this kind of projects are always a bit disappointing because you know it's always gonna end in a draw. The only result that wasn't totally obvious was the very first fight, because you knew that the second one would have been a victory for the other faction, tying them 1-1 before the final match.
I liked the showcase of different techniques, but I wish they would have actually picked a winner
the story is pretty good, but it had some serious dead moments.
honestly, this could have been easily a movie. there is so much stuff that really isn't needed and doesn't add much, but I guess that series are all the rage these days
The only way I can describe this movie is "magnetic".
It embodies a magic that only a handful of movies can show. Brilliant, touching, powerful experience.
the movie is nice overall, great visuals and heartwarming moments, it's just not that original of a story, in the sense that it feels pretty basic.
The concept is cool, but the plot is far too simple to really make it stand out
Brilliantly made and ridiculously entertaining. Hopefully we will see more than just a single season of this!
the movie is incredibly flat. so many moments are just boring, and badly acted.
also for a movie that narrates an Italian figure, the Italian dub is atrocious.
kinda disappointing. the movie had moments that could have been really interesting, like the birth of the miura, and everything just felt insanely washed up.
missed opportunity
This movie is unbelievable. I could write a whole book explaining how insanely amazing the animation, the plot, the details, literally everything is. I think you already know it all.
I truly believe we are witnessing a literal revolution of movie animation.
This is automatic Oscar material, don't even bother having other candidates because it would just be embarrassing to put them against this.
it's tough to think about this movie in any other language that isn't Italian. Some really small details would lose a lot of value when dubbed or translated i believe, thank God i was able to experience it in Italian.
what a beautiful beautiful story. precious friendship, makes you crave for a similar one in your life.
also shows such a beautiful part of the mountain life. I wouldn't last a day without internet, without all the commodities I'm used to, and yet this movie made me crave the pure essential life up there.
true gem of a movie
what i find truly beautiful about this movie is the way every single character shares the same exact view of themselves.
all of them believe that they are broken people, and there is no way of fixing themselves, that they are "past redemption"
yet, each and everyone of them expresses it in a different way through their actions and emotions
the protagonist is the most obvious, he feels that he is a monster, he doesn't want to go the hospital because he did all of this on purpose. he doesn't want redemption because he is trying to literally self destruct.
the daughter has no friends, and growing up in a broken family made her think that she is not good enough to even care.
the missionary believes that his stealing and smoking has put him past redemption, so he runs away from home desperately trying to find something that will excuse his actions.
the nurse was labeled as "the black sheep of the family", and eventually accepted this label as a true part of her persona
the mother never recovered from a broken marriage and ended up mistreating her daughter, being ashamed of how she grew up to be.
all this people really are the same, they just chose different way to cope with this ideology.
some chose to eat, some drank, some started looking outward for another person to "save", and so on.
But in end the message is all the same, you shouldn't give up on yourself because you are wrong, you do matter and it's not too late.
yes, you abandoned your child when she was just a child, and yet she still loves you deep down and wants you to be part of her family.
yes you have no friends and your family wasn't the best but that doesn't mean that you will never be worth anything, someone will love you.
yes, you stole and disappointed your father, but stealing a couple grand doesn't matter. Your family cares about you more that they care about a mistake.
I could go on but i think i got the point across. this is just a beautiful beautiful movie, it's really sad and honestly tough to watch at times because it hits hard, but it's definitely an experience that we should all have.
I'll start off by saying I really liked the series, and also I like that overall it's a little complete story, I started watching knowing it was only one season and I would have hated an open ending knowing it would never be continued, so I'm glad it has an established ending.
That said, I enjoyed the love story, but the time travelling seemed to be underutilized in the end, and also the whole Kennedy plot felt a bit short of expectation.
First of all, we don't really know who killed Kennedy, so I hoped it would be a bit more blurry but they go for one guy since the very beginning and it's always him. Yeah I get it, they wanted to have him really characterized and fleshed out, to make it more than just a dude that pulls a trigger, but still I would have appreciated a bit more doubt.
The time travel really is only "useful" for the first 5 minutes of the first episode really, after that Jake is just a dude that knows a lot of stuff. Time travelling isn't really a factor in the story, it's just a way to have a motive to save Kennedy but nothing more. This would have been hard, if not impossible, to do with only 8 episodes, but time travel could have been used much much more as a plot point.
