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Amelia's Children (2023)
More questions than answers
Hidden under poor dialog, cheesy jump scares, creaky floors and doors, and way overdone music that was too loud but tried to be scary, there was a thread of story that might have been interesting. I kept wanting to like this movie but it seemed to have a lot of weird plot twists and things that didn't make much sense. Why did the mom look like she had been getting bad face jobs for decades? Why was the dad still alive at all? Why did the "nice" son still hang around after his girlfriend told them there was incest going on? What was the weird drops the mom was putting in her baby's bottle? Then again in her son's tea? Why did she turn young again with a living baby? Did she already eat one?
Mayfair Witches (2023)
Such a mess
How could they make such a mess of this incredible story? I hadn't read the first book for 15 or so years and this felt so off the mark, I picked it back up to refresh my memory. The first 200+ pages of the book are all about Michael Curry. He had nothing to do with the Talamasca. He was the conduit to get Rowan to New Orleans. She was in love for the first time in her life with him. Yet they opted to leave him out of the story and merge him with this Cipian character.
The hallucination scenes are making very little sense even to someone who knows the story. I can only imagine what those who don't know the story are thinking. It's all disjointed and convoluted.
I'm doing my best to keep watching after five episodes but I cannot imagine this is what Ms. Rice had in mind.
Firestarter (2022)
How can you make a movie this bad with great source material
It's pretty sad when you have an excellent book, a good original movie, a couple of good actors, and most likely access to the book author, you end up with a movie this bad. It's like they removed all of the interesting things about this story, tossed in some updated special effects, and threw it out there to see if it could make some money. This movie made little sense. I've read the book half a dozen times, seen the original movie twice and I was still lost on what was going on. There were so many plot holes, it looked like Swiss cheese.
My rating 0-3 points for each part:
Story: 1
Acting: 1
Cinematography: 1
3. And that's being generous.
Moonfall (2022)
Excellent example of good acting with bad writing
I rate movies on three things: story, acting and cinematography on a scale of 0-3 with each one. This one was tough.
Story: the actual storyline was interesting. Moon was falling out of orbit. Some astronauts and a nerd set out to find out why and fix it. Part of the story rating score includes the script. The dialog in this movie was absolutely terrible. So sadly it gets a 1.
Acting: the cast was quite good and they did their best with the bad lines they were given. So for their effort we'll give them a 2.
Cinematography: with modern CGI it's easier to make a movie look good, even one with bad dialog. This one had some pretty cheap CGI mixed in the better CGI. So it gets a 1.
With some work on the dialog, this movie could have easily been a 6 instead of a sad 4.
The Great Silence (2020)
Plot?
Have you ever watched a movie where are you weren't sure what the plot was? I love post apocalyptic stories and this was one, sorta. Dysfunctional families, Romeo and Juliet, and maybe some kind of virus that may or not be killing people. This movie seemed to not be sure what it wanted to be. And the title made no sense to me.
Intersect (2020)
Confused for over an hour
I don't love movies that jump back in forth in time but kind of expected it with a time travel movie. But this one made absolutely no sense to me until the last five minutes. And the ending broke the rules of time travel that they spent an hour telling us. Poor story, over and under acted. And a ridiculous ending.
Grey's Anatomy: Song Beneath the Song (2011)
Shocked at low reviews
I've binged this show twice and this episode blew me away. Most tv shows have a musical episode and it's awful. In this case the singing was phenomenal, the songs fit the story and what happened was shocking. I don't get the low ratings on this one. Out of this series, this episode was in my top 3.
Synchronicity (2015)
Too much of a good thing
Many people prefer to describe movies in their reviews. Many reviews give away spoilers or plot summaries. I prefer to explain why I rate a movie the way I do. I break it down into three categories. With IMDb we have 10 stars to work with. I assign 0-3 stars to each category. If I give it 3 stars in all categories, then I optionally give it an additional star for a perfect 10.
1) Story: The idea of time travel is a fascinating one, if you count the number of time travel movies and books there are. This one has so many layers it gets a bit too convoluted, at least for the slightly more than average intelligent person. So story gets one star.
2) Acting: Sometimes it's hard to determine if acting is poor or the story is poor. I think it's a bit of both here. Acting gets one star.
3) Cinematography: It's difficult to tell if this movie takes place in the future or now. Is it all one building or more than one? It kind of looks all the same. It is rather futuristic in style, dark. But I can only give Cinimetography one star.
Overall, I found this movie to be a bit confusing throughout. By the end, I understood the basic premise but the end scene made no sense at all if I understood the story. Time travel movies can be very tricky to not blow one's mind or lose the audience.
Sinister (2012)
Pretty creepy and well done
Many people prefer to describe movies in their reviews. Many reviews give away spoilers or plot summaries. I prefer to explain why I rate a movie the way I do. I break it down into three categories. With IMDb we have 10 stars to work with. I assign 0-3 stars to each category. If I give it 3 stars in all categories, then I optionally give it an additional star for a perfect 10.
1) Story: The story in Sinister gets two stars. I enjoyed the mystery, suspense without too much gore. The ending surprised me, which is rare for most horror movies. I came very close to giving this movie three stars for story.
2) Acting: The acting gets two stars. All the actors in Sinister did a good job. Ethan Hawk was good as he usually is. Even the children and minor characters did a good job. Just a couple of minor actors could have been better cast.
3) Cinematography: Cinematography gets a three here. I loved the 8mm film that the antagonist uses. The movie plays very dark on TV but not so dark that you can't see what's going on. They didn't overdo the creepy scenes with ghosts or whatever they were. For a horror movie, the suspenseful moments fit well and there were no black cats jumping out necessarily.
Overall, I highly recommend this movie if you like good intelligent horror movies.