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The handheld camera shake was just plain awful. It actually hurt to watch. My eyeballs were constantly bouncing around their sockets. Next, it's just a whole lot of talking, talking and much more talking. This is no action movie. This is very much a tell dont show... show. In fact it reminded me of watching a bad TV movie. As for the score I simply didn't care; and I didn't care for any of the characters either. Willis, it feels these days, is more often just cashing in a cheque where i'd like to think he was adding some star power to a potentially good movie. However, that could be wishful thinking. Acting i guess was okay for what it is, a bad script? First shots fired were just after 32 minutes in and they must be on a budget as there's really only one location.

Having just binged watched The Boys Season One in two sittings and then coming over to check out this series... talk about chalk and cheese. In comparison, the episodes here in TUA are so so boring. Tons of dead air. The characters are extremely dull. I find each episode a chore to get through. How is it getting such high ratings? I'm not sure i have what it takes to tackle season 2. Nah, i'm not going to do it.

The cinematography however was okay.

#Alive was better than average but no Train To Busan. The movie looks good and the acting is solid but the script in the latter part had me rolling my eyes at the stupidity and melodrama. The zombies were a little inconsistent too eg. they could turn door handles in some scenes and not in others. The zombies dragging the policewoman scene was cool, the zombie climber scene? Not so much. I actually initially thought it was going to play out differently and that he was a gamer and was going to use his gamer skills in real life on zombies. I wanna see THAT film. 6/10.

I put this on my second monitor while i was pottering around doing something else. When i saw 'VFX: Car On Fire' for the parents explosion shot it piqued my interest. I shifted it to the primary monitor.

I burst out laughing while the pastor was trying to find himself or god in the jungle and a title card hit big with 'China'. Very funny and potentially very smart filmmaking leaning into that low budget but then, that was it. I didn't laugh again for the remainder of movie. It's a lot of talking heads for the most part. What i thought were smart insider industry jokes were not so as the remainder of the comedy was just kinda dumb. The flashbacks were annoying esp the not very compelling reverend father one and i seemed to zone out.

About halfway through the whole thing just started to grate on me so i just shifted it to the smaller third (laptop) screen and got on with other things and occasionally grimace at some of the lazy missed opportunities for what could have been some comedy gold.

What's to say. Before even filming we knew Guy Ritchie was obviously the wrong choice to direct the film. His style doesn't quite lend itself to this type of film. Miscast Mena Massoud didn't bring any real character to the role of Aladdin he was simply okay/ functional. Will Smith is as usual charismatic and had difficult shoes to fill after Robin Williams' take on the genie but he was seriously let down by the VFX in blue genie mode and a weak script. Another miscast Naomi Scott gave a good performance but I always felt i was looking at Indian and not Middle Eastern. In fact the film IS very bollywood with the Jasmin, Aladdin dance off Indian Style (and to Indian music) then Russian dancing(?) plus other times an Indian soundtrack. And i'm not even going to talk about that sorry excuse for a villain. No, no i am not. For a Disney movie set in large Kingdom it sure does feel quite quite small. It looked cheap too. Weird. Ultimately a dreadfully executed cash grab of a movie that no one asked for. Thanks D. Thankfully this is exactly what i expected having seen the trailers.

Slow in lots of places (pacing) eg. On planet ego. Weak humor. Some real obvious or dumb jokes. VFX obvious in places. Grout at the beginning. Script not very good. All over the place. First half not very good. Forced Exposition. Feels like they're just telling us what we we need to know without smart discreet exposition. Music for the sake of music. Big words from dumb people? (Add to script problem).

Second half was only a mild improvement. No real villian. Trying to hard to be cool. Fancy credits. Dancing characters. I am Groot replacing crew. Multiple post credit scenes. Just overall not funny. Dumb Stan Lee cameos.

The premise might have worked but the characters were really annoying and made the most idiotic decisions so the script is to blame there. I find out after the movie that the dialog was mostly improvised and boy does it show. Real wooden. As this was shot on predominantly one set, a house, you soon grow tired visually and possibly with an additional headache because the hand-held camera-work is a nightmare to endure. The story is preposterous with an initial interesting comet overhead and weird things happening idea turns terribly into a possible drugging and then into an affair accusation. Stupid.

