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Skyline (2010)
Beyond awful SPOILERS
HOW did this dreck get produced. Seriously. The lamest dialogue and less than average acting and the plot was the same as so many others.
The aliens are all wiggly arms and les and those same legs and arms have the ability to Strech like Bender does in Futurama.
Just like ID4 and Just like several other movies.
That kind of alien would never have the ability to develop into a civilization much less interstellar travel.
The bit about the alien ship with what can only be called the filthiest operating room in history has the immediate ability to to pull the brains and brains stems out of humans JUST LIKE THAT.
Surgery? We don' need no steeking surgeon we just pull it out and it works)
I mean REALLY?
But this kind of creature has NO ability to think or make interstellar travel. AND exactly what is the reason they arrived on Earth? And n warning. Just instantly appeared.?
REALY?
And the ships come out of the clouds..sound like a rip of ID4?
And the owner ending of course. We lose.
Who wants to see a movie where we lose to the aliens.
Just plain AWFUL.
Ragnarok (2020)
Waste of time SERIOUSLY. Spoilers
I was hoping to see a really good modern Thor, Loki, Giants etc battle although not the silliness of Marvel's version.
Instead we got tis looonnng drawn out story that should have been a two hour movie.
The location was great. It showed a current small town in Norway. BUT the dialogue was godawful and too many long silences and far too many episodes where absolutely NOTHING happened.
So little is explained. So much needed to be happening. The lead actor was as leaden as they get. He plays a large quite young man suddenly given the powers of Thor the god of Thunder. And is absolutely clueless of what is happening.
The most powerful family are the bad people.
In effect the young man who becomes Thor has to battle the Giants of old legend but no such battles happen. WHY
Well what we got was an environmental battle between the people with Thor as leader and the "giants" i.e. Big polluting corporation.
So for the next long drawn out three chapters we see absolutely nothing happening. More long silences and there is some sort of odd truce between the giants (remember they are actually the EVIL polluters and Thor the Saviour of the planet.
Seriously this was so convolutely I had to keep backing up and then I realized; Just watch it a high speed with occasional stops
And once again lots of silences and story lines that could have been quickly resolved with just a few sentences and proof.
But nothing. Nothing but a huge waste of time No battle no fights, nothing but legal wrangling with a few short bit of arguing the throwing punches.
Otherwise NOTING. Turns out the so called battle is all in his mind. BUT because he put down the Hammer of Thor was was avoided and peace established. Nope just the corporations continuing their destruction of the environment and our boy Tnor doing not one bit of battle. I didn't expect the extravaganza that was MCU but come on SOMETHING.
The lesson pushed was throw down your weapon and let the bad guys continue so you can avoid a war that would have been pretty severe for that area of the world. The old gods had no clue as to the size of the planet.
WASTE OF TIME. Could have been a decent two hour movie.
Hidden Strike (2023)
Boring and like every other"action" flick SPOILERS
I turned the channel and watching something else halfway through. There is nothing new about this. The same old bad guys, the same old trite story line. The same ole tired buddy flick where they end up.
Perhaps my vision of the movie was clouded by that sell out John Cena who almost literally got on his knees with head on the flour begging forgiveness by the Chinese Government for daring to use the word COUNTRY in refererrence to TAIWAN. He was being interviewed in TAIWAN and said "this is the first time this movie has been shown in this country. So Jahn immediately got on his knees to beg forgiveness and I wouldn't have been surprised even he didn't offer to get on his knees in front of the country's president.
He along witht he NFL sold out Democracy and free speech for $$.
China has been killing people for their body parts by the tens of thousands, free speech will get you killed. Trying to unionize will get your a life sentence or executed but hey John those $$$ are more important eh.
So it was hard to watch this movie while wanting to tell him to move to China since he loves their Communist Dictatorship so much. Stand next to Xi with a Mao jacket on and declare Communism is for the Worker State.
IF Jackie had chosen a better partner and co star it might have been more watchable.
Crater (2023)
Not very good airlocks? What airlocks SPOILERS.
The story was pretty badly written. What they call boioerplate. I doubt the writers ever met in person and just talked on he phone and emails.
No originality and thumbed its nose at science.
So many things wrong. The script was boring and predictable.
Kidnapping being one of them as well.
But you cannot just hop in a vehicle and take off. NO SECURITY??
And just the right sizes for space suits in the truck. Really?
NO AIRLOCKS? ANYWHERE?
Where did the air in the model apt come from and NO FLAMES as the air would be oxygen rich and thus it would have possibly blown up and definitely would have sucked all the air out. NO FLAMES ON THE MOON.
Then the bit wasting oxygen? The FIRST thing you'd think taught in any kind of school setting NO WASTING Oxygen.
Now what is this nonsense about Earth. They don't have videos, pictures or movies of EARTH and asking stupid questions like IS THE SKY REALLY BLUE??? Are the buildings really tall?
Seriously that a major it of idiocy by the writers.
The "model apartment" just happened to have air with NO airlock? Just alk in and plenty of air. AND destroying it? Was considered funny or necessary? What would happen if someone else needed to use it and these jerks destroyed it. Same with the food. They came across as kids who never went to school and were thugs in waiting.
