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The Batman (2022)
The budget went on the sets.
An hour in I switched it off when the DA starts spilling the beans to a woman he just met and offers to do drugs with her. This right after she's walking around a "club within a club" full of criminals talking to herself.
Hamburger Hill (1987)
From What I heard it was pretty realistic.
To the best of my knowledge this movie didn't take undo liberties with the truth. I served with more than a few Vietnam War vets who appreciated a film that didn't make them look like a bunch of dope smoking cliches who were ready to frag their NCO's. That having been said: There are scenes that are fairly unnecessary. GI's do visit brothels and get into drunken fights but these scenes didn't make me care about the characters any more. I didn't hate these scenes I simply found them to be ham handed at times. It is a worthy movie, however, so don't believe the morons who give this movie a 1 out of 10.
Ready or Not (2019)
I wish there was a way to weed out malicious reviews.
This movie is a horror comedy. It does reinvent the wheel but it is original, funny and gory enough to entertain. It won't scare you so bad that you'll require therapy or suffer a moral injury for seeing it but there are some laugh out loud moments. My wife and I felt it was a well spent hour and a half.
I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore. (2017)
This is a surprising gem and surprisingly dark.
First off, let me just put this out there, Melanie Lynsky is my "super secret girlfriend". In other words she's my celbrity crush. That having been said this starts out as a sort of quirky revenge comedy then goes dark, very dark. Elijah Woods is great as Lynsky's annoying but ultimately likeable neighbor. There is a very funny and satifying scene but I won't give anymore away.
I actually think the movie rate a 7 or 8 but you know some jerks out there are giving movies a bad ratings because they have miserable lives and want to project their damage off on someone else.
It isma worthy movie.
Repo Man (1984)
An "American film" with a dry English sense of humor.
This is my favorite movie of my youth. I was a punk rock kid and this movie was one of the things that sent me careening out of control. It was a fantastically shambolic time in my life.
Of course our lives were neve quite like the punk rock culture depicted in the movie but then again it was a little bit like it. After all "the life of a repoman is always intense".
National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)
If you don't like this movie you are dead.
If you don't think this movie is one of the funniest movies ever made you are a thumb sucking sissy who needs to take your balls out of mommy's purse. Seriously. What is not to laugh at in this movie? There are drunken, buffonish frat boys, peeping Tom's, shop lifting, attempted vehicular man slaughter, a dead horse and an underage girl. I swear she looks 18.
New York Doll (2005)
A Sad Introduction to a Criminally Under Rated Band
The New York Dolls were a hard hitting and sublimely fun "Glam" rock band of the early 1970's. They disintegrated in the mid 70's due to drug addiction and the inability to reach a disco addled broader audience.
The Dolls (as we fans call them) perfectly embraced Glam Rock, Proto-punk all with a hunky tonka piano somewhere in the background.
The bands history leading up to a reunion in the 2000's is told through the heart broken eyes of their former bass player, Author Kane, who has been left behind by dead bandmates and surviving bandmates who found some success as solo artists.
This is all wrapped up in the story of how the heart broken Kane came to convert to Mormonism. Say what you will about the Mormons but he found some peace and sense of purpose in that face.
I don't want to spoil the end for you but it is ultimately a mans story of redemption and reconnection to friends and a music that he loved so much in his youth.
Gimme Danger (2016)
The Stooges mattered.
If you're a fan of any hard rock since....1973 either you're a fan of The Stooges or your favorite musicians are.
Altered Carbon (2018)
There are scumbags who gave this 1 out of 10
Don't believe them. This is a good show with a lot of great twists.
The Death of Stalin (2017)
A Pitch Black Comedy
Sarah Silverman said that her niece was learning about the Holocaust and how Hitler had killed 60 million Jews. She corrected her niece and said that he had actually only killed 6 million. The niece ask her what was the difference to which she said "60 million would be unforgiveable.
What Stalin did was unforgivable. This movie takes understandable liberties, with the true history, for the sake of story telling. For instance the execution of Beria actually happened months after the death of Stalin. Some of the events were made up but totally plausible.
The movie has moments of absurdity that act as a sort of apocryphal commentary on the obscenity and atrocity filled regime of the Stalin years.
If this movie is propaganda it is only just, as it is more factual than not. Any assertion otherwise is ridiculous.
One commenter here even accused it of racism which is, of course, moronic.
The Beyond (2017)
I hate to trash a flick but....
This was cobbled together plot points from other, far more profound sci-fi movies. It didn't seem to know when to shut up either. The dialogue was wooden and obviously written by someone who was anxious to please their boss. Long after the denouement the movie continued on until I found myself wishing that viscious aliens had been waiting on the other side.
