Reviews

First and foremost, I'm here to explain the perspective from the one who heavily dislike superheroes films. The last superhero film I've seen was Captain America The Winter Solider. I feel that these movies including The Avengers are the reason why we don't see enough quality films nowadays. However, I went to see Joker just because The Dark Knight was my only favorite film in that type of category. And now, Joker is my new first favorite movie from that category.

Todd Phillips did amazing job by bringing his comedian talent into a seriously dark film. Since he is known for his love of documentary films, he created a "documentary" about Joker that parallel to the days in early 1980s. It was when the USA society had shifted to the conservative right after Ronald Regan became the president. Regan removed the New Deal and reduced the tax for rich people. The fund for people mentality ill had gone down. The unemployment rate was 7.2%. The emergence of capitalism had occurred.

Joker was an example of people who were stuck in the decline of social mobility. Poor, lonely, and rejection had evolved him into a villain and led him to seek revenge for rich people. 11:11 was found in several scenes, and it was a symbol of twin flames, referring a domino effect of actions when people becoming richer or poorer. The character of Joker was referred to John Gacy for this particular reason.

I found this interesting where people were saying that Joker was shown at wrong time, especially after the shooting incidents. I thought the release date was a perfect timing due to the upcoming of one of the most important presidential elections in American history. I'm absolutely the fact that Joker film is at least a factor into the decision making for our next president.

ANOTHER MASTERPIECE!

When I recognized the "Eighth Grade" coming out in theaters soon, my thought was making connections to the movies that I enjoyed very much, such as "Thirteen" and "Springbreakers". The positive reviews and even Obama mentioned this as one of his favorite movies in 2019. It's a bitter that it didn't show in many theaters nor find the DVDs at stores. The shackles finally broke through when I found out that it's showing on Amazon Prime.

The impressive part of this film is that it's portraying the realistic of life in middle school for teenage girls. It's an essential reminder for the parents and teachers to be aware of what it's like being a teenage girl. It's no surprising that the research has shown that teenage boys have easier journey in middle school than teenage girls, but the shocking part is that the teenage boys with disability (deaf, blind, or else) are also above them. I can voucher for that because I am profoundly Deaf who's attending mainstream school, and people look at me weirdly when I say that 6th and 8th grades are two of my favorite school years.

It's been a problem for teenage girls, but the suicide rate has been skyrocketing than ever before, since the social media became a factor in our life. The director, Bo Burnham, recognized that issue and wanted to spread the awareness. One interesting part during the process of making the film is how he chose Elsie Fisher to be a main character. He looked for someone who's clearly faking her confidence during audition. He pointed out that the majority of females who attempted, and they tried to fake by not being confident. It's being said that it's required a savant to succeed in making a film.

Few insights from the film that I can relate: 1) Elsie created Youtube videos to share her advices regarding social anxiety for the reason of her journey experiences. It's typical of someone to share for what they're going through. (Social media didn't exist during my time, but I used AOL chatrooms to vent my feelings about what happened in school almost everyday. Even though I had great days most of time, there's always little negative things that crossed in my mind)

2) It's common to feel rejected based on appearance regardless the efforts you put in, especially in middle school. However, the benefit in the end is that you manage better with your circle of friends than popular students in the future. (I don't know how attractive I was, but I know that I was attractive enough to be in part of cliques. But, I'm Deaf and the efforts I put in were unforgettable. The efforts were beyond enough to the point where I barely get educated.)

3) "I love you" is a powerful statement, and it's important for the parents to be open with their kids regardless how they react to it. (I brushed them off, but when I looked back, it's something that I needed to hear.)

4) Playing Truth or Dare is very common for teenagers to find excuses to portray their sexual desires. (Yes, it's how I got my first kiss and that girl told everyone that I kissed like a fish. I don't know how I managed it through)

5) Like Elsie, I used to lie a lot in order to be liked.

That film brought me a lot of flashbacks and developed my empathy for the students. It's worth watching and highly recommended! Summary: Thank you for the flashbacks!

Unsurprisingly, Spike Lee nailed it once again under two circumstances: entertainment and education. That's uniquely rare for someone to have the ability to hit both spots that are the two dramatically different in the range of theme.

Blackkklansman is at a particular place of a genre that I would call as comedically propagation.

It's about a black man who entered the police department that had a full of white employers. He took that as his advantage to pave the way to destroy the white supremacy (Ku Klux Klan).

It was terrific how Spike Lee could summarize the whole historical events regarding racism from confederate era to modern days at the same time it was a fun viewing for everyone (except for these sensitive and insecure white people). I was quite impressed with the editing parts, whereas the plot was parallel to the editing scenes from The Birth of a Nation (an infamous white supremacy propaganda film in the 1910s).

Nearly every dialogue was funny with plenty of underlying meanings. It revealed how it was like to live as a black man and what he could literally see through white people without their realizations.

The last shot in the film of two black men pointing the gun in front of the audience was probably the most potent ending scene of all Hollywood films. The given message was that white people (especially those who voted for Trump) are ignorant and selfish, and the rest of people shall join and play on the same field along with Trump voters. Take them as a joke like how stupid people can go that far to promote segregation, vote for Trump, etc. Just enjoy playing on the field with them. Nonetheless, we will leave with a victory because we rather not be ignorant.

