SO many reviews saying Amazon "Hit it out of the park" (actually, a suspicious amount with that same headline), but what exactly did they watch? Because it wasn't Fallout. About the only thing they got right was the look and feel of the environment from the games -- the vaults look like they came straight from the game, so I give them kudos for that. Otherwise, the plot was so bland and uninteresting that each successive episode held my interest less and less until, by about the 6th episode, I felt that I was watching it because I was "pot-committed". By the finale, I had it on more as background noise. The characters are terrible, sans Walton Goggins (who is great in everything), although even his character wasn't that captivating. The main character, Lucy, is just too "Gee, aw shucks!" to care about, and Maximus' storyline was numbingly ZZZ-inducing. Will there be a season 2 (probably based on the end of the last episode) but this one is better left in the Fallout shelter.
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Zombie Nightmare
(1987)
Best representation of a medical examiner in film history!
5 February 2024
I worked in a medical examiner's office for awhile, and I can say ... NAILED IT! Everyone there talked just like that, like a Dollar Store version of Edward G. Robinson. He alone made the film for me! Everyone else? Meh. Discount Shari Bellafonte/Tina Turner hybrid was pretty terrible. The uncalled-for shot of the underwear guys junk as he walks RIGHT in front of the camera was unforgivable. Cheeseball bad guy Jim is annoying but also missed once he unceremoniously departs the film. Tia Carrere is always easy on the eyes. That's all that can be said for the film. I'm on board to recall Sean Connery's Supporting Actor Oscar in favor of giving it to the guy that played medical examiner!
Halloween Ends
(2022)
Halloween Bores
31 December 2022
Warning: Spoilers
OK, in all fairness, I am 1 hour 28 minutes into it and Laurie has just had her first encounter with "Michael", but I had to type this because I just realized that this is supposed to be a parody. Good lord, I thought this was just a terrible terrible movie where nothing at all happens but is trying to pass itself off as an actual good movie, but when the DJ's tongue gets cut off and lands on the record, causing it to skip? It hit me ... This was meant to be a trick, not a treat!
I should have known when, in the previous movies, Laurie was a super paranoid recluse living in the woods and preparing for Michael's return -- yet this time around, after Michael has escaped the mob from the only marginally better Halloween Kills and killed her daughter, Laurie has now decided to "just move on" and live in the suburbs. Yeah ... It goes all downhill from there.
I should have known when, in the previous movies, Laurie was a super paranoid recluse living in the woods and preparing for Michael's return -- yet this time around, after Michael has escaped the mob from the only marginally better Halloween Kills and killed her daughter, Laurie has now decided to "just move on" and live in the suburbs. Yeah ... It goes all downhill from there.
Could have been a movie
7 July 2022
Clue VCR Mystery Game
(1985 Video)
I was not winking ... I was blinking!
3 November 2018
Ok ... the game itself was hot garbage. Not a bad idea, just horrible execution. But the video ... oh man ... So good! Not GOOD good, BAD good ... But SO bad good!! It's been 33 years or so since I've seen it, but I can still remember some great lines from it ... Mrs. White: "GYPSIES! GYPSIES CAME IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT AND STOLE MY BAAAAABY!" ... (Green and Plum handing out blackmail letters): "No checks ... no credit cards!" Miss Scarlet: "I was never IN Sumatra ..."
If you haven;t seen it, search it out on Youtube, it's worth a view!
Prometheus
(I) (2012)
Disappointing, and one huge question for me
10 August 2012
Warning: Spoilers
As many others have stated, this film was really disappointing, so I won't rehash what others have already said (and more eloquently, I'm sure).
Along with the other plot holes and "Huh?" moments already pointed out, there was one thing that really bothered me and totally took me out of the movie. Apologies if this has already been pointed out, and this does contain a spoiler -- David says there is only one "being" alive, in stasis, and at this point in the film, we know that the beings are human-like and wear what, for lack of a better description, amounts to an elephant-looking space suit over their humanoid heads and bodies. OK, now, David brings the one still-living being out of stasis, and he proceeds to kill Weyland and rip David's head from his body. This being then later goes on to attack Shaw in the Prometheus, until her squid-baby attacks and kills it. OK, so here is my question -- WHO THE HELL WAS THE SPACE JOCKEY THAT DALLAS, LAMBERT AND CAIN FIND SITTING IN THE CHAIR WITH HIS CHEST BURSTEDED? Remember, they showed the chair coming up from the center of the room where David gets beheaded and all, and the chair is empty. At one point after that, the being sits in the chair and the armor encompasses him. OK, so far so good. But then the being goes after Shaw in the Prometheus and dies, so ...
???????? Did I miss something?
Along with the other plot holes and "Huh?" moments already pointed out, there was one thing that really bothered me and totally took me out of the movie. Apologies if this has already been pointed out, and this does contain a spoiler -- David says there is only one "being" alive, in stasis, and at this point in the film, we know that the beings are human-like and wear what, for lack of a better description, amounts to an elephant-looking space suit over their humanoid heads and bodies. OK, now, David brings the one still-living being out of stasis, and he proceeds to kill Weyland and rip David's head from his body. This being then later goes on to attack Shaw in the Prometheus, until her squid-baby attacks and kills it. OK, so here is my question -- WHO THE HELL WAS THE SPACE JOCKEY THAT DALLAS, LAMBERT AND CAIN FIND SITTING IN THE CHAIR WITH HIS CHEST BURSTEDED? Remember, they showed the chair coming up from the center of the room where David gets beheaded and all, and the chair is empty. At one point after that, the being sits in the chair and the armor encompasses him. OK, so far so good. But then the being goes after Shaw in the Prometheus and dies, so ...
???????? Did I miss something?
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