miaalike Reviews

Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022)

The visuals are all there, the deep story got sabotaged

[5/10 · 12 November 2022]

Stop giving money and decisions to evil doers or psychopaths - I followed the movie and several "notes" sounded so out of place, so fake, that I thought "they must have taken a meaningful story and put it into a film, with the wrong people in charge of the operation".

I was right, the seemingly small alterations.make.huge differences and take the story into a whole different direction.

Starting with changing the caracter's name, then with implying the woman is infertile, then simply the "eye" through which the tales are presented. It is one thing to observe the oriental debauchery and decadence with no emotional take part in it, and another to lavish in a gross depiction of said traits, which plagued and crashed empire after empire.

The same element can be natural and in place or it can be smeared by a sick approach.

Why do they try to misrepresent literature works, history elements and many other things, from natural into bleurgh?!

Get other people to understand stories properly and not ruin them with their approach! All the decorum and the actors efforts, for.nothing!

Man vs. Bee (2022)

No use milking past fame, this so called series is dog poo

[3/10 · 3 July 2022]

Can Netflix stop turning into rubbish everything it touches?

Rowan Atkinson had his unique brand of physical humour, with the Mr. Bean character.

Went a bit over the edge by associating himself with royalty, aka old power... decoration, Olympics feature and all.

What is he doing on the fake woke channel Netflix? I say fake, because it seems to take even good ideas and drag them into dirt. It is, if you want, a "how to dismantle" various things production house. From actors, to ideas, to series, to stand up comedians, everything just becomes hardly watchable. Not hating it, just noticing it.

Moving past this, Mr Bean was so boring in this new installment, however watchable - until the dog poo bit. Just gross! And so not Mr Bean, the geek who does stupid things, but manages to stay within decent limits. Yuck!

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)

Low cost outsourced Marvel, or amnesic Sam Raimi

[3/10 · 23 June 2022]

This movie is like the garbage bin from the back of the Mall foudcourt - you find in it, stuffed and partially chewed, pieces of Wandavision, Dr. Strange, Army of the Dead, Ghostbusters, even some Matrix images, 2 actors currently working under Kurtzman, Star Trek crumbs, Maleficent visuals, Fringe elements, a random Japanese landscape, some mangled Everything Everywhere All At Once ideas,and the list may go on. All on top of the other, not like referrences, nooo -.but as if someone's mind is a hoarder and finally tried to make some spring cleaning... as I said, the trash layering or chaotic mix is the general impression.

Who messed this up so bad? The lines are lame, were they written by some AI? The same one that messed up the latest Dr Who, the new Orville and Star Trek Strange New Worlds? What is going on with this weak scripts and - understandably, after all - poor lines delivery?

Superhero movies from marvel felt right, this doesn't. When their plots tap into pattern from mythology, reality and science, they click and remain anchored in something we feel authentic. Dr. Strange here is as if someone wanted to destroy that, like tear ut down, harbouring a secret hatred against superhero movies.

And no way did I want to see another Army of the Dead installation, with Marvel characters, did nobody check this movie before giving it the OK?! Like, who said, let'a mash up old things, throw in some Marvel bits and bibs and we'll be fine? Is Sam Raimi still functional, or are his wires crossed ,he forgot he alreafy did the same things - the cursed book, the zombies, the whacky one liners, the outbof nowhere character showups?

The young superhero - blatantly named America (I mean, c'mon! "America has to be saved" ), is structured in a haste, almost schematic, with some emotional elements glued onto a cardboard structure, sap story, ride the diversity wave, wham bam thabk you ma'am... what IS this? Testing how blinded and stupid the public has become?! There ia a strong need for pushing back, or else we'll end up with only this type of productions, that check various elements from a key list, put some filling in and feel like a plate of spam! This is not video SEO, it is suppossed to be a movie! The way it fails as a movie serves in mocking whatever elements it checked on that list...

Go see it, as an example of what it should not have been.

Ms. Marvel (2022)

Aimed at 13 yo consumers, not even 13 yo kids

[2/10 · 16 June 2022]

If this is how Disney sees youth of today, it really spoiles the other fairly good productions coming from them. It is an empty vessel, painted in bright colors on the outside, with a hollow, unpleasant sound. The bits and bobs of culture they appropriated to make this are feel like some sort of mockery.