I took a star off my rating for Blackkklansman due to my doubt on the fact that is based on a true story. Otherwise, I recommend everyone to see. It would be a loss to miss out Blackklansman as one of a few films that would change your view in life in a way or else.

I am one of many people who are guilty of being loyal to 80s slasher movies, even when the majority of them aren't that entertained nowadays. I don't have an answer to myself the purpose of continuing my loyalty to these 80s horror franchises.

Again, I don't get it why I couldn't wait any longer to watch Halloween on the day it released. Thank my AMC stub pass, it gave me an excuse to attend a high-quality Dolby cinema.

At first, I wasn't familiar with how it fits into the Halloween franchise. I checked on IMDB, and it said "recalibration." That statement wasn't helpful to my understanding at all until the credits were shown in the opening scene. I realized it's John Carpenter (creation of Halloween franchise) who attempted to connect that movie to the first Halloween film in 1978. It suddenly subtracted half of my viewing excitement because the Halloween reboot in 2007 was my favorite one out of eleven installments.

For the reason that the Halloween reboot in 2007 was my favorite is that I like how it turned out to be a psychological horror instead of a typical slasher film. It made Michael Myers seem to be an insane serial killer, not an unreal superhero slasher. Not only about killing, but also it involved mentally and emotionally along with the application of the psychology field. Little by little, it gave glance inside Myers' mind.

However, the second installment of Halloween reboot in 2009 took a huge step back. It was a surprise to see positive reviews on the newest installment. It led me to assume that it would be much similar to Halloween 2007 but with a more in-depth glimpse of Michael Myers.

Unfortunately, I was wrong. You people clicked +7 stars just because it's a cool mindless slasher film. I get it that you appreciate the taste of your old fondness memory of your time in the late 70s/early 80s. Come on, we're living in a progressive era, and we should be supportive of deeper and meaningful films. I'm miserable by the fact that you encourage to simplify the movies into shallow and mindless films.

On the other hand, I respect John Carpenter for his doing to sweep nine installments within 40 years under the rug and created the "second" installment into his historical franchise. That was to intend to continue their new sequence in the future. He was smart to avoid explaining what position of this film has to do in a long going franchise. Instead, he carried on the similarities from the original to this new installment in intention to motive the audience to forget all the reboots and sequels after Halloween (1978). It concluded with high revenue and opened the pave to start a new sequence. Quite an impressive work by John!

I gave Halloween (2018) a five star just because of my loyalty to 80s slasher films, better plot than most slasher films, and I cannot lie that it was fun to watch for once.

One last thing, I cannot be defeated in this argument because Jamie Curtis was unhappy about where the franchise heads to either.

Spoiler: Michael Myers didn't die.

I saw "Searching" movie two weeks ago and couldn't stop thinking about it. Today was the point where I felt I need to get this out of my chest.

No other movies are like this! Not just an original, but also one of the most creative films I've ever seen.

I am going to skip all the explanations of the story and focus on the messages I've received from this movie.

In the social media era, we face issues differently than ever before. David Kim (John Cho) avoided his grieving process of his wife's death. It built up inside him and lost himself as a person. He started to isolate himself and used media to communicate with his daughter (Margot), even though both lived under the same roof. For example, he reminded her when his favorite television show is on and texted her when she didn't do her responsibility like throwing away trash. It's a way of him staying in touch with his daughter while avoiding the grieve of his wife's death.

Margot felt like she also lost her father after her mom died. She hardly could make friends for three reasons.

1) She's a female (usually females have a harder time to make friends compared to males in high school) 2) She's an Asian American. (Doesn't have the white privilege to make friends easier) 3) She's sad. (Who would want to waste time spending with a miserable person in high school?)

It's common for people like her to express her feelings through social media and felt important in an alternative world. She drowns herself with her addiction to the alternative world.

Once Margot was missing, it came to David's realization that he didn't know Margot after looking through her social media activities.

I found it interesting when it referred to Pokemon characters. Uxie as being the pokemon of intelligence for solving problems and erasing memories, and Chameleon who can hide and use camouflage.

It was frighteningly amazing to watch how people in this society employ through social media. See how nastily pervert men can be. See how people could easily reframe themselves into someone else. How people can be so comfortable making rude comments through the digital world. How easy to find detail information about someone.

I think people really forgot how different we are living in the digital world. The difference is beyond unbelievable amazing.

I left the room thinking I should remain disconnected from social media. I am thankful for my decision to deactivated my Facebook, Instagram, snapchat, and Twitter accounts.

I rated Searching with a 9. The only downside is the ending part where Pamela was guilty. Typically of a twisted story in Hollywood.

I have a habit of listing my watchlist every weekend and tend to add upcoming or movies that release on the same weekend. It's rare of me to re-list my watchlist the movies that released a week before, and A Simple Favor is one of them for three reasons:

1) Positive reviews 2) I loved Gone Girl book and enjoyed the movie 3) AMC Stub Pass (Unfortunately, it's quite a wrong time to purchase the pass when movies are slow in September)

Character development lagged in the beginning. It was troublesome enough to question myself if I need to take one more pill for my ADD or to double-check with Captiview closed-captioning device. But, I've already replaced the device twice due to a weaken stick and programming errors. It was still an issue with AMC's third device. It was too loose, and the closed captioning digital was in a circular motion and changed angles. It took me a while to get this set with a slat angle. Besides the character development, the power of weirdness, in the beginning, was instantly captivating to forget the disadvantage of my disability and prayed for the captions to follow the movie accordingly.

