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On the Basis of Sex (2018)
A feminist movie that's not "hur dur men are bad"
Firstly, as a disclaimer, I went into this knowing nothing about the woman on whom this is based or circumstances upon which this was based so without being in possession of historically accurate context I can only speak to the the movie itself.
I enjoyed it. Instead of contemporary feminism's "great vengeance and furious anger" towards men approach, this movie presented the plight of women as righting an unfair situation, set in a time when the lawmakers thought it incredulous to consider inequality even existed.
A refreshing and very welcome change of pace in the current climate. This movie didn't try to make me feel awful just for being born a particular gender.
Mary Queen of Scots (2018)
Historical Fiction
Might as well have named this movie "Mary Queen of the Time Travelling 21st Century Political Activists".
Nothing about it was real. It was a fictional account of an imagined history where 21st century politics were inserted into a 16th century setting.
Kudos to the actors who did a great job portraying that the pile of steaming garbage they were handed could be real however.
Star Trek: Discovery (2017)
It's Just Not Star Trek
Star Trek is a show about striving to be the best humanity can be in the setting of a distant future. This show is a bunch of contemporay humans shoved into a futuristic setting. It's not Star Trek. It's just some bland sci-fi series with props take from the Star Trek franchise.
Big Fat Liar 2 (2017)
They attempted to make the first movie again... except badly
I think the original movie must have been too successful for the writers/producers/directors/stakeholders because they literally took the script of the first and using copy and replace inserted the words "video game app" instead of "movie". Then they examined the jokes and removed all lead up and background but left the punch lines. They even added a couple of nods to the original which fall completely flat because this movie IS the original if the original were made badly. I'm not exaggerating. Watch it. Lament the bitter taste it leaves in your mouth as it attempts to rewrite your fond memories of Big Fat Liar with it's blatant and very poorly done plagiarism of the original.
God's Not Dead (2014)
This movie was made for Christians
This movie is a feel good Christian movie and doesn't pretend to be anything else.
It's not supposed to challenge you. Most Christians will have heard all the debated arguments before.
The majority of negative reviews here are made with preconceived anti-Christian sentiment and are reviewing what they believe Christianity is rather than the movie.
It's a Christian movie made by Christians for Christians.
Complaining about it's Christian content is like watching a boy meets girl romantic comedy and complaining there wasn't enough homosexuality.
Social Nightmare (2013)
Fantastic premise let down by script
The idea that someone could use your over shared personal data in nefarious ways is one that when presented well, can create a nail biting, edge of your seat experience with a poignant and current cultural message.
This movie took that premise and confused it by mashing together parts from a bunch of different genres to create a movie without any identity.
**SPOILERS IN THE FOLLOWING PARAGRAPH** It started out well. The characters were familiar, realistic and easy to identify with. Then as the star's life went downhill the realism followed suit. The initial reaction of her BFF was refusal to accept she might not be responsible...?!? Huh?!? This A+, very popular student, elected class president and given a full scholarship to a good college suddenly started doing really nasty things to everyone around her on the internet when she had everything to lose and nothing to gain and everyone's first reaction was to choose not to believe her?!? WTF?!? The final straw was the girlfriend not remembering that it would have been IMPOSSIBLE for the main character to take the photos FROM INSIDE THE CUPBOARD WITH HER BOYFRIEND!?! Even if, suspending disbelief as much as I could, people around her started to think she'd gone off the rails due to stress, this possibility wasn't even hinted at in the movie. As the evidence mounted up the only remaining suspect became so obvious that it irked me further the characters couldn't see it. **END OF SPOILERS**
With a better script this could have been an A grade movie with the same budget rather than a TV special.
I was very disappointed by this movie which sucked me in with it's opening but if you've got a spare 90 minutes and are very good at suspending your disbelief, it'll pass the time.