hrudaya chandana

I have not read the book so I do not know if the story is originally this bad or it is the directing that botched it. Regardless, it is a very boring whodunit where by the midpoint in the movie you don't even care to find out who the murder is and just want it to be over. What an atrocious waste of a stellar cast. Especially when we know how electric they can be as evidenced by Brosnan and Miren in Mobland.

Rarely have I seen big budget movies written so badly.

This movie is bad in every way and I hate myself for hoping it might get better and watching it to the end.

The movie was an ok one to watch while I was sick in bed. However the movie kept trying to tell me that the protagonist was charming when she became self confident but she really just came off as obnoxious and self absorbed. If I had seen a conventionally attractive person behaving the way Renee did I would have perhaps thought even worse of them. But I am supposed to root for her because she has a personality? That only works if she has a good personality. The message seems to be that with self confidence comes entitlement? Or buried in there somewhere that even pretty people have their own issues? Is this is a children's movie? It couldn't be because it has adult scenes. Even when she takes accountability it's wafer thin and embarassing to watch. Her redemption scene consists of her stealing the spotlight from her boss who gave her opportunities and making it once again all about herself. Not to mention I never laughed out loud once. Oh and the writing is pretty terrible as well.

This movie should never have been made.

And the worst longest movie on Netflix goes to....

The best part of The Substance is undeniably Demi Moore's performance. She brings to life the insecurities, body dysmorphia, fears of ageing and irrelevance that plague many women, and I suppose, especially female celebrities. The set pieces and sound design are good but not extraordinary. However, it fails at writing a nuanced characterisation. If you were to ask me about Moore's character, all I have to say is that "she hates ageing and not being famous". Moore's character is extremely one-dimensional. She has no friends or family or interests that we know of. She is supposedly great at her work, but we do not see if she is passionate about it other than being on camera. Despite missing these initial character developments, the movie does well in its first half to portray her desperation to stay relevant. When the gore kicks in, the plot is still in its infancy, so it keeps you intrigued and pays off with the caricatured depictions of youth over wisdom and beauty over talent. However, it soon descends into the absurd, using gore for shock factor rather than anything else, hammering the not-so-subtle plot repeatedly without developing it any further. One of the final scenes of Elisabeth struggling with her decision to "terminate" the procedure did shine in the second half, but not enough to make up for the pointlessness of the rest. In the end, it devolves into portraying women it wants to depict as shallow and vain with no other redeemable characteristics. The Substance asks us to sympathise with its protagonist, but all I can do is laugh at her in the end.

The positive reviews here are clearly written with chat gpt. This is the worst movie ever made in Telugu cinema and the budget only makes it that much more unforgivable. I could criticize each aspect individually but it's not worth my time.

A ten year old child can write a better script. Writing, direction, acting, everything's awful. And it's boring to boot.

The member berries were the only good thing in this movie. The music and cinematography and visuals may have captivated me if only the writing was half as good. When the screenplay took breaks from telling me how amazing the protagonist is, it was busy contriving tornados just at the right time at the right place. The protagonist's guilt makes up pretty much her entire personality. Every other character in the movie keeps singing her praises but she is not even a scientist like Helen hunt in the first movie. She has not even finished her phd. What is her expertise exactly? Her instincts, we are told. They show her in a farm setting to give her personality depth but you never seen her do any farm stuff. Nothing in this movie is explored in depth. Her friend is being funded by a big bad capitalist real estate collector, but why is the research so important for it is never really explained. The cloud seeding and manipulating the tornado is an interesting premise but even that is dealt with such carelessness and again, no depth. I was continuously bored despite the captivating visuals once in a while. Other than the deaths in the first fifteen minutes no one else of importance in the plot dies making it hard for me to feel the danger they desperately want me to feel. Not worth watching in theatres.