jsmith2375-1 Reviews

Steven Universe (2013–2019)

I am a 42 year old man and wow, I am blown away by this show

[10/10 · 23 October 2015]

I have been watching cartoon network since its inception. I have kids who were brought up on dog cat, cat and chicken, Dexter, power-puff girls, johnny bravo, June bugs (the Warner cartoons all June) and fosters house. This cartoon is weirdly good, it feels foreign to me, the show it a normal American production. But saying all that, that's what makes it great. Its so different and likable. The episode where the lion kept sleeping on Steven's face, and there was another world in the main that had a old VHS tape from Stevens mom. When he plays it with the little girl, they both wept with what they saw. I wept too. I have never done that on any cartoon, pretty great show! '

Don't Let Him In (2011)

You can polish a turd, but its still a turd

[1/10 · 15 December 2011]

I was shocked just how bad this movie was. It was well made, well acted, great scenery, and like a said, you can polish a turd, but its still a turd. As well made as this movie was it was terrible. It was a typical slasher movie except all of the characters have had their brains surgically removed. None of the characters do things that people in real life do, nor do they react to situations like a normal human being. Two scenes that jump out at me are when the 'mysterious' hitchhiker shows up at the main characters remote cabin with a stab wound. The main female character is a nurse and immediately begins to give him medical aid (I with the scene so far), so the tertiary blonde bimbo say in the background, I will call an ambulance. The nurse lady tells her that there is no time for that. Then the blonde watches impotently as the main character saves his life. What the 'f' do you mean that there is no time to call an ambulance, the blonde wasn't helping anyway, so call the effing ambulance. But here's the kicker, after the mysterious stranger is going to live, they don't call the police, an ambulance, they are going to let this wounded guy stay in there remote cabin without an explanation to why he was stabbed. I don't know about you, but if a guy shows up at my door with a gushing stab wound, granted I am going to do everything that I can to save his life, but the ambulance and police are going to be called. The second unforgivable scene is when the protagonists now know who one of the killers are, and still let him back into the house. The movie was so terribly written it begs for an explanation. How could you have gathered a group of intelligent actors and not have anybody say, 'you know this doesn't make any sense'...