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Prodigy (2018)
good idea pitiful execution
This is like having a really good idea for a house, but then you build it out of paper.
The idea and premise is fine, the execution of that idea is amateurish at best. I mean every single facet of the movie was done pathetically. It was shot in 22 days, you can tell! I bet they only did 1 take of each scene and it shows.....
I WISH producers would spend $100 and get consultants on the project who can point out glaring errors.
One? You can't hot wire modern cars by crossing wires under the dash.
Two; dad fall down and hill and sticks an 8" branch through his leg, next day? Running along like it's nothing
Three: cop in the red mini van gets shot by a silenced rifle? Next shots aren't.
Four: when they are injecting the kid before the tests, no alcohol swab first? Are they trying to kill him?
I could go on but you get my drift.......
Falling Skies (2011)
I wish....
I just found out about this series and started watching. Into the second season and here's some things worth mentioning:
I WISH producers would spend a little extra money and turn an "Ok" series into a really good one. How should they spend this money?
Hire a military advisor. They had one in Dale Dye but I think he was hired as an actor NOT an adviser. Some of the things they do is ludicrously stupid. For eg: they KNOW regular rounds don't affect mechs but they still fire away like they've got an endless supply of ammo.
Hire a logic advisor: If you're on the run from alien invaders, you're not going to have perfect hair, clean faces, makeup, and ....you won't have time to do LAUNDRY. Not to mention this BS about military and civilians. Every man woman and child over 10 is military. If you're not fighting you're feeding, and when you're not feeding you're learning how to patch each other up after battle.
Oh, not to mention the aliens have neutron bombs, FTL travel, but they don't have night vision? Hell I can buy thermal imaging scopes on ebay.
Oh, and they move into the hospital and what's the first thing they do? Light it up like a christmas tree. "I don't know how they found us" well duh, you're the only building in 1000 sq miles lit up, how do you think they found you?
I'm getting sick and tired of "dumb" shows and movies.
Halo (2022)
good production value
I have to applaud them on production, top notch all the way but these series should consider spending some of their budget on engineers or at least someone with a little knowledge.
For eg: on the outcast base, the tram? Seriously? Connecting free floating asteroids by a thin cable and "throwing" the rail car into the air and "hope" it catches the cable? Not to mention NO airlock? So they'll vent the internal atmosphere into space through two huge doors whenever a tram passes through?
Then there was a shot of Dr Halsey and the military commander out on a deck a mile in the air with NO hand rails? Seriously?
Not to mention they have FTL travel but they still have internal combustion engine vehicles? In a habitat in SPACE?
1883 (2021)
lots of plot holes
Not to highlight all of them but one major flaw?
None of the pioneers spoke English when meeting Shea but 3 episodes later most of them do, fluently.
Sorry, that just doesn't happen.
Since supplies were so scarce in the prairies, when they killed all the bandits, they'd most certainly strip the bodies of firearms and ammunition.
In addition, the addition of feminism and the dig against society in (ep 8?) wasn't needed.
When they needed to cross a river and had to dump all their possessions if Shea is so experienced he would have had them dump them in Ft Worth then they'd at least get something for them.
It is a good series, well written for the most part in spite of the glaring errors.
Hillwalkers (2022)
well.....
OBVIOUSLY these 5 people didn't watch American Werewolf in London, you know, STAY OUT OF THE MOORS!!
I'm no producer or director but some major goofs make this amateurish at best.
1) you don't die instantly from a gun shot to the gut. Even if you hit your liver, it takes a while to die.
2) in the scene where stevie buys it, you can see the squid pack under his T shirt.
3) then when he gets it again, they don't even bother repositioning it, he literally gets shot in the same spot again.
4) Other reviewers have mentioned "forced peril" where some reasonably intelligent people literally ignore the "warning signs" but we have to realize that people these days will ignore warnings about biking in Afghanistan and then become news stories when they are hacked to death by the Taliban.
5) Another reviewer stated the movie was "girl power rah rah rah" yeah but those same "heros" are the ones who got them into the mess to begin with.
6) BTW: another warning sign this strong and powerful woman ignored? She's looking through binoculars and sees someone wearing goggles, a skull bandana, a military helmet and holding a shot gun. Well, let's just carry on then shall we?
7) One positive: the actor who played Stevie did a great job playing a crazy lunatic......bravo!
The Tomorrow War (2021)
throw logic out the window....again
While entertaining, another movie made by people without any common sense.
Why don't the producers of these movies hire a military advisor?
