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Santa Inc. (2021)
9/10
Superbly weird and wild for the 2021 Winter flu season
14 December 2021
A rebooted POLAR EXPRESS took the wrong siding and went right off the rails.

This was better watching than Charles Bronson careen down the track in Breakheart Pass.

With all the weird purple, red and green colors of the stilted jerky ugly stop motion Play-Doh with a feminazi elf and loudmouth woodland ghetto critters that just never shut up.

The guffaw poo flinging was the worst in this Christmas kaleidoscope of stolen Simpson and Family Guy holiday innuendos and spiced with a dash of knockout game of woke sucker punches to the brain.

Is Seth & Sarah different than any other satirist when it comes to political correctness?

No they are just the pus bellow the scab that keeps on oozing .

One rule for you and another for me say the funnymen of the Hollywood Hills when it comes to cultural correctness.

The two trolled us on the downward slope of their empty careers.

Showing themselves as crude bigoted self righteous woke enforcers while inadvertently profiling themselves in the most ugly stereotypical way possible then having the whiny chutzpah when it all goes astray.

It was sad and refreshing at the same time to see the unbridled bitterness of two once promising comedic characters (years and years ago) get free reign and monies while plowing the consumerist Christmas sheep train right off the bridge...it really is just the sign of the times that if you believe in nothing you'll chuckle at the most vulgar, self excusing, self justification imbecility be it clay or flesh.

"You know...I was just following orders"

There is no Tom Hanks conductor to show the way.

The world changes, and all that once was pure now proves unsure Let them have their chucklehead mirth.

While many try to hold on to what once seemed so innocent as we speed uncontrollably toward the edge with two mad conductors backed by unlimited resources hell bent, laughing like hyenas over the abyss .

I give it a 9 score as they woke me to the true state of the precarious affairs...there are no airbrakes on this Hollywood freight car rolling backward down Breakheart Pass.

Also... what's perplexing is all the -9 scores that only list Santa Inc.

Very boring reviewers if you waited all this time to review Seth & Sarah's dumpster fire without writing a review of anything else..

The lines being drawn are getting extreme without even a history of other movie reviews.
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Neon City (1991)
8/10
corny campy and post-apocalyptic details galore
14 December 2021
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This would probably (for me) have been just another forgettable Mad Max 1980-90's wannabe (my fav genre)... except for the interesting details like , drifting poison clouds, WW1 gas masks, solar flare blocking black curtains dropped by panicked passengers and suicide pills prescribed like candy in the toxic wasteland when they fail.

The empty bleakness of the snowy wasteland just added to the novelty of this underused genre location.

So refreshing to see a story that's not set in clichéd desert tropes.

The acting was grade A,B or D depending on characters.

The campy special effects get an A for 1980's nostalgia.

Apocalyptic details were doomer intellectual that left me scratching my head.

Like at the mid point rest stop, did the mutant hotel chief cook them dog, rat or human meat?

Everyone belched happily and said that was the best meat they ever tasted!

Really?...there hasn't been a cow or chicken seen around that dilapidated truck stop in at least a few decades!
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Dune (2021)
2/10
Epic Rap Battles..... Emperor Shaddam Corrino IV. versus Jason Momoa
17 October 2021
Warning: Spoilers
Derp derp derp

"Dune 1984 is worth watching simply because it does a good job of bringing the audience into this bizarre universe. ... The 1984 movie has the right amount of weirdness mixed with beauty, whether in the costumes, sets or campy green screen scenes. So the movie is fun to look at"

Dune 2021 is simply a bloated Hollywood Artsy-fartsy knockoff of the truly fun and fleshed out 1984 version (Even with the campy flaws and poor pre CGI modeling but at its core an enjoyable romp around the galaxy with a memorable cast of heroes and villains , if you're a fan of Dune you probably have watched it again and again three or four times)

Back to 2021 woke dreck

So many major plot charaters are missing in Dune especially the sinister Spice Guild and their interactions with Emperor Shaddam Corrino IV and how he played the different Landsraad houses against each other.

This is a major plot hole equal to the back peddling Star Wars misfires.

Instead focusing on mystical CGI screen saver vistas.

The post woke revolution replacement actors are the typical self righteous whispering (poor excuse for gravitas) talky talky diversity mob of B and C actors dragooned into another bloated CGI Marvel Happy Meal .

That honestly couldn't act themselves out of a paper bag without being lead around on a leash

Whiney angst actor Timothée Chalamet copying Hayden Christensen's style as Paul Atreides .

Focus!... the Harkonnens are at the shield wall gates, what we need is Francesca Annis ,Richard Jordan and Patrick Stewart to teach this boy some gravitas !

New Paul's sense of duty is lackluster at best as he spends way to much time day dreaming about a Polynesian/Dune beauty queen than trying to defend House Atreides and make his father Duke Leto Atreides proud.

Where's the bad-ass "We must totally destroy all spice production on Arrakis. The Guild and the entire Universe depends on spice."...he must have screamed that rebel yell in the latest incarceration but I must have been dozing on my cell.

