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This Is Christmas (2022)
Depressing & Boring
If you want to be depressed & bored for Christmas, this is your movie. Full of cliches. The two main characters are both in unhappy relationships with selfish people they obviously should break from, so it's convenient their true happily ever afters share a commute train & surprise, start falling for each other. I was so looking forward to starting the season with holiday cheer. Wrong move choosing this group. Not even the predictable happy ending for all made up for the slow-paced hour & forty minutes to get there. By then, I didn't care about any of these characters and am upset I may have to watch a cheesy Hallmark movie to get over it.
She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (2022)
Has a lot to work with
If the writers strike doesn't kill it, I hope this show is picked up for another season. I haven't yet watched the entire season, I'm only finishing up episode 6, but I think the show just needs more time to grow its legs. Tatiana Maslany pulls off She-Hulk as very likable, unsurprising, as she is a great actress. She just needs a co-star that has as much chemistry with her as she has in her scenes with guest star Mark Ruffalo. This isn't to knock the actress playing her best friend, she has her own charisma, but together they don't make as dynamic a duo. Also, even though Tatiana's character mentions at one point that this show isn't the type of show that has a guest super hero star in every episode, they may want to rethink that. I think having a random superhero (or villain) pop in at least once in a while, if not every episode, would make the show more fun. Also, the bits with her trying to find a date through dating apps doesn't seem to add much entertainment or worth to the storyline, it's too random. If this show is given the green light for another season, I'm sure it'll prove its worthiness and the reviews won't be as harsh.
A Kind of Magic (2015)
A Kind of Slow Tortured Psychological Pain
Hallmark movies are supposed to be silly corn & fun to spot the standard plot points: quirky best friend, mean boss/coworker/rival, etc. But they shouldn't make you want to scream in tormented agony. Even so, that's just what this movie did for me. It's like taking a class where the teacher spent the entire term reading from a very boring textbook. Only instead of inducing sleep, you may have deranged thoughts like banging your head on the coffee table or wishing magic really did exist so you could zap Jason Voorhees into the screen, eliminating all characters. Yes, it's so dull & the rhythm so slow & monotone, it may drive you to near insanity. Unfortunate for me I didn't have the option of just changing the channel.
The movie's only plus is that it forced me to look up the word aorist, which also taught me there's more than one type of witch and that there are a lot of witchcraft sites out there in case you want to become a witch. That's good to know. This movie isn't.
Man with the Screaming Brain (2005)
Don't press the play button if you value your own brain!
Just finished watching this & we all agreed: we needed something to nourish back the brain cells this movie zapped from us. I couldn't believe this received even one high review, so I had to look up the reviews on IMDb app. Maybe we were watching a different version than those who even remotely enjoyed this film. It's definitely not because we don't understand camp & knew to take this movie as such. In fact, that's why we chose to watch it - to hopefully watch something so bad it was funny. That turned out to not be even close to the case here. This movie is just plain awful. Since I actually picked the movie, I soon felt guilty for doing so & spent much of the first 40 minutes of watching hoping at some point it would start to pay off. Never happened. Once the mad scientists merged the girlfriend with a robot, I knew it couldn't redeem itself. Yet, we continued to watch and when it was over we all felt something was taken from us. Like maybe if we then turned on PBS or the Discovery Channel we could get back what was lost. Haha. Instead I felt compelled to write this warning to anyone who's thinking this movie might be worth their time, DON'T DO IT! SPARE YOURSELF THE AGONY!
Outlander (2014)
Was pretty good. New main characters ruined it.
Ugh. Characters Brianne & her husband, Roger, have turned what was an interesting (although sometimes sadomasochistic) show into 2 seasons (4 & 5), so far, of boredom and drudgery. There's nothing interesting or captivating about either one. Instead of acting like more modern day people that are experiencing an alien time, they've accepted their roles as frontiers and have nothing new to offer the show. At least twice I was hopefully certain the characters would either die or go back to their time, but both times I was disappointed. I hope seasons 6 & 7 put them in the background & introduce more worthy characters or expand the roles of current, more interesting, ones.
I am guessing the main problem is that, sadly, the show is played out. There's no where else to go but to finally learn who the man in the street looking up at Clair through a window was, as shown in a scene from one of the earliest episodes.
Nate Bargatze: The Greatest Average American (2021)
Laugh Track?
I probably would have given this a high score, but I could not take the audience laughter. I had to shut it off after 10 minutes. I don't know if the laughter came from a real live audience, but it sounds exactly like canned laughter. I couldn't concentrate on the comedian because it was so distracting, which is too bad because the comedian seemed pretty funny and I think I would have enjoyed his routine.