Anna Kendrick's undoubtedly aced her role as Stephanie Smothers. She should deserve an honorable mention around the Hollywood world, despite her performances in the past. The chance of Simple Favor being flopped was high if it wasn't for her. This movie labeled as a dark comedy based solely on her. It's hard for me to find words explaining how she apparently tried to be a saint without being funny. Her performance in Simple Favor reminds me of Nick Foles who was a regular second-string quarterback in football but carried the Philadelphia Eagles and won the Super Bowl MVP.

It's absolutely an entertained movie. The adventure of unexpected events and the weirdness of choices that characters made, such as Stephanie fu*ked her brother and her best friend (Emily)'s husband right after she thought that Emily died, and the lies and secrets, were beyond captivated.

I got the feeling that the moral of the story was overlooked by the craziness and unrealistic of the movie. However, this was to break down the story by using a microscope through my lens.

1) "Loneliness is worse than dying with cancer."--I can't speak for them because I don't know what's like to have cancer, but I can look what it meant. It's hard to find a purpose in life when you're lonely. You don't know why you should be here. Mentally and emotionally are killing you slowly. It may lead you to make different choices for the sake of surviving. That led Stephanie to her decisions by having sex with her brother and best friend's husband. She's in her survival mode at these points.

2) Traumatized--Emily Nelson burned her family's house to save herself from the ugliness. Once you're traumatized, it's not easy to build a relationship and may lead to dysfunctional relationships. Addiction is also a side effect.

3) Three theological virtues (Faith, Hope, & Charity)-- It's a reference to a group of Christian martyred saints. Charity was the first triplet sisters who died. It referred to if one's love dies away. Then, you have two purposes left-hope and faith-to live on. You lose hope after you fail to seek happiness. Faith is the power of doing NOW to gain the sense perceptions of yourself as a person.

4) Hope vs. Faith (Twin sisters)-Both left in a different path after they burned down the house. Hope lived in expectations, whereas Faith lived in the present. (Also referred to the Bible) That's why Hope didn't show up to meet Faith after many years. Hope drugged herself. She spent her time dreaming about the future until it was too late. Faith was doing NOW and got a high salary job in a toxic environment. Without hope and love, the concept of faith is manipulative.

5) Stephanie wore her saint necklace, but she didn't wear it when she put on Emily's black dress. It represented that no one is actually a saint.

6) Money, sex, and social media-deprived the ideal of hope, faith, and charity.

7) Stephanie used social media to cover up her loneliness, but it disconnected her ability to live in realism. Then later, it became an addiction, and her presence in realism was on a downhill.

8) Lies and secrets lost loves.

9) Everyone has an intention of doing or returning a favor beyond the simple act of kindness for approval or support benefits.

10) Religion doesn't make you perfect.

Overall, the moral of a story is that everyone has secrets and no one is perfect. The side effects are much more significant than to accept imperfection.

Yes, I am biased for rating A Quiet Place with ten stars because I was born Deaf.

However, I've had seen several Deaf-related movies and never gave them more than a star out of ten. What am I telling you is therefore as a Deaf person wasn't the only factor of my determination to settle this film with the rate of 10 stars.

This film reminds me of my favorite post-apocalyptic book-"The Road," by Cormac McCarthy-and was made a movie based adaptation directed by John Hillcoat in 2009. It's a famous known story of the desperation regarding love, hope, and be appreciative of what you have, like one particular scene where the boy handed with a can of coke and the cheerful look of his father to precious that moment. Such a rare, powerful feeling that touched my heart and soul that still gave me goosebumps at this moment. That inspirational feeling finally triggered me in another way while I watched The Quiet Place. Every second of love between within a family valued is like finding a treasure with ten thousands of gold. It represented love as the most reliable kind of a drug you can get, and that's what enabled you to your survival at the highest point.

(For those who mock me, by the way, John Wooden, the best coach in the history of any sports, who coached for UCLA basketball from 1964 to 1975. Not only he succeeded ten national titles in twelve years, but he also created Pyramid of Success, a display of a foundation to reach your success at peak. Even the validity and reliability of the Pyramid of Success are highly respected; John Wooden admitted his regret for not putting "love" anywhere in the pyramid. He stated that "love" is the most meaningful part of life and unfortunately, it's often overlooked. I used his statement here to justify the fact of love as an essential cornerstone of living, and the movies like The Quiet Place are great reminders.)

Another thing, I love Millicent Simmonds. Herself as a person and her skills are marvelous. She already carried on through the barriers and brought the Deaf culture into Hollywood. She made sure that everyone in the film used American Sign Language (ASL) in the right way and treated it as a language. It's unimaginable for someone at 15 years old to do that.

Her performance also reflected how Deaf children react when they're constantly pressured to wear hearing aids. Many of us hate wearing hearing aids and are tired of hearing people telling us how important to hear. In fact, Deaf children are already comfortable with themselves and now, hearing people who have no idea what's like being Deaf telling them what to do. You'll be surprised at how many of Deaf children wearing hearing aids for the stake of wanting to please hearing people, especially their parents. I love where her father refused to let her visit the basement because he knew that she wouldn't appreciate that her father devoted his work on reconstructing hearing aids. Another scene I love is where her father told her "I LOVE YOU" before he got killed. As I said, she tried to please her father for years. She still felt that the connection between both was somewhat missing. She gave up when she realized that it wasn't for her to reach her father for his approval. He had to show love for who's she as person. Look at how much she gained her confidence to step in to protect her family after she acknowledged fully the fact that her dad loves her. See the parallels between the film and the reality of life being a Deaf child.

