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Moonfall (2022)
Physics? Who Needs It?
This movie would have been much better if it stuck to the AI and human origins plot line. All of the subplot scenes on earth were atrociously bad. Cars and people floating in the sky? Or somehow cars that must have missed the wave and are somehow still fine? Gun battles and chase scenes through terribly fake looking snowy landscapes? All to get to an underground base that wouldn't save anyone? Rockets flying through water? Helicopters flying in a "gravity wave"?
A sci-fi movie is supposed to take a hypothetical situation and apply a decent level of actual physics to that scenario. This was just pure irrational fiction where one has to suspend logic to make it through.
Debris: Spaceman (2021)
Couldn't Bother Researching?
If you are going to specifically go to eastern Washington, even more specifically the scablands, you couldn't bother doing 5 minutes of research? Eastern Washington is a desert with hardly any trees. And the scablands are a bunch of rock outcroppings from the ice age floods.
Instead you just lazily show dense evergreen forests?
The Lion King (2019)
Atrocious Voice Acting
There is something seriously off about this movie. The visuals are absolutely stunning but you think with all that effort they could give the faces a little more expression. There is disconnect between the script, the voice actors, and the characters expressions on almost every character.
Baby Simba was by far the worst. The emotion in the voice never matched the scene. Mufasa was a decent voice but the animation was lifeless and his lines (that weren't copied) were super cheesy and didn't make me care about him. Scar and the hyenas were probably some of the best characters in the movie. Scars face could have used a bit more expression but the voice acting was terrific. I was rooting for them after watching baby simba and mufasa for the first half of the movie. Child Nala was bearable but adult Nala was actually pretty good. Adult Simba was good in parts and terrible in others. Pumbaa was probably the best character in the movie. Seth Rogan did a fantastic job and made the character similar to the original but also made it his own. Timon's voice didn't really match the expression on the character but his lines were funny. Zazu was pretty good and had good lines but it took a while to get used to the animation.
I really liked the addition of some of the jungle animals and much of the jungle scenes were very fun to watch. They followed the same plot but were changed just enough to make it enjoyable. The rest of the movie is practically a carbon copy of the original but with less emotion. Some of the plot holes from the original were filled in which was nice but in an effort to make it hyper realistic, a lot of the fantastical scenes were altered.
Overall, it was pretty boring as it is exactly the same movie as the original, except that the characters are lifeless and have childish scripts. Don't bother watching this unless solely for the the visual effects. Don't give Disney any benefit from their complete lack of creativity. They butchered a fantastic opportunity. By far the worst remake so far.
The Place Beyond the Pines (2012)
3 Acts in One
I'll split this review into three since this is basically three movies in one.
Act 1: this act was the only one that was interesting. It dealt with the inner struggle of a man who was not brought up well and struggled to make good life choices when life demanded him to change. It dealt with the inner conflict of loving someone for their potential and then constantly being dissapointed. This act had action, drama, and great acting! I was on the verge of giving this movie an 8 when Act 2 entered the stage.
Act 2: Terrible! The whole act is about making cops look like thugs wrapped in corruption at every level instead of the heroes they actually are. While some cops might be bad apples, this movie is out of control with the typical Hollywood propaganda of portraying cops as loopholing, scheming, law breaking, alcoholic, drug addicts. The act makes no sense and has no drama. The themes that were active in the first Act completely drop off the planet and we are met with superficial characters that do not represent real life. I gave this part a rating of 2.
Act 3: This Act had potential. It nearly brought the movie back to above average. Instead they portrayed a kids who were incapable of making good choices. They portrayed high schoolers as out of control partiers, who rob stores, do drugs, and get plastered. And even with two loving parents of one of the kids who have brought him up with love and attention, he can't seem to make good choices and instead abandons his family completely after losing his mind. The act had potential themes to explore and just decided to superficially ignore any of them. They could have tied it back into the first Act and explored the dynamic of reversed roles in the child's lives. They could have explored the dynamic of overcoming peer pressure, overcoming bullies, or even growing up like the father and struggling to make good choices. Nope. I gave this Act a 4.
Overall this movie was good at the beginning and quickly went downhill. They told three separate acts and instead of tying them together like good story tellers, they took the lazy route and just conveyed typical Hollywood crap.
Incredibles 2 (2018)
Worst Pixar Movie To Date
Nearly two hours of horrible drawn out story line with terrible dialogue! Won't keep a kids attention and definitely doesn't keep the adults attention who were anxiously awaiting a sequel as good as the first one. Dash is basically a waste of a character in this movie as his lines are not as comedically timed as the first movie. The first 60-90 minutes of the movie is basically a snoozefest and has very rare comical moments. Most of the time it tries way too hard to be funny and rather tries to make subtle political comments about current events. Avoid this one if you can unless you just need a movie to play in the background during a nap.
Pump! (2014)
Gives alternative options without the cons
This documentary is full of propaganda and delivers an overwhelmingly biased display of options. More than half the film covers bio-fuels and how they are heaven sent. bio-fuels such as ones from corn or any another biodegradable source have vastly different and unreliable densities and efficiencies. It doesn't matter if you can technologically change your car simply, because unless your car is specifically designed for a specific bio-fuel type, you will wear the engine and fuel injector and the residue left from bio-fuels leaves hydrogenated goo in all of your parts. Not to mention that bio-fuels take way over 100% more energy in oil to produce and transport than they give off.
Other more likely sources like electricity which is given 10 minutes of coverage uses lithium (to name the main one) which is even more of a nonrenewable resource than oil. Solar uses rare minerals like cadmium, selenium, etc which are expensive to mine and will run out long before oil if you transfer mass production to them.
Also there are so many flat out lies in this film. One lady says the only reason more of our energy isn't produced by wind is because we don't have more electric cars out there.....uhhh not only does that not even make sense logically, the reason we don't have more wind and geothermal and solar (other than the reasons i already mentioned) is because wind is super unreliable. It needs additional sources for times when its not windy (or too windy, because they shut down at too high of speeds). You would also need a bajillion of them to come close to even one nuclear plant.
If you want to watch an informative movie of viable options go find another film. If you want to watch a biased, conspiracy-theory-filled, that doesn't look at the pros and cons of both options then go for it. this film is for you! There's a reason engineers are working around the clock looking for viable options to replace oil dependency and allow for choices. Until they find ones that are more reliable, less dependent on other highly non-renewable sources, and can be mass produced to keep the cost down, then oil will still reign. All of the options in this movie already exist.....anyone can choose them.....there's reasons they don't. Oil is cheaper and there's a ton of it!