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The Gentlemen (2024)
Lacking Credulity
It was touch and go for the viewer, and I was completely engrossed in the plot. The responsible brother was busy saving the day for his sibling who was in very mortal danger with very bad
criminals, and responsible brother willingly intertwined his existence with what will surely prove to be ruthless criminals operating a grow operation. For now they're pot farmers hiding in plain sight in his great English house.
But alas, the irresponsible brother is off to gamble and throw away the money his brother put everything on the line for, and the mannerisms of the irresponsible brother were way over the top, and there, the show lost me. The irresponsible brother seemed to be over acting and I never finished the episode.
Lawmen: Bass Reeves (2023)
Deputy US Marshal Bass Reeves
It's hard to imagine or even comprehend the prejudice and low estimation of others Deputy US Marshal Reeves had to overcome. And he became an elite federal lawman during his tumultuous time of living. I listened to a bit of his story in a podcast from "Texas Monthly" and read a small amount of his biography on the internet. The podcast was "White Hats" and is a condensed history of the Texas Rangers. Shortly thereafter I was watching an older episode of "Timeless" and Deputy Reeves was a character in the show. And then I found this series on Paramount.
I always love the depiction of men who love their wives and children so this series is my new current favorite.
We celebrate Black History Month year round and this show goes on our family recommended watchlist.
The Greatest Love Story Never Told (2024)
It is really bad,
And I was not able to make myself watch it without fast forwarding through most of it. I had to skip the most cringeworthy scenes, and it was almost all cringeworthy.
I rolled my eyes, to myself, at the factory skit with workers who awkwardly rock their heads, necks, and wigs to.the beat of the music along with slamming their hands down. The dirt from working was obviously painted on the costumes and faces of the nameless and forgotten characters. And the work being depicted was possibly agriculturally related and not anything we know of factory work.
And the music really hopes to someday define a decade, but there is no gripping thought or emotion that comes through. The genre I heard was a bit hit hop, but actually striving to be top pop tunes. And the lyrics I heard at the end were really unnecessary as they are nothing you would want to pop on the Apple Play on the way to school. Actually, it was graphic and was definitely adult oriented. Maybe it will catch on at the adult entertainment bars and centers.
And the scene of fake joy with the white umbrella being turned about like a baton with the hummingbird nearby-it was reminiscent of Fred Astaire, but I have never been much of a fan of Fred Astaire musicals anyway. So for me, it all felt flat.
I will jump back to scene where the bad actors playing "gods" who watch over Jennifer Lopez, ummm, that was really cringeworthy. I was actually surprised at how unbelievably bad the acting actually was, along with the skit performed by the husband of Ms. Lopez.
And as far as self love, I now am sure the world could do with far less of it.
The Equalizer 3 (2023)
Excellent!
I have watched all the Equalizer movies, Equalizer 1, 2, and now 3. It seems sometimes bad guys win and dominate in real life so watching them die extremely violent deaths in the Equalizer movies seems fair and just in the not so real life.
I'm older now and aware of when people are acting and Denzel's Equalizer movies make me forget he is a character. It's not that I am going to stand up in my living room and cheer him on and my best compliment I can give a movie is I look up the ending while I am watching to make sure it is not awful. I'm investing my time and don't want to waste it. The night I started Equalizer 3 I had left my phone in my sister's car so I had to fast forward to the end to make sure Denzel made it out okay, and then I had to go back the next night and watch it again. Which was tonight. I loved it!
The English (2022)
The English
It took me a long time to watch this series as it was very violent and sometimes I just wasn't up for it. I will probably pause it often again the second go around as I would like to watch it again.
I spent quite a bit of time reading up on scalping injuries and diseases that cause one's nose to fall off and the terrible sore on the gums and jaw bone in episode six was too realistic. I won't be getting over it any time soon.
I also looked up the actors in the series and Black Eyed Mog is just a fright. The artist who created the visuals for her character is really talented and the artist had to cover a lot of beauty. The casting for all the characters was really excellent.
The Night Agent (2023)
11:00 to 7:00
I am really enjoying this series, and I can't stand much scripted television lately. The villains so far revealed are two vicious paid assassins and they are in love. Or so the psychotic female character is, and this is hard to reconcile with her enjoyment of the murder of the kind lady who let her tour her home. At least she left the baby alive she and her assassin partner departed the home with the dead woman.
