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Black Sails (2014)
Peaks with season 1, after that.......eh
The problem with Black sails is that the longer it sailed along, the more it jerked itself off in front of the viewer with all this overserious, cliched, grandiose, monologues by all sorts of different characters. After season 1, the show has a SERIOUS issue with following the storytelling rule of "show don't tell", the entire time we are constantly being told by all these characters about how epic this is and how grand that is.......and what this represents and yada-yada-yada, it's like the show is constantly trying to sell itself to the viewers.
Season 1 was successful with these complicated character dynamics. We had pirates and merchants who were trying to survive, and someone might be crossed or alliances may change, but it was all realistic and clear and we could plainly see where each character was coming from. It worked and it was impressive. The story surrounded (for the most part) the major Spanish gold prize which many different characters were trying to get their hands on. But after season 1 it all became about "THE WAR". Dear god if i have to hear a character say "the war" 1 more time in this show my god, it became a complete meme. At some points it just became another shonen action anime where all these characters are running around fighting and iv'e forgotten what we're actually doing here.
Black sails begins a cool pirate show with a bunch of different characters looking out for themselves in intelligent ways. It turns into a show where the priority of individual characters gets thrown aside for the show-runners priority to stage "THE WAR". It just becomes another boring show where the action and overarching plot are prioritised over the realistic portrayal of the pirates we began with in season 1. The only characters who i felt we're well written the entire time were Jack, Anne and their 3rd wheel, and perhaps Charles vane. The writing for Elanor, Flint and especially Silver and Billy were often behwildering and often just in service of continuing to force tension and "THE WAR"
The show briefly became quality again in the first half of season 3 as the gang is trying to survive, and Silver and Flint have this epic moment ripped straight from toy story where they're trapped in a box, and Silver gets flint to believe in himself again and delivered the speech that saved their lives..........that was really cool...........unfortunately it led straight into THE WAR.
Black Sails: XXXV. (2017)
Best episode of the season so far
TBH season 4 has been quite messy. IDK it just hasn't felt as good as seasons 1 and 3. This episode was beautiful and simple after a very messy and confusing "war" of Nassau.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)
what on earth am i watching
This is utter trash, to the point where it feels like a meme/parody.
Victorious: How Trina Got In (2012)
Trina Vega is the best character and it's not even close
Trina Vega is Tori's obnoxious older sister and a diva-in-training, Trina's not satisfied unless she's in the spotlight. Trina was portrayed by Daniella Monet.
Nightcrawler (2014)
Better writing than 'Prisoners'
Haven't seem this movie for a few year, was expecting to dislike this movie because of how messed up I remembered it being. But the writing here is actually amazing. Credit where it's due.
Prisoners (2013)
Nightcrawler had far better writing.
Such a mess of a movie, started off well enough and it does hold your attention, but the plot has so many issues it's hard to know where to even start.
Firstly what the f is wrong with the characters in this movie? The kidnapper does so much messed up stuff....then confesses to a priest? lol what? So then the priest kills him and doesn't tell anyone, and just leaves the body lying around in a secret room under the house? And the only thing between that body and exposure.....is a fridge.....lmaooooo
Nobody can talk in this movie, talking is forbidden, the guy Huge Jackman is torturing can't talk because????? Why would he not just tell him, the old lady has the girls!!!!! Like what is this writing?
Then "children's clothes" man is intelligent when he escapes jake gyllenhaal, and seems normal enough when he's arrested, but then he turns into a whacko once he's in custody and WON'T TALK, whyyyyyyyy. Then Jake gylenhaal snaps and slams the guys face on the table LMAOOOOO IS THIS A MEME?
The ending of the movie is so artificially set up...so cringe. Huge Jackman talks to the girl in the hospital, and sprints out super obviously......even though he supposedly wants to go alone, otherwise he would have told the cops "hey my daughter is here, go save her. Instead he just goes alone, and walks into this woman's house, like the dumbest character in thriller history, and turns his back to this lady. The only way Huge Jackman could have stuffed up the situation worse, would be if he killed the black girl (Joy) as he left the hospital.
That way, Huge guarantees he and his daughter both die, and nobody will ever find the bodies!!!! But still credit where credit is due, I give Huge 7/10 for his suicide mission.
I thought this was a great movie when I was 16, what 3 will do if you improve your mindset and appreciation for good films. I watched nightcrawler yesterday, I was expecting to like prisoners and hate nightcrawler, it's actually the other way around.
Se7en (1995)
Well packaged poop of a plot.
I'm that guy that never correctly guesses the plot in any movie ever. Even I knew what was in that box.
However that's not why it's a bad film. It's a bad film because it has the most cringe plot iv'e ever seen. Why do imperfect people get murdered? Because they "sin", as Kevin Spacey says, and the 2 cops act like he's correct. The movie uses Brad Pitt's idiocy to justify Kevin Spacey's idiocy, because he too would have hurt Kevin Spacey "if they were alone in a room". So then Spacey's game is that "everyone is a sinner and it's about time we point out who the sinners are".
Of course any normal or rational person would just be like "Well yes, the world has issues, but instead of murdering people for having flaws, maybe we should address why so many people have these flaws, and maybe by being a good person and promoting virtue and compassion, we can created a world where there's less fat and selfish people".
The ironic thing about this film, is that it's the very kind of film that Spacey's victims would enjoy. This film is a success because messed up people think it's profound, when it's actually just a degenerate pile of dung.
And for anyone thinking it, no..........i'm not the kind of person why only enjoys butterfly and rainbow movies. Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance and Scream are 2 films I rate highly. But Oldboy and Se7en (the better received of the 4, in this degenerate world) are dung.
Malcolm in the Middle: Baby: Part 1 (2003)
Garbage episode
Was painful to watch from start to finish. Couldn't believe it's got a rating of 8.0. There are so many superior episodes that are rated lower than this.
The granda is horrible and it's tough being Dewey, but they never bothered to actually make the episode entertaining. The black guys scaring off the grandma was admittedly funny, everything is a chore to sit through. The show really isnt as good as it was in season 1 and 2, but there have still been great moments in all seasons which is why i'm sticking with it.
Malcolm in the Middle: Funeral (2000)
Came here to say exactly what Injury-65447 said. One of the best episodes
Such a hilarious episode. I personally prefer it to the highest rated "bowling" episode
The Mentalist: Red Tide (2008)
The "Hey Pops" scene was epic
Not the best episode ever but certainly a bit underrated amongst the first 10 episodes.