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Once again the legend of a man that is David Attenborough does not disappoint with his nature documentaries that he has been pumping out, it is undeniable that it's insane he's as old as he is and still working as much as he is... but it just goes to show that the man will never stop preaching the beauty and good that nature is able to provide and that we as a people keep neglecting, well the only thing capable of stopping that man of course being his inevitable passing away but despite him being in his 90's I absolutely have hope that he'll not be dying any time soon; at least going off of what you can see here and even in his most recent documentary limited series he made for Netflix "Secret World of Sound" which is just as if not even better than this one was - the man is still remarkably spry and fit for his age and the sheer fact he's able to walk and talk as well as he does is a testament to human willpower and it's immensely impressive to see him be such an engaging and inspiring man even at his age. As one can expect from Attenborough, you're undoubtedly going to be getting a whole lot of insightful commentary on nature throughout this entire docuseries, and his smooth and sultry voice is perfect to listen to for hearing all of those nature fun facts, I truly don't believe there will ever be a man who is as well spoken and linguistically engaging as this man is when it comes to talking about nature, his voice is just perfect for it and I'm so glad we've gotten so much from him over the years. The topics he covers during this nearly three hour long series all surround color and how color affects nature, ranging from the first episode 'Seeing in Color' which focuses on the sight aspects of color that revolve around things such as how birds use color to attract mates or how it's used to show how dangerous a certain animal is, whether it's truthful on their behalf or not, or even butterflies using it as a tool to gain trust from other species and garner attention that you desire - similarly to the mating aspects it's used to attract attention for your own benefit, and color can also indicate who is the dominant character in a particular area or how intimidating you might be. The second episode entitled 'Hiding in Color' of course delves into the various ways animals use color to hide from their prey and/or their predators, to either trick, deceive, or sometimes even flaunt in the faces of these creatures - prey use color to blend into their environment to keep out of site of predators in the hopes they won't be caught and subsequently eaten, such as a white bunny blending in with the snow to avoid an owl swooping down to catch it, or the opposite of that where a bunny is brown to blend in with the dirt to avoid the same fate... it's very interesting stuff. While predators use color in much the same way but for a different purpose, to hide in plain sight from their prey to launch a surprise attack and get them when they aren't expecting it, the main example used here being how tigers blend in with their surroundings due to the fact their prey can't physically register orange as a color, instead making it a green/brown color which is pretty much indistinguishable from the surrounding wildlife - it's remarkably cool stuff and it's undeniably Ike of the most interesting pieces of information I have learned, visually at least, about nature throughout my entire little escapade through the nature documentaries I've watched as of late. The third and the final episode, titled 'Chasing Color' is more of a technical focused episode instead of actually diving further into much about nature, the back half of the episode is almost entirely focused on mentioning the desperate need to preserve coral reefs as they are losing their color and dying due to climate change, but the first half of the episode is just a deep dive into the way the unique cameras the crew for this series used function, how they are able to capture the true essence of what these animals see as the human eye isn't able to do so, certain markings or patterns that are impossible to see with the naked eye but are shown expressly with the use of this particular camera lens and stuff, it's how they're able to capture what i mentioned earlier with the tiger and stuff.. and how they're able to showcase the way some animals see in nothing but ultraviolet which is a completely different sense of color that I didn't even think about going into this thing. All in all I consider this to be a wonderful piece of documentation film that I found nothing but pure joy in watching, and I highly recommend checking it out if you haven't done so already because it's absolutely worth the time in my opinion, three episodes all around 45-50 minutes in length, and it's some of the most intriguing and compelling television I have watched all year - I can't recommend it enough and I desperately want to see David Attenborough do more like this and "Secret World of Sound", it's some impeccable stuff and I've loved every singular second of both of these series. Amazing.