I couldn't follow how the bad characters who order deaths like Door Dash are connected to the White House so far, but I am sure it is coming.
One blooper was not making sure the door was closed when the agent left his apartment. I plan to also go back and see what camera brand that was placed on the bookshelf in case I need one someday. I might need one someday.
Rain Dogs (2023)
Careless
I'm tired of all the oh so careless parents portrayed in movies and television shows. Am I supposed to have sympathy for the chaos they cause with their carelessness?
The bailiffs removed the mother and child from their home and they took a ride in a taxi and failed to pay for their ride. These are opening scenes. The mother kicked in a window of a car they were going to sleep in while it was raining heavily but it appears they left after minutes. The next day, after leaving the vehicle she criminally and carelessly damaged, it appears her kid is ostensibly at school. The child was able to go to school after a night staying for minutes at a super creepy guy's house and at a diner playing the scratch offs.
So the mom is off to work while her kid is maybe at school. And she works at some horridly dirty and seedy place, and she's even sloppy at her work. It just made me want to roll my eyes at the whole premise, and I quit wasting my time.
You People (2023)
And they did live happily ever after...
For goodness sakes, I cried, during the breakup scene. I could actually feel the characters' pain. I am always too aware I'm watching acting to get emotionally involved so I did feel surprise at my reaction.
I really, really hate drug humor and I didn't understand if the cocaine was real.
Almost every character walks outside their homes on television or the movies and the ocean is their back yard. We did not have that in this movie, but we did have unrealistic careers of the younger couple supporting above average lifestyles. So I spent too much time wondering, like I do for everyone, wondering how in the world they're all going to continue their lifestyles. I'm silly, I know, but these are the things I worry about.
Alert: Missing Persons Unit (2023)
Don't Try These Things at Work
There are headlines all over the news right now about law enforcement employees using their offices and cars as bedrooms. The most recent article I read said the officer had been fired for mixing bedroom and work activities together in his cruiser.
The lead female officer character in Alert couldn't wait to get home to her own private bedroom so she and her romantic partner used the supply room at the police station. Without locking the door. During the ten minutes they imagined they had for this romp the male romantic partner talks about his affair with a married woman who loved peaches. The peaches made the married lady happy. It appears the married lady decided to possibly stay home with her family and not betray her husband yet again so the peaches he purchased as a gift for her rotted and decayed.
It's just bad, and I quit.
The Crown (2016)
Hearts of Glass
I can't single out a favorite season of "The Crown" as they are all so well acted, produced, and edited.
The steeliness of the royal family has been demonstrated to the public on many occasions. I'm sure one would have to be strong and impervious to criticism to be able to cut ribbons and host charity events as a career. You can sense the lack of deference to royalty in my writing now-I would not go out of my way to attend a ribbon cutting or charity event hosted by the current royal family members, nor would I have for any previous or deceased royal family member.
I just now had to turn off Season V as the viewer has been taken to the basement where the Romanovs were killed, after their English royal cousins steeled themselves against any rescue.
And this steeliness, with a complete lack of regard for royal wives, other women's husbands, and poor people who wish desperately to be their friends-they're just horrible people, and need rebaked with some humanity sprinkled in their souls.
The idea of royalty is laughable today and no doubt I would have lost my head in centuries gone by, but why can't they ever surprise us and be admirable humans? And if mistakes are made, where is the true acknowledgment of the pain caused? It's the entitlement to causing pain that is hard to reconcile for the modern day person watching from afar.
Manifest (2018)
From Science Fiction to the Occult,
This series cannot decide which genre it actually is.
Symbols in a dream and the last episode I will watch had the characters attending a Tarot card reading. Enough is enough-at least for me it is.
Science fiction and time travel are always good genres but actually deciding something or making a decision or trying to figure out a question in life using Tarot cards? I tried to fast forward through the scene and then there was a flash back to this oh so important Tarot card reading and it was enough for me.
I gave the series two stars because it started out well, but no more as it lost steam and became something that does not make sense.
War of the Worlds (2019)
Allegorical
Season One was a 9 and would have been a 10, but the story line began to veer off in to an Adam and Eve storyline. And Season Two has that dinger to the series, and now we have alternate or parallel times and universes.