Funny and ironic circumstance: Alexander Graham Bell tried to develop hearing aids for his mother and his wife who were profoundly Deaf in the 1870s, but it turned out to be an inventor of the phone and founded AT&T in 1885. He saved everyone's life because without a telephone is unimagine for one to live nowadays. Whereas Millicent's father tried to reconstructing hearing aids, but it turned out to be an inventor of a weapon to kill aliens and save everyone's life.

I want to thank the audience for your support even though you may don't realize. With the high rate and profits, that would encourage filmmakers to include Deaf people in their next films. It opens the gate for the Deaf people and to spread the awareness.

Trust me because I'm a sports freak. I can determine which sports films are worth watching for the fans, also for the audience who don't care about sports. I'm positively confident to say that this movie is for everyone.

First of all, I want to recognize the BIG three who led this film its maximum potential and nearly won the best picture Oscar award.

Craig Gillespie, the director, was single-minded in his determination to pursue his passion for being a successful filmmaker. He dared himself to abandon everything in Sydney and moved to New York City at the age of nineteen. He went zig-zag to direct a commercial to the next commercial for fifteen years until he reached an upper level to lead a high budget film. The majority of his works are considered to be above average, such as Million Dollar Arm and Lars and the Real Girl. Nonetheless, a work of his hasn't touched down to the land of disappointment.

Margot Robbie who continues to blossom like crazy since she won the Harley Quinn role. This film led to establishing her in the category among dominant actresses, especially after she proved that she could portray multi-dimensional characters of different genres.

Thirdly, a remarkable performance by Allison Janney, who's must be known as one of the best-supporting actresses, had nearly stolen the whole attention from Margot with her limited time in the film. Likewise, she won the best-supporting-actress Oscar award.

It's a biographical film that follows the life of Tonya Harding, a figure skater, who was infamous for involving the event of an attack on her rival, Nancy Kerrigan, in 1994. Her abusive mother solely guided Tonya's childhood life by determining her to dedicate her entire life to become the best figure skater. However, the most significant side effect of raising solely on skating was the lack of education. Also, the implication the Bandura's Social Learning Theory where she grew up with abusive mother as her only model. As expected, she's attracted by people with low self-esteem and low education, and that led her to the unforgettable event in 1994.

A critical element that sets this film apart from the others is the blend in the documentary interview style with people who involved the incident. It made it appear as if they explained to you about the whole story.

I want to share a short story that implied to the reason for portraying this critical element. My dad described me about this particular event since I was too young to recall that time. Before Tonya, the majority of people didn't care about figure skating. After Tonya and the incident, people in the world went crazy. The competition in Winter Olympics received the most viewers in the history and Tonya received plenty of hatreds. (On the other side, the Olympics chairpersons should thank Tonya for receiving a lot of attention, mainly when it was the first Winter Olympics.)

Moreover, her rival Nancy Kerrigan had met all the criteria for winning the medal before her performance on the ice, such as her beauty and well-educated background, whereas Tonya struck with a label of "white trash." (Unfortunately, the aspects of criteria would be attentive lowly on beauty and such as that today.)

However, back to the point, Craig Gillespie included this critical element-blending in the documentary interview style- to let Tonya and others share the whole story to provide the full perspective on that particular incident and the rest for us to judge.

According to my viewpoint, Tonya was in shallow socioeconomic class as the majority of people in America. Those people who surrounded Tonya were likely to vote for Trump to be our president. She barely had a model who supported her. She nurtured with the attachment style of being afraid and clingy. Therefore, she was accustomed to having people controlling her. She thought it was defined the meaning of love. So, when she found out about her ex-partner was involved the incident with Nancy, she was afraid to share this information because of her lack of knowledge of the fact of the laws and the effect of her attachment style. In result of her nurtured by nature, she was banned from figure skating competition for not spitting out about her ex-partner earlier and received the worst punishment.

This film demonstrated the powerful reflection of the life circumstances. High socioeconomic status, beauty, education, native English speaker, etc. will always have the advantages. Whether we like it or not, the judging system and the laws justified the privilege for high socioeconomic statuses, even when it was without their intention. Tonya, for example, the way she was raised. It influenced the chosen of her action to keep private about her ex-partner extended longer than the statement of law itself. Therefore, it took nearly everything away from her.

Bottomline, I love Tonya for who she is. I love how she went through the obstacles like the mountains, Everest. The most amazing of her doing was her ability to stay at the competitive level for an Olympics medal after all the chaos, including the betrayal of her mother. However, nothing is above the laws. I have to accept the fact that she earned the punishment, but I'm glad that this masterpiece was created for her. She beyond deserved the meaningful recognition and the second thought among people who judged her.

Overall, as I said, it's a masterpiece that's well-deserved to be nominated for the Best Picture Oscar award for the reasons of providing multi-perspectives on socioeconomics, psychology (Attachment and Stages of Theories), and sports!

