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Everything Beautiful Is Far Away (2017)
I enjoyed this low budget slow paced science fiction movie.
Lernert wanders aimlessly around the Southern California sand dunes eating shrub roots when he meets Rola who is badly in need of water. Lernert carries a mysterious spigot that is able to magically pull drinking water from the sand and he uses that to revive the young woman. Rola later returns the favor when she finds him lying on the ground unconscious from a head wound. That's when Lernert's AI computer known as Susan says they are near the Crystal Lake. Rola reveals that she is trying to find the Crystal Lake, and the pair who have now become friends head off to find the lake together.
I think that science fiction fans will find this movie enjoyable in spite of its very low budget and unconvincing plot. The entire movie only has four actors in total, and the entire film is shot outdoors in the desert and at the Pacific Ocean which is supposed to be but doesn't look anything like a fresh water lake.
Ingrid Goes West (2017)
Stay away. This movie is not funny.
I watched this movie because I thought it was going to be a comedy. And I was laughing for a while near the beginning of the movie. But it took a serious turn when Ingrid had her boyfriend kidnap and brutally attack someone. Then her friends reject her and she runs out of money. Finally she live streams her suicide after trespassing on her neighbor's property to charge her phone.
But the worst part of this movie is that they try to turn her suicide into a happy ending with Ingrid receiving thousands of sympathetic messages from strangers after her video goes viral. Which realistically it wouldn't. Viral videos are either funny or cringe worthy. Not just sad like that. All she does is cry while she talks about how pathetic she is.
So my advice is to stay away. I was expecting a funny enjoyable movie and was let down.
Literally, Right Before Aaron (2017)
Literally, a Cuck Movie
This is literally a movie about a man named Adam being cuckold by another man named Aaron who is marrying Adam's ex-girlfriend Allison.
The movie stars with Adam getting the news that he is invited to Allison's wedding. Adam then takes his current girlfriend to a fancy restaurant where he proposes marriage in what seems like a romantic gesture. But immediately after proposing, he changes his mind and says that he can't wake up next to that face day after day for the rest of his life. And he breaks it off making an ass of himself.
After that we find out that Adam and his ex were together for 8 years before she met Aaron. Then after just one year, Allison is marrying Aaron and she has invited Adam to her wedding so that they can remain friends post-breakup. Adam goes to the wedding but the whole time Adam is freaking out. His best friend has to video chat with him constantly to give him advice and help him with his morale.
Finally after the train wreck that is Adam watching the love of his life marry someone else and the rejection that follows when he tries to get her back, Adam causes a scene. Adam is then chased away by an irate Aaron, and Adam boards a bus and waves goodbye to Allison. After that we are left with scenes of Adam hiking and motor boating ostensibly by himself.
The Thinning (2016)
You can always tell a propaganda movie when ...
...the narrative is so egregious it's making you feel sick just at the thought of it. That's how propaganda works. It stimulates fight or flight emotions which is then used to manipulate the immature mind.
If this movie was intended for adults, I would say fine. But the primary cast are all Disney Channel employed young actors, and one of the main characters has a seven-year-old sister who is also important to the story.
This is worse than the Hunger Games because just like The Purge it takes place in America. This is a story way too terrifying to tell to our youth because it's too close to home, and they do not realize how impossible this is. Kids are already forced to accept ideologies about socialism, climate change and overpopulation, so a narrative about killing off five percent of your children every year isn't that much farther of a stretch for them.
This is predictive programming. That is, it grooms its viewers to accept what it sees as an inevitability. Most adults would look at this and dismiss it, but children are much more sensitive and likely to internalize this utter garbage which is what makes it dangerous and completely inappropriate.
Breaking the Girls (2012)
Wild Things rip off
There are two over done misogynistic stereotypes of women. The evil woman and the virginal girl. These women obviously weren't virginal, so of course they had to be evil. Such a cliché! Then there's the fact this movie wasn't even original. It was basically the plot to any of the Wild Things movies.
Not to mention the plot made absolutely no sense. In real life, the police would have figured out that Sara and Nina were sisters and that they had a MOTIVE to kill David, and they wouldn't have let them off the hook so easily. That was ridiculous.
But whatever. If that's what you're into. I am just disappointed because I found it to be misogynistic and boring. I just wanted to see a movie about lesbians and was let down. Besides a few kissing scenes, this wasn't a lesbian movie.