I was fine with avoiding the metal living robots who walk like animals and looking for supplies and fighting against the alien domination of earth. It was great to figure out what the robots were made of and figure out who was an alien and who was not.
But now we are off on a weird tangent and I can't watch anymore. I love science fiction and aliens storylines, but the premise is now too unbelievable and it feels like a storyline done once on "Fringe."
This Old House (1979)
This Old Lady
Is giving up the dream of ever being handy. I gave my toolbox last week to my elderly mom who can actually fix things. My daughter is now using my saws to lay new flooring in her home. I should say also I have thousands of dollars of tools. I even have a masonry saw. It was a real dream of mine.
I have tried and tried to learn but if my kids see me with a wrench or a tool they take it away from me. My screwdriver flipped out on me recently changing out cabinet knobs and I'm still wearing a bandaid.
I have an old house with an office and two apartments and I can't even paint without it all being all over me. These are the cards I was dealt and I am facing it head-on now. My hopes are all gone, but I'm grateful for my kids that can do amazing things. And for my mom who fixed her apartment door and can actually put together the furniture she orders.
I am very good at cleaning though and watching without fail "This Old House." I will keep watching and continue laughing at myself when I think something looks easier to do.
Interview with the Vampire (2022)
Off Kilter
Walking blood banks, ladies of the evening, a couple of entertainers, and moneyed old guys-that is the humanity on this show represented to the viewer so far.
And the vampires are all very arrogant, inhumane, animalistic, know it alls, and there is not even one reason to root for them. They're in love with each other, at least the creepiest one is in love, so, okay, bleh-have your horrible romance.
I find the whole show tedious and and therefore, there is no reason to watch anymore.
I have never read Anne Rice novels and I won't start at this late date, especially after watching this adaptation.
There is a lot of good television out there, and this is not
any of the good television. Off the DVR it goes......
American Gigolo (2022)
Complete Rubbish
The premise is cringe worthy, and not only is it cringish, there is no way it portrays any part of mainstream American life, whatsoever.
No man is going to be paid by really beautiful and youngish women to their male prostitute-it's not going to happen. It's a male fantasy, probably, I would think.
And today's male screenwriters-they all write so much bedroom content into their shows. It is as if STDs were a thing of the past and humans can't keep their clothes on for any good reason. None of the characters seems to work very much outside of the bedroom, that is for sure.
Too many male writers, yep this was written by a man as I looked it up, just spend way too much time absorbing and expelling ex rated websites' content through their fingers as they type. It's all rubbish.
COPD: Highly Illogical - Remembering Leonard Nimoy (2017)
Post Modernity
I have a problem with the second half of this documentary.
There are very few pictures of Mr. Nimoy's first wife and the mother of his children.
So we find out mid documentary he got a divorce and dumped his wife, but oh how wonderful, sarcastically I write that, he then met his "intellectual equal" to live happily ever with, and be married to, yet again. And that the newer wife saved Mr. Nimoy's life with her love and his family was so important to him.
The kids, I would estimate, got the message that to be in their dad's life they had to go along with it all and the narrative as his daughter said she was "not surprised" at her parents divorcing.
I have had 11 step siblings and 3 stepparents. I can predict what people will say and make themselves believe in these situations, and I'm jaded now.
This narrative about the end of long term marriages always annoys me and it's not that anyone will care what I think or write about this situation.
I was just caught off guard this evening watching PBS, and didn't realize Mr. Nimoy had followed in thousands of other men's footsteps. I am just disappointed, that is all.
Surviving Sister Wives (2020)
Creeptastic
The "husbands" on this show way overestimate themselves, and none of them learned one thing from all the disastrous polygamous societies and guys before them. Two of them are building houses to home more than one wife, and and they haven't even landed the extra wives yet.
They also require everyone around them to accept their chosen lifestyles and the son of one of them keeps repeating he just wants his dad to be happy. But what the son doesn't realize is the dad is never going to be happy, ever, and what the dad hasn't admitted to himself is he doesn't care even one tiny fig about the example he's showing to his son.
The wives have all shortchanged themselves from everything that is good in marriage to settle for sharing a man with other women. They all have prepared speeches as to why it's all okay and work hard at aiding the men in spending all their time strategizing how to snare more, it appears, vulnerable women into their twisted lives.
I do watch it though and I need psychotherapy to figure out why.