There's one scene where they are trying to capture a queen, a dozen soldiers are trying to rope her into a cage...she must have killed 20 soldiers in that pit......pretty good considering there was only 12 to begin with.
Another thing? Like starship troopers, they give the "soldiers" small arms with 1000 rounds of ammunition against armored creatures. I know it looks good on film, soldiers firing wildly letting off thousands of rounds to no avail but you have to be dumb as a box of rocks not to say "hey, why aren't they using M60 grenade launchers? Or armor piercing rounds?
BTW: where'd they get the fuel for all the aircraft and hummers etc if there were only 500,000 humans left on the planet?
Absentia (2017)
plot holes big enough to drive a truck through
Some good acting but some of the WORST writing ever to be shown on TV. I can't believe they actually made subsequent seasons.
The ONLY way the plot line in the first season works is if you suspend the fact that FBI agents have an IQ above 90.
The whole "grand finale" is based on the fact that the FBI, would find one of their agents locked in a tank in a cabin in the woods and during their investigation they would MISS a large underground complex full of cells, water supply, electricity, net access the whole works.
Then the main plot that Emily is the real killer and the FBI and Boston PD immediately jump to her being the prime suspect simply because they saw her in the area of the real killer's murder? And the muddy footprint that was easily 4 sizes too big for her feet?
Then when she's wanted for the murder of the SAIC, yeah, ok, the FBI doesn't do ballistics anymore? So the bullets fired at the two cops and the one that killed the SAIC weren't important enough to test?
Then when she supposedly kidnapped the new wife and her son, a) they KNEW she'd been shot so how could she overpower a 100% healthy alice? b) so she had a gun, why was the house a mess then?
So, the whole question of her being the suspect....the SAC says "the locks on the tank had timers"....BFD how the hell could she be "the killer" and lock herself in the tank from the OUTSIDE while being locked INSIDE???
The Dig (2018)
A great little film
As others have mentioned, you can see where the plot was heading but still, well acted, well shot and the director captured the bleakness of the situation.
I"ve enjoyed a lot more bigger films, with big names, a lot less than this one.
A great little gem if you ask me.
Rust Creek (2018)
relies on the main character being an idiot
Once again,the whole premise of the movie is based on the fact that the main character has to be a complete idiot.
Maybe that's the theme with today's lack of common sense in people?
1) gets off highway to get past traffic. Fine, but follows "google maps" to a dead end. Instead of turning around and retracing her route, she continues until the road becomes nothing more than a path.
2) Stops,gets out of the car to read the map. Who the hell does that when it's cold outside? You sit in the seat, spread the map out in front of you and figure out where you are. DUH
3) Gets stabbed, runs away. Fine, Removes sweatshirt to patch stab, then leaves it behind. DUH
4) runs around for hours without tending the wound. Removes socks to treat wound the next day, removes socks to check, runs away yet again leaving "bandage" behind.
5) sees car wrecked by pursuers. Doesn't bother getting warm clothes, more items to bandage wound, immediately grabs phone and wanders around like a moron with her arm in the air looking for a signal once again, ignoring the wound in her leg.
I'm only 30 minutes in, I'll keep watching to see what other idiotic things she does.
I Spit on Your Grave: Deja Vu (2019)
film made by grade 9 students after class
Truly one of the worst if not THE worst movies I ever saw. Even worse than Plan 9 from Outer Space.
It is a crime calling the people on film "actors" because they seriously haven't taken a single acting class.
The woman who played Jennifer Hill acted like she got off her job as a Real Estate agent and was cast in this "movie". (I put movie in quotes because it really shouldn't be called that). I literally saw a play put on by 6 year olds and they could act better than this woman. I hope they didn't pay her, if they did, she should be charged with theft.
I could go on but this movie wasn't even entertaining from a laugh stand point. It is a cringe fest from the opening credits.
Triple Frontier (2019)
Great Idea, poorly executed
SPOILER ALERT
Maybe one day, movie makers will stop thinking audiences are morons. They were doing so well too.
Ok, so they got more money than they planned. This extra money caused them problems flying over the mountains.
These supposedly top tier operators were too stupid to realize that they could simply have landed, buried the extra money, marked the location on GPS, and come back for it 5 10 or 20 years in the future.
Instead of doing the smart thing? they toss 50 million out of the help, crash, kill a bunch of people, and end up with basically nothing.
It would have made for a slight change in the story and having them succeed isn't what the writers planned, but they could have had the sicarios waiting for them at the rendezvous point and then had a battle to get through to the boat.
