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Isanghan byeonhosa Woo Young-woo (2022)
South Korea does it again.
I remember when Squid Games came out, I thought "oh this looks good" and sure enough it became a hit. Train to Busan, Hellbound, All of Us are Dead, #Alive...
This show is very uplifting, I would call it a drama / comedy. Very few shows have me laughing at loud like I do with this dialog and directing.
The writers are fantastic, I really wish we could just get some A-list actors like Jamie Foxx in shows like Squid Games, (mic drop). :)
There is no need to spoil anything that happens in this, but if I were to try to explain this show to someone I would say its an autistic young girl who becomes a lawyer, with plenty of awkward life issues and emotional situations, all demonstrated with a very clever plot. If I were Netflix, I would green light more seasons of this, Squid Games and Hellbound in a heartbeat.
Reacher (2022)
Amazon needs to stop pandering.
Honestly I don't even care to watch it because of how hard Amazon is pandering it. Couldn't even see the other shows and movies because REACHER is all over the damn page, top middle and bottom, full page ads. Screw those prostitutes and their rehashed garbage. I'm dropping Prime since they plan to raise the price again.
Don't Look Up (2021)
Just being honest.
I grew up with Predator, Beverly Hills Cop, and Tremors. So just being honest:
This movie is like if Space Force was a movie. Exaggerated unrealistic reality for comedy. Some of it was funny, but a lot was just filler, and drama / music that didn't need to happen.
Leo is one of the best actors and he gives his best self into this role, at times. The cowardly pill neurotic guy doesn't fit him. They should have gotten Bradley Cooper or Mark Ruffalo. And stop using colored contacts: natural is more real, and no one can beat Travis Fimmel's' blue anyway. Meryl Streep as the evil president? She's too amazing to hate like that. Sorry, but casting director failed on this one.
The story is blah, too soon on discovery, with no follow up like Independence Day. This movie should have come out 3 years ago. Writers were either really young or inexperienced.
The whole side story of Jennifer going off the rails? Either 1: It could have been more extreme with drugs or general stupidity, or 2: It didn't need to happen. There are so many better subplots, or even just throwbacks to better movies like Armageddon. Heh.
The music acts? We hear them. We don't need to watch a super-bowl halftime. I have R&B hits I love on my music lists, but seriously Baseketball threw Reel Big Fish in as a quick side-cameo and this director puts in minutes of a few rather unoriginal songs into a major movie like this? Does YouTube now pay for movie budgets? Or the artists themselves paying for airtime? Its like the Simone scene all over again.
Here's a few hints for the director, producer, writers, cast, etc:
- Trying to be silly & ridiculous, and then trying to seem real is basically every Pixar and Disney movie. Leave it to the professionals.
-Writers: smh Try getting some life experience, smoke some ganja. Watch Seinfeld, Futurama, Simpsons, Family Guy, and classic movies like George Wells 'Time Machine', and try to stop drinking long enough to write good material or quit writing and find your true calling.
I am critiquing the movie based on cinema. For those debating the intended story: Yes, politicians are money-hungry-two-faced-jackals. Welcome to Earth. Other nations have it much worse, if you read and care enough to read or watch a short news video. But this movie portraying it accurately? Are you all high? Higher than me? I mean Snoop Dogg would be impressed by your level of highness saying this cast and writing was great in any way. I take you don't appreciate Trading Places or National Lampoons movies, or anything I've mentioned. This movie is ridiculous, and not in a good way like Mars Attacks.
Poolhall Junkies (2002)
One of my favorites.
There are very few movies that give you laughter, worry, and a happy ending. This movie has it all. The main actor is one of the best I've ever seen. He should have had a bigger role in That Thing You Do :)
This is a fun movie, its an uplifting movie, its enjoyable repeatedly. I really can't believe this movie is rated any less than 7-8 stars considering how good it really is. This movie deserves more ratings than a re-hash of Footloose for crying out loud.
I can only assume that the lower reviews are from die-hard pool players that want to call BS on things, but like any movie that's not the point. I didn't watch Happy Gilmore and give it 2 stars because the golf wasn't realistic. Its very well written, well produced, well directed, and well acted. Period. Oh and btw, its a movie!!
Watch it, enjoy the music, enjoy the acting, enjoy the writing, enjoy! I've seen it dozens of times over the years and I still LOL at times. Really I'd love to see Christopher Walken and Mars Callahan together in more like this. The production cast really should have made the Card Sharks movie :)
Ojing-eo geim (2021)
I enjoyed #Alive, but I love Squid Game.
Truly a well-directed, well-acted, well-produced and casted series. I dare say I wish it could continue, but all games must end to have a victor!
Thank you for this very bingeworthy story. Thank you all cast and crew involved. Despite not knowing more than 3 words in Korean I recognized several actors. Goes to show, Hollywood ain't everything!
*To those that find this 'boring', please understand you need Michael Bay or shiny keys to keep your attention. *snap* Hello?! Are you listening?!*
S1m0ne (2002)
It lives beyond the overly-critical critics.
