Robo-dog things were animated well, they clearly had the budget for effects but when it came to the 'Alien' the best they could do was put a tattoo on the hand of a guy in a chair. It really feels like whomever wrote this doesn't know War of the Worlds past 'Earth gets invaded' and were to lazy to find out any more. To be frank this is an insult to H. G Wells. It is War of the Worlds in title only.