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Star Trek: Picard (2020)
Sourpusses
I really liked this, and I also love TNG. It's different but it definitely worked. I don't understand all the hate at all.
Ready looking forward to season 2!
Mars Needs Moms (2011)
not quite what is wants to be
I'm going to start of by saying that I was really looking forward to this movie, the trailer seemed solid and the animation in it looked top notch. After having seen the movie now I feel very disappointed.
The story is about a boy that finds himself being taken to Mars to save his mom whom has been abducted by aliens. On his "quest" he meets a couple of sidekicks and together they share an adventure of epic fails. It's just not interesting, and above all: it's very, very badly put together.
I really got the feeling that the people who made this film put the story on the second place and wanted to make something that was visually stunning (and possibly able to compete with Avatar *which it doesn't*) and action-packed.
While there certainly are really nice visuals in the movie, they too are messed up by the mega-awkward weirdness of seeing Seth Green transformed into a 10 year old boy and the overall weirdness of the whole movie. The plot is superthin and it all seems super random.
I could go on and on about the way they made this and why it's not deserving of the Disney title, but let's just leave it at that it's sure as hell no pixar!
Vénus noire (2010)
Horrible (And Not In A Dramatic Good Sense)
After hearing about this film through a significant amount of media attention in my neck of the woods (the Netherlands) I decided to give it a shot. The reviewers on TV and in the newspaper were talking about a story that was both moving and horrific, and that was sadly true as well.
** Spoilers beyond this point **
The movie starts of with the bodycast of our "black Venus" and her genitalia in a jar, which is passed around while we are shown detailed drawings of her vagina. Seriously WTF/ After that the movie tries to shock us again by showing us the performance black Venus has to do on stage. While you get it after 1 minute (yes she's in a cage, yes its demeaning, yes it's wrong) the director chooses to show it's entire length. This was the first time I checked my watch, OMG only 35 minutes in an already bored?
What follows is more or less a how-to guide in how NOT to get the audience emotionally involved with your characters. Black Venus gets the chance to make a stance at a hearing in court about what's going on, claims it's her free will to participate, she's an actress yadadada. OK, cool, good for you Venus, while after seeing the stage show for the millionth time and enduring another round of shock-fire from the misguided director the movie becomes unbearable and is just as hard on you as it is on Venus.
The movie drags on for a good 1,5 hours after this point. OK WE GET IT SHE IS NØT HAPPY. AAARGH!!!!
I feel almost ashamed to say this but I only felt relieve when she finally dropped dead in the movie, cause we knew it was almost over.
Horrible horrible horrible drag of a film, and it's up with the worst of the worst in my book.
Definite NO GO
Be warned!!