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Interstellar (2014)
Literally the worst film I've ever seen.
The good: impressive special effects, interesting robot characters.
The bad: dodgy science, meandering implausible plot, bad editing and pacing, dubious acting.
The ugly: horrific dialogue, incomprehensible character motivation, nonsensical and massively contrived story, plot holes so wide you could push Saturn and its rings through.
When one astronaut has to use a bit of paper to explain to another, en route, what a worm hole is -- despite it being their goal for a mission decades in planning -- you know you're in trouble.
We wanted to walk out halfway through, and in retrospect wish we had, it only got worse.
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
A perfect film
I can't remember the last film that I've come out of at the end and not wanted to change anything, or think anything could have been better done.
Slow, brooding, thoughtful, intense, ambiguous and beautiful.
One of the very best.
Sunshine on Leith (2013)
Totally misconceived and poorly done
This film comes across as an idea that was great in the pub, but that just doesn't work.
Sunshine on Leith tries to deal with some pretty heavy issues -- death, traumatised soldiers returning from war, horrific injuries, family separation, illness and the breakdown of relationships -- but insists that the cast do a 'Proclaimers' song and dance number every 5 minutes.
Unfortunately, the songs feel forced and do not fit with the plot, and aren't good enough to carry the movie by themselves. By the time "500 miles" and "Letter from America" arrive, it's way, way too late.
The director appears to have seen Mamma Mia and tried to copy it, but without any understanding of how or why it worked.
As a "Mike Leigh" style film, not a musical, this might have been OK, but as it is it's just horrible...
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2/10 -- 1 mark for a quite engaging opening scene; nothing else as I found I was actually watching the floor rather than the film towards the end.