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Supernatural: Atomic Monsters (2019)
Try again
I don't understand the rating this one has. The story is completely forgettable:
There's this nightmare Sam has at the beginning that's never even mentioned. Dean tells Sam there's a case they should work on while saying he won't eat veggie bacon (I don't need to say it was poorly written). Dean thinks the school's mascot is cool, who's supposed to be a very intelligent kid, but that doesn't matter because he only appears like two times and has no dialogues. Some girl gets kidnapped. Sam and Dean see some footage and they know who did it by looking at the license plate. They go to the house where the girl is being kept. Some unimportant dialogues go by and turns out the vampire was the lacrosse kid all along (who by the way had a scene with a girl that acted like she was the vampire but three minutes after she appeared on camera they knew she wasn't, because she had braces, then she never appeared again). After a quick encounter, the parents who supposedly loved very much their son, kind of agree that they'll frame him to be the kidnapper, and that he'll go with Sam and Dean (it's possible they don't know Sam and Dean are gonna chop their son's head off, but I mean c'mon). Sam and Dean take him to the woods and Dean chops his head off. Then the episode for Sam and Dean actually starts whent they have a believable conversation about Rowena and Jack dying, but that only lasts a couple of minutes before the episode returns to the other story that's been developed here, which lasts about 15 min. and involves Becky and God. Basically God feels bad and needs Becky to praise him and make his ego feel better. She tells him he can only feel good if he writes something, so he does, but Becky doesn't like it that much. So God writes a dark and hopeless ending and then disappears Becky and her family. This story happens intermittently with the other one.
When Becky remarks that God wrote a lazy story I actually thought God was writing what happened in the other story and I think the writers thought that too but then that idea was kind of dropped when God writes what's supposed to be the finale. Storytelling and editing didn't help making that clear, so who knows. In the end this episode brings you no new information other than Sam and Dean feeling sad and God maybe starting to act like God and not like a powerless, depressed teenager.
Acting was fine for the main characters in this episode, they didn't have to much to work with.
Cinematography was as it normally is in Supernatural episodes.
Editing was mediocre.
Writing killed this episode.
A 5 is the most accurate rating: insufficient and they should try again.
Requiem for a Dream (2000)
Masterfully revolting, but not quit realistic.
I've watched this movie twice already, and I'm pretty sure that's enough for me. But it's curious, because the film isn't the most realistic one. Many things happening in the movie are totally pessimistic, even when things are going "good" you are not conceiving a hope, you just think of how naive the characters are being. They're all junkies, junkies of television, of amphetamines, of self destruction, of heroin, of sex, of money, of attention. And that's the disgusting part, the characters are not being humans, they're being lab rats whom keep pressing the pleasure button.
I don't know if this stuff just add useless drama and pessimism to the movie, or actually make it a better film, but what I do know is that the message it gives us is perfectly shown, and it's not a direct criticism to the use of drugs, is for all addictions, as we all humans have an addiction. I think it's trying to tell us to not be consumed by our demons, our addictions. And that is what makes me give it an 8. It might not be perfect and realistic, it might don't show us the hole nature of humanity, but it does expose one of its most vicious and repulsive characteristics. And, because of that I think is one hell of an artwork.
The King's Speech (2010)
Great movie
King George VI is a stutterer. Before becoming king, it is the Duke of York, but the weight of his stammer has always condemned him tremendous anxiety in his speeches. Lionel Logue, his therapist, will try to help his stutter.
The cinematography, the art direction and the acting is magnific. And the plot is very, very well accomplished. Nevertheless, I did found some axioms on the course of the story. But none of those little sins matter when you see the whole picture, a picture that shows us that even in royalty, that even a King was overwhelmed by his own shadow, as every mortal is.
The movie played with my nerves, specially at that masterfully portrayed final scene. My feet were sweating, so as my hands, and my heart was bumping like if ran at 150 km/H. It's beautiful movie, it is imperfect as it is intriguing.
Trainspotting (1996)
Choose drugs, watch the movie, and choose again.
The movie tells us the story of Renton, who's a heroin addict, and want to quit the habit, but his will fail several times in the movie.
I thought this one was going to be a non-watchable-depressing- Requiem-For-A-Dream-British-movie, and I was so wrong. There was just one thing of the movie I never get, the The Worst Toilet In Scotland scene, it was masterfully disgusting, but I didn't really get the point of Renton swimming in an ocean-like toilet. I figured it was some kind of metaphor, but honestly, I didn't understand it. Might be my mistake or the movie's.
Anyway, when you compare this one to Requiem For A Dream, you realize there's no reason for doing it. Especially when it comes to the elements the movie use to invoke the viewer's feelings. In here, you sympathize with the characters, you expect them to climb out from their holes of addiction, and you have hope (or at least with the main character). You even, somehow, believe they (or he) don't have a problem because Rent managed to quit his habits. The movie gave me a clear message: choose your path and your actions, but considerate this movie, when the drug-use decision come.
Considering the message the movie wanted to give, and the message actually given, I'll score it with 9 out of 10. I feel the movie didn't go too deep into realism of the drugs use, but gave us a masterfully written and very important lesson: DON'T USE DRUGS, CHOOSE LIFE.
Supernatural (2005)
Awesome!
"Saving people, hunting things. The family business"
I've watched the hole TV Show until the last episode aired. And the mythology and religions and monsters and that kinda stuff involved in the show has been great. I mean, I don't say it's perfect, there's been some awful subplots and characters, even supernatural stuff, like the Book of The Damned or the angel Anna (not only bad writing on this one, but a horrible acting as well). There's also Sam's romance in season eight with this girl I can't even remember her name. Anyway, there are seasons that knock-out these flaws, like season 4 and 5, with the Apocalypse thing going on, I mean, the Apocalypse did happened, and one of the Winchesters did "died", it wasn't a cliché and that's great. They have this almost infinite lore, and CW has done something great with it. I give it an 8.