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She Came to Me (2023)
Rebecca Miller hits it out of the park
Such a rich screenplay, with characters and a story so original and varied, yet always presenting the human condition faithfully. The dialogue is flawless, never a false step
It was sexy and romantic, but not in the same old way we've seen 100 times. It was funny.
Easily the best film of the year, unless you're into Planet of the Apes and Furiosa et al.
I loved it.
Such a rich screenplay, with characters and a story so original and varied, yet always presenting the human condition faithfully. The dialogue is flawless, never a false step
It was sexy and romantic, but not in the same old way we've seen 100 times. It was funny.
Easily the best film of the year, unless you're into Planet of the Apes and Furiosa et al.
I loved it.
The Zone of Interest (2023)
This movie is a one trick pony
Like all his movies, this movie is a trick. It makes a good point, but it only takes about 5 to 10 minutes to do it. After that it is just more of the same. You cannot call it a movie.
Under the Skin is the same. Once you see the space vampire take down a victim, there is nothing else. We just wander around for the next hour and a half and see the murder repeated a few more times with different victims. It's just not a movie it takes no talent to make.
Like all his movies, this movie is a trick. It makes a good point, but it only takes about 5 to 10 minutes to do it. After that it is just more of the same. You cannot call it a movie.
My Best Friend's Girl (2008)
Kate Hudson is so hot, she sizzles.
Don't get me wrong. She was funny as hell too. The script was excellent. The plot was perfect for comedy, and they milked it for all it was worth. Everyone had great lines.
I laughed out loud a lot. And I cringed quite a bit too. They really did go too far, often.
Kate Hudson stole the show though. She played the gorgeous blonde, but she was no dumb blonde. She was smart and she knew it. She gave as good as she got. She had the alpha-predator and every man in the audience panting. She was sexy.
I'm going to go watch her again right now.
Kate Hudson stole the show though. She played the gorgeous blonde, but she was no dumb blonde. She was smart and she knew it. She gave as good as she got. She had the alpha-predator and every man in the audience panting. She was sexy.
I'm going to go watch her again right now.
6 Underground (2019)
It was so bad... BUT
The 1's and 2's are absolutely right.
It is an "incoherent mess", and yes it's an "awful story and terrible screenplay". "storyline & plot.... totally missing".
But the action scenes... You have never seen such spectacular action scenes. Okay, maybe you have seen one... or two in a movie. This entire movie is series of spectacular actions scenes one after another, with hardly a breather in between.
Michael Bay demonstrated that he has absolute mastery over this part of movie making. This was a showcase for his talent.
And the production values... well, money was no object. Incredibly rich and exquisitely detailed sets from beginning to end. Dozens of exotic and beautiful locations. The quality of the CGI was unmatched. It looked real. I couldn't tell it was CGI from looking at it, but it was, because it had to be.
It was a BORING movie, but I have never seen anything like it... A feast for the eyes. I may watch it again, after I rest. I gave it a ten for being the best at what it did... Action.
The Citizen (2012)
Propaganda
Islam is the religion of peace. The real terrorists in our world are anyone but Muslems.
We all stand in long security lines at the airports, and probably will do so forever, because someone blew up passenger liners over and over again. Who did that? It must be Martian terrorists, certainly not Muslems.
Every country in the world that shares a border with a Muslem nation is at war with them. It's not the Muslems who are fault. It's all the others.
This movie gives us a Muslem, who thinks and acts like an American, because Muslems are just like Americans.
Give me a break.
This movie gives us a Muslem, who thinks and acts like an American, because Muslems are just like Americans.
Give me a break.
The Adam Project (2022)
Great Movie
The most important thing about a movie is that you enjoy spending time with the characters. Ryan Reynolds is one of my favorites. Easy on the eyes and an attractive voice. This is his best setting, because the script allows him to show off his comic talent.
It was funny. In most cases that is enough.
Bridgerton (2020)
Bizarro World
So weird. It's as if Hollywood fell on its head and lost its mind.
Does anyone remember what a jewel Hollywood used to be before it became woke? When the stories were engaging, even riveting. When funny was funny and sexy was sexy. When they reflected reality, or fantasy, and knew which was which.
When going to the movies was awesome.
Watch movies from the 70's, 80's, 90's, and before. So many were awesomely good, whatever your taste. You will love them.