Also, Denis Villeneuve's Blade Runner 2049 sucked, overwhelming CGI visual with a underwhelming trash bag of disposable forgettable fast food characters just like his latest grandiose dumpster fire called .... Dune 2021.
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2/10
Call 9-1-1
17 August 2021
Milla was thrown, kicked, bludgeoned ,cut, poisoned, dehydrated and starved in a 48 hour period ...she must be running on pure adrenaline as those external and internal injuries would have killed a whole army Ranger battalion.

The acting was mix bag overshadowed by frenetic CGI action that never paused long enough to give the characters time to breathe .

Just one overlong CGI fighting sequence (without injury) after another ...it's not awe inspiring it crossed that line into tedious visual boredom.

When will they learn that less is more and many scenes were stolen from other great movies like Gladiator (statues) and Aliens (drop down spiders)

Tony Jaa (Hunter ) reminded me of Cha-Ka from Land of the Lost.

The script was deuced out by a dinosaur and is incredibly boring and Cha-Ka deserves better .

Milla still looking good if not better as she ages +1 Tony Jaa as a doppelganger Cha-Ka +1 The rest of the CGI trash -8.
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The Ice Road (2021)
3/10
Guess what demographic is cartoonishly evil?...again and again
31 July 2021
Warning: Spoilers
What miners would murder their comrades in the collapsed mine to conserve oxygen?... I know miners and I'm pretty sure they wouldn't start bashing heads with rocks for an extra hour of air.

When the Canadian First Nation miner says "NO! ...it's not happening on my watch"...I just couldn't watch ,I was so embarrassed for ole' Liam and Laurence Fishburne, is this the only dreck available for former cinema stars?

Now back to the dreck...

What driver/passenger is a closet racist and murderous assassin?

Would it be the surly angry Indian armed with a Glock and mouthing off woke racist platitude?......wrong answer!

Why is Tantoo (Amber Midthunder) carrying a Glock and caged rat in her duffle bag anyway?...wouldn't a thermos of hot coffee been more appropriate on the ice road.

Why is she indignant when suspect , we all know Liam is just going thru the motions before picking you-know-who.

The mine operators shut down all the safety sensors and pay what demographic group of miners to look the other way for an extra $100 per paycheck... Hollywood elites must believe this mine basket of deplorables would actually shut down all safety monitors for few packs of beer .

What company demographic group has a assassin team on-call to murder a half dozen truckers bringing supplies on the ice road and attempt the hit in the most inept , cringy and comical ways possible ?

Instead of 007 henchmen they act like officer Doofy from Austin Powers...or was it Scary Movie 3?

Why not just collapse the rickety bridge with a snowplow to back up the trucks "Oopsie... I meant to clear the road but I hit the bridge girder instead"

Why all the violent melodrama on the ice road, setting off dynamite all along the trail or trying to run a 25,000 lbs Kenworth off a cliff with a 5,000 lbs Ford F-150.

What actors look pathetic , old and desperate and haven't made a decent movie in decades?

What woke actress of what tribal affiliation (that can't act) is now the kick-ass heroine that can drive the last miles even with a pine tree speared in her right breast?

What has-been actor is now shockingly tired and creepy at the end of the movie ,sitting in the cab of his new prize Kenworth in the company of a rat on the dash wondering how did his career come to pass?

Should there be a age when an actor retires so not to embarrass himself?

When will Netflix back-off from the wonky wokeness?

+3 because I like trucks.

-7 because this movie is really really bad.
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The Hunt (II) (2020)
9/10
Country girl from Arkansas goes Rambo and New York feels the pain
27 July 2021
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Crystal's facial expressions and disgusted attitude with everyone around her are very entertaining .

I've rewatched my favorite Hunt parts a dozen times just to see those stoic bewildered tired expressions and her hair trigger Rambo reaction in being pushed to the breaking point. She's jonesing for a cigarette in the woods while a half dozen wealthy pretentious woke urbanites hunt deplorables for sport...she being labeled as a deplorable it's game on.

Very similar to Surviving the Game (1994) with Ice-T, Rutger Hauer, Charles S. Dutton, Gary Busey

The style is from a graduate school of Quentin Tarantino, the dialogue and action are low key but spasmodically intense.

Every sentence of dialogue is memorable and Betty Gilpin shines and so do others like Ethan Suplee and Hilary Swank.

The story is about politics, class and societal doxxing camouflaged under a thin veneer of sarcasm, cynicism and cartoonish violent action, probably why so many find it offensive and score it so low.

You can say it's a parody and dismiss it as laughably ludicrous but I believe it's more a reflection of the divisiveness that seems to be amping up yearly.

On the surface the fable is cartoonish but under the surface its raw and unforgiving just like Crystal and those that profile her and judge each other.

The hunters are armed with an arsenal of assault rifles, bombs ,drones and bows...you know that wont end well when facing someone that's been ground down by life, they must have never watched the original Rambo

Disgusted and bewildered Crystal ranking ...gas station +4,highway+3,bunker +2 .
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2/10
Is Larry supposed to be funny?...is he ever funny?
22 July 2021
Maybe five minutes tops but at ten minutes he's agenizing repetitive and misfiring.

I've watched a few of his standup routines and could never make it past the six minute mark.

