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Injustice (2021)
Rushed
The film seemed to have a rushed story. Like there are things in it that are similar to the comic, like Robin (Damien Wayne) accidentally killing Nightwing, but in this film they give very little time for it to gestate and show a little bit of Batman's reaction. But the scene quickly changes and it never shows Batman dealing with the death of Nightwing at the hands of his son throughout the rest of the film. It's like Nightwing no longer mattered much to Batman.
It's similar throughout the film. There's very little explanation as to why other members of the Justice League decide to be bad. Like why does Wonder Woman quickly decide to join Superman cause and go bad? It's not explained at all. In the comic, it doesn't really explain it either. They take small bits from the comic, but don't explore them. It's like those scenes exist to be memberries. The ending was silly. Superman realizes his ways were bad from an alternate universe's Lois Lane he doesn't know. Batman then says Superman will be locked in a red sunlight prison cell, but Superman just flies away. It's unclear if Superman flew to the prison cell or he just flew off.
Dead in the Water: A Fear the Walking Dead Story (2022)
lol
Who is watching these Walking Dead shows? There seems to be like 50 different TWD shows, but they're all the same thing. I watched some of this show on youtube and turned it off. Basically, it's zombies on a submarine. All the characters are complete imbeciles and are easily outsmarted and killed by the zombies. You'd think they'd just close a hatch and there you go, zombie problem has been solved, but nope, that's too difficult. It makes you wonder why the Navy would ever allow morons to operate a nuclear submarine.
These TWD shows are being churned out left and right with no regard for quality. Maybe next, they'll make a copy of Snakes on a Plane, but with zombies instead. TWD needs to be put down and AMC going bankrupt..
The Batman (2022)
Unamusing Dumpster Fire
This is the worst comic book movie I have ever tried to watch. This film makes those Zack Snyder DC films seem like oscar worthy contenders. That's how much of a dumpster fire within a dumpster fire known as the DCEU is. It took me like 3 or 4 days to watch the movie as it's a slog that lacks direction. It can't decide if it wants to be an origin film or not. The film is a try hard wannabe with its gritty, teenaged angst style, which a lot of people seem to think gritty = realistic. It does not.
If going with a realistic take on Batman, you cant have him be completely immune to bullets and a bomb going off inches away from his face without any visible injuries. Immediately following the bomb to his face, he flies into a bridge while wearing a wing suit and isn't injured whatsoever. The director, Matt Reeves, doesn't understand that body armor doesn't make someone invulnerable to harm and being shot at pointblank range, and that bullets just don't bounce of body armor like throwing ping pong balls at someone. A person wearing body armor will be severely injured or dead if shot 100 times at pointblank range. No person would intentionally walk into a hail of bullets. Especially, not Batman. In this film he does. In all the Batman comics, Batman tries to avoid being shot and when he is shot, the comics illustrate that he, like most humans, is injured from being shot. Batman also devises multiple plans before he goes to deal with the bad guys in. He just doesn't blindly go into bad guy territory without a plan. Batman is not Superman
Batman doesn't knock on doors and politely ask to speak to a villain. In this movie he does repeatedly. It's unintentionally funny. Batman tries to avoid directly harming innocent people at all costs. In this film, he has no problem with causing direct harm to people like in that car chase scene. Like at least 20 people on the road during that scene were killed because of Batman's idiotic idea to chase the Penguin down a busy highway. This Batman doesn't know how to fight. He just flails around throwing punches randomly. In the comics, Batman is an expert in various fighting and self-defense fighting styles.
Matt Reeves doesn't understand the dichotomy of Batman and Bruce Wayne. In the comics, Bruce Wayne and Batman aren't depicted as the same personality. Bruce Wayne is a cool, charming, caring, highly intelligent guy that's also a playboy at times. In this movie, Bruce Wayne is an angsty, emo entitled cardboard cutout brat. There's one scene where he tells Alfred, that Alfred isn't his real daddy and then presumably goes and has a cry in the corner. Like WTF lol? In this movie, Batman is an unintelligent guy that needs his butler and the police to solve simple riddles or cryptic notes left by the Riddler. There is no detective work in this film. Batman/Bruce Wayne looks like he's strung out on heroin and hasn't ate a good meal in months. He's like 150 lbs in this film and has track marks. Edgy.