As a white young man, I am stuck in between on whether or not I am a racist for contributing the Birth of the Nation with a perfect score. Again, as a white young man, I am still a racist, no matter what. However, the point of this statement as if it's a racist for loving this film. This review intended to break down the reasons why I rated a perfect score to justify the fact that it didn't increase my view of myself as a racist.

D. W. Griffin demonstrated his clear intention to direct this film to support the promotion of the Ku Klux Klan and the white supremacy. As a further matter, he was known as a Civil Hero who fought for the Confederate had rationalized his motive to be the director. It portrayed his pride of KKK for their accomplishment to bring back the white supremacy after the Civil War. He, indeed, possessed a gifted talent in his abilities to create a powerful influence in both categories (history and cinemas).

In an aspect of the films, this movie took the first step to open the gate for the success in Hollywood. In other words, it considered as one of the most innovative movies in the cinema's history. Before this, the movie length of longer than one hour was unheard. The Birth of the Nation is probably one of the longest films (+3 hours), even in today's cinemas. Also, it's unbelievable by the fact that it excelled in nearly all aspects of production, including excellent acting and editing, in 1915.

The Birth of the Nation is a requirement to see for the history buffs. It's impossible to find someone who could act like Abraham Lincoln better than Joseph Henabery. I found myself lucky to watch Lincoln (2012) before I could watch this or it would bring me a disappointment.

For the history buffs, moreover, the Birth of the Nation reflected the accurate timeline in between before the Civil War and after the birth of KKK. It also portrayed the honest perspective of the society during these periods. Black Americans weren't allowed to be in the movies. White Americans took the floor as they painted black on themselves. I feel it's one of the positive assets to justify the progressive society by proving the White Americans clearly couldn't act like the Black Americans since the Black Americans have own unique attributes.

The film of the battles in Civil War was marvelous. It's a 1915 version of the war film in comparison with the Saving the Private Ryan (1998). I still remember my reaction when I first saw the Saving the Private Ryan. It blew my mind away. In the meantime, I couldn't imagine how people would react to the Birth of the Nation in 100 years ago. No wonder that it contained a powerful influence to push further apart the gap between the Black and White Americans. It affected my curiosity about how much did it factor to the racial segregation. Yes, again, the reason for stating my curiosity is to indicate the effects of dominance in persuasion from the Birth of the Nation.

I wish I could go on and on, but this review intended to reveal my viewpoint as a white young man. I insisted on repeating referred as a white YOUNG man because I'm still uneducated in regards to racism. However, it played a significant part to my willingness to learn and become a better person.

My perceptions of the Birth of the Nation are meaningful to me. It gave me the better understanding of the society during these periods. The explanation of the birth and evolution of KKK was perfect. It didn't lie about the motives that led the KKK to oppress the Black Americans. The impactful moment was when Black Americans were finally empowered to include the politics. The pathway seemed to be reaching a light at the end of the tunnel after a very long journey, but the birth of the KKK prolonged the pathway in the tunnel. Black Americans were held back in every aspect of privileges in the United States. At the end of the film, it showed the celebration of accomplishments of white supremacy.

Cowardly and selfish were the main impression that I get. It led me to my realization that the racism, sexism, and all the -isms started by the fear among White Americans with the full privileges.

The reality of the truth gave me the realistic depth of understanding what went on in the society during the periods of slavery, civil war, and the birth of KKK. Looking back, the sign of progressive society is active, but the vigorous motives, such as cowardly, fear, and selfish, had slackened the progress towards equality.

I disagreed with the conversancy that this film should be banned or else because I wouldn't want to stick with my state of mind before I watch this. It's, no doubt, an ultimate masterpiece of KKK propaganda. However, in my eyes, it had become one of the masterpieces ever in the education history. It's a must recommendation for my circle of friends to watch.

I think I should be honest with you before I can explain about my comprehend of Sausage Party because it is, no doubt, the most controversial movie of 2016. It's a full density of references and analogies to carry on the message. It's a serious business, not a humor film.

I was surprised when I found out that Greg Tiernan directed this movie because he is known for Thomas & Friends. Conrad Vernon is one other director of this film that did not surprise me because I have always felt that he used animation as a tool to relieve the resistance of underlying messages. However, this is definitely an extreme that is for adults only.

The foods are personifications, and it's about their intentions of living by abiding the moral ethics. Each package of food is a case of its own race. The sausages obviously are men of its own race that are known as "fancy men" who are full of perverts that objectify things. They are motivated in doings for money or status solely around sex. The buns are obviously women of its own race (White probably). They desire to be desired. They exposed their facial and body features and mainly a behavioral statement as a "chosen one." It's the statement that boosts the attractiveness. Bottom line, both sausages, and buns ultimately objectify things and themselves for love and sex (Perverts and to be Desired).

Okay, now, this is about the sausages. Frank is the leading character of its own package of food. Like guys in general, he acts like "p*ssy is just a p*ssy" in front of his gang, but he secretly thinks worldly of Brenda (Bun).

Brenda, a bun, is like the women who want to be mainly desired by men. She would push other women down to be more desired than them. She would use moral ethics as a weapon towards other buns who quickly give up for the sausages. Her long working actions are to reach a lasting romance with Frank.

Frank and Brenda can be an analogy to Adam and Eve. They thought that they gave up by tipping each other too early may cost them the fates.

Kareem Abdul Lavash is a Muslim, and Sammy Jr. is a Jewish. Like Israel and Palestine, they dislike each other.

