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Emil_reitala
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Promising Young Woman (2020)
Ambitious but flavorless
Had an ambitious and interesting idea with bad exectuon. Ended up beind just plain dull, monotonic, superficial, one-dimensioned, shallow, uninspiring, and overall poorly written with unlikable characters with predictable arcs. Lacked emotion, lacked depth, lacked power and lacked charisma. Had really nice aesthetics and soundtrack, though. All in all, totally forgottable movie, unfortunately. I dont get all the hype, really.
Wendy (2020)
lets get this straight
This is not a movie for kids. This is not a REMAKE of peter pan, its an adaptation, an independent story of its own, inspired by another story: peter pan. It really seems like a lot of bad reviews are from parents who were under impression of taking their kids to see a version of peter pan story and were dissapointed cause "they ruined the original story". Thats not the case and theres no point giving the movie a 1-star review just because kids wanted to leave the theatre during the film. its a film made for adults and the adults might still like it.
Beautiful movie thougt it really lost its grip towards the end. worth checking out, but nothing groundbreaking.
Me Before You (2016)
a cheesy load of clichés with very twisted moral values
Pretty much everything wrong with the story, acting isnt as bad as people say, not good either though. but the story... not really sure how to describe it, it is so morally twisted that it is hard to believe this movie was made by adults. so, the working class girl is helping this filthy rich guy (and yes: the clichés. all of them) , who i belive is supposed to be portrayed as charming and likeable, altough thats not the case at all. the guys is totally spoiled and selfish. neither the girl nor the guy give a damn about the girls long term boyfriend and his feelings, and we are supposed to dislike him too for not giving a birthday present good enough. the guys keeps on making these "funny" jokes about the girls looks and makes it awkwardly clear that he would be dating hotter girls if he werent paralysed. and again, he is seriously intended to be a likeable character. also every problem seems to be solved with money, including killing yourself and letting your loved ones in grief: you just book 'em a flight to paris and give them a load of money and they'll seem to feel perfectly ok after literally couple of weeks since your passing. also there is a great moral teaching about being physically disabled is not a life wort living, especially if you are used to live a great jetset life travelling around the world with unlimited trustfund money.
at the same time everything seems to be always nice and neat despite the disability. the movie really does not do justice to the effort that real care workers put in... and it does not begin to describe the difficulties of a everyday life of disabled person. on top of all theres the cheesy soundtrack with ed sheeran sugarpop songs super out of place...
horrible piece of storytelling and cinema. do not bother. there are lots of great movies over the same subject out there:
if you're looking a feel good movie, choose the intouchables.
if youre in the mood for great drama with deep and beautiful ideas over life, death and dignity, go with Sea Within
Hodejegerne (2011)
Great crime thriller to watch, altough makes no sense every now and then
Entertaining, very intense, classy performances from the cast. The plot, on the other hand, has some serious gaps in logic and some of the characters' motives make no sense at all when u give it even a bit of a deeper thought. Still easily watchable if u can ignore the lack of logic in plot progression.
Crazy Rich Asians (2018)
Totally missunderstood
I feel like everyone here saying that they were grossed about the materialism and shallowness completely missed the point of the movie. I personally think that this movie was actually way more anti-materialistic than 99% of the hollywood movies made as it really made an effort to prove a point that having class is not equal to having expensive things or net worth. Sure, the setting of the movie was mostly about lifestyles of the filthy rich but the main point really in my opinion was to view it as filthy, not as desirable, and I think it captured quite realistically the overwhelment and innocence of the lead character being suddenly in a middle of a new world that was seeming so unreal and unhumane at the same time. Cant believe that people didnt seem to get it. The acting was also great (mostly) and some of the scenes (the wedding) were just outstandigly brilliant in the terms of realization and taste, very elegant. Totally enjoyable and highly recommendable.