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Very early in the film, there's a scene in which a huge vagina shape appears in space, and a space cruiser travels through it. I don't even have a dirty mind, that's just how it looked like. Later in the film, there are scenes which are supposed to be somewhat comical, but this was the one time I laughed while watching.

I tried to watch this, thinking maybe it's a cult film, so bad that it's good, but halfway through I realized this is following the idea from Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, one of my top ten films and felt like it's impossible to continue. Kurosawa's film is a great classic, perfect as a movie, while this one is just terrible.

Action is bad, it goes slo-mo in unusual places, I guess it's Zack Snyder's attempt to distinguish from other directors. I'm getting tired to see tiny women throwing big guys around, it's just such an off putting theme these days. And that's the least sucky thing in this movie.

The dialogue is so wooden you could build a summer cottage using the script. Sofie Boutella, a charismatic actor who I liked a lot in SAS Rogue Heroes, tries her best but it doesn't help.

Only thing I liked in this film was that in some places sets reminded of colorful and moody old westerns with painted backgrounds. This minor detail won't save the film.

I believe most comedians make specials when a tour is ending, and according to what RG says it's also the case with Armageddon. So it's a special talent for a comedian to keep it fresh. Especially when they are reacting to their own jokes. Some of them, like Louis CK, are masterful in this respect.

So, when RG bursts into giggling in a special, he has probably done it dozens of times, but most of the time you feel like "Oh he just thought of something funny, said it out loud and is now laughing like me". Don't know exactly why this time I just didn't buy it. Especially when RG underlines it saying something like "I just tought a new joke..."... No, didn't really believe it.

Also, repetition is killer. RG says the word "woke" about as much as your average edgy teenager who is writing a TLDR rant in Youtube comment section. I don't disagree with the message, just found myself detaching from the comical and humorous aspects of it.

Comedians have been complaining about audience getting butthurt too easily for over ten years now, not just the woke ones, but pretty much everyone. The subject it's not fresh, you should take a new angle or something. And even so, currently comedians probably are free'er to say whatever than ever before. RG was born 1961, that year Lenny Bruce was arrested all the time just for saying f. Can't write the full word here... it's not because of woke people.

But yeah, it doesn't totally suck, so if you generally like Ricky Gervais specials, it still delivers some laughs.

This isn't my favorite episode of Parks and Recreation, but it's not bad. There has been many changes to earlier seasons, so I can imagine conformist fans hate it, but let's be honest - when a sitcom story evolves to a point where main characters are getting pregrant, it has already been pretty boring and repeatitive for a while. Jumping three years is actually a clever way of avoiding forced baby humor many series, such as Friends or How I Met Your Mother, had.

But what makes this episode special is the fact that it has the most random cameo role ever. Werner Herzog, the director of Aquirre and Fitzcarraldo sells an old house to Andy and April. Most watchers won't notice this, but for the truest film buffs this is something else.