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Tore (2023)
Mostly annoying, stupid and illogical
The series is altogether "Stockholm" repeatedly mistaking awkward situations and recurring confrontations for a worthwhile storyline. You can at times feel Tores pain but he just repeatedly acts like a cliché caricature and keeps being annoyingly stupid and destructive and you stop rooting for him pretty fast. In order to root for someone they need to have some kind of redeeming qualities but he just pushes away everyone that cares for him without reasonable explanation. The storyline is 100% illogical, pitch black and the ending is just juvenile and amateurish. There might a positive message in there somewhere but it's a long, tedious and annoying road to wander down before arriving at the unsatisfying destination.
Foundation (2021)
Little or nothing to do with the books
If it wasn't for the fact it is well made and visually impressive I would have given it a 1. I find it utterly amazing that someone can decide to make tv/movie/series out the Foundation books and then utterly disregard to the original story. Fragments of the story has been lodged between Hollywood antics, explosions and visual candy and somehow it still manages to feel like it's really slow moving. If I'd never read the books I might have given it a higher rating, now I'm just annoyed with every liberty that has been taken to make the story into something it just isn't - a sci-fi action flick.
I wonder if it has something to do with Azimovs writing style? He writes very much what goes on in the head of people and makes suspense out of psychology and that is difficult to translate the screen. Just look at the hot mess that was "I Robot". The movie had absolutely nothing to do with the book. It was ok in itself if you were looking for a throwaway sci-fi action movie featuring Will Smith but a disappointing mess if you were hoping for some kind of rendition of Asimovs stories. Is it simply not possible to make good movies out of Azimovs books?
Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
Leading nowhere
The movie is well directed, great photography and flawless acting. You'd expect nothing less from Stanley Kubrick. No matter I found the movie, pointles and leading nowhere. Time thoroughly wasted.
Sweet Magnolias (2020)
Cliché cliché cliché
Everybody looks like a model, have perfect hair, perfect outfits, lots of money and live in perfect houses in an idyllic perfect little city. Totally believable and relatable - if you're a model with lots of money, that is. Basically everything feels fake, sweetened up to a nauseating max and above all extremely American. It's predictable clichés stacked on clichés about American small town life where everybody's minor everyday problems are blown out of proportion to somehow try to make it interesting and carry the show.
The Mummy (2017)
Just really bad
I was really excited for this movie. That quickly died.
Tom Cruise just feels thoroughly miscast and out of it in this extremely overloaded, soulless and badly written excuse of a remake. The clichés keep raining like cats and dogs with every scene and no CGI in the world can save the lack of a coherent and working script. After a while you just don't care if Tom Cruises character dies or not - as long as it's just over.
John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum (2019)
Like watching a friend play an FPS game
I really liked the first 2 movies, but Parabellum - not as much.
Visually it's quite dark which works well with the theme and I found the fight scenes well thought out and choreographed but wayyyyy too long and eventually I started feel like I was watching a friend play and FPS game. It was fun in the beginning but after a while it just got boring and fast forward became my friend. I skipped over a lot of the fight scenes just to get to the end and see what happens since after 3 movies I had invested a bit and was rooting for John - but of course there was a cliffhanger. It feels obvious that there wasn't enough story to fill two movies but they badly wanted to cash in on the money train and make a Chapter 4 so what do you do? You guessed it - you fill it with endless fight scenes and no story. Yawn.
Aquaman (2018)
A cliché story saved by CGI
To be honest, the concept of Aquaman could easily have fallen flat on it's face but somehow it doesn't. It's visually impressive and Jason Momoa manages to make it believable. However, that is not enough. The storyline feels mindlessly lightweight with it's cliché violence and predictable romance. In spite of the excellent CGI and the environmental message it tries to convey, it just doesn't resonate enough. It's certainly not as terrible as Tom Cruise's "Mummy" (what is?) but it's not that great either. The dialogue is pathetic at times and a lot of the action scenes feel way too long and only made to fill out time and mask a lack of substance.
If there is a follow up I really hope the authors work harder on the script and rely less on CGI saving the day.
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
Nothing to like
Highly overrated 80's cliché with absolutely no likeable character to root for.
It is 2hrs I will never get back again. 2hrs you say? But it's 3hrs long?
No, because I turned it off after 2hrs and I never looked back.
Inglourious Basterds (2009)
Thoroughly dumb
For some reason I had high hopes for this movie, probably because of the hype. It turns out it was ALL hype I am saddened to say. I have no problem with the exaggerated violence, it's expected in a Tarantino movie. The problem for me is that the movie comes across as thoroughly dumb or even daft. From Dusk Till Dawn looks like a masterpiece in comparison to this crap. Time spent watching this movie is purely wasted time.
The story and dialogue is cliché, mostly boring and even childish. It could be a sign of the movie that the only really good acting in this movie is by the villain. How this movie has received any good reviews is beyond me. Another HUGE mystery is that this movie could be even nominated for ONE award. On one hand Christoph Waltz was by far the best actor in the movie, but then again there was no competition was there? My guess is that there must have been a drought in the movie business or a total lack of ideas the whole of 2009.
Do yourself a favor and stay away from it. Tarantino has made good movies. This is definitely not one of them.