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Jim-Eadon
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Seance (2021)
Too woke to be fun
I can kinda understand modern hollywood horror movies being burdened with cliche's, as new horror tropes are hard to come by. However, that doesn't mean a movie can't be fun. Here, though, we have the usual (nowadays) woke casting (of actresses who are, in addition, way too old for their parts). And, in my case, the wokeness factor actually gave away the solution to the mystery. Sad.
Here, the actresses were plain and dreary, and could not hold the movie at all. Avoid. In addition to this, the deaths were oddly lame, or otherwise unsatisfying.
The Batman (2022)
Batman? More like Batperson
A woke version of Batman. Dreadful in every way. Tries to be cool, but woke is not cool. It's lame.
Here we have a dreary bunch of characters trying to be cool. There is no fun, no style, no substance. It's empty empty empty. Tedious, pious, PC manure. Makes one realise, by contrast, how good, on a relative scale, the old batman movies actually were. We didn't know how lucky we were when movies were still good.
Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)
Horrible casting - no soul
This is woke take on Godzilla. Like everything woke, the result has no heart, no soul. It's an exercise in box-ticking and taking as few creative risks as possible.
And when they copied the famous meme of the daughter grinning at a disaster... Ugh! She thought she was about to be burned to a crisp, and now she's not even breathing heavily, not shocked, just copying a meme?
This detail is typical of the film. None of it makes any sense. It's just about trying to achieve this image, or that SFX animation.
The SFX were pretty decent, but it looked computer-gamey, with 3D models seeming fairly weightless, like the hollow polygon surfaces they actually are.
And, besides, the effects are not so interesting when one is disengaged from the action. I disliked virtually all the characters in this nonsense, and was rooting for the dragon to slay all the cast.
This movie is junk. Avoid.
Zoe (2018)
Ending is misunderstood, the twist is clever.
The ending is NOT what it seems on the surface.
Apparent ending: the original Zoe was rescued, and it was a happy ending. But, I don't think that happened. The rescue did not happen, those memories were false.
When our hero goes into the hotel room, and meets a new Zoe, the new Zoe was weird, and he forms no attachment. But, her acting weird was just to fool him.
Our hero is then is seemingly reunited with the "original" Zoe. But, the original Zoe was destroyed. He was actually meeting a *another* new Zoe, but this one was acting the same as the original Zoe did. He fell for the trick, because the first new Zoe was acting so fake. So, he though the 2nd New Zoe was the original Zoe.
The clue was the tears. The movie made a big deal about tears. Our hero even said that it was *physically impossible* for the original Zoe to cry. Only a new Zoe could cry. So, when Zoe cried, at the end, that proves she was actually the new Zoe. Not the original.
Why the two-new-Zoes' trick? Well, the Zoe's are designed to make men happy. And, with this trick to fool him, he could now be happy.
The plot hole here is, he would surely figure this out. But, maybe he already did, but, this time, he decided to go with it. He had a second chance to do that.
Replicas (2018)
First half was good
The first half of the movie was interesting. Gripping even. But then but the second half fell flat, with a stream of even-more implausible scenes. It was a pity they couldn't sustain the suspense and creativity. That was probably down to studio meddling, if I had to guess.
Inheritance (2020)
Terrible casting, lousy plot
The actress did not seem at all plausible as the lead, and I did not feel any sympathy for her whatsoever. Ditto for any of the other characters, who all make glaring mistakes, because, plot.
I saw the twist a mile off, and the entire plot was implausible. Including a massive coincidence needed to justify the premise. And, even then, it doesn't.
The movie wasn't even entertaining, like some bad movies can be.
Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
An empty movie with CGI-looking CGI
The problem with this movie is, it has no heart. It's formula, amped up with effects. A movie designed by committee, hoping fireworks and "metaverse" (ugh!) characters will print money. How souless it all is.
Willy's Wonderland (2021)
Apart from casting of teens, pretty good
The teenagers were just horrible, unwatchable. This was dreadful casting. Hence the 4 rating, not a 9 rating, if the teenagers were good.
Also I hated the the ridiculous "product placement" mention of a burger-maker, whom I boycott. Glorifying energy drinks, which are extremely fattening, is also bad. Producers, please don't do ads-in-movies! It destroys the film for me.
Apart from the unwatchable teens, this was a great movie. I loved the animatronics, and their sinister songs were surreal and wonderful.
What a missed opportunity.
Dexter: New Blood: Unfair Game (2021)
Shot in leg usually means death
There is no place to shoot the body safely. The leg is extremely vulnerable: bones shatter, arteries & veins are cut, you name it. No way can a man shot like that outrun a fit male. No way could he even limp on that leg... Yet, inexplicably, the guy with two good legs cannot keep up with this superman... This series is unplausible in a thousand ways, this is only one plot-hole. But, it's an annoying cliche nontheless.
I wouldn't mind, but, apart from Dexter and the bad guy, the cast are just horrible...
