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Space Rangers (1993)
The cinematography kills it
There are some great bones for this but the cinematography and editing are awful. Every few seconds the frame rate slows just slightly in an apparent attempt to be dramatic but it just makes it look like the film was dragging. And the deliberate camera shake is nauseating.
Props are meh and graphics are meg but not unduly so for the year and tech at the time. It's just the lighting and cinematography that makes it nearly unwatchable.
There are some great actors along side some awful ones. And blast it, I know Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa is not that bad of an actor but man is he bad in this. I can only hope it was poor direction and script for him.
The Flash (2023)
Keaton is the best part
The really bad
The first hour of this is practically unwatchable and the overall story is basically a badly done reimagining of one of the TV show time travel arcs.
The effects are beyond horrible and no matter how much people say budget, remember that the Flash TV show did it 10x better in story, acting, and effects on a lower budget continuously.
Ezra Miller can act, but the chosen style for the Flash is beyond annoying.
What's with the poses before running that take longer than the runs themselves?
Did I mention the effects? Every time you finally get into part of the movie, they get obsessed with focusing on the effects and it's just bad again.
The good/ok-ish
About an hour in Keaton arrives and it's like a new movie. He gives us an amazing performance that elevates the film while he's in it.
Stargate Universe (2009)
Ship full of unlikable characters
I've rarely seen so many unlikable characters on a single show. And it just falls apart from there. Every time it gets into good scifi territory it takes a hard left turn and navel gazes on contorted interpersonal drama again...drama that didn't need a scifi setting.
And come on, rape by proxy (using other people's bodies without their permission) that the show treats as no big deal is just a huge blind spot for the writers that never should have been allowed on screen...or at the very least should have been explored for what it was, not treated as no big deal while they fall all over themselves to find a way to bring cheating into the drama...ignoring the bigger issues with it.
Against the Clock (2019)
The 70s called and want their art film back
I tried to give this a fair shake, mostly because Patrick Bauchau was on screen quickly and I've always enjoyed his work. But from the first disjointed scenes that look like PeeWee Herman playing a dead body to hideously edited and conceived static cut graphics over the entry exposition info dump this thing felt more like a drug fueled 1970s art film than anything considered today.