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Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
A garbage movie
I wasn't really interested in seeing this movie based upon what I saw from the various movie trailers but after it won Best Picture, I thought, maybe I'm missing some kind of gem. After seeing this movie in the theater, I have lost all respect for the Oscar's and the Oscar committee to choose the Best Picture based on quality. This movie was such a garbage movie that it's easy to tell the Oscar Committee is no longer interested in awarding Best Picture for the Best Picture but it's now all politically motivated.
I would love to read their notes on how, with all of the movies that were up for Best Picture, how did they finally choose this garbage movie as the movie that deserves such an honor of Best Picture.
For the Love of Money (2021)
Weak story, lousy script, and bad acting
The movie starts out showing a single mother raising her daughter. She's struggling financially but doing the best she can working as a cocktail waitress at a club.
They attend church and we see her daughter perform at church singing a song that she wrote. We also watch them at a basketball game where her daughter plays on the school team. Then we later see her daughter get into a physical altercation with a school-mate outside of school. The police get called and they show an incident of a police officer beating up the girl. The part of the police officer beating the girl has nothing to do with the story but in today's environment, they took the liberty of putting that into the script.
Now our single mother is faced with legal bills on top of her already high amount of other bills she's already got so she comes to a decision of what is she to do.
She decides she's going to be a money launderer for some co-workers that work at her same club. There is no information or background story on how she knows how to do this but we are just supposed to believe that a cocktail waitress knows all of the Ins & outs when it comes to money laundering and she somehow already has connections on who to reach out to on making her money laundering business a success.
Early into this scheme of hers, there is a discussion with the attorneys about the fight and the legal issues against her daughter and yet, even though the class-mate was seriously injured from the fight, conveniently all charges are dropped, including charges against the officer who beat up the daughter. The only request was to terminate the officer that beat up her daughter.
By this point however the mother is too deep in her drug laundering business and she needs to keep on going because now, she's enjoying the lifestyle by buying nice clothes, a new Maserati, and later buys the club she's working at, still working as a cocktail waitress.
The movie was not a good movie and instead of having a scene talking about white supremacy and the scene showing the cop beating a young black girl which really had no significance in the story at all, the scriptwriters should have focused more on writing a better story/script.
This movie is not worth seeing.
Cobra Kai (2018)
Series is better than the movie
I've watched both seasons a couple of times now and absolutely love it. It's great how all of the original characters that were in the movie, The Karate Kid, are also in the series. It's funny how in the movie, I'm rooting for Daniel LaRusso but in the series I'm rooting for Johnny Lawrence to succeed. I'm not all that crazy about how Season 2 ended, with a huge Karate fight in the school, how Miguel gets injured, and how Johnny loses his dojo, so I'm hoping in Season 3, it makes up for it. Overall I definitely recommend watching Cobra Kai!!