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Our Universe (2022)
Beautiful, mesmerizing and a tad frustrating.
Morgan Freeman narrates this incredibly beautiful story about our past, present and future. Life on earth and its connection with the cosmos and cosmological events.
It's truly one of the most beautiful shows I've seen in a while. However, the show falls a bit short when it comes to the narration. Not the voice of Freeman, but the content itself. The over usage of dramatic pauses disrupts the flow and keeps us guessing of what he'll say next. It's especially frustrating when the answer is obvious. Which it often is. Making me think they assume their audience is either stupid or very young.
But it's definitely worth a watch just for the CGI and shots of nature. So allow me end this review with an "Our Universe narration" flavored ending:
As I wrap up this review.. I do so.. with a typographical symbol that states that the sentence.. is finished........... a period.
Lost Treasures of the Maya (2018)
Lidar
Apparently 3D laser scanning that creates 3D-maps. There, I just summarized the series for you. Imagine watching a documentary about Titanic, but they spend more time talking about the submarine.
Scrooged (1988)
What was the point
I love the 80's and I can certainly appriciate the quirkiness vibe. But nostalgia aside.
This movie is, in my personal opinion, wierldy paced. The epiphany that probably should've evolved during the majority of the runtime, only take noticeable effect during the last minutes of the movie. Giving the once narcissistic bully of a main character little to no time in his search for forvigeness. Although, the last minutes are wisely spent by having a close to 10 minutes long (!) monologue telling people he had previously wronged what christmas is about. Whilst kissing some random girl and proclaiming his love for another. A changed man indeed.
It's a cynical, busy movie with a familiar monotone performance from Murray. That misses it's own point.
Doesn't mean it can't be entertaining and funny.. at times.
Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi (2017)
The only thing missing is the laugh track.
5 Minutes into this movie it was all clear. I was looking at Star Wars - The comedy. Disney's desperate attempt of trying to please fans of all ages ends up in a chaotic storyline where nothing interesting really happens.
Lets talk about the jokes. In case you are afraid of missing them, don't worry! This movie will continue to feed them to you until they leave you with an awful taste of Jar Jar in your mouth. The amount of comic relief was beyond me. I wouldn't even consider most of the comic as "relief". Just immersion breaking attempts of keeping the attention of the younger audiences. Speaking of immersion breaking.. The use of words like "Godspeed", "Police", "crack open like an egg" really proves that the writers had no clue of what they were doing.
Lets look at the casino scenes. There we were, back in the mess that were the prequels. With CGI characters doing "funny" CGI things. Imprisoned in the dark prison cell, Finn and Rose is speaking to a mysterious silhouette. My mind was going through the alternatives of which this character might be. He's in a rich-people-place, so he's probably rich. He's in a prison, so he's probably a "bad" guy.. maybe a smuggler? Hold on! Rich, smuggler, Please let this be Lando! That would definately save the entire boring visit to the CGI-paradise and give meaning to Finn's storyline. Hah, nope.
I could probably write a short book of all the things that made no sense but I will try to keep it fair. Remember, we're all buying the concept of sound in space.
- The super-battle-ship gets taken out by ONE X-wing. Tractor beam? Missiles? Anything?!
- "Chrome Domes" armor deflects laser. Sounds like a great material for... everything?
- Lukes emo character. He tries to save Vader but almost kills an innocent Ben Solo in his sleep.
- Snoke can't be betrayed, can't be defea.. oops. Snoke was useless. Leaving us there with "the rule of two" but without answers.
- Disney thinks we care about random rebel ships being destroyed and random rebel sacrifices. If they want us to feel sad, sacrifice someone we love.
Now lets dig a little deeper. You can turn on a lightsaber with the force now. This changes everything. Think about it..
- Why didn't Obi Wan just slice Darth Maul off by the ankles whilst hanging in the pit at the end of Phantom Menace?
- Why not just turn off your opponents lightsaber mid-swing?
- (Insert infinite number of other questions here)
Thank you for sticking with me with through all the negativity. Lets look at the positive things. + The Yoda scene was perfection. + The look and feel of (almost) everything was spot on. + The sound design was what you might expect from a Star Wars movie. + Most likely the most visually stunning Star Wars movies ever created. Even if it had some flaws. + Alot of screen time for Kylo Ren. Adam Driver proves he's a great pick for the role. + Great action scenes. + Luke Skywalker's super-jedi-mindtrick
For me personally. The biggest question is: Why should we look forward to the next movie? Now when Kylo Rens/Reys allegiance is sorted out. Snoke is dead. Reys parents are most likely never to be revealed. It didn't leave us on a cliff or wanting more.
May the force be with episode IX.
Oh by the way, to my surprise. I actually liked the Porgs.