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orety
Movie Buff - 245 Film Ratings
Member Since: 26 Jul 2012
Location: Poland
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more Recent Ratings

65 37% House of the Dragon (2022) - Rated 24 Mar 2024
"Could be good... and yet. Wimin stronk strikes yet again! I'll pass, thank you very much."
65 37% Arcane (2021) - Rated 25 Feb 2024
"Wimin stronk! Good only for those who like to be subliminally emasculated while being entertained by great visuals and art design"
65 37% Don't Look Up (2021) - Rated 03 Sep 2023
"A strange one. I don't really know what this movie wanted to be? A comedy? A farce? A drama? Did it want to say something? Or only entertain? It doesn't really say much and it's more cringe-inducing and over-the-top than entertaining. It's a product of a culture it wants to criticize. It's making fun of it and embracing it at the same time. It's a somewhat coherently and somewhat campy looking mess."
75 57% Top Gun: Maverick (2022) - Rated 27 Aug 2023
"Stealing a line from another reviewer: I liked the parts with airplanes :). Don't get me wrong, the rest was not particularly bad. But, the emotional parts were overly melodramatic (and made it look padded with too much filler), and you better don't engage your rational qualities at some plot points (especially during the last segment) - you won't see much sense there. This movie was totally in tune with it's hero - a dying breed. A proper blockbuster focusing on delivering fun and action."
60 30% Into The Night (2020) - Rated 27 Aug 2023
"Could be so much more...I had a feeling that the cast was better than the stuff they got from writers to work with. This is an apocalypse story that fails to evoke any sense of serious drama or even that of a real urgency. But, the premise is strong and it kinda carries the plot to the Season 1's finale (I'm not gonna go any further with this)."
60 30% Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023) - Rated 17 May 2023
"A Hollywood's fan service to nerds. More an assumption Hollywood has what a nerd would like to see than what an actual nerd would like to see. I give a bigger score than it deserves, because at least they try. They still don't seem to grasp though why GoT (sans the last season) was such a massive success. You have to be serious about fantasy. Not try to wink-wink audience into your belief that it's all utter bollocks so let's better get it on with it."
75 57% Gomorrah (2014) - Rated 16 Nov 2021
"[S01] Solid and different (especially in pace) from your usual Hollywood fluff. Narration is slow and elaborate and the aesthetics show with equally elaborate, naturalistic precision all the dirt and the ugliness of Naples suburbs (which is to stress the moral dirt and ugliness of their inhabitants). I don't buy everything that happens plot-wise though (i.e. one central character twist in the middle) and it was both too slow and violent for my linking."
90 87% Dune (2021) - Rated 22 Oct 2021
"Villeneuve'a strong suit (esthetics, building up the atmoshpere, sensuality) has found enough room to shine at last. Woke accents are, mercifully, barely noticeable, and if present, they manage to defend themselves. Casting is top-notch as, in such a heavily theatrical movie, has to. There are things to nit-pick but they shan't obscure the big picture and the big picture is glorious."
80 70% Network (1976) - Rated 03 May 2021
"A tough nut to crack. Great dialogues (and even better monologues!) and acting. Seemingly, it's daringly revealing. Some points it rises hit eerily close to home (esp. during this covid craze). But, it's still programming. And I've a feeling I missed the gist of it (apart from the usual: spreading despair, nihilism, atheism and moral rot). The melodrama arc is not believable and way too meta. The movie's focal point, the Howard Beale character, feels an artificial stooge. Strange one, for sure."
70 46% Oldboy (2003) - Rated 02 May 2021
"Good cinema, but I didn't like the perversely decadent theme. Original and competent (great use of classical music to amplify the emotional effect of violence), but way too over the top. And, the director had overdone the ambiguity schtick for the ending. Also, it's quite funny how there's so many people praising this movie to high heaven with no reservations. Either they have no clue about its message or they endorse glorifying incest through violence."