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Legends of Tomorrow (2016)
season 2 was the best but after s3 started to get unrecognizable
The show was really promising and while it had a rough start in s1, in s2 it became really enjoyable time travelling adventure with super heroes. The lead of the show Sara Lance is really well written and protrayed by the excellent actress Caity Lotz who is also a real life ninja, brough a great action scenes and the best tv version of the comics Black Canary.
But after s3 the show decided to pander too much on some online reviews and turned the plots in to a wacky silly comedy with no consequences and rehashed plots cause appernatly the writters think that everybody watches it just for the humor. What used to be once good dimensional heroes were turned in to a comedy relief and now every character is in a romance or a love triangle. s4-5 just feels like completely different show than what it used to be.
I really hope the show gets better cause it still has some great characters like Sara, Mick, Constantine
Batwoman (2019)
Amazing show better than Arrow last seasons
This show has many parallels with the show Arrow and all are good ones. I love Ruby Rose performance and she is a real bad ass in real life, which is something very underrated when casting an actress to play super hero. The action is great, the characters have very good chemistry.
I hate the fact that they use Batman to promote the show, I think Kate should be her own thing.
As a fan of Arrow's Canary I am little sad that they didn't do Sara Lance spin off with similar script, crime fighting dark hero who protects women with over protective police father and evil sister Black Siren. But anyway I am so happy I had this with new fresh character, I hope they add some really intense backstory as Sara Lance's league of assassins past.
I also think Caity Lotz and Ruby Rose would be great together in a scene so hope to see them crossover more often.
Disobedience (2017)
Amazing story of how real love is
This movie is not just a romantic love story, it is a movie about love as a whole. It is a movie how you can love someone even if you don't agree with their world, and even if they hurt you and this makes you leave them, you can still love them if their are your family. It is a movie that show is you that people are able to go beyond their mind chains and society cage, and accept the others by sacrificing your own happiness by giving them freedom. It is a story of how two people can be miles away but still love each other, and just because you are lost and you are going to change your life doesn't mean you have to jump right into another relationship so someone has to save you, no it shows that love is not a savior, it is a feeling, you have to save yourself, figure your life out, and then go an be with the person you love. It is not a movie where one person destroys a family, it is a movie where the one persona saves two others form the lies they are living.
Deadpool 2 (2018)
Tiring tropes and stereotypes hidden behind clever humor trying to convince us this movie is different than others, but it really isn't, we've seen this topics over and over
I have a hard time figuring out some of the plot lines, were they ironic and trying to make a point or this movie also falls under the so predictable tropes of man pain, fridging female characters to give man pain, the love will save you theme, the woman as a price, the guy always have to be a hero while the woman stays at home waiting for him while he is a hero, the man with the killed wife and child that stops caring for them ones they are safe, because being a hero is more important, the female bad ass that has nothing more in the movie than being just incredibly bad ass and drops no blood, the lesbian teenage couple that have no story line but are their for representation and are presented as the biggest stereotype of a tomboy with no emotions and giggly femme. And the whole adopted family theme, really. It was so hypocritical to talk about family when the movie destroyed the families at hand just to give make us believe that some dysfunctional people make a family, as if this ever happens in real life. Why is the movie industry so obsessed with family themes, that everybody should belong to a family. Every second movie and tv show these days is about that.
The X Files: My Struggle III (2018)
Does Carter hate his show?(SPOILERS)
I think the biggest conspiracy of the X files is the reason why Carter wants to sabotage his own show. After disappointing movie in 2010, people would think that he would try to regain his glory days and put an effort and a little bit talent in what he is doing. I was his biggest fan, I think the man was a genius. What happened? Does he hate his fans and his characters. Everything in this episodes is total nonsense. Never have watched so rushed plot lines, empty dialogues and characters with no motivations. Mulder is an empty shell, a shadow of his previous self, he has no agency. Scully is definitely the driving force but her character is used again in a story line no one liked 15 years ago. Why revisit and revisit and change something people want to forget or move on.
