Nyssareen_77 Reviews

The Crown: Sleep, Dearie Sleep (2023) Season 6, Episode 10

An uninspiring ending to an overall lackluster season in what was once a great series.

[3/10 · 18 August 2024]

I have made no secret in my previous reviews that while I loved seasons 1-4, I had mixed feelings about season 5 and think very little of season 6. I felt from the beginning of season 5 that the casting wasn't right for most of the characters, Princess Margaret being a notable exception.

The biggest issue, however, is that Queen Elizabeth II wore the crown for nearly 71 years and this show covers 75 years (not including flashbacks). I understand that the whole Diana saga was a major deal, but the fact remains that the time from when Prince Charles met Diana until her death was only a period of about 20 years. Even if Charles and Diana had remained happily married to this day, Diana would never have worn THE Crown. She would have worn A crown, but not THE Crown and so she is not the subject of this show. It was ridiculous of the writer, director, show runner, producers, and anyone else involved to devote so much time to Diana (without a head meant for the crown in sight, much of the time!) that they had to somehow pretend that the last 19 years of Queen Elizabeth II's life didn't even happen!

The acting in this particular episode wasn't horrible. It was comparable to the rest of this cast's tenure... Though that isn't really saying much. The writing, however, was terrible and the entire episode felt extremely rushed and disjointed. If they had ended with the Queen abdicating or dying not long after Charles and Camilla got married, it might have worked (and been about as historically accurate as the rest of seasons 5-6 at least) but to just end it the way they did was laziness in the extreme.

I really wish they wouldn't have made whatever changes in leadership they did between seasons 4 and 5 because the new group doesn't seem to have any clue what they're doing, from the across to the directors to the writers to the crew, and it is painfully obvious.

The Crown: Aftermath (2023) Season 6, Episode 4

Oh my God! She's DEAD can we please move on with THE CROWN now???

[2/10 · 18 August 2024]

I love this series... Rather, I loved seasons 1-4 and liked season 5, but have been extremely annoyed with season 6. Devoting 3 full episodes (out of only 60 to cover over 70 years) to the last month or so of Diana's life, with very little screen time of the actual Queen, was bad enough. I was hoping that once Diana was actually dead we would move back on to the story of the Queen herself, but no, we still have to center yet another episode on Diana and even give her screen time as various characters carry on conversations with her memory. At least this episode focused the majority of the screen time on the heads that wear, or will wear, the crown. So it has that up on the previous episodes.

I am a completionist at heart, so I will most likely finish the series, even though this entire season has been just this side of hate-watching. Hopefully, episode 5 will move on with the members of the actual Royal family and we can finally get past the Diana mini-series they crammed into The Crown.

The Crown: Dis-Moi Oui (2023) Season 6, Episode 3

Is the Diana Show over? Can we now go back to The a Crown?

[3/10 · 17 August 2024]

I get that Diana and her death were important in the lives of the royal family, but honestly, season 5 seemed to focus overly on Diana (and, really, an entire episode on Dodi, or rather, on his father??) and this season has been ENTIRELY focused of Diana! I am sad that they were killed, of course, but in the 70 years that Elizabeth II was Queen, obit about 20 included Diana. With only 60 episodes to cover all 60 years of her reign, plus the bit between her marriage to Philip and when she became Queen, was there really not enough interesting occurrences involving the people DIRECTLY attached to the crown (Elizabeth II, Charles III, William, their spouses and siblings) that we had to go off on a 5 or 6 episode tangent to someone who *was* adjacent to the crown? Not to mention someone adjacent to someone who *was* adjacent to the crown AND someone adjacent to someone adjacent to someone who *was* adjacent to the crown! I adored seasons 1-4 and thought season 5 was at least watchable. I've finished through episode 3 of season 6 now and am not entirely sure I care to go on with it. I'll watch episode 4 and see if it improves once Diana is gone, but I'm not holding out much hope at this point.

Little House on the Prairie: The Nephews (1981) Season 7, Episode 14

I'm not normally in favor of corporal punishment for kids, but in this case I'd make an exception!

[1/10 · 4 August 2024]

I honestly can't see the point of this episode at all. It is just 45 minutes of watching the two most spoiled rotten boys of the 1880 play one horrible prank after another on the adults around them with no consequences, ever. There was no point, moral, or message to the episode other than maybe to encourage the audience to not only never procreate but also to never watch any relative's kids either, just in case!