Further if it takes 70 years to get there then how was it discovered? IF it took y70 years to find it then it would have taken another 70 years to get the information back to Earth and another 70 years to send supplies t0 build homes that look JUST LIKE EARTH HOMES? And another on and years to make sure it was safe for humans. And another 70 years of going back with information. In other words at least 225 years before the first people could "conize" the planet. At a minimum.
AND the kids all dress like today's ghetto kids do?
It would have made more sense to hire writers with an education IN SCIENCE and SPACE.
It did have potential but as usual Disney writers have no sense of originality or intelligence. Walt was REAL big on science and accuracy. Funny how it is all down the drain.
Nooni Booshige (2019)
This movie is a downer. Spoilers
I was not sure what to expect but not this downer of a movie. As it went along you are not sure if it is going to be a kid playing with going back and forth both with time and her age.
But she accidently makes herself almost 80 7years of age and I guess if there was a message it was to say be kind to the elderly and take care of them.
And at the same time it tells you not to waste your youth wishing things in the past were better.
As I said it just gets to the point where you realize she is not going to regain her youth and just goes downhill in age and mentality and starts reliving how life might have been had she not found the watch.
I won't tell yu the actual ending but believe me unless you like watching a 12 hour marathon of depressing episodes I would say stay far away. Wish I could get those 12 hours back.
Geomsanaejeon (2019)
Ten and should be higher. SPOILERS
I have become a little addicted to Korean rom coms, dramas, melodramas and ever a rom com science fiction one with alternate universes and time travel. Well done.
This show could run for another 16 episodes. It was well written and sometimes funny sometimes deadly serious, and always entertaining. I have to constantly stop to read the subtitles but prefer those over badly dubbed English voices.
This show also shows how law works in Korea. VERY interesting.
The serious revolves around the trials and tribulations of a group of prosecutors in a small city in the South of Korea. NOT SEOUL.
This particular year brought in a very unlikeable but highly efficient prosecutor FROM Seoul who is sent to this small city as punishment for daring to go after high lever politicians relatives and getting them found guilty. She and the main male character clash nonstop.
The main character is so well done I want more of him and all the others.
I was disappointed in how they ended up portraying a chief prosecutor in the end as corrupt. He was such a staunch law and order character. The main characters return just seemed unlikely when he returned to his small city job.
Over all this is a great series and I know Korean TV rarely does it but I hope they bring back the show.
STILL the best Korean show in history is EXTRAORDINAY ATTORNEY WOO. Good what an incredible series. So popular they ARE going to do a second and probably 3rd series.
Night Court (2023)
Waiting for it to be funny. GET RID OF LAUGH TRACK (spoilers)
It is just not funny. I keep hoping it will be. But it just flops. I actually cringe as just how bad some of the so called funny lines are. And I do mean cringe.
That laugh track is just annoying as all heck. To be polite about it.
Mellissa as Harry's daughter comes across as a dumb blonde. And she seems to occasionally slip into her Big Bang voice.
And Make her smarter if this is renewed. Get rid of Lucretia, she is annoying and not funny. AND why is a bailiff in every scene having lunch with them, hanging out in the judge's quarters. You don't need to have every member of the cast in every scene.
Get rid of the laugh track. Did I mention that?
John is wasted as the defense. Put him back as prosecutor.
The young woman as prosecutor is lost in all of this.
And what happened to having a lot of defendants? We get one then off to UNFUNNY sentences. NOT every comment has to be fall down funny. That gets annoying too especially if they are NOT FUNNY. And some shows have had none.
The original show had a great deal of gravatas and this show is slapstick gone bad.
Get new writers, new bailiff, Lucretia's character really isn't funny. And would not be surprised if she passes on with that weight problem she has.
The show just isn't funny. It tries to hard to make every line funny. NO YOU DON'T HAVE TO.
Did I mention get rid of the annoying laugh track?
Star Wars: The Bad Batch (2021)
Bad Batch Season 2 episodes 1&2 AWFUL, Juat Garbage SPOILERS
WHO did not see how this entire episode was going to work out. The carrot was they could become independent and help the downtrodden of the galaxy or retire BUT NOOOOOOOO.
The writers were probably literally phoning this in.
The usual. No smooth heist/mission. "Okay"
no they don't get the treasure "Okay".
They get injured and the brat has to be rescued thus depriving them of their mission AGAIN FOR THE HUNDREDTH TIME. Geez leave the brat home on every mission. IF this was real they would.
Next they lay hands on the War Chest but WOW the Stormtroopers suddenly can find a dead container...how?
Well the brat has to be rescued again and again. STOP with this story arc. It is the WORST.
"EVERYONE GOT IT? YEP, YES, Okay...all hang up phones and go b back to watching Rick and Morty which has ACTUALLY WELL WRITTEN SCRIPTS Not this predictable garbage
Like I said I didn't even have to watch the entire second episode to see just how badly written it was.
The Looney Tunes Show (2011)
Hardly in the of vintage Looney Tunes Mean spirted SPOILERS.
I was hoping this would be at least amusing and more hopeful it would be funny. But the characterization of Daffy ruins this show completely.( Yes I know this show was on over TEN YEARS AGO.)
BUT instead it is meanspirited all because of how Daffy Duck is portrayed. Daffy is VICIOUS, Mean, overly self-centered, has absolutely no humanity (duckity?) in him.
