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House of the Dragon (2022)
Not Game of thrones world
I don't know what they are doing but this isn't game of thrones world. They can slap the label on it, use the name Targaryen 50000 times, but the feel, the language, the way of speaking, , the clothes, the buildings, the culture, it's all different. Not just different, more modern. They are saying the f-word for crying out loud! Oh and the king has a king's council that doesn't seem to have a SINGLE person from the seven houses. Let me tell you, that will NEVER EVER EVERRRRR happen.
If that's not bad enough, it's just totally boring and predictable. Corlys Velaryon told his story, which was supposed to illicit some kind of emotions and attachment to the character but I just sat there and thought "oh wow! The most boring character story ever! Thanks GoT producers."
Skinwalkers (2006)
Horrible and undoubtedly retarded execution of a brilliant idea
What they call a "pack" is no more than a bunch of with shifting abilities. One pack is a gang, another, not. A pack has hierarchy, traditions, rules, based on their wildness. We saw NONE. Absolutely zero rules about being a wolf in this movie.. The not gang pack could be a pack if there was a hierarchy or a clear leader, bc this "pack" is actually a family. But again, no pack leader was established so it's just a regular OL' family.
Bc of the serious lack of lycanthropic culture, this was just or shootout movie with no purpose. Oh they tell us they have a purpose which is to save the boy but the strategy behind that was so weak it seems laughable to say there was a purpose.
Save your time you're better off imagining for yourself the perfect wolf movie. I guarantee you'll come up with something better than this in your head. Whatever you come up with imagine it over and over and you'd've done better than this movie.
Blood Sisters (2022)
Greatest
As a Nigerian American, ever since I've been exposed to American cinematography, Nigerian cinematography has been so far belo America's that I've lost all taste for Nigerian movies and deride the. Constantly. I was pleasantly surprised by this. Couldn't get enough well done.
Bridgerton (2020)
Season 2 was subpar
It's like they switched out the entire Production team team from season one. The script was different, directing was different, acting was different, which mean casting was different, production was different. And not different as much as sucked, uninspiring and uninteresting. If not for having watched season one and loved it, I won't have bothered past ep 3 of season 2. As it is I missed at least one ep and several scenes from falling asleep but I have zero curiosity to go back and figure out what happened.
The two new leads casted were just blah. I was quite disappointed bc I was rooting for them. Yet I don't blame them. I don't know if they weren't right for the roles and were mis-casted or they were right and misdirected. It was simply too obvious the problem
wasn't theirs. For example one of the new leads had a wig that clearly didn't fit her the entire show. They couldn't even get a decent wig or a hair stylist to make the wig look real? What a shame.
There were some scenes that I'm sitting on my heels like wtf is happening, this is something at which a director should've yelled "CUT" and filmed until reasonable, such as when Kate fell from the horse. She was lying unmoving, presumably bc she was knocked unconscious, and not that she couldn't get up.
If she was conscious, she would be moving, attempting get up. If she's physically unable to, the effort to get up would still persist but will appear as slight vague
movements. And her eyes would be open, Right?
But she won't be moving at all if she was unconscious. Then someone tell me why but she had a grimace on her face as a reaction to the falling rain. An unconscious person conscious enough to KNOW it's raining. As the actor she won't know she was doing that, bc it's a reflex, something the body does without thinking. The director should've been the one to KNOW she was doing it and it doesn't fit into the scene then coached her to relax her face. Just one of many scenes that seemed to get worse over time.
Oh the lines, we're straight up like blah, uninteresting and unbefitting of that period. You can just tell when then say line. It just won't land.
Waste of time.
The Harder They Fall (2021)
Complete joke.
Great opportunity to tell a great story but it seems black people are only interested in gang stories and gang shoot outs. His predictable that a supposedly great western about black people divulges into hours long shoot out between to rival gangs in a town full of innocent people who just wanted to live their lives in peace. Is that supposed to be compelling??? Disappointing. I was looking forward to this and just aghast that it's basically stereotypical. The writers and directors need a serious dressing down.
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017)
Save yourself. Your imagination is far more interesting
While not a complete flop, it's also, uninteresting. Do yourself a favor and spend the same amount of tons imagining what this movies would be like and you'dve watched a more interesting movies in your head.
Jupiter's Legacy (2021)
Not worthy of paper, film, or telling
Something is seriously out if place her. Feels like something better left in the imagination. Imagine telling an 8-episode arc story of your imaginary friend.
