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The Ten (2007)

Highly Underrated Cinematic Masterpiece

[10/10 · 10 August 2021]

When you start a movie and the first thing you see is Paul Rudd badly green-screened in front of two massive stone tablets with the ten commandments on it you KNOW you'll have a great time.

This anthology of different short films about the consequences of not living after gods rules is simply hilarious: you never know what's going to happen next. Sure the jokes are mostly awful BUT they're so awful that you can't help but laugh. My favourite story is the one about not taking gods name in vain. The absolute worst one is the animated one. Still an amazing experience though.

Would rate this movie 11/10 but IMDB won't let me so: 10/10.

Avengers: Endgame (2019)

Definitely not what you would expect.

[3/10 · 24 April 2019]

But I can't really tell if that's a good thing or not.

I appreciate that Marvel is trying something different with this movie, that they changed their working formular to create something new, but for me it sadly didn't work out.

In comparison to Infinity War, Endgame is just.....nh. Disappointing. If you've seen all the other MCU movies you might get a kick out of all the references and jokes based on those, that's the stuff I greatly enjoyed. Endgame didn't take itself and it's characters too seriously and at times this worked out really well. But regretfully, there are others parts where this change of plans destroyed the movie for me. I don't know, turning Thor into an alcoholic, lazy dude who does nothing besides playing Fortnite (yes, Fortnite is in this movie) all day just isn't funny at all and ruins the hard work Taika Waititi has put into him. I also hate what they did to Hulk/Banner, I always thought Banner was an extremly likeable and interesting character, but in this movie I couldn't stand him. Most of the other characters are just _fine_, Tony and Steve being the only ones who really stand out. Endgame gives either of those characters important decisions to make and their dynamic is absolutely entertaining. Steve's ending though was just awful. Not only was it predictable ever since we knew time travel would be part of the plot, it wasn't satisfying at all. Steve leaving his two best friends behind, who he hadn't seen in f i v e years, just to hang with the girl he met for a few weeks eighty years ago AFTER he already made out with her niece is just unbearable. Awful. Why would you do that.

I liked the ending they gave Tony, it was fitting for his character and regarding his importance for the whole MCU he deserved a big goodbye. To be honest, I would've liked it more if they gave Steve the big, heroic death and let Tony live in retirement with his family but hey, whatever.

So in conclusion, after first watching it I really expected more. This just wasn't the big ending I was promised, it was weird at times and overall fine at best. I don't think it was necessary to make it three hours long. The Russo Brothers directed all of my favourite MCU movies so far, but this one was a total miss. Wouldn't recommend if you're not a fan.

Spider-Man 2 (2004)

Disappointed.

[6/10 · 21 January 2018]

Being completly new to Spider-Mans character I wanted to give myself a bit of backstory before watching the new Spider-Man: Homecoming movie and decided to start by watching the three original Spider-Man movies.

While the first Spider-Man (2002) was being really enjoyable, even though very cheesy at times, Spider-Man 2 is just nothing. Stuff was happening in front of me but that's it.

I think Tobey Maguire is a good Spider-Man, he has this dorky face and fits really into this nerdy outcast kind of role, but I think his performance in this movie was just bad. He had the same facial expression for 90% of the movie and while this wasn't so bad in the first one, in this movie it just got irritating. No matter if a scene was sad or shocking or intense, he always looked like he tried smiling really awkwardly for a school picture, but maybe that was just me.

Mary Jane was fine as a generic love interest, I didn't really sympathise with her in the first one and I didn't in this one either, but she was fine, I wasn't bothered by her.

A thing that in fact did bother me a lot was the boring and predictable subplot between Peter and MJ. I don't really get this plot because Peter clearly turned her down for her own safety at the end of the first movie but is now mad at her for dating another guy, it's ridiculous. I get that he loves her and at the same time wants her to be save but come one, you have to decide what you want.

I also think the villain of this movie, Dr. Otto Octavius, was just the Green Goblin with a bit different story. Both are scientists, both want to show of their big break-throughs, both experiments went wrong, both became evil and both of them couldn't control themselves anymore all the time. I am not an comic book expert but I am sure there are a lot of other villains from the Spider-Man comics you could have used instead.

Even though they tried to make the special effects look good I thought they were awful. In the first movie the effects were good because they didn't exaggerated them, which they did in this movie. For me, it was just too much and additionally it looked horrible at times.

This movie was bearable for maybe half of the time, but when Peter started losing his powers out of the blue it got really boring. I was happy when this movie ended.

Maybe it's a different thing watching the movie at the time it came out, but now in the year 2018 it's just nothing. I decided to skip Spider-Man 3 and just watch Spider-Man: Homecoming instead and I definitely didn't regret it.

It's a fine movie and no shame on you for liking it, but for me it was just disappointing after watching Spider-Man (2002).