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Another Life (2019)
From bad to worse to awful to ... ?
The pilot was promising. It's Space Opera, so I didn't expect much. Katee Sackhoff stars and she's usually worth watching, at least. The premise wasn't anything brilliant or original but it looked like it'd at least make decent background viewing.
Then the second episode arrived and the show proper got underway, and it was immediately annoying. The ship is run by screaming whiny kids who nobody in their right mind would trust to run a hot dog stand, let alone a starship on a vital mission. The silly interpersonal dramas were punctuated by even sillier and more implausible reactions (or cardboard faces, at times). The bad science went totally off the deep end into a dark pool of nonsensical technobabble.
Even so, it was no worse writing than, say, the ship scenes on "Alien: Covenant", and I figured I could watch it while I did other things. But my patience gradually wore thin and - SPOILER WARNING - when I got to the "dark matter disco" scene, it snapped completely. Time to pick something else. I couldn't finish this, just can't care what happens next.
Island Zero (2018)
Standard-ish low-budget horror
Just once, it'd be nice to see a horror/slasher film that isn't full of plot holes. This isn't that, though.
It's not BAD, just mediocre. Some problems likely could've been fixed with a bigger budget. Granted, nowadays a lot of movies rely way too much on special effects. This one is proof that you can go too far in the opposite direction. If the filmmakers had been of the calibre of Hitchcock, maybe they could've pulled off the whole "unseen danger" thing. But they aren't and they didn't.
The story did take a much different direction than I'd expected at first, and it deserves a few marks for that.
Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022)
How to categorize this?
It's not exactly.dark comedy, in the usual sense. It's more like satire. I'm sure there've been other movies where I disliked every single character, but offhand I can't remember any.
In most slasher movies you wonder who's going to die next. You'll wonder that here too but also might find yourself hoping they all get offed.
Still, it had some nice pointed things to say about current culture and self-absorption. There are enough twists to keep it interesting. It's not going to win any Oscars
Its main weakness is kinda its strength. It's a movie about superficial self-absorbed nitwits, which is itself superficial and precious and full of things that make no sense.
Moonfall (2022)
Roland Emmerich must be stopped!
Was this written by a high school student? No, probably not. A student would have done a better job.
I can't even pick a concrete point at which to start taking the plot apart. It's as if they took the standard formula for disaster films and made a deliberate effort to make every aspect as cliched as possible. Worst of all, it lacked the basic redeeming feature of other extremely bad SF movies: it wasn't funny.
The visuals were mostly good. That's the only positive thing I have to say about it.
2012 was twice as silly as The Day After Tomorrow, and this was twice as sily as 2012. At this rate, Emmerich's next film will be so ridiculous it might cause a real natural disaster somehow.
Savage Planet (2007)
Beyond bad
Calling this abomination bad doesn't do it justice. It's beyond bad, it's downright Ed Wood. Action scenes which look like they were filmed by some kid with a handycam in his back yard. Horrible junky props. Special effects which are so incredibly awful you laugh out loud at them.
I gave it a two, and it only scored that high because they at least managed to find a good-looking cast, and the first one to die wasn't who I expected.
If (like me) you don't mind watching the occasional garbage movie just to see how bad things can get, this is worth a view. Everybody else should run away.