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"Pieces of a Woman" 2020

Wow..This expertly told the story of how a woman tried to deal with one of the most devastating "loss" ever and Vanessa Kirby delivered. The movie was an emotional chore and it ticked the right boxes for me ...good dialogue, excellent secenry and a small cast that actually know what the were doing and the final act of the movie was most satisfying to say the least, the only blemish I had was how they dealt with Shia Labeouf's character.

8/10.

1917 (2019).

Been putting this off for almost a year but i am glad i finally picked this up this week cuz it was a good and satisfying watch in the end and clearly deserved all the praise it got especially for the stunning cinematography and sound editing.

7/10.

"Run" 2020

This felt like i was watching "The Act" (mini series 2019) and so it became easily predictable quickly as early as the 2nd scene but it was a fair watch if you have absolutely nothing better to see.

6/10.

Naah.. This actually made me laugh tbh

Tolu181:
by reputable i mean the series is abit popular...

In 2019 the series is one of the most popular tv show on YouTube..

reputable doesn't mean popular and popular can be bad but i know what you mean.

The S1 was fairly ok, went downhill from there when they tried to overplay their hand.

Tolu181:
ya true

Series is shitt but i am a collector


I got to download every reputable series keep..

smh you see as you dey contradict yourself.

Percival9:
this SUCCESSION bore me. Nothing special nothing in each episode will make you want to see the next one. Forcing myself to finish season 2 since i cant waste data for nothing

S1 finale too is too lame. I regret downloading full s1 and 2

The series cameraman too is poo
Its like video recording on phone

Series with zero vibes boring. Too much talk few actions
Mediocre casts

No actual point at all just constant Bleep words everywhere

The show is clearly not for you cuz it was anything but boring and the stallar ratings do not lie, giving, the first few episodes of S1 was "Slow" but things kicked off around Ep 5

And The camera style is deliberate, good and it's widely use, Did you see "The Office" or "Parks and Recreation"?

Great casting, fantastic story line and delivery, it's probably not your forte this genre.

Tolu181:
Chilling Adventure of Sabrina don even come out and nobody knew.

cuz nobody cares tbh. S3 was a hot mess...this was clearly a one season show but greed.

DandeNumeruno:
Nah, you watched the film wrong.

The novel subplot is Gyllenhaal grappling with Amy's infidelity/betrayal. The killing of his child in the novel symbolizes Amy's abortion of his baby... the raping of his wife and daughter in the novel is a metaphor for Amy's abrupt infidelity.

Long story short, the novel subplot is essentially a metaphor for Gyllenhaal and Amy Adam's turmoiled relationship.

In the end, Gyllenhaal standing Amy up on their anticipated date was his way of telling Amy to go fvck herself, which entails he hasn't really come to terms with the past, and is no longer the nice guy he used to be.

The movie is no masterpiece, but it's brilliantly written, directed and acted. The praises it received are justified.

first of all, longest time my Gee, didn't know you where back on these streets. I did watch the movie with the clearest state of mind.

Second paragraph bolded...Fully got this but if the novel was a metaphor for revenge, why then did Tony (Edward) die?

Third bolded paragraph...I think this was the only part I would say they got right but it was abrupt af, i adjusted my chair to say finally "lets go" only for me to see end credits.

Fourth paragraph..It's very very far from been a masterpiece. It's the writing i have a problem with, the acting, directing and sound editing where ok.

Nocturnal Animals (2016). Seeing this was like sex without climax. The screenplay was so so poor, even the side plot from the novel get more action than the main plot and it ultimately lead no where still and the whole movie was a total waste of the talents of Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal. Was the novel supposed to be some sort of revenge? At the end it turned out to be pretentious piece of crap masquerading as a physiological thriller.

Still wondering how the movie got high praises, probably the praises were for Tom Ford "The designer" not Tom Ford "The filmmaker".

4/10.

ibkayee:
Damn was it that bad? Everywhere I turn I see negative reviews for it

lol there are also positive reviews for it, I didn't like it for it's plot and writing but i did like some other parts of it.