I can't really see most middle-ish class parents in the 1880s going with the "never, ever say no to your child" philosophy of parenting; that was more of a 1960s/1970s and later trend. I also had serious questions about the mental capabilities of Royal's wife. Every time she was on screen, she either seemed somehow brain damaged or extremely high on something. Either way, probably not someone you want to be giving out parenting advice, not even for their own kids!

The episode did have a "conclusion," as such, in that the evil monsters finally returned to their non-functional parents before Laura and Almanzo finally killed them. There was a change in their behavior, but there was no explanation as to what brought it about. Laura dumped a bucket of water on them a couple times and Almanzo did yell "I'm coming for you!" in a rather threatening manner, but they never gave any implication that he'd actually punished the boys at all.

All in all, this was a completely worthless episode that did nothing whatever to forward the overall plot of the show or even entertain the audience and could happily be skipped. Unless, somewhere in the subtext of the "when should be start out family?" conversation between Laura and Almanzo they were trying to get across that they have either been abstaining completely since they got married or magically transported some birth control pills back about 80 years. Other those, that was pretty much the choices in a rural pioneer community for those who wanted to be married but not have kids yet!

Little House on the Prairie: Oleson vs Oleson (1981) Season 7, Episode 12

Hey! You got your 1970s in my 1880s!!!

[1/10 · 4 August 2024]

As other reviewers have said, this episode was completely out of place in the story, most of the characters were not acting like they normally do, and the acting and writing were extremely forced and stilted. Caroline and Charles especially didn't seem anything at all like themselves. Caroline is the very epitome of a "good, Christian pioneer woman." She not only excels at keeping a house and raising her children, but revels in those roles. Charles is, likewise, very much a man of his time. He knows his job in life is to provide for and protect his children, his home, and his wife and would die before failing in that role. He has also demonstrated throughout the show that he is NOT one to be strong-armed into doing something he doesn't want to, not even by his beloved wife.

Another reviewer pointed out that the much more natural plot of this episode would have centered on Laura and Almanzo having this disagreement. It has already been established in the show that Almanzo is very "traditional" in his views about not wanting his wife to work, while Laura is more "progressive" and wants to continue working, at least until she starts having children. These characters as established would have been a much better fit for this story than Charles and Caroline.

As the show progresses, there are more and more incidents of anachronistic attitudes, behaviors, and events but this episode is by far the worst so far!

After Darkness (2014)

*YAWN*

[1/10 · 11 June 2024]

If you are easily bored, don't watch this movie.

If you want the "science" of a movie to actually have any bearing whatsoever on actual science, don't watch this movie.

If you don't enjoy watching a bunch of horrible people sit around and stare at each other while they wait to die for an hour and a half when you kinda just wish they would all die already, don't watch this movie.

If you like sci-fi in your sci-fi movies, don't watch this movie.

If you like drama in your drama movies, don't watch this movie.

If you like endings that actually END and not just stop with suspenseful music (which indicates something is going to happen but it never does), don't watch this movie.

Basically, just don't watch this movie. You would probably enjoy watching paint dry for an hour and a half and wouldn't feel cheated by the experience.

PS I don't know why some people are saying this movie came out in 2019, IMDb says it came out in 2014 which makes much more sense.

Supercollider (2013)

It exceeded my expectations...but they weren't high to begin with!

[5/10 · 11 June 2024]

I was actually pleasantly surprised by this movie. It wasn't an amazing film or anything, but it was much better than I was expecting it to be. It was an interesting premise, but it DEFINITELY had a tiny budget, none of which was used on hiring great actors and very little of which was spent on anything approaching decent special effects. I'm pretty sure I could do a better greenscreen job using my cell phone and a tablecloth. That said, there were interesting aspects to the plot and the actors were better than your average middle school theater students. I gave it 3/5, largely for exceeding my expectations.

Runaway Jury (2003)

**YAWN**

[2/10 · 17 April 2024]

Yet another time when the same Hollywood whose bread and butter is movies built on gun violence turns around and tries to beat into their audiences that real, regular people owning guns is a bad thing. I wanted to get into this movie because it did have good actors and performances, but the heavy-handed lecturing on how a bad person with a gun isn't responsible for his own actions (but the gun manufacturers somehow are) just turned me off too much. Maybe I'll start listening to Hollywood's lectures on how my constitutional owning and use of a gun is bad when they stop making guns that glorify extreme gun violence.