It has gotten so bad, I don't even look at recently made movies or tv shows to see if I might like them. I know I won't.
Hype away, Hollywood. It won't help you. You are in a death spiral. You belong to the Chicoms now, and you won't last long there.
Ad Astra (2019)
The movie is claustrophobic, slow, and boring.
The movie is claustrophobic, slow, boring. This movie made Brad Pitt look bad, and it only took $85 million. I give up. Hollywood has lost it. They can't make a decent movie, since they got woke.
Just hope things change for the next generation. This is depressing.
The Aftermath (2019)
The first five minutes of the film
I'm only five minutes into the film, and already, I have a bad taste in my mouth. The movie opens with an aerial view of the ruins of Hamburg, five months after the end of the war. Soon we are driving through the shattered city, with Keira Knightley and her husband, and we see homeless Germans digging through the rubble.
Blah, blah, blah, and then her husband says, "We dropped more bombs on Hamburg in one weekend than fell on London in the whole of the war.", as if the US and Britain have something to be ashamed of.
Here is what Churchill said in his famous speech ("Do Your Worst; We'll Do Our Best") to the city of London in July of 1941, after more than a year of murderous air attacks on the city's civilians.
"We ask no favours of the enemy. We seek from them no compunction. On the contrary, if to-night the people of London were asked to cast their vote whether a convention should be entered into to stop the bombing of all cities, the overwhelming majority would cry, "No, we will mete out to the Germans the measure, and more than the measure, that they have meted out to us." The people of London with one voice would say to Hitler: "You have committed every crime under the sun. Where you have been the least resisted there you have been the most brutal. It was you who began the indiscriminate bombing. We remember Warsaw in the very first few days of the war. We remember Rotterdam. We have been newly reminded of your habits by the hideous massacre of Belgrade. We know too well the bestial assault you are making upon the Russian people, to whom our hearts go out in their valiant struggle. We will have no truce or parley with you, or the grisly gang who work your wicked will. You do your worst and we will do our best." Perhaps it may be our turn soon; perhaps it may be our turn now."
Gentleman Jack (2019)
England in Canada
Great even though it's about a lesbian. You can be a plucky woman even if you are not a lesbian, but her deviance doesn't detract much from the woman and her story.
When Heroes Fly (2018)
Israeli film values-worse than Hollywood
I couldn't get past the first half hour. With one or two rare exceptions, all of Israeli film comes in one of two categories. It is either anti-war and defeatist, or about homosexuals.
This effort comes from the first category. It starts with an Israeli unit in a fire fight in Lebanon. The unit comes off rather badly. Of the six men, the commander is killed and two are wounded.
Jump eleven years and we get one of the soldiers, suffering from PTSD, the highlight of which, as he tells his therapist (She has a mile long pony tail, wears billowy pants like out of some Arabian Nights movie, and has the vibe of an aspiring fortune teller), is that at 34 years old, he is still peeing his bed, and doesn't know what day it is. I sense he is going to be our hero.
Just let me the hell out of here!
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)
Not the right medium
The messages in these six short stories belong in a book, not a movie. The stories would have been pedestrian in writing, and they were worse - boring - as cinema.
If this is the best Hollywood can do, it just means it have forgotten how. The movies they used to make knocked my socks off.
The Circus: Inside the Greatest Political Show on Earth (2016)
A pack of lies
This show is a long running ad for the Demorats. It's pretend journalism designed to fool the voter. In a word - Propaganda.
Jack Ryan (2018)
I watched all eight episodes
And I can't remember what it was about.
I wanted to love it, but it was deadly boring, a retread of every old spy story. No wit. No surprises. No chemistry. Nothing.
My review is too short, though there are many shorter.
Westworld (2016)
Devolved into Gibberish
Michael Crichton's novel and story were great. As long as the show was telling his story, it was great. But the story ended with season one. Season two is an attempt at a sequel, and we all know how that goes.
The folks who make the show should stop beating a dead horse. If you have no story, it doesn't matter how much you spend on production values and explosions, the story has no heart, and you are done.
Best to just ship the characters over to that island with the left over dinosaurs from Jurassic Park, and let them fight it out with each other.