6/10 at most. It's hokey, cheesy, even goofy in places and i thought the war stuff in the final act was not really that engaging. I never felt any emotional impact. Oh and the montage of the saving of 75 was rushed and without gravitas. The cast was fine. Nothing standout. Vince Vaughn i felt was still Vince Vaughning it in. Can't really change that. The true story was interesting although i feel the details are slightly embellished. It all felt very low brow American and a tad religious-ee. There are definitely better war films out there.

This film has been on the 'to watch' list for years and finally now that i have time for it, i'm wishing i'd taken an ampule into the congress. What started out as a slow, yet fascinating step into the almost now world of entertainment where technology's advancement is able to immortalize actors\characters (eg. young Princess Leia or Peter Cushing in Rogue One, Paul Walker in the fast and furious even Oliver Read in Gladiator) at the halfway point turns into a slower trippy, incoherent, nonsensical, European animation that has you constantly scratching at your head so that come the last 10 minutes you simply just want it to end (and don't expect to find a conclusion in the congress).

At over 2hrs it feels longer. Robin Wright pretty much only has one emotion. The animation was mostly fine and never wow. The original idea is squandered. The narrative becomes ever more confusing throughout the film, but you'll not care anyway because of the anti- climatic (twist?) ending.

I've watched a ton of food documentaries, big fan. Sometimes they can be fascinating but more often than not they're typical formulaic meh. We Love Paleo falls head first into that latter category. In essence it's one and a half hours of talking heads, just a handful mind you, them praising how the paleolithic diet has transformed their lives for the better. Inter-cut those with a graphic of some stat or quote. Oh and throw in some everyday footage (shot with a potato in this case) to establish perspective. Maybe a before and after shot. Give me a break.

For the majority of the film you could easy replace Paleo with Keto or it's big sister the Atkins diet that reintroduced people to fats in food again and to be mindful of what spikes our glucose levels. The film doesn't cross any new ground, doesn't mention other competing diets and in fact doesn't take you anywhere. No real insights or dramas or revelations. No negatives of the diet are mentioned (which i guess is in line with the We Heart Paleo title). Humor is non-existent. It's like a really long drawn out propaganda piece for Paleo fans by Paleo fans and really quite dull. The documentary only really picks up when more random talking heads and fast paced music kick off but this is over the end credits and you you'll be glad it's over.

Waste of time. You'll find out more information, quicker and unbiased by surfing the net and reading a handful of paleo blogs, the good and the bad then - check out various LCHF diets like Dukan, ITG even South Beach and then - create your own low carb dietary plan because we're not all the same.

BUT if you MUST watch a Paleo documentary film then maybe try In Search of the Perfect Human Diet (2012) and avoid this schlock.

Chomet seems to have nailed his style from the days The Triplets of Belleville.

He captures Scotland, in particular Edinburgh, so well that memories of walking around Arthur's Seat and the quirky characters found at the fringe festivals came flooding back.

The artistry is truly beautiful with mostly hand-drawn animations and limited use of CGI techniques; but the color work, the color work is sublime.

Storywise though, it's charming yet a little too melancholic for my tastes but Tati's comedic nuances and the attention to detail had me favor this over Belleville.

Within the first 15 minutes i was hooked. I mean, what a rush. The stunts, the action sequences... mostly all in camera. Undercranked framerates that made you feel insane just watching. And then... the momentum rarely let up! It's mostly one long action scene. While the premise is simple, the dialog minimal, the acting was spot on and despite it being a Mad Max film, i think it was Charlize Theron that stole the show. Great work from the props department as those vehicles were just outrageous and wardrobe and make-up planted us firmly in George Millers post apocalyptic world and this is where the cinematography came in. Some of those shot looked gorgeous. Steering away from the rule of thirds and planting the main actor or action center frame with a backdrop of beautiful locations. Biggest credit goes to George Miller though... he has made action films feel exciting again and that amid a slew of superheros, fighting robots, hobbits and their epic battles. It really felt heartpoundingly refreshing.

Quentin in my opinion has written and directed only really one good movie and that was the multiple award winning Pulp Fiction. However, most of films, especially of recent, have been real REAL turkeys. People still rate him and his stuff today and i really can't see why. There are many other directors and writers nowadays producing far better entertainment in all aspects of their movies. From this point on, i shall not believe the hype that is a Tarantino movie.

Inglorious was too long and worse still you felt it. The humor was, well, minimal and not that humorous. The violence was nothing new (minus the end scene). The dialog was sometimes very VERY drawn out.

For some they'll love this movie; and for others they'll hate it.

... and i thought the subject matter of Nazis was finally put to bed with the awesome 2004 German movie Der Untergang.