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The Outer Limits: What Will the Neighbors Think? (1999)
Insanely bad
Every single character is unlikable. The only part of this episode which is even mildly enjoyable is the bit where the main character throws herself out of a window and dies. The rest of the episode is like nails on a chalkboard.
Brain on Fire (2016)
Boring
Crazy chick does crazy things. Goes to hospital. Doctor fixes her.
There, I just saved you an hour and a half. Go watch something interesting instead.
Geostorm (2017)
Absolutely Hilarious
I gave this movie 3/10 stars due to the fact that they're obviously trying to be serious, but if you go into it thinking that it's supposed to be a B movie with a $100,000 budget you will absolutely love the campiness of the entire production. From the half-hearted acting to the incredibly implausible plot, right up to the wanton disregard for the laws of physics and basic common sense, this movie delivers one unintentional laugh after another. It's a keeper!
Loose Change: Final Cut (2007)
Brilliant, yet awful.
It's difficult to assign an accurate score to this film. As a propaganda piece meant to mobilize the young and the ignorant, it's absolutely brilliant. The director does a terrific job at playing on the emotions and insecurities of the audience. He shapes questions as if they were answers, thereby creating false assumptions in the mind of the viewer without ever making clear statements or accusations. He throws out "questions" like a machine, succeeding phenomenally in creating a terrifying atmosphere of gloom and paranoia without needing to tie the details together. He manifests a grand conspiracy-theory which seems clear and obvious, without even having to offer a coherent narrative. It's clear that the authors are masters of propaganda and conspiracy-mongering - they seem to have an in-depth understanding of human psychology, and pull no punches in using it to their advantage.
On the other hand, as a documentary, this film is a complete failure. The same points which make it such a successful propaganda piece also make it useless as a source of information. The lack of a coherent narrative means that many of their points contradict each other. The leading questions create erroneous perceptions, and no answers are ever provided. The points themselves fall apart the first time you attempt to examine them. Trying to verify the claims of this film after watching it is rather like suddenly discovering the most amazing and complex machine in all of human history ... only to have it crumble to dust the moment you touch it.
These shortcomings lead me to conclude that this film would probably fit better in the "horror" and "fantasy" categories, which is rather apt; it turns out that Loose Change was initially meant to be a fictional film, and only turned into a "documentary" once it's authors realized they'd make more money by scamming the gullible.
Overall, I have to give Loose Change a 2 out of 10, just on principle. Much like with the German classic "Triumph des Willens", I can admire the skill of the film-makers and the artistic merits of the movie, while protesting the harm it has caused to the people who fell for it. Unlike a film which is marketed as fiction, Documentaries have the power to change lives - a power which the makers of Loose Change have wantonly abused.
Children of Men (2006)
junk
You would think that somewhere in the process of writing, directing, and producing this unmitigated disaster of a film, someone would have paused and said "hey...guys....what are we doing here exactly?". The characters have absolutely zero depth, the setting is more artificial than a Borg cube, and the storyline....well, I'm still trying to figure out what the storyline IS, exactly.
The basic premise seems to be that nobody in the world can have babies any more. Instead of enjoying the last days of the human race by having as much unprotected sex as humanly possible, all the people of the world decide that Armageddon isn't coming soon enough, and try to help it along by killing each other whenever possible.
In a similar line of logic, one woman finally has a child and instead of rejoicing the whole world seems intent on chasing her down. Also, they seem to think that the best way to keep her baby alive is by pouring massive streams of bullets in her general direction.
The movie ends with no real conclusion, no closure, and no suggestion of what the future is supposed to hold. All in all, I wouldn't watch it again if someone held a gun to my head.