Dexter: New Blood (2021)
Terrible casting
His girlfriend is annoying. Deb is ultra-annoying. His son and the teens are annoying. The blogger is ultra-annoying. The cops in general are dull.
The makers of Dexter went woke. The problem with going woke is, it kills the show, just to tick boxes.
Dexter himself is the only reason to watch the show, though Clancy Brown is also pretty good.
The way to watch this show is to fast-forward through most of the girlfriend scenes, unless it's police work with some plot. Fast-forward through all the teenagers scenes. Fast-forward through the screeching-harpy, sweary ghost-Deb scenes. Then it's actually quite good. The scenes with the charismatic Dexter himself in it are the only watchable scenes. I really miss the original Dexter. Especially the early seasons.
To repeat: shows are so woke now, they're absolutley dreadful. It's extremely sad, knowing 99.9% of the good stuff was made in the past.
Foundation (2021)
Dull
I read the books, and this show is a massive disappontment. Women "of colour" are playing key male characters for no reason I can see other than political correctness. And for what reward? It's tedious stuff. What a let down :(
No Time to Die (2021)
Where's the fun?
The first third of the movie is entertaining. After that, this movie is dreary. As others pointed out, there are no good one-liners, no humour. The cast were generally bad, especially the actresses and villain. Compare the tedium of this modern, lifeless, PC movie with the fun, un-PC Connery and Moore movies, which are great fun to watch, charming, and often very funny.
Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker (2019)
Woke Wars Rise of Mary Sue
What a depressing load of garbage this movie is. Truly it's a diaster that Hollywood went woke. Modern movies typically have no entertainment. They're just trying to tick virtue-signalling boxes.
This movie is truly awful. Avoid!
Oh, and they (badly) ripped off a great scene in Antz too.
Bad acting by unlikeable characters. Terrible dialogue. It's just awful.
41 (2012)
This is my interpretation
Spoilers
My interpretation fo the movie. This actually isn't a genuine time travel movie, no one travels backwards through time, as the movie itself points out.
First clue: if it's a real time-travel movie, then it's ridiculous and has tons of plot holes and absurdities that the script writers were surely cogniscant of.
So, what could make the apparent absurdities and plot holes actually make sense? For me, there's one sensible explanation.
In the middle of the movie there is a scene where the student chats with some lecturers about the idea of writing a novel with time-travel. They give him some advice. This is the key to the whole movie. Next what happens is what I'm guessing: that the lad went away and wrote his novel, which was bad, as most writing by amateurs (and even professionals) is. This movie was a film that very (bad) novel that he wrote.
This meta-movie plot is the only explanation that makes any sense to me. As the idea of a time-machine under a toilet in a hotel can only make sense this way. As can all the other absurdities.
This is the most satisfying explanation, but the movie was still bad. They should have hired a nice actress, whom we could believe he wanted to save so much. This one had no charisma at all. In fact most of the actors were uninteresting. However, its an amateur movie, so understandable.
Horse Girl (2020)
Dreary, no matter what the interpretation
I enjoy quirky movies with great twists, but this isn't one. The first interpretation is, she's schitzophrenic, in which case, it's not a very interesting movie. That does explain how she can't remember things she did. She obviously was the one who "stole" her car, for example, and she cannot recall conversations and initial meetings with people. If she has a kind of multiple personality disorder, then it's explained. But it's a pretty dull movie.
The second interpretation is more interesting. She was onto the truth, and was part of a game by aliens, including genuine time travel. That would mean the horse passing the shop window scene, at the start and end of the movie was real, she was travelling through time. It would fit with her posessing her granny's frock. It would expain the claw-marks (aliens did it). And, at the end, it means she genuinely went back in time to "be" her own grandmother (again). But then you get fridge logic, where nothing makes sense. Why would she act totally crazy? It reminds me of the joke about aliens only abducting crazy people, because no one would believe them.
However, this time-travel twist is a weak pay-off for such a laboured movie, with uninteresting characters. Sure it's a twist, but it was a twist that was revealed by her speaking her theory (telling before showing). So it was entirely unsatisfying. A time travelling granny is not very compelling, is it? X-files episode stuff without the charm of the actors.
Yes, that's mad, so then we must conclude that the movie was just about mental illness. Unsatisfying either way.
The movie also had weird dialogue preaching (left) political propaganda, so the woke-ness of it made it even more unenjoyable. Avoid!
Terminator: Dark Fate (2019)
Go woke, go broke
All modern Hollywood movies are PC, they're downright woke. For me, it makes them unwatchable, and I boycott these SJW movies, not just as a protest, but I genuinely find them intensely irritating. Disney Star Wars being a case in point.
Compared to classic movies, modern movies are dumbed-down, soulless and shallow too.
Bad Times at the El Royale (2018)
PC lecture on the 60s
This is what I would expect from woke film-makers trying to make a cool movie about the 60s.
The opening was promising, but, as is so often the case, nowadays, the movie loses its way. The characters are unsympathetic, except for one who shows up early, but is not around for long.
