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Megan Is Missing (2011)
Just terrible
If there is a message to be found in this movie, you'll have to use a camera, stick it down your throat, and find where they shoved it. Zero entertainment value, zero world shattering revelations to be had, don't waste your time.
Doctor Who: Flux: Chapter Six - The Vanquishers (2021)
Beyond Disappointing
The season started with such promise, but by episode 5 it was clear it was going to fall flat.
Yaz has been around so long that she has become a caricature of what little character she originally had. Dan is a poorly written, near flawless human being, portrayed by a man who is either not right for the role, or simply cannot act. Jodie's performance, whilst better than most others in this season, lacks the "spark", charm, and charisma of her predecessors.
The main villains of this season just bloody disappear. You spend the entire season wondering how the Doctor can defeat them, just for them to vanish. The Flux is trivially overcome after 5 episodes of us being told it's impossible. A villain with no back story is defeated by being left on a rock.
Chibnall wrote himself into a corner, too many characters and plotlines for a 6 episode season, and used every lazy tactic possible to get out of it, including genocide which is okay if the Doctor does it.
I started this season thinking there was hope for Chibnall, but it's clear now, this man needs to go NOW.
I've tried my best to keep an open mind since Chibnall became showrunner, but really the whole "timeless child" BS should've been the final nail in the coffin for me.
All in all, the show just doesn't feel like Doctor Who anymore.
+1 star for not ramming the fact that they have a woman missing an arm down our throats, like they did with Ryan's dyspraxia.
The Game (1997)
A mind numbing train wreck of a movie.
This movie was forced upon me by my step father, "this is the kind of movie where you must pay attention 100% of the time" excellent, my kind of movie.
The protagonist of this movie is a wealthy gentleman though his name escapes me, I have no idea why, I remember the names of most the characters in this movie, but his I guess just wasn't as memorable as "Conrad".
Scrooge McDuck is approached by his brother who looks like he's young enough to be his son, he hands him a card, insisting he call the number. This is the first of about a million plot conveniences that will occur in this movie. He goes to the base of operations from which this company operates from, why? Plot convenience.
He asked exactly what is it that they do? Oh, they do games, fantastic, well I'm a wealthy business man and I have no time for games, take your noodles and shove them up your- this doesn't happen. For the sake of plot convenience he stays for most the day, answering stupid questions and doing random tests.
I don't want to go on about the plot too much, but I will mention some moments that were especially... Plot conveniencey.
There's one scene that particularly stands out to me, McDuck is trapped in a taxi as it's sinking into the water, though he manages to escape using an item he had obtained earlier, fantastic, he didn't die! It's so good that in a situation where most people would panic and just try punch the window or something, he was able to think clearly and logically. And if he didn't, and he just died, oh well, guess that's that.
The absolute WORST scene in the entire movie:
McDuck is on a roof holding a woman hostage with a gun, she explains it was a birthday treat, he of course, after almost dying a few times, doesn't believe her, one thing leads to another and he fatally shoots his brother through a champagne bottle, killing him in seconds. Drowning in guilt, the poor man walks to the edge of the roof, and jumps off falling to his death, dying the same say his father died... And at the same age, it was a heart wrenching moment.
He falls through the glass, lands on a super safe bouncey castle and lives to tell the tail, hahaha you idiots, he didn't kill his brother, he didn't jump to his death! It's so good that they were able to predict with 100% certainty the exact part of the ledge that he'd jump from, it's not like he could of jumped from anywhere else, its not like he could of tried to kill himself in any other way. What if instead of casually stepping off the edge to fall to his death, what if he had ran and jumped?
And after all that, he seems to be happy and grateful for all the dread and stress he's been through??? I'd be so angry that it'd be punching whoever was closest to me! The experience probably took 10 hears off his life. Why did anyone think it was a good idea???
I went into this movie, told that I had to pay attention to every detail, not to switch off for a second as every single frame was of the upmost importance. I'd say though, this is the kind of movie where you have to switch your brain off, don't analyze ANYTHING, as the holes are everywhere.
About Schmidt (2002)
Surprisingly touching.
The way the movie is laid out, you can see how they could have easily gone the "Meet The Fockers" route, however, this is not the case, they have taken the road less travelled.
I'll admit I am slightly biased here, Jack Nicholson being one of the few actors I rather like, none the less, this is one of his greatest performances, very few actors could have played this role as successfully as Nicholson has. While everyone played their roles spectacularly well, Nicholson does indeed steal the show here.
The movie is very down to earth, and very moving, Warren Schmidt (portrayed by Nicholson) is a very real man, and while there is the occasionally goofy bit here and there, and a nude scene which was both very shocking and felt out of place, the narrative stays relatively grounded in reality. I don't want to give too much away about the plot, as this is 100% a movie you need to go into with minimal knowledge of, I will say this, this movie has the potential to bring even a grown man to tears (and yes, I'm talking Toy Story 3 levels here).
So, why didn't I give this movie a 10/10? Considering all I'm really doing is talking about how amazing it is, and how much I loved it. Unfortunately for me, I could not stand the soundtrack, it sounded so generic , so bouncy, so happy-go-lucky, it took me out of the experience way too often for me to try ignore it. Take the music for the credit sequence for example, after such an incredibly moving moment, you'd expect a moment of silence, then a subtle and serene piano piece to give you some time to sit there and reflect on the movie and to let it properly sink in. What did we get instead? So, we have the incredibly moving moment, they gave us a nice moment of silence, and then bouncy happy-go-lucky music! I usually, as I said, like to sit there for a bit through the credit sequence to let the movie sink in, but nope, I grabbed the remote and quickly turned it off. The music ruined an otherwise near-perfect movie.
Despite my quarrels with the man responsible for the soundtrack of this movie, I'd still highly recommend to anyone that they watch this movie, you just can't ignore the incredibly directing, acting, cinematography, etc. And I'll probably watch it again someday when I finish rinsing out the sour taste the soundtrack left in my mouth.
Black Mirror: Arkangel (2017)
An infuriatingly predictable and cliche watch.
Reading the plot synopsis before going into this, it definitely caught my interest, though I was hesitant, as season 4 had been mostly a disappointment for me so far, I was interested to see how Black Mirror could approach a story that I felt had an obvious beginning, middle, and end.
Before I go into the plot though, I just want to take a second to mention the music for this episode, it is absolutely awful, I don't think the composer was sure which emotions he/she wanted to convey, so they just got their 5 year old child to compose the soundtrack for them.
What's the first thing the plot synopsis brings to mind? For me, (keep in mind these were my thoughts going into it, before I watched the episode), it'd start with an over protective mother, who would try shelter her daughter from the world so much that her daughter would not build up an emotional resistance to things that might scare a child, but not an adult. Then she'd be introduced into this outside world and become so overwhelmingly curious that she must find out more, which leads her into a life of everything her mother tried to shield her from, with her forever holding a grudge against her mother for those earlier years.
Of course when I watched it, I got more and more frustrated as nothing was taking me by surprise at all, I sat there waiting for the sudden twist that'd blow me away, or at least something I wouldn't see coming. It would have been interesting if the daughter had been shielded from the reality of the big scary world until she was an adult, at least then they could maybe have explored something slightly more unconventional, and dare I say, more bloody interesting to the viewer.
If you're not looking for an exciting, emotionally engaging, or even a somewhat unpredictable story, then you'll absolutely love this.