As we know, each time he goes back to the present and again into the past, everything resets and he starts from the same point, so the struggles Jake has in the first few episodes really do not make sense, ok you got jumped by a couple of dudes just go back and go make your bet somewhere else, stuff like that.
Yes the time travel would still get less and less relevant the further you go down the line, of course he wouldn't want to just reset everything after being there for almost 3 years and a love interest, but still as a plot point it still forgotten a bit too soon.
The finale is another point where I have mixed feelings : after all the trouble, he actually manages to save Kennedy...only to find a world in ruines. Which in itself is fine, but still dude let me know more like what the hell happened. We only get to learn that there was bombardments and that Kennedy camps where created, whatever that is supposed to mean.
Who bombarded america? When? What is happening in the world now? Is the world at war or in ruins, or just america? Jake still would have went back it's not that big of a deal, but still you can make up anything you want about how history changed from a single point, just have fun and make anything up.
It's also not really clear how the time travel portal works. When he goes back one last time, Jake is almost stopped by three dudes, but he manages to cross. Can they also cross? Would they get in the past, but a different past than where Jake went to? Can multiple people cross together? Because at a certain point Jake talks with Bill and Sadie about going to the future together, but would that be possible actually?
If that is actually possible, why didn't Jake try to bring Sadie then? Yes he would have to fall in love with her all over again, but judging by the strange feeling and behaviour she had when they met for the first time again that probably wouldn't have been too hard. Also, he can take all the time in the world, like he could just repeat the 3 years and then slowly explain everything to her like he already did (knowing that she would eventually believe him) and then try to bring her.
Which brings up another question, Jake decides to give up on Sadie because the other traveller tells him she would die regardless, buy would that happen if she went into the future with him? Also she isn't supposed to die in the actual timeline, so why would she die regardless if Jake would just live with her without attempting to save Kennedy?
Last but not least, It kinda bothers me how much Jake works for to literally get nothing done. At the start of the series he has no friends, unrewarding job and he is in deep pain coming out of a divorce, after the whole series he has still no friends, goes back to the same unrewarding and sad job, and has to experience even more pain letting go of the love of his life knowing he will never be with her.
The very last dance he has with old Sadie is just bittersweet, like yeah it feels cute but it's actually so sad, idk.
I'm complaining about stuff that honestly couldn't really be fixed in 8 episodes. What in trying to say is, this plot had a lot more potential than this, yeah it's fine in this mini series, but there is just so much more that could be done, more that could be explored but that would need at the very least 20-30 episodes to the very least.
Maybe someday in the future we will get another iteration of this story that will delve deeper into the assassination of Kennedy, that will use the time travel mechanic differently and will try something new, but for now I guess this mini series is fine as it is.
i liked the ending, but the first half of the movie was so boring that i almost fell asleep twice.
wow, what a pleasant surprise this movie was.
the death of tchalla is handled incredibly well, I'm part of the people that believe that he should have been recasted, but i gotta say i stand corrected.
Namor is amazing. Intimidating, strong, and everything he says and does makes a lot of sense. After the first few scenes, when you see him coming out of the water you really think "oh shit, things will get rough now". Man, if only they treated gorr in Thor the same way.
I also LOVE LOVE LOVE that Namor doesn't actually die at the end of the movie!!!! Is this a first for the MCU? Other than Infinity War, i believe the villain always dies at the end of each and every MCU movie.
I CANNOT wait to see him again on the big screen, either as a friend or a foe, there so many possibilities with a character like this.
Finally, my god the movie is so serious! I counted a grand total of 4 "funny" moments, literally 4. And it really work, you really feel the gravity of the situation and grasp the stakes at risk in each scene. Thor feels like a joke in comparison.
I had many friends tell me "I'm losing faith/interest in the MCU lately". This is the kind of movie that can change your mind, IMHO
What an amazing experience! the concept of the multiverse is beautifully explained and implemented in a story that, in it's core, it's actually really simple, because the whole story is really about a mom and his daughter and their problematic relationship. Of course there are other things, the relationship between a wife and a husband, a girl and a dad. It's all about family in the end.
This movie is visually impressive, it's well written, it's incredibly funny, it's wholesome and it's also touching, I almost cried towards the end because some of the dialogues felt really close to the relationship between my mother and my sister in a way.
In my opinion this really deserves all the praise that it's getting, and beyond!
I saw this movie together with my family, and we all had very different opinions on it. Overall, I would say that I liked it, while my parents didn't.
