realyogsototh Reviews

Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi (2017)

My worse experience for a Star Wars ever

[3/10 · 13 December 2017]

I just watched the movie about 3 hours ago and seeing so much good review I simply can't understand them. So let me give you my opinion on it.

The first scene is just so wrong on so many level:

1. make fun of the empire by mocking a general, that way the empire is no more to be afraid of 2. destroy all turret of an amiral level destroyer with a single slightly modified x-wing going against all previous rules 3. Hear the sound of spaceships in space from the planet... 4. Survives a few minutes in space... And that is just the few very first scenes.

This is also one of the rare movie in which I remarked technical problem between scenes. People not being at the same place 1/3rd of a second after, etc.. I generally never detect this kind of issue in a movie. So that must be really huge coordination problem here.

In some scene, I was more in a disney movie for children than in a Star Wars.

I couldn't relate to any character. Lot of detail didn't make any sense to me as well as many character decisions.

Not everything is to be thrown away though. There are very good scenes and ideas too. For example, Laura Dern was just great, and its last scene in the movie is quite beautiful and creative. I also enjoyed some actions and special effects which are generally quite pleasing. But there were very good occasions to make a great movie, and all of them were lost, so in the end, that is not a movie I think I'll remember.

So if you are ok to look at a Disney movie, go for it you'll be happy. If you want to watch a Star Wars movie "à la" Rogue One. Then, you better not watch this movie.

Hunting and Gathering (2007)

Excellent main actors, awful and boring movie

[11 August 2011]

The good:

• Excellent actor performance concerning 3 of the 4 main actors. Aurelie Tautou was just good but not excellent. - The people in the story are kind of sympathetic.

The bad:

Everything else. First, when I watch a movie, I don't want to think about how the movie is done. About, is the acting is good. I just want to enter into the movie. Live the experience with the people I see. Or if you want to make a movie in order to think to something, just do a dreaming-like movie à la David Lynch.

The realization of this movie is simply horrible. When you watch this movie, you think about the camera movement. Terrible as in bad TV french series with small budget.

Actors: Main actor are very good. But for almost each second role, the acting is just plain bad. In the first 10 minutes of the movies, I noticed at least two actors (second role) that were very _bad_. I believe I am a very nice public. Even mid-good actor can make the trick with me. But, this time it was like: we play like if we were in a theater not in real life nor movie. May be this impression is only in VO (French).

Concerning the story: I don't dislike slow movies in general. I love Japanese very long movies where nothing occurs for 1 minutes on the screen. But when this kind of thing occurs in slow movies, in general this is for a good reason. There is a "hidden" message or at least a stunning view. In this movie, there is nothing like that. The number of scene that could be trashed is simply enormous.

But this one was just completely boring. There is no plot. This is not a joke. There really is no surprise in the entire movie. No "action", no changing "event". The most vivid moment of the entire movie is when Camille (Aurelie Tautou) drop a radio by a window because she is angry. The rest of the story, is something you can see every day.

The message: "Socialize and you will live better". OK, I get it. I didn't need a complete movie with this only one message.

In conclusion:

If I was alone, I wouldn't have watched this movie until the end. Even if the character are attaching and the actors are excellent, this is just not enough to save this movie. There are so many realization errors that I was "pop out" of this movie too much.