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Fallout (2024)
Carried by nostalgia, yet possibly the best Game Adaptation to date
Its mostly a really good show. It adapted the source insanely well, both in aestethic and feel. Anyone who's played the games will probably love this by default as its not just easter egg based references but actually manages to recreate the atmosphere nearly perfectly.
Visually its a 10/10 adaptation, the music is mostly from the games which is the best decision they could have made and most of the actors are great in their roles.
So why not a 10 ?
Take away the nostalgia and the already existing world to build on and the plot itself is mid at best. Its on par with some of the ingame lore you'll get from playing the games. The action pieces are somewhat lacking at times imo. And while the acting is good, some of the characters are just ... bland and uninteresting and spend an awful lot of time just staring at stuff in confusion.
Given the stakes set up and the asumed danger around every corner of the wasteland, the amont of time spend just standing around in confusion just does not fit and took me out of it many times througout the show. Especially Maximus but other characters as well.
Its fine to get calm moments, but the show got plenty as is and it just doesn't seem right that every character seems to need a moment of deep thought (which is not interesting to look at from a cinematic perspective either if you do it 3 times each episode) in order to decide basicly anything.
I get what they tried doing but it just doesn't work imo.
iBoy (2017)
Boy, I Boy this one has some problems
Let me say from the start, this movie gets a lot of things right but screws up equally as many...
First off, thankfully the movie never tries to explain his abilities in detail or justify it any further than the head wound, thus avoiding senseless pseudoscience talks. The acting is above average, the chemistry works, the cinematography is solid and while the plot of "cleaning up the hood" doesn't win a price for originality, they even pulled that one off pretty nicely with the rape revenge as the main motivation. The movie also does a pretty good job at showing the trauma caused to Maisie Williams character and doesn't just use her as a plot device. Overall much more than I was expecting from such a rather low budget production which was probably just pitched as "you need more content on your page ? let me write something up real quick and see where that goes"
That being said... They must have just given up writing the script after it was 2/3 done, cause the ending is horrible in every way.Its lazy, it doesn't follow the previously established rules, makes no sense what so ever and doesn't even look cool... After the "final boss" is "defeated" it gets even worse with an uninspired resolve and no follow-through what so ever.
If it had ended after about 60 minutes this could have gotten a much higher rating.
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)
Paint by the numbers fan service with some alright-ish effects but overall just kind of lazy and very(!) predictable from start to finish.
Paint by the numbers fan service with some alright-ish effects but overall just kind of lazy and very(!) predictable from start to finish.
The tone also seems kind of all over the place, jumping from sketch comedy to marvel-like superhero destruction stuff all the way to some really, really dark stuff.
Spoilers below:
One of the main plot pieces is physical abuse by an in stable adoptive lunatic mother, some dude is thrown 10 meters in the air and killed while his body slams down on the floor (if the magic didn't kill him the fall surely would have), there is a "death sentence" scene which shows how the death sentence would have been carried out back than, which seriously gets more disturbing the more you think about the details. Aside the fact, that one man is judge and jury without further questioning and the death penalty is executed right away, the way they do it is somewhat sadistic and grim. A White Room for killing purposes only where the sentenced is lured onto a chair by their own memories which is then slowly submerged into a deadly pool of some kind of magic toxic stuff while the one up next is watching. Compared to that sh*t even the electric chair seems somewhat humane...
From there its back to action, comedy and wacky creatures doing funny bits... Later half the city is destroyed by a black cloud while all the "nomags" (seriously stupid name for muggles BTW.) are watching, but fear not ! Deus ex machina is here to safe the day, even though it's one of the worst executed ones in recent memory and has some serious logical issues no matter how far your suspense of disbelief has gone by that point. Not even gonna talk about the blatant foreshadowing (as if the plot would have been hard to guess without it) or the ending where literally anyone could have told you every single scene and how that would play out within the first ten minutes of the movie, since all the loose ends had to be tied up with the ultimate happy ending for everyone.