His character is so mean and vicious he will allow the death of others. IN one episode Porky donates a kidney to him and Daffy forces him to work on his boat afterwards. Screaming at him about "Are you going to hold this kidney thing over me forever? Get back to work NOW". The episode started with Daffy feigning needing a kidney so he can buy a yacht and Porky gives him 350K and says that is all and Daffy does nothing but berate him and demand he find a way for the other 25K.
Then spends the money of his yacht and of course destroys it and then they find out he really does need a kidney and Porky ends up donating it and Bugs pays for it. WHERE do they all get this money from. I guess the cartoon jobs but no mention of working in the business comes up. Dume move on producers and writers part. That would have been a great start to the series by showing all of them leaving them studios to go to where they all live.
The character of LOLA is idiotic beyond all sane rationale. WHY was someone that ditzy and stupid made a permanent character. She is annoying as all he well you know.
AND so many more from every episode that I kept wondering why the writers and directors thought this was funny. IT IS NOT.
Why is Porky portrayed as a rug to be walked on.
Lola as the dumbest creature on Earth who would be in an institution by now.
Why Porky puts up with him or for that matter ANY of the characters putting up with Daffy, makes this show as unfunny as it comes. WHY did the writers, and directors say lets make everyone subservient to Daffy no matter how badly he treats them.
WHY is Bugs portrayed as a doormat for Daffy when in reality Bugs should have thrown him out the window.
Did the writers actually think this was funny to show him as mean and vicious to the point of hurting others? His character steals from everyone especially Bugs and pay no attention to any social norms in any way, shape or form, he destroys their property, physically hurts them, in fact destroys property everywhere. Puts people down, hits others, and lets be honest in reality no one would have a danged thing to do with him and he would probably end up doing a long time in prison. For chrissake he hits children in this show. His rudeness is horrendous.
AND yet he is shown as accepted by all of them. I was really hoping this would be a great "away from the studio and sets" comedy show showing their lives away from the WARNER BROS studies.
The writers SHOULD have watched all the cartoons to see what he is really like and he never gets away with what he does in this show.
WHY didn't the writers bring in COMEDY WRITERS WHO KNEW THE SHOW?
Total disgrace to the memory of the Bugs Bunny cartoons. They should be ashamed of themselves for doing this.
Shentan Di Renjie zhi Qionghua jin ren an (2017)
Amazing Chinese movies series and great.
It would be hard to explain the plot lines of all FOUR of the Amazing Detective Di. There are other titles using that name and set in the wrong time period.
But these are incredibly well done mystery's he solves for the royal court. He is not used for some burglary but rather wide ranging crimes against the Court and on occasions helps the small people.
If you watch it is important NOT TO SKIP ANYTHING no matter how mundane and you think boring.
The episodes can be long. The latest one I watched was number 2 and it was 40 episodes long but TWO stories. FIRST 30 episodes one story and send a murder mystery where DI is in retirement, that ends up involving the crown
These however are correct and absolutely fascinating as they are based on the REAL Detective Di (yes they had police and men whose job was to solve crimes.
NOW I have to say they throw in that whole being able to fly through the air (not Detective Di) But some of the bad guys and his right hand man and woman. (Showing up in 2)
And while fun kind of takes away from the act there was a real Di and he solved crimes for the Emperess.
Besides that little nitpck, the other one does't quite capture the expanse of the royal court, the Empress seems to have a small crown room with a small retinue not very lavishly dress as we have seen in artwork and other movies, and not much in the way of royal guards and she leaves the Forbidden City.
One great thing is they leave out the gigantic battles like you saw in Lord Of The Rings and just concentrate on his incredible reasoning in how he solves the crimes of who did what.
Like listening to Sherlock Holmes of ancient China.
Another minor draw back are the subtitles. You have to be a really fast reader or you end up pausing so you can read them.
2 is currently on Amazon. I wish they would play 1, 3 and 4.
The other Dee stories do not star this actor who was PERFECT for the role and really have nothing to do with the real Di.
The Outer Limits (1995)
THE ALIEN RADIO episode. WORST EPISODE EVER SPOILERS
THIS was so bad I was throwing my book (paperback) at the TV. I could not get over how boilerplate and awful it was.
WHO did not know the aliens would win. Seriously. ANYONE? First he does that whole getting drunk thing because that is the way it was written. That he would end up believing but surprise, surprise he is too late.
And the whole drunk thing and seeing the aliens you know he was going to die. Here is the problem with the OUTER LIMITS alien episodes. THE ALIENS WIN IN EVERY SINGLE FREAKING ONE.
How about this. He fakes drunk and secretly that we don't see sets up aliens to be carried LIVE on TV which only he and his producer and as the BELIEVERS have a TV studio exec who secretly sets up Cameras and when he does his hostage wthing with a fake gun. We find out he had done another interview at the Police station, and when the alien cops show up he does this whole thing EXCEPT the cops think no one is listening but as the minutes go by more and more people tune in on the ir television and see this "Hostage" situation going on and when the cops grab his gun at this point millions are watching and the cops fire the gun with no result showing they are murderers and then he pulls out a real one and live on TV shoots both of them REVEALING THEM TO BE ALIENS.
Next thing we see the government has devised a way to spot the aliens in people's bodies and the threat of an invasion is thwarted and he is a world wide hero and FOR ONCE OUTER LIMITS LETS EARTH WIN.
Their ships are found, and we get the tech to space travel as a bonus. And last thing we hear is the aliens telling their leaders to cancel any invasion as they are one to them.
