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The Batman (2022)
Nearly perfect Batman movie.
It nailed the dark detective noir feel I always imagined when reading the comics.
It could've been nearly perfect Batman movie, it mastered the setup well and with nuance.
But then towards the end it looses all the nuance by straying into generic action resolution and turns smart villain into silly caricature. In the end it even introduces another famous villain in the most cheesy way.
Nearly perfect Batman movie... but misses the landing.
Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021)
I expected more from Serkis, this was mess.
The first one was silly but at least fun and the story had some focus.
This new one is so boringly generic, all over the place mess with even more dumber plot logic. I expected more from Serkis.
After finishing it, I just felt sad that so much talent in cinematography and VFX is wasted in making garbage like this.
Westworld: The Mother of Exiles (2020)
Daaamn, Dolores is scary.
I want to believe that by this episode the show finally found its style in S3. First episodes were kinda hit and miss but this one worked well, combining familiar themes of the good old WW (which, I missed so far) and reinventing them with something new.
Westworld: The Absence of Field (2020)
Boring tasteless melodrama
Start was strong but then it devolved into boring tasteless melodrama.
There were some moments which had potential ruined by some really flat moments. And OMG... that scene between Dolores and Caleb at the diner was probably the most longest emotional blackmail I had to sit through, those un-nuanced spoon-feed cringy melodramatic lines were just pouring and my eyes were rolling how looong, when will this suffering end.
Westworld: The Winter Line (2020)
This is what I signed up for! 10/10
They should put this episode as season premiere, 100% Improvement over the first episode in every regard! Dialogues were smart and captivating, actors had time to evolve their characters. Cinematography.... just pure perfection. Technical and beautiful. I also liked Stubbs character having more things to do.
Westworld: Parce Domine (2020)
Yep, this one is weak... but the next one is 100% better!
I nearly wanted to gave this show up because of this one weak episode. Don't make the same mistake! This one is aimed at the ''Common people'' so everything is too straightforward and doesn't feel like WW anymore.
But don't worry, second episode has all its magic back!
Passengers (2016)
Solid movie panned by femi-nazis who didn't even understand the movie at all.
The main message of the movie is about forgiveness.
Can woman forgive a man who made mistake of falling in love with her and tried to manipulate her?
Obviously not! Because... True love is about loving person for who they really are, by spending time together, impressing her by gifts, taking her out to dinner etc which are in the end also forms of manipulation.
But!
And here's the main part which many agenda driven critics forgot about: If the woman is smart enough she should able to see through the manipulation and see the man for what he really is.
And this is what this movie is about.
Venom (2018)
A simple comic book movie, in a good sense.
Sometimes you just want to shut your brain and have fun by watching simple movie with famous stylish looking comic book creature played by famous stylish actor. This one is one of those movies.
Even my dad liked it! And he despises comic book movies, I guess he liked it primarily because of the 90's humor, which I also appreciated because it gave the movie some warmness or hearth in otherwise cold brutal story
Counterpart (2017)
Quite my tempo
When I was younger I was afraid of what kind of weird stuff can spies guard? Maybe time travelling or exchanging technology with aliens?... I was almost right! Counterpart turns all my chessy spy paranoias into a beliveable noirish spy show with beliveable actors, beliveable action and grounded sci-fi elements. The tempo is alright, not too fast, not too slow. Camera and editing looks simple but effective. J.K. Simmons does a terrific job portaying two same yet different characters, each behaving accordingly to their own life experiences. Main theme gets me in the mood.
Innocence (2004)
So far the best Cyborg movie ever made.
Many reviewers make mistake by judging this movie with their limited human brains but are missing the most obvious point which the movie tries to ask and highlight by thinking too forward with depicting future where Cyborgs can have access to all the worlds information in the blink of an eye. The quotational dialogues are not there to be just arrogantly smartass but to purposefully show characters with instant access debating immortal ideas and how synchronizing of information can impact the way we create language and what makes us eventually human. Aren't we just another biological machines?
And even if you will not understand everything, the beatiful noir-ish hypnotic atmosphere with its georgeous art will swallow you anyway and you''ll come back to it finding something new each time watching it.
I think, this movie is a timeless classic and the best movie Mamoru Oshii ever did, even surpassing the original.
Westworld (2016)
Overwhelming but epic
I like both seasons for different reasons. Season 2 focused more on particular group of characters in each episode which made the show to some people less balanced compared to S1 but I found this approach fresh and interesting because every episode can now stand on its own. The finale was overwhelming but epic. It all clicks better after second rewatch though. I got some issues with unbalanced tempo sometimes, cliche action hero thropes there and there but the most important thing... the show still has ambitions!. Doesn't treat viewer as an idiot and puts on table issues that many are afraid or uncapable to talk about.