It's really not the joke writers fault but the Larry persona brand...he's just not funny, the in your face yokelism is cringy and it shows in the mean spiritedness of "Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector" Hitting a dry well with his only trade mark character he looks disparate trying to be funny dredging in the muck ,the longer he hams the camera the more his one dimensional yokel shtick misfires.

I mean how many times can you guffaw hearing "Git-r-Done" What am I five years old?

Where's a John Candy/James Varney redneck mix ,that would be entertaining but Larry just comes across as unlovable, annoying and overbearing, being slovenly is not funny just by itself ... "know what I mean Vern"

Inserting a hapless romantic side story into this awful movie just seemed so abusive to the poor girl and me watching.

Also Larry's boyish health inspector sidekick was constantly pummeled by this troglodyte...I felt repulsed and was hoping Larry would get fired for being a bullying slovenly unfunny halfwit, Jim Carrey had a dumb & dumber charm while Larry just comes across like a oinkng pig in a china shop.

Story +1 ,cute romantic interest +1, Larry persona -10.
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Prometheus (I) (2012)
2/10
Team Woke America: World Police meet Galaxy Quest
4 July 2021
The best of times, it was the worst of times, this is the best inane movie I have ever dissected but also the worst that I have ever watched from start to finish.

It's horrendously stupendously bad and must have cost the GDP of half the Caribbean.

The one step in the grave Bill Gate's like technocrat wanting to live forever went cheap and recruited his starship crew from Starbucks , Walmart and Gilligan's Island.

Snarky Hipsters, surly cowardly tatted halfwits, See-Threepio, horny community college archeologists and the cloned 2nd generation Morgan Freeman captain/black knight or was it president are sent out into space to find the Fountain of Youth?

In action they run around like stooges armed with scalpels and flame throwers.

So bored and disinterested with each other they can't be bothered watching live footage from two lost crewmembers pleading for help instead they pout, get drunk, fornicate and explode Alien heads like teens from Weird Science 1985.

Aliens had the camaraderie of the Space Marines, all these jokers have is less than half a day getting acquainted before being dropped on a toxic hostile world, It's so ill-advised after two years of cryosleep especially with everyone roaming around like Paul Blart: Mall Cop.

Maybe they're all undercover cyborgs playing dumb and the real Peter O'Toole looking cyborg is actually human?

Peter O'Toole does a lot of preening when he's not trying to act the stone cold drama queen.

Hipster scaredy-cats: "Were lost and there are dead aliens everywhere!"

2nd gen Captain Freeman:"Chill bros, take a dirt nap and call me in the morning, I'm busy trying to shag the bosses daughter!"

Ridley Scott brain storming on the pot...."Those idiots who are about to die we salute you" so does his story telling legacy with this space secretion.

Usually Sci-fi CGI offsets the awfulness but this time it just amplifies it.

Rough story+5 ,finished script -5 , In memory of Ridley Scott +7,CGI -5 =**
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Sweet Tooth (2021– )
3/10
Sweet idiot why don't you use a hacksaw on those antlers?
10 June 2021
Warning: Spoilers
Why did you wear a day glow yellow jacket when traveling with Big Man?

You got Big Man's best friend from his football glory days killed on the train because of that selfish anxiety attack over a sock puppet!

You have the table manners of a Raccoon and the common sense of a Deer in headlights.

You mess up one more time and they will be serving venison instead of Carmel Apples!

Sniffing the air and flapping those cute Deer ears in crowds of clueless paranoid survivors .Why not just wear a fake mustache that should complete the disguise . I thought Big Man was some uber angry prepper and all this time he's a poser leaving you unintended for hours as he steals and begs at the train station. Growling to get his way might work at the local 7/11 but this is a whole new world reset ...actually you have much in common with Lennie from Of Mice and Men...except slinging a sniper rifle instead of a mouse.

What a bum What was Big Man thinking knowing you kid to be to be a sugar manic fool .

What's with partygoers burning down an infected mans house with him in it while the Lily White Neighborhood Watch sing "Auld Lang Syne" and eat the murdered man's pecan pie in the middle of the street...is that supposed to be edgy?

Some brick in the face metaphor?

More insidious woke Innuendos placed throughout the story. I can spot the rancid stuff a mile away now thanks to a dozen shows just like this.

What's with the doc taking the high ground when he's just another hack experimenting with a genocidal vaccine cure that is more worse than the death symptoms...more metaphors on top of toilet paper and hand sanitizer on the cargo train?

Please just stop!

Also why did the partygoers looks so fat years after doomsday, to much pecan pie perhaps?

What a loaf of half baked idiocy.

I made it to episode 4 but the glaring story holes kicked started my cynicism in overdrive and made me realize that this is another MS3000 diamond in the rough.

Story +5 Acting -2 Plot hole -3 CGI +1 Background music +2.
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Vacation (I) (2015)
2/10
Butchered the original Vacation movie vibe with vileness, anger and f-bombs
6 June 2021
Applegate looks worn out like a truck stop tire and Helms is replaying his standard shtick with the F-bomb dropped every five minutes.

Two has-been comedic vultures pecking at the memory of the classic Griswold family trilogy.