Éirí Amach Amú (2016– )

I wanted to like it a lot more than I actually did

[4/10 · 19 January 2024]

I will say right off that it was a little difficult to keep up with them going back and forth between Irish Gaelic and English. The problem wasn't really the 2 languages, the problem was that the Irish accents were sometimes very thick meaning I needed the captions on to be able to understand, especially when multiple people were talking or they were yelling/highly emotional. However, Amazon very kindly included in the captions "Speaks Gaelic" that was right on top of the subtitles the movie put in so the audience who didn't speak Irish Gaelic would know what they were saying. It was extremely annoying to not be able to understand half the movie because Amazon doesn't know how to properly do captions.

Other than the language issues, I really enjoyed the first episode of this 3-part mini-series. They were establishing that there was an element of the ridiculous but it was also dealing with some serious events. The second episode started to veer off course a bit where it went overboard with ridiculous or plain stupid scenes and smashed them right up against serious scenes. The effect was a kind of emotional whiplash that was very unpleasant. The third episode went totally off the rails and I was just rolling my eyes the whole time. I know that American movie makers can often be accused of having an overdeveloped sense of self-importance, but the people who made this movie think even more of how important Ireland is or could be!

I'm sure many people enjoyed this movie and I am glad they did, but I was not one of them. Between the language issues, emotional whiplash, and rolling my eyes so hard at the ending that I think I sprained something, I will pass on ever watching it again.

Blue/Orange (2005 TV Movie)

Watch it before it goes down the memory hole!

[8/10 · 17 January 2024]

I was utterly shocked by this movie, not by the content, but by the fact that the BBC made it and hasn't memory-holed it by now! This is a story about two psych doctors, one in "authority" (and desperately looking for more) and the other just a boots-on-the-ground psych doctor trying to help people the best he can, and one patient. There are both blatant and subtle undertones of racism, weaponized accusations, white-knight syndrome, cruelty for cruelty's sake, jealousy/avarice to the point of risking a patient's health and life, and of course, serious mental illness. I was nervous about watching this movie at first because I didn't want to be bludgeoned over the head with the current BBC line of "all white people are racist" for the umpteenth time this week, but that is NOT what I got! I am going to have to see if I can get a hard copy of this movie sometime soon because I can definitely see the BBC wiping it from its digital existence.

Wonka (2023)

Amazing! Someone finally found out how to add to a previously existing movie without destroying it!

[9/10 · 3 January 2024]

This movie was fun, sweet, and interesting. I laughed out loud more than once and wasn't pulled out of the story by anything shoved into the movie that didn't belong. They were able to include nods to and bits from the 1971 movie without it feeling like nothing more than a cheap play on the audience's emotions to grab more cash. There was an absolutely stellar cast of well-known names and faces. They all worked together beautifully with an expertly crafted script under a magnificent director. The only major flaw with this movie is the advertising! I only recall seeing 1 ad for this movie and thought it was just another remake of the Charlie story. I went because my kids wanted to and went in knowing very little about it. I was absolutely thrilled with the entire movie and am looking forward to seeing it again!

Rumors of Wars (2014)

It is not really THAT bad!

[6/10 · 20 October 2023]

Not as bad as I was expecting, but it definitely could have been worse. I just wish that small-budget movie makers would realize that unless you have someone who either speaks with a particular accent already or can afford a really good dialect coach, it is better just to let the actor speak with their natural accent, especially when the accent plays NO part in the character. There were a few accents in this movie that just made me cringe they were so bad. But as far as a Christian-made post-apocalyptic movie, this is FAR from the worst out there and was actually pretty watchable! I just really wish they hadn't hung so much of the story on the expectation of getting a sequel, which I think is pretty unlikely to happen at this point.

Call the Midwife: Episode #12.1 (2023) Season 12, Episode 1

Definitely not Call the Midwife at its best

[4/10 · 24 June 2023]

I agree with the other reviewers who complained of too many plots, heavy-handed preaching, and inconsistent characterizations. This show does usually have multiple threads going on in each episode, but for a regular episode to have this many threads going on at once it was overwhelming. These were all also issues which have been very well covered in previous episodes, and dealt with much better, might I add. It isn't uncommon for a woman to be more emotional and more easily upset after a miscarriage, but for Lucille's character to change so much and so suddenly just seems like inconsistent writing, especially with no indication of change for her character in the Christmas episode. Racism was definitely an issue in this time and place, but this was a very heavy-handed and sloppy way to handle the issue. If they are going to readdress an issue previously covered, it can't feel like it was tacked on as an afterthought and that is how the whole protest thing felt. I also agree with the comment that if racism is going to ne the overarching theme of this season, I'm not sure if I will remain interested. After getting beaten over the head with "racists everywhere" for the past 3 years, getting preached at by my favorite show is just a bit too much.

