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Unable to Recognize A Bad Movie

Last weekend I spent time watching a movie, which wasn't especially bad for me when I'd just finished watching it. Had my suspicions, but needed the check the reviews to realize that the movie was terrible. Let me explain.

Honestly, the movie was entertaining because I was so curious about how the protagonist (and cybersecurity expert) had an almost perfect workflow between different tools, sources of information, and system interfaces, that I didn't pay attention to whether I was enjoying the film. For an IT guy, all those kinds of things are absorbing, I think.

The special effects caught my attention; they looked so reachable that I was wondering how to make them on my own. The way they use the resource of the "hackers in revolt" was awkward for me; it's impossible to take them seriously. By the current date, I don't remember the movie's plot, and the final part was meaningless for me.

At that moment, I suspected something was going wrong, so I surfed YouTube for reviews. There were a lot of negative comments about the movie. Among other criticisms (the lack of quality in both the special effects and the script, for example), the strongest argument was that the movie is a shameless propaganda by Amazon. I agreed with most of them.

Now, Weekend nights are scheduled for movies.

P.S.: The movie is the 2025 adaptation of the famous novel "War of the Worlds" by H. G. Wells.

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Unable to Recognize A Bad Movie

Last weekend I spent time watching a movie, which wasn't especially bad for me when I'd just finished watching it.

HI had my suspicions, but needed theo check the reviews to realize that the movie was terrible.

Let me explain.

Honestly, the movie was entertaining because I was so curious about how the protagonist (and cybersecurity expert) had an almost perfect workflow between different tools, sources of information, and system interfaces, that. I didn't pay attention to whether I was enjoying the film.

For an IT guy, I think all those kinds of things are absorbing, I thintriguinkg.

The special effects caught my attention; t. They looked so reachablelistic that I was wondering how to make them on my own.

The way they use the resource of the "hackers in revolt" was awkward for me; it's impossible to take them seriously.

By the current date, I don't remember the movie's plot, and the final partending was meaningless for me.

At that moment, I suspected something was going wrong, so I surfed YouTube for reviews.

There were a lot of negative comments about the movie.

Among other criticisms, including (the lack of quality in both the special effects and the script, for example), the strongest argument was that the movie is a shameless propaganda by Amazon.

I agreed with most of them.

Now, Wweekend nights are scheduled for movies.

P.S. The movie is the 2025 adaptation of the famous novel “War of the Worlds” by H.G. Wells.

: The movie is the 2025 adaptation of the famous novel "War of the Worlds" by H. G. Wells.

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I'll make sure to not watch that movie. Thanks for the movie review.

Unable to Recognize A Bad Movie

Last weekend I spent time watchinged a movie, which wasn'I didn’t especially bad for me when I'd just finished watching it/overwhelmingly/particularly hate at the time.

“Spent time watching” is ok, but it sounds a little unnatural to me personally. I think it would sound more natural to either use my suggestion, or say “I spent last weekend watching a movie”.
I suggested a few synonyms/alternatives for “especially”. Personally, I’d probably lean towards “particularly”, but I think that’s just personal preference.
Saying that the movie wasn’t bad for you makes me think more that it wasn’t bad for your health or hurt you. I feel like something like “which I didn’t particularly hate” or “which I didn’t find overwhelmingly bad” is a little clearer and sounds more natural.
“At the time” is just a shorter and more natural alternative.

HI had my suspicions, but needed theo check the reviews to realize that the movie was terrible.

In writing and in more formal situations, you would always need to use the subject (which is “I” here), but in a more conversational setting, you could omit the subject in certain cases (though this wouldn’t be one where I’d do that, but that might just be personal preference)

Let me explain.

Honestly, the movie was entertaining because I was so curious about how the protagonist (and cybersecurity expert) had an almost perfect workflow between different tools, sources of information, and system interfaces, that I didn't pay attention to whether I was enjoying the film.

For an IT guy, all those kinds of things are absorbing, I think.

“Absorbing” doesn’t feel like the right word choice here, but I can’t think of what a better choice would be.
You could say “all those kinds of things are really interesting” or “all those kinds of things steal the spotlight”, or maybe even “all those kinds of things outshine the rest (of the movie)”.

The special effects caught my attention; they looked so reachable/realistic/convincing that I was wondering how to make them on my own.

The way they use the resource of the "hackers in revolt" was awkward for me; it's impossible to take them seriously.

By the current date,Now I don't even remember the movie's plot, and the final part was meaningless for me.

I’m not sure if I’ve interpreted the meaning of this sentence correctly, so feel free to ask for some clarification (or give some more details about what exactly you meant).

I also think that this sentence doesn’t really flow from the last one particularly well.

At that moment, I suspected something was going wrong, so I surfedoff, so I searched/looked on YouTube for reviews.

“Going wrong” sounds a little unnatural.

“Surfed” is also ok, I just don’t typically use it myself so I suggested “searched” and “looked on” as alternatives.

There were a lot of negative comments about the movie.

Among other criticisms (such as the lack of quality in both the special effects and the script, for example), the strongest argument was that the movie is a shameless propaganda by Amazon.

I just suggested a way that you could integrate the examples into the sentence more seamlessly, but your original wording was good.

I think you would usually either say “is shameless propaganda” or “is a shameless piece of propaganda” (you could also put “shameless” directly before “propaganda” in the second suggestion as well).

