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The Hatred (2017)
With great power comes scant responsibility
This had a great prologue and beginning. That was where it stopped.
There was no middle or end, just a meaningless fudge of nothing
the only reason it's getting 2 stars is because it had a really good story in it when it started, however, the good story just sort of fizzled out and went kaput like a damp squib.
There was a point sort of in the middle where it started to seem like the whole energy of the hatred carried by the third reich might be about to manifest itself in this rural woodframed house in nowhere usa.
And then nothing happened - some people got confused - there was a lot of gaspy running around and ohmygodohmygodohmygod as per
and a couple of people escaped, dont know why they escaped or what from but it just seemed like at that point the filmmakers had decided that they'd done long enough on dont go down in the basement and that sort of thing that they could just sort of wrap it up.
So, yeah, as I said, it started off looking like it would or could or should be a really brilliant story...
and then it just wasnt.:(
Synchronic (2019)
Bromcom dressed in faux geek
Basically, you just come up with a really good story for a bromance - guy saves life of best friends daugher - sacrifices his life.
Then you reverse engineer it to have some sort of sciency wiency twist/device/conceit.
Put it in the oven for 90 minutes
et voila - you have a science fiction film! Soo easy!
Someone should have informed arthur c clark and frank herbert and issac asimov etc. Ad. Infinitum that they were all wasting their time and they should have been reading more judy blume in school.....
The Dark Tower (2017)
Pointless, vague
Such a squandered opportunity, this is just a mish mash of books 1 and 3 with a bit of Cell thrown in for good effect,
this coud have been bigger than Game of Thrones - instead it's a pointless waste of time and money.
UFO (2018)
Un-satisfactory
Ultimately a very un-satisfactory film, it seems to creep around a load of facts that prove superior intelligence is real and then seems to not answer its own question which is, what have we done with it.
nose spite face - shooting ones own foot etc. blah. sums up this film.
it's a bit like saying string theory is probably real in a universe which conforms to the laws that we know of physics, but we dont know if the universe we are in conforms to the laws that we know of physics, so we dont know if it's probably real or not - this film was about as satisfying as that hypothesis I have just put forward there...
Radioflash (2019)
FML
Well, that's 92 minutes of my life that i'll never get back!
seriously, what is the point of this film? It's the end of the world - girl goes to live in the woods - girl gets kidnapped by cannibals - girl escapes - the end!
I mean, why even bother in the first place, it's always the end of the world, theres always cannibals in the woods, there's always a girl that escapes! Why wailing and rending of garments FFS WHY
Darkness Visible (2019)
Coming of age
This is one of those horror films where alot of the audience will say "what the **** was that all about" at the end.
Of course, in horror film terms that isn't always a bad thing and in this case it definitely isn't!
There are a lot of tropes from standard horror films here - serial killers, the anti-christ, the apocalypse. But treated in a very different way because it is an indian film.
One of the things I liked most about it was that there was no attempt to shoehorn an eco guilt trip into the storyline - which seems to be de-rigeur in almost every film nowadays.
I would definitely watch the sequel if they made one...
Constantine (2005)
A curious confection
Well, it's a dead heat really...
Good points, the metaphysical moments and the virtues of the relative metaverse, eg. mr midnight are very good
Bad points, it's all about the girl, there is no point in the mexican being in the film in the first place.
scratch that - the bad points outweigh the good points.....
Drown (2015)
Compelling and disturbing
I really enjoyed this film; If "enjoyed" is the right word.... I think it must have been really hard to play for the actor who played Len, when it all comes down to it, he is a VERY, VERY, SAD man. In the scene when len is sitting on phil's bed and he says "it's like a metaphor" if I was phil I would have continued the convo by saying "you know, I think that's the most intelligent thing you have EVER said......." I also think more could have been made of len's feelings about his dad, it was briefly touched on near the end but not really dealt with, also when len is about to be abandoned by meat, meat doesn't really help him by re-assuring him that it will be OK, he just continues to act really dumb, but I suppose that's in meat's character, he knows how to be a best friend but he can't do anything else! but apart from those things I think it was a cool film and very disturbing.