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The Box (2021)
Very hard to watch it's that bad
Wow. Expected this to be good but boy was I wrong.
Such unlikeable characters this whole show is let down purely on the terrible script.
A great concept with great actors ruined by a horrendously annoying storyline/script.
Yikes. Every time Pici freaks out thinking something is real that clearly isn't and the people around her just super calmly say 'oh no, please don't, you need help' but literally do heck all to actually stop her insanity.
What's up with the psychiatrist. She's the strangest character I can't tell if she's shady, incompetent, or confused about where she is and what she's doing.
Plus the supernatural aspect is woven in so terribly.
I don't know why anyone thought this was okay to put out in it's current state but yea, I'd give it a miss.
Locke & Key (2020)
Awfully Written, Terrible Acting
This has got to be the biggest missed opportunity ever.
A fantastic story written by a great writer turned into a poorly written YA romance coming of age story with acting so terrible it's impossible to watch.
I read that this show has been stuck in writing limbo for years now and it seems to me that the writers just gave up, opting to put in as little effort as possible in all facets just for the sake of getting the show done.
The acting is so bad not just because the awful material they have to work with but because the actors themselves seem to have been given no direction whatsoever.
The show focuses more on the kids love lives than anything else.
This show is supposed to be about magical Keys, incredible fantasy based magic, an opportunity for a beautiful show that could have gone really far. Instead all you see is terrible jokes, ridiculous plot lines, and a lacklustre ending that leaves me definitely not wanting more.
Fire the writers Netflix, go back to the drawing room and improve.
If I were the original writer of this book I would be offended at what they have done to it.
Just plain awful
The Meg (2018)
Half good Half terrible
Okay, so there are little things that really irk me with this movie. Whilst the cinematography is fantastic, some of the casting is okay and then there are so many scenes that do not make sense and are really annoying.
I.e. when the large guy is exiting through the hatch and yelling at Toshi to hurry, meanwhile he's going through the hatch as slow as humanly possible because someones gotta die right! Yippee. Then when Toshi closes the hatch he sounds so bored when he yells 'Toshi no...' honestly could they not have re-shot this and asked him to emote better. I get the impression they just didn't care and focused on how cool the shark would look meanwhile thinking the audience is too stupid to notice anyway and judging by some of the reviews they're right.
Second is the acting of Bingbing Li as Suyin. English is obviously her second language and I'm sure she is a fantastic actress when speaking in her native language. However she cannot act to save herself in this film. She delivers every line so monotone. She has no emotion and constantly sounds like she's just reading straight from the script. Seriously, just watch this and listen to every line she delivers. She uses the exact same tone, exact some emotionless downright boring dialogue. How any of her lines got into the film is beyond me. It would be better if she didn't speak at all or just wasn't in the film.
When she's in the sub at the start trying to rescue the trapped people and says 'no, i can help you save the crew' and 'it's crushing me' these are two lines that should have been delivered with some semblance of emotion. I can't help but think that she couldn't do both.. get the english lines right and emote. She was probably focusing on just speaking the words right and couldn't focus on her acting skills. That, or she just doesn't know how to act.
Terrible casting. I can think of many other asian actresses who would have been much better suited to this role. I mean the girl who plays her daughter is a better actress than her, tenfold.
Lastly the script is just ghastly. "Jonas was right!!" and then Bingbing saying 'there is something down here' like oh really!!??? you literally went down there to rescue people because of the thing that's down there. You don't need to reiterate that like this is new and surprising information (delivered with zero emotion by the way) the pacing is just painful. Stretching things out to a ridiculous degree just to create tension and thrills. Example 'firing magnetic hook, 3..2..1" like was that countdown really necessary. Just fire it. Or when the lights won't turn off on her sub and it's like 20 seconds until they do. How stupid?? You would think a freaking high tech sub like that would have an emergency shutdown or something. But no they needed to add these ridiculous parts in order to place the female character in danger to be saved by the hero guy. This movie was too predictable and while I do enjoy watching it, I watch it a comedy and not a drama. 3/10.
Bingbing go take some acting classes please.
47 Meters Down: Uncaged (2019)
Terrible
What an absolutely shocking movie. Bad acting, bad writing, bad CGI, just bad everything. Everything that happened was so predictable. I don't understand why films are made just for the sake of making them. They butchered what could have been a really interesting and suspense filled cave diving film by turning it into the most tropey, jump scare film they could. The actors were shocking and I don't blame them given the material they had to work with. Why did they decide to go with teenage girls who do nothing but make stupid choices and scream the whole time instead of oh I don't know, maybe the divers who actually had a reason to be in the cave, getting trapped and having to find a way out, all the while running out of air and dodging a huge shark.
They foreshadowed the whole breathing air bubbles thing and DIDN'T EVEN INCLUDE IT LATER!!
Just goes to show, if you get pretty girls and tack it on as a sequel to another film you might make a decent movie. But in this instance, they failed miserably.
I skipped heaps of the film hoping to get to a semi interesting point.
That's an hour of my life I'll never get back.