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Steve-O: Gnarly (2020)
Maybe the dude has earned this money...
The show's marketing is misleading and already on the site they try to sell you "merchandise". It's not Jackass 4.0 as you could think from the trailer. It's nothing like that. But it is entertaining and empathetic.. and has a couple of nasty new stunts. Maybe the dude has earned this money for amusing us over the years while risking his own health. We need more of these modern clowns.
The Upside (2017)
Enjoyable
Reminds me of some great comedies of '90s. Acting is good, Kevin Hart doing the best performance, but Nicole Kidman and the wheelchair dude also do a great job. Some scenes are executed little hastily and the illusion breaks a little bit. Great scenery and sound. Loved the opera scenes. Few annoyances of Hollywoodish over-drama, but most of the scenes are funny and/or touching. Time well spent with this movie.
Watched on Amazon Prime, did not know nor expect anything of this movie. I was not aware that this is a re-make of some earlier French movie.
7/10 Brilliant
Kursk (2018)
A dime a dozen
If you have seen single Hollywood "rescue" movie, you don't get anything new out of this. Goes to the same basket with "The 33" (about the Chilean miners). There are literally dozens of almost identical titles, but better executed.
The fact that it is a sad story, does not automatically grant any extra points. More people are perished every day in the world, why nobody gets so emotional about that?
Visually it looks nice, but is somehow dull. Sound scene could be much better in submarine setting.
Acting is typical mediocre Hollywood style over-dramatization, undervaluing the viewer big time. This is also seen in unrealistic scenes, like a person drowning under water while being consicious and then he just stops breathing and is supposedly dead. What happens is that you first panic, then breath in the water, followed by violent convulsions. Even if one manages to hold breath until he passes out due to lack of oxygen, his body will automatically start breathing immediately when it happens, again followed by convulsions as stated earlier. This is just one example of the how the writers condescend the viewer.
Not worth of paying for, but ok as a background movie if you don't have anything else to do.