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Beau Is Afraid (2023)
Intense paranoid schizophrenia
Right when the movie started I could tell that Beau is clinically depressed and anxious person by different signs: he's dishevelled, unwashed, neglects self-care is a sign of depression, and his deflated posture is a sign of depression. Also the way he talks and lacks confidence and conviction in his words also indicates depression and a lack of self-efficacy and such. Anxiety is shown by obviously his fear of everything, but I can relate. Watching this movie stoned immediately made me feel a bit nervous, but then I was taken on a psychedelic trip from which i had to take a break because I was beginning to think I am Beau myself, lol. It's amazing to see how his expectations of the worst possible thing happening is exactly what anxiety is, and then it actually happens. I guess that if you're a schizophrenic then these things may be hallucinated and feel like they're really happening.
Anyway, the movie disoriented me. When I took a break midway and paused the movie, I walked around my house a bit and actually questioned the fabric of my reality. Is what I believe real, or is everything I think just constructed using my mind to make the sense I WANT of things. What if reality is not what I actually perceive it to be? Well this is what I thought Beau was experiencing--a reality that is modified by his paranoid brain. So I imagined that, in another version of the film, you would see everyone being normal and nothing crazy happening, but Beau still freaking out. So I thought that he is actually imagining everything and we're just seeing it from his point of view. Basically, the film takes you into the mind of a paranoid schizophrenic with intense hallucinations. For example, a guy falls into his bathtub causing a drowning childhood episode, but he wasn't really there. It was just Beau's disease conjuring this hallucination, triggering an intense panic attack based on childhood trauma. Nothing was actually there, and in another hypothetical version of the movie, it's just a lonely man in a bathtub tripping out and hallucinating and twisting around in a bathtub in panic.
This film made me feel an out of body experience which may have been amplified by pot I smoked, but still it's a mind bending film. It reminded me of The Father, with Anthony Hopkins, which I saw recently, in which we experience the progression of Alzheimer's Disease in the main character. Although it was much more serious and sad, the similarity with The Father is that both movies take the audience on a trip from the perspective of a mentally ill person. In The Father, you slowly lose your mind as you forget everything and the gaps in memory get bigger and stronger, which makes you really imagine what it's like having AD. Beau is Afraid is similar in that it takes you on a trip of being an extreme case of paranoid schizophrenia accompanied by intense hallucinations depression and anxiety, caused by childhood trauma and abusive mother.
We can even look at it from a Freudian perspective. During the phallic stage a child should see his mother as the greatest object of desire, yet he had a mother who was abusive and told him that his father died during his conception. This put fear into Beau and made him afraid of having sex for the rest of his life, leading to his fixation on being abstinent, and an irrational fear of dying from having sexual intercourse.
All you psychoanalysts out there, you can take this idea and develop it further. Right now, I don't have anymore time to elaborate and go into more detail about this film. I gotta go. Thanks for reading, if you did.
Also I think this role with Jaoquin because after Joker, it would be odd for him to play a normal guy again. A mentally ill person is perfect choice for him to play. His performance was insanely good, and he's spot on in everything.
Nefarious (2023)
It's just a bad movie
It really bothered me that most reviews of this movie were 1/10 or 10/10. This also made me realize that this movie attracted political people (oh god... political people). So, I decided to watch this movie for myself to give it an honest review and pretty much see what the fuss is all about. I was very surprised! I apologize to whatever political side, in advance.
There was some really funny bad acting in the scene where the psychiatrist got angry and swept the documents off the desk, and his face did not show a shred of emotional change from the previous mood. His face is stiff and doesn't really convey emotion, while the prisoner actor is pretty decent at acting, which makes the psychiatrist actor's bad acting even more salient and hilarious. The prisoner is talking to him and his face is very expressive and constantly moving, while the psychiatrist's face is completely stiff and his eyes are only able to convey two or three emotions: happy, sad, or content. It's the funniest bad acting I've ever seen (from what I remember, since "I did nat hit her, I did naaat" guy). The prisoner actor was relaying a number of different emotions, but the psychiatrist actor's reaction was always exactly the same--his face muscles do not move, even when he got a bit angry. Naturally, I noticed the prisoner actor's acting deteriorate throughout the movie because the psychiatrist actor was not really in sync/in rhythm with him, or on the same level as him, as professional actors are supposed to be. I began to notice the prisoner actor's frustration as he threw so much emotion into the dialogue, only to be matched with absolutely flat psychiatrist actor's demeanor throughout the first 35 minutes of what I've watched, as I'm taking a break to write this.