There is zero character development in this movie despite it's 3 hours runtime. Every character is just a one dimensional, cardboard cutout. The Penguin should've been cut from the movie as his one dimensional story doesn't add anything to the one dimensional story. The Riddler disappears from the movie for over an hour and he's a generic serial killer that changes his master plan to an even more generic plot point of flooding the city. The romance between Batman and Catwoman isn't remotely believable as Robert Pattinson and Zoe Kravitz have zero chemistry. God such a dumpster fire of a movie. Robert Pattinson was clearly phoning it in, in this film. He even refused to workout indicating how little he gives a crap about this film. It's a high paying paycheck for him.
There's so much more wrong with this dumpster fire. DC/WB stop letting your directors write the story too. It has only once worked out for y'all with that James Gunn Suicide Squad movie, all others that have tried churn out steaming piles of feces.
Masters of the Universe: Revelation (2021)
Not Masters of the Universe
He-Man and Skeletor are killed in the first episode. This show is about Teela and how she's upset that no one told her Prince Adam was He-Man. She's one of Prince Adam's bodyguards. There no reason to tell her Prince Adam secret identity is He-Man. Teela is way more upset that no one told her about Prince Adam being He-Man than when Prince Adam/He-man dying right in front of her. Because no one told her that Prince Adam was He-Man, she decides to abandon her family, friends, and home. Teela didn't seem to care that Prince Adam's/He-Man's died at all. What message is this show trying convey here? It's okay to be super self-centered and narcissistic when someone you know dies and abandon your family and friends when they need you the most? Teela splits town on the same day Prince Adam/He-Man dies. That's col af. This show managed to turn Teela as the most unlikeable character with in the first episode. She's a narcissist in this show. There's nothing inspiring for younger people to look up to in this show. It's a really bad version of She-Ra without She-Ra.
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Murder Among the Mormons (2021)
90 minutes of Filler
I've never heard of this story, but I am somewhat familiar with Mormonism. For starters this documentary includes too much pointless filler to stretch it out for three 50-60 minute episodes. It's a very slow and drawn out documentary. It could've worked better had it been perhaps a 60 minute documentary.
I didn't gain any insight into Mark Hofmann other than he was good at forging old documents and knew how to make pipe bombs. It wasn't really an engaging documentary, nor was it compelling. It lacked substance. The jumping back and forth between dates didn't help make it any better. By the beginning of the second episode it tells you what happened and the rest just is people talking about Mark Hofmann scamming them, but you don't learn anything new. It made the last 80 minutes of the documentary pointless. Telling the story in a linear fashion probably would've made it slightly better. Overall it's just blah
Killer Inside: The Mind of Aaron Hernandez (2020)
Tabloid Speculation
This documentary reminds me either tabloid magazine or a mockumentary. One of the major focuses on this documentary is in regards to Aaron Hernandez supposedly being a gay man. Whether he was gay or bi is irrelevant and there is very little reason to include it when the documentary proof come from some guy, Dennis Sansoucie, who Hernandez played high school football with. Dennis Sansoucie claims he was the star starting quarterback at Bristol Central High School, but this presents a problem that could have been easily fact checked. Dennis Sansoucie was not the starting quarterback for Bristol Central. He started maybe three or four games max and was mostly the second-string quarterback and an occasional running-back. So we have this guy that is lying about his high school football days claiming he was having sex Aaron Hernandez. There's little reason to believe anything that's coming out of Dennis Sansoucie's mouth considering he's lying about how much playing time he got while he played high school football. Everything in regards to Aaron Hernandez sexuality that is littered throughout the documentary comes from a guy that has difficulties with telling the truth.
I find it distasteful to speculate that Aaron Hernandez was gay to further speculate the things he did was because he was trying to prevent others from learning about his supposed sexuality. The inclusion of Ryan O'Callaghan discussing his difficulties dealing with his sexuality in a world where homosexuality is frowned upon was irrelevant and didn't seemed to add anything. If the documentary was about LGBT athletes that play in college and pro-sports and societal expectations of them, then Ryan O'Callaghan would've been a good person to have discuss that stuff, but the documentary isn't about that. Ryan O'Callaghan didn't know Aaron Hernandez well and his inclusion just seemed pointless or to drive the speculation about Hernandez's sexuality.
