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Reviews
Coherence (2013)
Wasted potential, unwatchable camera work, utter garbage movie
This movie had lots of potential with a plot very similar to a classic Twilight Zone Episode. But right out of the gate this movie was so bad I almost turned it of after the first 5 minutes. I stuck around a little bit longer because the story line intrigued me but the shaky hand held camera started to give me a headache from eye strain. I guess a tripod wasn't in the $50,000 budget. If that wasn't bad enough, the acting was terribly amateurish, like was this everyone's first time making a movie? The writing was just awful, people freaking out over nothing, not making any sense. Ok, so the power goes out in the neighborhood and you see one house has lights. Why do you feel the need to go over there? Because without them leaving the house there would be no story, that's why.
I can't for the life of me understand why anyone would give this movie a 9 or 10 rating, it was complete, unwatchable garbage.
2067 (2020)
It made me want to see the entire planet blow up
This was one of the worst sci-fi movies I have ever seen. It's really a shame because this had the potential of being a good movie but the directors, script writers, musical score director and the actors pretty much blew it. I liked the basic idea of the movie but there was just too much that didn't make sense, not to mention downright paradoxes. The overly dramatic background music seemed oddly familiar, like I had heard it in other movies before and at times got super loud, don't watch this movie with headphones if you cherish keeping your eardrums intact. The characters weren't relatable or even likable, the lead character was a crybaby wimp and the constant emotional outbursts were completely over the top, it was starting to get on my nerves. Everyone in this movie was crying at some point or another. At the end I just wanted the entire planet to blow up just to make it stop. If that is what people in the future are like I don't think humanity deserves to survive.
Sengoku jieitai (1979)
Great time travel movie
Sonny Chiba delivers an excellent performance in this movie that pits modern weapons against the formidable swords and strategic brilliance of the war lords from ancient Japan. I saw this movie first as a teenager in Germany and it was shown under the title Time Slip. I searched for many years until I found it again as G.I. Samurai. I purchased the DVD which has the English dubbed version along with the original Japanese with English subtitles. The Japanese version has much more impact due to it's more authentic delivery of the dialogue. Some of the emotion and mannerism is lost in the dubbed version.
Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)
Not worth going to the theater for
*contains spoilers*
If the fact that Will Smith wasn't in this one isn't bad enough, Vivica A Fox (Jasmine Hiller) doesn't get much screen time and gets killed off fairly early in the movie. None of the new characters ever develop into anything more than fleeting acquaintances, you simply don't get a chance to know them enough to care about them, you don't get emotional over them when they get killed. Not like in the first one, where you felt bad when the first lady died in the hospital after her helicopter crashed, or when Will Smith's wingman was shot down. And pretty much everyone in the theater shed a tear when Russel Casse sacrificed himself to save the planet. You cried and felt proud with his kids. There was nothing like it in this one everything felt rushed, none of the scenes were elaborated on enough. Even the destruction scenes were not memorable, you just remember seeing a lot of rubble everywhere. Although most people noted that the Eiffel Tower somehow survived in this one :D
When the first ID4 came out we saw it in the theater on July 4th with our entire family, my kids were preteens then. The theater was packed and when the movie ended everyone stood up and clapped. It was a great moment. When my now adult daughter and I went to see Independence Day Resurgence, the theater had maybe 15 people in it, if that. There was not much excitement at all, no laughter because there were no funny moments like in the first one. Everyone remembers the one-liners delivered by Will Smith and the funny exchanges between Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum or during Judd Hirsch's prayer scene where one person said he wasn't Jewish and Judd Hirsch said: "nobody's perfect". In this sequel there was not much more than an overload of super fast moving CGI imagery, in true Roland Emmerich fashion, much like in 2012. I can only guess that this movie was originally much longer and was chopped all to hell to fit into a two-hour time slot. It was a real mess with mediocre acting (even from the returning actors), it seemed like this time their heart just wasn't in it.