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The Holiday (2006)
Unromantic and unfunny
I thought I'd give this movie a second chance on NF this year after hating it many years earlier when I happened to see it for the first time.
I still hate it. Could not even finish it.
For the life of me, I cannot understand how so much A-list Hollywood talent could work on such a dreadfully cheap Hallmark piece of dreck. Did they read the script? Did someone threaten their lives or the lives of their children? Were they all in bankruptcy and reeeeally needed the money? Why, Kate Winslet, why?? Hans Zimmer?? Really??
The story insults the intelligence of even a most permissive rom-com viewer. Two strangers chat for 5 minutes and swap houses without even so much as talking on the phone. Sure. A hysterical, ditzy bimbo is somehow a successful movie business executive. A London journalist somehow lives in a cute countryside town where cabs don't stop. A handsome publisher is at once a drunk womanizer but also a doting father and, conveniently, a widower. Both women immediately find the perfect man and fall in love, so they can finally be happy because a woman can only find happiness with a man. Sure!!
Please, excuse me, i gotta go vomit.
Why?? And what's wrong with the dozens of other reviewers loving this movie to death?
Ozark (2017)
House of Cards with Hill billies and drug cartelss
Damn, this show is intense!! I just finished season 3 because I finally gave in to the peer pressure that I HAVE TO watch season 4.
I don't like shows about antiheroes anymore, i got my fix years ago with Dexter and the Underwoods and I was done with the bad guys. I don't like the Byrdes, but damn ...i love the writing on this show! And the acting. The atmosphere. The story. The devastation one couple's poor decision causes for everyone around them.
Everyone compares Ozark to Breaking Bad, but I'd compare it to House of Cards. Both are stories of power couples laying waste to everything and everyone they touch in order to get ahead. For the Underwoods it's political ambition, for the Byrdes it's survival when they piss of a drug cartel they work for. They're absolutely despicable people and I can't stop watching them. Bravo! This show deserved more awards than it got.
Unsane (2018)
Disappointing!
Hoping for another exciting Soderberg medical thriller in the vein of Contaigon or Side Effects, all I got was a weirdly half-baked, laughably unbelievable plot with no twists that looks like crap bc it was shot on an iPhone. (Don't believe anyone who says you can't even tell. You can - and it looks like crap.) The only good things about this movie were the always amazing Claire Foy, and a nice dramatic turn from comedian Jay Pharoah.
I wish the movie was more about insurance fraud than about a crazy stalker.
Fractured (2019)
Predictable but enjoyable
I was expecting (and hoping for) the twists this movie offers, especially the last one. But it didn't diminish my enjoyment of this solid thriller. If you like stories that question the reality, this one is for you. Not amazingly original, but certainly much better than Unsane, which I saw yesterday and, amazingly, which didn't offer any twists at all.
Chernobyl (2019)
Incredible achievement!
2nd episode and this series has already jumped to the top 10 of best TV shows on IMDB! And rightly so! I am blown away by the realism, the subtle yet powerful acting, the gripping atmosphere of almost unbearable dread. Incredible!
I was born in 1979 in Czechoslovakia and I can say I've never seen a more accurate 1980's socialist look and feel in film or TV (outside of the actual 1980s), not even in Czech or Slovak films. They got the look so right, I am getting flashbacks to my childhood. I almost can't believe 2 westerners wrote and directed this series.
I can't wait for the next episode!
Triple Frontier (2019)
What the hell??
I don't even know where to begin here. What happened to the talented Boal and Chandor to produce this garbage? It seems that everyone involved in the making of this movie was just as greedy as its main characters since they decided go ahead and put it on their resume. Such a shame!
What is the purpose of spending 2 hours watching 5 greedy guys robbing a narcobaron because they feel they deserve it, I do not know. I only watched it for Charlie Hunnam and it was still almost unbearable. I found no sympathy for these characters. There was no noble goal to their actions. Well, Oscar Isaac wants to "help" the unnamed country by killing this narco boss, but really, the primary reason for this mission is money, money, money.
I am no military expert, but even I know that much of what the movie shows is ridiculous. The 20min recon mission is a joke, no camouflage, details of the mission are being discussed on the spot as if no planning went into this...I could go on. But nothing made me slap my forehead more than the ridiculous trek over the Andes. No food, no water, no mountain gear, yet the characters are lugging their loot over the freaking Andes! For days!! Are you kidding me?? At that point I was laughing angrily, but I still hoped for some clever final twist that would make the 2 hours worth it. Alas, no.
The storytelling was slow, light on plot and heavy on talking. Even Charlie Hunnam couldn't save this movie for me. He, Oscar Isaac, location and camera is my reason for 3 stars.