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Lola (2022)

A rare masterpiece for hardcore sci-fi readers

[10/10 · 24 July 2023]

I do not usually rate movies except when I see something surprisingly good. After reading thousands of sci-fi books and comics, it is difficult to find something to like in the seventh art - everything is either a pathetic version of a great story that cannot be translated to the big screen ( Solaris, Dune ), or a movie loosely based on one or more ideas found in the classics of the scifi but so full of clichés that it completely loses the mind twister, the puzzle that is the best part of a scifi story ( I Robot, Ender's game, Avatar, etc ).

There are few movies that can feed the mind like a good scifi story does. I would mention Arrival, Interstellar, and the very few episodes from Babylon V and Battlestar Galactica that deal with the background story and are not just season fillers.

This one is one of them, and surely won its place in my collection of masterpieces.

Raising Dion (2019–2022)

worst netflix series i've seen so far

[3/10 · 17 February 2022]

Good for children and people who don't mind cheesy lines, unbelievable reactions, and lack of logic. The first season is better but forced at the end, the second one lacks everything.

In addition, expect to see again the typical Netflix vision of political correctness : every good character is a person of color, every bad one is a white male - in fact, you will barely see white actors in this movie, and, when you do, they are there either to be patronized by the leads or to die. The most notable performance is given by a little paraplegic girl, whose father is mentioned several times but never shown ( most likely he would have been the only good white male in the series, and that would have ruined it ).