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Watching this show was a harrowing experience for me. Not only is the case disturbing but we see people leeching off this tragedy simply to satisfy their need for excitement or whatever it is they crave. Elisa lam wasn't being chased, nor was she in desperate fear, she was deranged. A person who is trying to hide does not stand on a hallway waving her arms in that erratic way. In the elevator, she seems to be having an ocd fit. She is not trying to escape anything. That sad truth is: she had a mental episode and jumped in the tower. To think people would use this tragedy as a form of stimulant and try to justify it by turning themselves into paragons of Justice boils my mind.

An unfortunate missed opportunity.

I didn't give this movie a 5 because it was different from the original, i thought it wasn't different enough. I have read the Death Note manga several times and i think that, for a Shonen Jump Manga, it is a Masterpiece.

Still, being a Manga made for a very specific demographic it is tied to several silly Japanese teen archetypes. For example: Light Yagami being a High School Student and Misa Amane being a Teen idol, both of them being Japanese, that kind of thing.

The Story of a NoteBook of Death that is used to "create a better world" however, has a potential that far exceeds the original manga.

I believe that, had this been done correctly, it could have been on par with Breaking Bad. It could have been a master piece. They didn't even have to use the names of the original characters, they could have forgotten about the silly high school plot line and the Japanese clichés.

It should have been a TV Series and the characters should have been Detectives. Its sad to see such missed potential.

I honestly believe that, had this been done by good writers and on the right format, it could have far surpassed the original.

Nocturnal Animals is one of those movies that divides opinions. Very few people will be neutral about it, most will either love it or hate it.

Lets start the review by commenting on the direction: It was brilliant. I didn't know about this director but i think it is safe to say that this script could have been a disaster in the wrong hands. The art direction is very slick and haunting. At first, i thought i was watching a horror/thriller.

The soundtrack is also great and it fits in like a glove.

Technically speaking, we have a solid picture, i think even the critics would agree with that.

The Plot: An art gallery owner receives a copy of a book written by her ex-husband. The book is dedicated to her. At the point when she receives the book, Susan seems to be having a mild existential crisis. As the movie progresses we see a parallel between the book and Susan's and Edward's past.

In the book, a man named Tony is attacked on the road by a group of local criminals who end up killing his wife and child and leaving him in the desert. In real Life, Susan had broken up their marriage after feeling that their relationship lacked things she seemed to need. The movie emphasizes that Edward felt like Susan perceived their relationship as unsatisfactory, even though she loved him.

Having never been able to get over their separation, and perceiving the end as a brutal experience, the book reflects Edward's perspective on the end of their marriage.

The criminals in the book, The Nocturnal Animals, are a grotesque caricature of Susan, whom Edward used to call a Nocturnal Animal as well. Their reckless, ruthless and sadistic actions seemed to represent how Edward felt about the way how Susan dealt with the end of their relationship. His wife and daughter in the book seemed to represent their marriage, their love and their unborn child, whom Susan aborted shortly after meeting her current husband. In the novel, we also have two characters trying to enact justice; Tony and Detective Bobby. Both of these characters Seemed to represent Edward. While Tony seems emotional and passive, Bobby is brutal, cold and effective, almost like an alter-ego, someone Tony needs in order to achieve his revenge. At every step of the way Bobby seems to encourage and drive Tony towards his goal of having justice for his family. By doing this, Bobby prevents Tony from moving on with his life and letting go of the anger and sadness that plagues him. A Dying man, Bobby says many times that he has nothing to lose and that he doesn't care about the repercussion of his actions.

At the end of the novel, Tony achieves his revenge but is hurt during a struggle and ends up accidentally shooting himself in the stomach, this causes him to die in the desert alone. In real life, Susan, who has had her love for Edward slightly re-kindled with constant memories of their past together, is invited by him for an amicable meeting in the form of a dinner on a tuesday night.

In the final scene of the movie, real life seems to imitate fiction as Edward has his revenge on Susan by not showing up to their dinner reunion. Much like the character in his novel, real life Edward achieves his goals by not letting go of his hurt and possibly at the cost of true happiness.

It is a movie about heart break and its themes are universal.

Having praised the good parts, lets mention the biggest movie flaw: The character of Susan.

Even with a masterful and subtle portrayal by actress Amy Adams, this is the only aspect in which the movie falls short. While you can clearly see the screenwriter or the author of the novel in Edward and all of his alter egos, there is also too much of him on Susan as well. The Character seems submissive, tame, and overly repentful for no reason at all.

Even though she emphasizes how long she hasn't spoken to Edward for, Susan seems way more remorseful than she should be if we were talking about a real person. Many times she says she has done brutal, unexcusable things to her poor ex-husband and that he should never forgive her.

