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The Outsider (2020)
Convoluted.. meanders.
I'm not sure of the great review?!. There are several side-plots going on at the same time that are not related.
In one scene we wittness an older man hanging himself in his house, and he is not realaed to any cast members. I'm not sure of why this was put in?!
Then, there is the 'Hunter." A middle-aged guy who is just a little (a lot) off.
He has somehow inherited a very nasty rash on the back of his neck. There are seveal closeups of this. Why?
We see him shoot a deer. He just leaves it in the forrest. Next, we see him in a Walmart-type store.
He's buys all kinds of crap, Coolers, sleeping bag, pole-lamp, camping chair etc..
Then, he goes back and goes on a tirade; "Don't you like this stuff, it's all for you." Or something like this.
Jusatin Bateman (Terry Maitland) is initially accused of killing the young girl.
In episode 4, the brother of the deceased girl's brother finds most of cast in front of courthouse.
He starts shooting, and Maitland gets a serious neck wound, and goes to Hospital.
After this, we never see him again.?
Then there is the young, blaack female detective who goes on her own quest to find the truth.
To be honest I stopped watching after episode 5. There was nothing to compel me to contunue watching. I didin't identify with any of the characters. You may like it...
Invasion (2021)
Just wasted 6 hours of my Life...
I could have had a V-8.
Movie meanders; it is disjointed with no clear plot line. There are several parallel stories going which are not connected, and just annoying .
The lead character; Aneesha, is able to kill on of the Aliens by stabbing it with a jagged, obsidian stone. Really? If this is all it takes, then where is the military? In all episodes I watched, briefly saw the Alien only ONCE!
I stopped watching it after episodes 6. It is relentlessly boring.
If you want to watch a well done Sci-Fi movie with Aliens;
I would consider: Arrival, you can watch it on Hulu.
This movie is very believable, and not the traditional scary, grotesque aliens, which are often portrayed.
A Perfect Getaway (2009)
Great movie if you suspend reality.
There are just so many things wrong with this movie. For one; I've been to Kauai where this was filmed and there is no way in hell you'll get cell reception.
This was written and directed David Twohy. Cliff ( Steve Zahn ) plays the nerdy script writer and his cute. Innocent wife (Sydney Milla). Cliff slowly ascends into madness. "Your pupils are the size of olives. (great line.)
and Nick (Timothy Olyphant ) plays the slightly deranged special op's guy
who plays a great role and normal .. and yet slightly psychotic.
Nick, for whatever reason, brings a gun to the show. I thought the director did a good job of keeping the suspense, and slowly lets neurosis come thru.
The director unfortunately, switches the film to black and white, which breaks up continuity. One thing I did not under stand, while alone, Sydney looks thru the frames of her camcorder and sees a wedding picture of what seems to be Sydney and her groom. Maybe someone can explain this to me.
Vatican Girl: The Disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi (2022)
WAY too long. This plot goes down so many rabbit holes.
So let me cut to the chase so you don't have too.
In the VERY END, Emanuela tells her friend that one of the Cardinals, very close to the Pope, had molested her. Now (and I am inferring this ) the Cardinal panics should this get out. So, he eliminates her, we don't how.
But this is the only scenario that makes ANY sense. The self-admitted perp, I forget his name, but he is the American, has nothing to do with it, and news reporter figures this out. All the other stories are just to pull you away from the true plot.. the mafia, the money for Polish 'Solidarity". Have nothing to do with it.
Just wasted 3 hours of my time.
Keep Breathing (2022)
Three movies in one! Distracting.
It's in the details... At the very begining, Liv decides to go back to plane wreck and salvage what she can. Good idea, except she dives down at 30 feet, wearing all her clothes and kick-ass lumberjack hiking boots. She would never have made it.
Also, in a scene she is able to make fire. Yet, as far as I know, she had nothing to make fire with.
Liv spouts out the F-word every other sentence. It got old. After the 3rd episode, I gave up.
A Quiet Place Part II (2020)
Stretches credibility.
This one was bad as the first. One thing that is not brought up is the military. Don't we bazookas, flame throwers, tanks etc. Don't you think they would be on the scene?
I like to call the monsters '" Artichoke heads" their heads seem to fold apart like artichoke leaves. Does every monster movie have to have copious amounts of drooling slime.?
