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The Whale (2022)
Repugnant and Overhyped
Darren Aronofsky's ability to over complicate and over hype is honestly astounding.
This film does everything it possibly can to tell you exactly how to feel in every scene. Lacking any nuance or respite to allow you to sit and soak in the scenes. Most of which containing endless shouting between characters.
Their complex relationships are shallowly explored at the bare minimum level and every character seemly flips on a dime just from a single line of dialogue.
Brendan Frasers performance is fine but is far from the best this year.
The script is meidiocre, strange shoe horning in of a religious subplot and from what I can figure is attempting some sort of jesus metaphor for Fraser's character.
A total waste of two hours that desperately attempts to create depth without having any.
Moral Orel (2005)
One of the best pieces of media I have ever seen.
Out of all the movies, TV shows, comics, books and albums I have seen, read or heard this stands out.
Starting out as subverting the Saturday morning cartoon formula as a way to satirise religious thinking (particularly white Anglo Saxon protestant in middle America) the show evolves into a horrify look at some of the hardest and darkest parts of the human experience. Excellent ideas executed very well consistently with quality dark humour sprinkled throughout.
However, this show will certainly not be for everyone as it get's unspeakably dark. Covering topics from self mutilation to rape fetishisation and sexual abuse (all in a single episode) with no jokes to help you swallow the pill. This show will certainly not be for everyone but is absolutely in my mind one of the best pieces of art I have ever seen.
It is a crying shame this show was cancelled.
Diabolical (2022)
This should have been a lot better
The live action managed to take a mediocre mean spirited and occasionally quite amusing comic into an actually well done thought out and executed concept.
This managed to do the opposite in most of its episodes.
Short episode reviews:
Ep 1: Cute, fun, well animated, fairly creative. Reminiscent of classic looney tunes not much else to say. 6/10
Ep 2: Justin Roiland plays his one note yet again, he tries to make Rick & Morty in the boys universe. It's mean spirted, needlessly gross, vapid and half assed back to front and on par with the last two seasons of Ricky of Morty which is the worst insult I can give an animated show. Stop drinking Justin. It's destroying your brain. 1/10
Ep 3: The best episode of the entire series. Despite being written by Garth Ennis. By no means a bad comic writer on his best days but certainly a terrible on his worst days. This is the most fully fleshed out idea in the entire series. Very reminiscent of some of the best issues of the comic and a well executed short with a consistent tone and style that fits into the boys universe nicely. Also has a decent animated style that fits the tone of the episode. 7/10.
Ep 4: Interesting starting premise that evolves somewhat well. The phones are bad undertones are just needless. Predictable twist ending that's tired and played out and was used for just some extra needless violence that's meant to be comedic and falls flat. 5/10
Ep 5: Boy takes compound V and a talking poo comes out of his ass. Tries to play it off as a cute friendship thing, it's eh. The deep shows up. It's alot of poo jokes, which can be funny but when it's got very little more than that going on, it's just poo jokes. There's not much to work with here. I don't ever want to watch it again 4/10.
Ep 6: Nice insight into how the superhero program functions and for the most part works. Good voice acting, solid animation and the story is solid for the most part. Once again the end is very mean spirited, nihilistic and completely unearned and tacked on making the rest of the good things in the story feel pointless. 3/10
Ep 7: Cool animation, like the premise though it doesn't remotely fit in to the universe of the boys at all, solid voice acting. Felt like this was one that could have done with being an actual animated film so it could be fleshed out but I've seen worse. 6/10
Ep 8: Fits the boys universe well. Fleshes out the Homelander and black noir's relationship a bit though I don't think it really covers any ground that the show hasn't fully covered apart from that. 5/10.
The Guardians of Justice (2022)
Great.
Creative, unique, dark and fun. Exceptionally good start to finish and actually something quite fresh despite being an obvious rip off of something as iconic as the justice league.
Particularly good if you're tired of the boring over played and used up superhero tropes that have existed in the comics for decades and films for a few years.
Harry Brown (2009)
Started off Strong
This movie seems very promising from the first scene with a scene akin to a modern horror and quickly devolves in to a self important bloated mess with a soundtrack fit for lord of the rings
Primal Fear (1996)
A good movie with a bad ending.
A very intriguing movie that is thoroughly enjoyable until the end. Which is very dated in its revelation.
Tenet (2020)
A perfectly fine film.
A movie that tells you not to worry too much about the concept but continues to spend an hour explaining. A quarter of which is drowned out by sound effects and the sound track.
A very unoriginal soundtrack i might add.
Found my mind drifting at certain points in the film didn't quite grab me as expected.
Found a lot of the characters bar John David Washington's and Robert Pattinson's to be paper thin.
Woman who loves son.
Bad guy who is bad.
Good performances all round.
Some great action scene's.
One instance of poor special effects.
Worth a watch once, don't feel the need to revisit it.
The Neon Demon (2016)
The modelling industry is bad. Do you get it?
Felt like Refn sat next to me the entire film asking me in my ear "do you get it?" after every scene. A gross and boring, misogynistic look at an industry they hired two of their actors from, coupled with a bland dry soundtrack desperately trying to recapture the magic of drive. All of the bizarre and unsettling scenes though visually interesting appear from nowhere and seemingly without point of meaning. There is no real point to watch this movie apart from some nice shots.
19-2 (2014)
It's not supposed to be realistic
An incredible show that shows very difficult people living difficult lies.
Guns Akimbo (2019)
"Satire"
This film presents itself as a satire of similar movies and general modern culture around violence.
It does not even come close to achieving this by using the same cliches, **** jokes and general bland story.
Along with some really really bad acting (Radcliff does fine in his role) Samara is given a blatant Harley Quinn knock off to work with and not a single character is expanded upon in anyway.
You cannot make a satire by making a film with the same tropes and saying "See look how stupid this is" it does not work that way.
Trite and lazy writing hinder this film greatly.
If you need something to distract your eye balls and ears for an hour and forty minutes It'll Do.
Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press (2017)
Maybe don't use gawker
A rocky start using a company that is just horrible and awful to human beings with a few good staffers, later takes a look at another company and a group of people who have nothing but my upmost respect for the work they do.
Frustrating but interesting.
The Thick of It (2005)
The free cam is to give it realism.
The camera work fits perfectly into an incredibly well made, substantial and hilarious satire of our political system still apparent today. Stop complaining.