The way the documentary portrays the shooting of Corey Smith and Justin Glass is misleading. The documentary insinuates Aaron Hernandez was the one that shot them while leaving out all the multiple eyewitness statements that night contradicts the documentary's insinuation. All the eye witnesses accounts said it was a black guy that shot Glass and Smith.
The documentary should've cut all the above stuff out since there's little to support those claims and it's just useless speculation. The documentary should've focused more on how Odin Lloyd and Aaron Hernandez knew each other and became friends. should've received a lot more focus than it did, but it doesn't. Focused more on who Odin Lloyd was as a person without attributing stuff about Alexander Bradley to Odin Lloyd. Yes, the documentary makes it out like Odin Lloyd was his dealer when he wasn't. They just took aspects of Alexander Bradley frienemy-ship with Hernandez and puts those aspects onto Odin Lloyd which I think is disgusting. No wonder Odin Lloyd's family didn't want to have anything to do with this documentary. The documentary was smearing Odin Lloyd for no reason.
Overall, I didn't learn anything new from this documentary. The documentary didn't seem interested in finding the truth about Aaron Hernandez and the violent crimes he perpetrated. Most of the documentary is based on a article that's full of conjecture and useless speculation. The documentary couldn't even get right the deal Hernandez signed with the Patriots. Easy stuff to fact check, but the director of this documentary couldn't be bothered to do that. I guess it's a sign of the times where journalists don't make efforts to corroborate claims and rumors, but instead report that their speculation of rumors are facts.
Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)
WW1984 iWorse Than Highlander 2 or Justice League
There's so much wrong with this bloated movie. First, DC/Warner Brothers needs to stop letting the directors also write the story for the film. Every time DC/Warner Bros has allowed the director to also write the film, the movie has been bad. You'd think they'd realize by now it's a bad idea to allow the director to write the movie, but nope. Patty Jenkins didn't write the first Wonder Woman and that movie wasn't that bad. It's clear Patty Jenkins isn't too familiar with the lore of Wonder Woman and letting her write it was a massive mistake. She destroyed the character and made Wonder Woman the complete opposite of the first movie. They should've got a person that has wrote Wonder Woman comics to write the story, like George Perez, Greg Ruckus, Renae De Liz, or Gail Simone.
The movie has two beginnings that are 30 minutes combined of utterly pointless nonsense. It starts with Diana as a kid going through obstacle course and she takes a short cut to finish the obstacle course first, but Robin Wright's character stops her from finishing first because taking a short cut is lying. The next beginning is the mall scene of Diana stopping some robbers. The shopping mall scene was included just to remind people it's the 80s and malls were the place to be. It's a superficial take on the 80s and has little bearing on the movie other than an attempt at trying to cash in on nostalgia, but they completely missed the mark. The first movie takes place during World War I, so you'd think the next logical choice would've been maybe World War II, or during the 50s and 60s, but nope 1984 was choosen. The movie doesn't reference anything that has happened in between WWI and 1984.
So, the movie is based around this macguffen rock that grants people wishes, but it has the side effect of taking something away from the character. Like Wonder Woman slowly loses her powers when she wishes Chris Pine's character Steve Trevor back to life. However, it's not Steve Trevor. Only Wonder Woman can see Steve Trevor and to everyone else including Steve Trevor, they just see some guy. There's very little concern over the safety of the guy's body that Steve Trevor occupies.
In the first movie, Wonder Woman was depicted as an inspirational strong woman that wasn't too dependent on men. In this movie, Patty Jenkins decides to flush that aspect down the toilet and go backwards by making Wonder Woman obsessed with Steve Trevor for the past 60+ years, and dependent on and pining over him to help her accomplish her goals. She knew Steve Trevor for like a month in the first movie and you'd think she would've moved on, but nope, gotta include Chris Pine for her to fawn over and tell her what to do. Co-dependent much?