And I wonder looking at thier anatomy, they only two large lobster hands for hands. How in the world can they make an alien spacecraft.?
Would be interesting to watch them mate....
Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
What a BIG disappointment.
I not sure where to begin. I guess first of all, I'm surprised at all the 10-star reviews. Really?
I tried to follow the plot, but not really sure if there is one.
It is just a confabulation of events, if one can call it that. There is really no rhyme or reason. And the jilted Chinese accents were difficult to follow, and subtitles went way to fast. I paid $5.00 to rent this, I couldn't even finish it. In a word, abysmal.
A Quiet Place (2018)
Great movie if you suspend reality.
O. K. in the beginning of the movie, it says there are at day 474. So knowing this creature is out there, Evelyn gets. Pregnant?
Next going down to the basement there is a ten-penny nail sticking straight up. Wonder how long that's been there? Of course she steps. On it and yelps, brings Leroy over. She escapes, just barely.
Then for some reason I did not understand, they flood the whole upstairs and basement, However, Jethro can swim underwater. O. K. Not sure what that accomplished.
Then, to distract Jethro, the kids are asked to light off the rocket. Well, this is not some Roman candle affair , but full on 4th of July pyrotechnic show. Really?
At one point the kids fall into a silo full of corn. For some reason the corn swallows them up, like quicksand. That would never happen.
What else.... well at the end of the movies Evelyn has no choice but to give the monster a shotgun full to his head. Oh my gosh. It kills him. Why didi't we think of this earlier. There's more but I'll leave it at that. Don't think I'll stick around for A Quiet Place II.
Bosch (2014)
Keeps me coming back for more.
This is a well acted, well written and well casted show. Most all of the scenarios were believable, except for his undercover episode in the dessert..
I hope in the follow up show with Bosch, he finds a way to get chief Irivne fired!!
Oxygène (2021)
The plot has more holes than Swiss Cheese.
So, after traveling for 12 years in cryogenic state, she asks "Milo" to call her mother. And her mother acts like it's. Only been a few days.
Then, when she knows her oxygen is limited, what does she do? Hyperventilates. Right. Then the colossal 'spaceship' it to repopulate this planet. With a 70K persons on board, with a planet that is only livable on a narrow width of the planet. Finally, she is able to find a way to be put back her in a cryogenic state, with only 1% oxygen, uh?
There are great special affects, but in the end I felt like I wasted 90 minutes. Of my time. You may like it.
Collateral (2018)
Too complicate.
1st off, I didn't identify nor care about any of the characters. I like a good mystery but when the directors don't give enough clues to help figure out the plot, you just lose me. Great acting, but not identifying with any characters, made watching a pain.
The Intruder (2019)
If you suspend reality, you might enjoy this.
There are no words to describe how bad this movie is. There is every cliche imaginable . The lightening storm, the shadow figures. The ridiculous ending. If I had paid money to watch this, I would have been pissed!
In the Heart of the Sea (2015)
Parts of movie are just not true.
I read the excellent book by Nathaniel Philbrick.
The part where "Moby Dick" tracks the boats down and then smashes one, is simply not in his book. I am always amazed how directors have to embellish an already magnificent story.
Felkészülés meghatározatlan ideig tartó együttlétre (2020)
Kept waiting for the plot to grow and . . .
This is one of those movies that had a lot of potential to develop, but for me it didn't delivery.
Yes they're scrumptious scenes in Budapest. ( just added to my bucket list.)
that ads to the movies theme, but in truth, there was nothing about. Marta or Janos the I could identify with.
And then there's the son of a patient Marta saves his life. The kid falls in love and stalk Marta down in adolescence innocence, yet this sideshow ads nothing to the movie.
We don't learn of Janos two daughters he has til the end of the film which does explain part of his behaviors.
Director/writer Lili Hovart does an admirable job at her first film debut. The film is engaging and I did keep watching it.
One thing that did annoy me, were the many close-ups of Marta - profiles and full face of her looking whimsical , thoughtful or just lost. It got old,
I was expecting more and just didn't get it.
The ending was disappointing too, The huge, hanging speaker outside of her window , trying to fit in her. Apartment was the end. I wanted a much more solid ending. Not happening.