Their main criticism is that the movie is "an anguish", and while I do agree that the movie feels really really slow in many parts, I think it's kinda right that it feels that way. It's not supposed to be an easy watch, the movie literally depicts a life full of sadness, abuse, darkness, really makes the heart heavy.
It's not the kind of movie you watch to have a fun night with friends, it's a dive into the troubled existence of one of the most famous human beings in the last century. I found it rather fascinating, in a way.
Ana de armas is just...magnetic. Those times were I was losing interest and maybe thinking about picking up my phone for a couple minutes, she hooked me back up. As gorgeous as the original Marylin, couldn't tell the difference for many scenes.
This is not the kind of movie you recommend to anyone because I feel that it's a personal experience, there's nothing conventional about it. After almost 3 hours of watch time, you will feel really heavy in the heart, so don't watch it if you don't want to.
Sadly too short. The 6 episodes are good, just not enough to really tell anything worth something.
I'll start off by saying that I did enjoy this movie, and I'm satisfied with the experience it gave me.
Other than that, I'm a little disappointed in the way the story is told.
the first half of the movie is extremely confusing. The pacing is so fast, it felt like watching the trailer of the movie instead of the actual picture. It was such a bizarre experience, I really was wondering why was it going so incredibly fast, it was super hard to keep up and grasp all the info since I didn't actually know Elvis's story at all before this movie.
Also, the scene where he is walking on the street and Doja cat starts playing, no. Just no. It doesn't mix AT ALL with the rest of the movie, it's so out of place in my opinion. Thank God it was pretty much the only moment when they went modern with the music, the rest was kept in line with Elvis style.
So, first half of the movie, really confusing, most of the info felt like it was thrown at my face instead of told and the cinematography felt really intrusive.
Second half of the movie? It got better, because they actually took their time, focusing on less events and giving them their due screen time. Narrating stuff with more calm and detail, the scenes definitely felt more developed and important, the way the first half of the movie should have been told pretty much.
Overall it's a good movie, the story gives a decent look into Elvis.
The actor for Elvis is insane, he looks precisely like him, he acts and moves like him, I've seen videos after the movie and the amount of detail is insane.
It's a worthy experience, but the first half of the movie should really be slowed down A LOT.
nothing really groubreaking, but at this point is really not possible to do the "person discovers powers and becomes superhero" in a way that feels new, so it's alright.
it's just a good story, nothing that you will be speechless about but it doesn't have to be.
Nice implications at the very end for the rest of the MCU though, will definitely make things much more interesting.
I liked both the concept and the execution of the show a lot, I didn't find a problem with the host he was funny to me.
It was funny to try to participate myself and guess which ones were cakes, I'll be sure to watch season 2 with friends because that factor makes it the perfect show to watch in company.
there is only one really small thing I didn't like which is that at times it felt "fabricated".
what I mean is, sometimes some events or choices that happened just felt predetermined and not genuine, it's a weird thing to say.
just to make a few esamples, it NEVER happened in the very first part of the game (the one where the bakers have to pick the cake) that nobody actually picked the cake, even more so it was always either all get it or one gets it wrong and two get it right which is just weird.
the other weird thing was how they handled the judges tasting the cakes, most of the time the bakers would just give the judges a slice to taste right away after they revealed if they got it wrong or not, on one episode actually the judges went 0/3 and never picked the actual cake. Now, the show taught us in previous episodes that if multiple people successfully fooled the judges the show would resort to the taste and details of the cakes to determine the winner, and the one episode there is a 3-way tie they conveniently wait until the very end of all 3 rounds to taste the cakes instead of tasting them one at the time like the other times? it just felt silly and fake.
I know this is a silly criticism to make but in this kind of competition shows I really care about sincerity and authenticity because if everything is just fabricated for the sake of it is not a contest, it is just another tv series and it kinda loses flavour in my opinion
other than that, I really enjoyed the show and I will be waiting for season two with excitement
When I first watched season 1, I found this story astounding and brilliant, such a creative concept and also a marvellous way to tell it, the animation is really unique and makes the show a true rarity.
The story in S1 is really interesting and ends up on a huge cliff-hanger.
Due to the show being very different from anything else that I have ever seen, I thought there was no way I would see a second season.
I'm glad I've been proven wrong.
So, to my full surprise we got to see more, how's season 2?
I really liked it, granted it is a bit different from the first in the way the story evolves.
We get to go deeper on the real root of the problems that this family had to go through, we learn of a stranded child, and a forgotten memory.