THE END.
Rip in Time (2022)
ENJOYABLE Time travel love story. However...
This was a typical, almost, Hallmark movie. Not the time travel aspect of it obviously, but as usual the stranger or new man or someone different comes into a single woman's life and a gentle love story unfolds.
I would have loved to have see a bit more about his reactions and the history he would have wanted to see about the past he missed. Particularly the world wars and the horrors they were. But as was to be expected it was all glossed over. Nonetheless it would have been nice to see it expanded on.
A few things did bother me. His easy adjustment to something that would genuinely have shocked someone from that era. He one that stood out was his easy transition to modern casual clothing.
I think it would have been pretty cool if they did a test on the clothing he showed up in by the professor and maybe he and his scientist colleagues would have met up with him and maybe one of them would have taken the trip back or they would have gotten together with him to discuss what life was really like. So many possibilities of where this could go to and still stick to Hallmarks ideals.
AND his name WOULD have been in the military archives since he did serve and we have the records of everyone who was in the military back then. Really. AND of course I would have liked to see that deputy get his comeuppance. AND in true Hallmark fashion be a gentleman about it all; losing Sarah to Rip but still having been shown it wasn't going to be.
AND then is a bit of solidarity to keep him from becoming a sideshow to the world when his journal is found in an old section of an old building in the local countryside and the town would not talk about him in order to keep the media and internet having found out they now all believe him and protect him from the idiots in the above-mentioned media and web.
I enjoyed it but would love to see this particular Hallmark movie have a couple of sequels.
Revolt (2017)
Just awful SPOILERS
I thought okay a good last stand we will see the world saved and blah blah.
We apparently the only people left on Earth are this few hundred people in Africa as it is explained briefly and how would this small town in the middle of Africa know the entire world has been exterminated but them.
Now the direction was awful. It was all over the place and I am sick to death of flashbacks. There should be no more than TWO per movie. After that the writers and directors are forbidden to ever work in the film industry throughout the world. This one has so many cliché style is split second flashbacks and it looks like there were hundreds of them. NONSTOP throughout the movie.
But no one on the ENTIRE PLANET figured out these alien killing machines which were incredibly lame looking, could be stopped with a huge EMP? NO ONE? OUT OF BILLIONS OF PEOPLE? Some small backwoods local town in the middle of Africa?
And of course the use of cliches is beaten to a pulp, Others have listed them.
AND one of the sins of movie making to me anyway is you get the heroine back from the bad aliens or whomever takes all these people by sucking them ujp into a mothership? WHY?
Where did they come from? Aparently not important to us.
Why did they want to invade us? Not important to tell us.
What did they want with the people? Not worth explaining to us. At least Tom Cruise got hauled up and took one down.
And of course the ultimate cliche. HE is how the aliens keep finding people. NO ONE ON EARTH ever figured this out?
And one more thing I hated...not getting the girl back.
This was not worth a sequel as it was so badly written and I realize it had a budget in the mid 4 figures but at least give us some closure.
Did this end the war? Are all the aliens dead? Who knows.
Does this small town of people in Africa represent the last of humanity? Who knows.
This is the kind of writing and directing where you just want to run the writers and directors out town.
I'd say don't waste your time but you will. You can watch the entire thin in about 30 minutes though. Just skip forward ever so often. You won't miss anything.
They are robots so they have to be controlled by someone? OH RIGHT we saw this in BATTLE: LOS ANGELES.
Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens (2020)
sIMPLE I LOVE THIS SHOW
I really do. Great humor, love grandma and dad and all the characters. I hope it runs for years and they make it a 22 episode show.
Direction is spot on.
Her nonstop job hunts are great.
The side trip to the commune was pretty funny and a bit that managed to maintain its humor.
The King's Man (2021)
SPOILERS this is GODAWFUL It's biggenst sin
IS BEING BORING.
I kept waiting for THE KING'S MAN movie to start.
Instead we got this long drawn-out boring nothing. IT went on and on and on and I kept waiting for the movie about the Kingsman to start. And it of course didn't ever start until the last five minutes.
Seriously who wrote this garbage.
And what is it about the English always killing off characters you like?
SPOILER again.
The movie starts with a killing.
And of course the diversity thing raises its head AGAIN. Getting very tiring to believe this sort of thing happened during that period of time.
Nanny's actually saved the world. REALLY? It was a cute plot arc but come on.
The directing was almost as though the director never left his hotel room and directed from there. The writers wrote the movie high. They had to, to come up with this garbage. They had not one original thought and it just as I keep saying, DRAGGED ON AND ON AND ON.
The costuming was straight out of every English upper class stiff upper lip old boy movie. Very well done.
MAJOR SPOILER ALERT.
The killing of his son ABSOLUTELY RUINED the movie for me. It left such a bad taste in my mind and soul the rest of the movie just plain meant nothing to me any longer. WHAT idiots thought that was a good movie plot arc. I wish the English would STOP KILLING CHARACTERS WE LIKE. They do it all the freaking time.
BUT WHAT was the point in the storyline of the son of the duke anyway?
Seriously since they simply killed him off in a horrific way WHAT was the point of having his character??
WHY was he in the movie as he does NOTHING FOR THE PLOT.
Not one danged thing.
He sees mom killed, sees other people killed. He has no useful part of the movie in any way shape or form.