Characters: The atheist psychiatrist actor felt like he's mocking atheists, and I could sense that in real life the actor is actually a Christian. I know nothing about him writing this, but just by how he talks and moves his face, he makes me imagine him as a TV preacher. He's got that Christian good TV guy look that he doesn't want to sacrifice for acting. So, even though he's playing an atheist, he's actually a very convincing Christian preacher, and you can even see it in his eyes. The prisoner actor also seems like a Christian TV guy, even though his character is supposed to be a demon, but he sounds nothing like a demon. Rather, he preaches that abortion is murder and euthanasia is murder, which is exactly what Christian TV guys do, and not demons. I imagine a demon would swear and mock the lord, and say horrible things like in Exorcist 1970s version, but this demon is actually very much like a preacher which I find hilariously ironic. So even though he's supposed to be a demon, his vibes matched that of a Christian TV guy too. Over time (35 minutes in) it settled into my mind that I'm listening and watching two Christians having an acting podcast. A strange feeling. And a podcast is pretty much what this is, because the entire time nothing happens at all, except they take turns speaking. One time, an event occurs when another person enters the room. By 35 minutes into the movie, literally nothing happens except that and the psychiatrist knocking over the documents on his desk.
The first attack on atheism happened when one of them claimed that atheists can't even consider that their world view may not be the case, and that atheists can't accept that there may be other possibilities and explanations of the universe. Ironically, the Christian fundamentalists are guilty of the exact same thing because they also are not willing to accept any other explanation of the universe but their own. Aside from conversation, I am waiting for something to happen, very patiently. At 37 minutes, still nothing happened since the movie began.
At 45 minutes, something happens, finally, and the psychiatrist actor leaves the room, only to talk to a prison guard and make a phone call. Ironically, the prison guard's acting seems better and more natural than the psychiatrist-the lead actor, which again ensues hilarity.
Politics of it all: Then, over the phone, it turns out his wife had another abortion which is the third murder that the psychiatrist "committed". I don't actually hold any judgment towards those who oppose abortion and euthanasia. I understand their argument, but this movie is just downright the funniest thing and really doesn't do justice to those complex moral issues. And now I've made both sides mad because even though I see the religious right's point, I also admit how horribly hilarious this movie is, which will presumably make both sides mad (oh god... political people). God may or may not exist, abortion may or may not be moral, and euthanasia may or may not be moral. I am not one to say what you should believe, and I can sympathize with both opinions because both perspectives are ultimately "good" (one side wants to protect unborn human's rights, the other side wants to protect mothers' rights). Both are, in essence, aim to make the world just and good, so how can you truly hate either side? We should come together and discuss our differences, not hate each other and downvote movies of people you disagree with, WITHOUT even watching it. I am glad I watched it and saw the truth for myself.
Because I had to sleep, I paused the movie here at 45 minutes. I really wanted to finish it.
3 days later, I am watching it again from where I left off. Suddenly there are new characters, new scenes, cinematography, and I'm surprised to see this considering all I remember is a 45 minute one scene of a podcast. Even the acting looks decent, as the psychiatrist is displaying the "worried" emotion quite well, and transitions to angry/determined quite well too. Now, at 50 minutes, we're back to the original scene where most of the movie took place so far. The podcast prison cell where they talk.
Now things proceed to get political again, and it makes no sense. The argument of whether there's more good than evil in the world begins, and the psychiatrist for some reason uses gender inequality, and anti-racism as the good things humans did at the top of his list, when the much better examples would be things like finding the cure for HIV, ending WW2 etc. Just the fact that he brought those issues in that context seems really out of place in this conversation, and it is obviously trying to be relevant to today's political left vs. Right debate. In other words, it's awkwardly inserted in the conversation as bait for a Twitter argument. And once again, the prisoner actor is sounding a lot like a Christian guy than a demon. Instead of spitting venomous evil words, he is saying awkward right wing talking points like "you have basketball players getting 30 million a year to cry racism" (quoted from the film). Does this demon just use Twitter all day, so he's like the Twitter demon? In this universe, instead of doing demon things like torturing poor souls in the depth of hell, this demon prefers to read Twitter, watch NBA, join Facebook groups, and follows Ben Shapiro on Twitter. This demon makes no sense, whether you're right wing, left wing, or neither.
