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War Games (2010)
Not sure how this is getting good reviews.
OK first things first, this film is bad, like a film students first movie bad. It has that awkward disjointed type of acting where the lines don't so much seem to be in response to what the other person said, so much as canned exclamations that don't really fit.
The plot doesn't make much sense, and also has a weird vibe like it's trying to portray veterans as some kinda of sadist psychopaths which feels a little insulting. There also seems to be a complete disconnect from logical behaviour, with the cast regularly doing the exact opposite of what you would expect someone to do in a similar situation, the landmine scene?
Top this off with the bad guy having the weirdest mumbling accented voice that is legitimately so hard to understand I almost put on captions, a musical score that seems to be picked randomly from someone CD collection which feels completely out of place everytime it chimes in and a cast you honestly barely know and couldn't care less about.
Star Trek: Discovery: Forget Me Not (2020)
What is going on with this season?
I honestly don't know what they're trying to do with this season. I actually enjoyed the first two, but I'm now 5 episodes in and it's getting progressively more difficult to watch.
It seems like every episode has some cringy, fluffy, emotional heart to heart every 10 minutes where they cry and tell each other what great people they are. I honestly wouldn't care that much if it was occasional and well timed, but it's not, it's incessant and relentless and as soon as one whiny scene is over you get hit with another a few minutes later.
This is further compounded by the fact that what actually happens in the episode, apart from the emotional diatribe, could be written on half a napkin which leaves you wondering what you just spent 30 minutes watching.
Another Life (2019)
Nonsensical
I've watched two episodes of this show currently and all I can find myself thinking is "these people would never have been sent into space". Astronauts are subjected to both physical and psychological assessment before even being allowed in a rocket, they're even psychologicaly profiled on how well they deal with long term close quarters confinement.
So when, at the first disagreement, one of them pulls a full scale mutiny because he's not in charge anymore you're left wondering how no one noticed this on a basic narcissism test.
Next you have people having panic attacks everytime anything happens, a guy who passes out because he can't breath properly in space, and some woman taking off her helmet on an uncharted planet because "there's 19% oxygen". I doubt even the crew of a mining ship would be this unsuitable for the task, let alone the crew tasked with making first contact and potentially saving all mankind.
The acting at least from Niko is pretty good, but again seems hampered by nonsensical plot lines. Overall its hard to watch this when any sense of realism disintegrated within the first episode.