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Game of Thrones: The Iron Throne (2019)
I wish the mountain could crush my skull now
Please take a drink everytime Jon says "she's my queen or she's our queen" and you'll notice that finally you're drunk enough to survive through this mess. I read all the spoilers, but they still managed to disappoint me beyond my imagination. Consider me subverted af. Drogon scene was jumping the shark x1000. I haven't watched anything that comedic or cringeworthy in my life. I hope it was worth it to ruin your flagship show, HBO.
Game of Thrones: The Bells (2019)
"I'm the man who killed jaime lannister"
What was the point of having golden company, what was the point of killing rhaegal when the scorpions surprise surprise lost their aiming accuracy in this ep when it served the plot. I need the books George so I can forget this show.
Game of Thrones: The Last of the Starks (2019)
The shark didn't just jump, it is flying.
"Dany forgot about the iron fleet."
Guess what D&D, no one remembers how you started - everyone will remember how it ended. You ruined Game of Thrones.
Game of Thrones: The Long Night (2019)
This episode made me lose interest
No amount of money, director, actors or CGI dragons can save extremely bad writing.
High-Rise (2015)
Pretty movie, no structure
First of all I have to admit I have not seen any previous movies from the director, so I had no expectations from this piece.
High-Rise takes you in to a world of 70s style utopia, that exists inside a tall skyscraper. There are apparently 3 social classes living in the building, the highest class occupying the most top floors. We are quickly introduced to what is going to happen in the future and then brought back to the moment when the main character Laing (Tom Hiddleston) is moving into the building to start his new life.
There is not much I can even write about regarding the story. The building seems to be some kind of a metaphor for a class society and what happens when we lose the structure of our environment and spin into a chaotic way of living. This theme has been explored in various other movies before and even though this is an adaption from a novel, the story falls extremely flat.
The story structure is non existent and the cut of the movie is more than odd. We are taken into situations with no motivation or the red thread that keeps us following the story. Multiple side characters emerge, but in the end, all the characters, even Laing, are as multi-dimensional as a piece of a paper. In the end we are still left wondering what was actually happening and why.
The acting is extremely shallow, letting me think that this must have been either A. director's poor call, B. the script did not give actors much to build on, C. director is just bad at directing. However, there are some shining moments from Luke Evans playing Wilder, but even his character is just another one sided caricature.
On the plus side - production design and art department made extremely good job. However, High-Rise is just another example of a pretty movie that fails in the most important aspect of movie-making - the writing and directing.