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Amsterdam (2022)
All over the place
Started mildly funny, had something oddly interesting that made me watch first 45 minut es of this film...
Soon it became a mishmash of strange characters, bizzare plots and a lot of lines repeating from word to word (I guess this should be quirky and funny but for me it was just unnecessary). Has some serious problems with rhytm and pace. Soon I was left feeling like someone spiked my drink without me knowing so it all started to be super confusing, nonsensical and repetitive.
Have no idea what Christian Bale tried to achieve but he was just strange in his performance, like he tried to be interesting, relaxed and goofy which gave him extremely hard time...
All in all, I have no idea what this movie is about.
On the Verge (2021)
Horrible human beings show
There is one recent trend in tv shows that I find very, very disturbing - depicting horrible human beings and mental disorders as quirky, funny and cute. This show is just about that, a group of disfuctional, dishonest, disloyal persons who interract with each other and with the world around them.
There is no plot really. There is no character development either. Also, there is no connection with real life, real human beings because the main characters are like caricatures.
So this pseudo-intelectual drivel is dying slowly throughout episodes, it meanders into nonsensical subplots and vapid dialogues. But what is truly disturbing to watch is the character of Ell, whose mental issues are sime serious stuff (along with the facial expressions of Alexia Landeau). In real life, the character of Ell would be crackhead whose children have been taken away from her by social services due to her inability to keep the job or problematic behaviour altogether. Here, she should be some kind of comic relief, although there is nothing comical about that character.
So, it is very hard to make a good show without a plot and with unlikable, fake characters that don't change a bit.
Inventing Anna (2022)
Cringe fest
What might have been a terrific 120 min movie, came to be one lazy written, clichéd, appallingly bad acted 9 hours tv series.
I'm honestly puzzled by this level of overacting and grimacing throughout every episode: Julia Garner is pretty much bland and uninteresting as Anna Delvey. Her annoying fake accent certainly does not help and her hollow, high pitched voice when she's having tantrums is very hard for listening to through this unnecessary boring 9 hours.
Laverne Cox as Kacy Duke is simply horrendous : if you call making awkward faces and over the top reacting acting, then yes, Laverne is an actress who does a good job. But in real life, this is amateur hour in Netflix production.
Same goes for Katie Lowes as Rachel: seems like Lowes believes that she's in a sitcom so every facial expression is over the top. It's not that the character of Rachel gives much material (as it is underdeveloped as every other character) but this is just substandard in every sense.
If you somehow forget through out this show how all over the place the script is, how underdeveloped characters are, how hip hop music score does not fit at all, there is one character that will make you wonder why on Earth would you invest 9 hours of your life into this Netflix mumbo-jumbo. It's Anna Chlumsky as Vivian Kent. Most of the time looks like Chlumsky is acting in a silent movie and this kind of seriously bad acting and making Vivian Kent a living caricature is baffling to say the least.
So, in a nutshell - one good story has been wasted and Netflixed to something that might have been interesting to watch.
Pitty for this cringe fest.
Fatale (2020)
Appallingly bad
I haven't got a clue what this is- it has some kind of a storyline (awkward case of lazy script writing), some kind of characters (poorly written) but mostly it's actually a prolonged r'n'b/hip hop video.
Bad acting all around, amateur directing, uneven editing, soundtrack that looks like it's been mixed from five different movies, amateur color correction, horrible dialogues and a lot of clichés went into this pointless movie product.
Have no idea why would anyone take such a mediocre script and made a movie out of it, let alone why would anyone sit and watch this unwatchable student exercise.
But I guess this kind of mindless fun is a good fit for an average movie goer.
Amazing Grace (2018)
Not a documentary
This is not a documentary film but a pretty much uninteresting recording before live audience and that is a huuuuuge difference.
When you label something documentary, that means that it usualy must have a script of some sort, an idea, visual identity and , at least, some hints of direction. This footage has none of that. It is poorly shot and put together and why would anyone release it, call it documentary and put it in the theaters if not only to milk up some sweet cash from the misled audience.
Also, one of the biggest problems of this recording is that Aretha does not interact in any way with audience or the choir... It even looks like she doesn't want to be there or that she's extremely uncomfortable with something. That only adds up to flat, deadpan and boring pace of this whole mess. Oh yes, there is no "behind the scenes" footage, no explanation or insight into the whole idea or process of making the Amazing Grace album or at least this recording.
Maybe there's a good reason behind Aretha's decision to not let this footage go public. Ever. Maybe it's not enough to have a recording of a big musical talent and a true star that Aretha is to call it good documentary. Sometimes it's obviously not enough to hire talented people behind camera such as Sydney Pollack (he just finished his masterpiece They Shoot Horses, Don't They just before this shooting so he knew thing or two about directing) to make a good film.
I have no idea what happened during that shooting so this turned out to be such a chaotic mess where experienced director forgets to use clapperboard and an amazing singer looks she's been forced to do the gig.