Being a highly successful gallery owner she seems to question her life choices and everything she has done since breaking up with poor Edward, to the point where she seems almost guilty about her success because of her betrayal.

The symbolism in this movie is very explicit, that is OK for the most part. The overly repentant approach to the character of Susan, however, gives light to the redemption fantasies of the author/screenwriter in a way that should have been invisible. This causes the character to behave in a very unrealistic/submissive way.

This a big flaw for which im taking two points from my review.

I have seen at least one review on this site in which the author called the movie mysoginistic and i have to say i understand where the author in question is coming from.

For a movie that was executed in such a masterful way, with good acting and direction, this lack of subtlety is unexcusable.

Overall i think Nocturnal Animals is definitely one of the best movies of 2016 and i highly recommend it.

Its hard to find words to express my views on this movie. First of all, i just want to start by saying that i thought it was brilliant. When i first saw the trailers and the review quotes i had an idea of what this documentary was going to be like. After watching it, i can say that it went along the lines of what i was expecting but far surpassed what i was hoping for, im completely overwhelmed by what i just watched.

The documentary offers a very personal glance at the life of Kurt Cobain. Many of his family members agreed to give interviews and share their views on his life on camera. Several intimate family clips are also shown in the documentary, through these was can see a little of cobain s early life and his life with courtney. Its quite hard to explain why is it that i find this movie so special but ill give my best shot.

I've read many books on Nirvana and the life of Kurt in my teens. Nirvana is one of my favorite bands of the 90s and, like many others, i ve always felt affinity with the things he tried to express, or at least what i thought he was trying to express. Im not trying to analyze kurt or claiming that i knew who he was in any level. I just think, somehow, his struggles resonated with many people who were going through similar issues. For that reason, when you listen to the songs, it feels like you know him.

But we didn't really know him. It seems to me even the people closest to him have had a hard time in figuring him out. This is the reason why i think this documentary is a master piece. The movie provides such a close, intimate glance into his life and into his psyche that it feels like you actually knew him, whatever it is about kurt that resonates with you, you ll feel it in a much more personal manner while watching this movie. Its so intimate that it feels strange, in some ways it feels like it shouldn't move you as much because you re not supposed to be in contact with this footage, but thats another reason why this documentary is so Special.

To think that the Cobain family agreed to share this incredibly personal material with the people who loved Kurt is truly moving. To imagine Frances Bean, as one of the Executive Producers, having to sit through this footage of her father nodding off on heroin while holding her infant self as courtney cuts her hair... How hard it must have been and yet she decided to share this just so that we would get a more honest look into his life, i don't know what to say.

I must say i was stunned by some of my fellow reviewers and their views. It seemed to me like some were expecting a more traditional biography. Its impossible to go into every detail of someone s life in a 2 hour movie, besides, Charles Cross's Heavier than heaven already shows a solid, detailed portrait of cobains life.

To conclude: When i was reading heavier than heaven i thought "Wow, how could this guy get so close? Incredible". By watching this movie and seeing many of the things Charles Described in the book in such detail, I felt like i too, for two hours, got quite close as well. Im not interested in facts about kurt cobain's life, whats appealing to me both in his art and persona are the psychological traits that he seemed to share with so many of us.

In a sea of generic books, movies, articles and TV specials this Incredible documentary stands out as the ultimate insight into Kurt Cobain as an artist but most of all as a person.

I've been a fan since 2008, first new episode i caught was the Wizard movie review episode. Needless to say i really enjoy the show, having re-watched many episodes over and over. As we all know the nerd was always a mix of clever sarcastic humor with childish and fantastic elements. I always preferred The earlier episodes to episodes like the Texas chainsaw massacre or the rob the robot episodes. In other words i never really enjoyed the fantastic elements of the show as much. Its weird with the nerd. We have episodes like the Atari Elemental prize games and then we have the nerdy turd and stupid things like that, regardless i always enjoyed rolfe s work and i think he is a great guy. The reason why i hated the movie so much is because it is completely focused on the absurd elements of the show. We never get any of the clever, sarcastic nerd analysis. Its like avgn always goes down one of two 2 roads; One of well written, ironic and funny reviews, pointing out the actual flaws of the game, which resonates with fans like me, who actually played those games he is reviewing and another one that i honestly don't know who it appeals to, i guess kids, but most people who actually knows what he is talking about are like 26 to 30 years old now. In the end i found the movie very unfunny, almost unbearable, difficult to watch. On James s defense I've seen many cinemassacre reviews in which he praises shitty movies that i wouldn't touch with 10 meter a stick, so at least i know he is being true to himself and to his taste. Its just not my cup of tea, i cannot watch a movie like TMNT 2 and enjoy it for its ridiculousness. Its quite painful for me to be bashing this movie and criticizing the work of this great guy who is a true hero in my eyes, but it could have been better because the nerd has great funny episodes that i can still rewatch and enjoy. The Deader the better and the blue hole movies were quite great so i know james is a capable movie maker. If he had managed to at least find a balance.. The Friday the 13th episode is quite funny even with the theatrical elements, because he does make some of his funniest points on that episode. its just too bad about the avgn movie, just terrible.

