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God's Country
God's Country (II) (2022)
4/10
A potentially good story wrecked
18 September 2022
I came in hoping for a good story, but left shaking my head at the many lost opportunities to make it one. If you like being preached at for an hour and 43 minutes, this may be the film for you.

Besides the incessant lecturing, the movie had the pacing of a 78 played on a 45 player, the villains were all caricatures of bad people, and the protagonist was a preachy, "I know better than you about everything because" kind of a person.

The most interesting part of this movie was when I dropped a Milk Dud between my legs and spent 10 minutes groping around trying to find it.

See this movie only if you hate yourself.
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The Royale
Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Royale (1989)
Season 2, Episode 12
4/10
An episode featuring exceptionally bad writing...
28 August 2022
Warning: Spoilers
... and I'm not talking about the bad novel that is the centerpiece of this episode.

While I generally despise the cheap and lazy device of making an earth-like setting, this episode was exceptional in its cartoonish characters and ultra-thin plot. As is typical with STNG, the science fiction is extra heavy on the fiction and extra light on the science. For instance, the ship's engineer spends a lot of time searching for and adjusting the transmission frequency to get through interference on the planet, but the away team transceivers just magically and automatically adjust to the new frequency. Another example of magical thinking by the writers is when Data "fixes" loaded dice by squeezing them in his hands. The whole episode was ick.
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Stitchers
Stitchers (2015–2017)
5/10
Bad Scting Set in La La Land
3 March 2022
If you like 15-year-olds pretending to be adult characters in a slightly sci-fi setting, you may enjoy this. However, if you don't like adults pretending to be people with the maturity of 15yo boys and girls, you'll hate this as much as I did.

Television show writers and actors should add to their bucket list a trip more than 50 miles outside of L. A. After awhile, they will be amazed to understand just how phony L. A. appears to the rest of us and will never set a series there again.
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Landscapers
Landscapers (2021)
4/10
A river of great potential lost in a sea of artistic flourish
29 December 2021
The first two episodes were pretty interesting. The last two devolved into artistic pretentiousness that made it barely watchable. I hope the director receives whatever art award he was pursuing.
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This Island Earth
This Island Earth (1955)
6/10
A Classic Sci-fi "B" Movie - Why no streaming option?
4 October 2020
I fondly remember this movie from my youth. Not the greatest, but good, fun sci-fi. With all the 3- and 4-point sci-fi movies available streaming, why isn't this one available on Prime, Netflix, etc.?
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