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Triangle (2009)
Excellent horror/scifi/mistery whatever thriller movie.
There isnt too much to tell without spoilling the plot. Just that if you like "horror/scifi/mistery" thrillers, you will like it.
There isnt gore, just a little blood, not too much violence.
Good actors, it seems to be nade on a small budget but the production value is ok so it doesnt look like a student project or a indie movie. It looks like a profesional made movie.
Worth the time to watch it.
Army of Thieves (2021)
So cartoonish that it looks like a spoof movie.
I liked army of the dead, so i really wanted to like this movie. But its so sketchy, lacks any character developtment, that it looks like a cartoon, like an episode of scooby doo about heists. Characters are introduced as archetypes ("look, this is our action guy..").
I wasnt able to finish it.
Invasion (2021)
Scifi as an excuse for drama and social issues
One of those scifi/fantasy shows for people who doesnt like those genres and they are in just for the drama.
I am ok with character development, and subtle fantastic/scifi elements, but whent this keep on and on, then you realize that they dont care about the scifi element and they care only about the drama.
They cross all the boxes of the woke politics. I dont have problems with lesbian characters or non whites, or showing bullying etc.. but when all the characters at least cover one of those woke social issues, and all the episode (well, all of the first 3 episodes) are devoted to those issues, then this is a show about social issues and drama, and not about scifi.
Dune (2021)
Its just the first half of the movie
And they hadnt made the second half, so i feeled disapointed; i could pay for watching dune in two movies, but what if they dont make enough money and they dont make the second half?
I feeled like i wasted my money.
Yes, i didnt know because i didnt read the web in order to not to spoil the movie with so many trailers, but i think it would be easy to title it "part one".
Anyway i liked the movie and the visuals, lots of years since i read the books so better that way.
I just expect that i havent paid for watching just the first half of a movie if the dont make the second part.
What if something happens to the actors?
I wouldnt watch it until i knew for sure that there was a second part.
Anyway, i think tht the movie deserves 8 stars, but the experience of watching a half movie without knowing if there will be a second part was disapointing.
Jojo Rabbit (2019)
Lovely tragicomedy
Wonderfull actors, good choice of music, and a lovely tragicomedy
Malasaña 32 (2020)
Good haunted house movie, it could have been better
Good horror movie, Excellent production values, actors range from good to average, but the movie really abuse of the scarejumps. Although thats a good thing if you like it.
The plot its ok, but it could have been better. It looks like a excuse for the scarejumps, although there arent plot holes, ( the reaction to an event could look a bit weird for modern standards, and it could look like a plot hole, but its understandable in the context of the family) and there are some ok twists, and they tried to make an interesting history. But they abuse so much of scarejumps, and use so much tropes of the clasic haunted house movie, that the plot would be a 5 or a 4, and its the weakest part of the movie.
But still an interesting movie if you like haunted house movies, and i think its an interesting and decent horror movie overall.
The movie happens in the 70s, in spain, so maybe the setting can be a bit alien to american viewers. Take in account that it was a very traditional and catholic country, divorce and abort were still illegal, that explains some of the bits in the story. Franco died the year before, the country is still a dictatorship.
The protagonists are a family of farmers, with almost not skills, trying to get a better life in the big city. They find an old and big apartament in a classic neighbourghood of madrid.
I liked how it solves the "why the protagonist just dont run away from haunted house"?.
You wont regret watching this movie, but maybe youll think that it could have been better