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My Adventures with Superman (2023)
This show is really good
You guys need to start leaving higher reviews to offset the low scores because this show is excellent. The main characters are funny and interesting, the pacing is very good, and the diversity is done really well. This is a superhero show everyone can enjoy.
I really appreciate the voice acting because the characters feel very real and their dialogue is not corny in a bad way, it is corny in a good way. I think the antagonists could have been characterized better, but you cant get everything right. The important thing is making the main characters enjoyable to watch, and they really are. I just hope Jimmy becomes less of a comic relief character.
So anyway, now that ive reached the character limit, please leave high reviews for this show so we can get more like it.
The Greatest Showman (2017)
I'd give it a zero if I could.
The beginning was interesting, but an hour into the film and no character development for any members of the circus offended me. The unnecessarily long scene with the singer with orange hair wasted time that could have been used to show some of the interesting backstories of the other cast members. The musical numbers they sang every few minutes could have been exchanged for actual scenes with conflict and drama instead of trying to give an exposition of the character's struggle through a song. Show, don't tell.
The unconvincing romantic subplot between the pink haired girl and the playwright was the last straw for me. They spent about two scenes together and then suddenly erupted into a passionate duet about their burning longing for each other? They barely knew each other. We barely saw any interactions between them. Please don't shoehorn a relationship in a movie; if there wasn't time enough to paint a convincing picture of their interest in each other, don't try to ham all the development into one musical exposition.
I was so personally offended by this film, I could not finish it. I wish I could give it a zero.
Brazil (1985)
Wow.
When you investigate the kinds of media and entertainment a person enjoys, you can learn more about them. I came to this movie, "Brazil", with this endeavor in mind to learn more about my favorite person, River Phoenix, as this was his favorite film. I do feel now after watching this, I've learned more about him as a person; like I've taken a peek at the complex desires inside him by closely studying this character in the film, "Sam Lowry".
Sam is a dreamer. Sam wants to be all powerful. He wants to be handsome and clever. Sam works in a cubicle, but dreams constantly of a world where he's a hero and there is a beautiful woman longing for him to save her and protect her, and he can, because in this fantasy, he is her superman.
His reality is much different; much lonelier and much more out of his control. His mother's too controlling; she thinks she knows what's best for him. The woman of his dreams is a seasoned criminal and doesn't need anyone, much less Lowry, to "save" her. He is not obscenely attractive, talented, or smart, and instead of doing the saving, he often needs to be saved himself due to lack of resources, connections, or abilities. He is not a "superman", but just a man.
This contrast between the life of his dreams and his reality plays tug of war through out the film; one moment he's dreaming, the next he's not, and the back and forth happens so suddenly, it's often confusing. Sam himself isn't a very interesting or witty character, but it's watching him navigate the chaos of his life and see these visions of scenes from his dreams manifest in real life that are the most interesting moments of the movie. He has virtually no ambition, no goals, no drive in the film until Jill, the literal woman of his dreams, comes into play, and then we see Sam take a more "active" role.
To tie this in to how it relates to River Phoenix, I did not understand very much why River liked this movie until I realized I had to imagine myself as the person who could see themself as the characters on the screen, and then I realized River is Lowry. Just as I live vicariously through the characters in my favorite movies and TV shows, River must have related to Sam Lowry so much, he felt himself experiencing the events in the film as if it were his own life. Then it made much more sense how an otherwise average film could mean so much to him.
Maybe River's mother was a bit too controlling; maybe the type of person who thought she knew best for him when he wanted something totally different. Maybe River felt trapped in a job he didn't want but had to perform because of the opportunities it gave him. Maybe River dreamed of meeting a beautiful woman and sharing a life with her.
The more I tried to see River in Lowry, the more I understood how he could love this film. Lowry is just a man; just a regular, soft and vulnerable man, as River was in his lifetime, but Lowry wished he could be that superman who could solve everything, and maybe River did too. Maybe there were a lot of things in River's life he wanted to change and tried to change, but couldn't; places where he wished he could save someone or someone could save him, but no one came through, just like Lowry in his eventual downfall at the end of the movie. Maybe River lived his life blurring the lines between dreams and reality and maybe all along he wanted to escape to that place in his dreams where he could be free and happy.
Who could really know? But I feel by seeing this movie, I've discovered a deeper, personal side to him I'd have never known other wise because I wasn't blessed with the opportunity to meet him or spend time with him. Though I didn't find this movie, "Brazil", particularly fantastic or incredible and I wasn't personally moved by it, I do appreciate this feeling of closeness to River it's given me on my quest to learn more about him. And for that, I say, thank you :-)