Every costume was bulky or misfitting on the wearers, and in the scenes
Every superhero character feels out of place even as their human selves. The first scene of the children playing, felt like something of an amatuer fan fiction. The girl simply doesn't fit the character or even her powers. I've never seen such terrible casting bf. No one looks like I imagine the character they are portraying. Episode 3 was ending when I realized the story was a dud and I quite frankly had better things to do. I barely remember the scenes bc none were interesting.
A waste of budget, time, thought...just utter waste. There were good actors who deserve good projects, THIS WAS NOT IT.
Blood of Zeus (2020)
WEAK PRODUCTION, LACKING IN REALISM
Weak story, weak lines, weak anime. Left a bad taste in my mouth. I love animes and Greek gods stories, but this was terrible in both fronts. I read the summary after finishing and what's in the summary isn't what happened. The summary said "he was 'tasked' with saving the world" but that's not what happened. Being tasked with saving the world is like a divine mission. But the kid fell into it by all kinds of happenstances. The time it felt he was about to be "tasked" with the deed didn't end up with him being "tasked" with it. There was no "you must save the world, only you can do it". If anything the one who seem "tasked" with the job is the Amazonian. The actual storyline, not the summary, made it seem like the story was about the kid himself, his life struggles, the unfairness of life, especially one which was interfered in by the gods based in their selfish whims. I kid you not. It was only the last episode that made it about saving the world. And the anime! Lord!!!! The movements were weak. they werent moving the way they way humans move. For instance when humans walk, there's a disturbance of our body as it moves side to side as we lift one foot after the other. Well in this, there's no such disturbance. The feet didn't even look like it was moving. The guy was moving but his knees and feet weren't matching the movements. Or when someone's does a somersault while fighting and it looks and feels like the person was paper machet. Imagine someone using a long,heavy instrument to strike a rock and their shoulder movements look like they are lifting paper. Now imagine that throughout every episode in different activities. It doesn't feel real. They should look at Disney cartoons to correct the dept of movement. Disney never fails it.
Even the depth of the emotions were missing.
They mentioned the hero had anger in a later episode but in the earlier episode, the guy behaved like perfectly reasonable person. Angry people do angry things on even the smallest and most insignificant of situations, and they do it repeatedly. The only time the guy was angry was when a big situation was unfolding that would make anyone angry.
Then the deeper part of the story was again at best far from compelling and at worst disgusting. I would love to watch a second season if they fix these issues.
Otherwise, HELL NO.
The Originals (2013)
Best show ever!
I'm not saying that to over exaggerate. I've seen many shows on my life time, but far too often each show displays multiple, multiple, continuous array of obvious flaws, whether in writing, directing, casting, strings, post productions, concept, plots, etc.Every single show displays subpar performance. Even the vampire diaries from which this show was spinned off. The Original displays NEAR PERFECT, I repeat near perfect, 98% PERFECTION. Each actor was matched PERFECTLY to the role. There isn't a single character that you couldn't picture that this is the real person. From mannerism, to race, to gestures, body language and face, even the minor support actors and actresses was an ace. That is probably the hardest to do because unlike writing, stunting, costuming, casting is vague, abstract and arbitrary.
Then there's the writing. Dear god have mercy! Quick paced, intelligent, witty, quirky, attention grabbing, no dulling. What's more, the lines also matches the actors' nationality. Maybe they allow the actors to improvise and add their own lines (doubtful). Sometimes the speech pattern should be different (as when Rebekah, a Viking, body jumped into eve st Claire, a Brit, Rebekah should've kept talking like herself, a Viking, although Rebekah's character was also clearly British-or Australian, definitely not Viking- based on her accent, but I assumed they were asserting that Vikings had the same accent as brits), but even so the speech pattern given to eve Sinclair's, Rebekah's new body host, matched her accent. What I mean is the actor who played eve Sinclair/Rebekah M had an English accent, and she kept using bloody hell like a Brit. They didn't give her an Americsn speech pattern, or Canadian or whatever else. This is probably what added remarkably to the actors' Authenticity.
Elijah's character played by Daniel Gilles was the BIGGEST FLAW. First all his siblings had European accents, which kept With their Viking heritage, except Elijah. He had an American accent, which probably is Canadian as Daniel is Canadian but Can and US accents sound same to me. Then they simply couldn't get the speech pattern correctly. They were trying to make him sound noble but just came out disjointed, inauthentic not only to the character, but also the situation. This was all the time. While they got everything else right to about 98%, the exact opposite was true for Elijah's character; they got it wrong 98% of the time.,
Back to what was right about the show...the show concept, and the plots😱😱😱😳😳👏🏽 I mean, vamps, wolves, WITCHES, and HUMANS.
