Pugnacious

Dear French-cinema lovers, Firstly, thank you for an opportunity to watch one of your country recent achievement in modern art. And what an achievement is it! You are right to discard all of the hamburger-eating peasants' rules, all that so-called American cinema, and you do not annoy us again with boring, understandable characters. Obviously, you, French people know that human existence is miserable, there are no connections between human, other than standing in the shower, and clean blood from your sister's face, or maybe have a sex with a homosexual guy and gnaw on your own hand at the same time. Or maybe, just maybe, being a truck driver, talking nonsense ant pet some guy's ear at the same time. You never forget, that there is no family anymore and that a father necessarily needs to act like some random guy towards his daughters. Secondly, why use old weary logic and causation, when you could just throw some scene at us, and give us the sheer pleasure of ad a sense to it? You remind us, poor souls, that we are all doomed, and every worldly effort is pointless. Also, there is absolutely no need to put some humor into art, or even slightly hint, that humor is even possible (not after Sartre at least), so when you portrait fresh-year students, we better believe that they all act like 80-years old philosophers. I love horror movies, and I love to be scared. I wasn't scared even once. I wasn't disturbed. You may believe that you could make movies, but you were only very lucky, for all the snobs who are there, who liked to feel intelligent. Raw is a pathetic nonsense, and it fails at all levels.

Simply great. Comedy is a tough deal and danger of slipping into stupidity is always hovering over it. Kudos to Chris Rock. The story is very good, almost touching and dialogues are intelligent. Top five has an Allenian atmosphere (from old Woody, not the new one).

Extremely cheap and shallow, with cringe-worthy performance. I used to over-hyped movies, but this looks like the new era of stupidity. People called this fresh. What kind of stale pieces of **** they have to watch to do that, is beyond me.

Oh boy... Now I'm feeling miserable giving Blade Runner 2049 6/10 the other day. Watching The Dark Tower really gives me perspective. It's among most forgettable, almost unwatchable movies like The Great Wall. It looks like an episode of a third-rate TV show for kids. The one that you can watch at 6.30AM if you have insomnia. And I am not even King fan. Everyone rambles about how original book series is a masterpiece, but I'm pretty sure it is just as incoherent, as you can get with King. The only virtue of the movie is that story makes sense. It's naive and stupid story, worse than almost anything you can watch or read, but it is story nonetheless.

Yep, another masterpiece, only... not so much. If movies are primarily about the story, the new Blade Runner ****. There are too many unnecessary scenes, too many amazingly slow ones, and many which I like to call executions - on the surface something happens there, but indeed they are only about exposition. Every scene with annoying Jared Leto is just that: cheap exposition. Bad guys are one-dimensional, unlike Rutger Hauer in the first movie. Rich, original environment of the first movie are now desolate ruins. Which is nice, for a second, but then you see almost all scenes are empty. At some point, it looks like there are not secondary characters in this world. Gosling was a good choice, and there is enough good thing in BR that you still can watch it and have fun, but BR2049 should simply be much better than this.