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Happy Tree Friends (2000)
Very bad and not funny.
I was curious about this show, it was suggested to me by Netflix. Cute fluffy cartoon animals getting killed in the most gruesome ways does sound something that I may like and that might be funny.
I sat through the first 2 episodes. I didn't laugh or even smile. It's not clever, it's not funny, it's not worth sitting through it for even seven minutes. It's boring, too far fetched, even for an adult cartoon, and distasteful.
Gruesome & funny I can handle, but the idea of this cartoon has not been executed well at all. It's just a load of crap and a waste of my time and a waste of their money. The only plus is the way they drew the cartoons, therefor not 1 star but 2.
That Awkward Moment (2014)
I really tried
So I tried to watch this movie, I really tried. But it is so boring. Yes, things happen - Zac Efron is incredibly sexy and the guys look like they had fun together and the acting isn't even bad. But after 38 minutes I myself had an awkward moment and decided to turn it off. Not one second I wanted to know what would happen next, I just lost my interest. I couldn't connect with the leads, I just didn't care anymore. And I never quit a movie, so I felt kind of bad about it. But watching it unfortunately felt like a waste of time. Probably I'm not the kind of audience they made it for, but even then it should be good enough to make me go along with the story. And it isn't. Writing a review feels like too much attention for it already, but I just feel awkward about this, so I needed to express my thoughts. Too bad.
The Children of Huang Shi (2008)
A beautiful story but what a terrible script!
OK, so this story is based on true events, I can see why someone would like this story to be told. But why didn't they work with good writers, this story is cut in little pieces, cliché upon cliché and then tight together to make one piece out of it. The actors really don't know what to do with the lines they get and the director really didn't know what he wanted to tell. Is this a hero-story? Is this a love-story? Is this a historic adventure? Is this a war-story?
I give one example: in the beginning of the story, the love-interest (Mitchell) is talking to the hero (Meyers) about how important it is that she is around, being a nurse, and knows that one scratch can lead to an infection and to death. So she tells that she cleans the wounds and tells the patient how important it is to do this as quick as possible, even if 'it's just a scratch'. Later on in the movie Meyers cuts himself when he's working on replacing a tire and tells Mitchell 'it's just a scratch'. And she SMILES at him.
What the f?!! Wasn't she supposed to clean this wound as she told all those people she nursed in the war to do so they wouldn't die? Guess what happens to Meyers... And actually it's her fault I yelled at the screen annoyed.
and please, don't even mention the monologues the actors get to work with during the movie. Even a first year scriptwriters school student would do better in writing them. So cliché and predictable. I pity the actors - they must have read the script before they said yes. Why did they accept such bad writing? They probably needed the money.
The sceneries are beautiful, Michelle Yeoh has the best part and is the only actor that I believed. (maybe because she didn't have that many lines?). I'm afraid those are the only things that worked out well. The story is fabricated and doesn't have a nice flow, the actors really have difficulties working the lines they get from the writers and clearly the director didn't know what he wanted to do with this story.
If it wasn't for the beautiful settings, and the fact that you could sense there was (somewhere) a story worth telling, it would have been a total waste of time watching this movie. Well it definitely was a waste of money making it, I would read the book if I were you.
The Ring (2002)
Nice compilation of the Japanese versions
A few weeks ago I saw all 4 of the Japanese Ringu films and was very curious about this American remake. I didn't think the original was 'the most scary movie you've ever seen' - like everybody said, but I really like the concept of the cursed videotape and thought the Japanese did make a great movie. This US-version is a very good remake and also takes some information from one of the sequels. And that was what I missed in the original first movie.
Though the story is just slightly different (e.g. the horses) it's the same idea. Some scenes in the beginning are literally copied from the Japanese and that is wise 'cause the scenes were good as they were. Later scenes obviously had to change because the tape was totally different from the Japanese tape (and not the same as someone here wrote).
They succeeded in creating the same uncomfortable atmosphere by such small things like a fly and a bloody nose. The tension is always under the surface and is not spoiled by loads of special effects. I thought - even though I knew the story - this one gave me more creeps than the original. The scene with the horse on the ferry had my heart pound like crazy! And a big thumbs up for the cast. This is how I like my scary movies. 8/10