PS. When your actors start posturing as Leftists, teaching us Demorat morality, like Woods just did, in the hopes of SAVING the show, you immediately lose another 60 per cent of what's left of your audience, and it's over. Play taps.
Deep State (2018)
Iran is the good guy and America is the bad guy
This show is typical Leftist propaganda from Leftist Hollywood.
Iran is innocent. It has no nuclear program, and the US is framing them so it can start a war.
Why? So DoD military contractors can make a lot of money.
I just want to upchuck. The only thing missing is a gay subplot. Then Hollywood could really shine.
Phantom Thread (2017)
A creepy film that is no fun at all.
Intolerable people everywhere. Everyone grosses you out. You can't even pretend it's a love story, because the characters are so gross.
Trump: The Art of the Insult (2018)
Make another one.
With all the fake news documentaries about Trump, it is a treat to watch one that tells the truth.
Now do one that shows all that he has accomplished in just one year. It should be two hours long to cover everything. It is the most astounding first year any president has ever had.
The economy is roaring back to life. ISIS is gone. America is going to be energy dominant in the world within five years. Business is coming back to America.
All because of his policies. It is an amazing demonstration of how incompetent and self serving our politicians have been. We have a leader is going to MAGA. There is no doubt about it.
War Machine (2017)
Hollywood Leftists make another anti-war movie
This movie has every Hollywood anti-war cliché in it. If you kill the enemy, it just makes more enemies. If you jail criminals you just get more criminals. Wars can't be won, especially by fighting. The indigenous people are happy to have El Quaida, ISIS, or the Taliban rule them. They don't want to be saved. They do. That still doesn't mean it's America's job to do it. The problem is we fight the wars stupidly. First we can't seem to identify the enemy. If Iran is the problem, we should be fighting in Iran not Afghanistan. The Israelis make the same mistake, facing off against Hezballah when the real address for their enemy is Iran. They should be hitting Iran with everything they've got not getting their noses bloodied by Hezballah. Trump knows what to do. Let's just watch and learn.
A Billion Lives (2016)
Vaping is safe, and smoking will kill you.
Vaping is safe, and smoking will kill you. The cigarette companies, pharmaceutical companies and government are moving to kill it everywhere for the money. They are aided and abetted by all the NGO's like the Lung Association who are also funded by Big Pharma and the Cigarette companies. Watch the movie and all will be clear and proved beyond a shadow of a doubt.
The Reagans (2003)
Fake History, you know, like Fake News.
I know Ronald Reagan intimately. I lived in Texas when he was President. I am a news junkie, so I followed every twist and turn of his campaign and his Presidency. Let me tell you every detail and nuance of this movie is an out and out lie. It's as I said Fake History. It was so boring too, the movie I mean. The reality was exciting, packed with incident, and it was exuberant and optimistic. The man brought America back from the dead, and you felt alive, excited, watching it happen. If the movie told the real story it would have been as exciting and inspirational as hell. So in short, Ronald Reagan's economic legislation set America on a ten year path of growing GDP and 30 million good new jobs. For ten years after the US never had a down month in GDP. At the same time, he brought the Soviet Union down without firing a shot. Communist Russia was a fearsome enemy, armed to the teeth with nuclear weapons, and an imperialist ideology with the stated goal of conquering the whole world. Just think of the Nazis, but with a hammer and sickle instead of a swastika. Nothing in the movie gave him any credit for his successes. Instead it dwelled on a visit to the wrong German cemetery and selling arms to Iran for hostages, and giving money to the Contras to fight the Sandanistas in El Salvador contrary to a Democratic law against it. Barack Insane Obama has done it 1000 times. So sad.
Passengers (2016)
The Opposite of La La Land
Spoilers
I watch a lot of movies and almost all of them crash and burn. The ones that are trying to sell me something: gays, and now trans (50 shades of crazy), multi-culti, communism, political correctness in all its various strains, and horror get a zero. When you think about it, that's about 80-90% of today's movies.
The action movies are in trouble too. So many rely on tons and tons of CGI (x-men, avengers etc.) Some are all CGI (Jupiter Rising, Adventureland). The former are bad. The latter are worse.
Some movies that could otherwise be good, are destroyed when the star appears on screen. He or she has been so politically active (Meryl Streep, Ben Affleck) that my reaction is, There's that bitch or moron, who wants to teach me what's right and wrong. I have a priest or rabbi for that. It takes me right out of the movie. These dumb actors are supposed to entertain me, play a role and disappear. I won't go see them anymore. They are just killing their box office. How smart are they?
