interestingstuff Reviews

Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)

Incredibly bad boring and pointless

[1/10 · 24 February 2024]

I've watched more than a thousand movies and I can safely say that I've seen so few movies as bad as this one. There are so many problems with this movie I don't even know where to start.

First, it is way way too long. By midpoint of the movie I thought it was close to finishing and I started to check my watch every 5 minutes after that. I just kept going on and on and on and wouldn't finish. It felt like a torture as it kept dragging on and on and on.

Second, the movie has no plot and no storyline. It's just 2 hours of mindless action that goes nowhere. There are some "themes" but no plot or storyline. If I told you to tell me the summary of the plot you couldn't because there isn't one.

Third, it is insanely repetitive. The same dialogue repeats over and over and over 100 times throughout the movie. We get it, we really do. There are like 10-12 pieces of dialogue in the entire movie and everything else is just slight iterations of the same dialogue performed again and again.

This movie shouldn't even have been filmed let alone given so many awards. It's complete garbage.

The Cold Blue (2018)

More emotional than informational

[6/10 · 11 February 2024]

This is a documentary that focuses more on emotional side of the war than actually giving you information. As a matter of fact, the documentary contains almost no new information that most people didn't already know.

It doesn't talk about the war itself or any of the specific missions that were done within the war but mostly about how scary it was for the people involved, how they felt, how their feelings evolved over time and so on.

I found it a bit repetitive at times. How many different ways can you say "air force personnel were scared for their lives". This documentary tries to say it 20-30 different ways if not more. Every episode eventually comes down to the fact that it was scary. We get it, flying air missions during WW2 was scary, we really heard it the first 100 times. The documentary would be better off if it actually provided something beyond repeating the same point 100 times.

It looks like they had some colored videos from WW2 and they wanted to create a documentary out of those videos but they didn't really think it through and they didn't really have a plan about what they wanted to make this documentary about.

The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years (2016)

Decent but too much filler material

[7/10 · 31 October 2023]

This documentary is a nice attempt but certain parts drag on and on and on with so much filler material. The documentary spends about an hour showing Beatles going from city to city, doing concert after concert where girls are fainting, screaming, everyone losing their minds, time after time, over and over.

Ok we get it, young girls were crazy about the band and people fainted and screamed at every concert, sure, but why is this the main focus of the documentary instead of the music of the band? You don't need to tell us how big Beatles was, everyone who wasn't living under a rock already knows.

Show us musical brilliance of the band, not 100 different clips of girls fainting and screaming in 100 different cities for an hour.

La Notte (1961)

What's the point of this video?

[1/10 · 5 September 2023]

What's even the point of this video other than proving that Einstein was correct when he said human stupidity has no limits? I am not even going to glorify this thing by calling it a "movie" because it isn't even a movie. Movies have plots, this thing doesn't. If it was made today it would be just a YouTube video and no one would call it a movie except for those idiots who call everything a masterpiece because their art professor told them so.

The video starts with a married couple visiting a friend at the hospital. Then we spend the next 20-30 minutes watching a woman walk down the street. Then comes the next 20-30 minutes when she's out at a nightclub with her husband. Then the next hour is them attending a party and chitchatting with random people. That's it.

This is what morons call a masterpiece these days basically.

The Deer Hunter (1978)

What is it with people glorifying boring movies?

[4/10 · 3 September 2023]

Do people seriously think they appear smart and intelligent when they call boring and pointless movies like this a masterpiece? They only appear like clueless sheeple who only glorify movies because critics who get paid to praise movies love them.

This movie fails in not one but multiple places but sheeple won't notice that because they are too busy worshipping movies that they are told to worship by their masters.

First, there is no overarching plot in the movie. The whole movie is just a bunch of clips randomly tied together but don't really tell a story. First we watch a Russian wedding for an hour wondering how it will be connected to the rest of the story but we quickly find out that it has no connection and it was just put there was a time-filler.

Then we see a hunting scene which is another random clip which has nothing to do with anything. Then another long boring prisoner scene which adds nothing to the main plot. At this point there isn't even a plot anymore, just a bunch of random clips that are at best loosely connected and don't tell a story.

Then the movie just becomes even more weird as time goes on, moves further and further away from having a plot. It just moves all over the place, jumps all over the place, goes on for 3 hours without being able to tell a story or make a point, not to mention none of the characters are even remotely relatable.

The whole movie is a waste of time, so is reading all those 10/10 reviews by clueless sheeple who think they will appear smart by glorifying boring movies like this.

