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The Hunger Games (2012)
A lost opportunity to make a really bad ass movie
The idea behind the Hunger Games was really really good.. People gathering all over the discricts to fight and only one of them to be the winner..
The fights between the contestants were really really weak.. The deaths were so simple as well, just to remove the supporting characters out of the way and leave the main ones..
So many movie stereotypes as well.. The brave girl, the love affair between the stars of the film, the bad guy, the lunatic but high IQ boss of the Games..
I also didn't like the presenter with the blue hair and the director of the Games with the stupid beard.. They chose to make them look like cheap caricatures, and thus make the movie more cheap..
It could be a really bad ass and dark movie with this main idea, but they made it really weak..
Sicario (2015)
Awesome except...
Even from the opening scenes, the movie shows promise.. A very strong beginning, very well directed and the actors are being awesome..
In the next scenes, Josh Brolin and Benicio Del Toro jump in and everything becomes even better..
But at the moment i loved everything about the movie, Emily Blunt's character starts acting like a naive teenager.. While she is in the FBI, she has never heard that CIA uses any kind of ways to do their jobs.. So when she sees the well organized and professional forces do the "dirty job", she gets so surprised and wants out, or wants to spill the beans to her superiors.. She even pulls a gun on Del Toro and punches Brolin.. I don't like that character at all..
Del Toro's character is the best one. Brolin acts well too..
-3 for the "ethical" FBI agent who ruined the movie for me.. Del Toro and Brolin saved it..
Very nicely directed and I love its realism and darkness.. A must see..
MH370: The Plane That Disappeared (2023)
Gives nothing new
Just a summary of what happened to this plane, through some journalists and some "internet experts". They of course only ended up in theories about Russians, Americans and other non-serious stuff..
The governments involved have also not helped at all, and the only people suffering are the relatives, because in the end of the day, their people have never been found..
Six stars for the job of the director and her staff, for the dead people and their relatives.. Zero stars for the journalists and the governments..
I think the director intentionally wanted to show that some people, while they originally wanted to help, they actually achieved nothing..
The White Lotus (2021)
Unpopular opinion: I didn't like it..
I heard all the hype about the series and decided to watch it..
The first season was okay.. Interesting characters, especially the director of the hotel.. The worst were the two teenage girls of the Mossbacher room.. It showed how spoiled, arrogant, selfish and hypocritic we have become as a society and how rich people actually behave..
But I got extremely bored in the second one..
One hour episodes unfolding veeeery slowly.. The characters saying and doing the same and the same over and over again, with very predictable dialogs and stories, suffocating inside the four walls of a hotel..
I only liked the last episode of the second season which was very good..
Seinfeld: The Shoes (1993)
They stared at the cleavage of a 15 year old girl
If there was a zero, I would rate it a zero. In one scene Seinfeld pokes Costanza to look at the cleavage of a 15 year old girl. That was disgusting..
Home Team (2022)
Exactly what I expected
After seeing Kevin James in the thumbnail, I knew what to expect. A typical Happy Madison sports movie with the usual jokes and usual character behaviours. And it really was exactly what I expected it to be. Not bad to pass a relaxing Sunday noon.. I imagined Adam Sandler in the role of Kevin James and he fitted 100%.. Same kind of humour. A pleasant 6.
The Motive (2020)
I didn't like the direction
It mixes recreations with real footage and in the end I couldn't understand which was the recreation and which was the real footage..
As for the story, a kid killed his family and was then admired by all the services (police, psychologists, lawyers, journalists) for his clever mind.. He got 9 years for 4 murders and took the family's house and money as the only survivor. Justice at its best.
Why Did You Kill Me? (2021)
Didn't like it..
When the mother started talking, I understood that she is the reason behind all her kids' suffering. Probably the father too but he is not in the documentary..
She is not a woman that we would hug and feel sympathy for, like most of the grieving mothers. A former drug dealer and drug user, who doesn't help the police but tries to instigate gang wars and deaths of gang members as a revenge.
I never understood the coincidence of the 5150 gang members meeting 1+2 cars of the Theobald family on the same night and why they interacted with the 2 second ones.. It just happened as a coincidence?
And why 22 years to the driver who had already co-operated with the police?
3 stars for the girl that did the catfishing and for the time of the director and the crew..