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Meg 2: The Trench (2023)
Yawn.....Zzzzzzzz.
Let me preface this with, I love the big set piece, dumb, sci-fi action movies and I love Statham. Until I saw this. 3/4 of the way through I turned the channel as the story and motivations fir the characters was beyond absurd! Only watch thus if you are tied down and you cannot get the channel that teaches you how to use your remote control for cable. Peeeeeyew!
The plot is stupid and the story meandered all over the place. If you have a choice watch anything else. This "movie" should only be shown to the criminally insane as punishment. However, since we have a law against cruel and unusual punishment.... I would recommend this to no one!!!
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023)
Meh...Not so bad
Ok...I missed in theater and just saw on D+....about what the hype said. Jonathon Majors as Kang was pretty good, but definitely some Disney/Marvel cringe. Modok, when played straight evil, could have been ok, but leave it to Disney to make him lame. The special effects for his face made me laugh out loud everytime they showed him.
This is the problem with what Disney is producing and writing these days. They spend a fortune on the effects, but the writing is as if they don't know what makes a good comic book adventure. So it seens their mandate is not great ,but good enough to get the normie Marvel movie fans into theaters. Although, the way the box office returns are going they may wat to rethink that.
If your a die hard Marvel Comics fan, then this was Chipolte stomach turning. Just like the last 2 - 3 Marvel movies. Stan in heaven is cringing ... massively. Nuff said!!
Ms. Marvel (2022)
Just not that good...
I thought this was supposed to be an origin story for Kamala Khan, Ms. Marvel., but these writers are all over the place. I just watched eoiside 5 of 6 and only 1 episode left and boy do we have alot of plot lines to close out.
Why did we introduce sooo many new characters this late in the game? Did we have to got to Pakistan for TWO episodes? Couldn't we have done this in much shorter flashbacks? Why are the villains so dumb? Why is the Damage Control like a division of Shield where everyone flunked the entrance exam? Why aren't we in New Jersey, her home turf, for her origin? We left all the interesting characters from episode 1-3 back there!!
Bad pacing, poor writing and the things that don't matter to me when reading or watching comic movies like race, gender or religion are pushed to the forefront of this series. I know Disney is trying to involve younger watchers, but why dumb it down so much. They should be trying to push intelligent writing with fun narratives. If you dont push boundaries how can you grow. This is simply not such a goid overall series.
The Matrix Resurrections (2021)
No reason to resurrect....
Ok, first I wanted to enjoy this move. I liked the original trilogy, so I went in with hope for this. Sadly, the biggest they I can say is that is was...mmeehh!
Way to many beats from the original movie. I felt like this was simply a rehash of the original movie with a few character alterations. Felt as though Keanu didn't want to be in this.
Please Hollywood...original movies or at least a great script before resurrecting a franchise because this one certainly didn't need it or deserve it.
Red Notice (2021)
Generic...
Once again Hollywood makes a movie filled with the tropiest of Tropes! So predictable. Fake physics, Gal Gadot as a super know everything do every.thing thief and the Rock as a Super Dense FBI guy. And as always Ryan Reynolds has to carry the workload. Ok to watch if you have exhausted the Netflix archives!
Eye for an Eye (1996)
Ok...but ending hardly believable.
Ok...the movie is basically a revenge flick. Not bad acting. However, Hollywood always treats firearms laws with disrespect. The ending where our heroine shoots the villain with an illegal acquired firearm and she is not arrested because she shot a badman is ridiculous!! Also, Cops and the Judicial system portrayed as morons. Anyway...what do you expect from Hollywood? Sometimes they are hit and miss.
Drumline (2002)
Uhhhh.....ok...I guess
I'm going to first state the obvious....it's hard to be a tuff street punk when your in marching band. Not to say that people in band aren't good musicians, but just like dance movies everyone is some kind of sterotype. However, this is a a typical Hollywood movie and a movie about a realistic drumline would probably not make any money. YouTube has way better videos about real drumlines where they are professional and very dedicated. Lots of precision military drumlines as well.
All in all it's an OK movie. I just would tell Nick Cannon to take some acting classes. He makes this movie awful, but you can a only work with what's written as well.
Anyway....its just ok.
Thunder Force (2021)
Lots of representation, but bad movie...
I saw Thunderforce and had lots of different people representing different races and genders. Jason Bateman made me chuckle. Those are all of the positives.
Unfortunately, the movie is poorly written, directed and gives said races and genders very little to do or say. Jokes go on and on and on and....are not so funny.
When is Hollywood going to wake up and realize....good story generally will be rewarded will positive word of mouth and at least good reviews. However there is so much junk ( like this movie) you have to suffer thru the gravel to get a little nugget of gold. FYI....this move ain't it.
Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)
Disappointed....
1st Wonder Woman....really liked It! Room for for the character to grow. Wonder Woman 84....pee yew. If I wanted an emotional growth film, I'd turn on lifetime. I wanted a film about a super hero doing great things regardless if man or woman. Not a life lesson from a therapist. Hey, Hollywood....any chance you can get some writers who actually know how to write super heroes and not hot topics that only the far left or far right can scream at each other about? Thumbs down...
Ghostbusters (2016)
I tried.....seriously, I tried!
I waited for the hype and nonsense to die down and watched on a free preview weekend to see this and make up my own mind.
Unfortunately, it was just a badly written movie with very low brow humor wih, nothing more than a chuckle, if you were lucky, ripped off script from original Ghostbusters 1984 and characters with 1 dimensions, maybe 1/2.
I had no problems with the gender reversals, but for God sakes, write your own script and don't just copy the original. Don't reboot, just remake and do your own take on the Ghostbusters. The gender reversals also dumbed down the characters. The original secretary was smart and snarky. Hemsworth just played a guy they hired cuz he was so hot, but had an IQ of 10. Why? Cuz its so darned funny!! Yawn....
The only way you watched this movie and came away with a good feeling was if you didn't go to it, you would have had to watch 10 straight hours of Jersey Shore. And I probably wouldn't have minded that!
For all its political and gender blah blah, this is just a bad movie. Paul Fieg really missed the mark on this on. Now I know why the reviews and box office returns were so poor! Get it....Poor!
Final review, bleh!
Cats (2019)
Peeeeeeeeyew!
This is what happens when you do crack and have too many late night project approval meetings! DO NOT SEE THIS MOVIE!! Let Hollywood know this type of mediocrity is not going to be accepted, paid for or viewed. I was dragged to it by my theater friends of friends and have no black ballad them from all entertainment decisions for our group....wow!
Mystery Science Theater 3000: Atlantic Rim (2018)
MST3000 Rules!!
The boy (and robots) in the front row always make me laugh!! FYI the movie sucks, but Joseph, Crow and Tom Servo make it a watch!!
Tyler Perry's Boo 2! A Madea Halloween (2017)
Crap....total...
OK, when are people who think Madea is funny going to wake up and see this is just a bad story, writing, directing and acting all in one movie. I would have preferred to watch 10 hours straight of PBS, just so I can get back whatever brain cells were sucked out while having to sit through this debacle. It was not funny!! The actors were one dimensional. The jokes were either sexist or racist. The plot was stupid. Take my advice, stay away from Perry's movies. He has become one of the bloated, bad directors that Hollywood should be ashamed of and they should be ashamed for ever making these types of movies. With so many good choices in steaming, cable and other movies it is hard to believe people would go to this heap of a movie. By the way, the only reason we went is we got free passes and it was still a rip off!!