Paynebyname's reviews

I read the reviews and though it didn't look like much, I thought I would check it out.

It's hard to look past Anthony's activism but I tried but I found his character so bland and insipid. Maybe this is the fault of the script but every line he delivers, feels like it is a quote for a trailer.

Short, monosyllabic and uninteresting.

The two female interests are competing to see who can be the most masculine with their drinking, swearing and fighting. All the while, Anthony simps along demonstrating an obvious apathy but none of the rough survival instinct that you would assume survivors of this event would need to have.

The monsters are yawn inducing, the action scenes had zero tension and they handled the guns and weaponry like a child might handle their first crayons.

There was no grit or realism. They were all phoning in their performances from their plush trailers if on location or standing infront of the green screen.

I paused the film to go to the toilet and when I came back I realised that I was thoroughly bored with it. I had a good idea where the paint by numbers story was going but recognised that I didn't actually care about watching it or the characters within it.

What a pointless and forgettable film made by an obvious committee.

I like Taron a lot but his character was so insufferable. So weak and cucked and apathetic. Maybe that is how he felt about the script.

The makers are so desperate to downgrade the white male lead and make his wife look down on him with a mixture of pity and contempt that you don't actually care for either of them.

There were so many contrivances and plot holes that it just became pedestrian and boring hence why I switched off 40 mins from the end because I realised that I was thoroughly bored.

Do writers and directors not actually try anymore? Do they not study films that came before and attempt to be different or do they now have so many boxes to tick and quotas to fill that actually creating an engaging story is redundant?

Either way this was tedious forgettable nonsense.

I know you all have lots of demands for your time but this really is an excellent film all about the Green scam.

I'm always looking for concise and precise documentaries on subjects that I can say to people 'if you watch one documentary on a subject, then watch this' and this one is that.

It uses amazing data to showcase the lunacy and then has a brace of bona fide scientific experts dismantling the clearly fake agenda behind this tiresome charade.

It's very well produced and really hits all of the key points from the vested interests to the politics to the corruption.

Please for the love of this planet and your fredoms, give this a watch and provide your mind with an alternative opinion to consider.

I like Taylor Sheridan. I own Hell or High Water and Wind River and think they are great films. I saw Yellowstone and went ahead and purchased the first season on the basis of him and the glowing reviews.

My god it is just so bad. It's so wooden, the characters are unlikeable and terribly cliched. The patriarchal minimal talking dad, the lawyer son, the tearaway Daddy's girl.

Everything is painted with such a broad sloppy brush that Bob Ross would be embarrassed.

Random events happen to generate tension, the endless whining from the Native Americans becomes intolerable and the attempts at drama are laughable and cringe inducing.

Case in point is the unlikeable daughter. Portayed to be this wild neurotic alcoholic hate filled individual but when the plot needs it she can be this fearless businesswoman and 'do anything' fixer.

Really? Can you be a respected business woman living in a bottle? Do you need to, I don't know, knuckle down and do a bit of work occasionally. Oh no, not in this world. The writer needed a certain character and just fashioned it without any thought behind the construction of that character.

One minute parading naked in a horse bath because she's so self absorbedly crazy and 'bad ass' and black of heart but literally a few hours later laughing in the golden hour as she watches people try to lasso a training prop.

I guess earlier she needed to be wild but right now she needs to be at ease as the Montana evening breeze ruffles her hair. It's all so contrived and idiotic.

No single character in the show is likeable (which I guess is one kind of writing achievement) yet all expect to be venerated for being so cowboy or so Indian or so proud or so female.

It really is just a pretensious bloated mess. It's got all the product placement tie ins. The big hats and big trucks but ultimately it is a huge shiny belt buckle holding up a pair of $1 dollar jeans.

Okay here comes my super passionate pitch for this amazing show.

The mix of 2D and 3D is quite beautifully done and if you have an eye for the vivid or colourful or thought provoking, you would really appreciate the style and look of the show.

There are themes of France and Paris in the ambience no doubt from the animation studio that is based in Paris.

Next we have the story and setting which is adult in nature. Not from a point of sex and violence but in regards to the issues that it tackles. Ones of duality in the difference between the two classes and cities along with themes of abandonment, loss and family. It's far from kiddie-fied and handles some pretty deep and thought provoking subjects.

Next the characters are rich and compelling with separate motivations and agendas that service their development and how they deal with the issues that they face.

Finally we have the music within the show which is a great blend of contemporary that can appeal to both the young and older parts of your personality.

The first season is made up of 9 episodes, each about 40 mins long and effectively released as three separate acts. .

It feels fresh, diverse (but not preachy) and nourishing.

Just give the first three episodes a go and if you aren't moved by the powerful end of the third episode and the amazing song over the credits then at least you will be aware what the fuss is all about.