Pedro Pascal's character, Maxwell Lord, gets access to this wishing rock and wishes to become the wishing rock, which is granted and he absorbs its wishing power, turning him into the wish master. If anyone touches him while wishing for something, the wish is granted. The movie indicates he needs to touch the person asking for the wish for it to be granted, but near the end that aspect is scrapped and he can just grant wishes to anyone all over the world without touching them. He does it by broadcasting himself on all television sets in the world. He also has this power where he can just tell people what to do without touching them and they do it and the power to create high speed winds. The movie doesn't elaborate on how he has those two powers. In the final boss battle, Maxwell uses his wind powers to block the Lasso of Truth from touching him, but the very next scene it's around his ankle lol. In turn, it allows Wonder Woman to broadcast a message for everyone to renounce their wish even though the video camera broadcasting the messages was destroyed by her prior to that. So, a video camera is not actually needed to broadcast messages to televisions. Apparently wishes can just be granted if a person is thinking about something they'd wish for.
Kristen Wiig's character, Barbara Minerva, is depicted as this stereotype of an woman that's a clumsy, bumbling fool that's jealous of Wonder Woman. When she comes upon the wishing rock, she wishes to become powerful and less clumsy, but still jealous of Wonder Woman, I guess. She becomes a bad guy because she doesn't want Wonder Woman and Steve Trevor trying to put an end to Maxwell Lord's wishing power shenanigans. If they did, she'd go back to being jealous. After she helps Maxwell Lord escape from Wonder Woman, she wishes to become an apex predator and then becomes Cheetah. Cheetah's character reminds me of Electro from Amazing Spider-Man 2. Her motive is jealousy of Wonder Woman just like Electro's is jealous of Spider-Man. Cheetah promptly loses a 2-minute fight with Wonder Woman because Wonder Woman renounced her wish and she got all her powers back, making it easy to beat Cheetah. Sigh
What message is Patty Jenkins trying to make here? It seems the message Patty Jenkins is trying to deliver is women are dependent on men and need men to tell them what to do. Both Cheetah and Wonder Woman are depicted that way. Cheetah is basically just a stooge for Maxwell Lord by the end of the movie. Wonder Woman's character growth from the first movie is flushed down the toilet.
This film doesn't really have a plot. I couldn't explain what this movie is actually about. There was no need for two villains. One fleshed out villain would have been better. Like Cheetah would've been a good villain for this movie and perhaps a different actress to play her.
Tread (2019)
meh
This documentary about Marvin Heemayer bulldozing select individuals places of business and the town hall was meh. The documentary goes out of its way to try to make Marv sound like he went totally bonkers by using recordings of Marv talking about how god told him to do this. It repeats sections of the recordings too to reiterate that the documentary is trying to paint him as batpoop crazy. Out of over 270+ minutes of tape recordings Marv left explaining his motive, the documentary chose to use the parts of the recordings where Marv is talking about god.
So, of the over 270+ minute of recordings, it went with using 5 minutes of Marv talking about god and 5 minutes of Marv barely explaining his motive in all. The documentary doesn't really examine or present Marv's motive other than suggesting he was crazy. It doesn't get any deeper than that even though the recordings Marv left left a fairly nuanced rationale for why he did what he did. The documentary couldn't be bothered to include the full picture because then Marv wouldn't have seemed as crazy. There's is a part in the documentary where they try to make it seem like Marv dumped his girlfriend because she was smoking cigarettes. The only reason to randomly include that was to paint him as bonkers. Riveting stuff
The documentary seems to suggest the only thing people care about or should care about is money. Marv wouldn't sell his property that would've netted him a huge profit from it. Him refusing to sell his property and place of business is apparently extremely confusing to the person that made this documentary and for almost everyone interviewed. The rich people that ran the town and tried to run him out of their territory and town were baffled by Marv not selling. The documentary makes no effort to examine or take a critical look into the truthfulness of what Marv was claiming. It just takes the rich people that ran the town and their friends and relatives on the city council on their word alone. In the interviews, they just deny that they tried to screw Marv over and that they didn't understand why he wouldn't sell.