The Philadelphia Experiment Revealed: Final Countdown to Disclosure from the Area 51 Archives (2012)

WTF...?

[1/10 · 11 April 2023]

My older brother took me with him to a Stephen Hawking lecture when I was 15 many years ago. I didn't understand much of the science, but he was still an interesting speaker and, most importantly, wasn't bat crap crazy (again, even though I barely understood anything). I barely understood anything any of these people said, but it wasn't because they were talking about things I am just incapable of understanding, but because they are all completely and certifiably crazy.

I have seen the movie The Philadelphia Experiment, both the 1984 version and the 2012 version, as well as The Philadelphia Experiment II (1993). They were fun, interesting little B-level sci-fi jaunts. This was not a movie, it was a VERY poor quality recording made on someone's 1985 camcorder of some guys who either got fired from their real jobs teaching at some unknown community college because too many people slept through their next class after being put so fast asleep by these guys, or they couldn't get a job in the first place because they were too crazy even to work at a college, and never actually moved out of their mother's basements.

If you have 5 hours to waste, or your sleeping pill has failed you, go ahead and watch this. I can almost guarantee that you'll be out cold by about 30 minutes in at most.

Call Me Kat: Call Me Not Okurrr (2023) Season 3, Episode 19

Another in a long-line of stupid plots and vapid characters

[1/10 · 1 April 2023]

Sitcoms are all about manufactured drama, but this show seems to be trying REALLY hard to make sure you can see just how hard they worked to manufacture the drama. The relationship between Max and Kat has never had any chemistry, so I really didn't care when the relationship hit the rocks. I also couldn't care less what color Randy and Carter's kitchen ended up. The argument they had about it wasn't even funny, just boring and eye-rollingly stupid. And the fact that someone trying to be a musician thinks that coming out as a lesbian in 2023 would "kill her career" is laughable. These days, people "come out" when they are nowhere on the LGBTQ+ spectrum in order to forward their careers in any of the entertainment industries. This is the 21st century, not 1980, get a clue. I will soon be unable to watch this show anymore as I am dropping Hulu and I have to say I am not going to miss it in the least.

Call Me Kat (2021–2023)

Liked it at first, but it got old fast

[3/10 · 1 April 2023]

I adore Miranda and liked Mayim Bialik the few times I've seen her, so I figured I'd give this show a shot. The first season was watchable, the second season was okay to have on in the background, but the third season is more annoying than anything else. Where Miranda wasn't focused 100% on the relationship with Gary, it was a component and the "will they? Won't they" thing did create interest. There was never any "will they? Won't they?" with Kat and Max as there was basically no chemistry between them at all. Then they had them get together very suddenly so it happened before anyone really cared if it would ever happen. Kat's mother is not pushy and overly-involved like Miranda's was, she's just a cruel mother who obviously cares FAR more about herself than anyone else, especially her daughter. The cat café idea is cute, but that is where the cute ends because the characters are just annoying and the plots are just dumb. I will no longer have Hulu soon and long ago dropped regular TV and it won't hurt my feelings at ALL that I won't get to watch this show anymore because I'd rather watch almost anything else.

Altitude (2010)

I wish I'd listened to those who said it sucked.

[2/10 · 23 February 2023]

I wasn't expecting much but I have to say, I was still disappointed. I knew what was going on before the flashback scene at the beginning finished, the only surprise was when I discovered that the ludicrous plot device I laughingly said was being used actually turned out to be what was really going on! It is pretty common in movies where there is some kind of emergency to have a jerk character who the audience is meant to hate, but I hated all 5 of the main characters. I was only annoyed when they started dying because they died in reverse order of how much I hated each of them, leaving the one I hated the most for last! Yeah, the ending is somewhat interesting (hence the 1 star), but sitting through the rest of the movie to get to the slightly interesting ending just isn't worth it. I wish I'd passed on this one!

American Masters: Laura Ingalls Wilder: Prairie to Page (2020) Season 34, Episode 7

Why do I care about the commentator's opinions on FDR???