Put an end to this - 'who's the father stupidity' and lets focus on more complex interesting story lines. This starts to look like a bad meme of Star Wars and Darth Vader, where the Smoking man will turn out to be the father of everyone in the end. Why doesn't Carter just bring in new characters, new conspirators and try to tell a new story? Why is he erasing everything he showed us in season 9? Or why not continue his old story? There is no way Smoking man survives his death. Who stands behind him now? Where is the logic behind his desire to finish the world. The X files used to be the most complex story of conspiracy and now is just so foolish that I don't know to laugh or cry.
Skinner is an empty character too. Monica is totally ruined, why is she even there.
It looks like a big middle finger to the small amount of remaining fans of this show.
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015)
Subjective opinion
I couldn't feel the drama. I haven't seen the first part, but it seems I didn't have to. There was no life and chemistry in any of the characters. They could't make me believe that there was love between them, passion for freedom, fear of losing, strength to fight, and sadness of loss. Everything felt so flat and as if no one cared really what's going on. Of course there are some exceptions - the deaf brother, who was the only genuine in his suffering, Jenna Malone character who had some wit and anger for what had happened to her and commander Paylor who had some great presence. The only moving scene was in the end, when Katniss cried for her sister in the house. I couldn't understand what this movie is about. There were no heroes, only villains who kind of won in the end. Everyone died, and the main character couldn't even get her revenge. The two male main characters were so lame and such cowards. They didn't really loved Katniss, and didn't care for her nor they cared for anything else but themselves.The one was like broken puppy the whole time, but he was like that in the other movies as well. The other one was like the indifferent nobody who will stab you in the back. The worse was that they didn't have any depth as characters. Katniss, who supposed to be the symbol of hope and unity was so depressed the whole movie and so scared in a way and indecisive.
Goats (2012)
Extraordinary movie with amazingly talented actors and unique characters
I would like to start with that - after watching this movie i wished i were the one living in the farm with Goat man as my father :D. Although this movie does not introduce deep philosophical problems - it is about life and leaves you with cosmic feeling that life is good. It revolves around ordinary story of really fictional fifteen year old boy(believe me boys at that age are rarely so mature ;) ) but the characters around him are the one that matters. David Duchovny is one of the few really genuine actors, who can portray weird but true and honest characters in their nature, so well. He is witty and his subtle intelligence is so appealing and his character Goat Man has so many layers. He starts as a mysterious and flawless guardian who is always there and just gives you advices and leads you on a journey without judging you. But later in the movie we see him as a real man with weaknesses and desires. In the end he proves to be the real father and the best the boy could have. The film shows that even though the boy was raised in this unconventional atmosphere with two unconventional parents who loved him so much, he couldn't escape from his biological nature and pursuing what his biological father had thus pulling him apart from his real family. I really liked the open ending leaving us with feeling that life goes on and anything can happen.
Gone (2012)
I was entertained throughout the whole movie but i will call it a comedy not thriller
I have to admit I would have never watched this movie if Kate Moennig was not in it. I am not fan of Amanda Shefield although this is the only movie I have seen her in. But she just proved me that she is not a very good actress, she has blond long hair, i admit, that this is a valuable quality in Hollywood. Enough for the actresses, now why I think it was a comedy - well all of the situations in the movie were very unbelievable and fictional and the way the main character delivered all these lies to get to the killer and her way of investigating had a very comedy feel. The way the police handled the situation was also very funny- instead of checking her testimony they just decided to pursue her but i guess this was necessary plot development because otherwise there will be no chasing in the movie. The boyfriend was also very funny in his indifference to the situation at first. And the way Jill delivered her first lines to the police that the killer is back and took her sister was hilarious. I laughed a lot throughout the whole movie until the end where she was in the forest looking for the killer where I have to say was a little bit scary and had these dark feel. The think that i liked the most in the movie was that it kept you guessing if she was crazy and if this whole thing was real and of course sexy Kate Moennig who even with almost no lines developed her skeptical edgy character of a police officer very well. her final reaction to the words of the main character that the killer never existed, said it all just with one smile.