Well I can fairly confidently say that I liked this a lot more than I was expecting to and I was genuinely pleasantly surprised and impressed with the way it turned out in the end and while I will definitely say that this isn't anywhere near the best thing I have watched lately or even close to being the best thing in this specific sub genre of horror films... it still worked really well for me and I thoroughly enjoyed my time with it and that's really all I could have hoped for going in to this and was honestly even more then I expected, but I am very glad that it turned out to work so well for me as I really had fun with my time here and that's always a great sign. This is another horror comedy film that's in the same vain as "Happy Death Day" or "Freaky", where it's based around a slasher going around a school killing a bunch of people but there's also some wacky supernatural twist that gets thrown in there as well, for the previous two I mentioned those were a Groundhog Day type repeating day and of course a "Freaky Friday" type body swap... but in "Departing Seniors" the supernatural element added here is the ability to have visions whenever the main character touches something that belongs to a person.. either being able to view into the future or the past but not particularly able to control it. It's an interesting concept and I like the overall idea of it quite a bit but that also brings us to easily what the worst part of this movie was in my eyes. The absolute worst part of "Departing Seniors" as a whole is just the sheer fact that despite having a very unique, interesting, and very compelling premise to go along with it.. it doesn't really manage to use that concept effectively in any real meaningful way that would lead to this movie being any better than it actually is, and that is by far the worst part about this movie and also just the most disappointing by a long shot. It's a serious let down whenever they introduce such an engaging and intriguing part of the movie to only have it be used to absolutely nothing until the very last sequence of the film and every other time it's relevant it ends up leading to nothing and just serves to bring the characters to the location where something is going to happen without actually giving them the chance to do anything about it. It's kind of cheap whenever your main character can see into the future but fails at doing anything about it honestly, but it's a good thing the rest of the movie worked a lot better for me because that really dampened it's effect. While that is truly a fairly negative thing about this movie that wholeheartedly dragged it down quite a bit from the potential it could've easily had, it didn't inherently ruin the movie for me and I liked the rest of it way more than enough to somewhat justify that decision and still give me a reason to enjoy it even if I feel like they had a major missed opportunity there and fumbled the bag in one significant way.. it's honestly saved by the rest of the movie being pretty great at what it does and making for an extremely entertaining watch. Although; I wholeheartedly guessed the main twist of this movie within the very first few scenes of its opening act but I don't know if that is actually the movies fault for being obvious or if I just guessed well.. either way it didn't ruin anything about the experience for me and I honestly just felt gratified that I knew where it was gonna go. Easily my favorite part about this movie and really what I think it does the best is just developing it's characters and actually making them decently engaging to watch and incredibly emotionally intelligent and entertaining from the get go, this is both in large part due to the acting in this movie which is genuinely pretty amazing from the entire cast, and also the writing which while very cliche at times and not the best ever works perfectly for the story here and is even better when it comes to fleshing out the characters and their individual relationships with the people surrounding them... so even if it's not particularly great when it comes to the aforementioned supernatural aspect it's at least well done when it comes to emotional beats with characters and actually making them inherently interesting and compelling to follow through this journey. Most notable out of both of those things being the phenomenally done performances from the entire cast here but definitely most notably from our leading man Ignacio Diaz-Silverio who is perfect as the lead here and is extraordinarily entertaining to watch and his sheer range of emotions on display here is genuinely very impressive and especially when it came to dealing with another character.. Brad played wonderfully as well by Sasha Kuznetsov, and their relationship dynamic here was both gut wrenching but also heartwarming and at the very least insanely engaging to watch and they both did a fantastic job in their respective roles. Also I definitely have to mention Cameron Scott Roberts as Trevor who did great and his reaction to what happens was executed brilliantly - Maudie Merlock as Ginny who was the least interesting character here but still very well acted and she sucked to watch a whole lot, great mean girl character - Yani Gellman as Mr. Arda who did a great job as well - and most importantly of all the side cast here Ireon Roach as Bianca who was utterly hilarious and worked perfectly as the horror obsessed best friend comic relief character here and every scene with her was done amazingly and she was just very funny, especially her chemistry with our leading man which was great. Listen I'm not going to go around saying that this was the best movie I have seen this year or even close to being the best movie i have seen in this specific horror sub genre.. but I can very confidently assess that it's a damn good time that has some really heavy themes but they're handled in a very good way that makes it inherently very interesting to see unfold and had me hooked from the very beginning which is always a good sign for a horror film. It's not a fantastic slasher by any means and it really underutilized its main appeal and the unique quality it has but it still excels when it comes to everything else it tries to do and that's more than enough for me personally. While this may not be amazing it's an enjoyable watch that I think is definitely worth the time to check out and even though it can be very cliche at times and just a little too out there I still think it holds together well and it brings it all together in the end in a satisfying way. Not the best but not bad at all, I recommend watching this especially since it's free on Tubi, and if you're into these types of movies I can see this being great. Good.