[2/10 · 6 February 2023]

This whole thing was filled with self-important 21st century people sitting in judgement of 19th century people and events without taking the intervening 150 years into account and it REALLY annoyed me! I love the Little House books and wanted to learn more about Laura Ingalls Wilder, but along with that, I got a whole lot of unwanted crap from a bunch of supposed experts who are probably the same people who petitioned to have Wilder's name removed from the Laura Ingalls Wilder Children's Book Award. They keep going on about how inaccurate the books are, but seem to be completely unaware of what the word "fiction" means. They could have cut out most of their moralizing and stupid comments and the show would have been very enjoyable. Some people need to learn to recognize the differences between what is worth getting all bent out of shape over and what is something to learn from and move on from. If a little girl being fascinated by the dark eyes of a baby hurts you for 50 years, you really need to move on and find something more important to get worked up about! Whoever wrote this obviously hasn't learned that lesson and I wish they would learn that before they make any more documentaries.

Peripheral (I) (2018)

Good concepts...lousy execution

[4/10 · 8 January 2023]

This is yet another movie that really isn't as good as the writer intended and nowhere near as good as it could have been. So many writers these days have really, really good concepts and ideas to get across, but they get so caught up in being unique or Avant-garde that they end up making their work completely incomprehensible.

This movie had a great idea to convey how the lines between human creators and technology are being so blurred these days and how the corporate control of creative endeavors is destroying the creativity that should be inherent to the process. The beginning and ending of the movie did a good job of forwarding those ideas in an effective yet unique way. The problem was the entire middle half of the movie which made little to no sense even with drugs factored in!

Ever since the 1960s, there has been a growing number of writers, especially young writers, who have gotten the idea that leaving the audience with more questions about the movie when it is over than they had when it started is somehow a good thing. This. Is. A. Lie. You can have an excellent movie that leaves you with many questions, but if you are walking out of the theater or turning off the TV and are still wondering what in the hell the movie was about, the writer has done a BAD JOB OF WRITING! I know there are people who will be very opposed to my opinion, but the thing is, it is not just my opinion, it is the opinion of almost every person on this planet who is not trying to be a pretentious jerk by saying that people who don't "get it" are just not intelligent, deep, or special to understand.

Writers need to learn to write WHOLE stories, stories that have a beginning, a middle, and an end so that when the audience has finished the story, they can actually tell what it was about. Can writing schools please start teaching that again? Because I am really tired of watching movies with really great ideas that completely fail to come together because the writer never got past the idea stage, but still somehow made it into a movie.

Rescued by Ruby (2022)

A wonderful underdog tale if ever there was one!

[8/10 · 8 January 2023]

This was exactly the heartwarming-bordering-on-sentimental movie that I was looking for today! There are sooooooo many movies out there that are dark, gritty, or downright depressing that I am totally burned out on them. I stumbled across this one and thought it might be what I was looking for, and I was SO right!

This based-on-a-true-story movie is a great underdog (har har) tale that just gets you in all the right feel-good places. I loved how they built the characters and the relationships, especially between Daniel and Ruby and the ending brought everything full circle just perfectly. All the actors were great, but I was thinking the whole time how well-trained the dog playing Ruby was. During the credits, the filmmakers revealed that, just like Ruby in the story, the dog playing Ruby was also rescued from a shelter at "the last minute" and helped into playing the role perfectly. That was the icing on the cake for me and I had to go hunt down my own rescue dog and give him some love (and I may have slipped him a little raw hot dog too, but I won't tell if you won't!).

If you are a dog lover, love a good underdog-makes-good story, or are just looking for a break from all the dark, depressing stuff that abounds these days, I HIGHLY recommend checking out Rescued by Ruby. If you aren't smiling by the end of it, I'll wonder if you even HAVE a heart!

A Christmas Carol: The Musical (2004 TV Movie)

Not the worst Christmas Carol out there, but this is still pretty bad!

[2/10 · 24 December 2022]

I won't say this is the worst version of A Christmas Carol I've ever seen because there is a version out there where Bob Cratchit's wife is a black woman (in the 1840s) who Scrooge sexually assaults so she casts a voodoo curse on him and that's why the whole ghost thing happened in the first place. This one is better than that version, but that doesn't mean it qualifies as "good" and I seriously wonder about anyone who thinks this trainwreck is good!

The cast is made up of a bunch of has-been 90s stars who were trying to get one last grab for attention, but can't act in the roles they were given. Some of the singing is really good, but more of it is painful to listen to. I don't know what happened to Scrooge's backstory, but someone seems to have confused Dickens' past with the backstory for Scrooge and it really screws with his character arc. It also kind of weirded me out that they gave Bob Cratchit's wife's name, Emily, to Scrooge's former fiance who was supposed to be called Belle. The accents are more painful to listen to than the singing, and most of the musical numbers are confusing (Christmas Present's song) at best and disturbing at worst (Christmas Yet To Be!!!).