Invasion (2021)
Looking for Spoilers
I had to turn off the show when the kids and their mom were in the driveway trying to escape the aliens. I tentatively turned it back on only to find the dad survived getting a full on brutal alien assault. The dad is pretty hard to root for. I could have done without any of the sex scenes in the show and the dad's scene makes one want to see him suffer more from those alien wounds. I couldn't find any spoilers to find out what happens to the family-the mom just confessed to not having finished medical school.
I could also do without the astronaut and computer programmer love story. In the last scene they were in the astronaut looked to be seducing the programmer and it was creepy. They are ever so in rapturous love and it's way, way over the top, and very unrealistic.
The Old Man (2022)
MAGA
The show just does-it makes aging great again.
John Lithgow and Jeff Bridges are so skilled at their craft and each episode is to be savored.
We don't know much about the past yet, which is bringing our characters together, after only episode 2, but we're learning more.
Huntington's Disease, loyal and loving husbands, dog training in probably Arabic, worry about dementia, parenting concerns, raising a grandchild-it makes it definitely the best show airing now, hands down.
Amy Brenneman is as skilled as her co stars but the narrative about her feelings concerning her marriage which eventually led to her husband finding a new woman-she's appears to be stronger than her life falling apart because she shared her feelings with her husband. She's getting alimony-good for her-but her back story should have been more kick ass.
Ida Red (2021)
Bad Plot with Great Acting
The plot just doesn't work: it just doesn't make sense for a mom who so loves her family and yet she subtly asks her son to commit capital crimes. It's all so she can be free to die outside prison and I never quite understood how she actually did got out of jail.
Her son brutally killed a member of the parole board who made the decision to not let this bad lady out to die, and I was able to follow that course of action.
Melissa Leo is a really great actor and her time and mine were wasted on this film.
The Man Who Fell to Earth (2022)
Confusion
I feel confused about Newton and how he plays into the process of building the energy machine. And the abusive CIA characters-I am confused as to what their concerns are and why they have to be disruptive if the world's energy crisis is forever solved with AI that knows how to play jazz. The characters are all really skilled actors and anytime there is confusion in a show, on my part, I blame myself.
The Time Traveler's Wife (2022)
Unwarranted and Dumpsterish
Episode 2 and I arrived at the scene where the character is having relations with his own 16 year old self, and his poor dad walks in. It was a total turn off, and way too weird. I predict the story line is too weak other than to be all about sexual acts, anticipating sexual acts, talking about sexual acts, and the writers are trying to add variety. I am deleting this from my DVR.
Bosch: Legacy (2022)
FOMO
I didn't see any advertisements or run across anything announcing the release of Legacy, and that greatly increased my FOMO anxiety. (Fear of missing out.)
I love the storylines and the show is always exceptionally well done. I can't think of anything I would rather watch than Harry Bosch and friends meting out justice and vanquishing their enemies.
Hunters (2020)
The First Scene
The Nazis were here, and were completely assimilated into the corn belt of America. I went to high school with their children, and we always knew about their sponsorship from the "old country" after the war. Every summer we all went to a cookout or two, and heard their recipes and stories about the displacement camp, and we all just never asked too many questions. Just mostly why our small town when anywhere else sounded better. It seemed the family had barely escaped with their lives and we were grateful for them.
And now the Nazis in our town are dead twenty years now, and they won't ever be deported or tried, and the dad was buried with his Nazi medals. That act by his children is a lack of caring and sensitivity, and a slap in the face of decency: the medals should have been destroyed, but we would not know who the parents really were if they had destroyed the medals.
And now my grandchildren are born, and have two hundred relatives listed on Yad Vashem's website and this whole thing with the Nazis really being here in Podunk, America is really too much to process.
I thought of all of this during the first scene where Dylan Baker, with bloodshot eyes, chillingly tells the woman who has identified him "We're here now. Everywhere."
Lifeguard (1976)
Disturbing
The main character is using a tax payer owned building for his liaison with an underage girl and would be facing prison time in 2023. This makes it impossible to do anything other than cringe and feel sad during the entire movie. This movie did not age well because of the lack of awareness of how distasteful the main character is in his lack of care for his random partners, it appears; and especially for the character portrayed as a minor young woman.
I also looked up the laws that were enacted the year after this movie was made-there is no way the premise/plot with the young girl would have been legal in only one year later as this would be considered CP.