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Buddy Games (2019)
Possibly the worst movie I've ever seen
I honestly think this might be the worst movie I've ever seen. Which is a shame, because there are some good actors here! The script was terrible, and the director must have been asleep the entire time. I want some good to come from me watching it: I want to save you from making the same mistake.
Enola Holmes (2020)
Great acting by Millie Bobby Brown, horribly boring movie
Just about nothing of any interest happens in this entire movie. It was dreadful aside from the good acting from Millie Bobby Brown given her material and likely poor directing.
The Leftovers (2014)
Not worth your time
SPOILERS AHEAD
These are some of the questions raised through the show:
1) What made the people vanish?
2) Where did the departed go?
3) How did Kevin Sr. know Jill was locked in the fridge?
4) Why are the Guilty Remnant really doing what they do? If it was just as simple as a cult for making people remember the departed, how were they so well organised across the country?
5) What did the cave cold opens mean? The caveman one, where the people in the cave died. Then one woman survived, only to be bit by a snake, and have her baby taken away.
6) What did the other cold open about the woman standing on the roof mean?
7) What's the deal with Dean and the dog stuff? If it was just him going crazy, why did Kevin go along with it?
8) How did Mary get healed?
9) What caused Kevin's sleepwalking/split-personalities?
10) What did the national geographic magazine mean?
11) What was up between Kevin and Aimee?
12) Did Kevin Sr. really stop hearing voices? If so, how?
13) How did Matt get healed the first time?
14) Was the earthquake that saved Kevin from drowning really just a coincidence?
15) Was Wayne's hugging power real? He seemed to be able to read minds as people were thinking about their wish or their pain.
16) What did Kevin wish for from Wayne as he died?
17) How did Matt win all the money at the Casino? That was too good to be luck.
And obviously:
18) How did Kevin keep coming back to life? I doubt it has anything to do with a condition that would require a pacemaker.
Maybe they subtly answered a couple of these... But this show, to me, is about a bunch of people messed up in the head who can't find happiness. And then some of them die. It is depressing, and suspenseful without any real payoff other than an answer to #2.
Focus (2015)
Great actors, terrible movie
Will Smith and Margot Robbie (and all the supporting actors) do a great job with what they are given. These are talented actors for sure, as they managed to keep me watching all the way to the end of this awful movie.
The problems:
- Main characters are fairly one-dimensional and unbelievable
- The first half of the movie has nothing to do with the second half other than a couple minor references. There is no coherent story arc, just the flat, under-developed love interest.
I suggest watching 'The Score' instead.
Scorpion: Sun of a Gun (2016)
Another horrible episode!
In this episode there were some century-old plates that looked like small solar panels (hidden behind large solar panels.) These plates turned into super powerful laser beams as soon as any light (including an iPhone LED on flashlight mode) hit them. Two laughably horrible scenes involved these:
One was setting paper planes on fire and flying them over the plates... to which the light from the small flame hit the plates and made it laser beam the paper out of the air. (Even though the room was full of light.)
The other one was in the cellar with the (concrete?) trapping two of the characters, where the iPhone light made a welded hatch exploded, and then cracked all the (concrete), freeing the trapped people. This scene was actually horrible for several other reasons... Was that supposed to be sand flowing in? Why did it stop? The room was supposed to be filled - destroying the remaining plates - but it only got about a foot deep. Did the plan fail? So many more bad things. So horrible.
I want to stop watching this show, but I keep thinking it has a chance to get better.
Scorpion: The Old College Try (2015)
Painfully Embarrassing
This show is never very realistic, but this episode took it to a painful level. It is like the writers don't bother consulting any experts and just write whatever comes to mind after hearing an industry buzzword. I don't know why I keep watching this show.
In this episode, the team needs to 'slow down' a quantum computer in order to plug a thumb drive into it, which instantly runs an 'anti-virus', killing the virus running on the "quantum" (which is what they call the quantum computer.)
Aside from that obviously stupid plot, they get super "technical" about several aspects of the quantum computer:
- Only 3 or 4 ever exist at a time on Earth. - Their location is kept a closely guarded secret. - Only three industries have them. I forget what the first two were... like NASA and the FBI or something... and the third was (obviously) Universities. (Because it made the rest of the episode work.) - They only last a few days to a few weeks. - They need to be stored in a vacuum or in explosive gas. I think they may have contradicted themselves here. - Inside a room that is -100F. - The 'quantum' has 8 lasers going into it. It is a floating cube and each laser is firing at one corner. - In order to 'slow down' the computer, they need to drill a hole through the outer shell (which is transparent) and use some aluminium foil to cut off one of the lasers, stating that if they mess up even a little the whole building would explode killing them all.
All of this is obviously the stupidest computer related nonsense written by man. But there is more. Apparently this virus is running on the 'quantum' but it isn't actually infecting it. It is 'ransom ware' (buzzword!) that is threatening to end the world in 1 hour if the author doesn't get $500 million or something like that. Probably in Bitcoin.
Walter wasn't able to 'out-think a quantum', and his code wasn't fast enough to stop it. But as soon as he plugged the thumb drive into the 'quantum', it magically ran and was fast enough to beat the ransom virus.
So painfully horrible. Only the stupidest people in the world would come up with this. Which is a painful irony that would be lost on them. Because they are too dumb.
My Secret Identity: A Walk on the Wild Side (1988)
You saw right...
That is indeed an appearance by a young David Hewlett (AKA: Dr. Rodney McKay) playing a cheese-ball roll as a gang leader:
http://tinyurl.com/ybnl84e
This, I would have to say, is the best early footage of any TV actor, ever. I quite enjoyed the episode (as foolish as it is now to watch it) because of this 'guest appearance.'
I don't really have anything else to say about this episode, but for some reason IMDb requires 10 lines of text... Really you should just watch it, especially if you are a fan of Stargate Atlantis or David Hewett. I personally loved his character on Atlantis and it was great seeing him in a younger and very foolish role.