Teresa del Taco is a Hispanic who is also lesbian. Her confidence and street smart stand out the others. She made Brenda realized that she used moral ethics as a weapon to define herself and others because of the lacked confidence in herself. Brenda admired her, and at the same time, she wished that Frank has the same confidence and shows the desires like Taco did to her. It reflects what is essential for men to have.

Three Native Americans (Mr. Grits, Firewater, and Twink) are for the Id, Superego, and Ego. They worked together to find the truth and decide the proper acts for the truth. They were the ones who informed Frank about "the Great Beyond" is the idea is created to comfort them when facing death.

Douche is an evil character. He's a reference for people who didn't know how to cope with any wrongful situation. He was angry for being left out. Leaving him out had caused him to think that he's ugly and worthless. It led him to rape and destroyed others to make him a deserving person.

Darren is a human who was being manipulative by the society. He is being unhappy with what he's doing, yet he needs this job to support himself. The grocery store or the corporation uses people like him as a "human puppet" to do what is asked because he didn't have other choices. Therefore, in the end, it's a sample of being manipulative by assh*les.

Honey Mustard came back in the grocery store after it's mistaken selected instead of a regular mustard jar. It announced the fact that "the Great Beyond" does not exist. He would rather be committing suicide than working for something that is not meaningful in life. This character contains confusion in life.

The pink gum is a personification of Steven Hawkings who told the truth beyond the ability to comprehend for most people.

Humans are national disasters. They cause the "earthquakes, hurricane, etc." and kill foods. It's also the truth in reality because we cause a global warming.

Baby Salt is a drug that is seen food being alive. It may refer to why people ate other humans when they were in high of baby salt.

One moment where Frank bumped into a used condom at night time may refer to the fact sex is a taboo and yet people still secretly doing it.

"The Great Beyond" is an outside of grocery store (heaven) where the life after death is beautiful and a dream for everyone because the God said so. But only God can control your fate, so you must abide by the moral ethics, or you won't get the fate you want.

God said marriage is part of the plan before death. Thus, it drives men and women to objectify things what are think to be worth for romance pairings. It's a creation of high in being the pervert and being desired.

In the last fifteen minutes, it's all about f*cking and sex to make fun of a sex taboo because it's what we strive to live for.

Think about it; what if we get rid of this taboo? Men don't have to be "fancy, " and women don't have to be "glamor."

F*ck what really are sexual ethics. Get over with these at one point, so, we can drive to do that is based on something more important than solely around sex.

Once the Jurassic World released in theaters, the rating scale was quite high as expected by reason of the Jurassic Park fans viewed before others who are generally like to watch the movies. I thought the rating would eventually end up between 5.6 to 6.1, but since for one year and two months, the rating of 7.0 by the total of 1,278 users is still surprisingly high.

I read several reviews in order to understand why it's received high ratings. From what I've noticed, it's mostly just because of its brand. Thanks to Steven Spielberg for accomplishing Jurassic Park as a classic film. Jurassic 2 and 3 were ultimately disappointing. The majority of users were sleepless in the process of waiting for an exciting dinosaurs movie. It's often praised for spectacular special effects and the CGI is insane. Also with 3D, the visual looks more realistic than ever.

So from the users' standpoint, they were thinking... ...Holy sh*t!! Damn 3D, I felt like I was almost being bite by dinosaurs!! WHOA F*CK it's how the dinosaurs look!?!? WOW SH*T F*CK IT'S DEFINITELY A CRAZY RIDDEEEE WHOOAAA!! F*CKING JEZZ I'M GIVING IT 10 OUTT OF 10!!!! OH, THAT'S JURASSIC PARK I'M TALKING ABOUT!!...

Do you think it'll receive 7.0 rating in total if it isn't part of the classic Jurassic franchise?

Sounds lame, huh?

Unfortunately, I couldn't give it any lower than 9 out of 10 because it blew my mind enough to be in the same category as Blackfish that won the Satellite Award for Best Documentary Film in 2014. It's about the controversy over captive killer whales for the sake of greed and profit. Because of that, Sea World's profits dropped 84% and forced them to turn in a different direction. From my standpoint, Blackfish changed my perception of Sea World and maybe Zoo like Michael Jordan for the Chicago Bulls and Jurassic World is a wonderful assistant to Blackfish like Scottie Pippen for Michael Jordan.

The viewpoint during the first thirty minutes of Jurassic World is a masterpiece of far- reaching suggestion given in an indirect manner, not blunt like Blackfish. It portrayed especially the wealthy whites who could afford to attend a dinosaurs theme park on an island. I could felt the spirits there were much alike the Sea World I've gone to in San Diego and Orlando. Like the whale show, people screamed with excitement when the dinosaurs in water were giving a show. They jumped and cheered when the dinosaurs splashed water on them. All about the adventure at theme park is exactly the same as the Sea World but different animals.

While watching, I didn't feel comfortable because the way they treat dinosaurs is just as the way we treat animals at Sea World, and it's just for the sake of entertaining and making money. It's not possible for the dinosaurs to enjoy their staying at theme park, just like other animals. It helped me to understand better why Tilikum, a whale or say orca, took every opportunity to kill someone when it could and it did three times at the Sea World in Orlando. Like Tilikum, the dinosaurs seized the opportunity to beat the humans. While watching, I was thinking holy sh*t I'm not any better than people there because I went to Sea World and I cheered when the whale splashed water on me.

