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Batwoman (2019)
Finally something I enjoy watching
It's new, unique, and refreshing. I have stopped watching all the mainstream craps for decades since everyone's selling the same old (stale) idea over and over. Finally there's something different that can win the audience who have abandoned the mainstream TV shows.
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister (2010)
Inaccurate depiction of Anne Lister
I agree with review by Karien Van Der Westhuizen. I am very disappointed that despite the progress we have nowadays, none of historical movies can honestly depict historical butch/ftm characters as whom they really were. I am sorry but Anne Lister was not a feminine lesbian as depicted here. I know that TV shows and movies hate butch lesbian/transgender/intersex characters but to distort historical figures again and again is unforgivable. Another example is the feminizing of Queen Kristina's hair and dresses in the movie "The Girl King". Both Queen Kristina and Anne Lister are among the most interesting masculine queer historical figures. Anne was a butch lesbian/ftm, while Queen Kristina was intersex/butch/ftm but both are re-characterized and suppressed to fit the typical Hollywood-styled cisgenders' feminine-lesbian fantasy. Having read about real Anne Lister's lives, I find these movies hard to watch. Otherwise, this movie is fine.
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009)
Too cheap for kids and too superficial EVEN for kids..
Two words to summarize this movie: cheap and superficial. Many of the characters are simply too annoying and too 1-dimensional to watch. Most of the characters do not represent (or sometimes are a total misrepresent) the actual historical figures whose names this movie borrowed. The plot is so predictable and lame. The only good thing is the computer graphic. There is no story or character development. The dialogue is lame. The jokes are lame.
There are many characters that annoyed me but the worst one is Amelia Earhart's character, which is extremely dumb and annoying. I almost couldn't stand her nonstop babbling in the first 20 minutes she appeared. Judging from the reviews and discussion threads, all we remember about Amelia Earhart is her ass, her tight pants, and her urge to flirt and kiss for no reason (certainly not something I would want my kids to watch). Shame on the writers for abusing Amelia Earhart's name like this. In fact, the only two female characters in this movie are really lame and clingy (which is again the total opposite of their actual historical characters).
Everything was so predictable that I was just sitting here on waiting for it to be over so I don't have to watch anymore of the awkward, forced flirting scenes. This is the most boring and annoying movies I have ever watched.
Star Wars (1977)
Illogical Fairy Tale Story Disguised under "Science" Label
As an adult working in science academia, I cannot bare science fictions. But I try. I have faith that there must be some good science-fiction movies. I forced myself to watch this movie and I could not imagine how any adult would be able to keep their attention on it. The story is so predictable and shallow.
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There is no twist, no smart plot, just a typical Disney fairy tale plot: Princess kidnapped by bad guys. Good guys tried to rescue the princess. Bad guys were totally ridiculously inefficient. Good guy won, regardless of how outnumbered they were. Main characters also had psychic power. Please, what kind of fake science story is that?
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By the way, the vision of what future technology could be, as given in this film, is not even reasonable. For example, with all the advancement (plus the psychic power) they have, people are still fighting with.. guess what.. fancy swords? Really? How imaginative! I laugh out loud every time I see a scene of laser sword fight. You've got to be kidding me.