What did you hot maniacs watch this week? (04/14-04/20)
My week:
The handmaid’s tale Season 1: I bought the first two seasons for cheap a few years ago and quite a few people told me I should be watching this show. Recently, my brother brought it up again so I decided it was time to give it a shot.
Episode 1: Alright but a bit boring. Hope it will pick up the pace. 6/10
Episode 2: Even slower and all that baby stuff didn’t pull me in. The highlight was a game of Scrabble. This show might not be for me… we’ll see. 5.5/10
Episode 3: Better but still, not very exciting or enthralling. They should’ve start with something like this. At least I would’ve been hooked since the start. 6.5/10
Episode 4: Maybe it’s because this is the first episode I watched at night or maybe because I was plenty high but this one was mesmerizing and beautiful. Agin, slow, not much happened but it was very good nonetheless. The style reminds me of Korean director’s Kim Ji-Woon. There was another game of scrabble too. 8/10
Madman (Friday night special): The killer’s momentum is a bit slow and there is a lot of padding (like scenes of legs of victims being dragged away on the ground, scenes of people looking through trees and bushes or slowly walking about the house or outside trying to find something or hide from someone) but truth is, there is more good than bad to this movie. First off, I quickly realized by switching from Tubi to Amazon prime that the movie was not crappy. It was the transfer on Tubi that sucked all the life out of it. On prime I was able to appreciate it with better picture and sound quality. The actors were fun to watch getting killed. I think there were a few unintentional funny moments, which is always appreciated. Not a bad early 80’s slasher. Not a bad one at all. My rating: 6/10
Maniac (Friday late night special): As weird as it sounds, this movie fitted the bill perfectly for a MCMC Friday night pick. I think everyone enjoyed it in some level and me, maybe a little more than most. It was very brutal and dark yet stylish and cool. My rating: 7/10
Under the silver lake (Saturday night pick): I watched 1h30 of this film on Saturday night and had to finish it the next they and that was not a good idea because this entire movie unravels and accomplish itself in the final act. So the first night I just felt like this was leading nowhere and it was just mental madness operating but they somehow managed to have this huge mess of a mystery make some sense in the end and let me tell you, it was done with epic panache! It’s just sad that they cast an actor I don’t like for the role. I would’ve preferred someone like Patterson or Dehaann or even switch with Topher Grace. But anyway, the last 45 was very good. My rating: 7/10
Jurassic city (Friday late night special): I’m really not a fan of this kind of movie. To me it’s just grown-up men dressed as soldiers shooting blanks at CGI creatures and lots of CGI gore. I’m more more of an old school cheap practical effects kind of guy. That being said, I applaud how they worked hard to make something decent out of this crap. I would say this is a polished turd of a b-movie. I preferred this over Sharknado. It could have had a tiny bit more of a sense of humour though. My rating: 4.5/10
10: Masterpiece/Favourite
9.5: Near Masterpiece
9: Absolutely Outstanding
8.5: Most Excellent
8: Great
7.5: Very good
7: Good
6.5: Pretty good
6: Above average
5.5: Average
5: Below average
4.5: Pretty bad
4: Bad
3: Very bad
2: Pure rubbish
1: Dreadfully Abysmal and insulting