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Star Trek: Shore Leave (1966)
plot is pure nonsense given the mission of Star Trek
Star Trek mission is science and exploration of the unknown. In this episode, the crew reaches a planet where:
- dead people can be brought back to life
- one organic material can make anything (persons, animals, plants, birds, and so on)
- a civilization can read your mind with an antenna
- a civilization lives completely underground
And what happens when the crew makes this discovery? Nothing. They go have fun at the nearest amusement park...!!?? what the ....?
Total nonsense for such an otherwise very smart and grounded to the most realistic sci-fi available at the time.
Downhill (2020)
Forget this remake. Look for the original
Not funny nor dramatic. Lazy remake of a great European movie. Look for the oroginal
Elsa & Fred (2014)
Go see the original of same name 2005
Remake (again) of a much better (latinamerican) movie. Argentinian cinema is (one of) the best industries in LatinAmerica, with some quality movies who have made their way in numerous festivals and even foreign category in the US-Hollywood backed Oscars. From time to time, US-cinema copies the movies, as we saw previously in K-Pax (remake/copy of "Man looking Southeast", which is the worst of these examples. Again, in this case, the US copy has stripped all of the good quality dialogues, and change the sarcastic humor for a more basic low standard jokes, including that translating sarcastic intelligent jokes from Spanish to English is not easy task. Not all is bad, as the good choice of cast with big names make it up for the effort as they do their best to try and save this simplistic version. Getting the latinamerican version with English subtitles is not that difficult, and if not, it's always worth it to learn Spanish, to better catch the many more humorist moments.