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The Bite (2021)
A bit(e) of fun
Gory and fun with a z-cat! In the tail end (hopefully) of covid, this is really entertaining.
Story is fine, effects are good. Pandemic counter measures gone really off with some actual drama.
Highly recommended.
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Massively disappointing story.
Having perused the audio book and Blade Runner recently, I have to say it: this is not a sequel, it just took some of the characters and put them in a Ryan Gosling movie. The traces of the Phillip K Dick ideas don't seem to fit in with the story. Many details from the original story seem to have been pasted on just to make it appear to be connected. Like so many other recent "sequels" have done. Shameful. Storyline is childish and the few twists are pretty transparent. Strangely this is underlined by the silly flashbacks. Does anyone need to have every clue pointed out this explicitly? A waste of good music. And why the way too noisy special effects?
Bokeh (2017)
Not science fiction, but nice scenery
The premise, as initially shown, might have been developed to something nice, but the slacker attitude (nothing matters, nothing happens) makes it boring once the visuals have been adored, and the ending totally sucks. The suicide is a really disappointing way to end, although entirely in character, after so much slacking off. No trip to the airport, not trying to find a boat to get her home, that is just lazy. I could find no element which could explain a "Sci-Fi" genre classification either. One unexplained event with no follow-up, neither background nor explanation, fails the one most important criteria for science fiction: an idea. If the idea "might as well slack off and commit suicide if you survive the rapture" counts as sci- fi, I quit.
Trailer Park Boys (2001)
So extremely entertaining!
Never a dull moment. Really enjoying them on Netflix now; 10 seasons, hooray! Excellent situations with depth and humour in a delightfully jarring mix. Characters are well chiseled out of the rough material available and the problems they have work well to drive the story. Short, concentrated episodes too.
Ex Drummer (2007)
On a big screen, this one will leave You whimpering.
There needs to be films made that have this type of shock effect to your mental and emotional system, but it took me three years to work it out. I watched it at the Gothenburg Film Festival and my immediate reaction was: "Heck, this shouldn't have been shown in public, I am now permanently damaged in my mind and in my soul. Help me." Now, however, after a few years of pondering the images and issues presented to me and how it was done, I must say that it is a masterpiece, utterly destroying previous conceptions of what the world is like. With great "wit" and "style" (I will refine these points!) the story is told in a rapid tempo and with no loose ends and no censoring. The "style" thing: I propose that this is realism taken to a new level, with the really, really shitty reality of these low-life misfits shown at its worst, both from within and from without as is should be presented, uncensored like a bad nightmare, but presented a if it were true. And this is the shocking part: the movie makes you feel like it is true. This is sort of balanced with the "wit" part; burlesque, ironic and totally black humour; to make a soup so thick it can't be swallowed without being chewed really well, and when you chew it you just want to spit it out because the taste makes you want to throw up. 9/10, would have got full points if it had actually made me throw up.
Brazil (1985)
Nothing is missing in this one.
I can't find anything missing from this one; there are sceneries with soot and smoke, and sceneries with blood and loose bits of people, and sceneries which are just posters! There is comedy. There is tragedy. There is love. There is Robert De Niro as a terrorist plumber. There is a story, which moves along in unexpected ways. There are dream sequences which play with your mind.
The dystopia illustrated in this movie is total; everything is old, dirty and inefficient, except for the bureaucracy, which is excelling at producing work and justifications for itself and terror and bills for the people, who can only pay the bills and suffer the pains.
Love is what makes the one that cannot fit in try to burst out of the system and he chases his dream with total disregard for his surroundings, and the result is the disaster one hopes would not be coming, but it has never been more certain to end in tragedy.
We share his hope for a bright ending, and so we are crushed at the end, but he has escaped...
The music is perfect.