But eventually, even if we get to fix stuff that seemed undefeatable, some problems are unfixable, even with the power to bend time and reality to your will, and we all have to "go back and face ourselves", to bring closure to the pain we are trying to cope with.
When I ended S2E7, I thought "the show just got to a beautiful ending, it's almost too good to be true, what's left to show for another episode?"
Well, the answer was reality. Alma learns that she has to go back, back to the beginning of this season, when she still didn't know if she actually managed to give her father a second chance, back when the world seemed grim and hopeless.
She wanted to stay in the happy ending, where everything is perfect and beautiful and all her problems have never even existed, and yet she understands that she has to go back because life is not a fable and it just doesn't end with "and they all lived happily ever after.
I had the feeling the show would end with a "it was all a dream/fantasy she had while looking at the cave" kind of trope, and that would have greatly undermined the plot in my opinion. This, however, I really appreciate.
I don't know if we will ever see a third season to this, I don't even know if I really hope it does at this point, what is left to show?
Sure they can come up with something and I would be glad to once again delve deep into this wonderful story, but I feel like the story could end here and be completed.
Alma got to a point where she knows there are better alternate versions of her, versions that are more succesfull, versions that have a more cohesive family, versions where she is just happier, but she chose to go back to her reality because it's HER reality, it's her place in all this. I think she is finally ready to "start fresh" and accept herself for what she truly is.
This show gives me hope. If alternate realities exist, there sure is one where I'm better, stronger, smarter, happier. But also ones where I'm worse, weaker, dumber, unfulfilled. We have to learn to embrace our life for what it is, in the good and the bad, and everyday make it closer to our dreams instead of fantasizing on what it could have been. And even if it seems like we are living in the worse of our possible realities, eventually we will find the light that shows us purpose.
Having heard of this movie all my life I have finally decided to watch it and to be honest...a bit of a let down.
Can it be entertaining and visually impressive? I would say yes, even though the CGI is starting to show its years.
Is the main idea of the movie good? Absolutely, I love a good old alien invasion movie, man they don't make them as much these days unfortunately.
Now, for the big question : does the plot make ANY sense, most of the time? I'm afraid it doesn't.
I found the general behaviour of people very illogical, like the very first scene of an alien coming up from the ground. A damn church is getting demolished by something coming out of the ground and you are just standing near by and watching? I would Usain Bolt the shit out of there.
Also, wtf where the aliens doing? First they were just vaporizing people, then the started abducting them and apparently drinking blood out of them, then we see that they actually just trap people in cages and absorb them later, and then all of a sudden they die.
The movie started with a dude saying yeeeh the aliens are plotting in the dark we will not see it coming but honestly that might have been the most inefficient attack in the history of attacks. The only smart move was making all technology useless initially, but that apparently wasn't a problem anymore when one (1) car got fixed for the protagonist, or when the army needed to fight back.
At first the intent seemed to be simple genocide, why not bomb the shit out of the cities instantly then? Instead they go around on big squids vaporizing humans ONE BY ONE, yeah that must be fast.
Then you see them drinking people and you say ok I guess they need humans for some sort of purpose, maybe they feed off of us? But then why vaporize those people earlier, were they not...tasty?
I get that the threat has to be "escapeable", otherwise the protagonist just gets nuked/killed/eaten in the first second of the movie and the credits roll. I just didn't find logical how it was handled for the most part.
Also, both kids are insufferable as characters, Jesus.
What a beautiful little story. Even though the topics were pretty serious, it felt so charming and chilling. Really loved how the story was told, the characters and the music.
Had my suspicions but I can't really tell that I guessed correctly, well done indeed.
felt more like a silly animated quiz than an interactive experience. Was still enjoyable
I thought that this was a comedy after seeing Keegan in the cast, and while yes I had a couple of moments of laughter, it was overall a lot less than expected...but damn, they turned up the wholesome knob TO THE MAX. This movie had a lot of cute, hearth warming moments, and while it's not what I was looking for, I can't say I didn't enjoy it.
Overall I would say a pretty solid kids movie actually, more sweet than funny but nonetheless
it was a really entertaining movie, nothing really to point out. the plot was good enough, I really liked how the "videogame" was structured, opened a lot of space for jokes and laughs. I genuinely laughed at many jokes in the movie, just a really well made comedy nothing really to add to that.
If there's something that I kinda need to criticize is the way they handled Milo.
