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Slingshot (2024)
Total waste of time!
I went in without any knowledge or info beforehand.
Seeing Laurence Fishbourne's starring I thought it be good.
But I was very wrong, his acting talents was wasted on this movie.
This movie tagline is about 3 people on an mission to "slingshot" using jupiter's gravity towards the saturn's moon titan.
Which is misleading!
What it's really about = cam-up close & personal with John "casey affleck" waking up from hibernation, experiencing side effects from the hibernation drug, mumbles incoherently groggy/wheezing voice.
Very annoying to listen to & make sense of,
and his groggy actions/behavior frustrating to sit out.
It was like watching an drunk or drug junkie, passing for astronaut.
Performs routine crew tasks for few mins & goes into hibernation again.
And each time the effects gets worse & tensions builds with the other 2 crew members. That's it, that's the real plot!
Laurence fishbourne plays the captain, his acting was good and so was his delivery in speech, the other actors were passable. But casey's performance totally annoying.
I'm sure many sci fi action fans would be walking out fast or had already skipped this movie.
The entire movie was a waste of time. I sat out cause I paid for it.
The slingshot is only like 60sec of this 100min movie. And approx 70% of screen time is spent on flashbacks of his relationship, from their first meeting till break up.
Sidenote: relationship/attraction not plausible/realistic, mismatch of character personalities
This is no psychological thriller IMHO, no suspense at all.
Just an display of acting groggy & whine for 100mins.
And the director also had the audacity to lame plot-twist the ending, suggesting whether any of it was real or imagined due to hibernation drug.
Even this was entirely predictable, with my very reserved mother in her 60's remarking "Ah come-on! Lame!"
As an sci fi movie lover this flick was lame & a waste of time.
I think an die hard sci-fi fan would remark much worse things than my mother did lol
Don't watch this in cinema wasting your time & money.
If you are still curious, watch it for free somewhere. Save your money.
I never say this, but this one is an deserved flop.
I saw some reviews comparing this to "Solaris" but this trash doesn't compare against that.
"Moon" which was an slow paced psychological thriller too, is an much better comparison, but was also much better executed & things happening.
As for proper psychological space thriller "Pandorum" is an good example.
But this trash "Slingshot" doesn't come anywhere close, like I said no suspense at all.
Hope this helps to inform you. Cheers & Be well.
Breathe (2024)
Total cringe-facepalm movie
Seen this movie today,
without prior knowledge on what it was about or how it was rated.
Milla Jovovich & Sam Worthington being familiar names that I enjoyed the movies of, raised my expectation of this being an quality movie.
The concept sounded interesting on the condition of the earth with city views and landscape shown.
The air we breathe is of an delicate percentage balance after all.
However it immediately got clear to me that the characters don't take their survival seriously. Not even able to communicate properly, considering the deadly environment they're supposed to be living in.
Their dialogues and actions were of absolute stupidity.
When life is at stake, safety is an priority and there's an immediate state of seriousness, and this movie showed a total lack of that with the main characters.
Talking the most nonsensical of topics, and behaving in an carefree way, living luxuriously as if in an penthouse style, doing spa's & beauty treatments, heavy make up and nails done in every scene, wining & dining wasting food, all with laughter & smiles.
It couldn't be more unfitting to the concept of survival situation and post-apocalypse concept of living underground in an bunker as written in description here on IMDB.
Milla & Sam's acting performance seemed on point and class as usual for quality actors.
But their characters actions and the lines they were given...
They were spouting out such utter nonsense unfitting to the scene & circumstances, that there was an immediate dislike and aggravation, from me and the one I was watching with.
We still watched it till the end, enduring one idiotic and nonsensical scene after the next, just to see where it ends up.
And it was an cringed-facepalm watch throughout.
I never expected it to be such an bad movie,
especially not with such an starring cast.
Gojira -1.0 (2023)
Great Godzilla movie (in contrast to monsterverse releases)
Really good movie, told in a different way than the hollywood blockbusters formula.
I've tried to keep the review spoiler free, but couldn't.
From the first few mins into it, it was clear with the lack of music score and just the natural sounds of water rushing to the shores, and the wind breeze, that it was an different mood, and paced type of movie. An pleasant change, It felt more down to earth.
Considering the era of just coming out of the world war, the psychological tensions of reuniting with family, and performing duty and honor was present and persistent in the movie.
