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The Boss (2016)
An unfunny "comedy" with unlikeable characters.
I hated this movie. I don't know if my expectations on a comedy is to high, but I expect to at least laugh a couple of times. It didn't happen in this, not even once. I actually almost fell asleep a couple of times. Why I even finished it is a question I will ask myself for a long time.
The only character that was okay was the daughter of Bells character and that was just barely. Otherwise they was bland, boring or totally horrible like Michelle.
I have seen in other reviews that if you don't like this you are a women-hating man that's afraid of strong women. Well, I'm a woman and am not at all intimidted by strong women. More power to them! But it doesn't change the fact that I just hated this movie. Sometimes it's just that simple.
The Keepers (2017)
Interesting and sad, but to much time spent on small details.
The first four episodes was great and interesting but then it started to be a bit boring and repetitive.
To me the documentary have two stories: 1. the sexual abuse that was going on, father Maskell and the way the church and police covered that up. Horrible and important story to tell. This part was very interesting and good. I did have a problem with the fact that sometimes it turned in to the Jane Doe-show. She is a very important part of the case, but I would have wanted to hear more from the other victims. This part could have been a bit shorter. Like I said, it is a very important subject to talk about and it was interesting, but they could have less scenes with people making tea and stuff like that.
Part number 2 is the investigation of sister Cathy Cesniks murder. Again a very interesting story. But it was dragged out on small details that isn't even proved to be linked to the case. Or there is an easy answer to. I also felt like while the filmmakers did tried to show other suspect, in the end they always got back to who they think is either the killer or at least involved. So even if they showed them, it was like even if they did do it, it was on someone else order. None of them had a proved or a at least a very lose contact with sister Cathy like living next door. That doesn't mean that they can't be the killer/s but the one suspect that did have a relationship with her was just glossed over. The police though he was an interesting suspect. Why?
Joyce Malecki was another victim in this and I think she should have been remembered more. Her story was also important, but i felt like the filmmakers more or less threw her name in because they felt that they had to, because of all the similarities to sister Cathys murder. I still wonder what the link between sister Cathy and Joyce was if there was one. Because if one believe that Cathys murder was a cover up, why was Joyce murdered if the two cases are related?
It is an interesting and heartbreaking documentary that made me angry and got me to think, but the last three episodes dragged it down. I think it would have been better if it was a bit shorter. As it is now it becomes a bit boring and ridiculous with the time they spend on small details that probably isn't even related to the case.
I hope my English isn't to bad, it's not my first language.
Casting JonBenet (2017)
Horrible and offensive
This was a really boring and upsetting...I don't even know what to call it. Not a documentary and not a movie, just...I don't know. It was a lot of unknown wannabee actors gossiping about a horrible and disgusting murder of a little girl. They don't know anything more than what the papers and blogs write and they have this chance to just throw out their opinions. In between outlandish ideas and theories some of them brag about their own beauty pageants and talk about anecdotes from their own lives. I watched this to see more about JonBenét Ramsey, not strangers I never heard about and don't care about. If I wanted to hear peoples opinions and theories I would have read more blogs instead,
And I have read a lot of blogs and forum about this case and many others and have a high tolerance, but there was some parts of this that made me really uncomfortable. This is a...whatever...that's on television. I expect higher quality than on some obscure forum. Especially one thing that stood out to me was the guy that talked about his breast fetish. I mean, good for him or whatever, but this was about a horrible, disgusting murder of a six- year old that may have been sexually molested! To let people talk about their interest in bondage felt so disrespectful to JonBenéts memory. Really horrible and I don't get how anybody could think that that was okay. It was not the only time I reacted negatively, but it was by far the worst.
With all of this said, I have to be honest and say that I didn't even see it all. I fast- forwarded and hoped it would get better. It never did. This program was not about the case, but I honestly have no idea what it was about or why anybody felt that this had to be done. It felt like everybody in it got a chance to have fifteen minutes of fame on the expensive of a little girl. They said that they felt it was tragic, they shed some tears but in the end I just got the feeling that they enjoyed have something chocking to gossip about. Left me upset and with a bad taste in my mouth!
