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Tulsa King (2022)
Could be so much better
I like this show, I really do, I think it has great bones and good potential. The cast is amazing, the plot and the delivery is fantastic but there's something that's killing this show outright, Stallone.
Now I want to be clear, it's not because he's a bad actor, because he's not, he's pretty good actually. It's for a completely different reason. He's entirely unbelievable in this. The combination of being 78 years old, and jacked up on steroids like he's an olympic cheater is just horrible. Because the problem is his movements are entirely animatronic. So it makes him seem like he's in a costume where he has no range of motion but pretends he does. And for the sake of the show. They keep up this charade and it's just sad.
I know he made this show, and I know it was his idea, and it was a great one, but the further along this show goes the more obvious it becomes that he was just a mistake as a cast member, she should have just been an executive producer and left it at that.
5/10 Stallone will singlehandedly kill this show, the best thing that can happen to it, is if he gets wacked and someone in his crew replaces him.
Borderlands (2024)
PG-13 killed it
So right up front I'm HUGE borderlands game fan. Always have been. Now with that in mind I came in with certain expectations. And I'm going to give you an honest review.
First the casting, I thought it would be dreadful, but to my surprise even though it wasn't the best casting, the actors did an amazing job playing their respective characters. Having said that the ones I would change out are Tina, Moxie, and Roland. They all did their thing, and it was good for them no doubt, but sadly they were not the right casting for those particular roles.
And here's how you can tell. Tina in this movie is a kind of lost girl with explosives, but you get this sense that she kind of needs protecting, and in the game it was completely the opposite. Even the bandits wouldn't mess with her because she was so wildly deranged. That insanity is her defining trait, not having it killed the character. Moxie was more sexy than badass in the game, in the movie the sexiness took a huge backseat and the problem with that is that it IS her personality. You can't just change that in a character. Which brings us to Roland, I love Kevin Hart. And he did a great job portraying Roland, but here's the thing Roland was a completely different physique and completely different personality in the games. He was way more serious, and that's not Kevin's forte, of course it's not, he's a comedian. So like I said, those are just bad casting choices.
Now onto the actual movie, the story was... well not the version of the story we had in the games, which is weird because you know the established fanbase wants that story right? It doesn't have to be the same exact one but it has to be close and this one wasn't it. Now even all of this I can forgive, but what I can't forgive is the PG-13 garbage. Borderlands games are a hardcore rated R+ genre, you absolutely can't change it to PG-13, gut the script to have stupid lines that don't go at all with the scenes and expect anyone to like it. It doesn't work.
6/10 Great acting, mediocre casting/plot, terrible writing. PG-13 rating sunk it.
The Bear (2022)
Pressure
The name of this show should be pressure, because from start to finish this is a master class in how to get PTSD as a chef. It makes you feel every second of it too, so it's not just some people being stressed out, you feel stressed out after watching this show, it's THAT intense. It really takes you into the world of being a chef and being in the kitchen when you're trying to accomplish an unattainable level of skill but everything around you is going wrong. The noise, the fire, the pain, you can see the damage spilling out both literally and figuratively. And it doesn't slow down, it just keeps building until it boils over.
10/10 This show is a testament of how intense being in the kitchen can be.
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024)
Beautifully Executed
I haven't seen a movie so well put together in a while, it did everything right and I do mean everything. At no point did I ever think "I wanna stop and do something else". Just a fully engaging experience, and it really filled in all the holes that fury road left behind. So you basically come out of the experience understanding both movies better.
The way it's put together is there are five chapters, and each stage of the movie is in a different chapter. The evolution of it is seamless because it's put together that way. So you don't really have to cut forward, it gives you a full understanding of where that time went.
Sullivan's Crossing (2023)
Just Lame
If you like Virgin River and Sullivan's Crossing I feel truly bad for you. Not because the concept is bad, but because the writing is. This couldn't have been written worse by anyone. And I do mean anyone. I feel like some English teacher in middle school told his students to write a short story and someone wrote this and they turned it into a really boring series. Nothing about it is believable from the standpoint of ambition, love, family, friends, reality. There are so many things wrong with this that it almost feels like it was written before the internet, and then adapted after the internet but without telling the writers that it should be adapted.
3/10 horrible writing.
The Idea of You (2024)
No one does Romances like Anne
Anne Hathaway has always been pure magic in romances. She just knows how they feel and knows how to express it perfectly. The story wasn't bad, it was actually pretty believable. There was very little negativity in this movie and tons of joy and happiness which is a welcome segue from the formulaic romances where girl meets guy, girl falls for guy, guy does something that ruins it, girl comes back to guy. So thank you for that, a little originally is very welcome. Also there's a nice element of realism when it comes to how relationships get demolished by fame, and the real harm and hardship that comes from being in the lime light.
9/10 great romance movie, definitely worth a watch.