THEN for no reason as the English always do, the blow his head off.
SO WHY his character even in the movie?
Shock value to see his head blown off as he just had to go to the front line. It made no sense to have him in the movie. He added nothing to it.
So in the mean time I am going "WHEN DOES THE KING'S MAN MOVIE START.
We see different variations of history leading to the start of WWI. BUT the assassination was carried out in the movie exactly as happened in history just not the reasons portrayed in the movie. Just like the insane moron in the Kremlin starting a wary for no reason. Well none that make any sense in a war weary world.
So the bad guy sets out to kill millions because he doesn't like how where he lives is what he believes to be badly treated???
This was BORING as all get out. The movie had nothing to do with the start of the Kingsmen for a good TWO HOURS.
Just skip to the last 15 minutes. That is the prequel for the franchise Save your money and judging by how bad the sales were I am not alone. Gods above I just cannot get over how boring and bad it was. Wait for it to hit cable.
ONE last thing. WHY wasn't the ahole who killed his son not strung up and strangled slowly. WHY did they leave that out? I really wanted to see him executed for what he did slowly and painfully.
Raised by Wolves (2020)
MAKE FLASHBACKS A FELONY Spoilers
I am sick to death of writers and directors just starting a film with NO explanation of what is going on. Then we are supposed to hear a narration or flashbacks.
NO. Just start at the beginning. HOW did anyone greenlight this disaster?
As well I am sick of more than 2 flashbacks per movie or series. No matter how many episodes there are, TWO is enoughh.
As for the series itself: Boringly written with almost all of it.
AND when did killing children for entertainment become a thing.. Recently in Birds of Prey they showed children being murdered.
I'm sorry but when did that become something we want for entertainment.
Further it starts out depressing and goes down from there. More depressing writing and children dying.
So far this is really a bummer of a series.
AND what is it with movies taking place on desert type planets?
And of course diversity must be there or someone will start crying they are offended.
THEN the writers have no problem calling atheists such but in stead of sying christian, or Islamic or whatever religion took over Earth (they believe) is called by some ancient obscure nothing religion so as not to offend any current bunch.
WHY are they so frightened of offending current religions.
Good gods above and below have we become so thin skinned and fearful?
This kind of writing turned me off to the show which is really nothing new. No new ground.
But the worst offense? IT IS BORING.
The filter is depressing.
The look is depressing...lets make everything have a blue look. Wonderful
The writing is boring.
The directing appears to have been done by phone.
Seriously exactly what is this supposed to be about???
I keep falling asleep trying to watch one entire episode. Great way to fall asleep if you are have problems in that area.
A Christmas Carol (2019)
Extremely UNPLEASANT. SPOILERS SPOILERS
It might be corny, but I will always prefer the 1938 version with Reginald Owen as Scrooge. He is mean but not as evil as this one is.
I am not sure how to start this other than the opening sequence was vulgar and not needed under any circumstance.
The overall feel of the movie was creepy and very very unpleasant.as well, it was extremely dark, from beginning to end. The blue filter was annoying used as it was. Which was the first indication this was going to be a depressing movie.
Mr. Pearce made for an evil Scrooge. I mean EVIL. Well written and acted.
The spirits were not the usual version we are used to in almost every incantation of A Christmas Carol and were not your usual spirits but rather dark and menacing to a large degree.
Bob Cratchit looked like he would fit right in today. Not very well costumed at all.
And of course, diversity had to rear its unpleasant head in this version. They had to come up with one and as such had Mary Cratchit black. As though that would ever happen in Victorian England. Of 1843 She was perhaps the most unpleasant person in the movie irrespective of color. We are expected to believe a white man in 1843 Victorian England could marry a black woman and not be arrested. Interracial marriage at the time of this movie was illegal and both would have been put in prison.
And she, as written, RUINED the ending.
The spirit of the Past showed some of the more explicit horrors in the movie of which I doubt many humans on Earth can relate to is the work in coal and other kinds of underground mining. Thousands have died and they were very explicit in showing this as proof of Scrooge's evilness.
As well they presented an extremely tragic reason for how he became soulless. His father selling him to the private school's administrator for his own evil purposes to avoid paying school fees. ALSO, nothing to do with the original book.
A plot arc which had NO business in this version had her selling, her virtue to Scrooge although he never does anything to her just wanted to see if she would show up in order to save her child which in this version has already had the operations as it starts. ANOTHER part which had NOTHING to do with the original story.
Further believing just how evil he was, her speaking to him the way she did would have landed her in prison and had he pushed it accusing her of stealing the money she would have been imprisoned and possibly hanged. Not believable but as I said we are supposed to be shown diversity whether it belongs or not.
At the end (and further spoilers) as Scrooge wakes up on Christmas day having salvaged his soul, he goes to Bob's house to say things not in the book or movies past. BUT Mary becomes completely unhinged and as mentioned speaks as no woman would in those times irrespective of color unless very wealthy and privileged.
The worst ending of this version was this nonsense of Bob and Mary accepting Scrooge's FIVE HUNDRED POUNDS which then would have put them in the upper class overnight as the average working man was lucky to make 4 pounds A YEAR. Scrooges giving them that much money would have changed their lives forever and at that time they would never have seen that kind of money in their lifetimes if they lived to be a hundred. You think she would have seen he had changed and at least shown some grace, but nope.
