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Watched two movies, complete opposites.
The first movie was Sanctum. It was like going into the forest to breathe fresh air. Limitless freedom in everything that life can offer. The hero of the film casually gives a command into his phone, and immediately a powerful helicopter arrives. With a snap of his fingers, fifty porters carry several tons of equipment into a terrible cave, two kilometers deep.
It's the most effective and obvious advertisement for the Western lifestyle. People have achieved everything, so the heroes of the film have a different perception. In order to find a hole in an underwater cave, almost everyone dies in the end. Because otherwise, without the thrill, life would be bland for them.
There are many inconsistencies, I lost count. At the beginning of the film, a female diver, a diving legend, a seasoned shark, suddenly panics and dies in the cave.
Hmm... I'm not sure she would have lived to become a legend and one of the best if she had that kind of mentality: she would have either given up or died earlier, that's a fact.
Before that, she and the hero of the film were crawling into a narrow hole, it was difficult for one person to squeeze through... they barely made it. And then the guy pulled her back out without any problems, how? The impression that it was filmed in a studio remains throughout the film. That is, as if the heroes are dying, a tragic scene - but you understand that 20 people from the film crew are standing nearby, the camera is half a meter away, and the director is shouting "I don't believe it!".
But despite all the inconsistencies, it was filmed with soul, it was light and enjoyable.
The second movie I watched was "Menace II Society". A devastated black ghetto, everything is very bad. Gangs with primitive names like "Rangers," "Soldiers"... they are all fighting each other. After the first five minutes, I wanted to turn it off.
Then I got into it, watched it to the end, and I don't regret it. I learned about an unknown layer of culture (I'm not kidding). Unlike our local thugs, their gangs, before fighting, always read each other a heartfelt rap.
Brothers, when they meet, must boast to each other about their car, their girl, and the gold jewelry on their fingers, otherwise it's not cool.
After "Brother 2," "Don't Be a Menace to South Central," I was skeptical of such films, but I was wrong. It is impossible to survive in such conditions without some kind of faith. In Russia, people turn to alcohol, in America, they listen to gangsta rap. I'm not sure which one of us is right.
I'm almost ashamed to even write about the third film. I think the title is "The Green Hornet." I don't understand how I got talked into watching it. It seemed to have a high budget, high ratings from critics, and a lot of advertising. I lasted 20 minutes. No plot, no acting, no directing. Only special effects. This would be tolerable, there are many such Hollywood films. But the actors are impudent and annoying to an extreme degree.
It's the worst movie I've seen in the last few years.
The first movie was Sanctum. It was like going into the forest to breathe fresh air. Limitless freedom in everything that life can offer. The hero of the film casually gives a command into his phone, and immediately a powerful helicopter arrives. With a snap of his fingers, fifty porters carry several tons of equipment into a terrible cave, two kilometers deep.
It's the most effective and obvious advertisement for the Western lifestyle. People have achieved everything, so the heroes of the film have a different perception. In order to find a hole in an underwater cave, almost everyone dies in the end. Because otherwise, without the thrill, life would be bland for them.
There are many inconsistencies, I lost count. At the beginning of the film, a female diver, a diving legend, a seasoned shark, suddenly panics and dies in the cave.
Hmm... I'm not sure she would have lived to become a legend and one of the best if she had that kind of mentality: she would have either given up or died earlier, that's a fact.
Before that, she and the hero of the film were crawling into a narrow hole, it was difficult for one person to squeeze through... they barely made it. And then the guy pulled her back out without any problems, how? The impression that it was filmed in a studio remains throughout the film. That is, as if the heroes are dying, a tragic scene - but you understand that 20 people from the film crew are standing nearby, the camera is half a meter away, and the director is shouting "I don't believe it!".
But despite all the inconsistencies, it was filmed with soul, it was light and enjoyable.
The second movie I watched was "Menace II Society". A devastated black ghetto, everything is very bad. Gangs with primitive names like "Rangers," "Soldiers"... they are all fighting each other. After the first five minutes, I wanted to turn it off.
Then I got into it, watched it to the end, and I don't regret it. I learned about an unknown layer of culture (I'm not kidding). Unlike our local thugs, their gangs, before fighting, always read each other a heartfelt rap.
Brothers, when they meet, must boast to each other about their car, their girl, and the gold jewelry on their fingers, otherwise it's not cool.
After "Brother 2," "Don't Be a Menace to South Central," I was skeptical of such films, but I was wrong. It is impossible to survive in such conditions without some kind of faith. In Russia, people turn to alcohol, in America, they listen to gangsta rap. I'm not sure which one of us is right.
I'm almost ashamed to even write about the third film. I think the title is "The Green Hornet." I don't understand how I got talked into watching it. It seemed to have a high budget, high ratings from critics, and a lot of advertising. I lasted 20 minutes. No plot, no acting, no directing. Only special effects. This would be tolerable, there are many such Hollywood films. But the actors are impudent and annoying to an extreme degree.
It's the worst movie I've seen in the last few years.