He sounds like a conservative guy on a podcast rather than a demon from hell. Moving on, he broke his own finger which was the first time this movie reminded me it's a horror movie. The finger breaking was only gross, not scary, however.
Later, the prisoner actor gets a haircut, and I am still bored. Then he gets executed and the demon transfers to the psychiatrist, but only for a little bit because, well, because the psychiatrist asked for god's help. Why didn't the prisoner just ask god for help to get rid of the demonic possession, if it worked for "James" the psychiatrist? The movie ends with a predictable twist, of the demon possessing another person and saying Hi to James. Other than that, it ended uneventfully and simply. The writers want the audience to know that god saved the protagonist from the demon. We got that pretty clearly. It's finally over. I am completely uninterested in talking about politics now.
Finally it's over, and what ride that was! It was a truly awful movie, but the second half was not as bad as the first half. Originally, I would have given it a 2/10, but after the second half, in which the acting and story picked up the pace a little, I would raise this movie to a fair 3/10. Thanks for reading, if you did. Politics aside, this stinks.
The Father (2020)
Stellar performance, but too depressing for me
It was sad to see Anthony Hopkins behave like an infant in the ending scene, since he has played powerful roles like Hannibal Lecter. It was hard to me to emotionally connect to the actor because I already knew it is a story about Alzheimer's which is depressing, however the story goes nowhere but the consequences of the disease. Watching this movie, you feel like you're losing memory, like you have AD, and it helps you imagine it ,and fear that disease. However, I just didn't enjoy the ending because it was not climactic, but rather expected. Thus, this movie is more like an autobiography or even documentary about Alzeimer's Disease, to me.
Cocaine Bear (2023)
Self-aware horror comedy
This comedy is refreshingly self-aware because it acknowledges how ridiculous it is, and makes fun of itself. Precisely for this reason, the gimmicky stories of the characters serve as premises for the hilarious jokes throughout the movie. Yeah, you could say it's cheesy but the movie lets you know it's supposed to be cheesy, and that has a comedic effect.
This should be labelled horror comedy because of the gore, and I imagine many people did not expect this much gore in a comedy, so they were disappointed. I, on the other hand, am a fan of horror movies so I'm not disturbed by it at all.
Not a movie for everybody, but I am silly enough to enjoy it.
Scream VI (2023)
Why is this getting 7.2/10?
I watch almost all new blockbuster horror movies and this movie was pretty bad. I feel like people are giving it good reviews because they are diehard fans of the two main actresses, kind of like Kpop stans will vote 10/10 on anything they do.
1. The actions of some characters make no sense. Why doesn't anyone have a gun? It's America. Hello?
2. How can these thin 100 lb women be able to fight off 200 lb men weilding a knife?
3. One of the murderers happens to be also a teenage girl? Is she trained by Navy Seals or something?
4. This is a comedy but it's not self-aware enough.
5. The good thing is that it does make some references for film nerds. I liked those. And I think some jokes made me chuckle once or twice.
Overall, dumb plot. Trying really hard to be edgy. Trying to appeal to teenagers. We don't care.
The Last of Us: Look for the Light (2023)
Plot Armor + Speed Run
The show was going at its usual pace until suddenly the fireflies took Ellie and Joel by surprise. From that point on, Joel put on some tier 5 plot armour and went and killed dozens of trained soldiers (because he's invisible and has wallhacks). Not only that, but it also happens so fast that there is no oppurtunity to generate any real suspense. I remember just watching Joel shooting people and I was not at the edge of my seat. I was just like "oh he's going to kill them all obviously" and he did. It was like a video game in which you just know your objective is to clear the floor of enemies, and you just do it without thinking much about it. I don't like when this show becomes too much like a video game.
That being said, overall, the whole season was very good. The first episode was so good, so exciting. A new world, an apocalypse, what could be more awesome? It was so much better than the last episode.
Missing (2023)
Appreciate your mom
The point of the story is to appreciate your mom (if she loves you of course). Another point of the story is to cover your camera (put a little tape over your camera when you're not using it) because creepy hackers can watch your every move.
The movie is not for everybody because some people don't use computers much (yes they exist). For me, it was very immersive and it felt like I'm at my own computer, so it felt like this story was happening to me. Some creepy moments in there actually were horror-like, such as when we read Lin's creepy email history.
The movie is extremely gripping from the very beginning. It just feels like you're researching a murder yourself on your computer, or watching a live stream of the main actress. Good acting by her, worst acting was by the lawyer woman (I'll let it slide though).
