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Dark (2017)
Nothing comes close to being as good as this.
This is an absolute masterpiece.
My only complaint is that it has killed all other TV for me. Every time I watch anything else below an 8, I keep thinking I am wasting my time and should just watch Dark again.
I think I am on my 15th time through, and even though I don't speak German, I now never watch the dubbed version anymore, and know it so well, I don't even need the subtitles. I literally just finished it and started again the same day.
The drama is superb, the interwoven character story is the greatest I have seen, I love the music, and the casting is utterly amazing. I hope that team won every award going, they deserve to be knighted!
Every character matters and are brilliantly written and acted. I can't see this show ever being beaten.
The Adam Project (2022)
Please stop digitising faces
A good film and yet another great "Deadpool sequel" as Ryan plays the same character we know and love from all his other films. But please stop with the god awful CGI-attempt on human faces.
It was dreadful 2 decades ago and still is. I would have happily given a 9 if it wasn't for being constantly jarred away from the story with one character's awful computerised face.
Watch it in profile shots, her nose actually keeps changing shape! Also irked me that whoever was wearing the green suit, has a smaller skull than the actor she was supposed to be a younger version of. Clearly visible in the side by side shot.
I normally don't like kids in movies, but this one was great. He had clearly studied Ryan intensely, or rehearsed scenes together, as I could easily believe it was a young Ryan most of the time.
Fun film, but like most time travel movies, best turn your brain to the entertainment setting and don't dissect the science too hard.
9/10 with -1 for the horrific CGI face.
Army of the Dead (2021)
I love Snyder, but what the hell was this crap?
Many unbelievable characters, making multiple stupid choices all for no real point, but I am left with serious questions:
What did Tanaka actually want? The head of the queen to enable him to control a zombie army? A) Why? B) has he not seen the damage zombies did to one city, and he wants to repeat that? C) How the hell does he know the severed head will stay alive and control zombies?
Why did a few zombies make fizzing electrical noises when shot in the head and what was the blue stuff? Maybe it's the zombie virus, as the leader had loads, but I was expecting some sci-fi twist as it looked like electrical discharge (and sounded like it). Or was it electrical bullets that I totally missed the explanation of?
What was the deal with the dead people outside the vault that were clearly copies of some of the living cast? I was genuinely expecting a sci-fi/time-travel twist when that seed was planted in our brains, especially coupled with the blue fizzing headshots from the above paragraph. It feels like they wrote a whole "Cabin in the Woods"/time-travel/cyborg twist in, and forgot to film it! Those 2 bits had me really excited for the pending tangent, as the rest of the film was dull and dumb, but it never appeared.
Why could they helicopter out, but not helicopter in?
Ignoring the fact that a guy survived a nuclear bomb, got out of a locked vault and didn't die of radiation in ground zero, how did he make it all the way to the airport and on to the plane without him or the airport staff noticing a massive swollen bite on his exposed arm?
Still, the tiger was kind of cool, well, until it punched people around like a super-hero anyway.
Sound of Metal (2019)
Difficult to watch
Yes, it was an emotional film, but it was yet another movie completely ruined by "Shaky Cam".
I am still amazed that any cameraman or director thinks that this is a good medium, outside of action movies.
I felt sea-sick the entire time and couldn't fall into the story.
I need to start a movement: DEATH TO SHAKY CAM!
Titans (2018)
Series 1 is great. It rapidly goes downhill from S2 E1.
Loved season 1, interesting characters and good story.
Series 2 is dire and gets worse every episode. The interesting Goth character Rachel barely features and instead it is awful DC tropes like Wondergirl, Aqualad, a boy that may as well be called Superboylad.
Falls into the usual trap of way too many flashbacks to try and tidy up the car crash of a story. Real shame, but all too common with American series of late.
12 Monkeys (2015)
A rare gem that gets better each season
(No spoilers)
As a fan of the film, I enjoyed what they did with series 1.
From then on, it just got better and better. I recently found out that series 4 had appeared last year, so rewatched 1-3 to refresh, and it was still compelling viewing, even though I knew what was coming.
It seems far more clever than the usual time travel shows, as they focus on the consequences of messing around with time and the emotional results these actions cause.
Allegiances sway as the missions unfold and new directions appear. The characters are all interesting and varied.
Season 4 seemed to get off to a weak start and felt like a John Wick rip-off in places, but then a clever gimmick revealed why that happened and the normal high quality of the show continued, right up to the end, which is one of the best TV series endings I have seen.
I will be watching this again.