Well to put it lightly this movie definitely isn't anywhere near as good as I was hoping it was going to be, and honestly just a whole lot freakier than I ever expected as well.. which probably could work for other people but the mixture of coming out of practically nowhere and also having very little of it in general, I was disappointed on pretty much every front here for what the movie was attempting to do. It wasn't scary enough to warrant anything more than mediocre remarks on that side, wasn't well acted enough either to make the slog of following these characters the least bit enjoyable in my opinion, and it also just wasn't nearly as freaky as it should've been to even make that aspect of it enjoyable.. it was somehow far too tame and boring despite having some really insane moments and one wild storyline... and that is the biggest disappointment of all here. Although; if I was to give this movie one singular positive note, it would be that I do really like what they were TRYING to do here, director Gabriel Abrantes clearly had a vision and I applaud him going for it and I presume trying his best.. and despite their execution falling incredibly flat in my eyes I can still give them their props for at the very least attempting to do something new and interesting in the horror genre. I feel like this movie wasn't at all marketed like what it turned out to be, from the one trailer for it that I saw it really did seem to be a possession type story but ended up instead being based upon a Portuguese fairy tale that gets unbelievably freaky with the way it is depicted, and that's both a good and a bad thing here. The good is that the premise is at the heart of it all very compelling, while the bad is that like I mentioned not too long ago... it's not executed all that well in the end. Another thing that this movie did slightly better than the rest, although definitely not something that I feel very confident giving the role of a 'positive', is the acting. For the most part I would say that this movies acting is pretty much serviceable and not horrendous at any notable point in time, however it's still not the best and there are many many moments here where I could easily tell that either the script or the actors themselves weren't the greatest and it certainly dragged the quality of the movie itself down quite a bit for me. Obviously the most notable person in the entire cast here is our main lead, who is played pretty wonderfully by Brigette Lundy-Paine who I have seen prior to this film but for some reason just instagram, great acting from them and I thoroughly enjoyed the performance even if it wasn't outstanding or anything. The next actress here who I utterly adored, was of course the titular Amelia played by Alba Baptista who is phenomenal in the role and easily the best actor present here, also the makeup goes insane and I loved it.. which is another reason why she has the best role - creepy as all hell both in mannerisms and also just visuals which is a great pair. Finally, Carloto Cotta was okay in his dual roles, impressive I'll give him that but it was for sure the weakest performance in the whole thing sadly. Now it's time to talk about what I can easily consider to be the worst part of this movie which I somewhat touched on earlier, and that's the fact that it's just so unbelievably boring to watch and I really wish I could say otherwise but the process of watching this movie is genuinely somewhat painful due to just how little of actual intrigue happens throughout the first hour and fifteen minutes of it; albeit there are moments here and there that kind of lean more toward being good like the actual 'horror' elements of the film and the aforementioned makeup, but again the biggest problem with these things is that even though I do like them.. they either aren't on screen nearly enough in this thing, or are entirely useless to the story. The actual tense moments of this film almost entirely happen within dream sequences of visions of things that never actually happen, and to top it off we can barely even get to see anything occurring even within these moments.. which is truly just disappointing to me, especially when the structure of this film should have been an easy home run to make something at the very least stupidly entertaining. Though; they do the one thing here that has killed more horror movies as of late than anything else I have witnessed, and that is being utterly boring and sluggish to watch.. despite only being just around ninety minutes this movie sometimes feels like it goes on for an eternity, and that wouldn't be such a bad thing if the stuff within it was at all engaging or even scary to watch... sadly it's not. I really had high hopes for this movie to be something great but like I should seriously come to expect by now, especially from horror movies, it didn't reach those expectations in the slightest... if I'm being entirely honest here both the trailer and the poster for this movie are far far better than the actual movie itself which is depressing to say. Although; despite not really liking this movie really all that much and just viewing it as a fairly watchable and overall adequate project, I do still think there are some phenomenal things to take away from a movie such as this; obviously the actors for one clearly have the ability to do much better and I would wholeheartedly like to see them in more things to fully appreciate their talents, also the premise here itself is very interesting and has clear potential to be something outstanding but with the direction and writing here it just didn't get to fulfill that vision so I do hope someone else can take a jab at something similar and hopefully do a better job in the end. All in all, while I don't hate this movie by any means, I just don't really think it's worth spending over an hour of your life on unless you are in desperate need of a horror film (this honestly leads much more into psychological thriller), like freaky premises which this most definitely has, or are unbelievably bored. If you're not falling under those categories, don't watch this, I don't recommend it.