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Reviews
Amy Schumer: Growing (2019)
Not funny - for women or men or anyone
Those arguing women are the audience and insulting the intelligence and sense of humor of all women. I can only assume Netflix pushes this for political reasons because objectively speaking it is absolutely dire. And this nonsense that if you criticize you are a troll or an alt right monster - I am neither. I'm just a person with a mind, which precludes me from tolerating this ugly, pointless vulgar mindlessness. I don't think Netflix cares if we like it. They insist we take it. With all the competition now in content providers, it's amazing to me that they want to play that game.
Bird Box (2018)
We have seen all this before
The story is deeply unoriginal. The message of the story seems to be a mother's journey to learning to love her kids. And a rough and difficult journey that is, which I fully understand. It's troublimg that the mentally ill ate such easy targets in entertainment to be the dangerous bad guys. I've worked with the mentally ill and most were pretty sweet people. But they are always the convenient villains in this kind of story and no one bats an eye at that. At least it's nice to see that Sandra Bullock can still get romantic leads even though she's not 20. That's a rare positive. Though it's just because it's her. Without her star power we'd have been watching something horrible like Jennifer Lawrence etc. it's also tiresome that all the white men are jerks and the forced "diversity". It's so tedious
The Kindergarten Teacher (2018)
Implausible
It's just not believable that this otherwise dull kid is somehow magically composing poetry that is so adult dealing with adult themes in an adult voice. Yeah there are prodigies but it's just too unbelievable. And the poetry is that annoying overly crafted artsy stuff that overwhelms with the sense of snotty snobby poetry student. I kept waiting to hear that the teacher has been duped and he was reciting his uncle's poems. That at least would have been believable and far more interesting an exploration of the main character and her relationship to kid and her motivations. As it was, it was just a very silly formula that requires a suspension of disbelief that is too tall an order. I'm not a Maggie Glylenhall (sp?) fan. And inevitably we had to have the naked breast shot because that's her and that's her thing. The acting was fine I supppse. The story was just dumb and not believable and abducting a kid because poetry is disturbing as many note. The ending where somehow we are supposed to feel the great tragedy in all his and sympathise with the abductor and the full emotionless kid who spouts these adult poems from who knows where is just too ridiculous.