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la_rubiecita's rating
Why oh why do movies, books any art really about sentient robots always end badly? I reckon because how else can it end, all roads lead to Rome when you let sentient robots out in the world. And yet, Tesla now makes house bots and every A-lister is buying one, because it's so funny that they can play guitar and do robot dances. Anyway, enough Welt Schmerz, let's talk about this movie.
The story is about a blue collar foreman whose wife is sick, so he's overwhelmed between the baby, work, and cooking lasagna. He goes out with his daughter to buy a robot (derogatory a spark) who can do the house work and help out with the kids. The daughter chooses Alice (Meghan Fox). Alice the Spark quickly becomes too much to handle for Italian hottie dad. I don't think I need to tell you anymore, it had all the expected ingredients.
Meghan Fox is terrifying. She's perfect for this part, her dead eyes and taut skin gives you the right kind of creeps. The dad was not evenly written, his actions don't always make sense but hey, he's an Italian hottie so who cares.
This movie is surely not brilliant, but it does deserve a bit more than a shy over 5 stars. At some moments I was actually into it. Great for a Sunday, but maybe not with kids. Just saying.
The story is about a blue collar foreman whose wife is sick, so he's overwhelmed between the baby, work, and cooking lasagna. He goes out with his daughter to buy a robot (derogatory a spark) who can do the house work and help out with the kids. The daughter chooses Alice (Meghan Fox). Alice the Spark quickly becomes too much to handle for Italian hottie dad. I don't think I need to tell you anymore, it had all the expected ingredients.
Meghan Fox is terrifying. She's perfect for this part, her dead eyes and taut skin gives you the right kind of creeps. The dad was not evenly written, his actions don't always make sense but hey, he's an Italian hottie so who cares.
This movie is surely not brilliant, but it does deserve a bit more than a shy over 5 stars. At some moments I was actually into it. Great for a Sunday, but maybe not with kids. Just saying.
I'm so impressed of the choices they've made for this show. It's not your regular zombie fare, though there's just enough horror to keep it interesting.
Daryl ends up on a beach France, and after some incidents, he finds a Christian convent where they shelter him. That shelter, in typical TWD fashion, goes sideways pretty fast. From this moment on, Daryl starts a road trip to Paris with a nun and a young teenager. The origin story of the nun, and the boy are woven into the road trip scenes, much like was done in TWD but, what's refreshing in this spin off is how the the start of the Zombiepocalypse is portrayed. Much more a gradual discovery of what's going on, with the French small-town greenery giving the whole thing a crazy realistic feel. A slow moving onset, like how the Corona virus felt. I guess we've all learnt that the ending of the world revolves more around getting enough toilet paper rather than wildly shooting zombies with AR-16s, though there's some of that too.
I highly recommend this show. Great storytelling!
Daryl ends up on a beach France, and after some incidents, he finds a Christian convent where they shelter him. That shelter, in typical TWD fashion, goes sideways pretty fast. From this moment on, Daryl starts a road trip to Paris with a nun and a young teenager. The origin story of the nun, and the boy are woven into the road trip scenes, much like was done in TWD but, what's refreshing in this spin off is how the the start of the Zombiepocalypse is portrayed. Much more a gradual discovery of what's going on, with the French small-town greenery giving the whole thing a crazy realistic feel. A slow moving onset, like how the Corona virus felt. I guess we've all learnt that the ending of the world revolves more around getting enough toilet paper rather than wildly shooting zombies with AR-16s, though there's some of that too.
I highly recommend this show. Great storytelling!
Excellent treatment of this horrible true crime story. Very powerful and tragic. Anna Kendrick chooses, after a brief but sufficiently tense introduction of the character Alcala, to focus on 2 main characters in the long list of victims ascribed to him. The first lady is Cheryl, an aspiring actress. We meet her during an audition and see her being invited to join the cast of a dating show. Thoughtfully woven into Cheryl's story, we meet Monique Hoyt, a young runway whom is approached on the street by Alcala with his usual MO "You're so pretty, let me take your picture".
The movie is beautifully shot in mostly warm tones in Vancouver, BC and different locations throughout California. We're clearly in the 70's, but apart from the abhorrent useless police and rampant misogyny, the decor never gets the centre stage. It might as well have been shot today. The movie is calm, almost cool in its telling of the story. Very few horrid images are shown, the victims are respected and yet your imagination gets enough input to be fully engaged.
Anna Kendrick does a phenomenal job here as a debutant director. Hats off. The 94 minutes this movie offered were too short, but also exactly right.
The movie is beautifully shot in mostly warm tones in Vancouver, BC and different locations throughout California. We're clearly in the 70's, but apart from the abhorrent useless police and rampant misogyny, the decor never gets the centre stage. It might as well have been shot today. The movie is calm, almost cool in its telling of the story. Very few horrid images are shown, the victims are respected and yet your imagination gets enough input to be fully engaged.
Anna Kendrick does a phenomenal job here as a debutant director. Hats off. The 94 minutes this movie offered were too short, but also exactly right.