I agreed with most of them.

Now, Wweekend nights are schedulreserved for movies.

You don’t need to capitalise “weekend”.
I think “reserved” sounds better than “scheduled”.

P.S.

: The movie is the 2025 adaptation of the famous novel "War of the Worlds" by H. G. Wells.

Last weekend I spent time watching a movie, which wasn't especially bad for me when I'd just finished watching it.


Last weekend I spent time watchinged a movie, which wasn'I didn’t especially bad for me when I'd just finished watching it/overwhelmingly/particularly hate at the time.

“Spent time watching” is ok, but it sounds a little unnatural to me personally. I think it would sound more natural to either use my suggestion, or say “I spent last weekend watching a movie”. I suggested a few synonyms/alternatives for “especially”. Personally, I’d probably lean towards “particularly”, but I think that’s just personal preference. Saying that the movie wasn’t bad for you makes me think more that it wasn’t bad for your health or hurt you. I feel like something like “which I didn’t particularly hate” or “which I didn’t find overwhelmingly bad” is a little clearer and sounds more natural. “At the time” is just a shorter and more natural alternative.

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Had my suspicions, but needed the check the reviews to realize that the movie was terrible.


HI had my suspicions, but needed theo check the reviews to realize that the movie was terrible.

In writing and in more formal situations, you would always need to use the subject (which is “I” here), but in a more conversational setting, you could omit the subject in certain cases (though this wouldn’t be one where I’d do that, but that might just be personal preference)

HI had my suspicions, but needed theo check the reviews to realize that the movie was terrible.

Let me explain.


This sentence has been marked as perfect!

This sentence has been marked as perfect!

Honestly, the movie was entertaining because I was so curious about how the protagonist (and cybersecurity expert) had an almost perfect workflow between different tools, sources of information, and system interfaces, that I didn't pay attention to whether I was enjoying the film.


This sentence has been marked as perfect!

Honestly, the movie was entertaining because I was so curious about how the protagonist (and cybersecurity expert) had an almost perfect workflow between different tools, sources of information, and system interfaces, that. I didn't pay attention to whether I was enjoying the film.

For an IT guy, all those kinds of things are absorbing, I think.


For an IT guy, all those kinds of things are absorbing, I think.

“Absorbing” doesn’t feel like the right word choice here, but I can’t think of what a better choice would be. You could say “all those kinds of things are really interesting” or “all those kinds of things steal the spotlight”, or maybe even “all those kinds of things outshine the rest (of the movie)”.

For an IT guy, I think all those kinds of things are absorbing, I thintriguinkg.

The special effects caught my attention; they looked so reachable that I was wondering how to make them on my own.


The special effects caught my attention; they looked so reachable/realistic/convincing that I was wondering how to make them on my own.

The special effects caught my attention; t. They looked so reachablelistic that I was wondering how to make them on my own.

The way they use the resource of the "hackers in revolt" was awkward for me; it's impossible to take them seriously.


This sentence has been marked as perfect!

This sentence has been marked as perfect!

By the current date, I don't remember the movie's plot, and the final part was meaningless for me.


By the current date,Now I don't even remember the movie's plot, and the final part was meaningless for me.

I’m not sure if I’ve interpreted the meaning of this sentence correctly, so feel free to ask for some clarification (or give some more details about what exactly you meant). I also think that this sentence doesn’t really flow from the last one particularly well.

By the current date, I don't remember the movie's plot, and the final partending was meaningless for me.

At that moment, I suspected something was going wrong, so I surfed YouTube for reviews.


At that moment, I suspected something was going wrong, so I surfedoff, so I searched/looked on YouTube for reviews.

“Going wrong” sounds a little unnatural. “Surfed” is also ok, I just don’t typically use it myself so I suggested “searched” and “looked on” as alternatives.

This sentence has been marked as perfect!

There were a lot of negative comments about the movie.


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This sentence has been marked as perfect!

Unable to Recognize A Bad Movie


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Among other criticisms (the lack of quality in both the special effects and the script, for example), the strongest argument was that the movie is a shameless propaganda by Amazon.


Among other criticisms (such as the lack of quality in both the special effects and the script, for example), the strongest argument was that the movie is a shameless propaganda by Amazon.

I just suggested a way that you could integrate the examples into the sentence more seamlessly, but your original wording was good. I think you would usually either say “is shameless propaganda” or “is a shameless piece of propaganda” (you could also put “shameless” directly before “propaganda” in the second suggestion as well).

Among other criticisms, including (the lack of quality in both the special effects and the script, for example), the strongest argument was that the movie is a shameless propaganda by Amazon.

I agreed with most of them.


This sentence has been marked as perfect!

This sentence has been marked as perfect!

Now, Weekend nights are scheduled for movies.


Now, Wweekend nights are schedulreserved for movies.

You don’t need to capitalise “weekend”. I think “reserved” sounds better than “scheduled”.

Now, Wweekend nights are scheduled for movies.

P.S.


This sentence has been marked as perfect!

P.S. The movie is the 2025 adaptation of the famous novel “War of the Worlds” by H.G. Wells.

: The movie is the 2025 adaptation of the famous novel "War of the Worlds" by H. G. Wells.


This sentence has been marked as perfect!

: The movie is the 2025 adaptation of the famous novel "War of the Worlds" by H. G. Wells.

Unable to Tell A Bad Movie


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