Change Your Image
endemoniada-1
Ratings
Most Recently Rated
Reviews
Fast X (2023)
It's not good when it makes a F&F fan fall asleep
Yeah... no... I have zero problem turning my brain off and enjoying some stupid silly spectacle, but even then there needs to be something *there*, and in this installment, there just isn't. While Momoa's eclectically metrosexual villain is a treat to watch, stealing every scene he's in, the rest of the cast get absolutely nothing to work with, including Diesel himself who has do his best to look like he's acting while reciting some of the cheesiest, laziest and most unbelievable dialogue of any movie I've ever seen.
As for the cars, well... as usual, it's nice to see real cars get real driven, but that just makes it so much more noticeable when the action goes to 11 and the cars are suddenly visibly CGI. Most glaringly, the physics of them are all wrong. Yes, I know what this film's about, but most previous films have had the cars behave like you would expect, no matter how fantastically unrealistic, whereas the cars here feel like they're either weightless or weigh 20 tonnes half the time. It just feels *off*.
So all in all there's the usual visual spectacle, albeit with even worse fight choreography and editing than usual, but the script makes the whole thing still feel more like any given episode of some 80s network action TV show. It just isn't good, not even for a Fast & Furious film, and that should tell you something.
Might as well wait until the ending trilogy is finished and watch them all in one go. At least that way you get to see the ending this film was rudely robbed of.
Ted Lasso (2020)
The show 2020 doesn't deserve, but desperately needs
In a century known more for its grimdark "realism" and focus on world-ending terror and apocalypses, a show like Ted Lasso stands out like a perfectly healthy thumb on a sore body. It is a show about lifting people up, about helping them become more than they were, and finding the place in life where you can do the most good, even if perhaps that isn't the place you thought you wanted to end up.
Ted Lasso is not a hopeless romantic or a naive fool. He simply understands how important it is for someone to know you, understand you, and be there for you when you need a push in the right direction. With those gifts, he takes on his new task as coach of a football team, and in the process shows all of us viewers how to take on the task of merely living in the 21st century. Not with a focus on the worst that could happen, but rather with an eye to what we can do that makes the most positive impact on others around us.
Watching this show just makes me... happy. I can't even remember the last thing I watched on TV that truly did that. And isn't that nice? Being happy? Shouldn't we want more of that?
I think we should.
Homeland (2011)
A brilliant first season leaves me pining for more.
Wow, yeah, so a lot of people watched the final episode and thought the show sucked. Maybe they're right, a lot of them also seem to share the same problems with it, from the ending being disappointing to it being a "propaganda show" AGAINST the USA.
First of all, whatever the political aspirations of the show's creators, this is a fantastically solid, well-acted and directed first season of a show that feels like what 24 should have been from the start. Tight-knit, down-to-earth suspense with an actually realistic premise. As for the supposed "propaganda", it's time the people in the US hear what the rest of the world has been thinking for a decade now. No, really, we actually don't think it's absolutely ridiculous that 10 years of retaliatory wars in the Middle East will spawn some kind of blowback. This show explores what we've all been thinking, but American patriotism makes it shameful to admit. I find that incredibly strong and encouraging, and it makes me watch it not because I hate American, but because I enjoy and appreciate truth.
As for the acting, I sincerely hope Claire Danes will receive proper recognition. Especially in the last few episodes towards the end, her performance has been among the strongest on TV in years. Lately, only Brian Cranston's amazing tour-de-force in Breaking Bad has topped it. Damian Lewis, too, delivers like I've rarely seen. Far from the caricatures of Muslim terrorists Americans apparently would like to see, he sincerely and convincingly acts out the role of the man who is emotionally sure of what he wants, but not brainwashed enough to think is the absolute only way to achieve it. Desperation can make anyone rationalize their goals, but not always be enough for that final push.
Now I eagerly await the second season, amid the angry and upset cries of all the people who can only accept fantasy that supports their own, real homeland.