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Room 104: A Nightmare (2018)
Pathetic - and Mark Duplass wrote this!
Wow, just wow. While there are several really good shows sprinkled among the 3 seasons of this series you'd be well advised to give this series a pass. Case in point - "A Nightmare". It starts off fine and continues building suspense as the woman continually 'awakens' but finds herself in yet another nightmare. I had my suspicions but once again was completely let down by a baffling ending which actually explained NOTHING WHATSOEVER - looks like Mark Duplass was stuck for an ending. So she opens the door, flings back her arms and is literally being drawn into a bright light. I'm assuming then she was dying in reality and this was supposedly heaven or at least her release from her pain? Really? Juvenile if that's what it was. Also, there was no backstory at all about her so the viewer is left with no context to frame the story - who was she? Why was she in the hotel room? WAS she in the hotel room and if not then why was her nightmares set there? After a while you realize you don't care because if the writer (M. Duplass) doesn't care why should you?
After reviewing the increasingly dull plots in the series, after watching only a few good ones I cut my losses and deleted it from my Amazon Prime queue. Mark, learn how to properly end a story or else you're cheating the viewers.
Hitchhiker Massacre (2017)
Don't waste your time - this is horrible
At the time of my review this had a 6+ rating, which means that a lot of dishonest people rated it far above what it rates - which is AVOID AT ALL COSTS. Just phenomenally bad acting, very little plot, horrible direction and just stupid scenes. The dialogue was unusally bad - just stuff a 10 year old could write.
Please, trust me and don't watch this stinker.
Siren (2018)
Premise good, execution excruciatingly stupid
Look, I'm a huge fan of sci-fi, but they don't have to be great. They DO need to be intelligently written. Like X-files. Like The Expanse (brilliant). Like Babylon 5.
The premise is cool - mermaids and mermen living off the coast heretofore undiscovered, or at least by the government which is now hunting them down for something in their blood.
Almost immediately the writers decide to make this a fishy soap opera. The sirens speak English haltingly and with the level of a stupid child - 'me no go', etc. Very offputting to say the least. I wanted to stop watching this after the 2nd show but my SO wanted to continue. Last night, well into the 2nd season, I saw with incredulity that Ryn (the mermaid) engaged in a 3-some with the white boyfriend and his black girlfriend - oh, how inclusive that 2 species had sex! And everything was so laid back that you knew the writers though this was WAAAYYYY cool, except it wasn't, if not only because this is a TV-14 series and because the majority of the U.S. doesn't think 3-ways are common or normal - they happen, sure, but nowhere near as often as Hollyweird makes it out to be, Harvey Weinstein notwithstanding. Did that mermaid have sufficient understanding of human relations to know what she was doing? Of course not, but it didn't stop the other 2 from exploiting her.
After I saw that I got up and left the room and told her I will not be watching this stupid soap opera any longer, but she's welcome to.
I noticed that the plots are so simple that I could have written them on the back of a cocktail napkin - if you're looking for good sci-fi, go somewhere else because this sucks.
The Body (2013)
Excellent movie - scroll way down for spoilers
I wasn't expecting such a well-plotted movie, unusual for its genre. I would have given it 10 stars except for the errors I reveal down below - do NOT read the spoilers if you're going to see this movie. Except for the errors, this movie delivers the goods and I simply cannot say anything more about it or I could ruin it for you. I will say that no movie ever gets more than a 6 star review from me unless they have a good ending. :-)
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Okay, you've persevered so here's the spoilers.
1 - The hitman completely encases the body in numerous layers of plastic wrap, obscuring the fact that it is a real body, with one glaring inexplicable exception - he doesn't wrap the feet AND the people that think the body is a prop can actually see the feet and they STILL think it's a fake - no way!
2 - When the group go into Frank's locked room to drink and snort coke, the
body on the floor spasms - it turns out the 'famous' guy (they never reveal his identity to us) is still alive. Wait - a professional hitman did not make sure the target was actually dead? That's why pros always put at least 2 bullets into the head.
3 - Speaking of the body, the head was completely encased in tight, multiple layers of plastic wrap - that dude would have suffocated long before and hence could not be alive.
4 - It is simply unbelievable that having witnessed the death of one of their friends by the hitman, and having made their escape outside, that they would actually carry the body out, which of course slows them down. No one in their right minds would do this - they would run like hell and if they were smart, they would all go in different directions to give themselves the best chance of telling the police what happened.
But I didn't care because the movie was so good.