Esteban ElGuapo

Haven't watched this in awhile but just popped in to give a favorite a 5 star and type of it how it is remembered by me even though i've only seen it twice from a family video 1$ section rental. I need to order it online sometime. I want to watch it a 3rd time. Its certainly been long enough. U spend time getting to know 2 main people who are Vampires who spend most of the movie talking to each other about everything that they enjoyed about humans and human nature which time periods, what music styles, which books, places. U and they could spend the whole movie this way and most of the movie is just that u see prob a good 5 minutes of one of them reading books and loading them into luggage case the only thing she takes on a trip I believe was her favorite books; but they toss a 3rd main character in to create some mischief to stir the pot and force action on the natural stasis the movie would stay in if it were not for her presence. The two mains seem to prefer if the movie did not contain that other loki like character. And at least a half of u prob would wonder what conversations u missed because she was present to interfere in it all. Feels like pretty much 90% character development, 10% action. I guess u could look at it as an enjoyable hangout with 2 interesting people. That comes down to whether their personalities were pleasant to you. If not then perhaps it is a boring time spent with people you can't wait to leave. :P Which prob means this movie is as likely to have high stars as low stars depending on who is watching it. I know my family enough to know they all would hate this thing.

Different people like different stuff. But for me its very low budget not that I mind that in some other movies, but very poor acting though it seems thats intentional, very poor plot and dialog but again it seems its intended to be that way. Its made for a gore audience who is intending to see a low plot low budget poorly acted group of people get dismembered. I'm not really into gore though I do like horror, but this is really bad on purpose. its intended for an audience who doesnt care that its bad. who wants to watch it because its bad.

I've probably watched this more times than any other movie i've watched. I don't tend to watch movies more than once even if I enjoyed them and then I give it some time so that there is opportunity to forget some of it. Usually I don't watch them more than twice because it is hard to enjoy something when u know what will happen next. Just noticed that google has this movie rating option out on the search area when looking up a movie and decided to type this one in so I could give it a 5 and note it is a favorite of mine. I like movies that u get to spend some time with the character and learn about what makes them tick. Also like suspense but prefer it to be drawn out so u have something else to keep you interested other than just spending time getting to know ur character. Another top favorite of mine has similar style: Only Lovers Left Alive. Where u spend time getting to know 2 main people who are Vampires who spend most of the movie talking to each other about everything that they enjoyed about humans and human nature which time periods, what music styles, which books, places. U and they could spend the whole movie this way and most of the movie is just that u see prob a good 5 minutes of one of them reading books and loading them into luggage case the only thing she takes on a trip I believe was her favorite books; but they toss a 3rd main character in to create some mischief to stir the pot and force action on the natural stasis the movie would stay in if it were not for her presence. The two mains seem to prefer if the movie did not contain that other loki like character. And at least a half of u prob would wonder what conversations u missed because she was present to interfer in it all.

I haven't had cable in forever ever, so I missed this until I found it on netflix. Reminds me that syfy can turn out something occasionally that isn't B grade or lower. The actors playing the characters felt familiar to me, I tend to pause when that happens and see what they played in on IMDB to get that out of the way so i'm not thinking about it the whole time. But it didn't turn out that I had known them, perhaps their characters or the way they were presented, hairstyles, personalities just felt familiar. That helps draw you in if you feel connected to the characters. Some mentioned some natural similar themes to narnia and harry potter are baked in and if you enjoy those then that will help you as well. One of my favorite book series WOT uses lord of the rings and king arthur and atlantis and dune and just about everything in myth and history that it feels like and wraps it into its story, so i'm never one to care where u get your ideas, its more how you use them and make them your own. One thing this does well for me is style of humor. I never like comedies because I require very specific types of humor other wise i'm just not interested, and this one is perfect for me. Also the 4th wall stuff is funny. Its usually considered inproper to be self referencial, but that was long ago, people keep trying it. Where a show is aware its a show and talks about itself to the audience as if they know there is an audience. :P They do it alot in this show. The characters often will talk about themselves as characters or plotpoints as plotpoints, which of them are the main characters or side characters. etcetera. It works for me the way they do it. I've never been afraid of LGBQA etc people or characters. I really like Elliot, and the Elliot + Margo duo dynamic. I also like what they did with Dean Foggs personality. He is perfect. Id never thought to create him the way they did. I'm curious if the book has this as his personality. I like how he is self aware too. I've had a high shool teacher or two and a college teacher that had been teachers too long and just need drugs or alchohol to make it through the day. One said I don't give A's because no one is perfect and none of you are likely to change my mind on that, B is my best grade so i'm going to reserve it, C is the highest your all likely to see but u'll have to earn it. That was first sentence day one. It was all downhill from there. Dean Fogg fits in really well with that teacher of mine. Whoever wrote him did well. Basically the writers did well. On personalities, and humor, 4th wall self awareness. There are many things done intentionally to create drama and to move the story along. Things that should perhaps be easy that are hard and that should be hard but are easy. I don't mind. If you like characters who are drawn well u go along with whatever they get put through. As for 5 seasons. Something cannot go on forever. have to draw the line somewhere or it wears out its welcome. Haven't finished it yet. Hope they can stick the landing. Many thing are a great journey with good people, to a bad destination.

