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Nurse.Fighter.Boy (2008)
Acting great. Solid performances from leads. Story familiar.
Oddly nearly identical to an episode called the Big Tall Wish from the old show the Twilight Zone. I remember seeing it in the mid mid 60s, I was in my last year in high school and it was one of my favourites. A black kid, a single mother, a boxer. This story here doesn't feel like real people we recognize, but the performances from the leads is solid and they do good work. Look forward to seeing more from the young boy. Clark Johnson delivers.
Star Trek: Discovery: Point of Light (2019)
Unfu****ingbearable.
This episode is reprehensible. 1hr episode. 45 minutes of banal exposition. A baby was stolen and I actually didn't care whatsoever.
Please. Please I beg you. No more Klingons. They are excruciating. The look. The way they talk.
I don't know what happened. I don't care what happened in this episode. I'm trying but man you make it hard Discovery.
Stop turning the camera upsidown. Sideways. Who wrote this? God who wrote this?
I like the cast. I love the inclusion. But you're wasting it with horrendous writing
Geostorm (2017)
I died inside. I died inside.
Imagine the worse thing imaginable. Then add a rectum probe with a rusty car jack. And you'll have this.
Riverdale: Chapter Three: Body Double (2017)
The writing and chuck (spoiler)
Betty and Veronica burst into the boys lockeroom. Angrily confront Chuck. Things are vicious. Then get this: He doesn't thing it is at ALL SUSPICIOUS WHEN THEY BOTH WANT TO SLEEP WITH HIM IN AN ISOLATED LOCATION.....? Who is writing this? If someone says I hate you and I'm going to make you suffer.....would you believe them when a couple hours later they both want to sleep with you? Man oh man who approved this?
Timeless: The War to End All Wars (2018)
Great show. Weak episode.
Loved this show for a while but found I wasn't remotely engaged in this episode and I don't know why. Perhaps I need to watch the last episode again of season one, but it feels like they are spinning their wheels. I find I'm not caring as much. The eps opens with a bang. Then we're in 1918. We don't care really. JUst more random running around. And someone uttering "Rittenhouse."
Star Trek: Discovery (2017)
Season 1. Episode 1 & 2 weak. Episode 3 terrific.
Skim episode 1 and 2 and jump straight to the great episode 3. Truly big improvement. This show has a lot of promise. And the lead Sonequa Martin- Green is terrific. I love the fact the characters are all shades of gray and have a darker side. Loved ST: TNG however I looking back on it there were only a couple characters that had any real depth. Will stick with Discovery. Like the possibilities of Spock's adopted sister.
The Arrival (1996)
The Great, the Good and the Terrible
Great premise. Loved it. Smart. I was captivated for a good chunk of it. I love sci-fi.
Jesus! Did that kid Kiki have to have his mouth open the ENTIRE movie? He and Charlie Sheen are t
Too long. Last 30 minutes is annoying.
Worth a look. Got it for $5 so worth it.
Bates Motel: The Truth (2013)
The Truth (spoilers)
EPISODE: THE TRUTH. SPOILERS
I'm really getting into Bates Motel. However this episode was terrible. Utterly terrible.
1. The belt they are trying to find that is so important and can incriminate them, they just toss in the water a few feet away from the boat they find it in. Any fisherman dredging or catching fish in some net or bay excavation would find this thing.
2. The cop that is violent and trying to kill the sex slave runs behind the motel,. they stand around and have a family discussion about who is living with who. A killer and abductor is running around the property.
3. norma and norman just sit in the car while things are happening in the motel. while a gunman is chasing after the other son. Would you just sit around or run like hell or try to run back in or anything?
Nothing I despise more than stupidity in writing. PEOPLE WOULD NOT DO THESE THINGS. It's the writer and director just manipulating to get where he wants it to go, forgetting that people wouldn't do that.
Elysium (2013)
spoilers. what a soulless
Great concept for a 20 minute short film, but what a terribly empty soulness movie.
the slow motion shots, the repetitive slow motion shots. slow fighting. slow running.
the ridley scott, christopher nolan hanz zimmer/lisa gerrard music
the flashbacks as kids. never tell love stories or life stories in flashbacks. i never believed they had any connection whatsoever.
the talking to the nun whoever that was
the inane placed convenient story about the HIPPO
Who was the villain? Jodie Foster? William Fincher? the guy who was fighting damon physically? there was no villain.
I knew he would die from about 30 minutes in.
I wanted it to end.
I know he's looking at earth when he dies.
City of Borders (2009)
OASIS IN A DESERT (may contain spoilers)
MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS I saw this film and thought it was fresh and original. While if it was about heterosexual people in Isreal and Palestine it would have seemed typical romeo and Juliet stuff, this film took it to the next level. it was funny, romantic, sad.
there was a feeling of constant dread that i felt throughout. Expecting some extremist to come out of nowhere and attack. I felt I was part of that community. I was always interested.
My sincere congrats to the filmmakers. I would say that my only complaint is it has too many endings-like 5 of 6 places it should have ended and would have been completely satisfying. i thought it was me at first but i asked other viewers who thought the same thing. almost as if they were trying for feature length. It would have made a stunning 40 minute short documentary. at 66 mins it's slightly padded, but does not take away from the investment the viewer has made
very very well done.
Justice League: The New Frontier (2008)
my thoughts on this. SPOILERS. the great! and the ridiculous!
GREAT!
I loved the fact it was grown up. I loved the dialouge.
i liked the animation and the voices. i loved the epic feel.
RIDICULOUS!
The villain seemed wayyyyy too rushed. some stupid villain spouting dinosaurs.??? I thought it was martian manhunter at first. i couldn't figure out who the villain was.
i think there were too many things going on. too many things that had to be explained in 1hr. too confusing as they tried to shoehorn everything in.
"hi im a dying alien. here is a ring. you're now green lantern." "hi im arthur im aquaman" "hi...."
this should have been a story told over 4hrs. to get a fully paced, fully thought out story.
aquaman at the end seemed wayyy too rush. "hi im arthur" the end.