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Oppenheimer (2023)
I think it's Not Good. The Soundtrack is a Disaster. .
The soundtrack is annoying. It's WAY too LOUD and permeates and ruins the entire film. You struggle to hear the dialogue over really slow, boring segments of the film and the music misinterprets these scenes as being super dramatic and important!!
It's like, "Would you like a cup of coffee, Dr. Oppenheimer?
Que the music: Dah NAH!!! DAH NAH NAH NAH NAH DUH NAH NAH!!! DAAAAAA!!! DAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!
DAH NAH NAH NAH
NAH NAAAAAH!!!! BOM-BOM!!!
DAH!!! NAH NAH. AH NAH!!!
Incredibly distracting and annoying. 95% of the movie is like this. And the parts where the music finally goes silent make no sense either. Why did the music stop here? This part seems more dramatic! There is no rhyme or reason to it. It's as if someone just played a record of generic "Dramatic Cinema Music" randomly throughout the film.
When the music finally stops, it doesn't even align with what's occurring on screen at all. It's just because the last track of music was over. And then it starts again for no reason at all. Constant oppressive music. Then an argument breaks out. And the music stops!!! You can't fix boring parts with exciting music, then turn the music off when actual excitement happens!! Did anyone review this at all before it was released?
Also annoying is the constant flipping back and forth between color and black and white... we get it. The past is in black and white.
The film is very boring and over-long. It could have been done in 90 minutes. And they could have saved money by not adding a soundtrack of any kind and blowing things up more.
Overall, it's a bore. It's not much more than dramatic music played over boring dialogue read from a history book.
Down the Shore (2011)
DTS - Dang That Sucked
God this was awful. I couldn't wait for it to be over. I kept fast forwarding 30 seconds at a time. And I'd hit play, it was still on the same boring scene and nothing changed. This movie could have been a 20 minute short story and it still would have been horribly slow. Let me save you the time. I'd say "spoiler" alert, but watching it would spoil 1 hour and 32 minutes of your life. Tony Soprano grew a beard and dresses like a ditsoon. His sister went to Paris and married some douche that cranks a carousel in 5 minutes cause she was dying of cancer. She leaves the douche half the house she was sharing with her brother, Tony Soprano in a Cart-hart hoodie. Tony though he killed his friends father but his friend actually did it. And he has been blackmailing Tony into sticking around and supporting his crack habit. At the end, the French douchebag is told by the crackhead that ditsoon style Tony only graised his father with the bullet and it was actually his crackhead self who killed him. The French douche gives Tony a bag of money and he drives off with the crack head's wife and retarded son. The end.
How It Ends (2018)
Captivating and Well Acted
Everyone complains about the non-ending. There was an ending, it's just doesn't wrap things up definitively. In fact the "ending" as I saw it was 15 minutes long. Much is left to the imagination which sadly is eroding from our society. If you are under 25 and spend 50% of your life taking pictures of yourself with bunny ears, you probably won't like this movie because it forces you to think and there is zero instant gratification. You won't be told exactly what the disaster is and there aren't battles with aliens or anything like that. You are left just as confused and freaked out as the characters had to be.
Where the film succeeds is in human interactions that are realistic and not over the top or ridiculous. In life or death situations there are people who will help you, and there are those that will look out only for themselves. Those scenes are where the edge of your seat moments are.
Another complaint I've read from many reviewers is that the protagonists make stupid mistakes. Like, not looking for better weapons or supplies and not asking other people who are walking away from the disaster "what happened?" whilst they drive towards it. Again, if you can't think, then you can't realize that you need to suspend disbelief just a tad. Or, there's no movie. Everyone would immediately save themselves, there'd be no build up, no chance for characterization, and well, again, no movie to watch.
I gave it a fair review. Not a 10 because I liked it and wanted my opinion to have the weight of a 10. If Shawshank is a 10, this is a 6 or 7. Entertaining, suspenseful, and well acted. And it's not low-brow. You need to be somewhat patient and let your imagination fill in the blanks. It was a good movie.