bananamanaus Reviews

The 8th Night (2021)

a flawed but engrossing slow burn thriller

[7/10 · 4 July 2021]

Went into this movie completely blind, expected it to be the typical netflix mildew but its suprisingly well known and from a unknown director cast and crew Visually its really interesting and almost has a slight anime look to it, the story its the best part with nice twists and turns along the way.

Soundtrack and score are also very nice its a great sounding movie especially in surround Some of it needed improving some rough editing but overall i really enjoyed it.

Some hammy acting aside the main monks do a great job.

If you want a korean hereditary this is your movie.

My only real slight against it is that the english dub is TERRIBLE much worse then most non english movies, watch the subtitled version in korean.

Maniac (2018)

Maniac - future cult classic

[10/10 · 26 April 2021]

Fantastic trippy 80s throwback with a good dose of Brazil and 12 monkeys sprinked in the soundtrack direction editing acting casting and cg are all perfect and the sets are amazing truely reneaice era netflix before they only made complete junk and well worth a watch from a fantastic cast and crew.

Mortal Kombat (2021)

Flawed Victory

[1/10 · 24 April 2021]

What could have been a good or great remake or adaptation of a classic movie and video game series was sadly lacking in main characters...character The stunts are great but the main actor cannot carry this movie and is completely flat with vague powers and dull on screen presence The cgi and fights are good if a little short but i just cant get over how BLAND and BAD the main protaganist is.

Stick with the first 4 games and the 1995 original.

Avengers: Endgame (2019)

terrible lazy cash in to the excellent infinity war that nobody besides studio execs wants

[1/10 · 22 March 2021]

Spectacle and nothing else as fans said here its meant to be for them but even they dont like it totally undermines the excellent previous movies for too much fanservice and useless plot threads that go nowhere sadly ive seen this movie twice and regretted it both times such a slack way to wrap up what was mostly a good-excellent run of movies

Westworld (2016–2022)

Season 1 was fantastic

[1/10 · 13 April 2020]

However since we've had mostly terrible episodes and s3 is no exception Just let this die, lisa (soy) joy and johnathan nolan have lost the plot quite literally the latest episodes are laughably bad

Ballmastrz 9009 (2018–2020)

Its like pokemon on acid

[10/10 · 28 February 2020]

Christy Karacas knocks it out of the weird park into the 5th dimention once again, if you havent seen superjail or this then WATCH THEM RIGHT NOW Cant say enough about how wonderfully weird gorey funny and strange this series is.

Togo (2019)

One of the best dog movies ever made

[10/10 · 26 February 2020]

Move over balto, move over hachiko. This movie is fantastic, on the downside the only bad thing i can say about it is that i NEVER heard of it save for chris struckmann recommending this. You WILL cry so be warned. As usual William Dafoe is fantastic but is honestly outacted by the lead dogs, absolutely fantastic performances from all and a breakout surprise from the director of the point break reboot, who would have thought

Terminator: Dark Fate (2019)

Impressively bad, the real judgement day.

[1/10 · 19 January 2020]

Everything about this move is just off base and wrong top down the acting direction writing production and EVERYTHING else is just terrible it feels like a 80-90s T1/2 copy not a movie made in 2019. The CGI is hit or miss it either looks really good or really bad so clearly this movie is just a clusterf of a rushjob, id like to blame tencent but the story is so bad i am convinced the script by james cameron himself is just terrible, i can see why he didnt make t3

Game of Thrones: The Iron Throne (2019) Season 8, Episode 6

A fitting end for the show

[10/10 · 20 May 2019]

Dunno why fans are so salty, first of all its grrm and dabids vision not the fans. There is such a thing as the artists vision in this case grrms story told through the lense of the show runners and thats that.

I for one HATED the last 3 seasons of this show passionately but the last 2 episodes brang be back around and almost a complete return to form. There was only one way this show could end and considering THIS is what we got i am thankful. Really outdid themselves direction, acting, hell everything was great and a huge step up from ep 1234

Could the show have been done better during its low points? Absolutely but i am happy with the ending at least and feel like more of a fan of this show now then when i ever was back in the days where it was actually popular and good quality from s1-4 before it dropped off a cliff when it departed from the books. Its funny becase as soon as it became popular to crap on this show everyone did from the actors, fans and everyone inbetween i think thats really unprofessional of them and the (fans) are nothing but soys who want everything their way. You'd think after the 8 years + everyone spent investing time and emotions into this show they'd learn something...

Cobra Kai (2018–2025)

season 2 is better badder and more kickass

[10/10 · 26 April 2019]

S1 started very strong but S2 is even stronger With the power of karate and retro 80s charm this show is honestly one of the best original movie-tv adaptations ive seen. WATCH IT UUUUUUUUUUUUUSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Replicas (2018)

Solid B movie, flawless ideas done poorly.

[6/10 · 9 April 2019]

Sadly Keanu reeves has regressed in acting ability in this movie though somehow worse than Johnny Mnemonic. BUT acting aside i didnt watch this movie for the actors/acting i watched it for its premise which is fascinating. Its more of a thought experiment 80-90's style c grade scifi given a bigger budget than ye old direct to vhs trash and yet it works, the concepts of reincarnation death and rebirth are great and are handled suprisingly well even if the rest of the movie falls down around it somewhat. If you liked older scifi movies that put more ephasis onto the hi concept stuff and less on the basics then you'll probably like this. Its not bad, its just not great. Plot wise its insane it could easily be a episode of black mirror twilight zone or doctor who. There is also no current era sjw politics or silly politicial correctness to drag you out of the movie + you get to see humans grown in a artificial womb, interesting stuff. Dunno how realistic it is scientifically but if your into this sort of stuff you wont have to turn your brain off at least from my limited perspective