Baahubali 2: The Conclusion (2017)

Nice comedy

[6/10 · 31 August 2023]

This is one of the best comedy movies I've ever watched. I can't remember laughing this hard before in any movie. This is a truly masterpiece level comedy. They don't make great comedy movies like this anymore. This could be one of the funniest movies ever made.

I just kept laughing, laughing and laughing. The visual effects were so bad that they must have been put together by interns using Windows 98. The acting is so horrible that I felt like I watched a high school theater play. The story had more holes than Swiss cheese.

Then again if you watch this as a comedy you'll enjoy it because it's one of the funniest movies ever made. Just don't make the mistake of thinking this is a serious movie because it isn't.

Baahubali: The Beginning (2015)

Bollywood 9, Hollywood 5

[6/10 · 24 August 2023]

If I had to rate this movie based on Bollywood standards I would have rated it 9 but if I had to rate it based on Hollywood standards, it drops to a solid 5.

CGI looks so cheap and looks more like a video game than a movie. It must have been produced by interns on low budget or something.

Acting is way over the top and weird.

Storyline is confusing at times because of sloppy delivery.

Music is fine, costumes are good, part of the dialogue is not bad and part of the plot is not bad but overall the movie fails to deliver and it is far from a masterpiece because it has a lot of holes and lacks a lot of quality that makes a movie a masterpiece.

Still it's a fun watch if you are into Bollywood.

Akira (1988)

Pure garbage

[1/10 · 20 August 2023]

I don't give movies 1/10 easily. Out of hundreds of movies I've watched and rated on IMDB, I've given 1 to less than 10 movies and I can't help but this this movie a 1 rating. It's really really bad. All those people giving this 10/10 are completely out of their mind.

The plot is incredibly dumb. In fact there isn't even a plot in this anime. You just watch things randomly blow up and explode for 2 hours. One thing after another explodes, people screaming, wondering what's going on and no explanation is given in the whole movie. There is no plotline, no storyline, no explanation, no logic, no common sense. Just a bunch of random things happen without any reasoning.

As the story progresses you keep thinking "this is the bottom, the story can't get any more stupid" but it does. Throughout the 2 hours the story progressively keeps getting more and more stupid and finishes at peak stupidity.

I guess whoever produced this anime really wanted to make animations of some explosions and they couldn't bother to come up with a plot so they just decided to throw in 2 hours of dumb animations of things randomly blowing up. There is no message, no character development, no deep meanings, nothing. Just 2 hours of explosions and random action.

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984)

Insanely overrated

[5/10 · 17 August 2023]

This is another extremely overrated movie by an extremely overrated producer Hayao Miyazaki whose every movie is exactly the same and whose every single movie fails for the same reason. You gotta admire the guy for trying though, he keeps failing and failing but he keeps trying year after year. Maybe some day he will get the hint that all his movies are overrated garbage.

Just like every movie ever made by Miyazaki this movie has cute visuals, nice graphics but NOTHING else. It fails to deliver a coherent story, it fails to develop its characters, it fails to have a decent plot. So many things are happening all at once without any coherence or any connection and nothing gets tied together at the end. You finish the movie with as many questions as you've started because nothing gets answered. The anime throws so much mindless action at you without any explanation as to what's even happening and without even the slightest hint of how it even ties together. This movie feels like watching a 2-hour music video with no plot.

A lot of people call it "masterpiece" for nostalgic reasons alone. Just because you watched something as a kid and loved it doesn't make it a masterpiece.

Jurassic Park (1993)

Another glorified disaster movie

[7/10 · 3 August 2023]

This is another glorified disaster movie full of cliches that receives ridiculous amount love and being called a "masterpiece" by clueless idiots only because people watched it as a kid, they feel nostalgic about it and they miss those days. I remember also watching this movie as a kid and loving it but when I watched it again after growing up, I didn't enjoy it half as much. People her just cheapen the meaning of the word masterpiece by calling literally every single movie a masterpiece.

The first half of the movie where they set up the storyline and discuss scientific and ethical implications of creating a dinosaur park is great but the second part of the movie is so bad, it feels like a cliche-filled disaster movie. For about an hour we watch a couple dinosaurs chase a few humans through jungle, then through the campus and then inside the buildings. Chase scene after chase scene where our humans always barely get away at the last second which becomes tiresome and boring after a while to a point where you want them to actually get eaten for a change.

If this movie was made today it would have received a 6-7 rating but it gets an extra 2+ points only and only because people feel nostalgic about their childhood. This movie is NOT a masterpiece. Then again according to IMDB comments, every movie ever made is a masterpiece.

