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Spaceman (I) (2024)

It makes the silliest Sandler's movies look like masterpieces

[1/10 · 17 May 2024]

I was really looking forward to this movie, and did try to see the positive for the first 45 minutes... I've watched terrible B movies, this one, with such a good cast might take the price.

Being a fan of some Adam Sandler's movies, a fan of "Raj" in the Big Bang theory, i was really anticipating one of those rare gems where you see the acting versatility... The terrible art of the director, unfortunately reflects bad on the actors.

IMDB requires more characters for this review to be submitted, I will just say this: As long as this review is for something that could be explained in one line, well, the movie is like that, but worse. It just drags and drags along.

A 5 minute short would probably be a better fit.

A real waste of time.

Ferrari (2023)

Great talent and story wasted

[1/10 · 27 April 2024]

It. Driver, Cruz, Woodley render great performances. Yet the story of Enzo Ferrari (which I know to heart, even from anecdotes from my grandfather, a driver and one of the closest people to Pedro and Ricardo Rodriguez.

To portray The Commendatore as a sexually obsessed character, focusing on his affair and the birth of Piero, with gratuitous sexual connotations, and to forget his story as Ferrari himself, especially with the availability of such jewels, his commitment and passion, with Portago's accident in a worse scene than those seen on Driven - one of the worst movies of all time, with the car flying higher than the trees themselves in one of the most ridiculous crash sequences. Did the writer and director not see "Le Mans" which used shots from the real cars - and most of them recreated?

I had such high expectations for this story. I really thought it would at least show all the way to his relationship with Gilles Villeneuve (RIP), or at the very least, his insult to F. Lamborghini... Such a history from a legend, did not deserve a movie like this. His character was pretty much right, but he was driven mostly from his races, he was always on the circuits during F1 and touring races, not watching a race on TV - I mean, wow, can one be more disrespectful?

Nor would him call one of his drivers in because he missed a braking point by a couple of feet., and replace him while the entire field went by? That NEVER happened, and would have been one of the dumbest decision from a team manager, let alone a team owner.

He was not a man who would tell his driver even if he crashed, it was better to die than to let someone through the inside line on a corner. He was worried and caring for his drivers, so much so, that after Bandini's accident, and other mishaps, he followed the rule of never hiring another italian driver who could die on one of his cars. It was after his death that Ferrari would break that rule, by hiring for instance Alboretto (RIP)... Really sad and disappointed by a movie which should not have won prizes (that's how they work though, politics and money invested) but to be forgotten as one of the biggest outrageous show of disrespect.

Please, may, if a portrayal of Senna - a movie, not a documentary - is made into a movie, not to let any of these creators to be involved in the least.

Halloween Ends (2022)

They made a caricature out of Michael Myers

[1/10 · 14 October 2022]

Spoilers VERY necessary and here they are.

Michael Myers, now like a videogame cartoon. Every time he stabs, his body shakes, as if Mario Bros. Was gaining more energy. Literally. Just watch it.

Not only that, now, after almost an hour of the movie without ANY Halloween-like content, with a wanna-be-interesting story about a kid being bullied... Then, Michael links to that kid, and everytime Michael stabs (not kills, it's with every stab), the kid also gains power - videogame-like.

Not even Nightmare on Elm Street 2 was as bad (when trying to pass on the torch from Freddy Krugger to a "possession-like" plot.

It's the same here... Michael now in 2 people.

Jamie Lee Curtis should be ashamed of participating in such a piece of garbage.

Indeed Halloween would've been better if they finished it off after Halloween 5, but this one takes the cake when it comes to being insulting to a classic (cheesy, but still classic) franchise.

Harry Potter: Hogwarts Tournament of Houses (2021– )

A tptal waste. If you are a fan of Harry Potter, don't watch this.

[1/10 · 9 December 2021]

Is this show made to destroy the franchise? It surely seems likely.

As a game show, it's probably the worst ever made.

As a Harry Potter themed show, it's beyond bad.

DOC - Nelle tue mani (2020– )

Cheap copy of House

[1/10 · 24 November 2021]

Shameful, really shameful.

The performances make Jim Carrey in his Mask days look conservative by comparison and not a minute goes by before something predictable happens.

I tried to watch and like the show, trusting that some of the reviews could be a good indication of a good find, but it's easy to see most of those reviews either come from Italian people trying to upvote their own industry, or from friends of the staff or cast.

This show shouldn't even be streaming in primevideo, it's a waste of space.

The Wheel of Time (2021– )

Laughable FX, generic music and very poor dialogue detract from a mediocre story

[2/10 · 19 November 2021]

Pretty much that says it all.

Again, laughable FX that could have been made by any student with CGI back in 2000.

Over the top generic music that is outmatched by any videogame.

Dialogue couldn't be worse. Cringeworthy clichés attempting to be cryptic.

Even if the story was any good,m all of these problems make it an unwatchable series.

It's a shame, because it's obvious this was a very expensive production, with nice cinematography.

I was looking forward to this series, there was excessive hype, and it's the kind of story that I like. However, fifteen minutes in, it was obvious this was a waste of budget for the producers as well as a waste of time for every viewer.

The writing is formulaic, trying to follow every beat from Campbell's hero's journey, trying to add twists that are followed with such poor generic writing, including phrases like "The dark one has awakened", "there will be one who can stand against him", the Dragon is awakening"... I mean, it is embarrassing to the point of being cringeworthy for any fantasy fan who expects more respect for the genre. I'll try to watch more episodes just hoping to be proven wrong if it picks up, if it does, I'll gladly change my rating and review, but so far, 2 episodes in, it just keeps getting worse.

Stranger Things (2016–2025)

How to kill an excellent show in 3 seasons

[2/10 · 8 July 2019]

First season was an absolute relief from the all-formulaic, know-what-comes-next, predictable shows around, some of them successful and welcome to an extent, but we're always looking forward to the "next big show".

Stranger things had it. Or at least, it looked like it did. Season one definitely kept us all wanting more and it was a long wait for the continuation, then it started going downhill but adding the same formulas the show appeared to stray away from (which was the best thing of the show)

Season two, if there was nothing more from the writers of the show, should have found a satisfying finale, since Season three has not offered just more of the same, but taken it to new grounds of clichés, taking very little advantage from a great cast enssemble which they should have cared more for, and the writers should have at least looked to deliver what the cast itself deserved.

Unfortunately, the show simply took a nosedive. Less likeable actors were brought into the mix since season two, and we kept waiting for the plot point where they would prove the cast was perfect and that they had something up their sleeves. None of this happened. Yet, the audience was forgiving. Hey, there might be some great growth and development for season three, right? Wrong again. Those two characters being Max and Billy, well, they had no reason to be in the show, it's like they needed some wildcards so they could throw any save-the-cat kind of writing moments into the show, not because they were planned, but because they had done exactly the opposite: not planned anything at all.

The more I write the more I feel "nostalgic" about the first season. That being the main reason the show did well in the first season: Playing with nostalgia. But once you make it the strong part of a show, with the actors coming second, and the screenwriting taking a third, even a fourth or even fifth place in priorities, well, it even makes you be grateful that such a sweet era like the eighties, has passed.

Season 3 is a collage of "why don't we add some russians into the mix.... why don't we make it more gory.... why don't we give them an alien instead invasion of the body snatchers...? ... why don't we ..." until we as viewers are like : Why don't we just forget about the show, and let it go down in the glory it once had.

Such a shame. They were onto something good. Now instead, they've made any films or shows that use that nostalgia from the 80s be something, well, redundantly, old. I look forward to any content that has the actors that were a part of the show since season one (from the second season, meh, I wouldn't care if they're simply forgotten, they've given their all, and their all just turned out to be straight-up mediocre)

Roma (2018)

Overhyped to say the least

[3/10 · 14 January 2019]

Hard to add more, it is a really great disappointment, using black and whites to be considered "art"... indeed the photography is good, but deserving no more than a short film not such a long, tiresome feature time, maybe that should be Cuaron's next step, and leave the feature films alone, he's definitely found his limit with Gravity, and when running out of ideas or serious projects, he just wanted to pay tribute to the place he grew up in, definitely nothing more than a whim with a lot of marketing behind it.