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Beat Bobby Flay (2013)
A wholesome, fun and smart show, and not as predictable as some people claim.
Apparently, this title is a love or hate thing, I'm not sure. But I have thoroughly enjoyed it. People who claim it's predictable are full of nonsense. I've seen Bobby lose multiple shows in a row. In fact, he loses pretty often - something like 3 out of 10 times. I don't see that as being unbelievable at all, given his vast history as a chef. I mean, give the man the credit he's due!
It has a 6.4 rating and yet it's run for nine years now, so Bobby's doing something right, and I hope he keeps it going. It's good family worthy TV, mostly about the food, but also about the gracious host who's not only one of the very best chefs on the planet, but also just a really fun guy to be around.
Father Stu (2022)
An incredible movie.
I don't see how this movie is only rating a 6.5 on this site. I have scrolled through countless positive reviews that sat comfortably in the 8 to 10 column. I obviously haven't read every review, nor do I even care how many there are. But something seems way off.
Anyway, I am as far from being a religious person as any person can get, but I still believe in God. I'll go so far as to say I know God exists, but I wouldn't try to push that onto others. We all experience God in our own way if we choose to, it's really that simple. I don't ascribe to manmade religious doctrines, either. The Bible was written by men, not God. Were they inspired? Sure, but as we are all equal in the eyes of God, any believer can thus be so inspired and add their own books to the Bible, even today. The people who lived thousands of years ago didn't have the patent to "God" just as no one alive today does, either. I mean, if we *really* want to talk about equality and fairness. Which all religion craps all over.
That said, it doesn't matter what path we take to God. As long as we get there. This movie is a spectacular representation of that. Just as Father Stu said (paraphrasing), "We aren't humans having a spiritual experience. We're spirits having a human experience."
Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021)
The Justice League Is Back.. FOR REAL!
While every movie has its flaws, as this one does, I don't find that they're even worth mentioning, because they did nothing to detract from my overall steadily held excitement and thorough enjoyment during the entire four hours of this wondrous, and truest so far of any DC live action experience, adaptation of the comics.
Each character was well-represented, and I found there to be enough "story" there for each one to get me hooked. Each one was set up beautifully for solo movies, not that it needed to be done, but at the least they were characters that were taken and treated seriously as leading characters and not just side-kicks to Superman. What could have been an ugly, boiled mash of too much stuff and too many people going on to make cohesive sense, was actually beautifully woven into easily digestible segments to the audience. I'm excited to see more from each of these characters in the future.
(Not really spoilers at this point on, but still they are if you've not seen either version of the movie. In which case, DO NOT see the first one, or don't watch it until AFTER you see this well-crafted 4-hour epic, so you can laugh! Lol. Just a bit of advice.)
Superman's re-appearance was familiar if you've seen the 2017 version, but was also different in that Superman's encounter with Batman was much more intelligent. Remember how he took Batman into the air and reciprocally asked him if he bleeds? Yeah, that didn't happen in this one, thank goodness, or thank Snyder, I mean. Nope, it was a whole lot more accurate in terms of how Superman would have eliminated Batman, by simply using his heat vision. Boom. Dead! No fuss, no muss. But fortunately for Bruce Wayne, Lois Lane intervened just in time, though it didn't save him from a new pair of undies nevertheless. Speaking of which, how smelly would that get in a the bat suit?
Cut!
Next, I really gained a much better understanding of the Cyborg character. The actor was awesome and really filled the shoes. I heard previously (I forget where) that he no longer wants to play that role because of bad things between he and Whedon, but I do hope he reconsiders if he hasn't already, to stay on with Snyder and company!
New characters! Martian Manhunter! OMG! Another "nod" to Supergirl's open hibernation capsule! Darkseid, in the flesh!
And a lot of really gritty but awesome dialogue amongst the bad guys, to boot, not to mention much more interaction between our heroes as well.
Some people are going to try and pick apart this movie, but when I consider a project of such a gigantic scale, now that I've seen the end result myself, I am, as nothing more than an average male consumer of all things DC comics, quite, *quite* content with Zack Snyder's vision and results. This, like Man Of Steel, is simply a MASTERPIECE!
Supergirl (2015)
Another superhero ruined
Don't waste your time. I tried really hard to enjoy this show, but it has become more and more ridiculous the longer it lasts. Forget that there's an extreme liberal bias in virtually everything the show does, forget that the Supergirl character is merely a shadow of the actual comic book character in terms of intelligence and physical power, and forget that the acting and character development completely sucks - or at least, that's what the show's creators want you to do.. Again, don't waste your time.