fits-47019's reviews

It didn't suck and did what it had to do to set up for what we really want to watch (fantastic four, and maybe we get a proper avengers movie)

It did help to go in with low expectations which wasn't a problem considering the last few MCU offerings just plain sucked. White widow actually carries most of this. The team dynamic works but it just didn't have the same weight of an avengers team up. Dreyfuss as the villain is kind of smarmy, more of an irritant than the serious antagonist she is supposed to represent. I guess it just fit with the rest of the movie felt, like filler. Not bad, but still just a placeholder for better to come (hopefully)

When I stumbled upon this I didn't even think it was real, but it is! A movie with Jamie Foxx AND Robert DeNiro and not one trailer? Why are they not promoting this? I soon found out...This is one of the silliest things I have ever seen.

There are three main problems. First is the story itself. The narrative choice they made to tell the story in voiceover, flashbacks and then back to present day in a way that makes the timeline really confusing. Did this happen ten years ago or five? When did the character make this decision? How long were they together vs apart? How long did they know where a certain character was? Made it really hard to be invested in the character relationships that we are presented with. Also the cult titles/honorifics- Shinja, Bokushi? Pure lol wtf.

Second is Jamie Foxx as the villain. He's got this crazy wig and beard, straight hamming it up. I just couldn't take him seriously in what's supposed to be a deathly serious role.

The third and biggest problem is Scott Eastwood as the protagonist. I don't know why they keep asking him to carry lead roles. He is textbook nepo baby. He's got the looks and the name but he lacks the presence/gravitas of a leading man. There's an ironic scene close to the end where the villain PERFECTLY describes who Eastwood is in real life: a guy who always comes up short because he just doesn't have the mettle.

What about DeNiro? Well, he's in this for like, five minutes tops. They could have got any old character actor to do what he did, which wasn't much.

One star for Jamie Foxx looking crazy which is the only entertainment value. Real waste of time and talent.

A tedious, stretched out remake no one asked for, with baffling production choices. I don't know how 'true' to the source material this version of Ripley is, but it is certainly different from the film version and not for the better. This is shot in black & white for no reason at all. Why this digital, CRISPY looking black & white? This does absolutely NOTHING to enhance the story. This is a solid F on all levels: Failure of casting (the entire ensemble feel so disjointed and out of place) failure of directing, poorly paced. Just rewatch the Matt Damon version and call it a day. This was not it.

I completely understand how this was greenlit. On paper it sounds great, but in practice it's as if chat-gpt wrote a detective story using the Save the Cat template, incorporating all the 'elements' of old school noir but none of the charm or skill in execution. They try REALLY hard to make the lead likeable, having him 'save' many a stray, but it comes off so awkward and forced. Instead of clues, you get drugged out montages, flashbacks and fake outs. Instead of classic noir dialogue exchanges, you get these weird accusatory standoffs.

This looks like it cost a lot of money, it's a shame they didn't spend any of it on the actual writing of a story.

The cast does look great, so there's that at least...I guess.

For having such a diverse international cast of stars, this movie is sooooo incredibly BLAND.

The plot is so paint-by-numbers, the 'twist' so unsurprising, and the ending so anticlimactic and BORING.

What a waste of a budget.

Finally got to watch this after a damn near two year delay, this was just disappointing.

Nowhere near as good or as fun as the first two films. They would have been better off with a simpler story instead of trying to cram all these historic figures and events into it only to end on such a nonsensical 'plot twist.'

Was this show a sincere effort, a parody, or a troll on the audience?

I don't care, it just sucked. An unbelievably convoluted, confused, poorly written mess of a thing with terrible pacing and worse acting.

In three long episodes, they have accomplished nothing. An inordinate amount of time spent establishing an unnecessary amount of characters, who are all useless. All of 30 seconds spent on showing the 'invasion', 5 seconds showing the actual invaders, well, at least parts of them.

Tedious and frustrating waste of time.

This might turn into a new holiday viewing tradition, like what Die Hard is to christmas, or It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown is to Halloween.

The run time is a bit too long (because they tried to cram in every bit of nonsense they could) but still pretty hilarious, especially on the fourth of july.

The Tomorrow War is an unexpectedly good popcorn flick. Great pacing and acting, lots of tense action, heartfelt moments and one really hilarious 'rescue' scene that I didn't see coming.

As with 99% of stories that involve time travel, there are loopholes that leave more questions than answers, but nothing bad enough to detract from the overall enjoyment.

Physical is TERRIBLE!

Comedy is supposed to be funny, right? Even 'dark' comedy? This was just sad and depressing.

Because I LOVE Rose Byrne, I struggled through two episodes, but I just couldn't do it anymore. I loathed the main characters and just didn't give a crap about the rest. The show started with the promise of something better down the line, but I just didn't have the strength to wait it out that long.

Great lead actress, costume design, sets and cinematography wasted on self obsessed, self absorbed, slow paced and painfully unfunny drivel.

