Change Your Image
junk-810-381519
Ratings
Most Recently Rated
Reviews
Aliens: Zone of Silence (2017)
Atmospheric and Charming
"Zone of Silence" feels like a campfire story. It's atmospheric. Kinda charming.
The negative reviews and ratings are... crazy. Some people don't like it, which is fine. It's those who hate it that confuse me.
This is a short low-budget alien sci-fi. As an alien sci-fi fan, I know how sparse the landscape is. We should be grateful anybody's bothering with the genre at all.
If you go into "Zone of Silence" expecting Hollywood, you'll be disappointed. If you expect crazy effects, you'll be disappointed. If you only like things that are part of the MCU, there's nothing for you here.
But if you're the kind of person who can enjoy imperfect films, it's lovely. It's *fun*. There's a touch of spooky to it.
I felt the isolation and the tension. I like the use of 47 cameras to capture the fear and running and shortness of breath.
At just over an hour, it asks little of the viewer. If you're angry enough at the end to write a one star review, then the problem is *you*.
It's okay to like things.
Just sit back, eat your popcorn, shut up, and watch the movie.
Level (2021)
Hilarious parody of Flat-Earth documentaries
This perfectly parodies flat-earth documentaries. Very realistic.
They didn't even use pseudoscience, skipping instead straight to the most hardcore of the not-sciences: anti-science.
They:
1. Tell us science is wrong (because... well, see: #1).
2. Dismantle reality with common sense (again: see #1).
3. Bring it home, taking full advantage of anti-science by exempting their own claims from the burden of proof, or even evidence.
They just care about claims. It's the best faction of the anti-science crowd: "If I can imagine it, it's real. And I've got it inked up and down my sleeves, bruh."
The actors nail the we-own-the-truth elitism projected by real flat-earthers.
Any one of them could win an award for capturing that empty, nothing-going-on-in-here flavor of ignorance worn on every face. That kind of realism can only be the work of highly trained method actors.
Can you imagine what kind of world it would be if someone put an alcoholic tat-bro in charge of All the Science? The guy in this can. Well written characters.
You won't find a better spoof of flat-earth documentaries. And you won't find a better spoof of flat-earth rap soundtracks.
Hellier (2019)
I'd rather have my eyes sucked out by goblins
But there aren't any goblins.
If you enjoy untangling Christmas lights, you'll love Hellier.
It's a monument to tedium and frustration.
Legends of Tomorrow (2016)
Of COURSE it's silly...
I don't know if you comic-book lover types are aware of this, but a lot of it *is* for children. That's why there aren't any bad words in the Arrowverse. None of the four big CW DC shows are "for" adults. If your expectations were different, you don't have to give it -50 stars. Just don't give it any stars. Those of us who love it would prefer that people who don't even watch it... stop trying to ruin it for the rest of us.
I see people looking for plot-holes, complaining about the characters, getting upset about the CG. Others are angry because the "wrong" heroes were chosen. Well, the point of the Legends is that they're outsiders. They're unconventional, and don't belong anywhere except with each other on the Waverider. If Batman/Superman/AnyFamiliarDCHero were on this, it'd be so... so... stupid. Superman and Batman would think before acting. The Legends are more improvisational.
Just watch it. It's hilarious. You do need a sense of humor and the ability to let go of your hardcore comic grudges, but it's worth it.
Beebo loves you. Maybe we could all love Beebo back.