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The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live (2024)
Episode 4 "What we": what a disaster
What's worse than NutraSweet with all the outside appearance of sweetness, zero substance, and probable carcinogenic? Episode 4. The rest of the episodes are fine, but Episode 4 really spoiled it for me. A teenager in heat must have written the script for this episode. Or maybe a rebelling AI wrote the script in revenge for being made to work for free? The dialogue went round and round going nowhere, and one moment you're trying to escape a collapsing building complex and the next you take time out to make love, followed by even MORE round-and-round discussions of the same topic (as the building is collapsing!!!) that had already been talked to death earlier. The episode is even more artificial than any aspartame polysaccharides sugar substitute known to humankind.
Pending Train (2023)
Sappy, soapy, saccharine, over-sentimental, hyper-dramatic trash
I couldn't even finish the first episode due to an overwhelming urge to throw up over this sappy, soapy, saccharine, over-sentimental, hyper-dramatic trash full of tropes and populated by people who behave as if they're living life on a Shakespearean stage.
Amongst one of *MANY* awful melodramatic scenes, in a flashback, one of the main male proponents (a fire-fighter) wearing a tank-top is mopping his brow and admiring a rainbow, with one of the female proponents who is a gym trainer sharing the moment from behind, admiring her fire-fighter crush, and struck by some live-changing epiphany. Did some high-school student write the stupid script? Or is this an example of a script generated by a ChatGPT-like AI trained on the bunch of silliest sappy novels ever written?
It is as if Japan's most dysfunctional, melodramatic, unrealistically stupid group of people happened to crowd into the same train car just so that they could share an adventure. Shame to the top brass and producers who approved and funded the production of this piece of utter trash.
The Mandalorian (2019)
What is it with large animals ("monsters") that are killed in every season?
I like every season of the series, but I've got to ask: what's the obsession that the Mandalorian writers have with large creatures depicted as ferocious killers of humanoids that have to be killed in a spectacular manner every season? I realize that these large dinosaur-sized creatures are the perfect foil for humanoid teams to blow up those creatures with the ooos-and-ahhhs associated with pyrotechnics, but in this era where we're being rightfully sensitized to the loss of creatures "great" and "small", is this the right tone to send in a series that is watched by young and "old"? Let's go hunt our whales to extinction! And while we're at it, how about shooting those useless elephants, giraffes, leopards, and what have you?
The Mummy (2017)
Gave up watching: it's so bad
The director, writer, and stars must all have blackmailed each other to compel everyone to be involved in this mess of infantile babbling trying to pass as "dialog", lousy cinematography, even lousier editing, and a mindless mish-mash of cheap flick tropes. Were Tom Cruise and Russell Crowe so desperate for acting roles that they agreed to star in this horrible mess? Or perhaps their lines were swapped out every day for the scribblings of kids from some elementary school class? A monkey hammering away randomly at the keyboard would have produced something more elegant.
Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)
Dumb, dumber, dumber-er, infinitely dumb
How stupid can one be to write a whole story that immediately brings to mind "Genie in a Bottle granting wishes"? Really, utterly, shamelessly stupid. You would do just as well writing the story around the tropes and themes in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Some top-secret US technology that takes over all the TVs in the world (OK, I can suspend my disbelief) that also acts as the equivalent of a physical connection between the Genie (Pedro) and his supplicants?!?!?! Being able to start and fly a mothballed fighter jet in the Smithsonian air and space museum (out by Dulles Airport here in the DC region) that still has battery, fuel, and a nice run-way?!?!?! Wow... how **STUPENDOUSLY** brain-dead does the writer think the audience is?!?!
I wonder even why Gal Godot, Chris Pines, Pedro Pascal et al signed on to the movie after reading the script: they must have agreed under duress. This movie, alongside disasters like some of the Star Wars prequels, belongs to the heap of senseless rubbish that Hollywood has pumped out over the years.