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White Noise (2022)
A fantastic movie that definitely isn't for everyone.
How does one talk about White Noise? It brands itself as a surreal comedy, but it leans heavily into the surreal and less into the comedy.
It's split into several acts, and the pacing for each act is dramatically different from the one before. At one moment it's a sci-fi disaster movie, then it's a family adventure comedy, and finally it's a thought provoking drama which delves into the meaning of life and death.
A lot of people are being critical of the movie being "all over the place", and that is absolutely true. You may love the first act but hate the rest of the movie - and it's purposely designed to be like that. The through line being the fantastic family in the middle of it all.
The performances are great, the cinematography is genuinely some of the best I have seen in a movie in quite some time.
There are definitely problems though. The pacing being all over the place isn't just an artistic choice without consequence. It can get confusing, muddled and things that seem like big events end up being vessels for moving the family around as opposed to being interesting things that persist.
The secondary characters are nowhere near as exciting as the core family but there is a stand-out towards the end that I thought was brilliant.
To summarize, you probably won't like the entire movie. Some of the messages the movie is trying to portray are heavy handed and not subtle at all.
White Noise is definitely a unique movie though. One of that does what it set out to do with little care for how it was perceived. I think that makes it worth a shot, don't you?
Glass Onion (2022)
This was really, really bad.
I don't get it. I look at the reviews and people make it sound like an OK watch. It isn't. It's really poorly written, the acting is like they're performing on SNL and it's just so absent of any polish.
And wow, the product placement in this movie is downright embarrassing sometimes. I don't like how we've kind of allowed this to happen to such a degree. There are parts of this movie that feel like 30 second commercials. It is not subtle at ALL - the blatancy of it provides some laughs though.
Overall this is a mess, like an AI generated script, with actors who couldn't afford their faces to be off the screen during the lockdown and are completely phoning it in.
Imawa no Kuni no Arisu: Episode 8 (2022)
Absolutely mindless but entertaining.
There are scenes in this show that are genuinely impressive. You'll see amazing choreography and pretty incredible CGI. The very next scene will have the most embarrassing dialogue that sounds like it was written by a 14 year old who just wrote it listening to Radiohead.
Alice is Borderland absolutely loves itself and takes everything it does very seriously.
It therefore has a very anime problem where taking a bullet directly to the heart doesn't immediately kill someone- usually you can just sit down and wait it out.
It's still fun and I don't regret my time with it but I feel like this should be the end.
Snack vs. Chef (2022)
It's alright.
I like the concept, replicating a snack is a cool idea and the contestants are obviously talented.
My main issue is just how *strange* the show feels.
It has the usual reality tv editing, vibrant set, large contestant personalities-- but everything else feels so dull and understated.
The hosts should be excellent, they are comedians that have big personalities, but they are the least exciting people on the show. They are even overshadowed by the two experts on the show. It's a bad look and a really weird casting decision.
The show is split in two: first they recreate a well known snack (KitKat, Cheetos) and then in the second half they make an original creation based on it. In terms of structure they definitely start with the best part. The original creations are nowhere near as interesting to watch.
To summarize: it's okay. Good background TV.