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Clinical (2017)
The Stupidity is Undeniable
I take it that these screen writers failed basic scripting 101 and did zero know;edge based fact checking.
As a trained professional psychiatrist, she showed little when Nora attacked her and than proceeded to cut her own throat. She showed even less with the fake overdose by Alex when she should have called 911 after he told her about taking the pills.
She continues to see Alex after he supposedly slept drove to her house and broke into the kitchen and this while allegedly asleep. He has her cell phone number instead of a business number to call after hours and she talks like they're setting up a dinner date.
So while preparing the wash dishes she hears a noise which ends up being her satellite dish falling from her roof, so with front door wide open, she stands there like a dumb zombie staring into space. After a bit of blank staring she walks back into the house leaving the front door open.
So at least she remembers to turn off the water, but hears a noise and sees the kitchen door open. Now when she goes out the kitchen door, this while the front door is still open, she sees Nora in the yard. So when Nora runs towards her, instead of closing and locking the kitchen door. Noooooo, she runs through the house, out the front door leaving both doors open.
Oh it gets better with these silly writers and the how many stupid things before I die can I get away with in this movie routine. She goes back into the house, still not shutting the door and proceeds to go upstairs.
Okay so now she's discussing Nora's case with Alex who is Nora's abusive Father, he screwed up talking about a female in his house after the fake overdose. But the professional is still being duped. This psychiatrist character would be more relevant in the Blazing Saddles Movie, because she is sooooo stooopid. It's painfully obvious that Alex is lying about the accident, because he had pulled off the road as per his description of the event and had his four way flashers on so the trucker would have seen his vehicle.
All types of security cameras installed and this twit is still leaving doors and windows open and unlocked. Who writes this garbage??? Really this is some extremely weak screen writing. And still not listening to the advice of her psychiatrist to which this should be one of those movie where everyone dies including this dumb character.
And yes the ending was totally ludicrous/Outlandish/Unbelievable and was like the writers threw up their hands and said the Hell with it. In other words, don't waste your time with this one.
My Sweet Audrina (2016)
LMN Blows it Big Time
I agree with the other reviews when it comes to rewriting the book and how LMN Blew it once again. Sometimes you just can't teach the old stupid dog new tricks or at least how to make a movie right. The deviation from the book cast an entirely different outlook on all the characters and led to a different ending from the book.
If LMN is going to use a book for the basis for a movie, at least follow the book and not make a nice guy out of a AH who is in the book. Anyway I found this quite disappointing and I like India Eisley as an actress, yet I found nothing worthwhile with this abomination. And don't these male actors know the difference between leering like a psycho stalker and admiration of beauty?
Yes another Botched job from lifetime.
La bête (2023)
A Waste of 2hrs and 26mins
Okay so you have this woman going through memories of various points in her extended lifetime, starting in.1910 with her being pursued by a character played by George Mackay. Now this character is totally unlikable and commits the worst rule of sales, and that's by introducing a negative aspect to the negotiations and he did that by telling the woman he's trying to persuade about being married to a boring husband. There was nothing believable about this and the actors had zero chemistry, add that Mackay's character was a boorish pretentious prick of humongous proportions.
I watched to the part where the android take her to the futuristic disco and questions her as to whom she was talking and she claims that she left a faithful, loving and successful husband for a useless cardboard cut-out, and at that point saw just how stupid and weak this monstrosity of a movie this was going to become.
De reünie (2015)
Ugh
What a crock of Bull!!! Just 12 minutes and 37 seconds into this movie and I am already seeing just how amateurish this movie actually is. Olaf comes off like a sleazy scumbag wannabe pimp with the initial reunion with Sabine coincidentally on her first day back at work, which in itself reeks of weak and sloppy screen writing. And the dialog was even worst than this chessy not well thought out subplot that comes way too soon to be realistic.
Add the stupid gratuitous dance scene on the beach featuring white people without rhythm and a cringe worthy dialog that befits the weak AF direction here.