It's embarrassing to watch and I fast forwarded through half the movie because the gross-out humor looked so depressingly distasteful and mean spirited even on fast play.

This is post traumatic 2000 humor as you wait for the stock market to crash and the aching jab in your arm to just go away .

I miss you Clark and Ellen Griswold.
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Enola Holmes (2020)
3/10
So many miscast characters, places and times...meh meh and meh
26 May 2021
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Poser Sherlock Holmes (Henry Cavill ) is played like an aloof GQ model waiting for his next gig..

His uptight pipe smoking brother Mycroft Holmes(Sam Claflin) plays the true Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's gentleman . The poser pretty boy Sherlock Holmes needed to trade places with the square Mycroft Holmes.

Also, there's so much unnecessary wokeness it's very distracting. It's like playing where's Waldo when I watched the London streets scenes . I was half expecting to see Greta Thunberg braying like a wild banshee at the front of woke mob marching on Buckingham Palace.

Also 1908 London is very diversified, good for whatever message that may imply... but it takes me out of the historical moment.

Some of the woke characters look and act like they took a time machine from hipster London or Los Angeles to prudish Victorian England ,the Victorian locals did not notice the alternate reality I wouldn't have been surprised if a Starbucks was inserted in the CGI scenery.

I really wanted the real Sherlock Holmes to solve that mystery.

Enola's kooky mother (Helena Bonham Carter) comes across as a women's suffrage movement terrorist leading a pack of angry women that want to blow up half of London for the cause...jeez dial that one back script writers.

Victorian ladies going all out Kamikaze for the right to vote, last thing London needs is more bomb violence...it really was a distasteful script ploy. Revolutionary feminist women planning on murdering police, government officials and innocent bystanders with pipe bombs with Enola hot on the trail looking for her wayward mum that was never flushed out the story arch just petered out .

At about this time so did I... I bailed from Enola while my ten year old niece continued watching with rapt attention. She really enjoyed the scatterbrained story with teen Nickelodeon romance thrown in for good measure.

As not to be a complete bore.......

Young girls will like Millie Bobby Brown playing Enola, she does a charming girl power characterization .She reminds me of a Plain Jane Keira Knightley and I'm sure she has years of Hollywood stardom ahead.

CGI was good as always.
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Flight (I) (2012)
4/10
On my job there was a crackhead ....
23 May 2021
I worked with a guy similar to Captain Crackhead (Flight) The guy was abusive, incompetent, lying, thieving ...but he just knew how to play the cards.

His boastful gregarious persona disarmed management but behind that smiling façade he was am absolute incompetent alcoholic & drug induced mess.

Management catered to this every whim, afraid to call him out as not to seem prejudice ...that he was an intoxicated idiot no matter his race, creed or color. His swagger and self confidence amused them like a joker in the kings court .

They thought so much of him ,he got awards and raises.... I just looked at him with disbelief , anger and resentment just like the copilot on Flight.

But never pity because I knew how it would all end.

Latter after plowing through the company he went out on disability before his deck of cards collapsed. Like a rat he could smell danger and profited by it.

Watching this movie brought back those memories of it all unfolding. A self- indulged alcoholic crackhead has a swaggering hero moment and all is forgiven but he leaves behind a mile long dark shadow in his place.

This movie is an enabler, celebrating predator addicts just like The Wolf Of Wall Street and Blow.

Flight is a celebration of the addict that just doesn't follow the rules of society.

That won't die...like a drunk hitting a mini-van head-on they always survive when innocents die.

It's couch voyeurism watching Flight and the outcome is so predictable, you just know he's going to get clean and honorable at the end.

The twenty minutes of the CGI plane going down was the only cool fantasy worth watching because real reality sucks .
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4/10
Dragon voice was like scratching a school chalkboard with my teeth
17 May 2021
That goofy Ellen DeGeneres voice worked for a fish but not for a Dragon.

Raya seemed irritated by the smart-alecky Dragon,the Yin & Yang of angst Raya and goony Dragon just didn't mesh, it's was like watching two different movies, the sympathetic Raya was jarringly upstaged by a day glow, hyperactive Dragon with the attention span of Scrat Squirrel.

The Dragon was more bearable when she turned human, I really enjoyed those short breaks before she turned back into My Little Dragon & Equestria Girls discover the magic blue bowling ball.

Boring!.. sidekick characters were plucked from other Pixar movies, I just rolled my eyes and thought I might just nap my way through this plagiarized video game ,but the gorgeous visuals always sucked me back in...actually the movie could be turned into an Xbox One game$$$

Also Raya's facial expressions were very well done, but the bad girl cage fighter/ tomboy seemed constipated.

What's really disappointing ,the story and one or two characters had the makings of greatness.

But it all was wasted .

What was great, the theater had two hundred empty seats and only fifteen taken up by the post Covid audience ( online reservations only)...sweet!
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9/10
Amy (Eleanor Tomlinson)... I would wrestle those alien machines with....
16 May 2021
Warning: Spoilers
One arm tied behind my back to be your Mad Max of the Shire Blackened Wastelands.

What a fiery redhead, I was entrapped ,entranced and engulfed with feelings of despair, hope and salvation.

I just fell in love with the BBC WOTW Shire, the bike paths, the gardens and stone walls.