"Hillbilly Elegy" (2020) is a perfect example why sometimes you have to actually ignore critics cuz some might actually be crackheads cuz i am still trying to figure out why this got the bashing it did. It was a brilliant movie with a perfect range of emotion on "hillbillies" are seemly thought to behave and how addiction can tear a family apart to it's lowest ebb and still find it's way back with a brilliant performance from the evergreen Glenn Close and the delightful Amy Adams... reminded me alot of "The Glass Castle" (2017)..same tone..same brilliance..

7.5/10.

#WW84 spoilt my recent good run...

wonlasewonimi:
Who else think Bridgerton is a load of horseshit

3 episodes in.. nothing special really going on except the gossip girl with Jane Austen vibe.

XINOIX:
soo funny what's the name of the movie or series

it's a series. It's titled Parks and Recreation.

Gmajor:
Wonder Woman ‘84
WARNING: this post is long. Though I will try to highlight some of the main points so that lazy people like me can read it at a glance.

Wonder woman 1984 is a 2020 sequel to the 2017 Wonder Woman that was directed, co-written and co-produced by Patty Jenkins.
The movie was competently shot and the CGI is mostly good, though some scenes in the Amazon Olympics and the Egypt chase sequence didn’t look too good.

I liked Chris Pine in this movie. The whole fish out of water stuff they did with him were well handled and they didn’t take it to a point where it became annoying.

The[b]acting was good IMO[/b] , even though some people say that Gal Gadots acting leaves a lot to be desired.

The fight and action scenes where just there- Not too bad but not to good either. The WW vs Cheetah fight was 70 percent swinging around which I didn’t care much for. I would have preferred more hand to hand combat. As a matter of fact, there is an animated WW vs Cheetah fight I watched sometime ago which was way better than the one in the movie. If I find it on YouTube, I will insert it HERE.

Even though it felt kinda random, I like that WW is able to make things invisible instead of the comic canon where she has an invisible jet. Why the Bleep would the Amazonians who are technologically backwards in every facet of life have a jet plane lying around? Whether knowledge of flying a World War 1 plane can be used to fly a jet plane some 60+ years later is still a matter that is open for debate.

I was enjoying this movie when I started watching it, however, as the movie progressed, I found it to be increasingly silly, and when the movie ended on a very ret@rded note, it ended up soaring some of the things I had liked in the beginning. So, here are some of the issues I have with the movie. Some of them are nit-picks and quite minors, while others are major and quite immersion breaking.

1. Why is this movie set in the 80’s : at the end of this movie, I still couldn’t quite figure out why this movie was set in the 80’s. This time period added nothing to the story except from breaking some of the already established continuity such as the fact that WW refused to offer help to humanity before BVS and also that she could fly. This movie could have been set after BVS or Justice League and it would not have affected the story in any way.
2. The amazon Olympics was pointless: and just served to further pad the run time. The first WW movie started with Diana as a child in Theymiscira so why did they choose to rethread this route again? The whole Olympics didn’t factor into the story in anyway. Initially I thought that the lesson the Amazonian guard thought Diana about not taking short cuts would factor into the plot, but no. the whole movie plays out like that scene never happened. So why was it in the movie?
3. Campy mall fight: the whole mall fight was extremely campy like something you would see in a Spiderman movie. Considering the tone of the first movie, I didn’t expect this level of camp from the sequel.
4. Rapist wonder woman: I think that the whole WW is a rapist argument is bullsh1t. Though the decision to bring Chris Pine back in the body of another man was very questionable. The stone has proven time and time again that it can make anything materialize from nothing, so why couldn’t Chris Pine come back in his own body? And the worst part is that they didn’t even do anything with the whole coming backing in another person’s body shenanigans. It was just a random stupid choice that was made for no reason.
5. Dumb McGuffin: the McGuffin that gets the plot moving in this movie is not properly handled. The dream stone is supposed to be a monkey’s paw rip-off that grants you your wish with a dash of irony like the Midas touch or somethings like that. However, this stone has zero consequences. People use the dream stone, then renounce their wish and then there is no lasting consequence. If you can renounce your wish and go back to the way you were with no consequences, then it makes perfect sense to use the dream stone. Even if I have to pay a price that I don’t like, I would simply take back the wish at my leisure.
6. Villain’s motivation: Max Lord, the villain of the movie is a shady business man who goes on a wish granting spree because he is motivated by greed. However, it makes absolutely no sense that he keeps on granting more and more wishes even though he clearly see that the world is getting destroyed. How enjoyable does he think his wealth and power will be when the whole world is in ruins? And it is never shown that the magical McGuffin is somehow influencing his decisions.
And to make matters worse, the wish granting debacle is taken to a whole new ridiculous level at the third act of the movie. In a shocking lack of introspection or self-awareness, Max Lord decides that he is going to grant to wish of millions at once. This could have gone wrong very fast.
For starters, it is most probable that most people will not believe the whole wish granting stuff and as such, they will be more likely to take it as a joke.
Imagine if someone wished for the whole world to end or that the annoying man who is talking in the TV to drop dead. It’s even extremely likely that thousands of people will wish to be richest or most powerful person that has ever lived, thus, invalidating anything Max Lord himself would have achieved.

