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Arrival (2016)
Terrible disappointment
Director of this highly overpriced unpleasantness got himself honorary place in my (not long!) blacklist.
Reduce first contact, one of the greatest possible event in history of humanity, to uterine rabies. That is all this totally empty, overlongated, false pretentious, poor sci-fi parody movie contains.
Such talent must be noted. And also must be keeped from Sci-fi as far as possible. There is a very wide (and profitable!) area for this. Dear mr. Villeneuve please please please go there, to all of this jade rods, and never come back.
Elongation accompanied by total absence of meaning and understanding cannot make a good movie. Do not let "views" fool you. There is totally nothing in this movie.
Dumb Money (2023)
Dumb sounds
This movie could be nice enough. Noting like "Social network", "Big short" etc because of too plain and stereotypical screenplay. But still - it could be enjoyable enough if not one thing. Soundtrack.
"Fok da pssi ess dums bums" or something like that. From the beginning to the end of the whole movie.
Is that how one represent "young common people" these days? I will not be surprised if there are some lawsuits from young people got offended by that representation.
I totally missed times when term "music" became so wide that it included "junky ghetto street dead ends noises". But i'll vote strongly against this if able.
Jeanne du Barry (2023)
The Queen, the king and the castle
There are two reasons to watch this:
1. Visual. Views, costumes, architecture;
2. Depp. Who is a part of visual actually, cause there is almost no talking from the King, and only lightest moves of face musles are doing the play (and the play is great)
What holds the deep problem of the movie is Jeanne du Barry. First of all - to be honest, her story is nether unique nor interesting. Second - the actress. The most of her acting is smiling and laugh with almost always no reason.
Another problem is the script. Characters, except maybe the King and his loyal servant, are way too plain for drama. Markedly "ugly and stupid" sisters are terrible - is this disney movie for 6 y.o.? Also, important things are going too fast, while every another Jeanne smile takes all possible time it can get.
If we step out, blur the trees and look at the forest, we will see: what we are forced to watch is just Maïwenn takes her time in decorations almost every woman wants. She even has the King! Why Depp agreed to do this? Well, because they called him. And come on, what actor refuses to play the King.
P. S. By the way, what exactly is "Maïwenn"? Is there any other identifier? Can I also be only one, say, "Ïvann" on the Earth without any further identification?