I would trade in my battle scared freeways, strip malls and trashy empty fields strewn with discarded metal and plastics in a heartbeat.

The blue haired tatted ladies of today seem so alien from the viewpoint of time , charm and poise replaced by seething anger, I have the feeling the Martians won in 1897 and I was never told the truth,H. G Wells Shire...now that is something worth fighting for.

Watching the episodes, even halfheartedly written made me realize... If only I had a time machine, even the awful CGI couldn't take anything away from your beauty and hazy distant memory of classy ole' England.

I watched every episode and the next day at work I would daydream in my cubical how I could and would defeat those mechanical monstrosities, saving England , you from that drool love interest...what's his name?

What a misguided choice on your part but hopefully he was buried under rubble in the cancelled fourth episode and we can start over.
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Greenland (2020)
4/10
Mystery Science Theater 3000 wannabe... Greenland is a cult classic!
13 May 2021
Warning: Spoilers
What's missing?

Tom Servo, Crow T. Robot, and Gypsy riffing Greenland is what's missing.

Greenland is so bad it's just needs a few trashcan robots to make it good...no GREAT!

From the narcissistic ineptitude of are heroes to the wonky wokeness where every white male is auditioning for the part of Lord Farquaad.

Greenland could and should be made into a MST3000 classic.

The acting is paint by numbers (Gerard Butler running on fumes now) The comet melodrama laughable Inane and is a perfect backdrop to this MST3000 installment.

I do believe we got punked by the producers.

Gerard Butler is a grimacing structural engineer (the chosen) that somehow won the life lotto to survive doomsday by being randomly picked in the most bureaucratically inept, embarrassing ,awkward and riotous way possible...by TV text in front of a group of neighbors watching the same TV that are doomed to die in the next 24 hours, while Gerard hits the pedal to the metal to escape the doomed with flippant words of...

I'll text you" (but never does)

Cell towers survive the rain of meteorites and work right until the last moment of the mass extinction, also the electricity grid is up and running to the end, all things considered everyone is reasonably behaved, luckily there's no toilet paper shortage in the last 24 hours.

"see ya don't want to be ya" lol

My favorite laugh out loud moment is when Gerard Butler is playing...Gerard Butler.

His dopey selfishness takes out a half dozen C-130 transport planes loaded with hundreds of the chosen ,getting up from his seat he begs and whines to be left behind to find his lost clueless wife and boy that couldn't board because of some diabetic melodrama .

He demands the crew chief drop the loading ramp into a mob of the crazed non chosen, while saying to the petrified passengers

I'm sorry"

He's constantly saying I'm "sorry" to the soon to be dead...it's so annoying.

The airmen drop the ramp and Gerard runs off into the rampaging rioting mob of thousands looking for his wifie.

Bullets fly and hit the fuel truck and soon a chain reaction explosion takes out all the Greenland bound planes waiting on the tarmac in a giant fireball!

As the planes are burning behind him, he has the moxie to ask the dazed sergeant in the hanger.

"Have you seen my wife and son?"

Really?

Unbelievable the airman says....

"Yes"

So many MST3000 juicy moments just like that.

Here's another, he forces a twin prop plane to abort by playing chicken with his truck, the plane is forced to stop and he's demands to board the overloaded plane (It's a doomsday gun free zone) The annoyed pilots debate Gerard for minutes and finally give in and say...

"Sure, what's another few hundred pounds"

(The plane latter crashes by being overloaded killing both pilots a mile from the bunker complex)

"sorry"

From the post millennial cell phone usage as the world burns (he goes to the top of a parking garage looking for reception and holds his phone up to the heavens as the meteorites are blazing past while the doomed twentysomethings on the roofs are having cool rave parties, to the comical wokeness that beats you on the head every fifteen minutes)

Many Americans are profiled nonstop as pale skinned diabolically selfish characters, while others of a different shade are angelic, steadfast and compassionate even when they know they will be unfairly dead in the next 24 hours.

Gladly helping Gerard on his way with self sacrifice and nobility .

Helping him on planes, buses and at the last moment into the bunker by holding open the closing bunker doors.

"Sorry. I was late"

This truly is a riffing masterpiece.
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White Tiger (2012)
Tiger Tank or Big Dumb Dog?
2 May 2018
I respect Russian war movies as the action is so different from the endlessly regurgitated over the top Nazi slaughterfest cartoon clones that the Hollywood propaganda machine has churned out in the last 50 years.

Russian movies are gritty & patriotic, the Russian & Germans go mano a mano like two punch drunk fighters...that being said the White Tiger falls flat . The Tiger tank seemed like a big dumb dog when it should have been rabidly pulling on the chain. That has to do with the wooden acting and poor theatrics of the German ghost panzer that lumbered like an old farm dog when it should have been lunging like a junkyard dog.

The movie lacked ambiance in the summer sun when claustrophobia winter fog or whiteout conditions was needed. The crews spend more time out of the tank than in,like a Shark movie with beachcombers never getting in the water. The white winter camouflaged Tiger versus the green camo T-34 tanks while lollygagging around the leafy bush seemed rather silly. The sense of fear nonexistent, the Tiger a nuisance . The Russian troops should have been stampeding to the rear but instead they jokingly lounge around under the summer sun.