That convinced me even more to support the idea of stopping theme parks like Sea World and possibly Zoo.

Other one, the D-Rex is a genetically-created hybrid dinosaur, considering the strongest and largest dinosaur for tourism purpose. Sorry to say, the D-Rex reminds me of pitbull because people from years ago breeding strongest dogs. That's how the pitbull came in picture. Like D-Rex is a "fake dinosaur," pitbull is a "fake dog."

However, the story line and acting are absolutely horrible. Colin Trevorrow got away by luck with his creativity at right time, as an ongoing controversy between animal activists and Sea World. Just really, really lucky like Pete Carroll called to throw the ball instead of running Marshawn Lynch and Colin Trevorrow made a game-saving interception that won Jurassic Franchise.

"You only know up to 20% of your potential"

I believe in this quote very strongly for years. Unfortunately, majority of people didn't meet up to knowing 20% of their potential because they threw away tremendous amount of time on procrastinating. Thanks to tons of pointless television shows, movies, video games, and entertainment such as watching sports and involving fantasy sports. (F*** me, I'm probably one of them) Only people were being effective for lion's share of time know up to 20% of their potential.

It's probably why adderall, cocaine, and molly are very addictive drugs. These are shortcuts to push people's capacities of excel for short time. The more they recognize themselves being effective when they're under the influence, the more frequently they'll want to take them until the point where they begin to forget about their well being, and likely to go into destruction. Or rather to say deep in the rabbit hole. Everyone knows the famous self- destructive patterns. We were educated by the DARE program, parents, and many while we were growing up, and yet, many of us still fall in a rabbit hole at some point. Thanks to the high expectations of ourselves or whatever the other reasons.

Lucy is beyond a successful movie by looking at the price of making this movie. Took just 40 million bucks to make this movie and earned over 450 million bucks. Yes, Luc Besson is a famous director, thanks to Leon the Professional and The Fifth Element, but I bet he didn't expect this net worth.

Movies like Limitless by Neil Burger are very intriguing to us because we are craving to maximum our potentials. That's why we read many self improvement books and articles. The numbers of self improvement books and articles expanded by double in every month. Smart people acknowledge that. They set their own harvest of money by selling to us like we are running and jumping around without a brain. In fact, almost all the self improvement books and articles give the same advices, and we read them repeatedly even though we were born to know what's to take our potentials for the best within our heart. Funny sh*t, I know.

Bottom line, I'm just stating why this movie had a higher number of audience than what it's deserved. Yes, very informational movie because it suggested a great idea of maximizing our potentials. Taking drugs, and whoa, I own this planet. That's the reality of everyone's dream. Although, I gave it a low rating because of the plot itself and supporting details to the main theme are very fragile. I awarded four extras out of ten because I absolutely love the idea of this drug. It can become realistic within 100 years from now. At that point, possibly regard it as a classic film.

Oh, I forgot to comment what's it all about. It stars Scarlett Johansson (you know her) and Morgan Freeman (I probably don't know him as much as you do because I'm deaf and I know his voice is a fortune cookie). Scarlett is a lucky one who's selected by a resourceful clique. They instilled a drug inside of her stomach to put her in test. Oh wow, thank you guys, and now she's killing them and ran into Morgan Freeman who declared his theory of maximizing brain capability. Oh my god, it's real sh*t. You're right, Freeman! I'm the evidence to your theory. Oh, oh, hurry, record them all in data set now!

Pretty much that's it. And I learned about the ten percent of the brain myth.

Don't get me wrong. Despite the fact of it's low rating, you have to see this movie. Seriously, a great idea! Skip this movie is no-no!

Look, remake movies aren't meant to be better than originals. The mission of remaking movies is to reminding people to appreciate films along in years ago. Aside from the originals is the special effects and filling them into modern era like FaceTime, remote plane, and etc. If they change anything more than the originals, it'll consider as a failure.

I want to praise Gil Kenan who directed the remake of Poltergeist. It wasn't easy to remake a movie that's directed by one of the most respected directors, Steven Spielberg!

I don't think it's fair to put Kennedi Clements and Heather O'Rourke in comparison because Heather O'Rourke had appearance as her advantage. Her blond hair, pretty eyes and cute baby face or say All American baby girl. People could feel attached to her and didn't want anything bad happen to her. While Kennedi Clements, yes, she's cute and all that, but she's not an All American baby girl like Heather O'Rourke. Although, she did great job. I wouldn't choose someone else to fill in Heather O'Rourke's shoes. Just stated my theory why people's emotions were involved more with Heather than Kennedi.

I can't ignore the fact that Saxon Sharbino is unbelievable pretty! I was surprised to find out that she's only 15. She definitely has a bright future in either modeling or acting world.

This movie does have several flaws. All of the flaws were excused except for one. The neighbors weren't calling. It's like nobody is in town even though many nice houses were in sight.

Again for the people who were disappointed with this film, you have to remember that your mindset was different in 80s. More people were religious in 80s than today. Therefore, they were likely to believe in these kind of spooky stories. Plus, PG-13 wasn't existed during that time. It's a PG film and kids under 10 years old watched this film. Of course, they got scared and slept with their parents from time to time. It hugely boosted the hype of this film.

Bottomline, the modern one is nearly good as the previous one. It's all about timing along with several advantages. That's it.