Then as Scrooge leaves the Cratchit household, she gets the last word as though She was the one responsible for the spirits and then turns to the camera with a smirk. WORST ENDING EVER for A CHRISTMAS CAROL and one movie I will never watch again.
I would have given this a one, but the idea overall was different, and Mr. Pearce's Scrooge was a step above all others in showing how evil he was.
Home Sweet Home Alone (2021)
Good gods above it is AWFUL. SPOILERS all over.
FIRST. IMDB you must come up with NEGATIVE ratings. I and others are serious. Second you have to ban obviously paid studio shills trying to pretend this is a great film and raise the ratings.
I decided to start this review 20 minutes into the "move" and I use the term loosely as it should be called an ugly disaster and huge waste of film stock. HOW did it get a rating as high as 3.5
Whoever the writers were obviously wanted to be blacklisted from Hollywood or why else would they have written something this god awful.
The director as well was obviously not on set and directed this from home using ZOOM. It was written he was in negotiations to direct the movie. I'd be negotiating one thing: KEEP MY NAME OFF OF IT AND I GET TWICE MY USUAL FEE.
Every single person in this so far is incredibly unlikeable and the characters. All of them come across as having a COMBINED IQ or 23.
The English mom and chubbo English brat, er I mean yung kid start arguing in a strangers house and you know the kid is a thief. AND this English kid is so freaking horrible and unlikeable I am rooting for whoever takes has his pranks backfire IN THE MOVIE and sends him to the hospital where they declare this franchise DOA.
He is NOT funny, he is a rude little creep and the family should have sold him. I detest him beyond belief and has anyone EVER met a ten year old who talks like this?
FURTHER...Hollywood STOP making every kid in movies rude, sullen and stop making them running amok funning into adults and pushing them out of the way, throwing things at the adults and each other, yelling and screaming. I have NEVER seen this and as a military brat and later family man we saw a lot of parties, large families. Once upon a time children were portrayed realistically. Not anyore.
STOP making kids like this. I know it is SUPPOSED to be a comedy but all it does is make the adults and most kids think WHY are they raised to be total little monsters in every movie.
FURTHER stop making the dads so freaking stupid.
AND this little bit really ticked me off. WHY is the family afraid to tell their own children they are selling the house and why? WHEN did kids run households in movies.
Further when the kids ask who the real estate agent is, IF they wanted to make up a story WHERE THE HELL DID THEY COME UP WITH HE IS DAD'S PERSONAL TRAINER. How about just saying he is a new fried of the dads????
The kids would not care at all. They would be introduced and both would say nice to meet you and the kids would be off.
Besides my son, I also raised my two nieces and we moved three times to better homes for my extended family over the years and not ONCE did the girls or my son throw temper tantrums to make the family afraid. Moving is a part of life for most Americans and every kid I've known besides my three charges, first thing was 'Where we moving to" When we moving and it became and adventure.
This movie is a prime example of making those two points WORSE THAN EVER. Why does Hollywood INSIST on doing this. Just like they make ever man in the movies and TV have a permanent 4 day beard growth and they ALL look alike now I always thought it made them look like bums who needed to wash their faces. BUT I DIGRESS.
The plotline is a weak as anything Hollywood has ever come up with. It makes PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE look like Star Wars.
The plot is beyond stupid. Seriously. The first family selling the home, think the obnoxious little English brat stole a valuable doll and head over to where the brat lives. They see the family all getting ready to leave.
AND INSTEAD OF JUST WALKING UP AND SAYING "We think your kid may have taken one of our antique dolls and would like to get it back". AS ANY ADULT WOULD DO...except in lame Disney movies.
NO they plot to break in and steal it back and as a result the English brat pulls all the usual BUT idiotically different stunts as the original movie to thwart the "robbers"
BUT like all Disney movies the whole thing is cleared up and everyone hugs and kisses and they all have holidays together and like all Disney movies dad gets a new job with AND God I just cannot go on.
All I can say is.
AVOID THIS MOVIE LIKE YOU WOULD COVID 19.
Red Notice (2021)
LAME, every plot arc from the last century. Predictable every step
There was absolutely nothing new in tis. Well obviously.
200 million budget? You know 70 million went to the three stars. No wonder they cost so much.
Call it Oceans 2? Raiders of the predictable script?
Nothing new. I am sorry but I am tired of seeing Dwayne, in every other freaking movie. He plays the same character in every one of them.
Which makes watching his movies now...boring. He has absolutely no depth. None. If I see his name as star I don't bother as I know what the movie will be about. I'll wait for it to be on cable TV.
Ryan's repartee if you will, grows increasingly annoying. Same character as in Deadpool and basically everything he has done lately. Tired.
Gal is a beautiful woman and in the brief shot, looks great in a swimsuit but she is not much of an actor. Really. However, She is hot right now so they put her in the movie instead of someone who can actually act.
I've seen her in numerous movies and nope.
Want to know how a "light" villainess supposed to act? Watch RED 2. Catherine Zeta-Jones is perfect as the villainess. Gal just cannot pull it off.
At first I thought well maybe this might actually be different...but alas it was no different than all the other heist movies for the last 70 years.
Double cross, triple cross. Whatever.
By the end of the first 20 minutes I know...SPOLIERS...