I will most definitely NOT be adding this to my future Christmas watching list because watching it once was three times too many!

Cultureshock: The Rise of Trash TV (2018) Season 1, Episode 3

Trash rehash of trash TV but we still have to throw our political ideology at you!

[4/10 · 31 October 2022]

Given that this episode is literally about and CALLED "trash TV" you expect that it's going to be full of trash TV. For the most part, it delivered on what it promised, a bunch of trash about trash TV and how it led to a lot of the crap on the internet today. I mostly had it going in the background while working on something else but I did catch that the "experts" commenting had to throw in their opinion on Donald Trump. They didn't talk about his show at ALL but they still had to throw in comments about trash TV leading to a trash president who is always performing a character. What does a has-been talk show host's opinion on what the President of the US is or is not doing have to do with whether the Jerry Springer show was real or fake? How about if we focus on the actual topic of the episode and not stray into territory that really has NOTHING to do with what we are talking about?

The Haunting of Bly Manor (2020)

Would have gotten an 8 if it had been half as long!

[5/10 · 25 October 2022]

I binge-watched the first 5 episodes of this show and LOVED it! But at that point, it just started dragging. By the time I got to episode 8 I was ready to give up because I was being force-fed all this backstory of characters I didn't care about in the least!

I enjoy creepy, psychological scares much more than I do gory, hack-and-slash, jump-scare horror so I really, really wanted to like this show. Most of the reviews I read disliked this one because it wasn't the same kind of horror as The Haunting of Hill House (2018). I haven't seen that one (though I have seen and LOVE The Haunting (1963)) so I didn't think that would be a problem. Now I'm going to watch the Hill House one and see if it is any better because I am so disappointed in the wasted potential of this series.

I'm really just annoyed with this one because it was SO GOOD...until it became obvious that the writer was padding it out to be a series rather than a movie and had run out of good ideas.

Unsane (2018)

This movie sucks in every possible way.

[1/10 · 17 October 2022]

From the standpoint of showing anything even approaching reality, the people who made this movie obviously had absolutely NO knowledge of how a real psychiatric facility works and didn't feel the need to do any research whatsoever. I get it, they are trying to "call out" the mental health system as being flawed, it is! But they could at least have used REAL flaws that actually exist within that system! If this movie was taking place in the 1930s I might have believed that a staff member at a psychiatric facility could get away with all that the stalker in this film got away with, but with it taking place in the year it was made (2018) it was completely unbelievable! What kind of secured facility puts all the patients in the same room at night with no staff members present? The kind that is inviting all kinds of attacks from and on mentally unstable patients, but not one that is actually certified in any first world country! What kind of facility doesn't have any kind of system for how patients get discharged? The kind that wants to get shut down by the state when patients start going missing! What kind of facility uses medication and isolation as methods for staff to punish patients? The kind that got shut down in 1975!

Aside from the WILD inaccuracies in how any mental health facility is actually run, the story was not at all interesting. If there had been some mystery about whether she really was crazy and the stalker didn't exist or wasn't who she thought it was, that might have been more interesting. But any and all question about whether it was real or she was crazy went out the window from very early on, making it a rather boring (and also stupidly gruesome) Lifetime-style stalker movie.

I only watched this movie in the first place because I saw some reviews that said it was in the "so bad it's funny" category, but it doesn't even get that from me. This movie was completely and utterly ludicrous in every possible way. I have no clue how anyone could give this movie more than about a 3/10 unless they know nothing at all about how the mental health system actually works AND have never seen a decent movie in their lives. This is definitely one movie where I am left wondering who I go to in order to demand a refund for my stolen 1.5 hours.

Dark Water (2005)

Excellent non-hack-and-slash horror movie!

[8/10 · 17 October 2022]

Fortunately, I read some user reviews of this movie before watching it or I probably wouldn't have chosen to watch it at all. I remember seeing the ads when it came out and it just didn't interest me because it was billed as a Ring-type horror movie and I'm not into that kind of movie. This was much more subtle than that genre tends to be. It was most definitely a horror movie, but more on the psychological side and certainly not the hack-and-slash type (which I despise). This was a great scary movie and exactly what I was looking for! I am probably going to add this one to my list of "to-buy movies!" Now I am off to find the original Japanese version and see if it is as good as this one or if it is better as many reviewers have claimed.