Dune (2021)

Good visual effects, poor storytelling

[5/10 · 2 August 2023]

You can tell that producers of this movie spent all their budget on visual effects and epic music but they had no money left in the budget to hire someone competent to write a plot for the movie so they ended up filming this.

The way the story develops in this movie is very superficial and full of cheap and overdone cliché. Throughout the movie we see more than 50 characters doing things but no one's motivation is ever explained. Bad guys are bad just for the sake of being bad, good guys are good just for the sake of being good. I thought Hollywood stopped doing that stuff in 1970s but I guess this movie still does it in 2021.

This movie tries too hard to become "epic" without telling its story. The first and foremost job of a movie is to tell a story. Everything else comes second and just supports the goal of delivering a story. In this movie, storytelling is not the first priority, neither second, third or even fourth priority. They completely forgot to tell the story while worrying too much about visuals and soundtrack.

Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India (2001)

Definitely not a masterpiece but decent

[7/10 · 1 August 2023]

If you are a huge cricket fan who spent your entire life watching the sport and know all ins and outs of cricket, this is a great movie for you but if you are not an advanced expert in rules of cricket you will spend most of the movie confused because half of the movie shows a long cricket game without explaining any of the rules. The movie was made for cricket fans who already know everything there is to know about cricket but if you are not one of those, maybe pick another movie.

Also the movie was super long. It looks like they forgot to edit it down and just released the raw draft version. It's nearly 4 hours long and half of it is one cricket match.

This is definitely NOT a masterpiece but decent watch. Maybe it is "masterpiece" for Bollywood standards but not anywhere else.

Love Today (2022)

Two different movies

[7/10 · 29 July 2023]

I felt like I've watched two different movies after watching this one. The first half of the movie is a brilliant romantic comedy with a lot of new ideas and innovative approaches but the second half of the movie was a tearjerker drama that kept dragging on and on.

They could easily cut 30 minutes out of the movie (mostly from the second half) and this would have been a better movie. There were too many crying scenes and too many scenes that dragged on in the second half which made it feel like a completely different movie.

I would give the first half of the movie (the comedy part) 10/10 but the second part (the crying part) was 5/10 at best.

My Octopus Teacher (2020)

Beautiful photography but awkward narration

[7/10 · 28 July 2023]

This would have been a great documentary if they actually hired a narrator who is not socially awkward. It had some visually beautiful shots and good story to tell but the narrator just didn't do a good job of telling the story. At times it even felt like he was in love with this octopus which is weird.

Also they weren't 100% honest. He kept saying that he dove all alone and there was no one under water with him yet the documentary shows many shots of him under swimming the water. If he was all alone, who was filming those shots? The octopus with the camera?

This was obviously filmed by a team of professionals and the narrator isn't completely honest.

Early Summer (1951)

Boring and pointless

[3/10 · 27 July 2023]

This is another Ozu movie and it's also boring and pointless just like every single movie he made. It must have been nice to be Ozu when you put terrible movie after terrible movie but sheeple keep calling it a masterpiece because people have extremely low standards and they are just pretentious. People think if they praise boring "art" movies they will appear smart but they only appear pretentious.

This movie has no redeeming qualities (just like all of Ozu's movies). It has no plot, no character development, no clever dialogue (literally dialogue is just people doing small talk), terrible acting (people smiling wide even when they are supposedly upset), nothing really. You could go visit any family in Japan with a video camera and film their life for a day and you'd basically have an Ozu movie. You don't need a plot, you don't need characters, you don't need a clever storyline, all you need is a camera and people will call it a masterpiece because this is what the society has come down to these days.

If this is a masterpiece, every video on Youtube is a masterpiece times 10.

Stalker (1979)

Could this movie be any worse?

[1/10 · 26 July 2023]

There is a rumor going that Andrei Tarkovsky wanted to deliberately make the worst movie ever made and he bet his friends that no matter how bad the movie is, people will still sing praises of it, call it a masterpiece because the average human is really stupid.

Well here we are. There is an incredibly bad and boring movie which completely lacks a plot, coupled with bad acting, bad cinematography, bad everything, yet people still call it a masterpiece because they want to be able to say "they get it" and they want to appear smart but in fact they appear dumb. I guess it's true that you can pretend to be anything but you can't pretend to be smart because you wouldn't even know how to.

Anyone who calls this garbage a "masterpiece" basically failed an IQ test. Plain and simple.

Apollo 11 (I) (2019)

Could have been A LOT better

[7/10 · 7 July 2023]

I was excited when I first heard that Nasa allowed producers of this documentary unlimited access to their archives and many of the videos would be restored to improve their quality but this documentary doesn't live up to all this hype due to poor editing and sloppy work. At times I felt like I was watching the first rough draft of the documentary and couldn't believe this is actually the "final" version with so many problems.

