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Color Out of Space (2019)
Not a Lovecraft fan and loved the movie
I'm not a Lovecraft fan, meaning that I just haven't read any of his stories (although, now I start thinking I should), so I'm not judging this move from this perspective. I just loved it, plain and simple. It's strange, confusing, weird - and all this in a good way and in the right mixture. I found the acting great as well; although not a Nicolas Cage fan either, I thought he was amazing here. I agree with many comments below, though - the mainstream will be most likely not fond of this movie. And this is fine. Some of the best movies out there are just not intended to please the mainstream audience.
The Aerialist (2020)
Great artistry, nice story, loved the movie
To start with, I don't quite understand why this movie has such a low rating. I started watching it mainly in the background because I'm an aerialist myself and was curious about the movie, but the low rating put me kinda off. But I ended it up being glued to the screen. It's a good movie, with nice choreos, enough drama and a very sweet end.
If you're into action stuff, it's not for you. But if you're in the arts industry (and of an age 30+), I think it's certainly something you could relate to. Maybe, giving it all 10 stars is a bit of an overreaction from my side, but imho it definitely deserves more than some 5.1 stars, hence my choice.
Lucy (2014)
I guess, either you gonna love it or hate it
Wow, so many contradictory opinions... I gave this movie 10 out of 10, mainly because it scored so low, and I just don't get why. But that fact put aside, I would've still given it at least 9.
Yes, it rotates around the famously misleading theory that humans use only 5-10% of their brains. Although saying that, I keep thinking about the book "My stroke of insight" written by a brain scientist who suffered a stroke in her left hemisphere. What she wrote about her suddenly emerged ability to feel herself united with everything around her... isn't that something very few people among us can tell about themselves? Anyway, away from the book, back to the movie.
This misleading assumption put aside, the movie is unbelievable. If you are ready to tell your internal voice of a skeptic to shut up for about an hour and a half and explore the idea of "What if...?", you'll love this movie. The acting is great, the idea is sort of mind-blowing and it does make you think what things actually should matter in your life and how we are just wasting it on things that have no value at all. Well, at least, I felt this way.
I would also like to ponder on one line I read in another review. Somebody was wondering why Lucy cares about passing the knowledge to the humanity, but at the same time didn't care about all those people who possibly died in the car crashes she caused. There was a line in this comment saying that an increase of her brain power and being suddenly devoid of empathy didn't make any sense. Well, it makes perfect sense to me, considering Lucy's line "We don't actually die". In fact, we don't, because we pass all the knowledge written in our genes onto our children, and so on, and so on. It's not the life-memory-kind-of knowledge, but it's the knowledge necessary for becoming more and more adapted to the environment, and therefore, having more chances to survive. (I don't even want to dive into another theory saying that, since we are all energy, and energy doesn't disappear but transforms into something else, we don't die but live further in some other kind of state). And what, from the perspective of evolution, can be more valuable than that? It's not about a single human being, because there are so many of us. So, I guess, a super-mind can be devoid of empathy to a particular man or woman, but it does care about transferring the knowledge valuable for the humankind... Besides, maybe, if you ARE united with the universe, and time, and nature, and gravity, and and and... maybe the life of a single human being doesn't seem that important at all? I don't know, and I guess, we'll never know if that could be true. However, I can imagine that it can explain some of the "irrational" moments in this movie. All in all, great watch.
The Angriest Man in Brooklyn (2014)
Sad, yet still amazing
I've read some reviews saying this movie is bad. Well, not sure about it. It might be not the best movie ever, but I found Robin William's acting brilliant - as always. I almost cried at some scenes, although I'm not an easy crier. As someone has already written here, you probably cannot see this movie without a taste of deep sadness, considering he's not with us anymore. And somehow I think that all those lines he spoke went right through his heart, although we'll never know this for sure. Still, great movie, watch it. The plot is not the main thing here - it's the acting and the idea. And I love you, Robin Williams.
Stake Land (2010)
Surprisingly really good!
I want to say upfront that I'm not a great fan of the latest post-apocalyptic movies, 'cause they all are so much the same and therefore, just boring. And movies about zombies and vampires are definitely off my list, for the same reason (although I'm a big fan of Bram Stoker's Dracula and The Walking Dead).
This movie was recommended to me by a friend of mine, and almost reluctantly, I started watching it about two hours ago. And it is just great. I mean, really. I don't know why it got only 6,6 points on IMDb, because it's definitely worth watching. Of course, if you are looking for some hot looking main characters slaughtering hundreds of vampires - forget it, wrong address. But if you are into a post-apocalyptic movie with supernatural monsters which gives you a sense of reality, twisted, but still reality - go for it. And I found the acting brilliant.