It feels like the creators of this movie really had the new generation of people with super short attention spans (TikTok users) who want a quick pace of content presentation. The pace of this movie seems to cater to people who need to constantly have their attention. The movie forces you to pay attention, and it's very visual. It lets you put the pieces together on your own, making you feel like you're solving a mystery. It leaves you guessing and creating options and timeline yourself. The mystery is the suspenseful and interesting part.
Lastly, I think this subgenre of movies is very valuable and this was a really good example of how interesting it is, specifically to people who use social media and computers all day (for us it's more immersive).
South Park: Japanese Toilet (2023)
BEST SP Episode I've seen in a couple of years!
It was pure and simple. A man sees a toilet, a man falls in love with a toilet. There's nothing like a bond between a man and his toilet, because we're all bound to our toilets since we first sat on them. The human and toilet relationship is so profoundly and realistically portrayed in this episode. Everyone who tries the toilet, immediately realizes that that's how we should all go pooping. No one should have to poop while crouching down, in a field somewhere, behind a bush, or in a desert full of sand where they can bury their sins. We all love our toilets, and Randy Marsh is all of us, if we tried the bidet.
The Last of Us: Left Behind (2023)
Stranger Things
Welcome to stranger things. It's a story about two kids in a mall having fun and then a scary zombie shows up and they kick his ass.
But in all seriousness, this episode is the origin story of Ellie (main character). It reveals that Ellie also had experienced losing friends, just like the other main character (Joel I think his name is). Was it necessary? Yes, we now know Ellie's origin story.
The problem is that it felt like it wasn't enough for an episode, and it's a bit of a filler episode. The story everyone wanted to see had barely any progress made in it. It was like a whole episode dedicated to a memory of Ellie. The thing is, that memory wasn't that entertaining. It's two teenagers playing at a mall, and falling in love, and getting bit by zombie after because life really is ironic like that sometimes. Plus it felt like stranger things because of the focus on the perspective of teenage characters. Meanwhile, poopie scoopie. But I really liked the Mortal Kombat scene. But this just isn't as good as the story of Joel and Ellie's adventures through the wasteland.
Knock at the Cabin (2023)
WHY?
Good filming as usual by Shamalamalayan, and good acting for the most part by the cast, even though sometimes I felt the main characters, played by straight actors, were clearly trying to act gay, and sometimes tried too hard. You can tell they're pretending.
BUT WHY? Why is this stuff happening? What force is behind all this? No explanation, just lazy writing. Furthermore, it is not even Shamalamalayan's idea, but he stole it from a book that tells the story properly.
This fails to convey meaning. How does this relate to our lives? It's like some dream of an ego maniac, who thinks that he's the main character in the world, and their life and death can change outcome of an apocalypse.
Where's the backstory? Is it Zeus that's angry and destroying the world? Is it aliens? Is it Noah's ark, a prophecy? What do they have to do with it? Just stop. None of it makes any sense.
The only good thing about this movie is that it's my favorite genre, and I enjoy apocalypse scenarios. It gets me excited.
The excitement goes nowhere. The whole time, you're intrigued to find out what is going on, and why things are happening on the news, and how this is all connected. But at the end, you don't get the satisfaction of figuring it out. It's just nonsense. I just want to know... WHY?!???!?!??
The Last of Us: Kin (2023)
Opposite of the previous episode
This episode was the opposite of the previous episode that was action packed and full of life-threatening tension and excitement. This episode, conversely, has very little action, and it has tension of a different kind--emotional tension. It focuses on character development rather than fast paced adventure, and I think it's a good contrast to the previous episode. The good thing is that you can expect to get back to action in the next episode. It is not as good as the previous episode in terms of how much fun it is, but when the bar is set so high, then you can't expect every episode to be the bomb.
Infinity Pool (2023)
Infinity Poo
It's definitely a good and unique idea for a movie, and it kept me interested because I wanted to know what the HECK is going on. I think the beginning was nailed, and my eyes were glued to the screen, awaiting to see what the HECK is going on. But once the movie hinted that the guy is actually a clone of himself, the movie didn't take too long to confirm that fact, and really hammer it into your head. "You're a surrogate". "It's your first day, but you're a clone of your former self". "Do you feel like yourself because you were just cloned, dude". "We're all cloned, like you, isn't being cloned fun". After that it was clear to me what the HECK is going on. But after that, I just didn't see a point to what the HECK was going on. Yes, they're all having fun, doing the hallucinogen drug and doing crazy stuff, but ultimately... why? I never understood why.