I didn't read the book, but from what I have gleaned from these other reviews, this movie does the book no justice. So I will pass on seeing this one through to the end, as I see the direction in which it is already heading leaves me very little reason to further my angst by subjecting myself to any more of this horrible excuse for entertainment.
Lady Jane (1986)
Rewriting His-story as usual
Although the movie clearly has rewritten history to make a romance, in reality Jane and Guilford never lived in their own home, nor did they ever live as man and wife in the short time they were together; within a month of the marriage Jane was crowned Queen (and refused to crown Guilford King), and 9 days later they were both in prison, lodged in separate towers, and never had contact again.
Soooooo why all the teary eyes tens about a romance that never existed and was written in to fatten a weak script written by people with zero ability to write something close to factual without the gratuitous nude scene and here with a romance that according to factual history never existed.
Smoke and Mirrors Fluff that apparently plenty of reviewers fell for.
Million Dollar Lethal Listing (2024)
Just Plain Drivel
1. Main Female actor needs to find another profession
2. Whoever wrote the script for the main female protagonist needs to be fired
3. The actor playing the fiance is worst then the female lead
4. Plot holes so big you can sail a ship through them
5. Chessy dialog and the main lead female is dumber than a brick with what comes out of her mouth.
All in all a middle school drama club could have put out a better production that would be minus the face palming nincompoopery I just spent 29 minute of torture watching. Some times I feel like writing my congressional representative to see if we can outlaw Life time TV. Yeah it's a long shot, but something needs to be done to quell the flow of this crap.
Nareul gieokhae (2017)
Good in theory, bad in execution
Weak weak and furthermore Weak, and you can start with the typical chief Duo Female Protagonists making stupid decisions, followed by more stupid decisions.
Now granted one would expect the adolescent of the two females would make the mistake of trusting the boy she met online. But after being drugged and than later gang raped, she had a multitude of options to address her situation. But naw, walking home from her mother snack shop she runs into her rapist and doesn't run away, create a scene or at least find help. Nope she gets on her knees and allows herself to be conveniently surrounded, coerced into drinking some sort of drug all while in the open with no witnesses.
Well I find it suspect that he would know her route home,much less the rest of the crew. So I found this extremely weak and unbelievable insert into the flow of things.
Now for the teacher, first red flag was the note on the coffee cup, yet she drank it anyway. Okay I'll try to let that pass while we come to the following day and the fact that she never made it home, the abrasions on her wrist and the creepy student hovering over her.
Now she suspects something and the text messages with the photo evidence was more than enough to get the Po Po involved. I mean she was thoughtful enough to request the conveniently unavailable security tapes "How did the student know about this outage?" yet no follow up with the authorities. She receives further texts, yet instead of talking with her fiance, or again the police, she converses with her tormentor.
A little over 21 minutes into this movie and I am already disappointed with the weakness of the plot, the glaring holes in it and how stupid the writers have scripted these two female Protagonist.
Absence (2013)
The best part of this movie
Was when they finally dispatched of the annoying brother who possessed zero redeemable traits what-so-ever. This movie would have been better had this nonsense not become part of the plot, and does more against this quality of this movie than to help it.
Add that less of the jumpy out of focus hand held found footage would have improved this flick tremendously. Because all that bouncing around pointing at the ground does not make a good movie.
And I agree with other reviews when it comes to the baby never being part of this flick, other than it was missing at the beginning. And the PSA regarding fetal abductions, nothing more is examined about the missing baby.
On another note, I found it far fetched that any woman would find that weak useless brother worthwhile investing any time into.
De loteling (1974)
Just Plain Stupid
I don't know what movie these other reviewers watched, but this one sucks as a drama and should have stayed a comedy of errors. The main male protagonist was the worst actor in the entire movie, but I pin a lot of his misstep and his buffoonery on the direction given.
Add the Bull Excrement coincidental meeting of the two bandits at the end for a gratuitous sex scene just places the icing on the cake for this weakly written farce. It seems that old tired cliched laden nonsense such as this tripe will forever be a staple in movie fare. Or at least until we cultivate writers who can think outside of the nitwit block of weak AF script writing.