It is noisy, gives a feeling of innebriation, even nausea - whoa, let's all put our noses in viral silly things streaming out of our phones, laugh while behaving mischevous and act like all the expensive things product-placed by the characters are for free?! Childish is not the word for this, more like offensively unreal... I know a few people who act like this, and on the inside they are just troubled, scared, disorientated kids. Not at all a goal, to be like this, and not by far the real issues that drive these people towarfs a flashy exterior and mimetic behaviour . Copying "stars" and tin vip-s, while highly profitable for the megacorporations, are in fact indicators of deep unhappiness and lack of a real fitire of horizon for those who do it. Aignore the problems, cultivate these fake outlets for pain, not fitting in, desperation and lack of roots - and who knows what lies next, close to disaster.

Quite evil from Disney to propagate this illusions about the youth and where it stands now, compared with previous iterations, as a populational segment. Shame!

The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (2022)

Peak of a new genre, to this date, and also surprising in a very good way

[10/10 · 6 June 2022]

Watched the more bearable productions of Nicholas Cage from the last decade or so, while becoming aware of his evolution on social media as a star of memes, jokes and absurd novel humour. In this movie, he does a somersault and owns all these, cashing in on what must have made him suffer when it all started to happen, scratching at his ego. It is a brilliant move.

The movie itself surprised me with the ratings, don't think I even watched the trailer, because the high ratings acted like a signaling flare - "wait, what? What did he do now, to sudddenly go from ratings of 3 and 4 to above 7? This must be something interesting!" And it proved to be so, indeed.

Starts slow, almost drama like, then it goes zig-zagging with the story, having wonderful micro-moments, having lots of inside referrences, hints, very meta, very laughing at the real actor story, but wait, maybe it's a sad laugh, oh, no, it is playful, wait again, now it feels different... quite a rollercoaster of angles and layer upon layer of stuff.

Come to think of it after the dust has set, maybe this goes beyond Nicholas Cage (Kim Coppola, in fact) and it marks a point where cinema looks back at its 80s and post 80s history, to admit how immature it was, how it ate up actors and spit them out, how one can survive into the internet age, and make even hate and sarcastic jokes about himself part of its brand, and of his life. It manages to be a complex movie, with or without intent, under a comedic cover, while revealing much more than comedy. It manages to be what art should always be - infer, suggest, show, don't tell and moralize.

If you don't feel the deeper layers, no problem, because just the outer one can be entertaining enough. If you are a bit square-headed and want Nicholas Cage to stay in the box you put him in your organizer, then you might not like this movie. Here the action hero is just an actor, played by himself, and it may be quite confusing.

Peak of a new genre, so far - where people come clean but also laugh about it, where they are themselves but not quite, where mistakes are admitted, but if they attract success, they become mythology and pretending they were intentional.

We may not be actors, but we can all see ourselves in this, because gamified life and social media made us all behave like this, one way or another.

The Morning Show (I) (2019– )

Season 1 barely pulled a very complicated issue, but managed remarkably; but season 2 started unwatchable!

[4/10 · 5 June 2022]

Yes, season 1 started slow, but having famous cast members worked in keeping the attention on, then it was worth it because it got really strong in teh plot, moral issues and acting departments! The finale was amazing.

Should have stopped there, if they didn't find a way to go upwards. Instead, the only way was down, and season 2 started with compromises, useless complications in the plot and... unwatchable. The cast was not enough to keep the viewing interesting, it was just bye bye.

The Time Traveler's Wife (2022)

Clumsy to the point it's a big no-no (the premiere)

[3/10 · 4 June 2022]

Didn't like the movie, the idea is not that bad, but it is challenging, and so far they didn't raise to that challenge... But seeing the good reviews, I gave it a try with the series. The actor, whom in my opinion barely passed as prince charming in the Divergent series, just overstreched here, although he's well maintained, physically. But it's just "crumply" as a type, like Harrison Ford or James Cooper, without having their extra charm... Despite this flaw (main alpha character being "meh"...), he is sympathetic and if the plot were stellar, could have become warmed by it.

But - big problem with the plot. Travelling back in time to meet your future spouse, when she was just a child, and befriend and rear her, in view of being your spouse - not at all OK! It is promiscuous as an idea, and generally wrong. Very wrong! I am surprised this one went like this into the plot...

This was by far the biggest put-off factor. Add to it the long and dwindling action, the boring scenes, the unnecessary complications with when he travelled and from what moment and how he did not know her, who knew him from the past and the future... way too convoluted where it shouldn't be, and nothing can save it from the inappropriate future partner thing. Just... nope.

