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Spark (2024)
The banality of the gay people
Nothing really happens in the movie - people talk and talk and talk and talk and then drive and drive and drive and drive. Could have been a good short film, but no, the director has to make it into a plotless, meandering feature film.
All the characters are boring and bland and not very interesting. The lead actor, in particular, is very annoying and his voice is unbearable - it's like a duck quacking. And he keeps talking and talking and talking and it gets more and more annoying and grating. I don't believe anything they say in the movie, none of them feels authentic, every one is synthetic and unreal.
Harmur (2021)
I Am Not Sure If This Is a Thriller.
One actor reminiscing alone does not a thriller make - I don't feel any sense of thrilling or foreboding. An actor is often sitting alone, walking alone, showering alone and having deep thought all by himself most of the length of the movie. It's just one guy carrying on with his banal life in a picaresque town in winterly solitude. It could have been a very long tourism commercial, if it weren't so morose and downtrodden. Horror and thriller movies these days are so "mislabeled," as if two years of the pandemic has made people forget how to make entertaining and scary movies. Most of the horror films I've seen this years are just boring and dull, and this trend will continue with this artful, dull movie.
You Won't Be Alone (2022)
It seems like a beautiful, meandering 100-minute commercial for Macedonia's tourism
How could this be horror when I felt so bored and almost dozed off? The movie was a stream of consciousness sprinkled with whisper-coo voice-overs, like watching a 100-minute commercial for tourism. So dreadfully dull and bland. It's probably good as a cure for insomniac.
Landscapers (2021)
This could have been great with some more experienced director
I can't understand why this was made into over-stylized comedy as most characters were over-acting in a silly and unrealistic way. The direction was way way off. I believe that the director must have very good friends and connection all over since he just directed another bland and boring movie with big stars not long ago. And he almost ruined another great mini-series, Giri/Haji, with his over-the-top acting. Such a wasted opportunity since I really looked for ward to this Olivia Colman and David Thewlis' outing. So disappointed.
Spree (2020)
'American Psycho' for the Digital Age??? Oh, Please!!!
If this could be called a movie, then we are doomed as audiences as it is one of the worst video clips I have seen this year: pointless, dull, dreadful, unfunny, incoherent, awful, etc. Some high school students' TikTok clips are more entertaining and purposeful than this.
Taineun Jiokida (2019)
Good Mash-up of Some European Movies and That's It.
Korean movie industry is very good at adapting European movies into their local yarns and give them some local flavors without being 100% ripoff. This year we got ALIVE which is quite inspired by a French zombie movie, The Night Eats the World. And now we have Strangers from Hell, which deftly combined Rosemary's Baby and Naboer. But here the writer couldn't come up with a good ending on his own, so it ended in a quite mediocre way like this.
#Saraitda (2020)
Almost a Remake of The Night Eats the World
Yes, it was almost like a remake of a French zombie film, "The Night Eats the World," about a male survivor communicating with a female one, down to the zip-lining to the other building. But the Korean one tried to hard to be cute and romantic for its own good. Yes maybe it will be more marketable in Asia and the ending is more uplifting, however it's not better than the French one.
The I-Land (2019)
Really this plotline again?
Netflix has sunk lower and lower by the minute. And they came up with this tripe? This kind of plot should have been banned from being made into a movie already: strangers wake up with no memory in a weird place. Enough is enough!