I've seen plenty of Al Pachino movies, but I never saw one like this. Its original. Its funny with wit and sarcasm, as well as slapstick. Its watchable in nearly any age group. It has a great cast of many well-knowns and several lesser knowns that were great nonetheless.
I think if Tom Hanks directed and played a role it would have been a blockbuster, but its enjoyable to watch more than once in my opinion, unlike many Oscar winning movies that I wouldn't watch again without a gun to my head.
Being born early 80's I grew up loving cinema. I wouldn't give this 8/10 if it wasn't really worth it. Tom Hanks would have made it 10/10 :)
Zombieland (2009)
Cartoon acted out.
Its a funny movie if you let go of the fact its not meant to be like Walking Dead or Black Summer. Its a comedy.
Having said that, I still can't get over the complete wimp of a 'hero'. Any other actor would have worked. Aaron Paul or Justin Long would have popped in my head first as casting director.
As a fairytale the movie is entertaining, but if it involved less 'disney style romantics' and just had more actual entertainment, I would rate it higher.
Weak lead, lazy directing and mediocre script. I give Woody and Bill Murray 10/10, but the rest, meh.
Cosmic Sin (2021)
Jason X meets Riddick. Why not a Fifth Element 2?
The characters aren't relatable. Camera angles are terrible. I swear most action movies since the 2000's are solely based on getting the camera as close and shaky as possible to disorient the viewer.
Creating convincing action scenes doesn't require CGI every time, all the time. Believe it or not, some of the most loved movies of all time had wide camera angles that didn't change every 0.3 seconds. Like Die Hard...
Bruce Willis already did 5th Element. Unless you wanted to try to beat it, this is a waste of time. To involve him and make him the prime poster cover when really he's just a cameo most of the movie, is poor salesmanship. You would have been better to try a Fifth Element 2 than this Jason X meets Riddick.
The directing was just awful, the lines were COMPLETELY unbelieveable from the start. The action was garbage mostly because of the terrible camera angles and frequent changes.
I don't direct movies, but I know good ones from bad ones, and no offense to one of my fav actors Bruce Willis.... but this movie is not worth watching.
The Witcher (2019)
Good show, could be better.
Nothing is perfect, and I give props to the cast & crew for their significant effort in making this game a show. We all know: it could have ended up like the poorly made Seeker of Truth (my favorite book series, terrible TV series.)
The very beginning is disappointing, underwhelming if you will. I expected something more impressive, or differently impressive at least. Should have started with a bar fight where he uses one of his sigils and surprise the viewers vs. Grabbing a sword under water.
The series is also very dark and depressing in general. I enjoy Tremors because Kevin Bacon and Earl Ward keep up their energy and humor despite unbelievable terror. This show has none of that.
The time fragmentation between episodes becomes more clear depending how close you're watching, but frankly trying to copy Quentin Tarantino is just a bad idea unless you know what you're doing.
The main actor, Henry Cavill, is excellent and the LAST person I would cast for that part, but turned out to be amazing. Yennifer is also great. But otherwise you could substitute any other actor and the show would not change.
Story is pretty base-line, there isn't much interest in side-stories, just the main focus.
The show doesn't portray as much as the game does, I wish there were more monsters and more Geralt-action, but so be it.
The ending is a complete cliffhanger, waiting to see how things turn out. I can only guess the 2nd season will begin with Geralt trying to train Ceri and she messes up and gets frustrated at Geralt and there is tension that ends up getting resolved by the end of the first episode. Its too obvious because anyone that makes TV and movies now-a-days follows a scripted template. Mark my words, it could be better with people who have good original ideas vs. Youtube stars and millennial undergrads.
*Season 2 update*
Unfortunately the shows writing is really driving the series into the ground. Season 1 wasn't exactly a nail-biter, and now its even less engaging. The main spell caster (Yennifer) can't casts spells through the whole season; that was a terrible idea. Why not make the 3rd season have Geralt lose his swords and his magic too? And what do you know, I called Ciri and Geralt fighting like father and teenage daughter.
Ultimately if the writers don't get their heads out of their rear ends and start coming up with more intriguing dialog and plots, this show is going to crash and burn before it even gets started. It's a shame they don't just listen to the fans.
Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness (2021)
Continues disappointment in RE and CGI.
The first two Resident Evil games for PS1 and PS2 are infamous and world-renowned games, like Mario Bro's or Zelda. The RE movies and games that came out after that, are all shameful as pathetic attempts to recreate what was already near perfection. Might as well go back and tell George Romero that he was wrong.
The subsequent Resident Evil movies and games have all been disappointments to the majority of fans. The stories are typically non-parallel to the originals, the camera angles, play styles, actors/actresses and voices aren't believable... and that's just scratching the surface.
The movie itself wasn't great. I give it 5 stars simply because of the premise of zombies and RE. I would give anything RE at least 5/10 because its RE.
The biggest problem I had watching this from beginning to end was the poorly done CGI. Its 2021 and CGI is no better now than it was for FF: Spirits Within back in early 2000's. CGI cannot be "too fluid". You need to create more frames of movement than the camera can handle to make it realistic. Second, you have to put hair on people's arms/legs and not make their skin look white/shiny-perfect all the time. The second I saw Claire I said "cmon!! Enough with this anime manga design, lets get realistic!"