Making a Murderer (2015)
Interesting but biased
As a true crime-fan this was a must see for me. And if I had seen this three years ago when I was new to true crime, I would have screamed about innocent and just believe everything this documentary showed. But now my first thought after I finished watching was about the fact that they showed so little from the prosecutors and the Halbach family side. I know that that's because they have declined to be in the show, but it doesn't change the fact that MAM is obviously Pro-Avery.
Of course a 10 hour long documentary can't go in to detail about every thing, but some googling shows that they kept things that make Steven Avery look bad out. It makes me a bit more negative about the documentary witch makes me give it a lower grade. I would have wanted a more balanced program.
I still think it's interesting and made me think and say "what?" and that's what I think a documentary should do. It was a bit slow sometimes, but overall it kept my interest and I would recommend it to others. But I would tell them to Google after to get more of the story.
Veronica Mars (2014)
A fun trip down a sometimes dull memory lane.
I start by saying that I am really, really sorry for my awful English, it's not my first language. I have been in a war with my spell-check and it won. My choice was keeping Swedish as the language for spelling or throwing the computer out the window. I decided that horrible English cost less than a new computer...besides spell-check does nothing on bad grammar so ;)
With that out of the way, here's my review: I am a marshmallow, and Veronica Mars is my favorite show of all times. I was one of the fans that wanted a movie from the start, but as the years passed, I gave up on that idea and I was surprised when I saw that there was one on the way because I missed everything about the kick-start-thing. I really looked forward to it, but I tried to keep my expectation low because movies this long after can go either way. Still, I rented it online as soon as it was possible and was hoping to be able to give this movie the 10 stars the show have gotten from me, but unfortunately not.
I loved parts of it, the first hour took me like 2,5 hours to get through because of my constant rewinding to see the the hilarious and good scenes over and over. Veronica was brilliant as ever, I loved all the scenes with Mac, Wallace, Weevil, Dick and Piz. I have always been a big fan of Piz - even if I didn't want him as a love-interest for Veronica - and I thought that he was even better in the movie. I loved Keith as always, I loved the familiar faces and some of the cameos, and even if I loved to hate Don Lamb - when they killed him of was one of the worst parts of season 3 - they got a great replacement in his older brother. I loved the reunion and of course all the snark and all the jokes, because that's what's made me fell in love with the show from the beginning. So that part of the movie was way over my expectations and I was pleasantly surprised.
But as my voting shows, I was disappointed in other parts of the movie. The murder-plot was uninteresting, I figured it out almost from the start. My only reaction was "not Dick as a suspect again". Thankfully they didn't really made him a suspect which was the only good thing about the whole thing. As I wrote before, I loved most of the first hour or so, but the last half-hour was boring IMHO. I didn't like the sub-plot with Weevil and Celeste Kane and I didn't like what happened to Sacks and the fact that the movie left so many unanswered questions. It's to obvious that they are angling for a sequel or spin-off or something. In a way I have more questions now than after the end of the show.
I haven't mentioned Logan. Dohring was excellent as always, but because of the storyline we got the surly and depressed Logan. I understand that, but I still missed the more snarky and fun Logan. It's natural that he wasn't because after all, he was accused of murder but still, I love him when he is snarky :D
The whole love-triangle thing was to predictable. One of the first things I said after seeing the last ep of the series was "It didn't end with LoVe so if they ever get a movie or the show get another chance, the first thing they are going to do is getting those two together". And even if I was a big LoVe-shipper in the first two seasons, in season 3 I was so tired of it and I didn't even think they where that good for each-other. But nine years have past so who knows, maybe their epic love-story will last this time. Still predictable and I would have preferred that Veronica ended up with nobody.
So summary: There is parts I love and I'm going to watch again and again, There is parts that makes me laugh, there is parts that is a let-down, there is parts that where predictable and there is parts that bored me. But I was happy to get a trip down memory-lane, and I thank the really "obsesed" marshmallows out there for that. I hope they are totally in love with the movie, because after all, it was thanks to them the movie was made. I really wish I could give the movie more stars, I wanted to love it the whole way through, but the end dragged it down for me and when the credits rolled I felt a kind of sadness that I can't explain. I liked that Veronica stayed in Neptune though, it's where she belongs and normal is not the watchword for Veronica Mars!