One hour and twenty some minute of my life that I cannot get back wasted on this movie.
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
Rosemary had to be the Dumbest
I watched this years ago, so when I had the opportunity to see it again, I jumped on it. Much to my dismay and seeing this in a clearer view, I've come to the conclusion that we have yet another movie featuring a dumb blonde making dumb decisions. In pain for months, yet doesn't think to get a second opinion. Knows that the neighbor are nosy and oddball, yet still allows them into you space, and drinking some concoction with ingredients to which you have no clue. Even when your girlfriend warn you about the quack, you go back to see him, and when they came for you at the doctors office, why didn't you make a scene when you exited the building? And after the distraction of dropping your purse, why oh why did you take the elevator to your apartment knowing that your husband has a key? The woman grew dumber as the movie progressed, which is usually the opposite.
Anyway I reached my quota for explaining why this movie is overrated.
Såsom i en spegel (1961)
Yet another over-hyped Bergman Film
Among the actors in this picture including Max Von Sydom, it was the performance of Harriet Andersson that stood out. Max Von Sydom seemed like he was sleep walking through his creepy overly clingy character.
And what's with the in your face interaction between Karin and Martin? She's explaining her angst and he's sucking her neck with some cringe worthy dialog and as I said creepy clingy not letting the woman breath smothering. That alone would drive me to drink, much less an already unstable person over the edge. And Martin was supposed to be a doctor, yet couldn't see what his actions were causing? That is something that gnawed at me, but not unusual when dealing with lazy writers and a director who fails to see illogical mannerisms from a trained professional.
Too many small to large issues for this to be considered a classic, remarkable, ageless or any of the other over exaggerations concerning this movie.
Jungfrukällan (1960)
Legendary Swedish director????
I found this rather amateurish in direction and dialog with the ever present characters making stupid decisions that allow easy access to mayhem. Add the melodramatic over acting of the step-sister where she's either turtle walking, over empathizing fear or grief because it was hard to discern either.
The revenge fight was so pathetic and amateurish that I was LOL from the entire idiocy of it. Max Von Sydow enters the building facing combat against two men and all he bring is a butcher's knife and his wife who doesn't assist. Now how does he fight one brother without the other jumping in to help is another question that came about. And how exactly did he kill the second brother, when they both lost their weapons and after wrestling around a bit, he just lays on the dude until he dies??
I'm sorry, but I hardly see the justification for these high scores given quality of this particular movie.
The Others (2001)
An interesting balance
I must say that the director took an unique approach to this horror movie without the usual jump scares and people making extremely dumb decisions. Nicole Kidman and the rest of the cast did an excellent job portraying their respective role. Hats off to Alakina Mann in how well she handled her character, I was most impressed with her range of emotions and how well she flowed from one to the other. Normally I have had the tendency of becoming distracted and somewhat perturbed with the lameness of some movie when I am faced with a weak and questionable script writer. This however wasn't the case here where I was following the movement quite thoroughly as the movie progressed.
Aside from a few moments, the clarity of the picture allowed me to follow what was going on at said point in time and I felt "just my opinion" that the editing was on point as the flow was not interrupted. I especially appreciated the lack of nudity and only implied coitus which I feel are red flags to bad script writing when you require such fillers to complete the project.
I enjoyed this movie and "only my opinion again" I would recommend seeing it.
The Girl from Petrovka (1974)
20 year age gap between Hawn and Holbrook
One of these days Hollyweird will get the memo and cast couples in these film who are closer in age and not some old fart old enough to be her father as her romantic liaison in these god awful movies. She's ready to party while he's gulping down geritol and going to bed, and we're supposed to believe that she is actually involved with gramps. Old white men need to get out of the movie business and take their tired cliched nonsense with them. One thing about these older movie and that is the sheer quantity of misogyny in them from start to finish. I gave it a three due to Hawn and Hopkins presence in this movie.
