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Malignant (2021)
Weirdly the opposite of most horrors so bad acting but great story.
It's a weird thing, the acting in horror tends to be good even with movies with weak plot. But this movie is the opposite. The story, concept, cinematography is excellent, but the directing and especially the acting is dreadfully bad.
I really dont have any kind of standard, I like a lot of B movies, low budget horrors and made a few short myself, but even the first lines of the movie here is delivered in such a terrible cheap way that it pulls you from any immersion.
A lot of the film gets saved by the 3rd act (which funny enough most film fails) as the twist and the beautiful action scenes are absolutely amazing, mixed with the first birds eye view chase, there is a lot to like. Just litteraly any dialog is simply awful.
Things Heard & Seen (2021)
Premise was exciting but the execution brings in down in 5min
The tone of voice of the title, poster and trailer makes you have good expectations. But within five minute of the film, the cinematography literally tries to spoon-feed you all the hints, it does super close-up holds of objects to "make sure the audience doesn't forget", it doesn't treat you as remotely smart to understand any nuance.
Secondly the worst part is that the DOP/editor made very weak decisions that really doesn't sit within thriller/horror tense genre. It feels like a first time try in the genre and it feels very average. Nothing is well supported or justified.
Which is odd an normally horror films tend to be filmed in few locations, giving you a lot of control for you to play with and come up with clever approaches. But non of that here.
Tenet (2020)
Feels like an unfinished draft version of a good solid film.
The cons: -One of the worst sound mix I've ever hear. no focus, all over the place and whatever artistic choice you think it is, it doesnt work. -No establishing shots when changing the scene/place, normally this can be made cleverly and not be an issue, but here it's really throwing the viewer off and killing the importance of the scene that preceded it.
- Any action sequence and fighting are really lacking substance. Any punch falls flat and guns are not shooting half the time you hear the shots.
- Lack of context. You often don't know how they end up in fighting/shooting scenes. it just happens with no proper reason.
Kinda pros: cinematography is average, I wish it would be more clever. Acting/dialogue has nothing memorable. Music - great and modern story - tense and grandiose great vfx and practical fx - impressive and mind bending locations - great
The Haunting of Bly Manor (2020)
Too many side stories for a slow drama
First note is that this is a 9 hour long drama. A lot of people are saying it correctly, It has nothing to do with Hill House in style, genre, characters, scare, pacing.
It is not horror, it's trying to be clever hybrid of romance and horror but achieves neither. But I'm forcing myself to not be be close-minded and give it a chance. Maybe it has something new and fresh to offer? Like Midsommar is hard to categorise as horror but still has amazing notes to it. But no, Bly Manor severely lacks in a lot of category like voice acting, repetitiveness, lack of plot, dragging. But the main down point for me is that they try to make it about everyone in the story, everyone has their own little context and sub-plot. A forced answer to "why they are there" and it is just not solid.
In hill house, they did show that most members of the family had their own backstory, but the exposition is justified always within a episode or two. They are also all connected to the same mission in the story and all have different solid views about it. In Bly Manor, it's all scattered by people who barely need to be there.
You can literally tell it is the strength of Mike Flanagan that makes the first season amazing, but the lack of him in the second that drops it all.
Killing Eve (2018)
Great Concept but cast ruins it
The concept, setup, script is all really well fleshed out, but this Sandra Oh is really not engaging at all, all the surrounding actors and especially Jodie Comer is great is delivering fresh unexpected elements, but it is all dragged down by the lead performance.
Ripped (2017)
Very good "simple" film
It lacks pacing, but apart from that the premise is original, the jokes are good. It's a simple good film. What is interesting is the dialog is quite well found, they are not cheap visual jokes.
Have a laugh while relaxing your mind.