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I, Tonya (2017)
WTF!?!
This is not a review. I have not seen this movie. I will never watch this movie. I cannot believe that someone would even entertain the idea of making a movie about such a consummate loser as this little bitch.... oh, wait a minute, this is America. I cannot believe that someone would actually watch a movie about this loser bitch, let alone pay money to watch it.... oh, wait a minute, this is America. Tonya Hardon and America were made for each other.
This Is Us: Moonshadow (2017)
Overall, an excellent series
I've really enjoyed this show, and am quite intrigued by the cast - for the most part. However, there is one thing that just seems very incongruous. How do parents like Jack and Rebecca wind up having such a bunch of screwed-up offspring like these three? The parents are both conscientious, involved, sympathetic, responsible, communicative, etc. Yet the three kids are a bunch of psychotic misfits with virtually no redeeming social qualities. I enjoy every character on the show except for the "triplets". Especially so for Kevin and Randall, two self-absorbed, self-indulgent, spoiled brats. Well, at least all of the other characters make up for them.
Homeland (2011)
Yeah.... right.... okay....?
If the CIA actually ran like this bunch of losers, America would now be under the control of every terrorist group out there. Who the f**k is writing this crap anyway? No rules, no accountability, no teamwork, everything is run by gut instinct and seat-of-the-pants operation. But the worst thing of all is the main character. What a despicable f**king c**t she is. Definitely the most loathsome character in the history of characters. Not a single redeeming quality. I am so sure that a bi-polar, self-centred, scheming, manipulative, disobedient, self-righteous ass-hole would be a top-level CIA operative. I almost stopped watching the show, but I decided that I'll watch it until the end with a fervent prayer that in the last episode, Carrie is torn to pieces by a mob of either bloodthirsty terrorists or fans of good television. And Saul is the ultimate gutless wonder, too.
The Space Between Us (2017)
Lost in space....
This movie is the perfect example of what happens when a good story meets mediocre direction. The premise held plenty of promise, but the director didn't trust it. Instead of exploring the potential, he went for a conventional juvenile love/adventure story. How sad, this could have been a film that challenged minds while engaging hearts, but instead it decided to just tell us a story that left little to the imagination. Not a complete waste of time, but the last twenty minutes certainly were.
No Country for Old Men (2007)
Fargo rides again
Almost every review I have read on this movie compares it to Fargo. Now that I have seen it, I know why. It is little more than a remake. They might have named this film Odessa, like the last one was named Fargo, and the next Coen brothers movie will be named after some town in, oh, I don't know, pick a state. And that movie will also explore how innocent people are incapable of comprehending evil, and the moral choices people make, and the two or three other sub-themes that apparently preoccupy the brothers' minds more than they do everyone else's.
Fargo was a great film, and this one might also have been, were it not for the fact that is a rip-off, plain and simple. I have no problem with the way the movie ended, or how it began, or what went on in it. The characters, the setting, the photography were all first rate. It was just so irrelevant. Compounding this major problem were the roles of Woody Harrelson and Tommy Lee Jones. For all the swagger of these two characters, they certainly couldn't have been more ineffectual. What purpose did they serve? One told us how crazy Anton was, and the other told us how senseless he was. Looking back to Fargo, they are reminiscent of the oriental fellow who meets Marge in the Radison coffee shop. An annoying distraction, nothing more.
I was also perturbed by the inconsistency in the nature of the violence. In the beginning of the film, the violence is as graphic as has ever been done. By the end of the film, we are left with the slightest of implications that someone has come to a gruesome demise. Did the filmmakers suddenly develop weak stomachs? Did they run out of novel ways to kill people? Did they run out of fake blood? As for the car accident, well, I think I had stopped trying to understand it by then, so I'll wait to see if someone can clarify that event.
I admire the Coen brothers' talent, but I truly hope they get out of the house between now and their next film, and find a new theme to explore. It wouldn't have to be radically different. Maybe they could look at how innocent people might somehow come to grips with senseless violence, and find a way to deal with it - and not in the usual Hollywood style of heroic vengeance.