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Supernatural: There's Something About Mary (2017)
Top 20 Reasons this episode failed while delivering backhands to the fandom:
1. Eileen UN-necessary death! Another fridging of a female character?
Would it have been so terrible to have a Eileen return once a year for the fans who loved her? Representation for the hearing impaired matters. Representation Matters 2. The B.M.O.L. and Crowley are working together. Since when? Why were there no clues? Hindsight usually affords a few, "Oh that's what such and such meant." "Oh I should've guessed that!" But, no, this is completely out of insane field.
3. You can control a hell hound with a dog whistle?
4. All the yucky dog references AGAIN. Good dog. Bad Dog. Crowley cuddling with the hell hounds.
Ewww.
5. That horrid cringy scene of Crowley being a puppet. (Well, at least no one had to lick the floor again.)
6. Crowley smokes into the Rat without smoke? Lucifer does not notice that the body didn't light up? Crowley is as dumb as a rat? Since when? The rat? the hamster? Another Olivette thingy that the fandom & cast laughed over how awful it was, yet, it returneth
please. So bad and so not funny! It's like a deliberate backhand to the fans who previously resented and mocked that stupid Olivette scene.
7. Why did Eileen come back to the States?
Wouldn't it have been easier for the B.M.O.L. to kill her in Ireland? ( Oh, but then Sam and Dean wouldn't be able to look at her corpse thereby cementing the fact that Eileen is dead, without possible resurrection by other writers.)
8. Why would Sam and Dean even think of getting snail mail? They have a mailbox? Since when and why? Why would they have given Eileen their snail mail address?
9. The Amazing miracle to unleash Lucifer AGAIN! "The device, it's cemented directly into your DNA and that of the King's. As it's powering down in you, the polarity is somehow reversing. .. The ability to control is transferring from Crowley to you."
10. "Oh, that OEDIPAL MYOPIA again." Exactly my complaint for two seasons!!
11. "Kelly's now in the clutches of the WINCHESTERS' LOVE SLAVE, Castiel, who's no doubt dragging her to a gruesome death." Baiting!
12. "Toni: That you invited Azazel to visit when he spared John's life. . . I have sources, Mary. Everywhere." Ah, that explains it then. ????
13. Strangely cut off scene: "Hess: Your relationship with the Winchesters. It's a bit cozy for my taste. I hope you don't expect me to spare your friends
."
14. Sam: "'but I could bunk with you guys for a few days until I sort this out' "You think the Brits were watching her? If Eileen says they were -- Then maybe they're the ones that killed her." Note there are NO WORDS for Sam to express his grief, just a HUGE VOID OF TIME.
(Wherein they search the bunker for the bug. Where is it? Where could it be? Is it here? Is it under there? WHY the long search? Because there are NO WORDS of dialogue until, "Those Hunters you were talking to, is one of them Terry Marsh? Yeah, Terry Marsh in Missouri.") Thank goodness, Sam visually demonstrated his grief. Thank goodness, Dean entertained us with his fridge leftovers. Thank goodness, for a director who made it look 10x better than it was.
15. Mary was completely brainwashed and turned into a killing puppet for the BMOL in under a week? Why didn't they just reprogram Mick then? Surely, all of his knowledge was an asset to them. Oh right, the same writers who killed him, killed Eileen 12.21 and Metatron 11.21 and Charlie 10.21 Doesn't have to make sense
gratuitous killing used to make their scripts memorable for something other than just being plain craptastic. Ye Old cheesy formula that deliberately pisses off the fans
16. The Bunker? Knowing the BMOL were after them, wouldn't they have entered a little more cautiously, or better yet hidden out in a motel, or better yet take the fight to the BMOL? Witness the great Dumbing Down of Sam and Dean.
17. The "I could shoot you now, but I'd rather do the James Bond villain thing. You'll live 2 or 3 days
"
Srsly? How is this good writing?
18. How did Jody know about Eileen? Curious.
19. The opening and closing SFX and CGI: awful just awful. OK we are spoiled, but that was bad.
20. Mary is brainwashed and wiped clean (Lisa) in 3 days. A strong woman made to beg on her knees in front of her ex sexual partner? Eww.
Positives
A director who fleshed out all the action and silent moments with a great entrapment scene and a gunfight. The cast who added emotions to a flat script. The unified outraged reaction of the majority of the fandom.
Neighbors (2014)
Depressingly Bad
*** This review may contain spoilers *** The film is the worst film I have ever seen. It enraged me and then deeply saddened me. Amid the pervasive "Drugs and Alcohol are Cool" teeny bop-per mentality that is catastrophically contrived and boring, there are racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic "jokes" that are 'so done'. Ridiculous sexual myths are once again being trudged out to yet another generation who might buy into them. Myths such as the penis size being of all importance, dildo's somehow being treasures to women, vagina's being stretched, Women having orgasms by simply hopping on and off, etc. ad nausea, all of which perpetuate an immature and misogynistic perspective of human sexuality. Any adult watching the film would be bored, if not insulted.
The worst quality of the movie is that the viewer is also made to suffer through the complete degradation of women and their bodies. Stella, a nursing mother, seems inexplicably unaware that her breast milk is affected by alcohol; fortunately, her clever husband knows that she should not breast feed the baby with her alcohol laced milk. Honestly, every nursing mother in the world knows this. The remedy is to pump the breast milk off but of course, klutz husband steps on the pump and they have no backup. Another unconvincing set up. Curiously, she is incapable of relieving herself and must get her husband to do it. If this seems contrived, it is. It takes 3.5 minutes to set this scenario up and another 2 minutes to execute a bunch of one-liners:
" Oh, gross. They're hulking out. They look like my grandmother's legs." (This in reference to her swollen breasts)
"Get on your hands and knees. We need a pail or something." "I got like four pails out of you."
"We should go mom tipping later." "Just trying to lighten the mooed. Mooed. That was udder lee traumatic. How much of you was traumatized 2%? 1%?"
Five minutes devoted to degrading and equating women to cows. That's 19.2 percent of the movie. This segment appears exactly half way into the film. The climax. And why? To delineate the whole point of the film: Let's see how we can take something as beautiful, natural and essentially, sacredly feminine as breastfeeding and portray it in the most disgusting and degrading way we possibly can.
How could any young woman after watching this possibly feel good about her body and look forward to nurturing a child? How will she be able to nurse a child without these horrible insults haunting her? Do we really need to teach a new generation of young men to degrade women and their bodies and regard women as disgusting cows?
The writers, Andrew J. Cohen, and Brendan O'Brien should feel nothing but shame for themselves. There are millions of writers who could probably write a better screenplay in 24 hours than this pair could in their life times. Shame on the producers, Evan Goldberg Seth Rogen, and James Weaver who backed and promoted this film. Shame on Hollywood for allowing these people to require artists to prostitute themselves in such a rank cesspool.
Probably the most poignant recurring comment in previous I.M.D.B. comments is not the number of adults who left during the film but the dead silence during and after the film for those who slogged it out. The silence. The silence of an audience who has matured and recognizes Hollywood for what it has been; immature and misogynistic. Humanity deserves better. Can't we move on?