Ted Lasso is my new definition of feel good tv!
I loved this movie. One of the best Christmas movie on my list :christmas_tree:
There are multiple themes and I loved the way all of them are presented. The friendship between Jesper and Klaus, the father/son relationship, the spirituality around Klaus’s wife and his way of dealing with the passing of his wife,...
All the little details that makes this movie a Santa Klaus origin story is gold.
The animation style and the drawings are a bit old school but as soon as you are used to them, you are taken in a wonderful journey.
This Russian guy really looks like The Terminator :joy:
Really liked this action packed episode. I was surprised by two scene transitions that I found very cool. Acting, script, direction and photography is on top, as always with Stranger Things!
Silicon Valley meets The Office (US)... halfway. Halfway but still pretty good and funny :grin:
I don’t consider myself to be a gamer and I don’t think the target audience is only gamers. It’s more about (game) development and the human interactions in such an office :joystick::boom::man::desktop_computer:
Ps: only watched 3 episodes so far...
The Lasso Special at the end made me smile big time. I’m now wondering if something like that has ever been done and if it would work :thinking:
Anne Hathaway’s performance in this one is :clap::clap::clap:
The delivery is impressive in only 30 minutes. The bathroom scene was the best.
Also loved the work-friend’s way to deal with her at the end of the episode: MVP!
This episode is WTF. One of the best of the show imho. Even if it doesn’t represent the show’s atmosphere and genre (or does it?). I love Atlanta for this kind of gem. Great writing, perfect direction and awesome acting.
Special shout out to Darius. I like the character more with each episode. Since that gun range scene until this episode. The sky is the limit now.
Really liked the camera work on this first episode. Great setup episode.
I stayed far from spoilers so I didn’t know what to expect. Watched the next 2 episodes in a row. I love that the runtime is 30 minutes.
I’m disgusted every time Homelander drinks milk now. And it has nothing to do with the fact that I’m vegan. It’s just the way he drinks it... since the baby bottle in episode 1 :face_vomiting:
This was one of the best episode of the show. The photography, the casting, the story. The right amount of craziness, the right amount of funny moments, the right amount of tears. Just awesome. Best parts were: 1) when Kevin Sr. explains what he's been doing since he got in Australia and you connect the dots with this crazy episode in season 2 where Kevin Jr. sees him on the hotel's tv. 2) when this women explains what happens with her family. Perfect ending for a perfect episode!
“This is what happens when Disney buys Marvel and Fox” :joy:
Guzmin was the highlight of this episode. Full of fun and emotions!
Just before the reveal, I said he’s either Noah or Jonas. I really like this season a lot. Makes my brain hurt a bit but it’s so well written :clap:
This was an almost perfect ending to a magnificent miniseries.
Almost perfect because:
- Whitey’s death could have been more heroic. I liked the character a lot. He could have helped more in the great shooting. He could have killed a lot of Griffin’s men by following the same plan as the ladies of La Belle. He would have kicked ass in a shooting like that.
- the raid on Blackdom was a bit disappointing too. Maybe they should have prepared. They were maybe too confident because they supposedly were untrained and half-drunk killers. I expected more loss Griffin’s side.
- same as a lot of shows/movies when a group shooting takes place. Why shoot everyone and keep the leader alive until the end (except for the sake of the scenario)? Griffin could have been badly injured from the first shot. After that he could have disappeared. And at the end of the shooting, instead of waiting long minutes staring at each other, Good should have followed him directly.
This was a solid 10/10 episode nonetheless! 70 minutes gone too fast.
This is why this show is awesome. They are good at translating the real thing and they even make a joke about it:
“We say CIA officer, not agent. Movies always get that wrong.”
One of the best movie about AI I’ve seen. Liked the plot and especially the ending.
The fighting scenes were kind of awesome. Those camera moves and combat choreography made me think about The Matrix.
Is it me or Brad Cage looked more like Hugh Jackman than Brad or Cage? Or does it mean that if Brad and Cage had a son he would look like Hugh!? :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:
I liked the movie. It was an entertaining heist movie. It’s not a Zack Snyder movie. It’s not a zombie movie. It’s a Matthias Schweighöfer heist movie.
Matthias Schweighöfer is perfect in his role, his face and body expressions are so funny!
It was also great to see Nathalie Emmanuel. She’s just… extremely lovable which made her perfect for the role. I’ve seen her in Game of Thrones only before this.
Two less positive notes:
1) It was hard for me to take Jonathan Cohen seriously because I watched him in something else (La Flamme) and I thought his English acting needed some work.
2) It’s a shame that this movie didn’t come before Army of the Dead. It would have been a good introduction for the “main” movie even if, as I said, both movies have close to nothing in common expect some context.
PS: the guys that were in charge of the animation of the mechanisms inside the safes did an excellent job!
Love that they made him fight without his helmet, suit and utility belt. Showing us that he’s not just Batman. Mando is Superman with a Batman suit.
They also made Mando remove his helmet. The child truly means more to him than Moff Gideon will ever know.
I still don’t understand why the Indian ex-special-force who is pretty skilled didn’t try to extract the boy on his own. Hiring a third party then piss them off by not paying them is a bit stupid.