What's Your Number? (2011)
the whole movie is a cliché
I will start with that - this is the second movie released this year that starts with the exactly the same scene(the other one is The Bridesmaids) : a woman wakes up next to a guy after meaningless sex, goes to the bathroom and fix her look so when he wakes up he says she looks pretty in the morning. So from this scene on you know exactly what this movie is about, because each one of us has watched this story over and over again but with different titles. It is all about weddings and women that feel incomplete if they are not married or haven't found the perfect guy. So someone else going to get married in the movie but the main character and she is so miserable. Along the way of the movie there is this cute guy (who either is with a perfect body or is a total nerd)gets her heart, but he still is not the perfect one according to her standards, so he got dumped for the rich and smart and the one who wants to marry her. And because this is a romantic comedy formula repeated to death, after the little twist of course the cute guy wins and they finish with a kiss. So not only this story is one and the same in a lot of movies but in its core it is about only one person whose personality is tried to be imposed over all women, being portrayed as pathetic and incomplete human beings if they don't have a partner in life.
Rango (2011)
This movie is a lesson for life
It is the most clever movie i have seen for years. It starts with depicting the normal everyday contemporary man living in his 'aquarium' well yes because everyone of us is some way or another living in our own box or own aquarium full of illusions and false reality where you never question your survival and where food and water comes from, because you take all the luxuries for granted. But then suddenly this aquaruim breaks. And you end up in the real world. Lesson 1: the real world is a dessert and you end up - DEAD Lesson 2: the real world is full of predators and you end up - DEAD Lesson 3: you meet other people who are different and don't accept you because you are different. Lesson 3: all people like good stories and are filled with their own illusions and fears and instead of seeing the truth and fight for their rights they prefer to believe a lie and let a good deceiver to lead them. Lesson 4: you don't need courage, brain or strength to be a leader, just know the right words at the right time. Lesson 5; Real heroes always become unnoticed because of prejudice or image.
Three Rivers (2009)
the chemistry between the main cast was amazing
As a whole the show was kind of boring because each episode was very predictable and there was no development of the main characters but the chemistry between the three main doctors, the little jokes they made and the depth of the performances in the serious, more personal conversations they had, no matter how rare they were, showed that this series had potential that probably was overlooked by the writers. Each main character was interesting and had potential to be more developed on the background of the main plot which was the organ donation. I especially like the character of doctor Miranda Foster which was outstanding and original female with big spirit and determination which is something we can rarely see in a female character on TV. Kate Moenning performance was unique and gave depth to the character and made her believable. she has the charm of Robert Deniro for me.
The Lincoln Lawyer (2011)
Great movie! I really enjoyed it.
What distinguish it from other thrillers and crime dramas is the atmosphere and quite unconventional characters and situations. I really enjoyed the soundtrack of the movie. Also I liked the most the beginning of the movie, which introduced us to the main character Haller, before he starts to deal with the rape case. I haven't read the book but in the way this character was so fully depicted, mentioning and seeing his other clients, I realized that the movie isn't going to be only for a particular case but telling us a story of a lawyer who gets small criminals out of jail and his consciousness about it. He seemed unscrupulous and unprincipled but at the same time we see that there are some clients he really cares for. Matthew McConaughey did very good job in this movie in my opinion. I really believed him in most of the situations. Ryan Phillippe and Josh Lucas were hilariously bad. I laughed at every scene they were, so theatrical and naive performances. Marisa Tomei was OK though a little not believable as a woman whose profession is a prosecutor. But I guess her character's main goal was to bring a little warmth and sex appeal to Haller and nothing more. Other actors who stood up for me were Katherine Moennig, who played the hooker in the jail and Shea Whigham, who played the snitch. Although their roles were very small and screen time limited they were very believable, real and their characters were unconventional and interesting to watch. The scene with McConaughey and Moennig in jail was quite moving and showed depth of Haller and desperation of a lost kid in the hooker, which is not usually how someone will play a hooker. I also like a lot the rockers in the movie which brought quite a color and entertainment. I cannot say anything about the other actors because their roles were very standard and nothing deep or unconventional. As a whole I recommend this movie to anyone, who want to see a good crime drama with a little humor and some action.