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Barbie (2023)

Days of Fun Movies are over

Walked out during intermission.

• Visually, a fantastic job. Big props to the art and costume crew. Barbie Land was incredibly well made. The colors and the lighting in the film were on point.

• Not a bad idea for the plot, but the movie itself didn't care about the plot.

• Execution... You may as well get a hot pink piece of paper and a bright yellow pen, write "Men are bad. Patriarchy is bad. Women are good. Unless they're really attractive, in which case they're also bad." and read it aloud over and over and over again for 2 hours.

The trailer made it seem like this would be a sort of movie that hasn't really been made since the mid-2000s which is a fun ("fun" being the keyword) adventure with silly/supernatural elements to it. Sillly is me for thinking that that could happen in 2023...

Hazine (2022)

Nice Little Gem

While it may not be for everyone (especially the common Turkish audience who would regard this as a drama), this movie is a surprisingly good gem of an absurd comedy.

The plot is decent, the acting is good, and so is the directing. Add the little touches like lace laid on a dormant television in the living room, and it is quite immersive as well!

If you enjoy tales or instances of dark comedy, with an air of slight suspense, this film is for you. The rural setting and the frame plot of a family funeral does well to set up the story which unravels and snowballs into a somewhat predictable, but nonetheless enjoyable finale.

Asteroid City (2023)

Contemporary Theatre of the Absurd

Theatre of the Absurd - in my opinion - is the most intellectually stimulating genre of theatre - later movie - that is greatly misunderstood and underrated in our contemporary times because of modern audiences' need for meaning and clarity behind each and every aspect of the visual medium. There are very few examples throughout the history of the genre in terms of theatre of film, and this - I dare say - is a modern masterpiece in its respective field in that respect.

Seek no objective meaning, no context, no concrete structure other than the ones that will naturally come to be in your mind as you watch this movie. It is as life itself as much as life can be as life itself.

American Sicario (2021)

All about perspective

Make no mistake: This is a B-movie.

Just like the terrible post-jurassic park dinosaur movies of the 90s before it, and the terrible post-star wars sci-fi movies before that.; this is someone's sicario-project

If you watch it with friends to laugh, then it's actually not too bad of a time.

If you're looming for sicario, you're better off watching sicario.

Young Rebels (1989)

Good-Bad

It's an Armin Shevran film allright.

It's what you'd call good-bad. There's some unintentional laughs in there, whether by dialogue or the way it's edited.

Grab a few friends, some drinks, and you'll have a wonderful time.

Jungleground (1995)

If ever a film deserved a remake

All the noticable henchmen have lore behind them. The story is decent enough, but what makes this a good B-Movie is the fact that you get to see all and villains with traits and personalities, including their weapons of choice.

With a good budget, and talented actors, this would make for a great movie.

Reign of Fire (2002)

A Medieval Saga in a Post-Apocalyptic Setting

It's a monster-slayer story in its core, it's fun. The cgi still holds up, and it combines well with the practical effects and sets.

Mission: Impossible II (2000)

John Woo undermined by dialogue

I mean John Woo establishes his signature style quite well in this film: The sideways flying/sliding akimbo pistol fire, the slow motion birds, that kick...

But the dialogue is simply ABYSMAL, completely taking the viewer out of what could've been a fantastic action film.

Bearable if you're doing a marathon, but otherwise, just skip the dialogue and watch the action scenes, you'll get the gist.

Star Trek: Voyager: Sacred Ground (1996)

Oh the irony

It's ironic and suprising that the majority of tbe reviewers here don't realize they're in a cultthemselves; the cult of science. There's no difference in being faithful and rejecting science outright, and being scientific and rejecting faith outright, for what is the mystical but the unexplained by science.

The people who moan here on account of spirituality in this episode have completely missed the point of the episode. They're so fervently dedicated to their cult that they betray the very scientific method they uphold, which is to ask questions, even of themselves.

At the end of the episode, science prevails, rejoice ye of mathematics! However Janeway is left with the realization that extremism is extremism. This episode is about humanity, about color. Lighten up.

The Mandalorian: Chapter 16: The Rescue (2020)

I feel healed

This episode may as well refer to the rescue of a definitive figure of "the hero" for a great many number of Star Wars fans. The episode healed the gushing wound left in said fans' hearts by the Disney sequels; that was the feeling we felt when we didn't know how to handle the intense mixture of crying, smiling, and clapping. Well done sirs. Well done.