Loved the camera work and the numerous fist and gun fight scenes. The slap on the face of the child-soldier was hilarious :joy:.
I didn’t care too much about the ex-wife and the sick then dead boy backstory. Why are these kind of character always half-alcoholic half-suicidal because they lost a member of their family?!?
All in all an entertaining action movie if you don’t pay too much attention to the script and the use of many cliché :sweat_smile:.
Pilot was great. I was hooked and watched the first three episodes in a row. The pace of the action and storyline is really good. Slower than expected but not only action/explosion everywhere.
Loved the fact that Arabic people speak Arab (or French). French people speak French. They only speak English when it makes sense. The only problem is when an actor need to speak in a foreign language in a clumsy way. I can only tell when they speak French but the effort is really appreciated.
I’m always a bit sceptic when some scene are shot in an Arabic country and it feels like an old desert town. I assume some part of the county can still be like that but we never see a big Arabic country that looks like a western city. Also, I know some neighborhood in Paris have a big amount of Muslim people but it seemed a bit too much in some shots.
The second two episodes were also great. A lot happen in each episodes and you never get bored. The show covers a lot of themes like the struggle of the terrorist wife, we see how people commending drones can have a hard time doing it,...
I really like how Souleiman is not just bad from the beginning. Even if there are no justifications for what he does or plan to do, we also see his path and the way he ”becomes” who he is. I think it is a reality that some Muslim become more radicalized after a bad experience with law and a time in prison. If he found a job in France and didn’t face racism at all and didn’t get to prison the way he did, would he end up doing all of this? I know a lot of people won’t agree with that but I think we have to do better than be blind to those facts and keep looking terrorists as bad guys since birth.
Each episode have a lot of point of view. We see a lot of different characters and they get their development along the way. When you look at Souleiman’s son and wife story developing. Great writing!
Only story I find a bit clumsy is the love story between Jack Ryan and the doctor. Okay, it’s nice to add a little romance and everything but some things are just too cliché and predictable between them.
Last two episodes are not as high in intensity as the rest of the season in my opinion. The last one is especially a bit meh in terms of intensity. Even if still really good. Felt the end was a bit rushed, too easy (on both sides) and nothing unexpected or not already seen happens.
Looking forward for season 2. Hope they will keep the things I loved in the first part of the show: great casting (local people with the right accent but also great acting), perfect writing (in terms of balance between the action and the story development) and high visual effects/budget. Less love story, rush and 2 seconds mystery solving.
The first hour felt like 2… or 3 hours but keep on watching. The second half is better paced and has some Tarantino movie vibes.
The cast is amazing and the build-up really interesting. The back and forth in time is well done.
I really liked the narrator’s flow and spirit. I was happy to find out he’s the book author the movie is based on.
“They's a lot of no-good sonofabitches out there."
Arvin asks, "More than a hundred?"
Willard laughed a little and put the truck in gear. "Yeah, at least that many.”
― Donald Ray Pollock, The Devil All the Time
“Your birth is my birth, your death is my death”
I love that the runtime is around 40min because Zoom. Pretty realistic if you ask me :joy:
I already miss Phil (aka Modern Family’s MVP) :cry::cry::cry:
This movie made me think about Tarantino more than once. The photography, the dialogues, the editing, the soundtrack, Jeff Bridges,...
Its not as beautiful but it’s close to it.
The casting is excellent. I didn’t like Chris Hemsworth that much. I mean he wasn’t all that bad but Jeff Bridges and Cynthia Erivo stole the show when he should have do it.
Honorable mention goes to Miles, the character. His awakening at the end was just so perfect.
The soundtrack is also perfect and add up to the tension. Cynthia Erivo’s voice almost always a cappella was so good.
I recommend this movie if you liked The Hateful Eight.
This show is awesome. The first episode you wonder how they are going to do more than 3 episodes on the subject. After the 3rd episode you just want to listen to the "previously on braindead" song. Good writing, good acting, funny moments, awkward situations and unexpected tensions are what makes this show great.
In this episode, the part where everybody is at the table made me think about this expression: “you could cut the atmosphere with a knife”. Solid acting, good writing.
No, I have enough pets. :joy:
This one was pretty bad :pensive:
We're once again presented with a really skilled person dealing with alcoholism like it's the only weakness writers can come up with. Every movie about (ex- or about to be ex-) black-ops goes the same way. A trauma (usually family related) leading to alcoholism. Made me think about at least 5 other movies except this one really had nothing new to show shine.
There are also a lot of "how can a single person take that many hit without being completely broken at some point?” and “why are the 50 guys with automatic guns so bad at aiming while the 1 with the knife and the handgun kill them all?” moments :rolling_eyes:
And if that’s not enough, some characters are really acting stupid when they shouldn’t. I mean the whole, let’s send her in a trap, because she talked to the target, she won’t survive the heavy-military-guarded fortress she’s sent to. If that fails, let’s send just one trained-to-kill man after the trained-to-kill woman who just killed 50 trained-to-kill people. If that fails, let’s kill the man who trained the woman, send her a video to piss her off and go after her yourself. If that fails, the clearly bad-at-the-job daughter can follow the woman who killed everybody to make us think what?? I don’t know ¯\(ツ)/¯
A good cast but the rest falls short and it doesn’t make a good movie in the end.
