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Helix (2014– )
7/10
Mildly entertaining, but some real stupid stuff
12 January 2024
Example- Those in quarantine shut off the CO2 scrubbers threatening the oxygen supply. Really? You're not in outer space, OPEN THE DOOR TO THE OUTSIDE!!

Sure it's cold, but you've already been outside numerous times with no problem breathing. Open the doors, fill the building with oxygen, close the doors and warm up. Repeat as needed.

See? Stupid stuff.

Someone blows up the satellite dish and everyone just shrugs and goes on with life like that sort of thing happens alot.

And no one thought to bring satellite phones to an arctic medical research station just in case the satellite dish blows up or stops working?

See? Stupid stuff.
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1/10
There's bad, then there's this
2 July 2022
If the budget for this movie was more than $5, and that's adjusted for inflation, then I'd be surprised.

Don't watch this, even if you're in a coma and the nurse turned it on and walked out of the room.
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Star Trek: Picard: Watcher (2022)
Season 2, Episode 4
1/10
WAAAAY too preachy!
16 June 2022
The whole series is constantly bombarding you with liberal dogma but this episode goes so far over the edge you forget you are watching what is supposed to be "entertainment ".

Unless you submit to full blown anti-rich, anti-white, pro-everything "progressive" indoctrination, just skip it.
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NOTFILM (2015)
1/10
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22 July 2020
THE most boring time I have ever spent doing anything including sleeping. I would rather whack myself in the head with a hammer instead of watching one minute of this boring garbage.
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9/10
You'll Know It When It Happens
24 November 2019
The most powerful 60 seconds in cinematic history. The deafening roar of silence.
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Lost in Space (2018–2021)
2/10
ANNOYING IS THE RIGHT WORD!
24 March 2019
Been reading these things for years and have never so fully agreed with those who say this series is ANNOYING! Scenery, CGI, sets, costumes, cinematography - All top rate, hence the 2 stars. The writing is HORRIBLE. HORRIBLE. HOR-I-BLE! All these hacks did was take the original characters and do a 180 with what their strengths were. Maureen - Used to be supportive, understanding, caring. Now she's the brains of everything, know-it-all, in command, the one giving all the orders. She is ANNOYING. She's pissed at John because he chose to serve humanity instead of staying home and playing soccer dad. What a biotch! John - Used to be in command, strong, decisive. Now he is a weak, no-backbone, happy-wife-happy-life type of wussey. Don - Used to be honorable, straight forward. Now he is a smuggler who got caught. Tries way to hard to be funny and walks around with a chicken. Dr. Smith - Sniveling coward. Now a dangerous female. Judy - Will someone please explain how two white people have a brown child? If she is adopted, why not explain that early in the series? Penny - Was shy, nervous, jittery. Now she's the plucky comic-relief wannabe. Another very annoying character. Robot - Was an earth creation that went with them able to formulate complete sentences and help out in any way. Knows all science and facts. Now it is a "reformed" murdering machine from a foreign planet that can only say "Danger Will Robinson" ala "I am Groot." And 100% hands down the WORST character of them all - Will. They took a confident, intelligent, brave, leader of a person and turned him into the biggest wussy in the universe. He flunked the exams to get on the mission to begin with and his smother had to cheat him onto the expedition, he is afraid a lot, he knows almost nothing, he freezes up. And for some reason they decided to make him homosexual. I have nothing against homosexuality but why take that character and add that element. He's 11. It's not like he can act on it or they can grow that part of his character. And every episode is crap. Some new problem pops up and these people, who are hyper-intelligent enough to make an interstellar voyage, all of a sudden can't figure out how to open bottle of ketchup. Made it through 4 episodes, then got beat down by how annoying it is.
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Black Panther (2018)
1/10
Waiting for the Day When......
26 February 2018
.....an all AA cast will make a movie in which they do not throw centuries of oppression into the film. How about you tell an entertaining tale for EVERYONE to enjoy watching instead of making a film that insults white people to the enjoyment of black people? I REALLY wanted to like this film and I was very impressed with the cast but after the fourth insult towards white people, couched as "jokes", I simply lost interest and re-filled my popcorn. I get it. Black history is full of oppression and wrong doing by whites. I don't even argue that point. Want to REALLY stick it to the oppressors? Make a movie highlighting all your accomplishments, and there are many, showing a mature, strong, even-keeled, heroic leading man and woman and celebrate all that makes black culture great. All accomplished in spite of oppressive whites and without thumping them over the head, but rather by ignoring them. Way too many insults thrown around towards (greater than) 50% of the population to make this 2.5 hours worth it for anyone.
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9/10
Everything La La Land hoped it would be, and wasn't.
8 January 2018
Disclaimer - I HATED La La Land with a passion. Worst film ever recorded. All copies should be burned. The Greatest Showman is everything La La Land was hyped up to be. Showman has excellent music and excellent acting. You really care about these characters and the music moves the story along wonderfully. Found myself teary eyed a couple times, but overall - It's just a lot of fun! Immediately at the end of the movie I asked my wife when we were going to see it again. Love the soundtrack and will be downloading that tonight. I never cared much for Zendaya but I even really enjoyed her in this movie. Well done by all. Go see it!
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La La Land (2016)
1/10
A heaping pile of talentless drivel
13 May 2017
Never have I been more upset at wasting 2 hours of life! I have seen my fair share of garbage but LA LA Land now tops the list. Here's an idea for producers considering a musical - Hire singers and dancers and then teach them to act enough to hold someones attention. Do NOT do what the producers of this heap of steamy crap did and bring in two actors and then try to get them to sing and dance. Gossling is massively miscast! He MUST have some sort of talent to still be making movies but it certainly is not singing and dancing. I imagine everyone involved in any musical prior to this one is either rolling in their graves or, if still living, are making plans to do so. Stay as far away from this puss bowl of boringness as you can. Now we all know why the Academy took back the Best Picture Oscar.
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I Am Cuba (1964)
1/10
Boring piece of trash
21 November 2015
Warning: Spoilers
I had the great displeasure of sitting through this piece of rubbish film. Yes, I know it is supposed to be historical, it is a Soviet-Cuban propaganda film and the camera work is supposed to be fantastic. This film only appeals to ignorant students who think they know more than anybody because they "are for the people and justice" and communists. As Billy Joel once said, "I had my pointless point of view." ALL the scenes are way too long, hammering the point home in 20 minutes when it was understood in 3 minutes. The nightclub singer repeating Crazy Love so many times you go loco, following the student revolutionary for 20 minutes through a building and up to the roof, a guy running through plants for 10 minutes, come on, enough! I bring this up because both the writer and the director are applauded as fantastic when their work, propaganda or not, is worse than an Adam Goldberg family video. Please don't waste your time with this film. Go get experimental brain surgery instead.
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Monsters (2010)
1/10
Not worth a second of your time
24 January 2014
Tries so hard to make you like the characters you end up not caring about either of them.