Married with Children (1987)
The Best Comedy Show
This show was made at a time when people could speak their mind and everyone understood it was for fun and entertainment. It was hilarious in all the right ways, it made fun of all the politically correct issues in the best way possible, head on!
This is a family that lives in the Chicago area in the early 90s. They go at it about everything from sexism, racism, discrimination, ageism, and any other ism you can think of. They make fun of everything because it's funny. They don't take anything seriously, and most of all they don't take themselves seriously. They are perfectly happy to admit they are at the lowest end of that spectrum.
The wit and banter in this show is legendary. Anyone who doesn't find the humor in this needs to check if they still have a pulse.
10/10 just pure magic on the screen. They don't make gems like this anymore.
Monkey Man (2024)
Please Just Stop
This movie could have been great, the story was good, the action was good, the acting was good. So why 3? Because it's unwatchable. The shaky cams just make it a bunch of stuff you can't see, it looks great from the in frame things, but there's so much jarring camera throwing that it might as well not even be a movie, just a ping pong game with my eyeballs.
Whoever keeps making movies like this, please know that I will never give your movies a good review, EVER. And the reason is because you don't have the foresight to understand that your movie has turned into a pile of garbage by the simple action of horrible camerawork.
3/10 yet another movie ruined by horrid camerawork.
A Nice Girl Like You (2020)
A nice prude like you
So let's start this off on the positives. I'm a big fan of Lucy Hale, and she and actually a good deal of the cast did some pretty good acting in this movie, so kudos to them for that.
And that's about it. Everything else was bad. Let's start with why this movie would never work. It's not relatable, how many people know a 34 year old prude that's deathly against porn past the year 2010? But let's even go one step further and how many people think that someone in this day and age has never seen porn, doesn't know anything about it, and thinks that people who look at it are perverts? The answer, No one.
There isn't a person alive that can relate to how out of touch this plot is. Maybe if this movie took place before the internet and before everyone and their mother knew everything about porn. But now? Nope, sorry. The premise is a complete failure, because it's non-believable. And if the premise fails, the entire movie turns into a really bad circus act where people have to pretend that they live in the 1800's where everyone is judged by their favorite book, and women speak as if it was some how perverted that a woman should have sex and know things about sex.
2/10, good acting but everything else is completely out of touch with reality and would never happen.
Secrets of the Hells Angels (2024)
Woefully Incorrect
Now I love seeing a good biker series as much as the next guy. However the issue with this series is that it's just wrong. Right from the start they tagline it as "Hells Angels are the biggest and baddest biker gang too ever live." 100% wrong. To date the Hells Angels have around 2,300 patched members. The Vagos have over 4,000. Not only are they just as violent and dangerous as the Hells Angels, but by all accounts far more so. So as where the stories in this series are relatively true, their depiction of the standing of this gang is not. And that's a huge distinction because the Vagos was also main chaptered in California. Which means when they keep talking about, "The Hells Angels had a blood fued with the Mongrels because they owned California." That's a complete lie, they didn't own anything except in their hopes and dreams.
3/10 don't let the hype become your reality when making a real series.
Fallout (2024)
Apocalyptically Sound
I've never been a particular fan of the Fallout games. However this series is fire. The acting, the story, the aesthetic, everything about it is just spot on. And they took no liberties with making it some political statement. They made it for the purity of the series. And it really shows.
So this is a story about a post nuclear world, there are a few factions worth mentioning, the vaulters would be the people who were in the vault during the blast. The ghouls are the people who were not in the vault but through chemical intervention basically survived the blast and live on turning into a form of zombie without the chemicals they need to keep them alive. And everyone else is some kind of faction of human trying to perfect their version of what the new world should be. I'm not going to get into more details than that because of spoilers, but this is a MUST watch.
10/10 everything was perfect for what this show is. We need more like this.
Tracker (2024)
Bland
I don't know, maybe my bar's set too high. But this show seems super bland to me. Like it has characters that are kind of meh. The acting isn't bad or anything, but like as soon as an episode starts I can't wait for it to end. It's just not engaging at all. I wish there was something interesting about this show but I just don't see it.
There's a guy who had family drama, he has some lesbian couple that makes up half of his info team, some hacker guy who helps him with his info and some lawyer that helps him with his cases. If you've ever wondered what the plot is? I honestly can't tell you, because as far as I can see there isn't one. He just chases bounties around and calls himself a "rewardist", which is just an unoriginal weird way of saying "bounty tracker".
5/10, boring.
In Treatment (2008)
Profoundly Wrong
As someone who has spent a good deal of time studying and practicing therapy it baffles me why that this show was done in such a completely incorrect and crude manner. The therapist here is not only practicing the worst type of therapy imaginable but it's almost like they just wanted to focus on the drama aspect of every session and never on the true therapy and the healing aspects of it.
