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Tremors (1990)
Surprisingly Good
While it may give pungent B-movie vibes, if you sit down to watch it, you will find a very captivating monster movie.
It doesn't take itself too seriously, but it's really, absolutely, masterfully crafted. The pacing is impeccable, and it will keep pumping sustained, satisfying suspense into your veins throughout your viewing. Tremors is the gift that keeps on giving.
Joker (2019)
Decent movie, but no way it's a 10/10
So, great visuals, great acting, enjoyable movie. But a 10/10? Maybe only compared to the other drivel that comes around.
Citizen Kane (1941)
The supreme movie that fails to entertain
To hear critics and many reviewers, this is THE movie. The movie to end all movies. Imagine my surprise when, eagerly, I started watching it, only to find out that I don't like it. I endured through all of it though, for art's sake.
It's a visual spectacle, alright. It's got everything a movie needs to succeed as a technical feat. But the story failed to grab me and I didn't feel anything for any of the characters. It's a drab chronicle of some man's life.
From Tarkovski and Bergman to Riddick and Guardians of the Galaxy I can find entertainment in movies in many shapes and sizes. But be it brainless action, suspense, existential pondering or mere wordless atmosphere, a movie has to give me something to munch on. Citizen Kane doesn't. I'll watch it again, for sure, but as of now, my impression of it aligns with Bergman's. A glorified bore of a movie.
John Wick (2014)
Somewhere between Riddick and ridiculous
Am I the only one that didn't really appreciate this movie?
I gave it 6/10, for the stellar action scenes. If that's all you want from a movie, it's a 10/10. If on the other hand you expect a movie not to insult your intelligence with some ridiculous story and situations, then this movie is lacking. Everybody dreads John Wick, and he can kill you with anything, like he's freaking Riddick or something. That may work for Vin Diesel in a fantasy science-fiction setting, but not here. Yeah, yeah, people say the movie doesn't take itself seriously, and the ridiculousness is tongue-in-cheek, but for some reason it doesn't click for me. So no. 6 out of 10.
From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)
You'd think a horror by Tarantino would be good, but no
Lots of camp. Less suspense, like any good horror movie should have. This movie is a waste of time to watch, and doesn't have many redeeming qualities besides the aforementioned camp.
Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015)
It's good, for a cheeseburger bought at MacGuffins
I enjoyed this movie, but I approached it with the same expectations one has when walking into a McDonalds joint. You're there for the junkfood, not for some fancy high- cuisine. Considering it's the 7th movie in the series, I wasn't really expecting some ground- breaking movie-making.
The visuals are top-notch: everything is there in lush visuals for you to enjoy. There's plenty of action, well-realized, in the right dosage, punctuated with some "Wow!"- moments. There's no Jar Jar Binks or obnoxious kid this time, thank the Maker for that!
The movie basically has NO story. It's like they didn't even try. They just pulled lots of fan- loved parts from the former movies and tied them together with the laziest script possible. The lame intrigue is just a sorry excuse to move us to the next cool starwarsy thingie. No time is given to character development and bonding: they are eagerly shoehorned into predefined shells: young jedi, best pal, romantic partner.
-- Possible spoilers --
Starwarsy thingies inventory: Desert planet, Lush green planet, Snow planet. Cute even- smaller droid with secret message. Menacing even-bigger Death Star with an Achilles heel. Good guys planet blowing up. Darth Vader Mini. Gollum Maxi. Orphaned future jedi with huge potential. Reluctant hero. Space bar with weird aliens. Tentacled dangerous space monsters. The old character cast. Ship fights, lightsaber fights, jedi mind tricks. Corridors, hangar bays, tactical room vector displays. Flying inside the bowels of a big ship. Safety-ignoring imperial interior design with narrow walkways and huge chasms into which you know some character will inevitably fall. Wise old small alien funny-looking strong character helping the hero.
-- End of possible spoilers --
And at the end, this movie announces the next by giving viewers a glimpse of MacGuffin the dragon. Oups, sorry, wrong franchise.
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)
I didn't expect The Hobbit would be a non-stop cheesy literal cliffhanger.
An unexpected journey, indeed.
If you expected The Hobbit would turn to be a great movie, you may want to expect the unexpected.
I mean, yes, the title character is masterfully performed by Martin Freeman; Gandalf, Galadriel and the beautiful landscapes are as enjoyable as ever, but that's about it. Oh yeah, there are a few scenic sunsets, too. What's left of the movie(like, the movie itself?!) suffers.
At the root of all this movie's evils is... greed. To near-sighted executives, three movies mean thrice the profit. You can do that with Lord of the Rings, which has three books rich with story and detail. But turning the simpler, younger-audience-oriented story of The Hobbit into three movies is simply overkill. And it shows. The director desperately tries to find more content to fit into the movie. Thus he puts in the movie aspects of the Middle Earth universe not covered in the book. He gives extended screen time to insignificant events, and he shamelessly bloats the movie with long, drawn-out fighting scenes, obnoxiously peppered with ridiculously cheap thrills.
There is that "cliffhanger" expression, but here it's obnoxiously literal. The whole movie is a non-stop race of literal cliffhanger moments. To give just an example, imagine a character hanging over a precipice, after having grabbed at the last possible moment, while falling, from another character that hangs himself from Gandalf's staff, that was stretched at the last possible moment towards him, to save him from a deadly fall; Gandalf himself grabbing the branch of a tree that itself hangs horizontally over the precipice, gradually uprooting itself, nestling the other members of Bilbo's party, that hang for dear life after managing to save themselves in that last standing three, which was itself knocked over in a domino effect by a series of falling trees on a thin stretch of land hanging over a precipice, where the warg-riding goblins cornered them, eventually, after a drawn-out chasing and fighting scene. Oh yes and when they all eventually fall from that tree, guess what, the giant eagles appear and catch them, at the last possible moment. That's an actual scene that pretty much sums up the whole movie, in all it's revolting obnoxious abuse of cheesy thrills.
So if you think you can withstand such a revolting insult to your intelligence, then, by all means, go see the movie, there's Bilbo in it, and Gandalf, and Galadriel and beautiful landscapes. Oh yeah, and scenic sunsets.