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Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
Hugely overrated
The movie was recommended to me by a friend who saw the reviews and somehow believed those. Huge mistake.
To say the movie is childish would be an honor for this movie, I have seen plenty of animated movies which were a huge lot better.
The story is dumb and entirely predictable. The characters are almost flat and have absolutely no credibility from either a serious point of view nor from a parody point of view. Acting was also poor.
Visual effects were OK and being a 3D movie helped, but that is the only positive thing that I can say about the movie.
The theater was half-full but during the entire movie there was not a single time when you could hear everybody laughing hard.
The only way I can imagine that so many 9 and 10 star reviews were added for this movie is since all the brainwashed Marvel fan-boys and sock-puppets for the studios somehow managed to overwhelm normal reviewers.
The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
Disappointing
The story is really pathetic - but that is a now a given when you make a movie from a comic for under-10 years old :(
The science is non-existent.
The logic is mostly absent.
The most surprising part of the story is about how the entire movie is a huge scare that poor people want class warfare and other similar brainwashing techniques that are frequently seen in right-wing propaganda movies.
There was only one remotely interesting / unexpected twist (but very remotely), without that the story would have been a total zero.
Special effects go from acceptable / good to rather bad / gratuitous at times.
Acting was not as bad as was expecting, and the distribution could have provided better results with a better story.
Overall a movie that I will probably never see for the second time.
Battleship (2012)
One of the worst SF movies ever
There is not much to be said - I just lost 2 hours of my life based on a stupid score from here :( Basically the movie does not have anything - no story, no acting, the most anti-science and anti-logic movie I have seen in my entire life.
Special effects deserve a 1 but everything else is clear zero.
I really can not understand how many brainwashed people had to vote for this movie in order to reach this kind of score. Kids under the age of 8 might be secretly voting this movie, but once you get over that age it is hard to see anything there. At most some propaganda for the US Navy, but even for that the movie is too stupid.
Compared to this one, Independence Day is some sort of genius movie.
Supravietuitorul (2008)
WOW, the movie that makes old romanian jokes come true ...
There was an old joke about "Sergiu Nicolaescu movies" - "director Sergiu Nicolaescu, producer Sergiu Nicolaescu, lead actor Sergiu Nicolaescu, and with Colea Rautu playing Sergiu Nicolaescu" - it is now true!!! (Petr Falc instead of Colea Rautu but that does not really matter).
The movie is so awful that it could compete for the title of the worst romanian movie of the last 10-20 years - and the 10-15 seconds of nudity with Ileana Lazariuc can not save it no matter how gorgeous she might be ... (and honestly speaking she is).
The plot is non-existent, the story is totally stupid (basically in that foreign town you find like 80% of the population being of romanian origin, and almost all of them people that the hero knew from 30+ years ago - not to mention that the romanian gangsters kind of 'make the law' in that large luxury town).
The movie is also a huge 'family mess' - the singer was pushed for her relations with the director and not to be outdone we find two Mihaita so it was probably a failure before even starting to film on it ...
Sunshine (2007)
I can't believe people rate this movie so high ...
Technically it deserves about ZERO points, maybe 4-5 on the idea part ... so I guess that the rest of the points are coming from people that are just happy so see a movie that was somehow placed in the SF category.
The special effects were also poor and once you start analyzing things the story is pathetic.
Acting was probably above average but that can not save a movie.
In the end I regret the time spent on it ... but I can see why in the total 'drought' of good SF movies some people might believe this one was acceptable.