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Dragon Knight (2022)
That's how Dragonheart Vengeance should be
A boy, a knight, a villainesses who is really good in acrobatic and used to join good guys. Oh, right, and a dragon. The best movie in the dragon movies collection.
Low budget though.
Great potential, not many blood (inside dozens sword battles, can you believe it?), nice nature, beautiful forest. Innocent women and children who aren't saved when it's impossible to save them (realism is everything). The end hints to be continued and I really can't wait for the sequel part.
Good actors, good fighting scenes, good castle, good plot, funny dragon flame, grim evil knight troopers.
Better watch than miss.
Dampyr (2022)
They had their chances to make a really good movie
Well, "Dampyr" works in the best way because its male leading character is a protagonist and its female leading character is a villainess who changed her mind and joined good guys.
They rest is really really really bad in the movie. No logic, no reality, no history, no reasons, no mercy, no point in any of plans (for example: killing vampires just because you know where they live? Seriously? What if they are not bloodthirsty monsters, what if they are vegetarians or at least use clone blood? Oh, right, there's s book which says they are bad *facepalm*).
No common sense. Why does vampire lady join the good guys first of all? They had captured her and some of them saved her from the rest of the troops later. How did they capture her? She was ordered to stay and spy. Why didn't she play hide and seek to spy but let them to capture her? That is the million dollar question.
Dead Like Me: Life After Death (2009)
Life is everywhere
Dead like me, episode 1:
"Hello, we are grim reapers and we know who will die today. And tomorrow. And the day after tomorrow. And the next week."
Dead like me, episodes from 2 to the final one:
"Hello, we are grim reapers and our team leader tells us who will die today. And today. And today. And today."
People who watched DLM both the show and the movie:
"Hello. Can you believe it, the show gave us rules of the reapers world and the movie ruined the rules."
DLM the series:
"How about we say about a family who is sad thinking their child is gone forever. The family doesn't know the child is a reaper now and still here."
DLM fans:
"Yes, we need all of them. Suppose Mason has a little sister and one day she finds the truth about her dead/undead brother. Or else why would a family be a plot line? Would be better to show the reapers world more to avoid mistakes and plot holes."
DLM movie:
"We don't need all families, we need the leading character family. Who cares of plot holes? More protagonists family. There's no plot without the family plot line. Mwahahahaha!"
At least there's a cat in the movie.
The Shed (2019)
Everything is possible
Well, to be honest it's easy for me to imagine how the most beautiful girl of my high school is attacked with a pack of vampires and I'm the only one who can save her.
In that POV "The Shed" could be a realistic movie with good actors.
But it's really really really hard to imagine how a vampire pack is attacking me, my school bully joins them, my best friend joins them and the most beautiful girl of our school comes to save me from the monsters. I mean, why would she even do anything like that?
And even if she would how would she be able to fight? Thanks to the secret ninja self-defense training program?
Funny, interesting, awesome but absolutely fantastic having nothing with reality.
Amityville Playhouse (2015)
Much better than expected
Well, some plot parts could be great stories.
How about a girl who saved the day and vanished.
Do you see a really good tv show here? Ep.1, S.1 a boy comes to an abandoned building meets a ghost gothic girl, she saves him, he saves her from being stuck inside forever. Ep.2, S1. The boy and the girl are best friends now.
Alas, Amityville Playhouse follows its own way in a really cliche story.
Classic special effects, hand made, not CGI, it really works when you make a horror movie after all.
You won't believe it but actors of the main cast try to act. May be they didn't deserve Oscar but they play better than a lot of actors in zillion other movies. Trust me, they do.
To be short: it's not as bad as it looks.
Young Dracula (2006)
Just a little question
"Hello, my dear vampires, now I don't care what you want, you will do anything I'll say."
"Have you ever heard of free will?"
"Die! I AM the chosen one."
"Excuse me, you keep telling about the peace between vampires and people but all you actually do is killing vampires. I have to agree that the world without vampires are some peaceful place for people. But do you remember you are vampires' leader?"
"Die! I AM the chosen one."
"I must say I'm sick and tired of leading characters who are not normal but unique: sons of an emperor, semi-gods and especially chosen ones.
I mean there are a zillions of them. Boring and cliche.
But anyway. So, you are a cruel mad paranoid silly selfish leader.
Are you sure you are a protagonist of a tv-show for kids, a tv-show about a brother and a sister who are friends no matter what, who are vampires just to get more watchers to screens?"
"Die! I AM the chosen one."
Don't get me wrong, I'm not telling "young Dracula" is a bad tv show. I'm just asking you: is that really the very protagonist you need???
Stuck in the Middle (2016)
Good. But could be much better.
Most of the show is based on itself. Episode by episode we see the same plot.
1. Protagonist wants something.
2. The protagonist's sibling used to do something that will help the leading character to fail in getting what she wants.
3. The leading character is stopping her sibling no matter what it costs and takes.
4. The whole family is in big trouble because the sibling was stopped.
5. The leading character saves the day.
6. ???
7. Profit.
At first time it's interesting but the more we see it the more it's boring.
The best part of the show is the chemistry. We see the children and believe they ARE siblings. Not neighbours, not strangers but family.
So, it's better to watch the show than not to watch.
Ssawooja Gwishina (2016)
How is that even fair?
It's not fair when you ask for a story about
- friendship.
- love/hate.
- love.
between a human and a ghost and all you are given is a story about a human and a human in coma.
It's just not.
Kimetsu no Yaiba (2019)
Men In Black meet Samurai
From the very beginning Blade Demon Slayer (aka Kimetsu no Yaiba) looked as something wonderful. A boy comes home and has all his family dead. All but one. His little sister is a blood-meat thirsty monster now.
So the plot promised a lot of good in any way. Way A. The brother joins his sister as a minion and help her with eating innocent.
Way B. The brother and sister begin saving people, hunting things (hm, looks like it was somewhere on tv).
But no. Suddenly a mysterious organisation appears out of nowhere and the brother has to join the group of nerds. And here how nerds they are.
- they say it's hard for them to fight vs monsters. Because if a monster loses its hands it'll get new ones, but if a fighter loses his hands he will never be a warrior again.
- they send their privates here and there from a village to a city. Just send without paying money for the job.
- they are more cruel than the monsters. Monsters don't keep them in a prisons forever. Monsters don't use them as a doll for rookies training lessons. Monsters don't hypnotise them to make believe (it's your beloved family, protect them no matter what).
All the organisation way of the plot looks useless and excess. But the anime is based on the plot. Sad but true.
Party of Five (1994)
Pretender
"Party of Five" is a magnificent lovey-dovey tv show. It's about teens, so, of course, there must be love in the show. 90% of episodes the leading characters are looking for someone to kiss, sleep with, marry...
Oh, that's so sweet and nice. But wait. Isn't it a show about family? I mean when a girl says "I'll do my best to help him", in a show like this Him must be her brother, not a boyfriend.
When I wanna see some romance I watch "Helen et les garçons", "BH 90210" or even "Charmed" (both, he-he). "Party of five" promised me siblings' relationship, that's why I watched it, not the other shows.
But they ruined the promise.
If you think that's just my wrong perception, how about "Scent of a Woman" (1992). As you may remember a student was blackmailed by a dean in the movie, his friend (almost foster father) came and saved the day.
There's something like that in the "Party of five". And what happened? Nothing. Nobody moved with a finger to save his/her blackmailed brother.
That's what I mean. The movie about friendship shows that friends are helping, no matter what. The tv show about a family shows that family will never ever help.
So the show looks like a romance mousetrap and siblings theme is like a piece cheese. No fair.