Wow
The acting....wow! The lead, the actor playing klaus, NAILED EVERY expression, gesture, eye glint, teary eye, furrowed brow,pursed lips, raised brow, head tilt, body tilt and all the rest in between. Not just in this show, but across the entire acting creatives. I'm a huge fan of charmed, and charmed doesn't come close this. Every delivery was perfect.
The other Nailed the parts either.
Then the costumes, perfect!!!
If anyone wanted to know how to do shows, right here it is.
Tian sheng chang ge (2018)
😬😬HATE THE ENDING👹👹👹
😬😬😬horrible ending!!!! I'm so frustrated!!! Such a beautiful and GLORIOUS story RUINED by an utterly unfitting ending. God these writers just like to torture people. Please if you are going to write an ending that doesn't fit your character, just write a bad show to begin with. Ahhhh!!!! How can someone as warm and vibrant and intelligent and full-of-life persona like the heroine commit suicide because "there have been too many people lost" 👹👹👹👹👹. These writers make me want to hit something. I don't care if she ended up dying but that is such a LAME EXCUSE. SUICIDE👹👹👹 she has too much life too much love too many ideas to commit suicide. Period.
The Preacher's Son (2017)
Disjointed....
Over halfway in and it feels disjointed. If not the acting is disjointed, then it's the lines, and if not the script then it's the sub plots, and if not the plots, then it's the direction. Great plot in theory (Preacher's son doing all kinds of dirty), didn't come out that way, it came out as no direction. What's more, it would seem the son isn't the one doing all kinds of dirty (so far, he's done only one dirt, sleeping with an older woman who's also a church member and married). It's the Daughter doing all the dirty: having an affair with a married man, in love with another who was in a serious relationship, getting pregnant, and attempting to marry someone she was she considers a weasel to stick it to the one she loves who got married to the one he's in a serious relationship with). This should be called the Preachers daughter. So in addition to being disjointed, off track, they couldn't even get the title right.
Marie Antoinette (2006)
Complete vanity project
For me, movies, plays, shows must have a point to the story. Even if it's chronicling someone's life, there still must be a point, after all resources are going into this. My time I'd hoing into watching this. What doesn't have a point is. 2hr movie story telling of someone who only played and partied most of their adult life. Even if that someone is a queen. Ridiculous. The part that actually had purpose (about the French Revolution) was a short 10min. Most of that 10min were waiting scenes where nothing was actually happening, such as the king and queen sitting at a table for over 20 secs of us watching some people sent on a mission riding their horses out of the palace grounds another 20 secs. I think we get the point in the first 3 seconds and certainly be the 5th second. The movie was chock full of these 'waiyinv' Scenes, where you're just waiting for something to happen or the next scene and it doesn't come...until 20 secs later. This make vie should've been 1hr 14 min at most.
First you tell quite the most insignificant story then you padded it with waiting scenes. Sure that's how you make a winning movie.
Only glory was Kirsten Dunst's performance.
The Last Fall (2012)
Opportunity missed to be great.
Kyle bishop got kicked out of the NFL due to unknown reasons the cause of which Bishop himself doesn't know. Bishops explanation was 'different reasons/politics'. He was supposed to navigate and grow from the complexities of life after being humbled by his experience in the NFL. Instead he consistently jumped to conclusions, blamed everyone else for his problems, and can't figure out how to solve the issues he faces, especially about getting a job. He had many career options as an athlete who has learned to win at sports m, something he could've leverage in personal training, life coaching, football coaching. He only sought out personal training. Never actually got a job or be gainfully employed st any time in the movie. He only salvation was eventually going back into the league through an unforeseen opportunity (he really didn't learn to survive outside the NFL). Also peculiar is after just getting the tryout he's already blowing up the Little he had going for him, without waiting ti see if he would get signed. Then he gets to the tryout only to find out he has to compete with another player for the spot, which clearly proves he shouldn't have blown up his life on just an invitation to try out alone. He ended up getting it sure, but it easily could've gone the order way.
I was just annoyed at the bad decision making skills of this character. Lance gross who played Kyle bishop did a decent acting with a bad character and possibly bad script and bad direction