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Driveways (2019)
Sickening profanity and for what?
This could have been a really nice movie except for the foul language throughout including foul language in front of kids
Wanda (1970)
A SLOW BORING LOSER MOVIE ABOUT LOSERS
Zzzzzzz If they gave a prize for the most boring movie opening, this one would win hands down. Long slow scenes with zero action, zero dialog, and a persistently screaming baby, followed by scenes of barely audible yet nonetheless depressing dialog.
There are hundreds of better movies on youtube taken by kids with iphones. This did not have excessive violence or foul language, Ill give it a star or two for that.
HARD PASS ON THIS ....you've been warned.
Breaking In (2018)
A WASTE OF TIME
Imagine a suspense movie cobbled together out of other movies, only worse than any of them.
Youve got this supposedly clever and resourceful woman.
Her dad is whacked, and the first time she visits his house, its obvious there are WAAY too many security systems, that is, unless he's hiding some heavy stuff she doesnt know anything about. But does she call the real estate agent back and say, "Uh I think my dad may have been into some heavy stuff I dont know about (which could be why hes dead) so we'd better hold off on selling this place awhile'? No; shes still gonna list it next week. Riiiight.
Robbers come.
Is it not odd that the small town pizza place on the phone does not notify the cops about a customer apparently being attacked on the phone?
The mom takes one of the bad guys prisoner.
Why not take him out with his crow bar?
Why does she not use his phone to call both her husband and the cops?
Why in the hell would a crook wear dog tags to a crime? But since he does (idiot!) why does she not seize his wallet and dog tags immediately? This would ensure one robber is ID'ed even if he somehow gets away?
Why does she not make SURE the knifey dude she runs over is DEAD? Take his weapon, at the very least.
At the end, same mistake again. Why does she not put at least a few shots in him after stabbing him, when there is a gun just a few feet away?
When she stumbles into the room with all those security monitors, and realizes theyre monitoring her moves, why does she not smash them to remove any surveillance capability from the robbers, while she maneuvers around the house to save her kids?
Why are the robbers so unbelievably stupid, discussing their criminal info in front of the kids?
Why is the kids' father character written so unbelievably lame?
Why doesn't the director realize that holding a lighter an inch from gas soaked material would instantly light the fumes? You don't need to touch the material if fumes are present.
Why would the robber not know that discharging a "firearm" in a room soaked in gas (ie, full of fumes) would likely start a huge fire or possibly even cause an explosion?
The Florida Project (2017)
THE SHAMEFUL PROJECT
First of all, don't expect a feel-good movie here. Far from it. I don't know if you can actually write a "SPOILER" for this putrid movie. It's rotten already.
If you really want to spend a depressing night listening to a foul-mouthed shrew spewing F-bombs and worse in front of rude, unsupervised elementary school kids, here's your movie. If not, don't say you weren't warned.
Yeah, I'm gonna judge this piece of garbage.
HOW COULD YOU, SEAN BAKER...?
How can anyone expose little children to the kind of foul language and adult behavior that the kids in this movie were exposed to? Some of these reviews sicken me, actually PRAISING the filmmaker for a movie with a kid put in the bathroom while her Mom turns tricks in their hotel room.
He should not be proud of this, and anyone who thinks this is okay should maybe rethink their own morals here. The ratings led us to choose this on Netflix.
It was a big mistake to trust ratings.
Don't look for any plot here beyond a series of bad decisions by an awful mother ("Halley") that end up exposing her feral child ("Moonee") to perverts and creeps, and all too predictably, after a long overdue period of her own misbehavior, lead to her kid heading into the foster care system. There is no redemption or growth here.
I consider these filmmakers CREEPS and CHILD ABUSERS for making this movie. I feel sorry for any kid whose parent would let their child be involved in such an obscenity-laced production as this. They have allowed their own child to be robbed of their innocence long before their time. They are as irresponsible as the mother portrayed in this movie....or worse, since she was a made-up character and they really did this.
Willem Dafoe plays a likeable, decent, humane and admirable motel manager who does his best to protect the pathetic, immature, foul-mouthed Halley from the consequences of her own lunatic actions and appalling parenting. Dafoe and the other semi-decent supporting actors are the only bright spots in this movie and the only reason I'm giving this two stars.
ONE FINAL WARNING: As some of the more honest reviewers will admit, this film has an abrupt and unsatisfying ending.
Moonee breaks free of Child Protective Services officers and desperately heads for DisneyWorld's Magic Castle with her little friend, Jancey. They simply run in through an unguarded exit, as if that's gonna happen.....and then, as they near the Magic Castle, the movie mercifully just stops.