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Text Me (2009)
They tried
Text me (2010) is an independent short film directed by Bayoy Bennet and Daniel Lir. The film stars Matt Bennet as Noah and Jill shackner as Jamie. After meeting on Facebook, Noah and Jamie decide to go have dinner together. Of course, nothing goes as planned. Technology, after bringing the couple together, threatens to tear them apart.
The film is quite bad. First, there are a few distracting editing issues to note.
The film is about technology getting in the way of genuine human interaction. My second problem with the editing is related to that. The characters look at their phones constantly in the film. Instead of cutting to a close-up of the phone, the phone display takes up the whole screen, which caught me off guard the first time. I have mixed feelings about that editing choice. Sure, it works as a visual metaphor of technology getting in the way of the characters. Yeah, this was before BBC's Sherlock revolutionized texting in movies by having the text in the same shot with the character reading or writing it. Still something about it seemed wrong to me. Also, the continuity of the phone clocks doesn't match.
There are some other continuity errors in the film but it's not worth it to go through them one by one. Instead, I'd like to focus on one particular shot - the establishing shot of the restaurant's front door. The same exact shot of the door is used twice in the film. In addition, the shot looks like it's from a cheap stock image site. Apparently it's not, because there is a still photographer credited on Imdb. Overall, the film is shot in a bland and uninteresting way. I have no Idea how it took two directors and a cinematographer to shoot this film.
The script is also bad. As a character Noah is the typical shy nerd that you see all the time in movies. Especially in the beginning Noah has a hard time coming up with things to say to Jamie. They met on Facebook and Noah somehow convinced Jamie to go out with him. Why couldn't Noah just continue with the topics they were discussing before?
Jamie also acts oddly. I'm trying to avoid spoilers as best as I can, but near the end she makes a decision and completely seems to change her mind later with a text message. It was also unclear to me how old the characters were. They seem like young adults, but Jamie's mom is constantly looking after her.
I have many more issues with the script, but I'm just going to mention one more of them. According to the official plot synopsis made by the filmmakers, the diner is owned by the mafia. I didn't realize that at all. Sure, the waiters were Italian gangster stereotypes, but that's it. The restaurant being owned by the mafia isn't even an important part of the story and the writers really don't take the concept anywhere.
The isn't entirely bad. It made me smile a couple of times and everyone making it seemed to try their best.
Game of Thrones: Beyond the Wall (2017)
Dumb/10
This has been my least favourite Game of Thrones so far. It is clear that they have run out of ideas after passing the books. All subtlety is thrown out of the window. This is not George R.R. Martin, this is just another mainstream fantasy series. Why did they take the king in the north to some suicide mission? Jon acted so stupidly in the end. He just decided to run away and kill a few wights risking everyone's lives. Jon would have died if this was written by Martin. The death of Benjen was so pointless. He just appears for three seconds and dies.
Easy A (2010)
It's a teen movie
It's a dumb teen movie with some good things. Emma Stone is one of them. She does a fantastic job in the movie. It was also interesting to see the decisions her character made that got her into the place where she ended up in (really hard to explain without spoiling).The other good part is the rumor spreading-sequence. I found that it was shot in an interesting way. There are lots also lots of bad parts. -It was a dumb teen with dumb teen movie clichés -The tone was comedic in some scenes but very serious in the next one -Lisa Kudrow was very annoying