The Orville (2017–2022)

Downgraded rating from 8 to 5, after season 3 premiere (and not lower, because of s1 &2)

[5/10 · 4 June 2022]

Season 3 premiere was bad and cringeworthy, a whole different show. Bad acting, bad plot, emotional dishwasher water all through the part I had the patience to watch... No comedy, none whatsoever. Orville became unrecognisable... switched off halfway and won't revisit. They are obsessed with showing the ship, from all angles, on inside ship screens, on the window... continuous renderings, like in a commercial for interior ship designers, I mean - what on earth was that?! The main story is so badly delivered that tastes like bitter lemons, they made a mess out of the already too-much-exploited theme of discrimination against the intelligent machines... horrendous.

I can only imagine that someone paid a bucketload of money to tank Orville in favour of Picard and Star Trek SNW, which both suffer from the same soap opera phenomenons... utterly boring...

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)

The popcorn for the eyes series of movies, at its time

[5/10 · 21 May 2022]

Did I watch it? Yes. Did I enjoy it? Yes, as I would a saturday night schetch show. Do I remember it? Yes and no. I remember what it was generally about, and some of the actors, but have no clue of the actual plot in each of the installments. In fact, I barely had any clue while watching it, because it is not rooted in some sort of underground meaningful plot, it happens pretty fast and sometimes im a bad lighting, and frankly the plot is not that interesting.

Thereforw the 5, and also, same goes for all PoC movies. The best thing about them is having associated some of the movies with pleasant nights out with the friends and family...

Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)

In 30 years the humanity moved from "nothing else matters" to "nothing matters"

[18 May 2022]

The movie is in its own cathegory, therefore no rating should apply. Compare it with classical movies, it is nothing, gets a 1... Compare it with modern martial arts movies, it is brilliantly reverting to martial arts essence and gets an 8... Compare it with revolutionary Sci Fi franchises, like The Matrix, it is an upgraded version, that is and is not new in the same time - not sure what rating applies.

The thing is this movie is a bit of every of the above, and others more, therefore should probably be rewatched, and what glues it together and allows a possible rating would be the note that is most constant in the aftertaste, repeatedly, and its value within that cathegory, if it is not one completely devoid of competition. The producers have however mentioned Rick and Morty, and there are other movies concerning multiverses, or game universes, so maybe it is a cathegory in the making, being populated as we speak.

What can I say, without rewatching?

*for the moment I do not know if I even want to rewatch it, the feeling can be described as sort of a brain hangover *it aims to help with some of the disaster felt by young generations, like giving instructions on how to deal with chaos better, because chaos itself ain't gonna be solved soon *it provides similar help for older generations that served as a bridge towards what is going on, although in the story, it was their fault for rushing things and in fact they are the ones who caused chaos and all the pressure the young have today *it feels more like a family centered drama, or a generations centered one, than a Sci Fi *could have skipped the sex-related elements, but I guess they are sending a message for all those who went to this extreme in their quest for meaning and purpose, or just for effing feeling something again in what they perceive as a world devoid of sensorial stimuli *brilliant reintroduction of martial arts, after the mess made by all the commercial movies depicting them - martial arts are NOT originally sports, but energy manipulation, triggering physical effects *lots of concepts from India and Asia mythology and spirituality, weirdly unexplained - I saw interviews where the movie team claims certain names, visuals and gestures are just gamified, jokes or creative randomness - why do they lie?! Mythological motifs of chaos and certain entities that rule it, or generate it, abund, and the movie's elements can be traced back to some of these. And it does not just happen, because they have details - the way Jobu steps aside her mother's head on the stairs, in closeup, is a reminder of how Kali stopped in her destruction after stepping with her right foot above her husband... but I am not completely familiar with these motifs to be able to understand exactly how they used them.. Just noticing they are in the movie, and not "by chance". Also the Indian movie playing on the screen, I would have to know what movie or story is that, to understand a bit... so, more things to find out. Maybe they claim randomness because the young would turn away from "we're repacked for your understanding some very very old things" - maybe... *someone here concluded that the message is "set aside what could have been, and just strive to be happy with what you have, even modest". I think not! There is a complicated explanation in the movie of why this Evelyn is the one needed to solve her daughter's entanglement with the chaos, and it is completely different. I am making an effort here, but by abandoning one dream after another, this Evelyn lives her "failure" version of a life with her eyes wide open, making herself available to see it all from the outside, being herself mobile in concepts and strong when it comes to aknowledge other versions exist. She is un-lodged in one type of life, non attached or less attached to a fixated truth, as her better more successful versions are, therefore open to seeing the possibilities and able to understand her daughter's story *the message IS an empowering one, although hard to pin down; what do you do when there is nothing stable, secure, predetemined and calming around? And it is a fact, beyond the bull*it of "you are just troubled because you have to change the way you think" psychanalytic mantra... what do you do when the world is bluntly going down the drain, as you used to know it? What do you hold on to? The movie wants to help with getting an answer, which could be, I imagine, understood by each viewer in its own way.