EXTREMELY SLOW AND BORING.

You don't actually see one of the "monsters" until one hour and 25 minutes into the film and then the director tries to evoke a Close Encounters of the Third Kind type of "being mesmerized" from the characters and it is ridiculous.

Did I mention you never care about these characters?

The "monsters" are overgrown octopus' with a few extra legs.

Complete waste of time and a complete waste of celluloid.
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10/10
Not What You Are Expecting
3 January 2014
I have rarely connected with a character or movie as much as I did with The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. There is nothing more powerful than when a comedian is given a dramatic role and hits a home-run. This well could become known as the best of Ben Stillers career. Expecting a remake of the original I was blown away by the message of the movie. The evolution of Walter from pale, drab, little noticed office worker to the man who discovers how to live was moving me to tears. The cinematography should win an Oscar. This film is beautifully shot and the completely engulfing vistas alone are worth twice the price of admission. How Walter comes to live Lifes motto is gripping. And the final cover of Life tugs at your heart. The score of the film is very well done. Ben Stiller picked the perfect songs and background music for every shot of the film. I wish the rating scale went higher than 10. Go see this film. In the theater. On the large screen. Now.
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Gravity (2013)
1/10
Don't feel bad if you don't think it's Oscar worthy.
27 October 2013
Warning: Spoilers
I totally missed why folks are saying this is Oscar worthy. Perhaps an Oscar for special effects but definitely NOT an Oscar for any actor or for the picture as a whole. I am a HUGE Bullock fan and would really love to see her win another Oscar but this vehicle, and her acting it,are definitely not Oscar worthy. I had zero connection to her characters plight and nothing in her acting drew emotions from me. There was little to no character development to create an emotional connection. Basically, I did not care what happened to her character. The plot is completely unbelievable as there seems to be a plethora of space stations and space vehicles to use as "lifeboats" and when things are THIS far-fetched it just ruins the film. Sorry Sandra, no Oscar for this.
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1/10
For Lemmings Only
22 November 2009
Not even Goebbels could have pulled off a propaganda stunt like what Gore has done with this complete piece of fiction. This is a study in how numbers and statistics can be spun to say whatever you have predetermined them to say. The "scientists" Gore says have signed onto the validity of global warming include social workers, psychologists and psychiatrists. Would you say a meteorologist is an expert in neuro-surgery? The field research and data analysis geologists are involved in do not support Gores alarmist claims of global warming. As one of those geologists working in the field for the last 40 years I have not seen any evidence to support global warming. My analysis of this movie and Gores actions over the last couple years brings me to the conclusion that global warming is his way of staying important and relevant. No more, no less. Ask any global warming alarmist or "journalist" one simple question- You say global warming is a major problem. Tell me. What temperature is the Earth supposed to be?
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