Instead? they made all 5 of them idiots and morons.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
just watched it again....
Still a great movie all these years later.
Couldn't help but notice though that Jillian never wore a bra lol....her sweater kittens were flying free through the whole movie!
Lost in Space (2018)
good premise, decent execution but plot holes you could drive a truck through
Ok, where to begin, spoilers!
1) the jupiter crashes over a deep pool of water, high up in a mountain. PERIL, it starts to freeze. BS, even in the antarctic water doesn't freeze much past the first couple of feet. If the temperature dropped far enough to freeze that amount of water in seconds, anyone on the surface would freeze long before the water did.
2) no weapons at all? spears? gimme a break. Who the hell lands on an unknown planet (even by accident) and does not have ANY method of protecting themselves?
3) when the rover crashes into the tar pit and they use a helium balloon to escape, as soon as John cut the top, the "tube" created by the balloon would collapse. Plus how the hell did they crawl UP (against gravity) a tube?
4) Ummm 4 white people and a mulatto daughter? I think the mom had a little fling with the post man while john was away.
5) When they were returning with the fuel and it overturned onto the kid, all those brilliant scientists and not ONE thought to break out the shovels and dig UNDER the kid thereby sliding him out?
6) The premise that they have to seek out a new place to live because earth is screwed. Seriously? they expect a 10 year old kid to pass certain tests? Not everyone will be able to pass ALL tests....well, not any human. Everyone has their strong points and weak points.
It's a decent series but the plot holes (and there are many) make it hard to watch sometimes.....
Den of Thieves (2018)
could they steal anything MORE from Heat?
Not the worst movie ever made by loaded with BS:
1) The initial armored car robbery: stolen directly from the movie Heat. I mean, almost to the dialogue.
2) Meeting of the cops after, almost to the word the same as Heat
3) The final gun battle, I bet they used the same sound effects as Heat.
4) Restaurant scene: albeit a little different in setting, the same idea as when the two protagonists meet in Heat.
5) Really? The lead cop is ALSO having marital problems? Same as Heat
6) Cop in heat finds his wife with another man, cop in DOT finds wife with another man
7) I hate it when directors/writers think movie goers are idiots. If the premise (spoiler alert) is that the lowly "driver" is the mastermind behind it all, why would Merriman even ask him if he's a cop? Or challenge him as to where they met? I so hate it when they do stuff like that in movies. Scenes that completely contradict the whole premise of the movie.
8) In the big shoot out scene, it's idiotic. The "robbers" had NO reason to worry about the cops. They didn't have the money, and the cops didn't know what they'd done other than drive out of the scrap yard. Ok, so maybe they didn't know they didn't have the actual money. How? The bags they threw into the truck were rectangular in shape, yet when the cops opened them, the shredded money was round pucks that crumbled as soon as you touched them. ONE of them would have noticed the bundle crumbling when they picked it up.
9) When they drove the armored car off after the shootout, the windshield is back in place
10) even if the armored car had "old technology GPS" they still would be able to track it to the warehouse.
I mean, THIS is the epitome of crappy movies being made these days. The proof is in the details and this one fails on many of them. Not to mention the direct ripoff of Heat.
Extinction (2015)
an interesting take on a zombie movie
Not to give away too much, but some very cliché situations in this movie....an interesting take with the little girl, but I hate movies where they throw logical thought and common sense out the window...literally in this movie...
Here's where the writing seems like it was done by a grade 11 student:
Really? kill the dog? I mean, it has gotten to the point if you see a loyal and beloved dog in a movie, you know it's going to die sooner or later.....
In the final stages of the movie, when they are preparing for "battle" they spend a great amount of time loading weapons, then one goes up stairs with a shotgun with only ONE round in it...and that's the only weapon he has....
While they're preparing for the battle, they only bar the downstairs windows.....totally ignoring the many upstairs windows.....that's like welding your driver's door shut to protect the car from being stolen, then rolling down all the other windows.....
"they're in the walls" ahem yeah OK RIGHT....I've been renovating houses for decades, even century homes, and have NEVER seen a wall in house 4 feet thick...NEVER....
After 9 years, where are they getting all the gasoline from? Gas only lasts a few months unstablized......
They keep going back into "town" to this warehouse to get food....after 9 years, there wouldn't be much left....2 full grown adults eating 2 meals a day for 9 years would clear it out....
It's like, let's write this movie, put all the quality in the first 1 1/4 hours then well, let's get someone's teenage son or daughter to write the last part.....