Watching it really resonated with both of us and the music and story has lingered to the point where we will watch it again in a few weeks' time. It's really special and I think if you give it a go, it might surprise you at how involving it is.

Tuned into this blind having had my interest tweaked by a concept similar to that of Ryan Reynold's Buried.

Oxygen was clever, thought provoking and well constructed. The acting was good, the music atmospheric and it kept me engaged. It used effects when it needed to and never felt on the cheap. Characters acted sensibly and there were no points where I was like "oh come on!"

Although the film was written by a woman, directed by a woman and starring a woman, there was no preaching agenda. No woke politics, no feeling of being re-educated. Just a well told story that left a satisfying resonance.

I'd rate this a 7.5 and cannot understand some of the idiotically low reviews.

What a wonderfully entertaining and fun film this is. Great writing, likeable characters, solid world building and no agenda apart from that of hope and a spirit of adventure.

How refreshing to come across a well crafted gem like this. Reminds me a lot of How to Train Your Dragon in the mannerisms of the lead and the overall messaging.

Light hearted and very enjoyable.

Are you always looking for a nice little film to accidentally stumble on?

You know the type. Something that wasn't hugely pushed, that doesn't contain big names or had a huge budget but has some interesting ideas. Something that isn't so large a film that it has to follow a formula but isn't so small that it is filmed in just one building? Then this is for you.

It's filmed through Smart Glasses, which gets over the found footage reason and means we don't have to contend with the endless 'will you just switch the camera off' lines. It sets up some relatable characters and gives you a chance to understand them and their location before flipping that upside down.

I myself really liked it. If you enjoy Cloverfield, Paranormal Activity: Marked ones or other found footage, I think you might as well. It does well in generating a feeling of dread and I like the cleverness of it being set in a holy city with a sense of a long history. I appreciate the makers ambition in having it be a much grander 'event' and for finding the cash to give you that genuine feeling of it encompassing a far bigger situation.

You'd expect a film with this rating to be a shoestring production, where the camera shots are way too closely filmed, the characters can't act and the script is written in crayon. This is not that film and I thoroughly recommend it for a being a little different, being well made and for keeping me entertained. I rate it a 6.2.

I'd rate this film a 6.7 but it doesn't give me that option but it certainly isn't a 6.

Okay, I'll agree that it isn't in the same league as the original film but it has an interesting concept (that of the Korean Peninsula just being left alone), some interesting ideas, some applaudable character actions and a bevy of exciting set pieces and hence it really doesn't deserve to be lumped together with those cheap awful horrors that you'd find that you'd find at this kind of rating.

Yes, I agree that some of the driving scenes aren't the best looking CGI but the characters are likeable, you can see what is happening and it's very entertaining.

Does it have a flavour of Mad Max: Fury Road - yes it does and while that film had amazing sequences and music, it also had a ridiculous story and a tiresomely woke agenda rammed down your throat.

Does it have a flavour of Fast n Furious - yes it does because it has cars driven as weapons but those films had cars parachuted onto roads, driven between three skyscrapers (yes that was three) and a huge safe dragged through a Brazilian city. Ridiculous maybe but certainly entertaining.

So whilst, it doesn't have the depth of Train to Busan and doesn't come close to the perfection of Kingdom, it is certainly just as entertaining, if not more so, than the empty fluff that is World War Z.

If you like a zombie film, want to be entertained, appreciate a little creative thought and can overlook that it hasn't had millions thrown at it to swap out the CGI for live action, then jump onboard and try to ignore the pretensious chin rubbers who can't move beyond this being a different film than it's namesake.

I've got a lot of time for South Korean cinema and TV. The series Kingdom is still one of the very best series I've ever seen, so I read the reviews and jumped on board.

It's a little confusing at the beginning and almost a little zany but it is trying to cram in the characters and establish a fully realised world setting.

The characters are good, the young girl is impossibly cute without descending into nauseating territory and there are some nice themes about family etc.

Whilst it is set in a devasted future, there isn't too much 'humans are bad for destroying the planet' although there is a character echoing someone from today who is seemingly happy to play god under the guise of 'saving us from ourselves'.

I really enjoyed this, the music, the special effects and the story. Yes, it has a flavour of GOTG but what space piratey/motley crew doesn't?

I only feel bad that this didn't get a chance to smash it at the Korean box office as it certainly deserved to.

Yes, okay, we get it. The Expanse is the Naomi show.

After the solar system changing events of Episode 4, this and the previous episode slow down to a crawl as we focus on the trials of Saint Naomi.

Maybe I'm wrong for understanding the motives of Marko, as drastic as they are, but to see them reduced to a tiresome family squabble with Naomi wailing that Philip shouldn't be taken from her mother (seemingly okay to take from his father?) is getting a little tiresome.