Funnily enough, the people in the city council and the town police ceased being on the city council or a cop in 2004. Why that is is not looked into. The people calling this documentary "fair and balanced" seem to be using an unusual meaning for the term. The bulldozer was the only interesting part. Other than that, the documentary wasn't good, nor compelling, or insightful. It seems like very little research was put into this documentary.
Narcos: México (2018)
Narcos: Poor Writing
Diego Luna as Felix Gallarado is hard to take seriously. This is mainly because the writing gives him very little to work with. He became the head hancho of the Guadalajara cartel simply by nicely talking to other groups leaders to unite under him. He doesn't intimidate or threaten them in any way, nor does he manipulate them. He basically just nicely asks them nicely and magically they do because the plot requires them to. There's nothing intimidating by him and he lacks an intimidating presence in the series. He does a lot of staring while smoking a cigarette and a lot of small talk. There are whole scenes of him with a blank face while smoking a cigarette and that's it. If he wasn't smoking while staring, his screen time amount would be cut by like 70%. The series doesn't try to explain or show how Felix Gallarado managed to stay in charge of the Guadalajara cartel. He's a one dimensional character. The only interesting thing I got from him is Diego Luna kind of looks like Edward Norton.
The character Raf Quintero played by Tenoch Huerta, Gallarado's brother-in-law and co-founder of the Guadalajara cartel, is far too dumb and incompetent to be believable. The series makes him out to be this coke head, moron that has temper tantrums
Michael Pena seems like he was miscast as Kiki Camarena. His character is wrote like the stereo-typical dumb detective cop you see on TV shows. A lot of his investigating the Guadalajara cartel requires the cartel to be very dumb and completely incompetent. The series simply couldn't figure out or was to lazy on how to portray Kiki Camarena to at least somewhat similar to the actual person he was.
In fact, all the characters are badly wrote and the entire season is poorly wrote. The show is uninteresting, boring and not compelling due to the bad writing There are like 5 or 6 episodes where nothing relevant to the story happens. It reminds me of the The Walking Dead where there are a lot of pointless episodes. Narcos season 1 & 2 had a well researched and wrote story. This one does not. You can skip the first 8 episodes and you won't miss much. I felt tricked because I kept hoping the next episode would get the story going, but that never really happens.
Terminator: Dark Fate (2019)
Garbage
This movie is garbage. One entertaining aspect of the movie is it severely triggers those people that think movies with females as the main characters is feminist, woke propaganda. It's almost like those people think they're being oppressed and victimized by a crappy blockbuster with women in it lol. It just boggles my mind.
Now to the movie. I didn't watch the movie all the way through because it was boring and cliche. The first 10 minutes undoes Terminator and Terminator 2. Those two movies have been rendered pointless by this. The movie is such hot garbage that it copied stuff from Terminator: Genesys. Mainly Arnold's character is similar to his character in Genesys. They should just stop making these movies. If they insist on continuing to make these movies, they should make one about John Connor as an 45 year old and how life has treated him since T2.
Batman: Hush (2019)
Average
This movie was okay. It wasn't really memorable, nor something I'd watch again. The first half of it follows the comic fairly well, but the second half doesn't. It takes stuff out or adds new stuff that wasn't in the comic and changes the ending slightly. I personally didn't like the Hush comic story line due to it being way too predictable. Both the animated movie and comic rely on Batman and the villains being dumber than usual and acting completely out of character.
Aquaman (2018)
Geez
I don't see why people say this is good. I can see it as being considered good compared to something like Justice League or Batman v Superman, but that's a pretty low bar to set for a movie.
The cgi and backgrounds when they're on land look horrendous. It's like they ran out of money from the giant water battles that didn't serve a purpose, so they couldn't be bothered to maybe film some of the land scenes, I don't know, on a location next to an ocean. This movie is an hour too long. The giant water battles don't serve a purpose other than giant water battles look spiffy.
The scenes with Black Manta should've been cut and saved for another movie. He doesn't add anything and promptly loses to Aquaman in a fight. They could've at least made the Aquaman & Black Manta fight take place underwater instead of land. One of the main purposes of his suit is so he can dive to deep distances that he'd otherwise not be able to do.
