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The Wrath of Becky (2023)
Enjoyed Becky, this was horrible
A dumb John Wick rip-off plot (with a "bonus" of the bad guys being a caricature of the Proud Boys) and Becky making too many stupid decisions.
Becky uses a crossbow and puts an arrow through a guy's cheek? Maybe she missed, but if that was the case, why did she then throw the crossbow aside instead of reload another arrow and wait for them to come outside?
Right after the crossbow stupidity, Becky gets the attention of the bad guys on purpose, then the bad guys run after her and she is surprised and has no plan?
Becky kills the old woman who has a revolver, then instead of picking up said revolver and killing the last bad guy, she tells her dog she'll be back and runs into the woods. This is just so they could do the bear trap kill.
This writing for this movie was so lazy, it's crazy it was actually made. The majority of it is listening to the bad guys talk about how much they hate women (no joke).
My only conclusion is they came up with a cool idea for a movie but for some reason needed a transition movie to make it - b/c Becky learns the key the guys wanted from the first movie actually has coordinates on it.
I'm wracking my brain as to why I'm giving this 3 stars - I guess because you go any lower you get into "so bad it's good" territory.
Nefarious (2023)
Decent, engaging two person psych-horror
So first off, the reviews stating this is Christian propaganda is just nonsense - it's like saying every exorcism movie is Christian propaganda because it pushes that demons are real. At no point did I feel proselytized at. I actually found the way the demon portrayed certain aspects of humankind and things that we take as "normal" as an interesting take on humanity.
Sean Patrick Flanery does an amazing job and carries the whole movie. The ending was okay, feel like they could have done more with it.
Overall, it kept me engaged for the entirety of the movie, which is always impressive when the vast majority takes place in one room.
Recommended, whether Christian, Atheist, or something in-between.
Dragged Across Concrete (2018)
Stop looking at the actors and look at the director
So many people came into this movie expecting something very different, most likely due to Mel Gibson.
The director, S. Craig Zahler, is best known for "Bone Tomahawk" and "Brawl on Cell Block 99". Both these movies are extremely similar to "Dragged Across Concrete".
Tomahawk and Brawl are both slow burns, barely (if any) music, character-focused, etc. They both are realistic and have random acts of extreme violence. This movie is no different.
I will say this is my least favorite of Zahler's. "Brawl on Cell Block 99" is an amazing movie, "Bone Tomahawk" is only slightly behind it. This one is definitely goes in the back of the line, although it was a decent watch.
If you haven't seen this director's work, I would highly recommend watching one of the aforementioned movies first - if you like it, then give this one a try.
M3GAN (2022)
Decent flick with nothing unexpected, good messaging though
If you were like me and found the Chucky reboot to be horrible, M3gan was a nice alternative to it.
No surprises though; everything that happens is predictable after the first 10 minutes.
Surprisingly, the movie did have a nice message to it. The work-a-holic aunt realizes that her niece is more important than her job. I'm actually very surprised Hollywood would have a movie where a woman (not that this is exclusive to women) learns that being a parent is more important than how high up the career ladder she can go.
The acting was good and it was nice to see the youngest sister from The Haunting of Hill House get a starring role. Hope to see some of Flannigan's other regulars do the same.
Orgasm Inc.: The Story of OneTaste (2022)
Decent watch, deeply disturbed individual creates a cult
As with many Netflix documentaries of late, the biggest flaw with this one is creating it too early. There are no conclusions at the end, no satisfying ending, simply "this is still ongoing." At least with The Tinder Swindler, the guy becomes destitute (although not for long before he's at it again) but at least it was something.
They do a good job in describing how the woman who created it ended up taking ideas from L Ron Hubbard and other people who created successful cults - I think the biggest difference is she after more than money; she was the epitome of "blame the victim" when it came to sex.
The line I found the most interesting (paraphrasing): "I don't know why people always say if women ran the world everything would be great, just look at OneTaste."
All My Friends Hate Me (2021)
Honestly, this was kinda awful
I finally made it to the end and to the "twist", the twist being that Peter is supposed to be a horrible, self-obsessed person who only thinks about himself.
This honestly reminds me of a couple of examples of modern day writing (or in the following examples, re-writing).
The Last of Us 2 - Joel is suddenly a horrible person who deserves to be beaten to death because he loved Ellie too much to give her to a group that will kill her.
The Last Jedi - Luke turns into an awful person, the "Jake Skywalker" as Mark Hamill put it.
I feel like Peter received the same treatment. He was a good guy and he remained a good guy (albeit very flawed) to the very end, but the end tries to make you, the viewer, think he's an awful person who simply can't take a joke because he's too self-obsessed.
Complete failure writers - all his friends were utter jerks who treated the main character like crap the minute he got there.
Judy Justice: Road Rage Heart Attack (2021)
Starts the series off strong with no nonsense
A Karen vs a purple-haired, entitled millennial.
This girl probably thought Judge Judy was taken in by the C@vid hysteria, boy was she wrong. Like many of the raving lunatics who think you should be crucified if you didn't wear a mask or support government mandated shots, this young girl thought Judge Judy would roll over and call the Karen a COVidiot or whatever the insult is these days.
Both of these women were bad people, but as Judge Judy said and these younger generations need to be taught (like GenX was), words vs sticks and stones.
Hiyama Kentarô no ninshin (2022)
It's not due to men can't get pregnant, it's the messaging
People writing higher reviews keep acting like "men can't get pregnant" is the reason. I guess no one remembers "Junior" (1994) - granted it has a 4.7, but that had nothing to do with "wokeness", just a mediocre comedy.