So if you love watching dolls act with bad voice-overs and stories that vary greatly from original premises, then you'll like this. Personally, once was enough and I'm not dying for a sequel of x4 24min episodes of this.
I give props to cast and crew for effort and time involved, but it could be much better and I'm no CGI / script expert.
Interstellar (2014)
A personal favorite.
Born in the 80's, watched lots of cinema and TV since then :)
Interstellar has a perfect cast, directing, script, music (The Hans Zimmer), and it sticks to reality despite the science fiction aspects. I appreciate it tells the truth about a possible future of Earth with humans' continued abuse. But I also love the magic of the impossible combined with the known facts of the universe to create such an original and brilliant story.
Exploring other potential exoplanets is a past time for many gamers like No Mans Sky, but very few movies really show what it could be like. This and The Martian will be classics years from now.
If you haven't seen it, watch it. Movies like this really make me feel for the visually impaired who can't appreciate well-done effects.
Red Dawn (1984)
Classic, despite imperfections.
Prior to 2000's you can't expect movies to have the best scenes, camera angles, actors, speaking lines, but for the time and the cast, this movie was fantastic. It holds true all the things Red Dawn wanted to portray. Memorable moments, inspiring youthful action to impossible war situations... This movie was certainly much better than the recent reboot which tried way too hard to be emotional vs. Storyline orientated and had the wrong cast. I love Chris Hemsworth, but he was not right for that movie, nor was his 'brother'. Casting was wrong, directing was poor, story seemed lazy. But this movie, this version, will be timeless.
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order (2019)
Great game, not perfect!... but great!
The cast is perfect. I love every voice in this game. I can't believe the 9th sister was from someone that wasn't 9 feet tall :)
Very well written story, directing, producing and acting. The only cons I would mention are gameplay specific issues.
I would absolutely love a well-done movie or Mandolorian-style series with this cast. No doubt, it would draw a crowd worthy of The Witcher by Lucasarts. Lucasarts... I have that logo burned in my brain from playing Jedi Knight back in the day.
ANYWAY, great game, great voice acting, and even side characters like Sam Witner (from Dexter & Battlestar Galactica), it is quality because it contained quality people. I really hope there is a sequel or cinema production based on the game.
Dad Stop Embarrassing Me (2021)
Disappointing, but I can't give Jamie and David a 1 star.
I haven't been a sitcom fan since Simpsons, Family Guy, Seinfeld, etc, but I figured with two epic actors and fellow cast members from In Living Color, its gotta be funny. I love Foxx from Wanda to Django, but this is just a step backwards for him imo. David A. G. can be roflmao funny, but not in 90's style sitcom like this.
Sadly for me its just like Fluffy's "Mr. Inglasias" show: just obvious punchlines with nonstop over-acting.
A good sitcom needs to be original, and directed more like a movie and less laughtrack, less music segways, less perfect people (real people don't roll out of bed in full makeup). The show needs a Steve Urkel.
Disenchantment (2018)
Disenchantment is excellent.
I grew up on Simpsons, Futurama, Family Guy... So of course I love this.
Matt G. doing another show: awesome.
David X Cohen and majority of Futurama cast: awesome.
Original story with oodles of parodies and references: priceless.
I used to listen to the commentary DVD's of Futurama episodes because i loved listening to Matt, David and cast just doing what they do... I really hope the chance comes for commentary on Disenchantment as well.
So as far as the show: if you like Futurama and Simpsons, you should like this. If your expectations are set for Futurama or Simpsons, then you'll obviously be disappointed. This show is new, its got a new story with new characters that take getting used to. Rick and Morty was pretty strange when it came out and now its practically got a cult following. I just finished this season and eagerly awaiting season 2.
You can't base a show on how often you burst out in laughter, if you do then just watch Colbert or Noah on Late Show / Daily Show or Bill Burr stand up. This show has substance. It has staying power. Let go of your expectations and just try to enjoy it. If you finish episode one and don't care to move on, then it isn't for you, but unless there's something obvious I'm missing, there's no reason to down-talk it for other potential fans.
"Homer likes donuts" -Homer Simpson
Movie 43 (2013)
Hilarious movie, ignore the trash that talk trash.
This movie is funny to those with an open mind and a sense of humor. If you're uptight or consider good movies to involve classy rich folks sipping tea, then you probably don't enjoy watching anything but Sophie's Choice. The actors/actresses in this movie should be applauded for their wild antics and said open-mindedness. Trust me, I love original Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Beverly Hills Cop, and I love stand up like George Carlin. This movie is funny, even if it has no point and is 'gross' to some. That's what makes it funny. If you want to down-talk the movie, go ahead, that's your right; but if you want to down-talk the people who like it, then you're a judgmental *$#@ that should concentrate on judging your own screwed up lives. That's not an opinion, that's fact.
In short, it's a funny movie to me, your average movie-loving Joe. I rate it up there with Grandma's Boy.