At the end, I guess the whole plot is the writer's way of conveying that staying at vacation resorts is pointless and all about debauchery. The final scene where he sits in the rain, doesn't want to leave back home to normal life, made me feel like it's trying to portray a person who just had fun at vacation and decided to stay longer, even if it means the rest of their life is left behind. Kind of like getting lost in vacationing, and living like a hospital patient, fed daily by the buffet like a sheep, and sitting on the beach every day like a cow on grass.
The Last of Us: Endure and Survive (2023)
Almost a stand-alone film
1. Nearly perfect episode.
2. The occasional humor really grabs you by surprise sometimes. In the middle of all this horror and drama, when a joke slips through, it really is funnier because it's so out of place, yet it's perfectly placed.
3. Very exciting and quickly progressing episode. They did not waste any time between transitions to the important events. For example, in the beginning, it didn't take long for the four protagonists to meet. It was straight to the point. Great flow, never boring at any point.
4. It was tense. There was a lot of talk with guns pointed at each other, and it made you sit on the edge of your seat. I was worried for the characters.
5. Antagonists all died. There is no plot armour because the other characters died. This is actually a truly amazing feature of the episode. I actually was foolish enough to believe that the antagonist characters were going to survive the whole season because the actors were great. Yet, they get killed in such "casual" ways, like a completely irrelevant character would.
6. Protagonists all died (except Ellie and the guy, but that's because the main player in a video game can never die, or the game simply ends). The entire lives of the deaf kid and his brother were told in this episode and it was very surprising how it ended for them. No one expected that.
7. The show managed to f with me. I was surprised by many things. I thought for sure there would be infected in the tunnels. There weren't. I thought maybe Ellie really can cure people by rubbing her infection-resistant blood on their wounds. She can't. I thought the evil characters would surely survive and come back the next episode. They didn't. I thought the little kid would at least survive. He didn't. It was just brutal, full of surprises, and great.
8. By the way, the imprisoned people in the beginning ended up being killed I think. I just remembered that.
9. One criticism I can offer is that it sometimes feels like a video game, and my gamer intuition kicks in and I already know what to expect. But this can be also viewed as a positive thing because my logic is similar to the characters' logic. Never played the game though.
House of the Dragon (2022)
Mixed feelings
In the beginning of the season, the show captivated me with nostalgia for Game of Thrones. However, as the show went on, many flaws became too apparent. By last few episodes, I was becoming annoyed, and here's why.
1. There are too many scenes of talking, people lying on beds, taking long pauses, giving long meaningful stares to each other, etc. I understand it's meant to advance the plot, but there was way too much of just sitting in castles and talking, but not actually anything happening.
2. I longed for an adventure, but never got it. GoT was best for its adventuring characters. Travelling through the wilderness, encountering all sorts of things. House of Dragon is literally about people sitting inside castles and talking 90% of the time.
3. Change of actors in season 6 made no sense. Some actors remained, like Cole, who did not age one bit and stayed 20 years old. Others changed as people (which totally ruined my immersion and character development). While the King himself was one who was put make up on to look older. Question is, why didn't they do what they did with the King with the others? And if you will change actors, then why not be consistent and make everyone look equally older. Cole literally stayed the same age while everyone else aged, it was just so poorly done.
4. Not enough action and excitement. A lot of boring scenes of talking that took up too much time. Of course you need dialogue scenes, but there were just too many in comparison to action/interesting scenes.
5. Long and drawn out on purpose, to fill time and make it to one hour. It became apparent that they're basically purposely making the show longer to meet the one hour quota. This should have been done in half a season, but they milked it to the maximum.
6. Predictable. I was able to predict things very well, which is not good. There should be surprise.
Overall: not very exciting. Boring show. But I continue to watch because the good things about the show keep me interested: I love the fantasy world of RR martin, I love dragons, I love medieval times, I love how violent and brutal medieval times are depicted here, I love how there's constant evil vs good fighting, and constant human emotions being played with. So I will keep watching. But my god, it bored me at times to the point of annoyance.
Smile (2022)
Good Horror Movie
Reminds me of Drag Me To Hell, and The Ring (both great horror movies).
