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X-Men '97 (2024)
Just perfect
I never had seen the original series, even though I had heard good things about it. However, I was very interested in X-Men '97 because the creators said that it wouldn't need previous knowledge to comprehend the events of this series and so I decided to watch it. And oh boy...was it good. This and Young Justice are the best superhero shows ever made and it's not even up for debate. X-Men '97 has extremely compelling characters, adapts masterfully (and in some cases surpassing the originals) many classic storylines, the episode duration is awesome (usually for animated projects the runtime is 22 minutes, but this was 32+ minutes), just everything. To be honest, I cannot find any fault with the series, outside the fact that it could have fleshed out some storylines a bit more, but it might have been for the better that theyrl kept it short.
Midsommar (2019)
The most disappointing movie I've ever watched
The first half starts off pretty strong, reminiscent of other horror movies with similar premise (The Ritual for example). The setting manages to be creepy and eerie, despite the constant sunlight that bathes the village that the main story takes place. However, the movie cannot keep up to its strong beginning as it goes on. The constant illumination of the set, becomes monotonous and the extremely beautiful landscapes, are now boring. The main characters, of course, are stupid (typical for horror films) and as such, you really cannot sympathize with them when most of the awful things start to occur.
The real problem though, happens about half an hour before the end, where the weirdness is turned to 11 just for shock value, and it gets really, really hard to get to the point of this movie.
Movies like Mulholland Drive, don't make much sense, but they acknowledge that, and try to motivate the viewer to give their interpretation of the medium.
Movies like Midsommar, think that they are elevating themselves to the high art heavens, by suddenly being extra shocking and barely leaving room for meaningful and/or intellectual allegories to be made.
It's relatively obvious that Midsommar is about the main character's toxic relationship with her boyfriend, but in its search for higher highs, the latter half of the movie, devolves in a weird mess of gory violence and disturbing sex scenes.