All the above is so that I could get to 10 lines of text and say something about this movie. So here goes.
I loved it. It was set in the future, so, sci-fi and every drop of CGI (just beautiful) added to the movie. It was a delicious love story with wonderful actors, and it raised a novel and interesting moral dilemma. It was witty and the dialogue was funny and clever.
In the end love conquered all (I like that.) It was the exact opposite of La La Land, which was of the opinion, that career and fame were more important than love, which may be true, but it's not how I like my movies or books. I loved La La Land until the ending, which left me with the taste of ashes in my mouth. I gave it a 7 instead of a 10, because of the ending. Of course, Hollywood loved it. It's full of people who gave up all to be in movies.
Jennifer Lawrence, Emma Stone, Ryan Gosling, and Chris Pratt are our new A-list.
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (2015)
Wow! Dazzling!
Rachel Bloom is soo smart. The script is soo clever, and fresh. This show is on a level with Seinfeld - something special. It's funny on so many different levels, and surprising. The musical pieces are genius and fun and musical. Let's not have sex triggers memories we have forgotten, and it sizzles. Who would have thought of that? Or "Please don't be a murderer." Drinking sparkles, is great too, even if she made such a fuss about it. I love this show.
Now I'm just going to put in some filler so I can qualify to post the review. It has to be at least 10 lines long or it is unacceptable. Okay, I will give it a try now.
Page Eight (2011)
A rank piece of Leftist propaganda
This is an ultra-Leftist film. The dictatorial Prime Minister of Great Britain and the evil Americans are in cahoots hiding the secret that the Americans are running torture chambers all over the world. The good director of MI-5 (who dies halfway through) and his golden-haired protégé work to expose the Prime Minister's deceit.
An added subplot, mixed with a romantic element for the fair-haired boy, is that the Israelis are shooting people waving white flags and covering up these cold-blooded murders. That explains a lot of the 8 and 9 ratings for a movie with an empty plot.
The British Secret service knows about this as well, but isn't telling anyone. I guess they are not all as good as our hero. In the finale the Israelis are outed on national television and a good time is had by all.
Good actors, but ultimately unwatchable because of the sickening premises, which require the inversion of good and evil, with the help of a lot of lies.
American Sniper (2014)
I'm proud to be an American and they can't take that away.
American Sniper is the movie that should not have existed. Even though the book was a bestseller, nobody in Hollywood wanted the rights.
And why would they?
The Iraq War already had an official narrative in Hollywood. It was bad and wrong. Its veterans were crippled, dysfunctional and dangerous.Before American Sniper, Warner Brothers had gone with anti- war flicks like Body of Lies and In the Valley of Elah. It had lost a fortune on Body of Lies; but losing money had never stopped Hollywood from making anti-war movies that no one wanted to watch.
Even the Hurt Locker had opened with a quote from leftist terrorist supporter Chris Hedges.
An Iraq War movie was supposed to be an anti-war movie. There was no other way to tell the story. Spielberg's own interest in American Sniper was focused on "humanizing" the other side. When he left and Clint Eastwood, coming off a series of failed films, took the helm, it was assumed that American Sniper would briefly show up in theaters and then go off to die quietly in what was left of the DVD aisle.
And then American Sniper broke box office records that had been set by blockbusters like Avatar, Passion and Hangover Part II by refusing to demonize American soldiers or to spin conspiracy tales about the war. Instead of pandering to coastal progressives, it aimed at the patriotic heartland.
In a sentence you no longer expected to hear from a Hollywood exec, the Warner Brothers distribution chief said, "This is about patriotism and all the things people say the country is lacking these days."
The backlash to that patriotism and the things the country is lacking these days didn't take very long to form and it goes a lot deeper than snide tweets from Michael Moore and Seth Rogen. Academy members were reportedly passing around an article from the New Republic, whose author had not actually seen the movie, but still denounced it for not showing Chris Kyle as a bigoted murderer.
Hollywood progressives are both threatened and angered by American Sniper. And with good reason.
The most basic reason is the bottom line. Between Lone Survivor, Unbroken and American Sniper, the patriotic war movie is back.