To be fair, its not all bad, the acting wasn't as horrible as everybody is commenting, I really enjoyed the acting on the part of mandi and dr zandor, the small alien was also quite funny and well voiced. The problem is: The movie is a disgrace in two major aspects: 1 - the writing (propably the main reason why i believe some people thought it was horribly acted.) 2 - the story and all the major action events in the movie are just too stupid, its difficult to believe anyone would enjoy something like this. The only part of the movie i actually liked was the end credits with the actual review of ET.

I was really enjoying the movie but, along the way, the director misled me several times, its an insane movie that doesn't know what it is... Its like the movie was made by a film student who took elements from several horror movies and used them all at once in the wrong way. The movie shoots in every possible direction without hitting a single target. The main problem here, in my view, is that the movie takes itself too seriously and just goes everywhere. Its like the Director wanted to combine the exorcist, the hostel and funny games in a single picture and it just didn't work... its not appealing to me, its just cheap senseless violence.

This isn't horror, nor is it drama, and it even fails as a trash movie because its too damn pretentious. I honestly feel embarrassed for the Japanese cinema because of this movie, what a waste of film. Im not a stranger to Asian films nor culture but if i said i was an expert i would be lying, either way, regardless of how limited my knowledge on oriental philosophies and religion may be, as i said, i ve watched several Asian movies and in the midst of them i found several Japanese pearls. This one however, does not fall into that category, the movie contains pathetic special effects, terrible acting, pathetic plot, some scenes that were comic for all the wrong reasons. Using The excuse that Ocidental viewers are incapable of understanding a movie such as this one, because they lack the cultural values, seems to me lack a last resort attempt to shun any deserved criticism that could befall on this title. I ve been watching several Korean, Chinese, Indonesian, Japanese and Thai movies for quite a while now and i can say that my origins never clouded my judgement when it came to appreciating these titles. Take a great title such as dreams by Kurosawa, most people, even without fully understanding Japanese folklore and mythology, can appreciate that movie and love it for what it is as a beautiful expression of art and culture. Its not a matter of semiotics, the movie is just terrible. I give a 1 for making me laugh on several occasions. Worst Asian Film I've ever seen.

I've just watched this movie for the second time today and i decided to write a review. Im a very big fan of the Silent Hill video game Franchise and, at first, i was a little cautious about watching this but i have to say, after watching it for a second time, its much better than i expected.

First of all, you cant expect this to be the greatest movie of your life, because that will never be the case. Its not supposed to be a pretentious movie, its just a horror movie a great horror movie.

The atmosphere is very faithful to the game's, the plot is similar to the one of the first Silent Hill game released for the sony playstation and it really looks like the silent hill from the videogames. The acting is pretty good, considering the fact that it must pretty hard for the actors to see themselves under the such crazy circumstances, and i really liked the ending.

I think that, in the end, this turned out to be a movie that can please the video game fans and fans of horror movies in general. So if you like scary movies with heavy atmospheres, lock yourself inside your room, turn the lights off and enjoy this great film.

Just remember, you cannot compare this movie to other movies outside the genre. This movie fulfilled very well its purpose. Before you judge it, i suggest you think about other horror movies produced in these last 8 to 10 years. If you take this movie for what its supposed to be, and you re slightly open minded, you will see that this Hell/Resort town has much to offer.

I ve read some reviews saying that this episode really sucked because it was a filler episode, in the sense that it didn't add anything to the series. That is a very stupid thing to say, these lame reviews were probably written by conspiracy freaks or lost super geeks who are so crazy about the mysteries and the theories that they forget what a great episode is about. At the beginning of the show i didn't give much credit to the initial storyline of nick and Paulo. To be honest i was afraid Paulo would be too much like sawyer and that would have sucked. But the writers made a very spectacular job on designing these 2 characters. They are both very wicked in their own ways. From my point of view it seemed like Nikki was a very ambitious girl, very greedy, greedy to the point where she became obsessed by her ambition and Paulo (who had nothing to do with sawyer) who was so madly in love with this girl that you can assume the he killed that man for her, he would do anything to be with her. this episode was perfect for some particular reasons. 1- it proved that we don't need to have four fingered feet statues, alien-like supersonic sound weapons frying peoples brains or a smoke monster to appreciate this show great. 2- it proved that there can still be real drama in the series (with some of the most dramatic deaths ever seen so far) 3- It proved that it is still possible to bring new characters with totally different personalities from the old ones, but yet, with very interesting stories. Best show of the season by FAR. 10 of a 10