She and Dwayne were in on it together. OH geez was it obvious. BUT she took a huge chance he wouldn't be killed by the Russian. To me a plot arc fail.
Further no chemistry between Gal and Dwayne. They both looked uncomfortable kissing.
The direction was almost as if he literally called it from his hotel suite.
The writers probably took all of about 19 minutes to write the script.
The bit about trying to put in the Lost Ark Failed as we know it was in American hands during the Crystal Skulls movie...so.. major fail. The bit about whistling the Raiders March was cute.
The treasure trove in the Nazi cave would have made bigger headlines all over the world than a couple of thieves.
I think I laughed once and I have already forgotten what is was for, and I just finished watching the movie 20 minutes ago.
As I said the entire thing was highly predictable. Watched in 47 minutes.
Acrimony (2018)
Spoilers...not bad but not great either
Problem as I see it was the movie was boilerplate.
AN 8 day shooting schedule pretty much confirms it as not needing any kind of real character development.
Seriously every aspect of the movie telegraphed itself an hour in advance. The acting was wooden with the exception of. Ms. Hensen who did a great job of becoming a woman who goes over the top to get her revenge on he man cheating on her after she spent years supporting him when no one else would.
Having done something similar a long time ago I can tell you it can ruin your trust and make you mad to the point of imagining all the things you would like o do to the other person after supporting her and then she graduates with honors and drops you within months of signing with a top firm.
Difference is Ms. Hensen's character gets a ten million dollar check which should have helped her get over it but one can see why her character was not happy about it being dumped for a younger hotter model who gets to enjoy the success he is having AT HER EXPENSE.
NOT to mention she cannot have children and he gets his lover pregnant right away which had to be the icing on the cake for Melinda to see not only Robert having in incredibly wealthy life with a younger hotter woman and having his baby when she is incapable of having children.
So she did terrific job of showing her character losing it. Everyone else just walked through their lines.
WHY I didn't give it a higher rating was besides the boilerplate script I did not like the ending. It was also boilerplate. IT was obvious the writers had no clue how to have a better ending so they simply SPOILER ALERT...
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Knocked her off. I think she should have lived as the whole anchor thing was pathetic. THAT is not how anchors are done on boats like that.
So she should have lived and I would have given her amnesia from having almost drowned and her friends take her in and destroy all things reminding her of Lyriq's character Robert, until she meets someone else and becomes happily married to another wealthy man and after their honeymoon she sees Robert and family and her friends panic and she says, what a what a beautiful family letting them all know (or think) she has no idea who he is.
Everyone relaxes and she says under her breath...'someday I'm going to get that 'B word' for stealing my man" and then smiles at her friends as though nothing has happened.
Fade out.
Lupin (2021)
Absolutely AWFUL. SERIOUS SPOILERS.
The show started out pretty good. The first three episodes I liked. The acting throughout is good. The writing in the first three is good.
SERIOUSLY....spoilers. Don't read further if you don't want to know all the pitfalls of this over hyped show. And I do mean over hyped.
Where it fell down and fell down badly was when he contacted a former journalist who had a video tape (yes VHS TAPE) of the bad guy making a deal with terrorists.
Now our protagonist is a very smart fellow and has all this digital audeo and video equipment. Twitter accounts etc.
SO what does this idiot do? Walks into the TV station to show the world how corrupt their richest and most powerful man is. AND HANDS THEM HIS ONE AND ONLY COPY. NO backup, no nothing. JUST ONE COPY. So of course the studio is controlled by the bad guy and we see an EDITED copy with so obviously made edits that a five year old could spot them. And THAT was when I went...
THIS IS THE WORST WRITTEN SHOW I'VE EVER SEEN.
Even my two 11 and 12 year old nieces were saying the same thing. NO ONE IS THAT DUMB to give their ONLY copy without having made backups and should have released it to the press the same time as well as youtube and Instagram.
From there on the writing gets worse. I am so tired of old cliches being used over and over.
Like the Cliche of the son or daughter or both being sullen and acting like jerks to dad. TIRED TIRED TIRED.
AND...
HOW many times have we seen the good guy knock out or think he has put the bad guy either out of commission or even dead and walk away only to have them come right back at them??
And this one really bugged the heck out of me. First time I saw this stupidity was in TERMINATOR when the one girl is dancing with headphones on and doesn't hear AHNALD come in. And how many times have we seen that same old tired cliche used since then?
This time our hero who knows the cops and bad guys are out to get him. So what does he do? Makes dinner and turns up the music REALLLLY LOUD. So while he is dancing and NOT ONCE LOOKING BEHIND HIM a bad guy shows up right behind him as does another one. AND even the dog does not notice the bad guys. WTH? THEY ARE RIGHT BEHIND HIM. BUT as usual the music is so loud and he never once while cooking looks behind him. Bad writing again.
And the usual fight sequences where they start out equal and then the bad guy gets the upper hand and IS THIS IT FOR OUR CAPED HEROES? NOPE! As ALL fights go right when it looks like they are done for TA DAH the hero get up and wins the fight.
THIS is old and tired writing. I've gotten to the point where I just fast forward through the fight scenes. Too many fight scenes just show the writers have no idea of how to write so they just say "INSERT FIGHT SEQUENCE" I did this with ENDGAME and the movie was 8 minutes long without the fight sequences.
NOW the second worst thing about this.
