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The Final Conflict (1981)
Its awfulness only usurped by its boringness...
Watch for yourself and see if you don't agree with me. It's an unwatchable mess. Embarrassing. Whoever greenlightes this mess should have been banned from the entertainment business for life. Simply dreadful.
American Gigolo (1980)
Beautiful but ultimately vapid
A very stylish film hides a very mediocre one. Gere is beautiful but an empty vessel. Actually gets worse upon repeated viewings. The art direction and music are the best things about this. Julian's apartment is as chic now as it was in 1980.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
I know it's considered a perfect picture....
But I never really loved it. I saw it as a child (bad parenting on my mom and dad's part) and I could tell it was too mature for a 12 year old and it was disturbing. Of course I did t really get it.
I don't think Fletcher was THAT great in the role. Ellen Burstyn was offered the part and turned it down and I think she would have been better.
Hacks: 1.69 Million (2021)
Least favorite of all the episodes
I love this show but this one felt really off. Really forced. And quite bad. The Me Too revenge story was awful. They demonized this kind of jerky comic who really wasn't THAT bad and ruined his life but they want you to think he was worse than he was. Deborah almost running her sister over with a car made you really question if there's anything good about her at all - when you know there is something good deep down in there - but this makes you really question if she's a psycho. The rest of the series is great. This episode just isn't.
Inventing Anna (2022)
A flawed effort
This is a VERY long series presenting a story that could be in half the time. I don't think this young woman, who is represented here as a sociopathic criminal and then at the end inexplicably presented as someone who deserves our pity, ought to have this kind of platform in the first place. It's a very odd choice the creators have made here. By the time you're done with this you're gonna want these 10 or so hours of your lives spent watching this back.
Bridgerton (2020)
What a yawn
It's really hard to get into this show. And this is someone who likes English period dramas. Considering all the good word of mouth I'd heard I think this is just really boring. Couldn't care less about the characters.
Karen (2021)
Please refund my $3.99
I was sadly under the misguided impression this would be released in theaters or exclusively streamed. I was wrong. I could have watched it free on BET next week. My bad. And this film IS bad. Real bad. Bless Taryn's heart. I won't say she can't act her way out of a paper bag but she's not terrific either. I'm also not necessarily sure she is unlike the character she plays. Research her pro-Trump, Q-Anon unhinged posts. Oy.
The script is awful although I will say it shows an extreme example of a backwards hateful southern prejudice which is stomach churning.
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
It's not a good film
Why has this film attained a collective 8.0 rating? It just goes to show younger viewers are too dumb to figure out they're watching a B picture. Sad.
The Poseidon Adventure (2005)
One word: Shande!
Remember the tag line on the poster for the original? It was "Hell, Upside Down". Well, this little TV movie of the week is definitely from hell. And it does, of course, turn upside down. It may also turn your stomach upside down if you're stupid enough to sit through this garbage.
I can't believe anyone in their right minds would associate their names with this piece of dreck. Oh, I forgot. If I were Steve Guttenberg, I suppose I'd be thrilled if the phone rang with a job. Too bad he was home the day his agent called with this audition. Too bad he auditioned. Too bad he got it. Too bad he took it. But, I suppose he does have mortgage to pay. Bless his heart. But I shouldn't just pick on poor Steve. Ditto Rutger Hauer. Bless his heart, too.
The producer should be taken out and beaten with a stick. So should the executives at the network who decided to buy and air this. It must have been bring your toddler to work week at NBC, and some little one got into an office he shouldn't have, pushed a button and sent TV Guide their weekly listings with this reject in the Sunday night slot.
I can't believe I was able to sit through this whole thing. What an embarrassment. If you've got a few hours of your life to kill and don't mind throwing a chunk of it away, watch this if it ever comes out on DVD, which I pray to my personal God, for YOUR sake, Poseidon enthusiast, it wont! Let's hope for something better when the film remake comes out.
I'm not holding my breath.
PS - for those of you who don't know, Shande is a Yiddish word which translates to: THE MOST HORRENDOUS DISGRACE EVER! Belle would know. Well, Shelley would DEFINITELY know. This other hack cast in her part, I'm not so sure.
Alfie (2004)
What's it all about?.....Not a hell of a lot.
As charming and handsome as Jude Law is, this film is pretty pedestrian. And for a film done in NYC, it's really hard to figure out some of the locations -- unless some of the restaurants were in Brooklyn and I don't recognize them....They could've saved the money on the NYC location shoot and done this one in Toronto....at least it would have been less of a waste of the film's budget, and would have saved Paramount a bit of the loss they'll probably be taking on this dud. Unfortunately, another bad footnote on Sherry Lansing's resume at that studio. You don't get too much of an idea of why any of these women would be especially compelling for Alfie, other than their looks. An all around waste of talent....And why, oh why, does Graydon Carter feel compelled to be an actor? Editing Vanity Fair doesn't keep him busy enough, I guess .What an ego! My advice...save your $10.25 and wait for the DVD or pay-per-view.