B movie acting, C movie plot. This type of plot has been done in A movies but the way it is done here is about as stupid as can be written. It doesn't even have redeeming quality as a social experiment the way it was done here. Its has no value as entertainment either. I usually feel an investment and have to continue watching but at a certain point I just cut to the end. and the end was stupid as well. The acting was horrendous throughout. It was so bad i'd like to put the executives, writers and the professional critics who gave it good ratings on RT into a room and run this experiment on them. If you want to watch something like this you time would be better served with The platform, cube, battle royale, squid games. my memory is bad but there are probably a ton of high quality things of this nature. This is just so very bad though. your time is better spent doing just about anything else.

Definitely felt worth watching all the way through.

I read the rottentomatoes reviews prior to watching this awhile ago but then today decided maybe its ok. it has like 43%. But after watching it, it was so very bad that I went and reread a couple of reviews. one of them that gives it 1/5 david fear - rolling stone and another that gives it 1/4 james berardinelli - reelviews are just spot on. I'm not sure why some of the others gave higher but this is a slap yourself in the face, can't wait to turn it off. Both the reviewers mentioned say the issue is the director is a guy with not a lot of good stuff under his belt. He did die hard with a vengeance and jumanji and armageddon. Honestly liked armegeddon much better than this. liked jumanji much better than this. one of the reviewers said turning it off and cleaning the toilets is a more valuable use of ur time. I actually agree. I'm ocd-ish about finishing bad movies. I watched Sphere all the way through even though I wanted to hurt myself :P. So I guess I have to go finish the last 13 minutes. Oh well. At least this aint as bad as The Sphere. I dont recommend either of them not even if u have time to kill. I'd pick anything at all at random rather than watch this again. I'd stare at the wall for 2hrs before watching the Sphere again. watching ice road truckers reality show on history channel would be more fun than this. i've seen that in the past before when channel surfing. p.s. I read some comments below about action vs less action, as in perhaps some didnt like how its mostly action. For me I like some movies like memento and only lovers left alive where its almost all dialog and little to no action; and I like raid movies and sin city where its all action. I like some asian wuxia stuff i've watched. There is straight to video movies in any type of movie and this one didn't deserve to be seen at a theatre. snowpiercer got screwed out of theatre viewings because the director wouldn't let the weinsteins edit his movie for american audience and went straight to video as a middle finger from them to the director and that deserved to be seen in the theatres. thats an action movie.

I liked it. the episodes felt they had sufficient time I didn't realize they were only 30 minutes. Also kept getting some dejavu sense that i've seen this all before. As if I was watching it a second time around. It is watchable for me. Sufficient amounts of humor, horror, etc that I wasn't annoyed by anything in particular.

I'm currently on episode 6 and so far i'm liking it; but felt obliged to come here to make fun of how on tv actors or actresses who are intended to continue to have screen time are allowed to be brutalized but not allowed to have the end results of said brutalization. So i've learned that if a person were beat about the mouth and jaw with brass knuckles about 10 times while in a laying on the ground that person will sustain no jaw or tooth or gum damage of any kind. If a lady is laying on the ground and is kicked in the face especially nose cheek and mouth area about a dozen times and punched a similar number of times and also kicked in the ribs and kidneys a dozen times she will just have to wipe some blood away from her face but have no facial swelling or colapsed cheek bones or broken eye orbits or swollen eyes or broken or smashed nose or mouth damage. Obviously they want to show realistic scenes and I do not have a problem with it but then they dont want disfigured people walking around the rest of the season so no damage of any kind. :P it is what it is.

Watchable but out of curiousity to see how different things play out or how things are explained. Shows can keep u interested to find answers that once given make you wish u had ur time back, and may take a second season to figure that out. SPOILERS. There seemed decent difference between one persons good/passive wolf and bad/agressive wolf doppelganger half etcetera but in most of them it just as well be twins who not terribly fond of each other, which makes the concept feel less suspenseful. One scene made no sense to me because it wasn't sufficiently explained. Apparently from reading another proffesional review made it more obvious. The shadows cannot die unless the normal self is also dead. It explains why the one came back, but the others new they would not. I really don't like this aspect. Other doppelganger stories seem to give impression that its essentially 'fair' in that one kills the other or is capable of doing so. And even the wolf analogy that is something that has been said forever, is balanced. One side essentially isn't immortal. That kind of makes it inbalanced and unfair. If ur shadow has not only the agression side of ur persona it already has advantage, but if it gets to make unlimitted attempts where is the suspense, its just inevitability and time. Essentially everyone in the village would have been replaced by now given that. Some shows where a supernatural entity of bad guy is unkillable or immortal sometimes is fun but the idea that the doppelgangers can't ever lose kind of ruins this story for me. besides that though the other issue is I think I would have liked it more so far if there were a more unnaturality to the other half. LIke in variety of invasion of the body snatcher types of shows or movies where people are replaced u feel that u never know who is a replacement and that they are not just some slightly alternate version but inherantly abnormal and sinister that creates this concern about any action of any character and what their long term plans are. And even in doppelganger related media I liked those more when the other seemed unnatural or evil (I honestly dont even believe in the concept, perhaps thats why its fun to watch when done well) rather than just this version of me would have preferred to eat eggs when they woke up and this other version of me was pissed because it would have rather fought me to the death just to eat choco puffs instead, with no other real changes.