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If I Can't (2023)
1/10
The 8.0 rating is a lie. One star, because zero isn't an option.
17 May 2023
Warning: Spoilers
Mena Monroe is a horrible actress. I do admire that she has her own movie studio. Bravo. Because acting isn't her strength. I stuck with this movie, but it was too long and very painful.

Mena/Harlem is speaking to Scott her potential boyfriend and mentions her ex-husband, Emory. The same ex-husband that was killed in a carjacking. They were never divorced. Later on, she remembers they weren't divorced when she's speaking to a bank manager, who's also a realtor who not only found a commercial building, he can also find her a gated residential community as well as her next boyfriend if she likes. A Jack-of-All Trades.

Someone on this set, should have caught this major error. But, they move right along. Low budget movie, no time to correct the scene. Until the scene with the jack-of all trades, who flirts with her after she purchased a building in ATL. I think it's selling weaves in a shop. It wasn't explained and I didn't care.

There were a lot of plot holes that were wrapped up, which was good as her low down friend, Low, which is aptly named, because she is low down explains to Scott that Harlem has money, she even sold Marvin Gaye's house that she's always loved as a child. Emory purchased the house as a surprise. After Emory was killed, Harlem sold the house and moved in with her mother. Postpartum hit's Harlem hard, so she ignores her son and her mother takes care of him.

Scott is a drug dealer and he's abusive. Since he has money, all of Harlem's friends ignore the signs, know that he's a monster and the bruises. Even Harlem. Which has money, so it didn't make sense to stay, because she didn't love him after the repeated verbal and physical abusive. She had a devoted mother, so it wasn't like an issue of what some abusive people (men can also be abused) face, where the abused doesn't have money or a support system.

Scott in turn also has plot holes to fill, he tells Low that him and Emory were drug dealing partners and he had Emory killed, when Emory wanted to go solo or got to big. I don't remember. Which explained the duffle bag of money as H & E celebrate their new house. How Scott was able to find the carjacker as a 'push present' to keep his family intact five years later. Scott kills the carjacker, because H can't.

Scott's ex-girlfriend even tries to tell her to leave Scott, because of his temper, but the lure of money, stupidity and we have to keep this plot going, keeps Harlem and her ex-husband's son. I mean deceased husband's son, staying. Until she finally leaves and buys property in another city or state. It was never explained where she lived, only where she was moving too. There was also a gay make up artist associate that worked in Low's hair salon which is where H also worked at and first met Scott and his ex-girlfriend. I didn't feel that H and the salon makeup artist were friends. Because they only had a few scene together. A good or best friend, they would have been closer. He also dies of AIDS.

As Harlem moves on. Forgets her children and her friends. Her character was awful. No loyalty to anyone. I think she grieved for a year and then fell for a murderous drug dealer, with hair prettier than hers.

Her mother, Ms. Cheryl was a hypocrite. That back and forth about staying with Scott, leaving Scott and back to staying with Scott and then leaving Scott...because he's crazy. Harlem's mother didn't like Scott in the beginning so this back and forth from short scene of love to hate to love to hate to the next scene was dumb.

The biggest what the what moment, which there is no way that this movie has 8 out of 10 stars.

Harlem is finally leaving this abusive relationship, she throws a going away party. She post this event on social media, which Low shows Scott while in her underwear and invites the abusive ex. I think this was also a script error too. Harlem didn't invite Scott, but the mother and Scott, both mentions the invite. AKA. The ex-husband, not dead husband.

Back to the mother leaving a crazy and abusive ex alone with her grandchildren at the party. Harlem wasn't a good mother in this movie at all. The kids were a forgotten background.

In the end. Scott kills Harlem and Emory's son at the going away party. Scott also kills Harlem's cousin, Channa who was sleeping with Scott. H's buddy Low is also murdered. Both Channa and Low kept telling Scott to let Harlem go and be with them, even though they know Scott is unstable. They messed around and found out. Low was shot several times in the driveway and only shown with a fake looking bullet wound in the shoulder. Harlem was also shot several times, not shown, but a fake looking bullet wound in her temple.