Lots of cool elements are undone by a half-assed plot and wooden acting. The hero is an emotionless brick while the villain is simultaneously a genius and a complete moron (the solution to his problem is literally in his hands the entire time!) Everyone else is utterly forgettable.

Zack Snyder is a GREAT action director.

Unfortunately, he is also exceedingly INCOMPETENT at plot/story.

Setups that lead nowhere, plot points and devices that are made to seem super important and then NEVER brought up again, and then, there are the plot holes.....

Plot holes on top of plot holes, like an outhouse on top of another outhouse, it's almost admirable how dumb this movie is...almost

Even then, there was still a sliver of a chance of them turning it around: Halfway through the movie, one of the characters very casually posits what would have been an AMAZING plot twist if they would have followed through with it, but they don't. They, much like original Romero style zombies, keep mindlessly lumbering on, making increasingly dumber decisions leading to a cliched setup for a sequel that nobody wants.

Great action set pieces, but not nearly enough to make you forgive how brainless the story is.

Good cinematography and acting, but not scary or suspenseful at all. There is the initial establishment of a great sense of horror atmosphere and dread, but ultimately no pay off.

Despite the little girl character being a terrible actor, Psycho Goreman is damn near a MASTERPIECE. Everyone else is great. The chemistry between the characters, the dialogue, the action scenes, the unexpectedly heartfelt moments in the midst of all the ridiculousness in the story makes for the best kind of janky, low budget tomfoolery there is. I have never laughed so hard at gruesome death and destruction.

A half assed, bland attempt at a revenge story. If you are going to do this type of thing, at least go for it. Be good or be over the top bad, just don't be this dull.

If I didn't know better, I would say this was not a Ghibli film, more like some other incompetent studio that ran out of money during production and cobbled together whatever they had into this piece of junk.

A half-assed 'story' with bland, lifeless 'characters' exacerbated by the inexplicable decision to abandon the beautiful trademark animation style for garbage level cgi. Very frustrating watch because there are hints of a much better tale here that just weren't fleshed out. Hopefully someone else tries again with more skill and care.

I never thought a film starring Jack Black and Cate Blanchette would be this boring! They have no chemistry together. Zero. The kids don't fare much better. I kept waiting for this thing to pick up but it just didn't. It was just evenly disappointing throughout.

Contrary to what you may have heard, sadly, this is NOT Raid 3, despite featuring most of the cast of that franchise. Therefore the inevitable comparisons only lead you to disappointment. The Night Comes for Us has all the insanity of the first raid movie, but none of the cinematic feel or plot coherence of the second. Compared to every other action movie this year, this is firmly at the top, but compared to the mastery of Raid 2, this is quite a letdown. You will still have a good time if you ignore the story and just focus on the action as I did (most of the fight scenes are topnotch) but in your heart and in the back of your mind, you will still be wishing Gareth Evans comes back to direct Raid 3.

A Discovery of Witches is such a pleasant surprise. I had zero expectations based on the akward looking promotional poster which reminded me of some tween romance nonsense in the vein of the twilight series. I watched the first episode thinking I would have some roast material, only to be quickly spellbound by it.

I don't know what luts or lenses or lighting they used for this, but it looks GORGEOUS. This is the best looking show I have seen since Hannibal. Great cinematography, great acting, and a story that just zips along where I have seen other attempts at something similar bog down and get stuck in slow paced, unnecessary melodarama.

I do have two small gripes with the show. One is all the worried phone scenes with the distant aunts, oh the nagging! (you'll know exactly what I mean when you see them) Maybe it was a budgetary issue (although as stated earlier, this thing does not look cheap at all!) but they could be doing more. It's a real waste of two fine actresses.

Secondly, we have yet to see most of the characters 'true forms' - it really doesn't deter from the enjoyment of the show, but I would still like to see the scarier side of things.

Great watch overall.

Imagine if you bought a ferrari, only to completely gut it and replace all the parts and upholstery with those of a used honda civic. That is akin to what the people working on this show have done.

Except for the name,Titans has NOTHING to do with any iteration of the comics, or the cartoon. Why mislead people? They could have done this exact same show and called it something completely different, why attach the titans name to it if you're going to completely change the tone, look, origin and even the essential NATURE of the characters?

It's like a bunch of people who didn't know and didn't care enough to do basic research about the characters were forced to make this show. Why bother if you were going to show this much disdain?

Still, I would have overlooked all this if the show had been entertaining, but it is not! It's a convoluted mess of unconvincing characters in random situations with nothing plausible to hold it together. This is incompetent storytelling that the 'writers' are trying to pass off as mystery-building. There's no 'there' there.

A hard skip on this one.

This gets off to a very clunky start, which isn't that surprising given the necessity of introducing all the new characters. Decent cliffhanger at the end. The new doctor is far more likeable than I remember the old one being at the beginning of his run. I just hope it doesn't take too long for the charcters to get some chemistry going.