You can tell from start to finish that he doesn't know what he's doing. In an episode someone described him as being "the best"
which I found laughable. Because after watching this trainwreck the only thing I can conclude with absolute certainty he was the best at, is agitating the situations and maneuvering people who would be relatively easy to guide to a healthy solution into an awful situation where they don't end up getting treatment, instead he just lets them self-destruct with no regard for the outcome.
3/10 absolute rubbish, good acting, terrible directing and dialog, and whoever was there to guide the realism aspect needs to be fired.
Road House (2024)
Boat House
Ok back me up here, if they had simply changed the name from Road House to Boat House.. this movie could have been perfectly fine. It's not great or anything, but it's ok, as long as you don't call it Road House. If on the other hand you make the lethal mistake of calling it Road House, you've ruined an ok movie by pitting it against an amazing movie. And now you've got problems.
This is a movie that has almost nothing in common with the original Road House, I mean the main thing that everyone should immediately pay attention to, is that the Road House in the movie isn't even a house, it's a big teepee. And that should be the first of many, MANY, hints that this movie has about as much to do with a Road House, as Nascar.
I would love to bore you with the plot, but it's so actually none sensical that it's laughable. So instead, for anyone who wants to watch this movie, and for anyone who keeps thinking remakes are a good idea. Just stop, they aren't. Leave the good movies alone, and give new ones a different title.
6/10 mediocre acting, decent fighting, god awful plot and laughable banter.
The Gentlemen (2024)
The Proper Criminal
This was done in Guy Ritchie's favorite style and writing. Everything is crisp, clean and you don't see most of it coming. He's of course included his favorites, royals, gypsies, meth dealers, weed dealers, butchers, and assassins. And that's just the start, he can easily turn this into a giant series that spawns for decades if he wanted to. Whatever you do, don't let Guy Ritchie take a backseat on the writing. His influence can be felt in every single scene in the movie. Don't you dare change this formula, it's brilliant and it shows.
The cast is perfectly hand picked, I couldn't have picked them better myself. Everything just works, and when a good series comes together like this it's high art. You rarely see it, but when you do, you get another game of thrones on your hands.
10/10 spectacular, don't you dare cancel this series!
La passion de Dodin Bouffant (2023)
A Masterclass in Cooking
This movie is what happens when you love something so dearly that words don't do it justice. If I had to guess I imagine this is a script written by a chef for chefs. It's so beautiful in both concept and execution it's truly a wonder. And having said that the only people that will truly appreciate this movie are chefs, I can't imagine anyone else having an appreciation for this sort of movie. However if you are a chef, or love cooking to this degree this movie is a MUST! I sat through this movie loving every second of it. I imagine when technology progresses far enough and we can actually smell and taste our movies this movie will be the best ever made.
10/10 this movie makes my heart and stomach happy.
Damsel (2024)
Damsel Washington becomes Elodinaris Targaryen
So this is a cute little story of betrayal and survival. Starting our Damsel Elodie, who comes from a barren kingdom much in need of supplies or they might not survive the winter. Enter the evil kingdom, where everything seems sunshine and roses until it is all revealed to be born of a giant lie. I'll let you discover what happens from there, but the punchline is this is an entertaining survival tale. A lot of clever maneuvering and close calls. It's not very complicated in terms of plot, but it's decent delivery. And if you just turn your mind off and enjoy it, it's worth the watch.
8/10 some good ol' fashioned dragon fun.
Miller's Girl (2024)
The Struggle
So this movie had all the features of a good movie, great actors, great story, fantastic writing. So why not a 10? Well, the issue is the end. See there's a buildup in this movie, it makes assumptions without confirming anything. And it does this quite a lot. However it feels wildly incomplete. Like they made a movie and then cut 20% of it out, and that 20% was the revelation of what was actually happening. And it would have been an amazing movie if they had left that 20% in, but they didn't.
Now the general feel of it is amazing, because it's atmospheric without meaning to be. I think it was written to convey each emotion with a specific place as a scene, and it really works.
8/10 great cast, plot and writing, it just comes up short with the ending.
Players (2024)
Formulaic
Can we please stop with the same thing over and over again? I get it, you think it works. It doesn't. We've been over this formula of movies since the 90s, the fact that they're predictable makes them really bad. And here's the thing, this movie had all the potential of being good, except when you went into the formula part of it and started to make it the same stupid thing as the 9000 romcoms before it were.
Just stop making movies predictable, the first 30 minutes were great, it had originality and flair, and then you started with the whole "girl finally wants to get the guy" part and it sucked BADLY. Please any directors that see this review, take a note and stop making this garbage, no one wants to see it.
6/10 predictable formulaic same old story, no new spin.