I didn't rate it eight out of ten because it's great movie in general. I rated it based on how well they did make up from the original and it's still a terrified movie.

I say Bhaag Milkha Bhaag is one of most underrated films out there.

Don't worry if you're not a fan of sports films, it's given a perfect example of what turns your big dream into reality. Nothing comes by easy. To overcome all the obstacles including people's doubts ("crab theory"), fears, or anything that distracts you from pursing your big dream. It's all up to you and yourself, that's it.

Milkha Singh didn't have a happy childhood. He already went into rock bottom right after he came out of his mommy's tummy. He witnessed all the hatreds toward his family and peers. Right there, he felt like he shouldn't be existed in this world. At one point, his father told him to run, run, run away from Pakistan and don't look back right a minute before it's turned into a bloodbath. It's the first time he actually felt that he deserved to live. To live for one of fewest people who literally love him. He ran away with his bloody and deadly feet.

As Milkha still obeyed his lovely father's word by not looking back, he grew up happily in India. He had a habit of pushing his physical beyond his limitation to keep him looking away from his past, as in order to obey his father's word. He joined military to help him going on from the past by turning himself into like a robot and listening to the orders, but then he realized that pushing himself physically during the day wasn't enough. He sneaked and ran at nighttime. At one moment when he's busted, he wasn't able to explain to his chiefs why he chose to continue working out at nighttime. He had a habit of running for long time to the point where he lost his conscious of his intention to run. From there, he's assigned to run everyday during the daytime.

As he continued to work beyond his physical ability, he was desperate to find a lover to tone him down. He thought that it would be his medicine.

At the time of 400m racing, he blew away his easy victory because he was self-doubted. (I'm talking about the scene in the beginning where he looked back and lost his leading in the race. That's fiction and I think it portrayed to give a clear message to the audience why he blew it away.) In fact, it's all about his uncertainty about his purpose to run. He ran to avoid his dreadful past, but in people's perspective, he had potential to be one of the greatest runners.

Thankfully, Milkha had a wonderful mentor, Gurudev, who helped him to recognize his potential to become one of the greatest runners. Grooved wasn't a wonderful mentor only because of how he trained Milkha. He guided Milkha slowly and let him to analyze himself whether he wants to be a great runner or not. He allowed Milkha to have his own journey with a female right before race day. When Milkha assured to be a runner, Gurudev determined him to be the one immediately.

Unconsciously, Milkha still worked beyond his physical limitation to distract him from his past. Only the difference was he replaced Gurudev as his lover. Someone who loved him and believed in him. That's all he really needed.

Milkha wasn't happy when he heard that he had to race in Pakistan.

One more reason to say Gurudev as a tremendous mentor. He convinced Milkha to come and wander lost in Pakistan. He allowed Milkha to explore there to decide whether he wants to win the race or not. In the end, of course, he won the race. As he continued to run after the finish line, he saw himself as a little boy running right next to him smiling at him. It's a moment when he realized that he literally overcame his fear with his hardworking, willpower, and dedication.

Cherry on top of Milkha ice cream, Indian Prime Minister declared a national holiday after his victory in Pakistan.

This story INSPIRED me!

Funny how the title of the movie captured my attention by thinking of Hillary Duff.

Fortunately, it has nothing to do with her. It's a realistic comedy directed by unfamiliar director, Ari Sandel. It's about three girls who were close until they came in high school, reached at the peak where people's concerns about stereotypes and their status. Bianca, Mae Whitman, disliked to be labeled as the DUFF of her friend group, the Designated Ugly Fat Friend, even though she's looking quite hot. Her friends, Madison and Casey-Bianca A. Santos (I had to mention her full name because she's a kind of girl I'd want to b*** someday) were in a circle of her friends. Bianca realized the boys tried to befriend her to get through her hottie friends. She left her friends to create her own reputation.

I don't think I'm the only one who felt the same when I was in high school. Don't get me wrong, I was pretty good looking guy with great athletic skills, but my friend's looking like a model. I was frustrated being friendzoned every time I bumped into a girl. Always got to the point where the girls would ask me about him. Instead of rejecting him as my friend, I rejected every girl. Still a lose-lose situation because people thought I'm attracted to guys. Even it was 15 years ago, my high school classmates still suspect that I'm gay. F*** that s***.

Anyways, back to the story, it's not kind of a movie that you'd react like "lololol," just "hahah." It's completely different from other movies. Definitely unique. I really like how it included today's generation like Cyberbullying and etc. It's perfectly coordinated with the reality of the environment in high school. Plus, it showed special effects in an unique way that's definitely suited the plot itself. It doesn't belong to be in lowly category of Mean Girl and Easy A, but it also doesn't deserve to be up to the standards along with Boyhood and Breakfast Club. Just right in between.

Look, the life as a high school student is like riding on a roller coaster. This movie is giving a well lesson to lighten up what you're facing as a high school student. Prom, popularity, and such are actually meaningless. Don't take bullying or else personality because in the end, you'll laugh at the experience itself. For people who graduated from high school, I bet if they live back in high school, the first thing they would want to do is to belittle the fact of how they look, their status, and the way of doing things. The biggest regret is probably allowed the high school environment interfered being fully themselves. Speaking of myself, I wish I could see this movie while I was freshman in high school. I truly believe that it'll sightly improve on my outlook as a high school student. SO YOU HIGH SCHOOLER PLEASE WATCH!!