Travelers (2016)
Great Story Line; Until The End.
I would have given this 9 stars, but the ending was the biggest copout ever. What a sad, disappointment !
So to recap,
1,) The end of the move, shows Marci and David talking on a bus, it's the first time they have met. No lead in, just them conversing. Uh?
2.) The "Faction" has set off nuclear bombs in all major cities. Although David is able to disarm the nuclear device. Right.
3.) This causes nuclear retaliation from China, Russia etc. So this benefit's the "Faction?" how?
4.) We are left with the computer screen in red font;
"Trav Program Ver One"
FAIL.
5) The Director or whoever; , (Traveler 001)
Reset; Load Seq; Trav Program; Ver Two.=. BEGIN.
Are you kidding me. So we just have a do-over??!!
Well, if the Travelers were to make the 21st safe again, they failed miserably.
Biggest Copout ever !!!
Lilyhammer (2012)
Great Dark Humor,
Well written, directed and acted. I don't think there is a genre that fits this series. Just great. Van Zandt is perfect in this role.
My only complaint is the role that Fridtjov Såheim plays Johanson.
He so slimy, creepy it I had to mute it whenever he was on.
And is on a lot.
The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016)
If can totally suspend your reality...
This movie started out interesting but them fell apart with all the gimmicks in the book. A bad storm makes the power go out. clues, that make little sense and never goes completly explain "Jane Doe'.
There are far better sci-fir thrillers than tihis one. Don't waste your time.
I want my money back !!!
Boyhood (2014)
Very disappointed.
This is well directed, edited, acting etc, but the trial and tribulations of young boy/man.
The movie spends most its time centered on Mason, in his growing up = and the fears and anxiety we ALL have gone thru as children into adolescence.
It brough NOTHING new.
Mason continues to be self-absorbed through out the movie, in search for the meaning of self.
It just lacks true dynamic change in his character. Just a not very interesting gimmicky movie.
The Peanut Butter Falcon (2019)
Just a great little movie about endings and beginnings !!.
Wonderful character development , centered around a young 20-something kid who has mild- Downs syndrome.
Wonderful wide angle shots of nature on the NC coast, and outstanding sound track , who I hope they have a soundtrack for.
GO SEEI IT !
Our Planet (2019)
Watch this now.. before our planet is gone....
The message depressing; the photography amazing. No words to describe this series. I'm out of WOW !!
Apollo 11 (2019)
An amazing movie! They put two men on the moon with slide rules !!
The actual photography is amazing in and of itself. Showing the crowds wearing the ever so stylish clothes and hair do's of the 60.'s was entertaining enough.
The actual photography of the moon walks and launching off was mesmerizing.
I am not a big review writer, but this is definitely a movie worth going to. Especially if you're of my generation.
And to think that most of the calculations in making this all possible was done primarily by slide rules. GO WATCH IT !!
Jungle (2017)
Gorgeous scenery, stereotypical acting.
I read the book years ago. It was incredibly well written. I felt I was there,. Wonderful accounts and ability to convert the terror.
This film really disappointed. The acting was forced and characters, except for the protagonist. were scripted. The poor, frightened German tourist , who wold stumble over every rock. The Macho guide who had his head up his rear and talked ALL the time.
And the little things that we're just NOT believable, For instance. they are all caring light duffle bags (which you never carry backpacking).. and then POOF, at night, they had set up this enormous Army tent that could sleep 6. Really!
Actually, I did not even finish the movie, it was just that bad.
Michiel de Ruyter (2015)
Typical "Hollywood" style movie.
I'll be brief.
Pros 1.) Great time period costumes,social accords , buildings, etc. Well done. 2.) Some good camera angles, but the CGI was poor. The mass of ship shown for high above all looked neat and orderly. Way Fake (sorry, that was a con. 3.) Interesting look into 1639 politics of the Dutch and how fortunate they were to survive as a nation.
CONS; 1. Read Wikipedia and see the ending is absolutely absurd, and never happened that way. Give this great Admiral his due, but a true Hollywood cop-out. 2. The music was way over the top. I mean that the big crescendos, and violins to tell me this is where I should shed a tear, really took away from the movie. It's an OK movie but WAY better ones to waste two hours of your time. David M.