I really liked his interaction with the rest of the group and I think that his slow way of talking really added a lot to the comedic side of things, but just him deciding "you know what I'm gonna stick in here for the rest of eternity" doesn't feel right to me. Like, dude has a wife in the real world, what is she supposed to believe? How could they ever explain her what happened, is she supposed to just accept that her husband disappear in thin air and she won't even have a body to cry on? It feels rather selfish for him to just avoid the consequence of...well, death. Because sure, dude was apparently about to die and that by itself is a pretty good reason to stay in a place where you won't die, I get that, but still...it was built to be an emotional moment and it kind of was, but the entire time I was just thinking "dude what are you doing, you are just gonna be a flying horse for the rest of eternity now? aren't you gonna miss your wife, your life, literally anything about the real world??"
Eternal life might seem like a blessing but eventually you get bored no matter what and it looks like nobody wants to ever come back there, so nobody will save him if he ever regrets his decision. It does look like they setted something up for a third movie but it would just feel cheap to have the character be like "you know what fuck this get me out of here" after that moment. I can see him maybe helping them out or something, but making him change his mind would make the whole thing pretty pointless.
Either way, it's not like I watched this movie for the plot lmao I watched it for laughs and a bit of action and I was pretty satisfied so there's that
Even though the premise was extremely interesting, i feel like the movie just wasn't able to really make a solid use of it.
The whole plot revolves about a dude that doesn't want to reincarnate anymore, so he thinks "if death means nothing to me, then why don't I just kill everything? Nothing around guarantees i won't reincarnate". This, on its own, actually makes sense. Mass genocide is pretty boring as a villain motive this days because it's just overused, but here? it really makes sense to me.
Taking everybody with him really seems to be the only way to win, but then....they introduce the special gun that the infinites use. this gun is able to trap the soul, preventing it from reincarnation. Now here's the question...what's the difference between being "trapped" in that chip and actually dying? They aren't reincarnating, are they able to feel or do anything in there? Cause the movie says it's a "limbo" but it seems as precise of a knowledge as death is to us, which brings me to the conclusion...why not just shot yourself with that? if you are so eager to stop reincarnating, just shot yourself dead and be done with it.
There wasn't really any need to have that kind of gun that does this sort of things either. If the objective of the gun is to remove someone from the equation, just kill them regularly. It will actually take at least 18 years to make them able to fight again (they say in the movie that an infinite takes usually 18 years to get all the memory back), and if you really don't want them to reincarnate and get back at you in 18 years, freeze them or trap them or anything. What I'm trying to say is : I know that the whole thing of the gun that traps the soul was created for the sole purpose of justifying the two lovers that were separated and couldn't reunite because only not being able to reincarnate was stopping that... but the very existence of the "soul trapping gun" makes the motive of the villain appear not only silly but downright nonsensical, because that's exactly how he gets defeated in the end. he gets shot with the gun, we don't see what happens clearly but we are led to believe that since he got shot the chip will go to the bottom of the ocean and stay there, trapping him forever, thus not letting him reincarnate...which is exactly what he was trying to do.
Overall the movie was fine, i feel like it was rushed in some points and could have used a little bit more time delving in the past conflict of these two factions or stuff like that, also the protagonist "power" to control energy or something like that was just silly plot armor, he used it just to stand up on a moving plane, wow what an incredible power, could have been used a bit more for sure.
Overall, a decent watch, not something I will remember though
this felt a lot like Rick & Morty but more..."down to earth"? it's such a clever idea, to have a company just manage all the inside jobs of the world. great premise for a lot of fun ideas, also the finale was really interesting, i truly hope this gets continued because it seems just really clever and interesting...and also funny, duh.
I gotta admit, I was enjoying it at first but it didn't really think it was that impressive, in some things it seemed like a pretty generic anime of its "survival kind" (protagonist faces opponents one at a time until he defeats everybody), i would say that for the majority of the show it was good but not special.
However, i found the ending really intriguing and that alone really boosted the whole series a lot. Overall I'm really satisfied and I would absolutely recommend it, it's a "short" (26 episodes are not really that much) solid and entertaining experience, animation was also pretty good
genuine fun, simple as that. just great comedic timing in every scene, all the actors did great. Ones who stand out the most to me were Downey Jr, Jack Black and Tom Cruise. McConaughey was also pretty good.
definitely had a great time
I found this extremely well put together and for someone that didn't really knew anything about the events as a whole, incredibly interesting.
Also gives you quite a nice perspective on the whole situation