Dorothy Ledesma

Just ok. Primary character’s development is lackluster. My hopes were high and nothing really happened.

Honestly an excellently entertaining series. I really hope that there are more. The acting is fabulous and so many aspects of design in this show feel so natural - it's beautiful. I love the paralleling between Max's storyline and Carson's.

While watching this film, it made me firmly believe over and over again that this is perfect modern science fiction. There are slight nitpicks in the story - which I’m sure comes from cutting parts of the movie in post. I cried in theatre. The actors were phenomenal and the movie itself is visually and audibly compelling. Just beautiful.

One of the greatest movies I have seen of all time. I would watch over and over again. The talented cast, in my opinion, were so beneficial to what I understood was commentary on the entertainment industry. While the overarching theme is apparent as Grief and the ability/inability to overcome grief - I understand that this movie may not rub the right way when a lot of the message regarding the performing arts requires a bit more than a basic understanding of the entertainment industry (theatre/film). At face value, there is satirical, light humor.

Beau is Afraid (BIA) is outrageously bad. I’ve watched Ari Astor before, I’ve liked Hereditary. However, BIA is his worst piece yet. The writer director instructed audiences to ignore details - so when surrealism, which naturally invokes questions, begs the question, Ari Astor instead basically says “don’t worry about it”. If I’m told not to pay attention to details, why pay any attention to the rest of the movie? If I can’t ask myself questions about details because details don’t matter, then 2h59m of a movie is an entire waste. Without providing spoilers, BIA involves an excellent amount of set up, but fails to address the set up - as the writer director himself says to ignore such details. I am not surprised this was a box office fail.

I have never watched more than 1 or 2 episodes in medical dramas, yet I could not get my eyes off this show. I am incredibly sad that it’s over. There is minimal vulgar language and the drama is not backed by long shots of an actor’s disbelief face. It is a feel-good show - where patients matter first and conflicts of self, love, abuse, sacrifice, loss, etc are something found in all characters. The characters are never perfect and are deeply flawed which makes this show feel so much better to watch rather than seeing a perfect good-doctor do perfect-good things all the time.

Really great and accurate to the play “The Glorias” which is what the movie is based on. It has some flare to it aside from the episode series that takes a more documentary based approach as I’ve been told.

If you had high expectations because of the book series, this adaptation will feel low quality. That’s all.

I’m surprised by the negative feedback, honestly. The plot definitely isn’t the first time being done. Pharmaceutical drugs being tested on prison inmates in exchange for earlier release, but of course the operator is twisted and doesn’t release them. Pretty expected. I think it was very beautifully shot and well executed. The interactions between characters are minimal, it moves pretty fast. I normally wish movies were shorter, but this is one of the few films I want to be longer. Potentially so that there could have been better character attachments.

I will be addressing my experience as a regular spectator and from what I’ve learned in my academic institution about film. I could easily attest that this is hands down a great movie as far as movies go. Set design and costume design was excellent. I’m not sure where people are coming from, critiquing that the characters were not dirty enough - not all Vikings/Norse, especially those around hierarchy, would actually be dirty. Usually, the slaves would be. The love interest, as a slave, was undoubtedly clean, but the context is that she was placed with people that the Uncle deemed of higher value - and worthy to not be treated the same as the rest of the slaves. I would agree that the pace tailors to modern tv series. And even at the end of the film, before coming to reviews, I had commented that I was surprised it approached the film as a sequence of scenes, similar to episodes of a tv show, since that concept was something more common of films pre-21st century. My knowledge of its script as independent to a movie alone, was that it was fine. Acting felt good. Soundtrack/sound design reminded me much of the avatar film, and similar war themed movies/shows. I think it was excellent. Visual effects was not something I found interesting at all, as it seemed pretty simple and not “new”. It’s a natural interest to be drawn to getting a new element, and there was not really anything new about this film at all. I do think they went with basic approaches of color significance and black/white significance. Now, as a spectator, it was interesting enough to me. This is more subjective usually. I like historical renditions and it was hard for me to not pay attention. My eyes were glued to the screen the whole time - aside from squeamish moments. Historical films and historically fictional films are not as popular as superhero/alternative universe movies right now - which I also do enjoy. I’d say it’s not the best movie to watch if you are not interested in time pieces, mythology, historical fiction. To each their own (: