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The Girl in the Spider's Web (2018)
Terrible adaptation of a pretty good story
I was so disappointed with this movie. Having watched all other movies from the series and having read all the books this one is simply terrible. The worst part is the story which for some reason was changed in so many ways that the whole movie just feels like a blender of ideas randomly thrown throughout the movie. Some of the actors are terrible, the casting of this movie is probably another one of its giant flaws (maybe a couple of actors are ok and that's about it). I believe this is the first movie I have ever actually walked out from before it ended. So sad because the original story is pretty good.
Swiss Army Man (2016)
Do not fool yourselves, there is no deep meaning in this movie
I went to see Swiss Army Man excited about a potentially unique movie. Unfortunately the movie does not live up to its hype. This story just feels like an attempt to have people find depth and symbolism where there is none. The continuous use of fart noises and the constant corpse boners are a slap in the face for anyone who wants to claim to have found a meaning to the story. It truly feels like the movie goes out of its way to add the most absurd elements into the mix just to show how people can make up all these "findings". Like painting cans of soup to prove a point, this movie shows how nowadays you can get away with anything as long as there are people who believe their artistic and intellectual "abilities" can justify a complete and utterly disastrous movie. There has to be a reason why the last line of the movie is "what the f**k?" and I believe that reason is just to slap your face one last time before exiting the theater.
Love (2015)
Adds nothing to any genre
I went to watch this movie in 3d in Mexico based on some video reviews I had seen that said it was an "experience" that had to be lived. How far was that from the truth.
Love in 3d, which is the title the film had in Mexico, is a tedious, unnecessarily long film that has no real story, statement or message.Its a long porn video with a bad script. The film is supposed to pose a question about what love is, but never really addresses it or takes any kind of position about it. Furthermore, it extends its scenes way past it should. The ending sequences, for example, are just endless quasi-reiterations of the previous scenes that add nothing to the film. You think it is over, and boom! another sex sequence, and then another and another.
The "cuts" the film uses are also poorly executed. I understand using the cuts for when you jump in time between the scenes but if you do not, why do you still use it? Half of the time the cuts are used, the movie does jump in time,but the other half is just an annoying blink of the screen to come back to exactly the same point.
If this had been a 15 minute short then it might actually had made sense, but a 2 and a half hour long movie was definitely way more than a stretch. Save yourself the time and money.