TOO MANY FREAKING FLASHBACKS. I mean come on....that is real lazy writing I thought I'd seen movies with too many flashbacks but this one has about 200.
NO MORE FLASHBACKS IN MOVIES. MAYBE ONE. I'll even put up with 2 but after that you get a 1 rating. Just tell the story briefly of how he came to be.
Sorry but I watched the last 5 episodes in 90 minutes.
I won't watch anymore of this dreck.
Or at least until I read they got NEW WRITERS AND NEW DIRECTOR.
The acting was fine.
Oh and one more thing. And you can say what you want about me but I am tired of this bit of the second a white woman sees a black man they instantly fall for them. If you believe TV and Films white men are worthless and weak and white women always take one look at the black men and are head over heels behind head for them. You'd think there were no black actresses in Hollywood. In fact if I was a black actress in Hollywood I'd be P. O.d at this stereotyping f black men with blonde women. And want to know why they are not with black women. I don't think this is "Racist" to point this out but come on Hollywood and European writers, give it a rest okay.
The Handmaid's Tale (2017)
Great show worth watching but time for it to wrap up. Starting to drag.
HOWEVER I know it is a cash cow but how long are they going to drag this out now. At first it was new but they are starting to do the same thing every season with some differences.
Seriously wrap it up. You all went WAY off from the book in ways that Hollywood showed it was bowing on bended knee to the diversity loudmouths and as well kept the same plot line storyline after storyline.
Time to wrap itup.
Trollhunters: Rise of the Titans (2021)
Good flick but lame ending. Seriously. SPOILERS
YEAH SPOILERS DO NOT READ FURTHER if you don't want to know.
They have all been reviewed by others and I really have not much to add to them.
I have enjoyed the series of episodes and the movie was going okay until things went haywire with all the deaths but up until then, a really good flick with a terrible ending.
WHAT is with Del Toro and this terrible ending? Seriously? None of it actually happened and the four chapters which includes the movie are not real. They never happened?
What the...
I mean what is it with people lately putting out terrible endings. The worst are lately TV shows like 2 1/2 Men terrible ending, How I met your mother AWFUL ending, and so many more.
You can add this movie to the list.
Abigail (2019)
Awful. Unbeivably awful. Spoilers
The title Abigail was followed by a description saying STEAMPUNK so I thought MAYBE it will really be a steampunk movie.
NOPE Just a horribly acted, directed, written and dark depressing movie. I mean depressing. IT was shot mostly in the dark and you had to strain to see what was going on. I am tired of blue filters to "set a mood'. Enough of filters. They are usually used to present a dark cloudy depressing feeling. And it worked. I started watching the movie quickly. JUST to see something happen.
The so called magic was at best rarely shown and some made up idiocy of a machine that could suppress magic. Uh yeah sure I'll buy that.
Steampunk? HAH. We got glimpses a couple of times lasting maybe 90 seconds.
The rest just came across as East Berlin before the wall came down with the bad guys a cross between Nazi's and Soviet bad guys FAR too much killing going on as well.
Everyone skulking around to hide from the Secret Police. The lead actress giving one of the most unexciting speeches about freedom to the point I am surprised has it been real the oppressed didn't fall asleep.
It relied way too much on flashbacks ENOUGH with flashbacks. Should be a law relegating movies to no more than TWO flashbacks.
The acting was subpar and I am being generous. The lead actress could not act her way out of a paperbag, she said her lines as though she was reading a cue card just out of camera. And if you can't act at least be attractive and she was anything but.
Further the bad guys were boilerplate. Seriously, picked for looking like bad guys and of course murderous. Geez lots of being carted away in 30's style black sedans. Bad guys wearing full length black overcoats and some sort of robotic bad things??
I just was ticked off that we didn't see any steampunk style ships until a brief shot shortly before the end and then during the credits we something coming across as steampunk. The Golden Compass had real steampunk and it was sadly never given the sequels it deserved.
It was awful. Just awful.
It COULD have been good had they actually made a good steampunk movie but this was just boilerplate East German escape movie except in another dimension.
Do not waste your time.
Tragedy Girls (2017)
And unpleasant awful movie with two leads I could not care less about. Don't bother.
As others have said there are better versions of this. The two so called school juniors both look like they should have been doing this as post graduate students. They looked at least ten years older than their characters were supposed to. One apparently was TEN years older and looked it.
But mostly it was UNPLEASANT. The leads came across as people you just don't care about other than hoping they meet as extremely unpleasant end and are found out.
The two leads were just awful. The attempt at black satire fell flat on it's rear.
WHY?
There was absolutely NO humor at all. There has to be a sense of suspension of disbelief for even satires and high comedy to work.
Airplane, Blazing Saddles were high comedy beyond reality.
This was 5th basement level satire, sad attempt at humor and the two leads were so typical in their high school meanness.
IN reality they would have been caught so fast as to make the movie 30 minutes long. Who wrote thinking killing pets was just so hilarious it had to be included.
Black satire has to be able to work and this was just awful.
The writing was third rate.
The director probably actually did this from home.
One of the worst was whoever did the sound editing. Good god that was enough to drive you crazy. Really soft then REALLLLY LOUD and all over the place.
I just cannot get over how awful it was.
IF I didn't love my GF as much as I do I would have turned the channel but she wanted to see how it ended and even she said the ending sucked. They should have been done in Dexter style.
Hated it.