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I like reading other peoples comments. Sure I may be a bit raw on what I say, but I grew up in a time where you had to be resilient against the jerks of the world and move forward in your life. If you have time to dwell on someones harsh words from another country and have it affect your life, then you need a class in grabbing your nuts or tits and keep going forward.
That is it until we all see the same movie and can make some more comments on them.
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The Wild Ride (1960)
The confusing man they call Johnny Varron!
This movie is not stellar, but it is a movie reminiscent of the style of the film that is the 1960's. The dialogue has slang of that time and probably used with motorheads or racing track fans. The cast seemed amateurish, and after finding out, most of them were part of a high school drama class, friends of the director, and some professional actors, some scenes are rough. It is hard to develop a character in sixty minutes, so what is main characters real story.
The main character Johnny Varron (Jack Nicholson), has an I don't care attitude. The womanizing bad boy who always gets what he wants and will do anything to ensure it goes his way. His encounters with authority figures or individual adults indicate to me; he knows something more about them, therefore his ability to manipulate them.
Johnny is the top man in this group. Several moments in the film indicate the fall of Johnny from the group is evident. At the beach, after Johnny goes to stop by Dave's house, a Judas character appears from the group named Barney. Barney indicates to the group, why is Dave so unique, and Johnny is getting weak as a leader. At the race track, Barney is frustrated with Johnny being late and leads the group into the race and tells the gate attendant he is Johnny Varronn. At the restaurant, the lady Johnny had an affair with confronted him. This incident gets the group kicked out. The group wants to stay but leave under Johnny's orders. The last scene is the crashing blow for Johnny Varon being the top man.
Johnny is a lonely and alone boy; this is evident at the beach scene when couples surround him, and he is by himself. Johnny's relationship with people in this movie is loose except for Dave (Robert Bean), who Johnny calls his number one. I noticed the film focuses on Johnny and Dave's relationship. Dave is growing up and tired of his current lifestyle and has a cool girlfriend named Nancy. Dave tells Nancy she does not understand the friendship between him and Johnny. Ann says to Dave he cares more about Johnny than her, and their friendship is not ideal in her eyes. Dave meets up with Johnny and tells him he broke it off with Nancy but will not go to the race. Johnny is happy that Dave and Nancy are broke up, but upset that this is the first race Dave will miss. Johnny becomes enraged after why Dave will miss the race.
Johnny takes Nancy to the group's special place and forcibly attempts to take advantage of her. Dave shows up and breaks up Nancy and Johnny. Dave thinks that Johnny wanted Nancy all along, but Johnny says he did it to scare her, and he did it for him. Dave tells Johnny that he ruins everything and gets in his car and speeds away. In the end, Johnny realizes Nancy and Dave's love was real.
Johnny's character hints of James Dean. The bad boy attitude, fast cars, and unaccounted bi-sexual lifestyle. Did Johnny love Dave beyond being friends? Was this the reason Johnny allowed Dave to get away with things? Johnny the man who got everything he wanted, but not allowed to show his true feelings for Dave? When Dave told Nancy, she did not understand his friendship with Johnny, was this a hint that Johnny was more than a friend to Dave? Lastly, were they two buddys who became so close it was like they were brothers and Johnny was the older brother looking out for his younger brother Dave. Johnny did teach Dave everything about chicks! Watch the movie, and you decide.
The Rain (2018)
Eating Marshmallow fluff is not good for you, just like this show.
I enjoy a quality post-apocalyptic drama, but this left me empty...like eating marshmallow fluff. It may satisfy your sweet tooth at first, but over time it becomes unsatisfying. If the movie Red Dawn had a dumb and dumber version, this would be it.
I never watched a Danish series, but if this is any resemblance of what is being put out, maybe it is best that Denmark has a loose drug scene. I did watch the series with the English language dubbed in, plus I had to turn on the closed captioning. Whoever did the speaking for this movie made watching this series painful. The voices of the characters were thick and made it hard to understand. The voices did not always match the characters during some moments. The translation in the closed captioning made me laugh a few times. What was said did not match the closed captioning and it often fell behind in a few scenes. The dubbing on this movie felt like I was watching an English dubbed Godzilla movie. If I watched this series and understood the Danish language, perhaps it may have given it more cohesiveness.
I binged watched this movie on a weekend. The series moves fast, leaving huge gaps between scenes and keeps you confused on what is going on. You start off with one of the main characters Simone running in a school, to meet up with her friends. She gets a phone call from her dad and poof; the whole family is driving down the interstate away from the rain storm. Mom yells at Dad about his bad driving and talking on the phone and telling Simone to get her obnoxious brother back into his seat belt. A mishap occurs, and we are poof at an underground bunker. Dad tells Simone to take care of her obnoxious brother, but not her mom and he leaves. She watches the last snippets of social media of the world outside. I thought it hilarious when people are dying outside, and people are giving thumbs up and happy emojis during a live feed.
These two brat riddled kids, at once disrespect their mother. Mom just wants to make them hot chocolate and be a good mother. A banging at the shelter door occurs. The two brats go answer the door because it might be daddy? Santa? The bad acting police? The deadly falling rain and a screaming guy greet them at the shelter door. Mom realize the kids are gone and goes after them. She tries to get the kids out of the way to shut the door, but they rebel and stand there screaming. Take care of your bother and not your mom dad said, and Simone does just that. Adios parental guidance, the walking vapid are in charge.
Simone then spends the next six years with her obnoxious brother Rasmus living in this high-tech shelter. They mow down pre-packaged food and fail at being able to do the most basic of survival skills and turn their shelter into a mini third world environment. This sets the ground work for the entire series. To be honest, if Rasmus was not the key to something bigger, I would have knocked him off a long time ago.
The two meet up with a rag tag group survivors and romp around Denmark living on love and unable to kill the bad people who want to eliminate them. Some of the episodes focus on a few main characters with flash backs on the day of the first rain. Regardless, the development of certain scenes and characters get crushed and are left to die and leaving you empty. Not all the main characters have a past life flash back. There is a typical apocalyptic love twist. There was a slight gay undertone between Martin and Patrick and some FWB with Beatrice. Along comes Simone and Patrick goes into a drunk bitchy rage when Simone gets too close to Martin. Then Martin gets all gruff and puff when Beatrice wants to bang Rasmus the Obnoxious. Then Martin breaks Patrick's heart and banishes him from the group... and all for a chick! To understand why Rasmus is the way he is, you need a degree in psychology. If I were Martin, I would have shot him when he had his first tantrum.
The two things I kept asking, why don't the high-tech bunkers not have a security camera on the outside to check what is going on. Mom would be alive today. The group discovers this massive built wall the encloses them and goes on forever. It would have taken more than six years to build this massive wall, and nobody noticed it before hand? In the series The Colony, you know the aliens built the wall around Los Angeles. If they do continue this series, it will be hard pressed to develop a more complex show. It would be best just to make one more show and fast-forward it to the future where the sun absorbs the earth.
Overall this series is a combination of Blue Lagoon, The Colony, Walking Dead minus the zombies, Godzilla movies, Dumb and Dumber and any movie that allows a corporation to grow out of control and take over the world.