Also the story line switched gears at the halfway point that was so confusingly pointless... I believe the lack of a suspense boxed the directer into ending the lackluster story arch prematurely .
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5/10
Fuppies (Forest Urban Knuckleheads )
2 April 2018
THE GOOD,acting was low key but suspenseful ,the interaction between spoiled brat sisters touching. The cinematography very good. Made me check my survivalist stockpile while realizing I could survive but could not survive my angry , isolated ,fragmentary, diversified ill prepared America neighborhoods ...that safe zone forest road that those two sister take for granted is a thousand miles away. THE BAD.The narcissism between all the characters (except Dad) was exhausting...maybe mirroring the unraveling American society and how Hollywood is now fixated on male typecasting..rapist,creep or beta male. Now these isolated female slackers eat Rice n Beans for a year while the unseen society over the hills implodes.Both are two self absorbed to bother experimenting with rudimentary forest skillfulness , bitching or pouting for months on end]The selfish defiance statement as the end is how it would end.
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3/10
tasty for 30 minutes before becoming overcooked slop
5 March 2018
Warning: Spoilers
Started off interesting with ice cold 'Max Max of the Tundra' ambiance ...you could almost feel the frigid ice surrounding the underground base camp of the future . But it jumps the rails 3rd of the way... miscast lethargic main actor just ruins the feel. Gets his whole Spartan platoon slaughtered one by one because he's such a disinterested commander and cant be bothered setting on a game plan,brooding about his lost love and kidnapped daughter , letting his troopers wonder off or attacking the renegade slave super clones mano a mano. About halfway it gets very preachy ,the lone surviving Spartan woman trooper reads a paperback Mein Kampf around the fire & quotes Hitler . So you know who the bad guys (& girls) are and can forgive the Captain's incompetence. she turns on the hero latter for amateurishly getting everyone slaughtered (I have to agree with her) But what I really want to know is how did that paperback survive ? A paperback hasn't been printed in 300 years since Snow Armageddon! After a few jump the rails cheapo CGI moments the movie plows down the cliff. Mystical Arizonian Indians plus super hot Pocahontas pop-up (with muskets) from the tundra, making love to the bad actor hero and killing the racist storm troopers sent to finish off the traitorous mutton chop champion. The renegade clone cover story was an evil lie( seen that coming a mile away) So in the end all the Spartans deserved to die ,the Indians and snow clones the true heroes.
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2/10
Could any of these actors carry sitcom or High School Play?
24 December 2017
Mark Hamill ... Really one dimensional,type cast as Luke forevere Carrie Fisher ... Looked like she was out of rehab..ahh physically rehab Adam Driver ... Really?...Darth Vader the 2nd.That was the best that Disney could do for a personal friend of a friend at the expense of fandom. Daisy Ridley ... Attacks the camera with frenetic mugging. John Boyega... Jar Jar minstrel show Where's the next Denzel Washington? Oscar Isaac ... Who? Poe Dameron...Who? Andy Serkis ... Who? Lupita Nyong'...Token short Asian chick banging down relationship racial doors.

All forgettable that the fan base is stuck with & will apologize & justify because the cult cant believe that the at Emperor Disney has no clothes.
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10/10
BRILLIANT MOVIE +11...for movie globalism
11 December 2017
What more can be said except...this is a global cash cow similar to the Star Wars Happy Meals. Now if you live in Uzbekistan or the Island of Nauru the simpleton story & CGI Kung Fu action translates easily when re-dubbed...the Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 Bad Word & Bad Word jokes can be re-dubbed depending on how conservative the countries audience is... "Bad Word" can be re- dubbed as "Cow Horn" The utterly confusing story doesn't really matter as the CGI light show overwhelms with the finale Boss battle lasting well over 30 minutes mark!

The Boss battle is SOooo CGI visually exhausting it doesn't matter how it's reviewed in a poor tin shack village...it's just mind numbing relief from pulling Turnips all day. God Mode makes sure none of your favorites are killed off. The cute Goorp or Goort baby tree is a Shanghaied toy makers wet dream. Placing Botox aged Sylvester Stallone & other has-been B action figures from the 1980's gives the franchise brand recognition in faraway lands. The product placement & music adds extra consumer value.

Brilliant marketing
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Live by Night (2016)
1/10
Michael Corleone ...the accountant
2 November 2017
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Very lavish sets. The Godfather mixed with Gone with the Wind in set design. Sadly Ben Affleck isn't worthy of the effort that went into the props,locations & vintage customs. What a waste,you could have remade Godfather 1,2 & 3 with the recycled props, costumes & extras . Affleck is bland ,boring & miscast...he's to much of himself.He can't switch out of his own wooden personality especially as he ages...that dimpled cuteness & boyish charm has finally faded.His character should be selling insurance in 1930's Miami instead of bootlegging Gin.

I know this review is harsh,but as a career consular he should stick with dry romantic comedies...from the late 1990's. Now if he was a fly fisherman next to a gangster hideout "River Runs Through the Speakeasy" his range of emotions could be better utilized.