Visions (2023)
Psycho Triller of sorts
This director had you jumping all over the place with this psycho/fantasy/thriller and I added the fantasy part due to her seeing herself and her husband as she is recuperating from being struck by a car while running from her husband. At times it looked like the husband had caught her cheating and killed her lover, but it was somewhat confusing with the dream sequences flowing into reality, so where one ended and the other began was a bit muddled. Also the narrative of Estelle just meeting Ana is not correct, since they knew one another to some extent 20 years prior and ran into each other at an airport. Also what wasn't clarified, would be why her husband sedated her with so much benzocaine to the point that it was found in high concentrate in her system? And what was up with the jellyfish??
Not a terribly bad movie, a rather fair middle of the road venture, but that is only my opinion.
Vanished in Yosemite (2023)
No it wasn't entertaining
I should have heeded the advise and not watched this abomination, and it gets stupid really quick. The male photographer and his cliche cringy pick up ;lines and the blonde haired sister is a garden tool used for weeding the garden goes hiking and face locking with a dude she didn't know from a bucket of paint. Yep too stupid and weak for words, but I must type int he 600 minimum characters in order to warn other viewers to take a pass on this BS. I turned this nonsense off in less than 10 minutes of viewing what is sure to become a major headache from having to dumb yourself down to the level of ignorance required to enjoy this farce.
Below Her Mouth (2016)
Weak dialog and cliched all to Hell
One of the more glaring issue would be this chick as owning her own roofing company, yet she's nailing shingles directly to the plywood decking without the 30lb felt that gets rolled out first. Add that she only carried a partial bundle of shingles instead of having all the shingles stacked on the roof for easier installation.
And the cheesy dialog with this educated editor falling for the weakest pick up lines and the cliched sloped headed backwards facing Knuckles dragging across the pavement Neanderthals that work for her catcalling Jasmine,to which Jasmine being a somewhat sophisticated lady would have ignored these yardapes.
Just over 29 minutes into this over hyped train wreck, and I'm already tempted to delete it. The girl playing the roll of Dallas is a cardboard cut out with zero skills and the exact same mono tone voice throughout what I have regretted seeing thus far. And the girl party with not one normal looking girl in the place, well Dallas would have been one of the normal looking girls, so that had one at a party that seemed to be for fashion models, so even the casting director sucked in this abomination.
If you're looking for a script with some meat in it, try another movie, but if weak writing and gratuitous sex is your thing, by all means sit down and enjoy this movie.
Diavolo in corpo (1986)
The Weakest Male Love Interest Ever
I don't know what the casting director was thinking when they choose this milquetoast swarmy little rodent as the love interest for the crazy girl, because he had zero chemistry and it looked like she had to lead him around by the nose.
And the usual stalker routine that should normally raise red flags, but this time I guess it's the crazy girl syndrome that allows this to come to fruition, instead of a rejection that would come in the real world.
And what was up with that ridiculous ending with the crazy girl showing up at his final exam? It felt like they ran out of ideas halfway through and just winged it from then on.
This plot ridden, poorly thought out movie is nothing close to what some of these reviews hype it up to be. But I did see how one reviewer noted that the object of her desires didn't see much action in future movies after this dud of a performance he delivered.
One point of extreme humor was the dance scene where she lost what little rhythm that she had and stood there in a daze.
Other People's Children (2015)
Bull Excrement to the tenth power
Okay here is supposed to be a film that has street people who don't look like street people and we never seem to be able to have a drama without gratuitous sex scenes. I chalk this up to pure unadulterated garbage with little substance and especially when a grimy alleged street person has a sexual relationship with a beautiful and attractive young lady who could have any successful man in the neighborhood.
Weak writers generally produce weak products which for some odd reason are financed and here we are with more wasted film that could have been use on a better finished product.
I didn't even have to waste my time watching this drivel, so my advice to viewer would be to pass on this one.