The effects, when they worked, weren't enough to save this flick.
Young Sheldon (2017)
I'm actually catching up.
It's a good dramady, based on the Sheldon ans Mary Cooper back story. If you gave this show a "1" you're an a$$hole.
Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi (2017)
This Movie Wipes It's Backside With Star Wars
This is Star Wars in the Universe of Gender Studies. Luke has been tragically transformed into a bitter white make stereotype. Girl power rules the day with a "Jedi" who has received zero training yet demonstrated a rather unnerving mastery of the force. Admiral Third Wave entirely misleads the rebel fleet and only redeems herself and her purple hair with a kamikaze dive into a super duper Imperial Star Destroyer.
I could go on but I have already wasted to much time on this Anita Sarkessian walk of a movie.
Schindler's List (1993)
Rating this movie as a 1 is just sh!tty.
This movie is horrifying. To think it is a true story makes it all the worse. Spielberg exposes enough of the horror to convey the idea of how awful it must have been but not so much that the audience couldn't take the shock.
I think this movie is a 9 at least but I gave it a 10 to do my small part to counter act the pretentious sh!ts who are engaging in malicious voting.
Extinction (2018)
I overrate it for a good reason...
I would call this movie a 7 realistically. It's a good flick. People who gave it a 1 are electronically kicking the cat. They are miserable in their lives and have to tear down the valid work of others. I give it a 10 to counteract these miserable snobs as much as I can.
Tommy and Quadrophenia Live: The Who (2005)
Loved It!
Okay, maybe it didn't deserve an 8. Critics over the years had panned Quadrophenia in it totality choosing instead to praise certain singles from the opera. In all fairness the plot was somewhat vague and the movie really doesn't do it much justice. With rewrites, tweaking and the technological capability to finally do the show as it was originally envisioned the opera succeeds......as a psycho-drama. it was a psycho-drama all along but people wanted the "big finish" which in the movies case was a decked out scooter over a cliff. In the original opera it doesn't end there.
I saw the Quadrophenia tour in '97. The band wasn't much more than speck on the stage. I'll admit that I've been spoiled by punk rocks up close and personal venues. The staging was actually beneficial in that case because i was able to take in the entire presentation. i felt as if the DVD version of the tour end show did a great job tweaking my own memory of finally seeing my all time favorite band.
It mixes the show footage and the multimedia stuff quite slickly. I didn't particularly care that you only see the band from the waist up. Pete retired the boiler suit and Doc Martens years ago. All your missing is a sensible pair of running shoes.
As for "Tommy"....I've always liked the music though I thought that it was even more incoherent than "Quadrophenia". As I've gotten older I've appreciated the powerful emotions in songs like "Christmas" more as a dad. The father pleas of "Tommy can you hear me?" take on a heart rending urgency in this day and age of increased awareness of disorders like Autism and Aspergers syndrome.
However, the movie version from '75 really through a wet blanket over this whole thing for me. If you haven't seen it, it's an all star cluster fcuk. One clever wag pointed out the painfully obvious 1 and a half note range of Jack Nicholsons voice.
The live staging of this from 1989 goes along way towards correcting the miscarriage of justice that the movie did to the music. For me the high point of the DVD is Patti Labelle as the Acid Queen. Tina Turner was wonderful in the role. Patti Labelle was mind blowing. She actually out does Turner. Visually she is quite a presences in her almost hallucinatory dress and Matching hair-do. She brings a fiery passion to the lyrics that has an intensity thats breath taking.
Turner came off as a charlatan in the role. Labelle's version of the acid queen believes her own b.s.
The low point was the Hawker. I'm sorry but Steve Winwood has never convinced me of his sincerity. He was suppose to be a great blue eyed blues man. The trouble is I always felt he was singing from the heart so much that he forgot the guts and the testicles. Maybe it's just me but I felt his performance was bleached out and bland.
Elton John....excuse me Sir Elton John sashed onto stage last minute with the band uncertain he was even going to show. They were ready to do the part themselves when Elton John stormed the stage and stole the show. The only thing that would have improved his appearance would have been a 4 foot tall pair of Doc Martens.
I haven't mention Billy Idol gleefully chewing up the scenery in both productions. He just makes sense as Cousin Kevin. As the Ace Face he is extraordinary. When I saw his name in the credits at the store I rolled my eyes. But when i saw him in the roll.....evidently he thrives playing a roll nearly as well as Daltrey did.
All in all, my high marks maybe adoration for my favorite rock band. I often say that Quadrophenia saved my life. I can promise you this. The DVD set is well worth the money for rock fans and a pittance for fans of the Who.