Set in years just after world war 2, and the tension between USA and soviets present, the japanese were encountering this mutated nuclear monster on their own, seems understandable and to be kept under wraps by authorities.
Where the movie shines for me, as well as for the ones that were watching with me, was the shown gap of power difference between the creature and the available means for the men to defend themselves in that era.
Imagine having just an pellet gun rifle after just surviving WW2, and then coming face to face with an monster taller than an building that's invulnerable with its armored skin.
The realization that one's weapons & means are powerless against it, made the scenes look and feel actually terrifying, given that context.
It captured that really well, and made me/us feel as an audience, to think for a sec "what would I do or respond in that situation."
There were many scenes that the reality of surviving such an situation struck us as viewers. The idea that with just a tail sweep a building collapses and kills people that one deeply cared/loved for, just in a second they're gone. And one needs to process that sudden loss of people they knew and cared for, mentally and emotionally, of course anyone would freak out in such an situation
And it wasn't an crocodile, shark like jaws, or an tiger/lion, like one of my co-viewers experienced in real life, but an huge massive monster.
Capturing godzilla like that, was an winning factor, and very unlike the hollywood variants where humans life lost in scenes are without any sentiment, just screen value of it's destruction.
The post traumatic stress, of the character, to have survived world war 2, but seeing people die by such an massive creature, it's understandable one questions their own sanity, of still dreaming or being already dead like a ghost trapped in an limbo state.
Sometimes those scenes felt something to just sit through. And it was done in a typical japanese movie fashion of dramatic emotions, which is what hollywood always lacks with their superficiality and blunt not well thought-out dialogues imo.
But If one isn't an fan of japanese style of conveying emotions, one might get impatient or annoyed by it.
The characters emotional perspective were taken more seriously in this movie. In an very japanese typical style of stillness and facial expressions, and moments of comprehending the situation.
As they defended themselves, Godzilla progressively showed abilities/characteristics of being more powerful than what they were throwing at it, anticipated or thought possible by the creature
The way they showed Godzilla's abilities & invulnerability to attacks in that era, the magnitude of firepower needed to even damage the creature, and that horrifying moment that it could fire an powerful beam equal to an nuclear bomb in damage, was terrifying psychologically in that time setting and context.
Makes one fall to their knees in despair, "how do you fight something as powerful as that.?" As nuclear power was seen as the ultimate destructive power in that era.
And that progression of godzilla being beyond reach was epic in this movie.
We all have seen enough monster movies, and technological advanced movies, but when watching it in the context to that post war era as the director seem to intend,
one could view the experience of encountering such an creature's abilities as truly terrifying.
They nailed that part so well, that it's probably the best Godzilla movie I've seen yet.
I had to rewind some scenes, as it was that alarming, and that I and my co-viewers so didn't expect to see.
Just to take those scenes in for a sec.
Now the bad about the movie,
it was notably the CGI, which was under performing for this day & age. I haven't seen the early black and white versions. But lots of sounds and scoring cues seemed from an old era, perhaps hinting towards the early versions godzilla movies.
The movements/built of the creature was slow & mechanical, the body was disproportionate, and the plans devised against the creature were laughable. I actually had to pause at the briefing scene, so we could settle down from the laughter & facepalming.
That the characters were somehow implying that the creature stands still whilst complex maneuvering with their boats around it.
Was so mismatched to everything else, so did reconnecting with his old mechanic, perhaps intended japanese style humor, but it was cringe, like what were they thinking when they wrote that.
Upon execution tho their plans and circumstances changed and made all the activity more okay-ish.
It didn't impact us much, as it was the thought/experience of the story that ultimately counted for us. But yeah that was poor concept writing on those parts, but perhaps intended.
When watching from an perspective of the more recently Godzilla "monster-verse" movies, technologies fresh in one's mind, one might get really disappointed by this movie.
As it's under performing CGI and action packed hollywood formula wise.
But when watching from an real life perspective of putting yourself in those shoes of an post WW2 setting of the story, considering the dark gloom trauma of war, the encounters with such an creature have an depth & realization to them,
that the other hollywood Godzilla movies didn't have.
Watching this straight after monsterverse movies, would be an underwhelming experience I think.
However watching this after "saving private ryan" for example, would be an better transition of era setting, and conveys the magnitude of godzilla's destructive power far better in context of the means in that era, when the tanks fire upon it etc.
I'd recommend it as an must watch, at least once ;D
Rated 7 out of 10, based on all I've written.
The good stuff just outweighs the bad on this one.