7. Villains defeat: I’m someone who enjoys when a villain is defeated in an unconventional way. In most movies, the villain is defeated when the hero punches him several times in the face and I appreciate it when a movie thinks outside the box. For instance, in Dr. Strange, the titular character managed to defeat Dormamu- the villain by bargaining with him. In Aladdin, the villain get tricked into turning himself into a genie. This movie tries to go a similar route and FAILS MISERABLY.
Humans beings are self-centred and will always look out for themselves and their interests first and as such, it will be impossible to get everyone to take back their wish. What the movie should have done is to make it in such a way that when Max Lord renounces his wish, every wish he granted will also be automatically reversed, but instead, they show people from all over the world having a change of heart and renouncing their wishes, which as far as I’m concerned is total bullsh!t.
If your husband/father beats the shi+ out of you every day and you wished that he will love you unconditionally, will you take such a wish back?
If you had a relation that was terminally ill and you wished for instant recovery, will you take such a wish back and then watch then go back to their sick bed?
If you have been poor all your life and then wished to be rich, will you take back such a wish?
I could go on and on and the answer to most of these scenarios will be a CAPITAL NO.

Other things:
• This movie does that bullsh!t that I hate so much where a character wears baggy clothes and glasses and suddenly the whole world hates them. Kristen Wig is hot even when she is nerdy, so I find it very out of place that she is very despised by everyone.
• Barbara’s arc: maybe I’m wrong here, but from what I saw, the only consequence Barbara faced with using the dream stone was the she became aggressive and lost her sh1t personality and no one liked in the first place. She didn’t really give-up anything worthwhile and as such, it does make perfect sense for her to align with the bad guy.
• The[b]golden armour[/b] existed solely for the purpose of appearing in the trailer, it served no purpose to the movie and could have been removed from the final cut with no detriment to the story.
• Why does electricity affect Cheetah but not WW?

Like I mentioned in a previous post, this movie is enjoyable in a turn-off-your-brain kind of way. If you don’t think about what is going on, odds are you’ll enjoy the move. However, the truth still remains that this movie pales in comparison to the prequel in every way possible. It’s still enjoyable but to say the truth the movie is not that good. The DCEU feels incredibly random at this point and it feels like they just throw stuff at the wall and hope that it sticks.
5.5/10

A really long read but good constructive criticism points. However let me attempt to address some, i have written them chronologically to match yours.

1) The setting of it been 80's has a chronological importance and i think it was perfect. Remember the first part was set in 1918, it began with Diana seeing a picture in Paris in modern times making her reflect on a past ( going back to when Steven Trevor plane crashed at Themiscyra in 1918). So both WW (2017) and WW#84 are still origin stories somewhat, so they couldn't just jump a whole century to 2000's.

2)The "Themiscyra Amazon Olympics" scene was ok too and been an "origin" movie, it was okay to visit her roots in the first few scenes of the movie and quite frankly it was the best scene shot cinematography wise in the entire movie.