First problem is the sound. Even though they went through all the trouble of restoring the video quality (and doing a good job) they forgot to restore the sound. The sound quality in this documentary is so bad that half of the dialogue and speech is plain unintelligible and sounds like gibberish. We had to actually turn on subtitles to even understand what people are saying because the sound quality was beyond terrible.

Second, the music gets so loud that it's impossible to hear speeches which were difficult enough to understand without all that blasting music going on at full volume.

Third, NOTHING is explained in the documentary. Half the time the camera zooms into something or focuses on something with no explanation as to what you are looking at. The documentary assumes that you already work at Nasa and already know everything. I understand their choice of not having a narrator but they should have at least added some written notations in the video so that people actually have an idea what's going on.

Fourth, the editing is poorly done, clumsy and feels hurried. Looks like the producers wanted to meet a deadline and they gave up on quality and cut corners in order to get the job done.

If it wasn't for the restored footage and new original footage I'd give this a 4/10 but since it had a few good things going on I will be generous and give this a 7/10 but it absolutely doesn't deserve many of the 10/10 ratings who gave it full ratings for only emotional reasons alone.

Paris, Texas (1984)

A chore to watch

[7/10 · 22 June 2023]

This movie had so much potential and could have been something great but boy it is a CHORE to watch the whole thing. The movie runs for 2 hours 25 minutes but half of the runtime is just Travis trying to form sentences. He literally says one word, waits 10 seconds, says another word, waits a whole minute, says another sentence, takes 5 minutes to finish a sentence. Cut the parts where he has LONG moments of silence between his words, the movie's runtime would drop from 145 minutes to 80 minutes.

Also I don't get what the point of the movie is at all. What was the lesson of this movie? What message they were trying to teach? Nothing. A guy abandons his wife and child and wanders in the desert for 4 years and we wait for 2 hours to see an explanation as to why and how he did it but nothing. No explanation, nothing.

Why did he leave his wife? Why did he leave his kid? Why did his wife leave their kid? Why did they even fall apart? No explanation at all. Why did Travis not talk to anyone in the beginning of the movie for a long time? The movie just ends with so many loose ends that you feel like you wasted 2 and half hours without getting a payout. Nothing in the beginning of the movie was explained at the end. Not even one thing.

Those people who call this a masterpiece have no clue but then again according to IMDB, every movie ever is a masterpiece. I've never come across a movie on IMDB where people didn't claim it was a masterpiece. Basically if a movie exists, it's enough to make it a masterpiece for these people.

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

Tries too hard to become too many things

[6/10 · 3 June 2023]

Most people giving this movie 9s and 10s are simply nostalgic because they saw the movie as a kid, fell in love with it many years ago and they remember it very fondly and giving it super generous (but unrealistic) ratings. I too watched this as a kid and loved it back then but after watching this as an adult, I am not impressed anymore.

The movie tries to become too many things at once. It tries to become an action movie, horror movie, comedy movie, mystery movie, historical movie, war movie, love movie and superhero movie, spy movie all at once and has no direction. Its storytelling is too clumsy and jumps from place to place without proper transition and it's tiring to even try to follow the story let alone enjoying it. The movie tries to become too many things at once and doesn't become anything in the end.

Also Indiana Jones literally beats up the entire German army with his bare fists. Yep, he beats up every German soldier one by one without even using any weapons. I guess the entire WW2 was just a fist fight between two armies and no guns were involved at all. Maybe guns weren't even invited back then.

Also how is it that Dr. Jones gets captured like 10 times and his enemies let him go every time? What kind of bad guys are these?

This is an ok movie to pass the time but NO WAY it's a 8.4 movie. The movie's rating is inflated by at last 2.5 points by nostalgic folks who remember it as a great movie when they first saw it 25-30 years ago when they were kids.

Howl's Moving Castle (2004)

Pretty animation, poor storytelling

[5/10 · 21 May 2023]

The animation and artwork is beautiful and keeps you watching but the storytelling it extremely clumsy, jumping all over the place, full of plot holes and unexplained occurrences even for an anime. So many things happening in the story without an explanation and storyline keeps taking turn after turn without answering any questions but only adding more questions in the process.

It looks like many people give this 10s and 9s, calling it a masterpiece because they like the visuals and artwork. These are the same people who don't care for quality of storytelling or a good storyline and they are easily impressed by shiny and colorful visuals. That's not art, that's not masterpiece. A good artwork should be able to tell a story before everything else and this movie fails at that pretty badly so it's 5/10 at best.