Morbius (2022)

The movie that escaped Nicholas Cage's portfolio

[5/10 · 17 May 2022]

It is watchable, especially because they kept it clean on the horror side (elements suggested instead of shown). But it feels put together with a lower budget than it needed, or outsourced to some inexperienced team, while the attention of the producers, special effects crew and director was caught with something else...

Not a Jared Leto fan, the guy built himself a weird persona, but I don't mind that, just that I don't know his capabilities. But Matt Smith could definitely have carried its role deeper, so could Adria Arjuna. They did not, because sometjing was amiss about the whole movie.

It could have been more, but it was less, like a TV movie or one of the bad Nicholas Cage movies.

Ponyo (2008)

A Ghibli to run in the background, for comfort

[6/10 · 16 May 2022]

All the animations from Ghibli stand proud and endearing in their own cathegory, and are basically art. But not all of them engage the viewer and create memory nodes. Some are more atmospheric, and their plot is vague, like a pretext for the visual part.

Ponyo falls in this group, as well as other more recent Ghibli animations. Like a luxury from the creators, after having established their position with stronger plot movies, to show us what they would like to dream about, or how their dreams look like, animated and stitched together into a story.

What I remember from Ponyo is the main story,vaguely, and the scene where they meticulously prepare and eat a ramen soup. Not as striking and meaningful as the pineapple eating sequence from Only Yesterday, but somehiw when I think of Ponyo, this comes to mind, the hot ramen.

If the intention behind the whole plot was to provide a soft, clarobscure memory of serving a meal or walking through a landscape, then I am right there. If the intention was ro provide a compelling story, then something is amiss.

The animation is beautiful, but the story is not strong enough. In what sea creatures and the sea are concerned, another animation hit the mark better, and it comes from Europe, made by the same team who produced Brian and the Kelts. Their silkie story is more relevant for the spirit of the sea, although I am unsure right now about its name.

The Mindy Project (2012–2017)

The whole show rests on the shoulders of Mindy's personality

[6/10 · 14 May 2022]

And while said personality is new and entertaining for the viewers, the sitcom is quirky and funny. Although it IS one of those new wave sitcoms, where their lives seem sketchy and the wealth issue is magically taken care of by an unseen fairy godmother (although Mindy's character here is an MD, so - there, she must earn quite some dough... or does she?!) Well, just like in a relationship that is not very deep, as time goes on, the whole thing becomes a bit saggy, then a bit boring, then it stalls. Dunno why this final bit happened after Fox cancelled the series and Hulu picked it up - I mean, shouldn't the 2nd chance with Hulu have motivated a revival?

Apparently what is did was make them let themselves down, in a counter-intuitive move... and the show went downhill...

It does have other characters, played by actors that you will also recognise. Some funny and talented, others funny and annoying, depends on each person's comedic taste...

Perception (2012–2015)

Not everybody's cup of tea, because the main characters's personal story is dark-ish

[6/10 · 14 May 2022]

The brilliant mind that solves crimes in this series is also afflicted by a mental disease, that is the dark part of the story. While it is good to bring it into a mainstream series and it sheds light over the lives of people suffering from such afflictions, it makes the series not anybody's cup of tea... and it gives it an edge.

That being said, the way the series is executed is quite professional, goes along with Monk, Lie to Me, The Mentalist and other intellectually written series. It is interesting, educational in ways and also painful to watch.

Also worth mentioning that people suffering from mental syndroms or afflictions, if not rich, are in fact doomed in real life. Sadly. And also in many diafunctional countries - doomed even if a bit wealthy, because they have to hide and have no support network or context or society to integrate into. Just from the stories I know of. Sad, dramatic and scary.

The Lost City (2022)

Horrible waste of time and money, why did they even bother

[2/10 · 13 May 2022]

OK, so they started weirdly, and went on even more and more cheesy and unpleasant. Managed to wedge in a couple of jokes that may fool the innocent into not running away from the cinema - which only ensures more disappointment later, because this movie is baaad.

