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War of the Worlds (2005)
AVOID AT ALL COSTS
See the Cruise movie, this one is on the level of an 8 yr old to 16, at best. One can only wonder where people find the money to produce absol. garbage. The subtle intent of this movie is for you, watching, to 'feel' what the character is feeling and thinking. Forget the scenery and plot, this movie is typical of showcasing emotion. It wants to mirror the audiences emotions and feelings. It only succeeds when audiences identify with the character. It leaves the audience with the thought and feeling we are all powerless. Nothing changes. Unless you happen to be educated, the foregoing will blow right by you. It is evident from reading other reviews. Deconstruct this movie if you will, it faces enormous critical analysis. Also, begin hitting the library.
Splitting Up Together (2018)
AVOID
Good 'ol Oliver is the perfect sap to front on American television. Like most sitcoms, it fails greatly with ordinary, dumb but funny characters meant to liken what the networks feel their audience is. Google: 'influences on tv and movie scripts to program viewers' for openers. Find out why promos feature quick cuts the eye cannot follow ending with a very bright light shining from the media screen. Programmers and advertisers have been taking a long lunch on the average viewer for far too long. Any wonder why these 'boys' are now implicated in the "me Too' movement as media moguls, etc ?
The Last Rescue (2015)
AVOID
One watching this movie has to wonder why money was spent creating it. The truck early in the movie could have been used to travel. Actors seem to be walking in the direction the truck was going, i.e., further behind enemy lines. You will instantly see good ol Zach from "Desp Hswv"--never letting any viewer down, Zach is still a downer kind of man.Always troubled by ...something. The two nurses eventually let their hair down once ensconced in a come-by house. Here is where the movie goes to sleep. Watching this on Roku there is a commercial every five minutes. Hooray. Time to retire and do something meaningful like sleep through this hazard to your mental health.
12 Feet Deep (2017)
AVOID
Typical movie where mature logic is lacking. Sisters trapped under fiberglass cover of an indoor pool wasted valuable time in talking and typical pre-teen banter going nowhere either in results or having any useful utility. The one useful tool at their disposal, a shard of fiberglass, could have been used productively to saw out the cover, skillful enough to obtain another shard for now two people who could cut through to make larger hole to escape. Movie is an hour too long. The typical H'wood formula of being trapped to talking (of no useful ends in itself) to the tears stage to finally being rescued is present in this movie. Avoid and for you who actually paid a theatre owner for a seat to watch this, well, this is why tickets sales are down,
A Good Marriage (2014)
Joan Allen?
I had to check, this is the same Joan Allen as was in Bourne movies ? Goes to show: early beauty is no guarantee of later life attractiveness. Most of cast is uninspiring, movie plods like most formula movies, no one stands out as in the 'now' Cliché lines and droll setting; don't waste more than 30mins, clicker is your salvation.
Frozen (2010)
Avoid This One
Typical horror-type movie where the characters lack thinking. Immediately the first instance of being left alone would spur action in daylight,when it is warmest, not later when cold sets in for frostbite and all the rest. Not to mention freezing to death aboard a ski chair high off the ground. One of male characters should climb to tow cable, make his way to grounded structure (which has ladder steps) on his front side straddling cable. Once on the ground look not for escape but any ready-available weapons to ward off potential animal attacks. Does not matter if safety is a quarter mile. At minimum, this would consume an hour from chair to building safety down below. It amazes me where other people miss my points altogether. What person in this situation when the CAT was below would throw a ski pole or whatever down instead of a snowboard which commands attention immediately? Equally ponderous is why the CAT operator stopped where he did and return to offices instead of completing inspection. And what about the character's own cars in the parking lot? Hello? A sole car after all others have driven off isn't noticeable? Hello? Characters in this movie did everything wrong which one wonders, what were the writers thinking? I thank my lucky stars I did not pay to view this monstrosity. Oh, and of course, didn't anyone have a cell phone?