Western Ghats (2018)

Visually nice but plot is lacking

[6/10 · 7 April 2023]

It looks like the producers of this movie found a drone and decided to film some aerial footage of the mountains and used this movie as an excuse to play around with their drone cameras. The problem is that they forgot to add a storyline to the movie and it completely lacks a plot.

This movie feels like watching a documentary about lives of union farmers that live in the mountains and work on other lands and their dream is to someday own their own land. It's very realistic in terms of visuals, their experiences and day to day lives but that's not enough to make a great movie. One thing that makes a movie great is a strong plot and this movie is lacking that. What good is a movie if it can't tell a good story in a compelling manner? If I wanted to watch a documentary I'd have watched a documentary.

In this movie the producers couldn't decide if they wanted to make a movie or a documentary or just film aerial footage with their new drones so they ended up making something that has a little of everything but no good story.

The Matrix (1999)

I'm not stupid enough to enjoy this movie

[1/10 · 1 April 2023]

This movie is so extremely bad that I feel godly generous for giving it a 1. In fact I am dignifying it with a rating when it doesn't even deserve a 1/10. It's so incredibly bad that when I first watched this I thought it was a comedy movie filmed as a parody of the whole sci-fi genre. When I was told that it's actually a serious movie intended for serious audiences I couldn't believe it. This movie is so bad that it made me lose my faith in humanity altogether.

Then I realized that the problem is actually with me. I am simply not stupid enough to enjoy this movie. This movie requires you to be exceptionally stupid to enjoy and I don't fall into this category. If I had a lobotomy and had 80% of my brain removed I might have enjoyed this move and gave it a 10/10 like many people here did but I have all of my brain intact so I can't enjoy this movie.

It has so many plot holes, logical errors and inconsistencies that you could write books about it. This is one of the worst movies I've ever watched but again if I was a complete moron who doesn't care about logic and common sense I would have loved this movie like a lot of people apparently did. Too bad I am not a moron though so I don't get to enjoy this "masterpiece" and see it for how terrible it is.

Before Sunset (2004)

Did Celine actually read Jesse's book or not?

[7/10 · 31 March 2023]

The beginning of this movie where Celine and Jesse talk about Jesse's book was very confusing because Celine can't decide if she actually read Jesse's book or not. At first she comes to Jesse and asks questions like "how did you describe me in the book?" or "did we meet 6 months later in your book" as if she hasn't read the book but a few minutes later she starts complaining about how she was portrayed as a neurotic in the book and how she didn't like the way he told some of the stories in the book. A few minutes later she asks questions about the book again as if she never read it. She can't decide if she actually read the book or not. There were several lines implying that she never read the book and several others where she says she read it and even calls out specific details in the book.

It felt like most of the dialogue in this movie was impromptu as opposed to pre-determined so there were many inconsistencies in how characters spoke and they couldn't seem to remember what they said earlier and kept contradicting themselves all the time.

3:10 to Yuma (2007)

This had potential but pretty poor execution

[6/10 · 22 March 2023]

This remake of a famous 1957 movie had potential with a lot of solid actors and actresses but I feel it all got wasted by poor and sloppy execution.

It's hard to remake a movie from old eras because standards were different when the original movie was filmed and people had much lower expectations. For example a protagonist could take a gun with 6 bullets and shoot 100 bad guys without running bad guys. These days if you try to replicate that people won't buy it.

Most of the action scenes in this movie felt very sloppy, at times even felt like a high school theater play. I'd have expected a much better job from producers considering the high budget of the movie.

Also the "character development" moment at the end felt very rushed almost to the point of ridiculous. Why would a bloodthirsty criminal suddenly have a super drastic change of heart like that just because he had a short conversation with Dan? This was a guy who proudly told people tales of dynamiting a train full of people without feeling a mercy or remorse. Suddenly he has one conversation with Dan and he's willing to not only give himself up but kill all his friends who were trying to save him?

I was ready to give this movie an 8 until the last 20 minutes but those 20 minutes ruined it for me. I felt like my intelligence was insulted to be honest.

Chuck: Chuck Versus the Santa Suit (2011) Season 5, Episode 7

Enough of Shaw already

[19 March 2023]

Literally not a single person cares about Shaw but writers keep bringing him back time after time. The writers of this show must be secretly in love with Brandon Routh who plays Shaw so they are looking for every chance and every excuse to bring him back to the show even though no one who actually watches the show cares about him. He's not interesting, not funny and nothing but annoying.

Maybe writers should have made a separate show for Brandon Routh where is the starring actor playing the main character so that they can admire him and fall in love with him over and over again but they should have kept him out of Chuck.