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We Need to Talk About Cosby (2022)
Covers the assaults
I would have given this a higher review, but despite its length, I felt it wasn't as in-depth as it could have been. Especially with the episode amount. This felt like a cliff notes version. For me, if a documentary leaves you with more questions than answers, it's not a good documentary. But production wise this was high quality.
I knew very little about Cosby. Besides being a fan of ghost dad, I was too young for the Cosby show or his CBS show after that. To me he was unlikeable. Funny to
me as a kid was the Wayans or John Candy and Steve Martin. I couldn't understand how he was supposed to be funny but he always had a serious, sinister quality to him. It turned me off. Now we know a bit more of what 5 year old me was sensing.
I recommend this as an intro. I learned more about it than what I heard in passing, but I was left with a lot of questions. As someone who needs to know everything, that's the only reason it didn't work for me.
The Ringleader: The Case of the Bling Ring (2023)
Much better than Netflix
I enjoyed this one much more than the Netflix version. I remember not liking Nick, and now we know why. If Rachel was just putting on an act in this she did a good. I came away liking her immensely and hoping for the best for her. Which is much more than I can say for her cohorts in the other doc. If someone learns and grows that's the best that can come out of a terrible situation. I don't fault them per se for what they did; the 2000's were a terrible time. I'm sure many decades have their own version of this but it was definitely a vapid time. As someone who went to a posh wealthy high school whose family wasn't as rich, I could empathize with her. The difference between me and her was I didn't care. But that didn't stop me from having a short lived designer purse phase. We can't fault people for doing anything to obtain a lifestyle that American society forces us into accepting. I'm lucky I now live in Paris because consumerism is not a thing I have to deal with anymore. Despite its reputation no one is obsessed with labels. It's a shame America is still pushing that narrative. Good for Rachel for learning that the hard way.
A Rainy Day in New York (2019)
Would Have Been Better With Other Actors
Elle Fanning is a terrible actress. I don't know what it is but the later generation Woody Allen movies choose these actresses that seem to be playing charicatures of the Diane Keaton trope. I hated when Scarlett Johansson did it (in Scoop), it's even worse with Fanning. At least Scarlett was better at the naive, college school journalist trying to get her story role. Is Tucson a tiny little town that produces imbeciles? I couldn't figure out why it seemed like she had just crawled out from under a rock. They kept saying Tucson as if it was this magical fairy land to explain away her naïveté and idiocy. Clearly Allen has never been to Arizona.
When Gataby describes Ashleigh as beautiful and witty and sexy I thought to myself, who is he talking about, because nothing about Fanning was witty, sexy, or beautiful, and it made no sense why these big Hollywood directors, screenwriters, and actors would throw themselves at such a milquetoast person. He was supposed to be IN LOVE with her and they had no chemistry.
Chalamet wasn't any better. Again another Woody Allen caricature, albeit better than Fanning. I wanted to like his character because we share the same traits and ideas, and I understand his romantic nature obsession with old films, but I couldn't stand him. He should have got this role, he's supposed to be a trust fund kid from NYC in real life no? But it felt so put on.
All of the younger generation actors were terrible and it would have been so much better had their roles been filled by other actors. Chalamet isn't even a bad actor, he's good in other roles, but playing the quintessential Allen lead male he could not pulll off. It made me want to go back and watch the older films to get the bad taste of this film out of my mind. Even Owen Wilson was better at it.
The mother's confession at the end was a weird plot twist, but not because of the reveal, because it made no sense to add that to the plot. Even the look of it, the aura of that scene, didn't feel right in an Allen film.
It's been a while since I've seen an Allen movie that had so much potential and was ruined by terrible actors (actually Wonder Wheel was ruined by Justin Timberlake, another oddball choice that ruined a film). This was such a disappointing film. I know Allen has to scrap at the bottom of the barrel to find actors who will still work with him, and I know he should stop making films because of his personal troubles, but I have been a fan of his films (I guess that's why it's easy to separate the man from his work), and he does make great, old fashioned films. It's a travesty to lose that talent, and that voice. These days no one makes films like the old ones. It requires someone who really loves the Golden Age, and sadly it doesn't seem as if anyone does anymore.
Friends with Money (2006)
Great Movie
The story, four friends, three of which are married. The other is single and works as a maid. The other doesn't seem to have problems, while another's marriage is falling or apart or has been since the day they got married. And the last has a great marriage, a great business and family, but she's just tired of life.
There's no problem. There's no solution. It's really just a glimpse into these people's lives. Kind of like a day in the life. Because in real life we don't really get all of our problems solved, so it felt real. It didn't need a happy ending. The way it ended off, was I felt, how we live most of our days. Many people may not like it because we go to movies for happy endings, but it wasn't false, it was true to life.
House of the Dead (2003)
Worst Movie Ever
Oh my gosh I have never seen such crap, this beats out any movie I have ever thought was bad. Storyline was stupid (at least the video game had a story that was plausible, would it have been hard to take that story and elaborate?), They go to an island for some rave, insert Sega logo here, and within the first 10 minutes they're being attacked, the rest is basically one big video game with actual "House of the Dead" clips inserted every 5 minutes. Oh and who loved those character spins??? Who would have thought fencing would come in handy?. Crap. Complete crap. If you want to see this movie because you like seeing 90 minutes of people shooting guns and listen to the most horrible "rave" music you have ever heard (seriously it sounds like a 12 year old TRYING to make something on Fruity Loops), rent this. There is literally 10 minutes of nothing but watching each character shooting zombies, oh and who needed that recap of the "shootout"?. That acting, superb ;), I've seeing better acting in a porno. There was no gore, zombies look so fake (zombies aren't supposed to be smart enough to chop off your legs and kidnap you), it makes you just want to laugh hysterically and ask yourself why your watching this. Now I know why I have never heard of this movie. Luckily I didn't waste any money on this crap, just valuable computer space. Seriously stay far far away or else you'll be here like me trying to keep anyone from wasting their time like you did yours.