The problem is it's another 4th wave feminist woke crappy show/movie. "Look at how hard it is to be a woman in the workplace!"
Yeah, no thanks, you want to watch a good show about women in the workplace, watch "Drop Out".
Everything's Gonna Be All White (2022)
If the first episode is anything to go by - man...
I can sum this up in one go:
"I don't like my life and it's all white people's fault."
Not some white people, not a certain type of white person, ALL white people.
This is nothing but government propaganda to further try and divide the races - don't let them.
Yellowjackets (2021)
80% boring adult stuff, 20% what actually happens after the crash
They tell this movie in two parts, constantly jumping from future to past where the past is the plane crash and its aftermath.
The future (adult) portion is boring as hell with nothing interesting going on. Whenever they flash back to the plane crash, some of the flashes are literally 15-20 seconds long before going back to the future timeline.
You take into account this fact, then the fact that they show you how they end up after 19 months stuck out there, you lose all mystery of what is going to happen to the kids during those 19 months.
Does the future have a mystery? Yeah, a tiny bit, someone is sending them postcards with a symbol they saw when stranded.
I only finished the 3rd episode, so 3 hours. But what this feels like is someone wanting to create a 10 season show by making everything go so painfully slow, it will take that long to tell the whole story.
I'll revisit after it finishes airing, maybe it turns around.
Chucky (2021)
Some of the worst writing I've ever seen
Keep your Jason, Freddy, and Michael - Chucky is and always has been my favorite of the horror icons.
The movie reboot was pretty awful - so I had high hopes for the tv series.
I really have never watched such bad writing. These guys have no idea how to write realistic middle schoolers (and middle schoolers and Chucky? Who thought that was a good idea?).
The kid actors are okay - the acting suffers because of the writing (think Hayden Christensen in the Star Wars prequels). This is with the exception of the main character - his acting is god-awful. He has "Kristen Stewart in Twilight" syndrome where he has one scrunched up face that is supposed to represent every single possible emotion. I have no idea why they made him the lead. His love interest is a much better actor and should have been lead.
Chucky is mostly good in his scenes, the few that he gets. This isn't so much a Chucky horror show as much as a young teen drama with a bit of Chucky thrown in.
Considering the likability of the main cast, I found myself rooting for Chucky to kill them all after the first couple episodes. I have one more episode to go, I doubt that'll happen.
Brad can't save this dreck - get new writers; give the young cast an actual chance to show they can act.
Ghostbusters (2016)
Finally saw it - not what I expected, but horrible nonetheless
I was decently optimistic before watching this. My favorite YouTubers who are huge 3rd wave feminist detractors said the movie wasn't half bad and didn't seem to push any kind of agenda as was being claimed so much in the media regarding the movie's detractors' thinking (not that we can believe anything the MSM says anyway).
Well, they were definitely right about one thing, there is no agenda being pushed here. Not a single minute or a single line of dialog make me feel like they were trying to push something. With that said, it's a horrible movie.
My two big issues with the movie is that it is very boring and I don't consider it to be a comedy.
The character progression is practically non-existent: by the end of the film you still don't care about any of the characters (with few exceptions). None of them clicked at all. You learn at the beginning that Mcarthy's character used to be best friends with the woman trying to get tenor: but these two have zero chemistry. The way they act together you get no sense that they are old friends or "frienemies", it feels like they just met and the whole script just feels awkward. And forgive me for not remembering a single character's name, that's how much this movie was able to grip me, I don't remember a single one of them (I guess Holdsman was one?)
The only one that really had any personality was the intern (Thor) and his character was so over-the-top stupid that it even ruined his good acting. Example: Covering his eyes instead of his ears when loud noises happen. In what world is that considered funny? I know humor is subjective, but I just don't see how that can ever be funny. Nothing about this movie felt like a natural progression of characters.
And that pretty much goes for all the humor in this film, it either feels forced into the script and out of place or it just falls flat.
The only reason I gave it 2 stars was in the end scene there is about 5 minutes of decent action that pulled me back in to the movie. I thoroughly enjoyed the scene where Holdsman took out the dual pistols and kicked ass. But, once again, it was preluded by what I assume to be something that was supposed to illicit laughs, where she licks the gun, I just found it strange and out of place.
The the boss happens, everyone shoots him in the junk, he dies, end of movie.
And as far as Patty, she has her stereotypical urban black moments, but that was all the trailers show. In the full movie she doesn't just shout at the camera the whole time and is probably the best fleshed out character out of the four ghostbusters.
Conclusion:
You never get any kind of connection to the characters due to the bad script (I'm sure the actresses would have done fine together if the script was more organic and naturally progressed the story instead of everything feeling forced).
None of the jokes land, either because they are out of place or they just aren't funny (obviously subjective).
None of this movie is anti-men or sexist or whatever - the women don't take away anything from the movie: the horrible script does.
Stranger Things (2016)
"The Goonies" meets "Poltergeist" meets "Elfen Lied"
This show is unique and stands on its own. The setting (1983) was extremely well done and made people my age feel like it was their childhood again.
It's good to see that out of all the same formula shows being put out there, and disappointing "sci-fi" shows (I'm looking at you Sense8) that something new and refreshing comes.
I was hooked from the first episode and watched it for all 7ish hours straight. The kid actors do a fantastic job as do the adults.
The ending is both satisfying and leaves plenty of questions (not in a bad way) that will easily lead to a second season. Absolutely terrific show, can't recommend highly enough.