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Run for the Money (2022)
unwatchable
The dialogue is so freaking annoying. As you know, contestants must run from the hunters. One guy said "if they come I'm DEFINITELY running!" Cringe. I immediately shut the show off. Only watched like 5 minutes. Reading the other reviews, I'm even more certain I made the right choice. I feel like a lot of high reviews on this are fake or I don't know what. With. Japanese game shows you can never be sure. From what I can tell, a lot of the show is fake or scripted since the Hunters don't actually try as hard as they can. Really disappointing, at least try to not make it obvious that it's fake/scripted.
Dance Monsters (2022)
janky motion capture
The motion capture is visibly janky at many points throughout. The monsters are often weird and not even all that cute? The judges say a lot of odd, cringey things. One time a judge said something that was not funny whatsoever, but the crowd laughed really hard which means they're cutting and moving the audio around deceptively. I'm sure reality/competition shows do this all the time, but they could at least be sneaky about it.
Overall, the show has a nice/cute premise but the follow through is underwhelming. I hope a future iteration of the show, with more articulated facial muscles for the mocap, performs better.
Footloose (2011)
Insanely boring
This movie was insanely boring, and it upset me so much that I spent my time watching it that I decided to sit down and write a 600+ word review about it. It was such a boring, joyless movie, I can't imagine the 1984 original had any joy in it at all. In the opening scene, they kill the five teenagers in a car crash over the classic Kenny Loggins song "Footloose," that he wrote for the original 1984 film. Apparently Kenny was annoyed that this film had the five high schoolers killed in the same scene that his happy & positive song was playing. I completely agree; I was annoyed that they killed the five teenagers when I was enjoying the classic song I like so much. Also, I was unaware that the plot centered around the deaths of these high schoolers, so I wasn't ready for such a killjoy either. Anyway, a lot of the movie is badly choreographed, a lot of the plot points do not make sense or are unrealistic, the acting is garbage... I was supremely bored and could not finish.
Chris Distefano: Speshy Weshy (2022)
don't understand the negative reviews
I'll be honest, I don't understand the negative reviews. I thought it was funny. I laughed/chuckled at a good number of the jokes. I saw somebody said it was "white guy comedy" and honestly I can see why, but I didn't think that detracted from what he was capable of very much. "white guy comedy" is fine for me... but then again, I'm a white guy so who knows.
I like this guy, I like this special, I think he did a good job.
Of course, it's not amazing or hilarious or anything but I enjoyed it and I would recommend it to anyone looking for a basic, straightforward comedy special...
ok at this point I'm just trying to hit the character minimum.
The Puppet Master: Hunting the Ultimate Conman (2022)
Slow
I found it a little slow. Fascinating story, and much better than Rogue Agent. Probably could've been condensed a little bit better but I like how interview-dependent this is. I would definitely recommend it to any big true crime fans.
This guy Robert Freegard essentially kidnapped several British/European and at least one Brazilian woman via fraud, and extorted/scammed hundreds of thousands of dollars/pounds out of each family. Each episode lines up with a different stage of the investigation. Exciting because it's still an ongoing story. Very excited to see how it develops moving forward....
Bullet Train (2022)
love the visuals
Visuals remind of Wes Anderson. So does the wildly unrealistic violence. I thought the characters were great. However, the story really slowed down around the 1.5 hour mark unfortunately.
The Visit (2015)
Boring
Boring, slow, bad acting, bad writing, there is a lot of jazz on the soundtrack for some reason... I thought this was the M. Night Shymalan movie and I was very confused. When I found out it's Nollywood, I was alright with that because I like The Delivery Boy (2018) a lot. But this one missed the mark. Do better, Nollywood.
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Holds up today
Just went to see this movie (Aug. 11, 2022) for the 40th Anniversary. It holds up really well! I heard a kid crying in the row behind me LOL. A lot of the effects, especially the ET puppet and his ship, are very convincing even today.
Love Actually (2003)
stupid movie
--very boring
--extremely unrealistic in many different plot points
--several different examples of overt sexism / fat jokes (usually the fat jokes are targeted at women as well; also none of the "fat" people are ... FAT)
My Fair Lady (1964)
drags on for 3 hours!
I gave it a 5 (instead of 4 or even 3) because of the high quality singing, the beautiful sets and costumes, elaborate choreography, and the impressively large cast (lots of extras).
Here are my problems with it:
- the plot drags on endlessly. I was never entertained and gave up halfway through.
- i find a lot of the plot points to not be believable. For example: Eliza makes a lot of mistakes in her speaking lessons that I don't think a normal, reasonably intelligent person would make when trying to match someone else's speech.
- in one scene where Eliza is trying to make natural conversation with other fancy British people, she whips out one of her speaking exercise phrases -- "in spain the rain falls mainly on the plain" -- which makes no sense to me. Why would she have made such a mistake? I don't find this, and many other plot points in the first half of the movie alone, to be believable at all.
- Eliza moves TOO gracefully and sings too well (after the first song, because Hepburn had the singing dubbed in every song after the first one) to be a Cockney girl.
- in each song (at least in the first half) the characters have not changed their mind or felt any different by the end. The events contained in the song do not change their mind, and my understanding is that in musical theater, if a song exists in the lineup, it should serve to move the plot forward or, very occasionally, explain the character's wants / desires / feelings to the audience. It seems like all the plot moving is done outside of the songs, which makes all of them (there's a lot of songs) extremely boring and painful.
Under the Shadow (2016)
Such a good story
The fact that this movie is 1) Persian and 2) centered in a warzone and 3) a very real historical event, the Iraq War, really cemented this as a really nice movie for me. It wasn't very scary for me (it doesn't feel like that was the point) but the characters were well developed, the scares did get me on the few occasions the movie attempted them, and overall I enjoyed it more than most horror films out there.