There's a flashback of the good and bad of Harlem's life. I think there's a voice over. I didn't remember. The mother grabbing Harlem's gun to kill Scott and Scott committing suicide in front of her with a smile on his face and a note that he wrote to his and Harlem's daughter True about blah..blah..keeping the family or some nonsense.

As I was way pass done with the nonsense of a movie.
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4/10
Blended families and interracial couples do exist.
24 April 2022
If you read the comments, they aren't talking about the movie. They have an issue with seeing a happily married interracial couple that has blended their loving family with more than one race of people. How disappointing that racism has taken over this thread and continues to be a major problem for America. Since the actors and the studio are all Americans.

Being woke: The dog whistle to other racist. Isn't a bad idea or a bad concept. To respect, to have empathy, understanding and kindness for people that don't have the same color skin as you do. Not be upset or concerned that consenting adults are in love with other consenting adults that are different races and may even be the same sex consenting adults. It's none of your business.

Where are those Christian values that I'm sure all of those people that commented with racist reviews, would swear that God and USA are part of their Christian values? Instead, we see more and more racist people mostly men that are angry that movies, commercials, and books no longer show only straight, White men. They show gasp minorities, same sex couples and trans people.

Which goes to show, these straight White men, really aren't straight if they only want to see men that look like them and no other races.

Minorities exist. Interracial relationships exist. Gay and Trans people exist. There was not gay or trans people in this movie by the way.

If fact, none of these people listed above are going anywhere. Which is wonderful. America and the world, is a melting pot of different cultures and people. Not some bland watered-down stew.

This remake was cute. It shows real world issues that Black people face in America every single day. That is real. A reviewer stated that things like this don't happen in real life. They do. Which is why opening your eyes/being woke is a good idea. Instead of leaning on your White Privilege as Paul did, but he listened, learned and supported that Zoey wasn't lying.

I did see the original version with Steve Martin and was never a fan of either of the movie or the sequels.

I say, "bring on more bi-racial and interracial movies from all studios."

I love the tears.
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She Kills (2016)
4/10
So Bad. It's Actually Good.
19 March 2022
This parody to 70's Grindhouse movies is good. Yes. There are scenes that made a lot of reviewers very uncomfortable, that they were unable to watch the entire film. Those scenes of sexual assault in She Kills, were made with a comedy element. Not like the scenes with the movies "Thriller :A Cruel Picture, AKA They Call Her One Eye, I Spit On Your Grave, Salo: The 120 Days of Sodom and other sexploitation movies that didn't tone down the sexual assaults. Those two movies that I mentioned, those sexual assault scenes were brutal. Here in She Kills, they took a lighter touch and even paid homage to Thriller with the eye patch as well as other exploitation and mainstream movies. The sexual in nature scenes were more of a comedy gross factor, than making the viewers think that this could be an actual assault taking place on film. The filmmakers and the actors are all in on the joke. They know it's a bad movie and they put their all of the worst into it. With double stand-ins, burned film, the dialogs doesn't switch up with the actor's mouths, the use of a dog and a cat being used as weapons for a fight, the use of not to scale models of buildings, roads and cars. There are even scenes with the crew in the shot.

It's a funny film. You have to stay with it. It doesn't go down easy, but you will laugh and groan at the same time.
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Cuck (2019)
2/10
We are living this movie, which makes it hard to watch.
5 October 2019
This is a response to jondavis-98630's review. You only need to watch the news about the mass shooting, vocal racism from bloggers, radio and television host from the Right wing media and read the tweets by the 45.

The message in this movie blames the Left, minorities and women for the poor and middle class White male downfall. Which is what the Republicans, Conservatives and Fox News are announcing in real life. By repeating their message of hate over and over again until their base believes it and takes deadly action.

There is no "far left propaganda..." in this movie. It reveals the truth. Which is hard to watch.
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Deadtectives (2018)
10/10
One of the best Horror and Comedy movies to date.
21 September 2019
I'm so happy to have found this gem of a horror and comedy mixture. You don't find too many movies that blend so effortlessly like Deadtectives.

The other reviewer mentioned Tucker and Dale. I hated that movie. It was awful. I did enjoy, Dude Bro Party Massacre III and Satanic Panic. So, those are my two gold standard of a horror and comedy movie.

Sequel please.
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