Reviews

At first, as others have pointed out this reminded me of Twin Peaks. What I didn't want was to see aliens, or "everybody is dead". It's a fun series, meaning that you can have a good time watching it but it sure is not a masterpiece. Plus there were some things that I really didn't like.

I don't think that I have seen the actors anywhere else, except from the guy who was playing War Machine (in the first Iron Man). The actors are trying and doing a good job in a pure script and direction. For example there are cameras everywhere and microphones but everyone is OK to act suspicious, so as to hide from them. There are also some huge plot holes, like why did they need "adults" and they did just taken babies, or even better try to replicate a human being by cloning or other technique? I mean, they have cryosleep... Plus the protagonist's death in the end is obvious and without reason: He could have just throw the damned bomb or something. The music is very good, and as I said it is still not bad, just with some serious flaws, and if you are a sucker for mysteries and sci-fi stuff it's easy to at least enjoy it.

One of the themes of the series is the matter of freedom vs security: how much of those you need to have a proper balance? What the series is trying to say is "a little bit of both" but I believe that it is as I said "apples and oranges", I mean you can't have both, freedom does not need security, otherwise it's "you are free to do whatever I tell you". Even a little bit of security means that you are not free to do whatever you want.

To be honest I find the reason that this scientist has imprisoned those humans in a lie does not make sense. He could just take some volunteers, and the series points that there were many, and try to built a new world without lies but with mutual help and respect, without hierarchy, with a single mission to survive against a common foe. I can't buy why this lie has to be in the first place.

The revolutionists are portrayed as revolution without a reason, but also the creators of this series gladly point their conservative believes, because the people who want to see what's outside are reckless and unresponsible and ultimately wrong because outside of the walls there are monsters, a great metaphor for how our society sees a revolution, but in my point of view the people who want to know the truth, who want to be free they are right, even if it means that this may kill you.

Plus I really found wrong that the "adults" in the end were right, and the kids built again a totalitarian dystopia. I mean, this is totally wrong as an example...

Anyway, this is a series of books, so as I am not familiar at all with the source material I don't know what is the creator's fault and what this series have in common.

OK let me start by saying this: I am not an expert on physics and when I watch a movie I hardly care, as long as it does not make me think reasonably, as long as "movie science" is presented in a believable way. Now if I want to watch something with accurate science I will watch a documentary, and even that one side will tell you that's the truth, and the other not. I will not watch a science fiction movie for actual science, I will do because I want to see stuff that can't happen in my world, at least for the time being, but reflect to my reality and have some lessons in them.

I think Nolan is brilliant. Goebbels was was also brilliant (responsible for Hitler's propaganda). He had also some distorted point of views. And so does Nolan... I fully disagree with the messages Nolan is trying to show in his films. For example in "Dark Knight Rises" those who talk about freedom and true justice are telling telling lies and are the "bad guys". Batmna manages to win them with the help of the police. This translates to me "communists, anarchists, activists, all of them are liars, only trust the state". Sorry but my beliefs are kinda different.

Now on to "Interstellar"... It is a very well crafted movie, with good effects, great acting from people that I didn't consider good actors like McConaughey and Damon, great acting from guys who are great actors like Caine and the trinity killer, and the same mediocre acting from Hathaway who she think is a good actor, but everybody Else does not. In any case, you know why this movie is good, but let's now talk about the bad stuff, shall we?

What I try to do in most science fiction movies is try to see some stuff as metaphors. The earth is in danger from something that was already there but now it consumes the world. Our protagonist believes that solving this problem is pointless so let's destroy some more worlds. This is like saying "don't care about the destruction that happens every day in front of your eyes, don't care about your everyday problems, think about the future and what it can bring". And what is this? Nolan says it for himself, without even knowing it: Uncenternty. It is the most unlikely thing to happen, yet however it does. But the fact is that the politicians in the world say to you "trust us because today it is not great but tomorrow it will be". And it never will... What if Cooper's mission was a failure? Wouldn't that be a waste for all those scientists who could have solved the problem on earth, to just waste their time like this? This movie also show that colonizing another planet is a good thing, forgetting everything that man made when he colonized America. And the American flag is hanged in both planets, because mankind is at the blink of destruction but nations and corporations still exists, and Nolan's perfect world that's a good thing. The movie show us NASA doing this research. I would guess that in a catastrophic event like that everyone would like to be involved, at least that's what I would like to see. But no, Nolan show us that NASA is our savior who along with the USA would be leaders of this new world. The other thing that bothered me were "the others". First of all this is a clear metaphor for god. God will save us at the last minute, as long as we have faith in him. Yes, the others are "evolved humans" as it seems, and you could say that this has to do with Buddhism, because everyone of us is god, an evolved creature, not binded by the chains of our primitive perspective. That could be better, if presented properly, but it is not Buddhism, nor humanism, this is conservative christianism, masqueraded as something greater. The others are our saviors who act in mysterious ways and we cannot comprehend them. We should have faith in them, blind faith cause in the end they are right. And they choose a savior, our protagonist's daughter. Thank you very much but I don't believe in saviors. I don't believe in higher powers that we should follow with question, nor in the power of a state, a corporation or in nations for what matters. This is good movie, if you look at it without it's messages, or if you believe in those messages, but if you look closer it has ugly meanings that in no way save the world, in reality they keep destroying it. So thanks but no thanks. I should better re-watch 2001 - A space odyssey than this again...