3) The Camp mall fight was outrightly wack there's no way to even look at it. I think Patty Jenkins was riding on the euphoria of the first movie, which if you rewatch, you will discover it's just an okay movie, nothing exceptional.

4) To me, i am still struggling to find the point of Chris Pine in WW84, what purpose did it serve? the movie could quite go on without him without this added drama of "Rapist wonder woman".

5) I think the "Dreamstone" is of the most stupid subplot in a major superhero movie in a very long while. Couldn't get the hang of it. It worked out in the comics doesn't mean it will work in live action, the writing for this was abysmal.

6) I would like to absolve my man Mando from this debacle of the character "Max Lord" . The writing for it's character was shambolic and frankly in essence lead no where great. Patty Jenkins should have left Cheetah as the one and only Villain and it would have turned out fine.

7) Of course when the movie has been a shii show for over 2hrs 30 mins, you should expect a horrible ending and it didn't disappoint.

Who the hell cast Kristen Wiig for villanous and serious role as the Cheetah? This woman is a comedienne and haven't seen her in anything other than that. It was the first thing i was angry about when i first saw the trailer.

The golden armour was literally in all the promotional photos only for it to appear for 5 seconds.

All this been said, i liked the movie for its aesthetics, there was a reason Pattt Jenkins was pushing for a 4K release on HBO max, the shots where truly breathtaking and the score was quality.

They even had the nerve to even add a post credit scene...

CapedBaldy:
Do I need to watch all star wars movies before watching the mandalorian? I watched clone wars as a kid and I haven't really watched the movies except for rogue one.

The Mandalorian exist within the "Star Wars Universe", that been said you can see as a stand alone and still very much enjoy it.

Kehinde2017:
As much as people bash Wonder Woman 1984 here, I'll say the movie was enjoyable. At least in these bad times. After watching at the cinemas, I had to download and rewatch again to analyse and make my own point.
The plot of the movie was good and the movie was enjoyable but here are few flaws I noticed in the movie:
1. How did Max Lord know that that was a dreamstone in the first place? Feels like they didn't give us a detailed explanation of that.
2. There were less action scenes
3. I felt the build up of the character of the Cheetah was rushed, there could have been more.
4. Wonder Woman(Gal Gadot) felt weak and powerless to handle the Cheetah. Its lesser of her standard.
5. The CGI scenes didn't feel very real. When did Wonder Woman start flying especially at that far range. There's more to that. Even when she was fighting the Cheetah and Max Lord, how come the Lasso of Truth didn't hit Steve the way she was swinging it. They can do better.
That's everything I can point out of the movie. Solidly a 6.9/10 for me.

You mentioned potentially 5 plot holes and it's still a solid 6.9/10 for you? I would like to know what you found enjoyable in the movie.

Ron my man

Achilles100:
Tiny Pretty Things

Struggled to get to episode 4. Can't tell whether it is the actors or the script that's weak. It could be a combination of both.
I nor sure say I go fit finish am. I downloaded the whole season one from torrent.

This is mine opinion.

lol high risk downloading complete season of shows right now, cuz it seems writers are out of ideas, so it's either they are repeating stories or adapting from books and other materials. So it's better to download few episodes to test the water, and if you like what you see before going full throttle, even this method fails at times cuz some useless shows will be good the very first few episodes and be meh the rest, so man can't even play safe ...btw The rating for this was rubbish on IMDB and RT, why did you still cop it?

Kaycee7:
Finally done watching Wonder Woman. Thoroughly enjoyed it. Stellar performances from the main cast.

And my man, Hans Zimmer, still got it. Why wasn't anyone talking about the sweet, sweet music or y'all just don't care about OSTs? Be a shame though, cos this, right here, is platinum.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlhLQzV1uPg

Thisss....The OST was too sweet and perfect.matched every scene with magically .i thought Rupert Gregson-Williams did madness in the first installment OST but Hans Zimmer took it up to the highest notch..."Themiscyra" is my fav from the Ost..

