blakekhodges
Joined Jul 2012
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Too long. Trying too hard to be clever. Sexy at times. A very playful quality. Some truly delightful moments. Sort of fanciful. It has that "Netflix look." The style that's all too prevalent in recent years. High contrast. Very deep shadows. Simplified but saturated colors. Phenomenal acting. It's clear all cast committed to the concept hard. What the concept is changes throughout. Delightful surprise twist in plot, it's just a plot that bored me. I was hoping for more of a psychological thriller. Ideas it's more a romance. I appreciate what it was trying to go for, but ultimately I can't get around the simple fact: I just didn't really enjoy it.
Woof. As a massive Spielberg fan, this was tough to watch. There's nothing wrong with a filmmaker wanting to tell his personal story. On paper, I'm quite interested in it. But there's one nasty pitfall you have to avoid no matter the subject: it can't be boring. This movie is boring. Very boring. Meandering, full of tropes, no meaningful plot or antagonist to speak of. Just an endless string of milk toast chapters. The biggest Takeaway I had after watching this movie is that when you reach the absolutely legendary status of someone like Steven Spielberg, no one around you will be willing to tell you no. That something just isn't good.
Seriously? What a yawn of an episode. It's like the GOT/HOD show runners can't get pacing right since GOT 6. I get that they're compensating for the breakneck pace of GOT 8, but for the love of god, it's possible go OVER compensate. It's called being boring. Honestly ask yourself: what happened in this episode? Now ask yourself: did that require 1 hour to tell it? Painful. And the "shocking ending?" Give me a break. Just because you show it in long tracking shots doesn't make it shocking. It was slightly tense. It was fine. All the technical achievements are amazing. It looks better than anything else on TV. But if the team here doesn't pick up the pace and spice things up a bit (and if they don't add chyrons so we can actually remember all the stupidly similar names lol) I'm out.