Yes, the jump-scares are used very frequently and you just learn to expect them. However, they are very well done jumpscares that I personally did not expect. One of the scares got me REALLY good, I totally did not see it coming! It was when Rose's sister came up to the car and suddenly her head flipped upside down. It was amazingly done because it was broad daylight and she was wearing a pink sweater, and the last thing you expect is a jump scare in that scene. You expect jump scares when they close a fridge door, or there's a dark doorway, or the character is slowly walking through their home at night. You just don't expect a jump scare in that daylight, pink sweater, seemingly innocent scene. I thought that was very well done.
The story is interesting and I like the descent into madness, but also I like the mystery of it and Rose's attempt to solve the mystery.
The flaw of the movie is that the mystery is not actually that deep because there is no explanation of why and what the hell the "demon" thing is. All we find out is how it works, but we don't ever learn what it is, where it's from, where is started, etc.
Additionally, I predicted the ending almost perfectly which is a bit disappointing. I knew that when she set the house and demon on fire, and seemingly won, that it was not over. I nailed that her cop ex-boyfriend (Carl?) was going to suddenly smile and let us know it's not over. And that's exactly what happened.
The ending also was not satisfying. I wanted to see the story concluded, but the demon was passed onto Carl which means it didn't end and plus, we expected this to happen.
The Greatest Lie Ever Sold: George Floyd and the Rise of BLM (2022)
a bit messy, and very biased
In the first quarter of the documentary, Candace Owens begins to go over George Floyd's criminal history and negative things about the situation that people overlook, however this doesn't lead to any conclusion. George Floyd still was wrongfully murdered, and Candace does not provide concrete evidence of the claim that he died from drug overdose. She provides some evidence that may suggest a drug overdose (no sign of bodily injury and a heavy heart, but at the end there is no conclusive evidence like toxicology that shows he had taken a lethal dose. Overall, her belief that he died from drug overdose seems to be a result of her bias, rather than clear cut evidence. She is contrarian and wants to go against the main narrative, which is valuable, however again she fails to present compelling overwhelming proof.
The documentary is a bit messy because the topic switches to BLM's corrupt use of donation money, which has nothing to do with George Floyd's situation, ultimately. The former and latter topics did not seem to be well connected, and I felt like the documentary didn't flow well from one part to the second part. However, the best part of the documentary is the expose of the donation money corruption by BLM. Still, all of this material could have been compressed into one 20 minute Youtube video.
Legends of the Fall (1994)
They don't make them like they used to
This is a 90s movie, and it was legendary. One of my favorite movies of all time, now. Can't believe it took me this long to find it.
It covers different aspects of life, makes you think about the meaning of life, your family, what is the meaning of death. What I would do if someone hurt my loved ones, what is sacred in this life, what is not.
It is also a rollercoaster ride, containing times of turmoil interupted by times of peace. For example, first it's happiness, then something crazy happens, then it becomes calm again, then something again happens, then by the third time you expect something to happen and stop the peaceful moment. But it works, and it was not actually predictable. My predictions were wrong.
The Gringo Papi (2022)
Convulsions from cringing
I watched about 1-2 minutes and felt unbareable cringe. My whole body was shuddering from the discomfort this caused me. The thing is, I feel bad for Schaub because he's a nice guy, and people are making up pretty cruel lies about him cheating on his wife, him being racist, him being a thief, him being a truly evil person, and these people made a sport out of chasing him around the internet and trying to poop on everything he does. While the special was undoubtedly bad, extremely bad and unfunny, there is no evidence that Schaub is actually any of those bad things, or has done anything bad in his life. All the accusations of evildoing come from a group of people (mostly from Reddit) who enjoy chasing Schaub around and trying to bully him, and he's an especially easy target due to this terrible special.
To end, all the accusations of Schaub being evil are bogus and have no evidence. People who enjoy bullying Schaub come up with character-assassinating accusations (i.e. He abuses women) and others believe it. Once again, there is zero evidence of Schaub being a bad person. Schaub made a terrible special and it deserves 1 star, but that doesn't make him a bad person, like the bullies tell you.
What Is a Woman? (2022)
A documentary that defines the cultural shift of the few years
Amazingly done, very simply asking people questions, and trying to get to the objective truth. Exposing social justice warrior's inability to reason, and how far they have rejected objective truth. There is only one truth, not your/my truth.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
I'm too tired to write much
This is an amazing movie, and I really enjoyed it. It was an enjoyable movie, and I cried at the end. It was exactly what I expected in that sense because I've heard many-a-good things about it from other people. It is not perfect because I found that the abrupt shifting from memory to memory was a little too much for me at times.