Not long ago I'd seen Sandra Bullock explaining how one cannot know if the movie he/she stars in will turn out good or bad. It was an older fragment of a Graham Norton Show, I think. She was talking about that "All about Steve" flop she starred in, which I also remember having the displeasure of partially watching. But now this movie?! Is she sleepwalking and starring in movies? Is she being blackmailed into starring in these horrendous ones? Does she have to do a bad movie, as soon as people managed to forget the latest bad one she was in?

No use detailing why this is so rubbish. Why? Just go see it yourselves, so there can be more of us having bad dreams about it. Yuck... the plot, the interpretation, the costumes, the way they used famous songs, cut short to pay less for them or something... the way they used one famous actor, similarly... the nudity, the cheap jokes... how did they tricked those actors to make fools of themselves?

Do they want to prove from time to time that actors are like empty vessels, nothing without good directing, scripts and the rest of the cast team?

Happy Endings (2011–2020)

Cute, light sitcom, but no way circling the 8 score

[6/10 · 12 May 2022]

It is funny in a superficial way, and being helped by a pleasant cast. One watch might be enough, no urges to rewatch - which is an indicator of "lucky it made it above the line, one time".

As with many new-ish sitcoms, the characters living in a self invented bubble really doesn't help. Either they are privileged, or they just hit the jackpot of cheap appartment and nice junk to furnish it, because no way they can afford the nice settings nowadays if they were real people about that age in a wobbly, unethical economy.

OK, what to do then - make only sitcoms set in ugly appartments, use only real cheap furniture and clothes?! Of course one cannot do that, but the gap is getting wider and wider and it is annoying. I cannit enjoy a comedy set in decorum that takes a lot of money to have, from my setting that is not beautiful, nor cheap. Because now you have to pay a lot for crap things that look ugly and break easily.

So sitcoms like Happy Endings are merely escapist, and do not hold well because they are built on a shaky premise, that ignores most of the current realities. If it had managed to "seal" its own bubble, oK, but it does not. Their lives branch out into the idea of them being "just some common young people, like you and your friends". And it is a lie.

Entertaining, but superficial.

Just Shoot Me! (1997–2003)

Funny, but quite crowded and superficial

[6/10 · 12 May 2022]

OK, some may say how can a sitcom NOT be superficial... well, they can be, when underground fun touches on bigger topics, in a way that makes the approach stay with the viewer over the years.

This sitcom is quite funny, but also crowded (hard to remember or tell what did they do in this or that of the episodes or of the seasons), and it is superficial - small things happen all the time, of no relevance whatsoever, and the story archs are rather difficult to follow, if any.

Some important actors, that would go on and do good roles in other series ond/or sitcoms. Nice chemistry between them all, also crowded in this department. Feels like a "school of comedy actors" at times.

Given also the duration of the series, you could see it as a soap opera of sitcoms. But not boring. Just long and crowded. And delivering good laughs, although easy to forget why you laughed.

Rules of Engagement (2007–2013)

When things just add up, and the result in enjoyable

[7/10 · 11 May 2022]

Light, funny and rewatchable for as many times as you have the opportunity! The cast is great, goes well together, even great! The topics are funny but not unrealistic, the setting and clothing just lovely for the eyes.

It even managed to stay good after they introduced Timmy, which frankly is unpleasant as a character, because it is like watching someone torture a kitten. And the kitten is Timmy. The character just did not fight back enough, to compensate the abuse Russel submitted him to, and that part was cringe.

Luckily the Russel - Timmy boss - PA duo was just one part of the show, which was equally held by the other duos.

So "Rules.." made it to the hall of fame, as an underrates gem of a sitcom. In a cathegory of its own.

Kudos to Wharburton, too. Should have played in more sitcoms than he did. Maybe he will add to those something new.

The King of Queens (1998–2007)

Decent B category sitcom, goes well with depression

[6/10 · 11 May 2022]

It is funny and like comfort food, it gets yor daily laughs going... the characters come off as unassuming, middle class or even working class decent people (I said middle because the house and stuff in it are nice, and in the last decades' economy I doubt that can be achieved through what their jobs are in this sitcom).

It is somehow addictive, and a bit empathic, each of them is adifferent type and they go well together. Like well seasoned soup, based on a familiar recipe. Two generations sharing a house, everyday issues, but a background of stability, a feeling their home is sturdy and all will be well.

