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Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)
All about your expectations
Just watch this after re-watching the original film. Since I saw all the reviews completely bashing the film I went in with very low expectations. It was alright, have seen much worse. I have noticed the more of an attachment one has to the first film the more they scored this one down. Light entertainment, lot's of predictable, cheesy scenes, special effects in line with much of what is produced these days and of course like the first 'Murika, if you get my meaning.
But all this said, the first film was hardly a great film, it was a fun watch, fun special effects and in the end predictable and cheesy. The film became iconic probably more for the blowing up the White House scene, which we all remember the trailer and reactions in theaters went it came out. Will Smith not in this film and everyone making a big deal about it. Not missed, anyone could have played his role with their comedic take, so someone plays his son in a main role. Had they not killed off Randy Quaid we could have had more of his real life personality on screen, boy those viral videos of him showed us how little he actually acted in that film.
This was an light fluff film that you watch on the plane because everything else you have seen or is just pretty bad. Going into with low expectations helps. Sequels rarely deliver and I believe there is a number 3 lined up, they definitely left it open. But the first one was a 6 if this was a 5, calling it a 2 or 3 suggest that you wanted the film to be something and are mad that it didn't out do the original. It could have done so much more and was pretty mediocre, but then again so could have the first
House M.D. (2004)
Truly entertaining TV
I find the show quite entertaining with a great deal of humor, often subtle and offbeat. There is a certain formula often to the shows progression of analysis, but the show's real appeal come from the character's interactions with each other. Many wish to comment on Hugh Laurie's ability to pull an American accent, though many intelligent English speakers can explore various dialects and accents of their native language. The one thing I do find odd is that the staff and patients alike do not have much range on the accent front. Is this not a hospital in New Jersey? Should we not expect more of an eastern seaboard range of dialects? Not that everyone should sound like a Jersey housewife, but.... I watch the show for the characters in the end, great humor. Lupus will be diagnosed time and time again as a possibility, but will never be the end cause. Enjoy it for the insanity that is House
The Dukes of Hazzard: The Beginning (2007)
Was never a classic
First off those reviewing this like some sort of classic was wrecked... come on. The TV show was face it, never some sort of classic. The story line, dialog and acting was always half rated. The same routine in every episode, same bad slap stick. It was never an original show, it is an good example of another bad 70's show.
Second the questioning of language and half naked girls... well it was American TV and that was the only reason you never had more in the show. So it is a teenage romp looking for excuses to make bad sexual jokes and show topless girls. That is all it is No classic was wreck and all this discussion on how the movie should have been made to hold a timeline, as though a piece of history needed to be presented properly... come one! yes I watch it when I was a boy and the fact that it was great entertainment for us as pre or early teens says something about the original... let not try to glorify mediocrity... There were some cutting edge shows in the 70s for the time period and this is hardly one of them. SNL, All in the family, Second city TV, MASH, Monty Python to name a few did something no one else did at the time.
So watch this movie if you want bad jokes, stupid dialog and an occasional excuse to see breasts bouncing around. Otherwise just keep moving on
Hostel (2005)
Understood the problem the Slovaks had with the film
The premise of the story, bad people paining to see others suffer, fine. Slow start up teen sex romp beginning, it is what it is. So fine Roth says he is showing Americans being idiots in Europe, I understand the point. Have lived in a few countries over here for 10 years and know the realities of the former occupied countries, better then many of the native western European counter parts as I have been living and working, and not just popping over for sex trips.
So the point is this, one is left, particularly the American audience with a feel that Slovakia is a near lawless society with gangs of rouge children waiting in the shadows to take their next victim if the person doesn't kick up some coin or gum. Roth is being arrogant if not racist in his little in sites to the society. That said I find most American film that makes some attempt to put itself into a European back drop often missing the nuances. But hey if your experience is rich Hollywood person who visits Europe in 5 star luxury or the occasional trips to Cannes, well all you have to fall back on is the superficial view you have outside your chauffeured limo.