Worth checking out if you liked shows like Pushing Daisies or Dead Like Me. Kristen Bell is great in this too. So good at playing a bitch lol. Yet she's a likeable one.
Poor Succession imitation that remembers it has to be scary every now and again, so throws in a jump scare from nothing. Really not vibing with this one after 2 episodes, but we'll see if it improves.
"There are a million little strings attached to every choice you make. You can destroy your life every time you choose. But maybe you won't know for 20 years... and you may never, ever trace it to its source. And you only get one chance to play it out."
"And even though the world goes on for eons and eons... you are only here for a fraction of a fraction of a second. Most of your time is spent being dead or not yet born. But while alive, you wait in vain... wasting years for a phone call or a letter or a look... from someone or something to make it all right. And it never comes, or it seems to, but it doesn't really. So you spend your time in vague regret... or vaguer hope that something good will come along."
Fun fact: Caden Cotard was named after Cotard's Syndrome, which is a rare mental disorder characterized by the delusional belief of oneself being already dead or putrefying, and it usually begins with psychotic depression and hypochondria.
This movie was great because I fell asleep in the theater and had an amazing nap
The hesitancy of Jeff while giving his number to Claire got me curious. He was leaving his number to the fridge guy at the beginning of this episode as 773-555-0901. He told Claire as 0902. A sad tiny detail.
Cheese Nazis and Swissploitation...
Yeah... Not as fun as it sounds. I can't really tell if this was too stupid, or actually needed more stupid. All I know is that all the good damn cheese may have fried my brain...
Honestly, screw Shiv. Her narrow-minded hatred for Ken led to the point, where she rather handed the family's company to a man she knew for a few weeks only and lied to her all along, and her betraying, joke of a husband who used her as a stepping stone. Instead of keeping Waystar and becoming CEO in a few years when Ken eventually messes it up. But no it was more important to Shiv to see Kendall fail, rather than keeping her chance alive to win, what a petty, loser mentality is that.
[Netflix] Funnier than the films created by Charlie Brooker for Netflix, the idea is sustained thanks to the character that Diane Morgan has performed for years. This idiot reporter who believes her cousin more than the experts, is the reflection of a society that prefers unidirectional knowledge. The show is not as superficial as it seems, although the comedy is structured around the same idea of anachronistic questions to surprised historians. Philomena Cunk represents the worst face of historical presenteeism, and despite this, she is capable of drawing us a smile from her serious face.
They should really go back to focusing on their own self-contained stories, like in earlier seasons, instead of constantly parodying real-world events. Things move so fast nowadays to the point where this episode already felt dated by the time it was released.
lol for the queen of spades game, couldn't they have all agreed to simply surrender to the blue team in the last round to beat it? there is zero reason to even side with the queen in the first place if the last round has the blue team as taggers
If I ever traveled to Avatar world, I would invent arrow proof cockpit glass for the helicopters and become rich.
Denji's thing with boobs is getting really annoying now and Power backstory was pretty weak.
And this is where the show went completely off the rails. It seems more concerned with making sure that characters get drunk/high/have sex than exploring any interesting psychological aspects.
There's no book club?
Worth the price of admission right there. Such a great line! :D
I do NOT get how / why a 5th season here would make any sense whatsoever. This feels like a series finale to me.
[AtlàntidaFF '22] Perhaps a step towards a different way of understanding cinema, but obviously a consequence of the stroke he suffered in 2020, Gaspar Noé dialogues with death, tired and frustrated old age, in the shadow of dementia, in one of his calmest but also darkest films. There are echoes of "Amour" (Michael Haneke, 2012), but also of the split screen of "Forty deuce" (Paul Morrissey, 1982), there are two performances/improvisations that recreate decrepitude without being ashamed, which ends up being the best part of the film .
I love it! But cant get around the thought I am watching a medieval-fantasy 'bold and the beautiful'-flick ....
Never have I seen a movie fumble so hard in the third act, but here we are. The first 2 acts are legitimately amazing and horrifying, but the writing and characters take a huge nosedive once the third act starts. The ending, if you can even call it that, didn't wrap up any of the plot threads introduced. What happened Jordan Peele?
You always think this is the best 80s horror movie of all time, then you think about the so-so acting, the bad blocking, the violent edits and remember that The Shining came out four years before this, so then you shut up.
:pray::pray::pray:PRAYER CIRCLES FOR KIM WEXLER:pray::pray::pray:
Overbloated beyond belief. Lots of pointless dialogue scenes that serve absolutely no purpose. Particularly annoying is the overextended boring epilogue that goes on forever. Sure there are good scenes here and there,, but not enough to justify the two hour plus running time. This episode ought to have been 75 minutes maximum.
Decent season so far. A bit disappointed in the retconning, though: after Eleven escaped in season 1 she had to learn how to speak but here she's having full-on conversations with One... Still, looking forward to the finale.
Go away Helen Mirren boner
"Send the dothraki first since they are barbarians"
"Dragons are our heavy artillery let's keep them flying in circles without doing NOTHING for say 2/3 of the battle. Even if they all stop before a flaming trench and sit there nearly aligned for tenths of minutes. We can not win the easy way this must be EPIC"
"It's a massive invasion of Savage, quick and merciless undead but we like to walk orderly and calmly in libraries"
"By the way, libraries are still dead silent while people are being ripped to shreds outside"
"Hey, look, Arya slipped past 4.000 undead and learned Rey's air saber trick"
"Every major character gets to live even after being surrounded by dead. (jorah and theon were already half dead - oh yeah, theon, seems Arya waited in the shadows while you were impalled too. Go team.".
What a load of wishful, feel-good BS...
Not only do they romanticize/trivialize mental illness, they didn't even address the biggest elephant in the room: the ethics of this time-travel/harassment/emotional manipulation/mental torture thing they kept doing to Geraldine (and others, like Ruchel's father etc.).
They keep hammering on that Jacob is unhealthily obsessed with fixing everything and that he should let go, even Geraldine makes a whole speech on Ruchel about forgiving oneself, but what do they do?? They fix everything anyway.
Also, this whole new timeline has illogical holes everywhere (everyone keeps wearing the same clothes for seemingly weeks, everyone keeps flying to Mexico and back like they're going across the street, the yellow house and its surroundings remained almost unchanged for 30 years etc.), which could mean that this whole season/timeline is just in Alma's head.
That sure fizzled out at the end. Dramatic and exciting in parts, but I'm not sure that any of it made a bit of sense. Remember when these guys used to solve crimes?
It’s hard to rate, because there are a lot of entertaining scenes in it, but the movie at its core doesn’t really work.
I can’t shed this feeling that Edgar Wright had a visual cue in his head of a girl experiencing visions of the 1960’s first, and tried to build a movie around that second.
The characters, drama, camerawork, music selection and social commentary are all very good, but the whole set up is kinda nonsense once you know the answers to the mystery.
I kept waiting for the twist that’d explain why our protagonist has these accurate visions of things that happened 50 years earlier , but it’s never answered, despite it being the crux of the whole film.
Also, showing CGI ghosts in a horror movie using well lit close ups is never the best idea, it kinda killed a lot of the horror and suspense.
I kinda liked that I thought that I was ahead of the film at one point, only to find out that it was a big misdirect to make you think you were ahead.
5.5/10