By far the most annoying character was the singer.
Also there was no chemistry between the hippy sisters and the hippy who turns up later. In fact, there was no chemistry between any of them. The movie was dead, an exercise in copying Tarantino, who himself went drastically downhill after his second movie.
The movie does not resonate at all with what the magical 60s were about, it's trying to foist the PC 2010s onto the 60s.
Ready Player One (2018)
Great opening, then downhill
I was greatly entertained by this movie at first. Up to the point where the lad won the first key, it was fine, absolutely fine, and I enjoyed the manic rendering of the VR game and the race.
That exhilaration, was going to be hard to beat, and, sure enough, the movie fails to beat it. The lad was likeable, but the rest of the cast were so-so. There was no tension, and how are we supposed to respect a villain, when a women who works for him insults him so disdainfully.
This is an example of political correctness in movies destroying the movie. Yes, it panders to feminists, but it destroys the villain, who should be respected and feared, not put down and mocked.
We also get a tick-box set of nationalities as the cast, but there's no chemistry between the characters. All movies now are becoming the same.
Finally, there are a bunch of plot-holes, but I can forgive a movie like this for plot holes IF the movie is good, and sadly, after the first third, this was ho-hum.
The IOI corporation is mocked, but then again, but is corporate Hollywood any better?
Terminator: Dark Fate (2019)
Go woke, go broke
All modern Hollywood movies are PC, they're downright woke. For me, it makes them unwatchable, and I boycott these SJW movies, not just as a protest, but I genuinely find them intensely irritating. Disney Star Wars being a case in point.
Compared to classic movies, modern movies are dumbed-down, soulless and shallow too.
Line of Duty: The Intrigue (2019)
First three episodes were passable, five and six fell flat.
Aside from the tension of the scenes with the undercover cop early on, the series was dull. Episodes 5 and 6 were flat and anti-climactic.
Also the dialogue throughout was terrible. The acting was lousy too, possibly because the actors could see how ludicrous the plot was, particularly towards the end. Too many things did not make any sense.
Why did the undercover cop blow his cover in such a stupid and reckless manner? Why were the others expecting him to react like he did?
I wonder what happened to the female AC cop, she looks a bit haggard.
Having Hastings be the bent cop would have been the most satisfying and logical plot line. Having the obviously-bent lawyer bit-art lady be the villainess was neither here nor there.
Regarding the Hastings interrogation, wouldn't his serious protestations that he had been framed be investigated, prior to rushing to prosecution? It didn't seem realistic, in fact none of it was convincing, the more you think about it, the more nothing makes sense, nothing is plausible.
Every time "Dot" is mentioned, I was thinking about how lackluster this season was compared to the great couple of seasons.
Game of Thrones: A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (2019)
PC preaching
The old magic is gone. What we have here is a Game of Thrones written by feminists. Preachy. Dull. Boring. Unrealistic. This is not fun, it's being lectured to.
Also the number of positive reviews, which are obviously written by shills, is shocking.
Line of Duty: Royal Hunting Ground (2017)
Bad plot
This season has unsympathetic characters doing stupid things. Any half decent professional detective would have found a million dodgy things wrong with the "murder", and figured it out immediately. But it took our heroes 6 episodes to figure out the obvious. Way too many plot holes. Evidence magically appearing, disappearing, people not asking obvious questions.
The first 2 series were great, then down hill.
Doctor Who: The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos (2018)
Bad writing is a consequence of a PC agenda
PC is the enemy of enjoyable writing, fun characters, creative language and exciting story telling.
So when people say, don't blame PC, blame the bad writing, the latter follows from the former.
You can have PC or you can have entertaining, enjoyable productions. Choose one.
The Gaffer: Goodbye (1983)
Great classic sit-com
From Britain when it was still Great! Wonderful characters. British humour. Clever plots.
Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015)
Midly entertaining but also irritating.
The best thing about the movie were the European locations. The movie is almost non-stop action and yet there was very little suspense. No doubt the direction was poor, but also the characters are invulnerable, there is never any doubt they will prevail.
Pegg was the comic relief but he always seems a bit forced to me. Like the bloke who played the Hobbit.
I never could buy the scientologist weirdo Cruise as an action guy, he's a pint pot mid-life crisis pretty boy. I was wondering how much this movie would be improved without him, he just seems to be on an ego trip.
Then there is the typical hollywood mythological woman who can kill assassins at will just by wrapping her legs around their necks. Yeah right. You might knock a gun out their hands, but they will have another gun, and you would be dead. And even if a knife fight - no chance.
Plus the plot holes and discontinuities are everywhere. The plans these guys have rely on million-to-one coincidences to work! The things these guys do really are impossible.
And of course, you're dealing with a world where there is zero security, the heroes can access and wonder around anywhere with impunity.
All this means that you're just watching set-pieces that you've seen before, only done better.
I was not expecting better, I just watch daft movies from time to time to see what modern block-buster making looks like.
And the fake positive reviews on this site - oh my!