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2024)
*Yawn*
Supremely boring, so guy and girl meet for a job interview with a random computer screen. Guy and girl pass interview and are given missions. Guy and girl work on accomplishing missions. This gets a supreme negative rating for the plot, lack of realism, and generally nothing even remotely approaching tradecraft.
They do the thing that most regular people would do if they were put in this situation and kind of wing it every single time. And sometimes it works, and other time it doesn't. So the issue with that is that no one with any kind of training would ever approach these jobs that way. Even amateurs would have more of a plan. And even when they are working together it's so obvious they aren't on the same page it's just bad.
5/10 great acting, absolutely ridiculous script, lacks any sense of realism.
Wonka (2023)
Not bad, but not great
So this movie did a lot of things right, they had the right general idea, they had a great cast, and they had amazing things in the way of wonders and compilations. And even though I hate musicals this one was one of the better ones for sure. So where did they miss? Ok first the story, it was about 90% dreary and 10% hope. That's not a ratio you ever want to see in a Wonka movie. Because it genuinely ruins the experience. You might think the first one had a similar ratio, but it didn't. The ratio in the first one was about 20% dreary to 80% hope. And that's one the main reasons it did so well.
It's really depressing to see such a great cast and movie be ruined by something as stupid as "let's fight greed as the plot." The people who wrote this, have lost the thread of just how valuable not just saying that imagination matters is, but actually watching it is. Watching this movie was just watching someone attempt to be great and be repeatedly shut down until they became corrupt enough to play dirty enough to win. Which is not hope, it's just lazy. We deserve better, Wonka deserves better.
6/10 bad plot and feel ruined what would have otherwise been a great movie.
Elysium (2013)
The movie that COULD have been
So I watched this movie a few times, and my opinion on this movie has never changed. This could have been a great movie, but they made a few fundamental errors in its creation.
First they made the movie not only bilingual but like 4 or 5 different languages, and I don't mean IN 5 languages, I mean throughout the movie you see english, and spanish, and french and 2 others. And Spanish seems to take up a good chunk of the movie. There was absolutely no reason to do that. It just made the movie horrible to try and watch unless there are subtitles.
Second, the general feeling in this movie is tragic, to bad, to worse. At no point are you rooting for someone because the state of affairs is so bad already that you just feel when the movie finishes it's a relief it's over. You don't feel better about anything, because the effect the director was looking for was you would sympathize with the plight of the poor people and feel better when they overthrow the rich. That's not how you feel at all. The end of this story feels like it's a beginning of another one but you're too exhausted from this one to ever want to see it.
And the final nail in the coffin of this movie is deranged upgrades, it's one thing if you made them look sloppy but okish, but it just makes them look chop shop bad. The whole time the only thing I can think of is "when Matt Damon dies in this it will feel better for all of us than watching him walk around with metal sticking out of every bone."
4/10 there was a good idea somewhere in there, but it was completely overshadowed by unforgivable mistakes in the direction and execution of this movie.
Self Reliance (2023)
Just Boring
The big twist in this movie is that there is no twist. And it's just bad because the entire movie you're waiting for a twist and then... there isn't one, so you're like "did you just purposely waste like 2 hours of my life for no reason?" And the answer is Yes. Yes they did. The comedy was nothing great it was the most mediocre conversations you would have as a real person at best. And for some reason they had a few celebrities throughout the movie but for no reason at all.
Like this movie encapsulates mediocrity. 3/10 and honestly it was just because they didn't make the movie corny, when in this particular genre there were so many movies that went that way.
A Vigilante (2018)
Supremely Disappointing
I was really looking forward to this movie, because by the previews the material looked amazingly promising. And then I saw it, Olivia Wilde's acting was top notch. So what's the problem? The problem is there's no movie here. This is a woman going from one abuser to the next, there's no action sequences, it cuts them all out.
So what you have here is what I like to call "the question with no answer." They give you the problem and the movie would be her skills in both dealing with the abuse and learning the skills to get revenge. Except you don't see those skills for more than 2 minutes out of the entire movie. Which means what you have here is a bunch of bad situations with a resolution. But you don't see what she did to resolve it, all you see is the result.
4/10, the 4 was for Olivia, I can't believe someone made this and thought it was a good idea to cut out the whole movie.
A Murder at the End of the World (2023)
Heart of Cold
I know there're a lot of people who're complaining about the climax of this series. I'm not one of them. I think it was done masterfully. There's a clear motive that becomes quite murky, and evolves into a whole new thing as the series goes on.
I think the characters played their respective roles beautifully. And thing I love most about this series is people establish themselves as what they are right in the beginning, so you know who you want to root for and who you hate.
It just creates a really tense but forward moving storyline, where you're going from one clue to the next but you can't really see around the turns. I think it's a masterclass in good mystery storytelling. And you genuinely won't know who did what and why until the end.
9/10 everything was amazing except for the repeating flashbacks, besides for that it was everything I like seeing in a mystery series.