The acting in this movie is wooden. The woman that played Mera can't really act. Jason Momoa seemed like he was just playing a frat boy. Ocean Master was impossible for me to take seriously. He reminds me of Bibleman.
The movie references Justice League and Steppenwolf in the beginning. I was hoping they've not done that and just pretended Justice League never existed. Since they did mention it, what was Atlantis up to during those events?
The rest of the movie was just blah and cgi overload. I've always found Aquaman to be a ridiculous character
Avengers: Endgame (2019)
Avengers Paradox
I didn't find this movie all that interesting. I felt it was about as good as Infinity Wars. This film feels like a complete ripoff of the last episode of Star Trek Voyager that was also called Endgame and also involved time travel. I don't mind when time travel is used in a movie or tv show as long as it makes some sense and somewhat consistent within the universe and doesn't leave giant gaping holes everywhere. This movie failed hard with the time travel stuff. I don't recall time travel being an aspect in the MCU, so whipping out the good old time travel trope randomly required way too much suspension of disbelief for me.
The fact that Tony Stark created a time machine overnight just blew my mind that someone actually thought it was a good idea to put it in the movie. The Professor Hulk stuff mind numbingly ridiculous. I'm confused as to why it was decided that Banner would just be Professor Hulk for this movie. It didn't add anything to the movie and made his character boring. Alcoholic, overweight comedic relief Thor destroyed Thor's character. It's not really even explained why he turned into an alcoholic bum. He decapitates Thanos within the first 5 minutes of the movie and the next time we see him, he's an alcoholic raging over video games. Honestly, nothing is really explained in this 3 hour movie. The directors thought it was best to like 90 minutes that added zilch to the film
The time travel in the film renders all the other films in the MCU as pointless. There are no consequences for anyone's actions. The Avengers failed in Infinity War, but good thing Tony Stark created a time machine to fix past failures. Paradoxes be damned and the "rules" of time travel can just be changed at anytime as this movie did.
The thing at the end with Captain America putting back all the stones in their original time line didn't make sense as how he'd be able to even do that. The movie couldn't be bothered to show him doing that either. Him going back to 1940 to be with Peggy Carter doesn't make sense either and messes up his character. Did he just sit and watch all this bad stuff happen throughout the years? Why didn't it create an alternate universe?
Just all around dull movie. It would've been better if the Avengers traveled to an alternate universe to get the stones instead of time travel. Then there wouldn't have been as many gaping holes in this film. It doesn't seem like Infinity Wars and Endgame were thought through.
Captain Marvel (2019)
Womp womp
Brie Larson was miscasted for this role and/or was just phoning it in for this film. The way she portrays Captain Marvel seems to lack any type of interesting characteristics and personality traits. She's as interesting as a brick.
This movie provides little backstory for Captain Marvel. When it does try to, it's just a bunch of short flashbacks that don't really add anything. Lacking any type of backstory makes this movie uninteresting. It's bad enough that the plot was lame, but on top of that the main character had no character. If they're going to make her super powerful, they should at least give details about getting her powers and what they are. It doesn't really do any of that. Instead, the film feels like watching a brick.
The Death of Superman (2018)
Superman: Doomsday: The Remake
This animated film was okay. For the second Superman dies animated film in 10 years or so, this one is better than Superman: Doomsday. The movie took it a bit long to get going and it doesn't really seem to follow the comics that much other than superman dies. They could've cut the whole part about Lois and Clark's relationship woes as that isn't that relevant to the storyline and seemed like pure filler. In the comics Batman, Cyborg, Flash, Green Lantern and Wonder Woman didn't take part in the initial fight against Doomsday, but since they're more well-known than Blue Beetle, Booster Gold and Maxima, I can see why they were used instead. I kinda wished that in the Justice League's initial battle that one of Doomsday's arms was tied behind his back to indicate how powerful he is compared to everyone else like in the Comics. The film just seemed kind of bland to me.
Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
boring
This movie was kind of like an episode of TWD. Just a bunch of people chit-chatting with each other with boring action sequences. The premise of the movie was laughable and I'm a bit surprised that it's the best Disney/Marvel could come up with. It was like something DC/WB would come up with.