Side Note: check for "Hans Zimmer Live in Prague". He performed all his major scores in a beautifully curated concert...so heavenly.

abduleez1:
Bro calm down and read wella wetin I write...

It's cos of covid if not you'd have seen at least one or 2 of her upcoming movies. The movies I stated there are her upcoming projects– she's lead actress in one(Red Notice) and most likely for the other or she's lead supporting(Death on the Nile).

Red Notice is an action thriller for Netflix which she co-stars with Dwayne Johnson and Ryan Reynolds.
She's also in the sequel of Murder on the Orient Express– Death on the Nile. It would have been released this October but you know.

She's also going to be the Lead for an Upcoming Spy movie in hopes of launching a Franchise for Female Spy Action like James Bond or Mission Impossible.

Also this new Cleopatra news. And by my count these upcoming movies are really significant and Big projects.

lol but Covid is literally a year old naa and the first wonder woman is almost 4 years ago, so if all the movies that she's starred in after WW are all upcoming by this point, then her career hasn't really kicked off, but see i get your point. Absolutely have nothing against her talent as an actress but i think her been Isreali (religious and political tantrums) plays a big part on roles she accepts.

abduleez1:
Hmm, been longing for stories on Icons of Antiquity for a while now. And Ptolemaic Princess Cleopatra is a F***"ing FAVE!!!



Gal Gadot just dey gbadun these days...Wonder Woman truly launched her career.
For those saying she has a very tiny Filmography, it's coming pretty thick and fast.
From Death on The Nile, Red Notice, a new female Agent 007 Franchise spinner to Cleopatra.
Same can be said for Director and close collaborator Patty Jenkins– (she beats Joss Whedon to Direct a New Star Wars movie).

Life is G°°D.

Launch which career? ...has she been lead in anything significant between #WW (2017) and #WW84 (2020)?

losprince:
Dot what? Com, in, etc.

. uk is thier current mirror.

MJBOLT:

Anybody know any site I can download the extended version of the Lord of the rings trilogy??

Psarips... they even have them in 4k.

AbdulSleeky:
People need to watch the animatrix first.

Even I understood the Matrix partially. The movie came out 1999 when I was still a boy.

But after seeing the animatrix in 2007 and then watching the movies again, I understood the philosophy very well.

Ngl Chief, had the same issue when i saw the first installment, couldn't make sense of it, i basically just enjoyed the action sequence, it was when i saw Reloaded and Revolution, i now finally understood the war between the humans and the machines, miss this and the person seeing it is essentially lost.

Btw, do you think this forthcoming fourth installment is needed, or it's just another money grabbing scheme?

cao:
Yes, PVOD. I got a free rental code for Rakunten TV, so used the code to rent the film. I see why this film did well. I didn't expect the film to hit my with the feels like that, but it did, especially with its 3 endings. How the first ending calls back to a discussion, the second calls back to a moment and the third calls back to music - the journey that face makes eh during that third ending, na wa... Chei!

I can see folks saying this film is boring & manufactured since it's a film with a main cast of 4 women mostly talking, but it's just a story of women living their lives & working in that time period. It's certainly well directed, well produced, cinematography is on point! Apparently, it was filmed in 8K, so that explains the gorgeous colour.

I see why one of the YouTubers I follow had this and Parasite as his best 2 films of 2019. Rating: 9/10.

Thanks for the review. It has been on my "to watch list" since last year but as with most movies produced outside of the US, the distribution and streaming right can become a headache tho it had a very limited cinema run earlier this year, I haven't been able to find it anywhere since. Have you seen "Ammonite"? am hearing it has the same vibe as this.

MJBOLT:

The Matrix

one movie franchise people still find hard to understand and i wonder why.

cao:
Potrait of a Lady on Fire.

it's this out on VOD? and how was it?

esoboy875:
Good day guys.... Pls how can I convert mkv movies to mp4 movies? Tnks

just put this message on google and you are good... cuz there are tons of software that you can use..let me start you off..search for "All converter" or "Total Converter" for Pc , then there's a Mkv to MP4 converter on google play store.

IbrahimMav:
Warrior S02

Chief you dey climb stool before you plug your Tv?