Femme Fatale (2002)
This Movie Sucks
First Off you have ridiculous events that under normal circumstance would not occur. Like when she is in a hotel and Antonio Bandcan'tactworthadamn is following her and she is three to four floor up, yet he finds her room. Add insult to injury, she's hiding yet opens the door and allows this fool to enter as he over acts a gay role. The next scene is her getting undressed and making out with a total strange.
I don't know what movie these other reviewers watched, but it wasn't this piece of crap. Over the top acting, murders in broad daylight yet no-one gets arrested.
Just a bunch of gratuitous sex scenes and misguided action and over the top drama.
La femme et le pantin (1958)
Rediculous pretty much sums this one up
Typical misogyny with a twist, but the same stupid outcome with a young beautiful woman ending up with an over the hill married womanizer. It would have been better had she just kept screwing this clown over and even better had she hooked up with her childhood sweetheart instead of waiting for this POS who beat her down in the club and walking off into the night after he is released from jail.
But the obvious is never looked at when you have old white men in charge of projects like this. Number one issue for Bridget Bardot Character not going with this clown would be that if he cheats on his wife, that means he will cheat on her. But as usual common sense is rare commodity in feature films.
So you can toss this one into the I shouldn't have wasted my time bin.
Laced (2023)
I liked it
I read some of the reviews here prior to watching this film and I see similarities in view points and a couple of misconstrued conceptions of when Molly sat on Charlie lap and kissed him. They missed Molly snatching Charlie's phone and disposing of the sim card in the garbage disposal.
Also there were later revelations of Charlie's past physical abuse and generally while under the influence of alcohol by both brother Austin and sister Molly in private conversations. Plus two sneaky little inferences to possible incest and the child being Austin's and not Charlie's, especially after the flashback and Austin the second reference to the child's possible name.
I could also see the ending as it played out with Victoria driving away, being that all remaining evidence pointed to both the siblings, and Molly realizing that her deleting the skin in the game provoke Victoria into killing Austin, even though Austin was constantly trying to sabotage to original plan all along.
So I really appreciated the twists and turns, add to the mix that the actors played their parts well to the point where I had zero empathy for Charlie who only admitted his abuse when he knew that he was going to die and wanted Molly to save him.
Yes I would recommend this, at least from my point of view.
The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry (1945)
An Old White Guy Dream come true
George Sanders is 14 years older than Ella Raines and we're suppose to think that this age gap is a natural selection for a woman approaching her prime to choose a Old Fart well past his. Nope, just more misogyny from tinsle-town dripping with the usual fodder. I must have born yesterday is these writers expect me to believe that some mousy weasel and a glamorous woman who under normal circumstances wouldn't give this mooch the time of day, would actually hook up! Naw, simply unbelievable. And too far fetched to even consider a worthwhile watch and yet another reason why IMDb should allow negative voting on this platform.
You Got Me Twisted! (2023)
Good acting, but there was an easy solution to her ills.
After listening to this woman and her travails in life as well in marriage. I saw that her main issue dwell around her belief in some dude in the cloud lifting her out of bad choices, instead of using common sense and leaving a bad situation. The dumbest being the forced marriage to her rapist that lasted 5 years and with all that she did, she never did the right thing and turn them in to the authorities. As much as I tired to feel sympathy for Mahogany, I kept seeing her fall back on the same dumb excuse "Why did God will this bad decision that I myself made, on me?" I'd rather have atheist with morals, over a hypocrite so-called christian any day.
Loverboy (2012)
Fire everyone
Okay they tell us that Lauren Reynolds is swearing off dating after breaking up with her drug addict boyfriend, yet after meeting this sleazebag (Brandon) and yes his character oozed of sleaze from the moment he showed up at the party yet we're supposed to believe that she would passionately kiss him after just meeting a few mines ago???
Forced/Fake and thoroughly unbelievable are what cam mind and when I stopped watching this train wreck in progress.
This goes beyond just a dull romance and into the realm of ludicrous fiascos are us. From piss poor script writing to wooden actors, this bomb had them all. Do yourself a favor and pass on this one.