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Dune: Part Two (2024)
Great visuals, but story leaves a sense of absence
The issue with Part Two is the same as with Part One.
I watched Part One without reading a letter from the book. I had a sense of absence, something was missing. The story did not stick properly together, cohesion was lacking a bit.
Then I started reading the book, read the first 90-100 pages, not even half of the first book, and then re-watched Part One movie. It was way more interesting, with knowing the proper backgrounds and motivations of the characters. I actually enjoyed the movie and did not have it was missing anything, but it was only because I knew the characters from the book.
And now, I feel the same with Part Two. Something is missing, proper cohesion is lacking. The whole thing feels like they took a TV/streaming show, took out the most important scenes and cut a movie from them. Hence: less critical, but still important parts are missing.
The movies did what they could in a relatively short time, but it's not enough. Dune deserves a proper series and not force-compressed into a couple of hours.
Otherwise, the visuals, the sounds are great, acting is good, it's still a good movie. It just does not feel complete.
Titans: Titans Forever (2023)
Somewhat disappointing
The action is sloppy in this one. Brother Blood is only a threat because they tell us. Other than lighting people on fire by screaming he does not feel like a threat. He could kill Conner with eye beams in an earlier episode, yet he never uses it again and loses in a lackluster final action scene. This won't do. Lazy writing. I wonder if the show got affected by the writers strike.
Brother Blood's skills feel inconsistent throughout the show and it really feels in the closing episode. He showed some ultimate skills he, for whatever reason, did not use when it really mattered.
Also: Gar struggling with cables... in human form, when he could easily change to a Gorilla to multiply his strength.
Poor writing, poor execution. Disappointing.
Dota: Dragon's Blood: The Hyacinth Girl (2022)
Sudden quality drop
I don't know what happened between the prior episode and this one, but there was a steep drop in overall storytelling quality. Though editing and smooth transitions aren't among the strong traits of this series anyway, in this episode it was rather disturbing.
Short scenes just cut after each other. Random jumps to memories then back to the present. Coherence was weak. It feels rushed, like they didn't have the time to do it properly. I hope this doesn't bleed over to the rest of the episodes.
Flirting with Forty (2008)
Cheap romance novel brought to TV
About 20-30 mins (or less) into the movie, one realizes that this is a fantasy, void of any kind of reality. Because of course, a young, ripped, model like surf instructor will start hitting on a 40-year old single mom, without the women doing/showing anything special.
This is the baseless love fantasy of an average, middle-aged women.
Bumblebee (2018)
Following its predecessors' path
People were hoping for a reboot of the franchise. While it might be technically a reboot, it does pretty much the same things as the previous movies.
While the center of the story should be the Autobots and the Decepticons, humans having a kind of a support role, the movies, including Bumblebee, keep humans in the front. Probably to cater to the average moviegoer.
The problem is that the average moviegoer doesn't really care about the real Transformers story. He/she just wants to watch a decent action movie.
The average moviegoer enjoys the movie for those 2 hours, then forgets the whole movie, because he/she doesn't care about it.
Those who would be invested in the franchise, get something that isn't really Transformers.
So in the end, no one cares about these movies. Bumblebee failed at changing that, or actually, didn't even try to.
A watch-once-then-forget decent action movie, following the same path as the previous ones.
Rules of Engagement (2007)
Painfully unfunny
It might be the Hungarian dub, but this series is lacking punch lines badly. I watched several episodes: the jokes are predictable and they hardly make me smile. I can't remember laughing once.
Looking at the 7.3 average score, I can't comprehend it. It must be the Hungarian dub.
Lost in Space (2018)
The show where everything happens in the last minute
This review is based on the first season.
Like many other reviews said, this show could have been more and they are right at that. CGI is good, the show is visually entertaining. Acting isn't bad in my opinion.
But the writing... is cheap, with all the last-minute tension. Each and every episode has multiple events, where someone gets into a situation. At some point it just becomes ridiculous. It's overdone.
Still, the show is entertaining, but could do without this.