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Yes, 10/10.

I was introduced to Dexter while second season was half way thru. Although I do not watch a lot of TV series, the show got me almost immediately. First episode, with the Ice Truck killer was interesting, I kept watching out of curiosity. After two or three episodes I was hooked!!

I continued watching Dexter till the final season. During the good, the great and the not so good. What made me like the show was that I thought it was innovating, and very interesting in portraying a serial killer. However, after some seasons I realized that the characters are growing as the show goes foreword. It's not your typical show, trying to hold on the status quo and after a while it does not make any sense.

I realized that the show it's not about a serial killer, but about this poor guy, trying to feel human. This is even evident in every season, especially after the amazing season 4. And everything went "great", until we reached the final episode of season 6...

I understand that some hate the particular season, but I believe that after everything before, it was needed to revive the concept. Deb found out and now what? We entered season 7, a season filled with tension that put another nail in Deb's coffin, but at the same time it made Dexter rethink everything he does, and what are his priorities.

I'll be honest, I watched season 8, episode after episode, and at first it seemed weird, but in reality it has so many things happening, and you are waiting to see what will bring Dexter's downfall, so you don't know what will happen. And that's something else that intrigued me in the show, all your predictions are wrong! Even when I was spoiled about Rita's death, the writers almost made me forgot about it, before actually saw the episode. And in the final season, everyone, including me were waiting for something that will show the heroic Dexter, trying to do good, in his weird way, but failing and get killed or arrested.

In the final episode nothing like that happens. And it is great. Many people reacted negatively about the conclusion, or the episode per se. I find the tension and the writing, along with the music to be fantastic, and the episode itself is something new to Dexter, nothing you have ever see.

But what about the story? Well, Dexter gets what he deserves, and maybe worse. I'm not sure if he faked his death and had a coin toss if he lives or dies. Somehow he manages to live and decides to be rid of all emotions, because now that he has them he realizes that the unspeakable burden that everyone of us carries, but think of it from the perspective of someone who never had emotions. He realizes that he is a machine built for destruction. At the very least that's what Dexter believes for himself, it's not what Deb, Hanna, or the viewers think about him. You have to think as Dexter does to understand this.

As for Harrison and Hanna, many said that Hanna is not capable for raising a child. Is Dexter? A serial killer, even someone who does not need to kill anymore? And is someone who thinks for himself that he only brings grief and death capable? Well, Hanna is maybe not mother of the year, but Dexter never was, even if he loves Harrison.

So no, it was not the ending everyone wished for, or thinking it would happen. It was something unexpected. It was not a glorious happy/sad ending, full of mementos from last seasons, for the geeks to notice (however the ice trucks and "Laura" were good touches). It was not a true Dexter episode if you will, because this was not the same person from the first season, not even from the fifth or sixth. He does what he does best, killing Deb as a mercy kill in his eyes, the one thing no one can do, bury her like all of his victims, as he screwed her life more than anyone else, and goes to exile.

And he is somewhere alone, carrying the burden that sometime he carred for some people, but he destroyed all of them. Will he ever go back to killing? That's what I think. Will he ever get caught and exposed? Probably, if he continues killing? Will he ever go find them, after some time of retribution? Try to discover them see if they are OK? Now that he has feelings who knows? Maybe yes maybe now. It is not necessary to know everything, sometimes it's great to let stuff for the audience to think about.

Some days after I watched the finale, I am still sad about Deb, and still sad about Dexter, that great but weird fried I had for years, who decided it's better away from us. Sometimes it's not about glory or closure. If something makes you think, and you keep thinking about it, it let an impact on you, so sure there must be some good to it...

Goodbye Dexter, maybe the best series around. I'm gonna miss you.

Actually maybe it is even worse than the first one. Not much to say, there are some good moments maybe, but overall it's bad. The first movie was so ridiculous that I was laughing at all times, though in this movie I was bored way before the first half.

I really don't care that they ignored the first movie, or if this kid is supposed to be Danny Ketch, I could have enjoyed the movie if it was good, and I could care less about continuity and stuff. But it was a bad movie, with unbelievable bad acting and poor plot.

Christopher Lambert, an actor I respect however, can add another stupid movie to his portfolio. WTF with this guy anyway? Also, if I wanted to see black eyed demons I would watching Supernatural.