Not A type, because it does not aim high, but it stays on course and it is enjoyable. Can earn added value over time, too, with all the crap masquerading as sitcoms nowadays, and with the lack of bonding with the erratic comedic characters of late.

Everybody Loves Raymond (1996–2005)

About as funny as mouldy cheese

[2/10 · 11 May 2022]

Probably the only sitcom on TV whose entire cast I did not found funny, nor likeable in any way. And since at some point it kept on being broadcast, I tried several times.

It was like "who are these people, who claims they're funny, why is the main guy such a big deal?" and so on so forth... Probably has its public. But I don't share the interest in this. Hyped while unfunny, or there is something that escapes me, but I don't know what it might be?!

Married... with Children (1987–1997)

Horrible if you got to see similar behaviours, in real life

[4/10 · 11 May 2022]

Like a caricature, but what if you'd look around and suddenly too many people would have the overplayed caricatural traits, for real? Would you laugh or start yelling, because monsters would be roaming the streets?!

Poverty and vulgarity are funny when depicted in movies only in small doses, otherwise it is just tragic.

I do not find it tasteful nor laughable to watch a show exposing vulgarity, lack of education, hopeless situations, poverty, lack of horizon... and on top of it all, the suffering of someone being in the middle of that, while being aware of it all, because that is what Al Bundy is.

The performance of Ed O'Neill - stellar. The laugh-out-loud, live the misery with eyes wide open... horrible.

If none of your relatives cooked cheap food with almost no money, while smoking and stirring the pot... enjoy a cruel laugh...

Frasier (1993–2004)

Not for everyone, I guess, it has an abrasive undertone

[6/10 · 11 May 2022]

Watched it? Yes. Liked it at the time? Enough to go ahead through all the series. Loved it? Surprisingly, no. Why? It had to do with the aftertaste, like having been dragged to a highlife party, performing through the whole event to make a nice figure, but once over, not wanting to ever go back to something similar.

It was too much of the main actor, and it all had an edgy, abrasive undertone. Uneasy lives, incomfortable events, characters that go through it all just because it is the norm at the precise position in the society they are in. Probably essier to enjoy if you can relate... Also, the actress who played the virgin on Seinfeld, main feminine character here, she does have the same of saturation exuding about her, after a while it is just too much.

Like a suit that looks good, does its function excellently, but I was glad to get out of it and relax in more comfortable outfits. No way I can see it as the glorious sitcom others present it.

Bowfinger (1999)

Unexpected fun, best enjoyed the 1st time, but it holds up as a one of a kind, too

[8/10 · 9 May 2022]

You can watch it, and it will surprise you, as long as you let it amuse, entertain, shock and also give its deeper vibes, the type of dreamer vibes Martin is so good to interpret.

Then you'll see how you can't forget it. It sticks on the back of your mind. You want to show it to your buddies. This way, you have to rewatch it, to make sure it's as you remember it. To understand why it stayed with you.

There is not much to understand - it's just fun. And it's out there, with its zany ideas. Just enjoy. It is art.

Three Amigos! (1986)

Whatever rocketed this movie into fame, besides the actors' names, I don't know

[3/10 · 9 May 2022]

Watched with only half attention countless times on TV, it did not manage to captivate enough so I would know the actual plot.

Rewatched recently when on a Steve Martin movies' spree - and it's just so disappointing! It has one main joke/trick, revealed quite soon, then it's a string of mockery, understandable in relation with various cowboy movies - if you watched those. I did not. Not a fan, anyways.

These in mind, it felt so lame... a waste of actors and time. Barely laughed, and was hoping something will come up and save this movie before its ending. It did not. I prefer remembering Steve Martin and the others from different roles, especially the recent Only Murders in the Building, who is a good, atmospheric series.

L.A. Story (1991)

A charming movie, dedicated by Steve Martin to his love, at that time

[8/10 · 9 May 2022]

The man wanted to show his romantic side, and made a movie out of it. Their personal story was not a long lasting one, however it gave us this movie, which blends Martin's love for L. A. with the love for the woman. Comedy is present, magic is recreated on screen, the movie is charming and quirky in the same time. Seeing how Martin is no Don Juan as a type, it is endearing to see how a man in love can transfigure into an attractive person, through the beauty of his love gestures, through the way he hopes, is happy and dreams of what he could bring in a relationship.

Definitely belongs to a decade that is no more, but it's worth seeing.