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[–] thejoker954@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Watched a couple movies.

The Gorge - went in with low expectations and was pleasantly surprised. Some really cool designs for creatures and environment.

Story needed some refinement though.

Loves Hurts - I enjoyed it, but it was tonally inconsistent which really hurts the whole imo.

[–] golli@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Watched The Gorge recently aswell.

Wouldn't go as far as saying that i was pleasantly suprised, but it's one of those movies where I use very different metrics compared to movies i go in with the expectation to watch something actually good. It definitively falls into the category of mindless entertainment, which despite the somewhat negative name has its purpose. In that regard it does fulfill it's role adequately for me, which is really all i was looking to get out of it.

I'd agree that the creature/environment design was interesting. The biggest downfall of the movie is that it tries to be too many things at once instead of comitting to one single thing: suspenseful slow paced thriller, romance, horror, action, character study, historical mystery, and so on. Can't be all at the same time and in the end everything suffers from it.

Tbh biggest suprise is that it's an appleTV+ instead of Netflix movie.