The Black Phone (2021)
Watched it while high as a giraffe
I was high on weed while watching this, which amplified my awareness of how the child actors are actors. I was unable to get immersed by their performance, and there were no adult actors to lead the role (I found the villain's acting to be undetectable because he was always wearing a mask, felt like looking at a prop, not a human).
The story hypothetically would have been interesting if done right. The intended "scary" scenes were not scary at all, as the undead actors looked like they were just wearing some make up.
Overall I just didn't buy the acting, it felt like none of the actors are relatable. I think children might enjoy this movie more than adults. To me as an adult it was not at all scary.
It was also boring and cheesy in many ways. The police actors were bad too "you saw black balloons?!".
I don't know. I hated the experience in the theatre and there was a pair talking the entire time which angered me so maybe that's why I hated this movie so much more than it may deserve.
Up (2009)
Couldn't stop crying one minute, next minute laughing
There's nothing more beautiful than finding meaning in life. That's what Carl did. It's a great movie and there's nothing I can say that hasn't already been said. However it's not perfect because I felt like I was being slightly manipulated because I couldn't stop crying, knowing that the scenes were designed to touch my heart.
Climax (2018)
Noe's perfect understanding of LSD
It was a good movie but the dance scenes and the "trippy" scenes were way too long for me. At times, it felt like the story was abandoned and I found myself wondering when it will continue. But ultimately it did. There were some unique horror elements that I've never seen before: a kid overdosing on LSD trapped inside a dark room while his mother can't find the key to get to him, and a pregnant woman getting kicked in the stomach (all unique horror concepts that really made me uncomfortable).
As far as politics, it is the opposite of conservative, and many people are wrong to say it is conservative (laughable). It's literally the opposite, as the characters are all liberal, except Omar who didn't drink and believed in paradise (probably religious). It's SO opposite of conservative, as you can tell by the constant eroticism and often explicitly stated views (i.e. One character was pro-abortion, others were highly sexually liberated, and others were drug friednly, and others were LGBT, we say plenty of diversity, etc). In fact, it was a little bit on the nose how anti-traditional values the whole movie was, despite taking a dark turn.
Lastly, I read a few reviews saying that this is not what LSD does, and every one of those people is completely wrong. None of those people understand how LSD works and what tolerance is. Yes, a tab or two of LSD is not going to make people go completely insane, but the movie portrayed that several punch bowls of alcohol were filled with liquid LSD. IN REAL LIFE experiments people who underwent torture by LSD in MK Ultra experiments by the CIA have reported permanent mental illness after being tortured by being administered ungodly amounts of LSD. This means that the doses people have taken are 100x or 200x the acceptable dose, which guarantees the worst trip of their life for anyone, with all kinds of diverse effects.
Also considering that they all drank varied amounts (they didn't all drink an equal amount), it should follow that they would experiencing varying levels of overdose. That mixed with their unique biopsychosocial factors that will determine the outcome and type of experience they will have.
I am getting lazy to write anymore, this has been too long.
The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)
Ending Explained
OK I read the comments and the most plausible explanation is this:
This was all 4D chess by Martin.
-The son was poisoned (or some say cursed) by Martin gradually until he bled from the eyes. The son was the only one with the illness.
-The daughter was in love with Martin and pretended to not be able to talk, eat, as instructed by Martin. The MP3 player may be instructions.
-The wife never became sick either, but believed the husband's story that all of them will die of sickness, after seeing her son and daughter seemingly fall ill as her husband said.
-The husband believed Martin's story that all of his family will die, as well, based on witnessing what's happening to his children.
-OVERALL, they were all conned by Martin, except the son who was actually falling ill because possibly his sister was feeding him poison. Martin conned them all. The wife wasn't sick and the daughter was pretending and is in love with him deeply doing what he tells her, essentially. In the movie she mentions that "she loves him so much" and she stares at him for a long time in the last scene of the movie, right before it ends. The wife simply believed the story based on what she's seeing.
-Martin is, at first seemingly innocent, but an incredibly charming, highly manipulative and intelligent demon. In the beginning the wife mentions what a great person he is when he visited their house. Near the end, the wife is the one who released Martin from their basement.
Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994)
Amazing acting and gripping story
Was glued to the TV from the get go. I liked the typical writer who smokes cigarettes. That being said, there could have been more to make it a 10/10.