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The Irishman (2019)
Good characters and dialogue, missing a plot to keep you engaged
The film uses characters interactions, good dialogue, and tense character scenes to drive the film. While these aspects are very well executed, the film tends to feel very slow, and there is no overarching story to keep the viewer engaged throughout the runtime. It's essentially this guy's experience in the mob. And we watch him to a bunch of stuff relating to the mob. About and hour in it started to feel like it was dragging, and nothing was really happening.
After watching Martin Scorsese's "Goodfellas", I've noticed that this film does a lot of the exact same stuff that that film did. Examples; main character has to kill someone or do something to maintain a characters trust or respect, the main character beats up someone for doing something to someone close to them (ie. in goodfellas the main character beats up the neighbor who touched his girlfriend, and in the Irishman, the main character breaks the guys hand for doing something to his daughter), at some point in the film the main character ends up in jail. And one very noticeable reoccurring thing is the surprise killing of someone. A character will get shot up because of a remark they made or for some other reason, and it happens way too much is both of these films.
Mostly though I just feel like the film is way too long. I had to repeatedly take breaks while watching it because I felt like there was nothing happening to keep me watching it, and because it felt as though the film wasn't going anywhere. And to be honest, the film really doesn't go anywhere. It's essentially just a series of interactions and some killing and emotional killing sprinkled throughout. And then the film just ends, and there is no sort of payoff, or anything of that sort.
From a filmmaking standpoint, the film is shot very well, and the acting is great, the dialogue is great, but as entertainment, it's pretty hard to watch.
The Mandalorian (2019)
Doesn't have that Star Wars feel
From the first episode, I feel like nothing has really "happened" yet, if that makes any sense. It also doesn't really feel too much like Star Wars, and I Think I've figured out why. The Music. The soundtrack is good, but it sounds nothing like Star wars. Also the episodes are way too short, it doesn't give them enough time to develop a good enough plot in that amount of time.(just from the first episode)
Child's Play (2019)
Actually very good for a slasher-like horror movie.
I'll give you reasons why it's good. The lighting, the cinematography, the special effects, the acting, the dialouge, and most of all, the story itself along with the characters. It's very well done and visually appealing, the acting is very believable, the things the kids do are realistic to what children would actually do in that situation. The doll, Chucky, itself! Throughout the second half of the film you actually feel bad for the villain, the one killing the people! It's not very often that a film is able to make you feel bad for the killer in a movie, especially in a slasher. The story I found very intriguing and definitely brought the chucky character to modern day perfectly. And what I believe to be the best part of the movie, the masterpiece of a soundtrack by Bear Mcreary. He has proven himself time and time again that he is one of the most creative, original, and prolific composers of his time. Every peice of music from the score is terrifying and strikes chills down your spine with its amazing feeling it gives off, a distinct melody that suits the movie perfectly
The Twilight Zone (2019)
The first episode made me disappointed, then angry
Oh boy where do I start. The story is bland, unoriginal, and predictable. The "comedian" guy isn't even remotely funny. It is unnecessarily politically correct to the point where it's like I'm having someone shoving their political agenda down my throat. It's as though they are more focused of shoving their political ideas in our faces than actually making a good story driven episode. And The main thing that really disappointed me, The Episode is chalked full of extremely unnecessary cursing. Not always just cursing either, sometimes they using in inappropriate and disgusting ways that honestly shouldn't be there at all. There has never been any twilight zone episode this vulgar in the history of ever, so the fact that their all of a sudden doing that makes no sense. A huge number of the original series fans used to watch the twilight zone series because it was a creepy and disturbing show with each episode more intriguing than the last, without having to use an R/TV-MA rating. The TV-MA rating feels forced and out of place in the series, and I just hope they bring it back to the original rating. I almost feel like they think that adding cursing will make the show do better, but it's obviously not the case. It's one thing if you make a movie or Show that is vulgar and inappropriate, but it's a different thing if you take an existing show or movie, and add that crap to it. There aren't many good horror shows that aren't rated TV-MA and I think that's is the reason this happened. They're following the mainstream. I honestly just hope they stop this crap, it's unnecessary and doesn't belong here.
Vader: A Star Wars Theory Fan Series: Shards of the Past (2018)
One of the best short films in existence!
This is literally one of, if not, the greatest short films/ fan films of all time. The acting was Hollywood levels of good, the costumes, props, and makeup was fantastic, and the cgi was literally professional, big budget levels of quality, and the music sounds like a good mix of the prequels and the originals, and fits perfectly to the tone of the film. Great film! My all time personal favorite of all time!
Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 (2018)
Do not buy this game! It will be a mistake(read the reasons)
This is just one more example of the problems with the call of duty games nowadays. Each game that is released in the call of duty franchise is basically just a reskin of the last game, it's like they just got the previous game, gave a new campaign and zombies, update the graphics only slightly, and then slap a new title on it. They have used the exact running animation, certain reload animations, and gun sounds for multiple games, and the gun sounds are always digitally made! It's like they can't be bothered to go out and record some real gun sounds, that's why their guns sound like pea shooters half the time! It seems like they don't care about making a good, well made, different than the last, game that's not just a lazily slapped together, ever so slightly graphically enhanced, version of the last game with a different campaign. This could be partially due to the fact that they are releasing a new game every year, or the fact that they care more about getting a new call of duty game out as fast as possible, rather than actually taking time to make a good game. They care more about the money than making a good game for the fans. It's like the transformers films, Michael bay has been told that he should stop using the same simple formula for every transformers films (which is what call of duty is doing) but to instead do something different for once, his response was basically that it doesn't matter how good it is, as long as people keep going and watching them, he'll keep making lazy films. Take the halo games for example, the teams behind them spend a good 3 years to make the best game they can, and when they where getting some negative backlash from halo 5, they listened to the fans and critics, fixed the problems, and assured the fans they would be getting what they want in halo 6, and what else did they do? They decided to spend even more time and recourses on halo infinite to make as great of a game they possibly can for the fans, not a money grab, and 4 years later halo infinite was announced and the fans are more exited than ever, everything they wanted, including getting the older art style back, they got. Call of duty is not just a lazy game, but it is also a literal graphical downgrade from black ops 3, and replaced the campaign with battle royale. Speaking of their new implementation on battle royale in their game, what has been happening lately with call of duty as well is unoriginal game concepts and ideas. They'll take whatever is popular, and blatantly rip it of and shove it in the game, as if they can't be bothered to make an original game. For example, when Halo 5 was very popular they decided to make infinite warfare, which blatantly stole some armor designs straight from halo, including stealing the design of the iconic pelican (which can even be seen in the infinite warfare trailer) and the frigate from the halo franchise as well. They also implemented a game mode that was basically the infection game mode. Later on when battlefield 1 came out, it was extremely popular, so awhile later call of duty came out with world war 2. And now obviously fortnite and pubg are super popuar, and what does call of duty do? They release battle royale in black ops 4. It is very clear what they are doing, and it's sad that the fans are buying into activisions money grabs they call "games". And when they tried making call of duty "futuristic" like halo, the fans didn't like it, and it wasn't until 3 futuristic exo jump mechanical soldier games later that they got WW2. If you compare. What I have found myself experiencing with call of duty lately is I'll watch some gameplay for the first time, or play the latest game for the first time, and I'll think," haven't I played this before?" Basically if you've played one call of duty game you've played them all. Yeah some 'look' different, but they play and feel the exact same, you'll never feel like your playing a different game, or getting a new, fresh experience from the latest call of duty. I would recommend to anyone thinking of buying call of duty black ops 4, to buy a different game, don't give in to their Money grabbing games, it'll only make them do it more. And chances are you'll play the game for about 2 months and you'll be done and already be bored of it. Make them change their ways. I'm sure if they stopped trying to make a new game every year, and all worked on one game and took a longer period of time, they could make a game that would blow every, bring something new to the table, a new game that feels fresh and not like a rehashing, and they would probably make more money, and if it's a better game it'll last longer and people would play for more than just a couple of months.
The Meg (2018)
Enjoyable
I honestly enjoyed the film, I found the story interesting, the characters, meh, except for Rainn Wilson , the visual effects were amazing, and the music was great from what I remember, and had good cinematography as well. liked this film.
Carved (2018)
Good when it's creepy but Tries too hard half the time
It was an okay film, not all too special, cinematography was great, lighting was good sound effects were good, and music was good, but the creepy music is constantly played, even when there is nothing even remotely creepy is going on. At the beginning it's literally just a hillbilly cutting pumpkins, that's not scary. The kid in the film was just weird, was he possessed, because no normal human child would actually act like that. When they carve the pumpkins they act like complete animals and brutally and sloppily stab the pumpkins, with over the top horror music playing in the backround, makes absolutely no sense. The evil pumpkin did look very good though, and the head that was carved like a pumpkin looked very good as well, however that idea seems too similar the the carved head from the new Halloween trailer. Overall the music was over the top and was played way more than necessary, and some of the characters' actions were just flat out strange and weird. But there were a lot of other good things I previously listed.