His method acting is a perfect rendition of a Wall Street yuppie robbing your pension fund circa 2000-2008 ...not a 1930's Irish gangster. Affleck pretending to be tough guy getaway driver in Chicago...it's funny.Mr. Dimples also adds religion & race relations...the dujour of Hollywood for the past decade.

But it all falls flat. Snooze-fest flat on the couch flat. I napped & one hour latter I felt I hadn't missed anything except a change of costumes, Should have called the move ZZZzzz.

Affleck the stiff failed to make a classic..but he gainfully tries copying expensive scenes or moods taken straight outa "Once Upon a Time in America ,Miller's Crossing ,Road to Perdition"...at the cost of $65 million. I could have done the same for under $100 by copying YouTube clips of those classics.

Actually Affleck is a gangster...$65 million,not a bad days work.
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The Bad Batch (2016)
2/10
Hollywood Hipsters ruin Burning Man ...again
30 September 2017
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Exiled Ravers take over Burning Man posing as overly cool desert Mad Maxers dropping hits of acid while decked out in battery powered Christmas tree wreaths & other Hipster regalia,paying $1500 for tickets in what looks to be the day after remains of Burning Man 2016 ....except with a steroid meat-head poser artist with a taste for human flesh hovering on the outskirts of Bartertown ...I mean Acidtown or Whatever. It's all just bullshit .

Nothing makes the slightest sense...but I guess it's deep,spiritual & crammed with intellectual adroitness making every nonsensical,pretentious techno scene have a deeper meaning, The average blue collar lunkhead science fiction fan will never comprehend....but I do. This movie reeks of trying to be a long remembered cult indie film but actually would make perfect fodder for the original Mystery Science Theater 3000.

Now back to Acid Trip,Mad Max is now replaced by girl power blonde millennial wandering the wasteland of Tatooine or Las Vegas ...doesn't matter where. The endless desert vistas makes any loony story interesting...for a while.

The cute heroine seeks revenge for trailer trash cannibals capturing & then amputating her right arm & left leg after being dropped off in the Forbidden Zone by Homeland Security. After escaping on a skateboard,rolling herself along a dry lake (story jumps the rails ) she is brought to Bartertown...heals her stumps while lethargically watching Bartertown's Hipsters gather near the courthouse waiting for mayor (Keanu Reeves) to host another nightly rave party (just like from the Matrix trilogy)

Latter she wonders off,meets GQ cannibal , falls in Love with the beefcake meat-head that ate half of her six months previously ...why? Low self esteem is what I figure,the oiled down hunk meat-head is a good father to his mute 9 year old biracial daughter (points) draws pretty birds (points) & has awesome prison pecs,tats & sensitivity (points points points)

But beefcake is a cannibal after all so it's not perfect (minus points for gnawing on bone marrow ) But for stumpy it's a marriage made in heaven.

The Cameo of the homeless bum Jim Carrey tooling around with his shopping cart is stolen straight out of 'The Road' with Viggo Mortensen ...the plagiarism ruins deep ...actually allot is stolen from The Road,Mad Max & others of the Doomsday genre. The long drawn out scenes of fading B character actors tripping on a cocktail of Ecstasy & Ego (that's you Carrey & Keanu ) while wandering the Mohave sound-stage is bizarre .I missed seeing the deeper meanings while fast forwarding to the end.

Please bury this latest Bad Batch under the desert floor.
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Dunkirk (2017)
1/10
Need CGI & better music(or less)
22 July 2017
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Music tempo was overpowering,the exhausted cowardly Brit trying to take a dump on the beach in the beginning of the movie with ear piercing somber music while his pants are down around his ankles was an ominous sign of things to come.

The siege of Dunkirk (historically crammed with 300,000-400,000 vacating France with at least 10,000 on the sand at one time) seemed empty for lack of CGI & modern day reservist extras, Nolan went cheap & only hired 500 weekend warriors plus a dozen vehicles from a local car club. The civilian boat flotilla numbered a half dozen borrowed from the London Maritime Museum , CGI was needed badly...I cant believe I wrote that!

Also scenes kept repeating themselves,like the movie was stuck in a loop ( going cheap again using one day aerial footage) Two Spitfires against two Messerschmitt Bf 109's escorting a bomber trying to make a bomb run on a tugboat,trawler or small freighters must have been reused 3-4 times. A lone war museum Heinkel He 111 lining up like a pregnant fat duck seems rather suicidal even with Mr. Bean manning the ack- ack or is WW2 now in the mythology/fantasy realm & Nolan must not be critiqued while misusing the last flyable HE111...probably as not to tear off the wings doing fancy maneuvers & upping the price tag of this Turkey to $200 Million .

Plus that annoying music to camouflage the reuse of the footage was pure trickery & was getting blatant in the middle,even the lone CGI of the Stuka dive bombing the pier was reused many times with the music blasting in the foreground ...the same with the overturning Grey tugboat & swimming extras.

