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Raya and the Last Dragon (2021)
Beautifully designed but horribly written.
The main characters of Raya and the Last Dragon are horribly written, "South Asian representation" feels like an afterthought, and the underlying message is a hot mess. What is there to like here besides the beautiful visuals?
For example, how does Namaari go through the entire movie never once taking responsibility for her actions and end up being presented as a hero? The writers blatantly have Namaari gaslight Raya with no apology and never highlight it as being explicitly wrong and harmful.
Was this written by responsible adults?
Salinjaui gieokbeob (2017)
I was with it til the last twist...
Then it managed to drop my rating from a 10 to a 6, but I really want to give it a 3.
I get what they were going for, it's great, but the overly incompetent police trope is done way too much. I don't like it, I can't stand it, and this movie does it repeatedly.
I've over-analyzed the ending waay too much.
SPOILERS AHEAD:
Why are the cops so incompetent? Byeong-man goes to convince Byung-su to turn himself in because they're friends. He suspects Byung-su is a serial killer resurgent, yet goes alone and is attacked while on the phone with Tae-ju. He mentions he called for back-up. Tae-ju, like a complete moron, rushes over to the house alone and gets himself killed by Byung-su. It's implied Tae-ju is a fair distance away possibly with Eun-hee, yet after killing Tae-ju, Byung-su has enough time to ditch his car and body and get back to the house before back-up finally arrives. I'm sorry, but what? In the following interview it is stated that Eun-hee stopped talking during her interview and it appears she has aphasia. Stopped talking means she was talking at some point, right? So why doesn't she immediately say Byung-su's story is BS? This is the only time it's implied that Eun-hee is mentally impaired, which is fine, except Byeong-man, while still alive and on the phone with Tae-ju expresses hope that Tae-ju and Eun-hee can help convince Byung-su to confess. If she's that badly off, how did either of these fools expect her to be of any help? Are we to believe they never actually met her?
Please, for the sake of my fleeting 10 rating, stop with the third-times-the-charm twists! I was fine with twist one, which had him killing his not-my-daughter. I was elated with twist two, which had him rescuing his not-my-daughter. Twist three's incompetent cops are really incompetent was just too much twisting!
Maybe I'm over-reacting because I liked Byung-su's character. It's possible. It's also possible the ending is just really bad.
Screw it, I'm giving this a 3. It pissed me off.
Arcane: League of Legends (2021)
I have played League of Legends, and this show is indeed incredible.
My time with League of Legends - the video game - might be at an end, but this series will keep me enamored as long as it maintains its high quality.
From the writing, to the voice acting, to the animation, it is a wonder to behold.
On a side note, people piss on Netflix waaay too much nowadays.
Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City (2021)
Take notes! This is how it's done!
It's bland, it's boring, and takes too long to get anywhere.
I didn't think it could get worse than the downward spiral Anderson's Resident Evil franchise devolved into, but this just takes the cake.
I haven't played the early Resident Evil titles yet. I've heard good things about them. Judging by this, and the "fan" reaction praising it for sticking to the source material and recreating the atmosphere, those games must be a boring slog.
This must be how you honor the source material without understanding that what works in one type of media doesn't always work in another.
I really, really hope the upcoming Netflix series that folks have whined about over casting choices is better than this.
The Tomorrow War (2021)
I can't get over how many of these low rating reviews appear to have watched a different movie.
10/10 to balance those very low reviews that complain about the points listed further down. 7/10 or 7.5/10 is appropriate.
Does everyone just accept Marty McFly-esque time travel plots and discard Smart Hulk-esque time travel plots?
*SPOILERS*
A few points to consider, as I've seen mentioned:
1. It is never confirmed by any of the future characters that altering the past will change *their* future. The dialog gets murky at times but it is never stated, and therefore, should not be assumed. This is not a loop, nor does it claim to be a loop. Stop assuming everything is a paradoxical loop for Pete's sake!
2. When future-Muri tells Dan the plan, we're expected to be paying attention and realize that the future soldiers already executed this plan even before jumping back in time. The plan isn't to win the war in the future. The plan is to delay the aliens as long as possible til they can synthesize a solution to then send back so past humanity doesn't suffer extinction. My view is that this plan requires throwing as many bodies as possible between their last stronghold and the aliens to buy time. They sacrificed people from the past in order to save the past people's future. Not. Theirs. Get it?
3. The toxin was created to be sent back in time so the past could mass produce it to combat the aliens when they "arrived". It was not intended for Dan's strike team into Russia because...
4. ...the future did not know where or when the aliens came from, just that they appeared one day and started killing everything. "But there were no ships. There was no satellite footage of any rockets, nothing. They searched everything. They couldn't find it." which brings us back to point number 3. They made a toxin because they had no other viable solution...
5. ...and no time to strategize one. It is stated more than once, if I remember correctly, that the future soldiers believe they are living on borrowed time. They're not looking to waste time coming up with another plan when extinction is staring them in the face.
6. For everyone complaining that time travel in this movie doesn't work the way they want it to: "The Jumplink doesn't work that way. [...] We've barely managed to make one very rudimentary wormhole. If we weren't in an extinction-level event, we'd still be jumping lab rats." Explained 32 minutes in.
7. "Time only flows in one direction. [...] we can jump back and forth between them, but both rafts will always keep moving forward." Meaning every minute that passes in the past, also passes in the future. Explained 31 minutes in.
Points 6 and 7 are really for those people who are simply unwilling to accept that this movie does not treat time travel the way other movies do. I don't get it. We complain that Hollywood keeps recycling ideas, then complain when the idea presented goes against the accepted recycled idea.
8. The future plan was Need-to-Know which did not include telling past government, military, or civilians. This is hinted at by the responses Dan's questions when he was selected and R Force's questions about what the enemy looked like. Of course they're not going to tell you that you're being sacrificed to buy time! Duh!
9. Future soldiers ultimately sacrificed themselves to save the past's future. My view is that yes, they could've saved themselves by traveling back in time, but what would that achieve? They synthesized the toxin just before their extinction. The only way they were able to do this was by capturing a female, which they achieved less than a day before their extinction. They did not discover the origin of the aliens in their timeline and they had no time to sit around trying to figure it out any longer, nor could they take the chance that the past would be prepared even with their arguably limited knowledge about the aliens.
I have not logged into IMVU in quite a long time, but these low reviews and nonsensical complaints needed addressing. No, it isn't a groundbreaking masterpiece, but it's competent, entertaining, and follows a more logical theory of time travel (personal preference) similar to Avengers: Endgame.
Also, The Tomorrow War is a better alternate timeline Alien prequel than the Alien prequels.