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A Jazzman's Blues (2022)
Bad ending
This is one of the better Tyler Perry movies but the ending is still bad. And the plot is questionable! It's about a woman that fell in love with a black man but then moved away and started passing for white. The woman ends up returning south with her white husband to the same town where her black lover, his mom, and several other people that know her true identity live. At many times through out the movie she threatens to tell her white husband of her true identity. And to do that would be an absolute death sentence for her. To me, this movie is over sensationalizing a true thing that many black peoples had to do to survive in the racist south. Those that passed for white had to leave town forsaking friends and family and NEVER returned to places where people knew their identity. Then at the end the black man main character is very successful up north and returns south where he knows they are looking to kill him and he turns himself in to the white mob and they hang him. The whole plot was sensational that the seriousness of the ending did not match. It's a no for me.
The Chosen (2017)
Wonderfully made story very entertaining
It's a wonderfully made series. Helps the viewer to look at the story of Jesus from the eyes of the disciples.
Goes into details about their lives that are not in the scriptures. Seems to down play Jesus' story and goes into more detail about the disciples. I found some scenes hard to understand, but because I've read the Gospels whenever they would tie the story back into biblical account then it would make sense again.
Overall it is a very well made series even though the writers added lots of additional background stories that are not relevant to scripture in order to add depth to the story.
The Summer I Turned Pretty (2022)
Random scenes made the show a little confusing
Although the plot of the show was interesting, I found it hard to keep up with the constant love triangles. In the first few episodes it was established that The younger brother Jeremiah liked the main character Belly and that Belly liked the older brother Conrad. It was revealed a little later that Conrad liked Belly too. Then Belly dates a boy named Cam that she didn't like. Then They totally threw me off with Jeremiah kissing a boy at a party. This scene was totally unnecessary to the movie and made the plot a bit more confusing bc Jeremiah was seeming to like Belly before and after this scene. What was the point of making this young man have this encounter? It only added confusion to the movie. That was just too random.
Coming 2 America (2021)
Cheesy
This movie plot puts me in mind of movies like Soul Plane and Madea movies. It's all over the place and it's trying too hard to be funny. The jokes are cringe worthy. It's not comparable to the first movie at all. The first movie had a great story line and also showed the beauty of a black man loving a black woman. It's sad to see a classic be cheapened to this!
Mulan (2020)
A Parents Review
Good points:
The acting/actors were talented.
The fight scenes were done nicely.
Overall graphics and appearance of the movie were good.
Bad points:
-The movie plot seemed to fall between trying to be more of a serious film rather than a remake of a children's movie. This left me feeling like Disney didn't cater to the right target audience.
- The movie was missing some the songs and characters that made the original movie so memorable for fans.
- This movie explores sexuality in ways that could be confusing to younger viewers. Mulan seems to have an attraction to one of the guys in the camp, but she is dressed as a man. They have a strange exchange in one of the camp scenes. These types of innuendos were not out rightly explored in the original movie. Also at the end that same guy says to Mulan once he finds out she is a woman at the end "so you still won't hold my hand". Then there is another character, depicted first as a man but then she morphs into a woman and a bird. In one of the initial scenes the woman is seen overthrowing a blanket with rainbow colored dyes.
- The Chinese culture and the dishonor themes may been seen as offensive to Chinese people because they seemed to be overly exaggerated and sometimes and wasn't depicted well. For example when Mulan was dressed in her traditional makeup for the match maker, her makeup was terrible (which I'm sure it was supposed to be) but if you were to see a true depiction of this formal Chinese attire I think it's really a beautiful way of dress and makeup. The way they made Mulan look was dishonoring of the culture. They literally just threw paint on her face it was so ugly.