Nolan's soldiers seemed hauntingly bored & extremely selfish (Putting to much of today's persona in a movie is not a good thing) The somber cowardly Lion characterizations made the British retreating army an army of fools with the French soldiers looking on with grim contempt as the Brits throw them under the bus ( E.U blow-back propaganda even infects Dunkirk) The antiquated "Hold the Line!" isn't what one hears from today's metrosexual British males & it reflects badly in how one perceives history in today's age.The Brits at Dunkirk were climbing over each other backs to get out ...that is how I perceive Nolan's Crayola Kindergarten scribbles to be & not Churchill's heroic histrionics with his empire on the line.

Now since WW2 is now a distant memory with half of millennial iPhone humping narcissistic dolts rather clueless about anything concerning reality of historical placement, the story/movie did an awful job of explaining Dunkirk in the grand scheme of things . How many movie goers later Googled Wikipedia 'WW2' for an explanation of the Battle of France? ... not many if I know my fellow citizens. Nolan could have exchanged the Spitfires & Messerschmitts with the Millennial Falcon & X-Wing fighters I doubt any of today's citizens would have noticed nor cared.

The Germans (Nazis) were shadow figures & the explanation of why Hitler paused in pushing the Brits into the sea was brushed off like so much sand... Adolf was a cunning diplomatic in the first year of the war & Churchill didn't bite the Carrot while Adolf halted the tanks letting the Brits vacate without being massacred mercilessly while awaiting England come to terms(But that is politically incorrect to question motives or think outside what is acceptable .. now back to Star Wars sequel #9)

In conclusion the movie left me empty just like the sands of Dunkirk & any residue interest in 'WW2' was latter replaced by me digging through the closet looking for a dusty VHS copy of "The Bridge to Far" & reminiscing /realizing how far Hollywood has sunk & now sucks.
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Bad Santa 2 (2016)
1/10
Sodomy was never SOoo funny!
15 July 2017
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Bad Santa has been ruined just like Dumb & Dumber. It's as if the lazy ignorant degenerate Hollywood writers hate & despise comedy & want smarmy ugliness in its place with a small community niche fixation on the glories of sodomy,doing everything in their limited vocabulary of "F" words & generic hardcore poo poo jokes to utterly destroy any fond memories one might have had ...welcome to the New America your not Kansas anymore

Why the hate?

Now with Bad Santa 2 Sodomy is the MAIN theme with alcoholism secondary. Billy Bob bangs(sodomizes) two mousy horny women, ones a rich recovering alcoholic the other a plump security guard . The acts happen near a dumpster,Christmas tree lot and bar bathroom ...plus out of the blue a blonde party hostess masturbates Billy Bob for no apparent rhyme or reason while the birthday kiddies are in the next room.I guess the HIV/AIDS epidemic & Hollywood hysterics from drama queens is so passé.

Billy Bob's character looks gaunt, medicated & suicidal...I wonder what Bad Santa Christmas cheer he's still trying to spread while in a alcoholic haze & without a condom?

The Black dwarf is still angry but now has new murderous thug persona . Billy Bobs mom (Kathy Bates) is an old swearing tramp stamp whore in one of her worst-best 'Misery' flashback roles.

The clueless fat innocent kid from the original is now a stalking clueless twenty year old retarded man-child with a dismal future ahead of him (I worry about him) Insultingly bad and distressful knowing the suicidal drunk & perpetual man-child may be homeless together with Santa Lennie sodomizing self hating women & George watching behind a dumpster.

A one star * black-out ,bathhouse hangover.
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Passengers (I) (2016)
1/10
Horny Castaway in space
28 June 2017
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GQ man is prematurely ejaculated from the colony ship sleep chamber 99 years too early ...goes Castaway, goes loopy suicidal sloppy drunk. soiling his sweaty pants,playing Wii video games,writing bad movie reviews(AWESOME!)

Latter he stalks Jennifer Lawrence while she beauty sleeps ,picking her out of 2000 because she's has a callow video tablet selfie description & has a nice rack. Light bulb flashes in his inebriated brain,shaves beard,stops drinking Gin goes back into GQ, lovable idiot charm mode (SO DISAPPOINTING) Cracks her life pod case. Some old fashioned Harlequin space romance dating that goes on forever. He finally scores after what seemed like six months or six years. she finds out that he malfunctioned her pod because he's horny,she hates him & wants nothing to with him in her now floating prison ship.

Now what he doesn't do (because he matured after rocking the bunk with J.L ) is get loopy sloppy stinking drunk again with the blabbermouth cyborg bartender as company ,growing I-Don't-Give-A-Rats-Ass man cave beard while soiling sweaty sweats with J.L glaring at him from every porthole for eternity . Boring lone isolation on the colony ship would not make any perceivable difference with J.L jogging the corridors giving GQ the evil eye (not exactly what you want messing with your remaining sanity ) Time to crack another hottie case for shits & giggles!

He has entered the realm of space isolation madness why not make a thriller where he malfunctions a dozen female sleep chambers over a few years until he finds Miss Right or they kill him as a group of crazed women imprisoned in the storage hanger that GQ (lovable narcissistic alcoholic)) has impregnated ,that sixty years in the future the inbreds crack all sleep chambers for fresh mating material (NICE!)

P.S I forgot to mention the standard space explosions,jammed bulkheads,meteor strikes & annoying cyborg bitchiness. Sub-par acting ability of two one hit 'Hunger Games' wonders .
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