I don't have a problem with female characters, just the ones where the writers are making it crystal clear that everything has to resolve around that character. Still what do I know, express dislike for one particular character and I must be a misogynist.

In the last few episodes, the show has lost it's way from the big picture to a character who gets way too much airtime and far too much exposure on the posters.

This is a very well produced documentary featuring interviews from all the major players in the disgustingly corrupt attempt to oust the duly elected President of the United States.

It goes through the whole episode in a linear, easy to follow narrative that lays out, time after time, how deceitful the Dems were and how complicit the Media was in pushing this steaming pile of BS.

Well worth checking out.

I confess that I'd been very sceptical of watching this series. Whilst I had faith in Jon Favreau and have appreciated his talent since his breakout Swingers, I did not have faith in the direction that Lucasfilm was going.

The Force Awakens had plenty of nostalgia but it wasn't delivered with any heart. The writing was flat, the action had no weight and everyone moved through the story like marionettes on strings. If that was empty, then The Last Jedi was just a train wreck of a film. Jumbled, incoherent and utterly disrespectful of the source material. Rogue One had a few highlights but there was a creative rot at the core of Lucasfilm.

Throw any old crap on the screen, drop a few evocative tunes and an emotional trailer and Lucasfilm could hoodwink another gaggle of fans happy to part with their cash for a plethora of disappointment.

Into this sea of banality and profit motivated extortion, strode The Mandalorian and what a breath of fresh air it truly was. Solid writing, fascinating characters, throwbacks to the Star Wars canon but without the blatant 'winking at the audience' exhibitionism. It feels like it is set in an organic post ROTJ world replete with dirty looking Stormtroopers and salvaged weapons and systems from the much loved trilogy.

Unlike Rian Johnson's desecration of Luke's character, here were writers that actually respected the world that had been built and weren't seeking to change it but live within it.

The set design and action scenes were top notch. The music with Mando's wood chime (?) tune was excellent and you really felt for the characters. Yes, baby Yoda (or whatever he is) is impossibly cute but the show itself didn't descend into idiocy or identity politics and it still packed a physical punch and an emotional connection.

It was a real pleasure to watch and enjoy the first season and I just hope that Kathleen Kennedy's spite at this being so critically successful doesn't lead to her injecting her line of woke bs into the series that will corrupt it from the core and ruin the much anticipated new series.

I caught the first film a few months back and after enjoying Avengement found it another entertaining romp.

It had some good fighting, some witty lines and a really solid chemistry between the two leads. French and Sue just gelled and I loved how they got on.

Cue up the second film and although you thought they had died in the first film, it doesn't matter that they didn't because their chemistry is just as sharp.

Granted some of the other actors are woefully bad and I wish the final fight had been a hand to hand fight rather than the cheesey gun battle but ultimately I didn't mind because I really like the two characters.

I really Sue and his slower delivery but it's refreshing to see Scott playing a Brit who is a genuine tough guy. I particularly liked his line when defending our actions in the US war of independence and how we were the underdogs.

I'm sure our American brothers might not take too kindly but damn if it wasn't refreshing to hear a Brit sticking up for Britain.

Great entertainment and I'm already looking forward to the third film.

Wow, what a trainwreck of a film this was.

Loved the first film and really enjoyed the second and third but if you think the Nasty British contempt for Chinese culture was bad in Ip Man 2, get ready for it to be slapped on with a firetruck in this film.

America and Americans are portrayed as nothing more than one dimensional racist bigoted a**holes who seemingly hate all foreigners (though the main guys use Japanese karate).

Ip Man clenches his fists for the fights but they really should be raised above his head as the Americans are endlessly vilified for their whiteness and words like supremacy and privilige are thrown around.

Seemingly the Chinese built America out of the goodness of their hearts with no personal gain and even though they don't want to integrate with the white devils, it's the White Americans who are repeatedly shown as being evil and intolerant.

From showcasing an enjoyable martial art, this has become a whine fest for how nastily everyone treats the Chinese when they are such a fair, free and open people.

The fighting and music are good but the writing, acting and script are terrible with the agenda written so large it might as well have been in neon.

Shockingly bad and desperately woke.

So, if like me you are always looking for those little gems of films that didn't have a big release, don't have any major stars or huge budgets but offer a nugget of cleverness or thought provoking concept, then this is one of those.

Yes, the budget is limited but at least it doesn't look like it was filmed on a camcorder with the camera way too close to the actors faces, which so many ultra budget films do (why do they do that?)

This has in it a concept that even now, months later, still intrigues me and makes me mull over what a good film it was for visualising this fascinating tale.

Try to forgive it's lack of mega budget (it's on a par with the production values of an episode of The Outer Limits) but appreciate that it's heart is in the right place and embrace the imagination stirring idea that is at the very centre of it. This film really is a welcome reminder that a clever idea can transcend a modest budget into something with real resonance.