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The Union (2024)
Stolen Mission Impossible (1) script, with the yas queen twist
They don't even try to hide it. They straight stole the first mission impossible movie script, used the whole yaaaas Queen as the director, and girl boss'd the whole movie. It's just lazy, agenda driven directing and writing.
The whole beginning of the movie is super dark (lighting-wise}. I mean like Game of Thrones (Winter finally came, and left in one episode) dark.
Later in the movie, it just turns into a comedy (like "White Chicks" style, but I _think_ it was accidental). As soon as the main bad guy runs, we all started laughing historically, then again when he ran to a second car later on.
This started it as a1 Star review, but it was entertaining for the laughs, although I don't think that was the intention they were going for so I up'd it to a 2.
Katt Williams: Woke Foke (2024)
I don't have an issue with the material, it's just not funny.
I love Katt Williams, and his material in this one is entertaining, but unfortunately, it's just not funny. It's not offensive or anything. It's just like watching someone speak for an hour. It's an entertaining talk from a motivational speaker, but again... It's just not laughable material.
Maybe if you're going into this with the expectation that you're going to be watching a motivational speaker, instead of a comedy show, you'll appreciate it more. However, we went into it expecting Katt Williams comedy genius, and it just didn't meet those expectations this time. From a motivational speaker standpoint, this would be a 6 or 7, but from a standup comedy special, it's just a 2. Sorry Katt.
Twisted Metal (2023)
I loved this show, and so did my teens & tweens...
As someone who played the game, I really liked this interpretation of the games. Good/quarky story. Nostalgic characters. Fun episodes.
What makes me think this is even better is that it captured the attention of my kids (age 12 to 17, two boys and one daughter), even though they had no vested value in it. My kids didn't look at their phones one time after about half way through the first episode (they were vested, which never happens now).
There's something here that's multi generational. Hopefully they keep it going, but usually they'll cancel shows that seem to have agreement between different ages now, for whatever reason. I guess time will tell.
Peaky Blinders: The Shock (2019)
Best Episode (acting-wise not story-wise
If you're a student of history from that timeframe, you'll notice they're intentionally rewriting history. The acting of the episode is phenomenal, but they play into politics of the current day, which is easier to see watching it now, after the fact (at a later date, but still remembering the politics reported at the time).
This is actually a pretty scary realization. This is a BBC production, but it strongly resembles the American political landscape at the time of production. If you take this as historical (which it's not, but they do use a lot of historical events to make it real), you should also come to the realization that the same events they're acting out, could be more of an adaptation of the same manipulations of "the people" that they're actually using to "rewrite history" to meet the same party's goals now.
Monsters (2022)
Most Boring and Historically Inaccurate Episode
The whole episode feels like they needed to fill an episode, just so they could milk as many episodes as possible.
They do a really bad job of making you feel sympathetic to the victims, although you can tell they're trying so hard, to the point where they had to embellish the story. No need to do that. Just tell the story accurately, so someone can watch this ten years from now and this would still feel relevant.
I'm not sure why Netflix can't just produce a historically accurate series. Every movie/show now seems to have some sort of political or social justice agenda to it, which wouldn't be bad if they weren't so obviously obscured by rewiring history as being reflected through the lens of the current political climate, rather than what would've been the past or future standard.
Facing Nolan (2022)
A must watch for any fan of baseball (or any sports fan)
I started "Facing Nolan" thinking "this will probably be dumb or boring, but I gotta check it out. It's Nolan Ryan." I did not regret it. It was fun, interesting, and I actually learned several things I never knew.
If you're thinking about checking this movie out, just do it.
Pete Davidson Presents: The Best Friends (2022)
Not great, but a LOL Compared to Bill Burr's NFIAJ Special
It's a legit 5/10 comedy. Worth watching, BUT still Not great. It is a refreshing LOL Compared to Bill Burr's "Netflix is a Joke" Special. Hopefully he (Bill) learns that he's straight up wrong, and not funny, when he runs with "jokes" he knows are not funny (I went to his life show with the same jokes ad his Netflix is a joke special: the crowd did not laugh at the jokes he put into his special, but he would bring the crowd back with other jokes, then still continue with the "jokes" no one was laughing at).
Bill Burr Presents: Friends Who Kill (2022)
This makes me
This makes me want to look up all of the 1 star reviews I've given in the past, rewatch them (all), and then change those one star ratings to two stars ratings.
As the President of the US says ALL of the time now. "NOT a joke."
P. S. This review is not a joke. But it's funnier. Than. What you just saw. If you watched THIS. Show.
-Jimmy Carr.
Jurassic World Dominion (2022)
Forgettable Movie. Wait and see it at home.
Is there no such thing as an editing department anymore? This movie was just trying to do way too much. It felt like, to save time, they cut out parts of the story, rather than cutting out some of the big effects scenes that all seem to be competing against themselves for attention. For a theater movie, this is a one star movie. If I would've just watched it at home, it would probably be a 4 star movie. Just not worth the theater price.
Top Gun: Maverick (2022)
Best movie I've seen in A LONG TIME...
In a world now being created and shaped by social engineering from every medium available, especially Hollywood, it was super refreshing to finally see movie that at least felt story driven again, rather than agenda driven. Watching it, you really feel like they made it with you (the audience member) in mind, which is so rare now.
Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber: Boober (2022)
Show is still great, but some worry. Still watching to see how it plays out.
I was caught off guard by the first time I've EVER seen an American show mention Xi with such positivity while coming into some control of an American company. Maybe it'll play out better, but in this episode, it felt like a (somewhat) plug for saying China runs the world. Maybe they do. But still felt weird that it's getting pulled in right now.
South Park: Post COVID - The Return of COVID (2021)
Only 1 LOL Moment, but that's better than most "comedy" shows now tho...
One hour long, and there were several funny parts, but only one time where it made me literally Laugh Out Loud. I guess that's better than any other "comedy" show/movie lately though. How sad is it that the rest of Hollywood and tv shows have gotten so bad, that "South Park" is now a sort of beacon of morality (at least at this *precedented* time).
Jayde Adams: Serious Black Jumper (2020)
Great, Funny, and Very Clever
(Update: changed from a 9 to a 10, reason listed below original review)
I would give this show an 8/10, but I moved it to a nine when I read the 2 negative reviews. That made it that much more hilarious, because Jayde calls this stuff out, and those 2 don't even realize it. They think because she "she looks like me", she must just not know. LOL
Update rating: I changed it to a 10/10 because I was looking through my old ratings, and many of the old lower star ratings I gave, I don't even remember ANYTHING about them. I've seen this special once, and I remember it and I recommend it to others fairly often. She's a standout comedian, which is what you want with a stand-up comedian.
One Night in Miami... (2020)
Feels like kids pretending to be grownups
I don't know if it's because I've held the characters on such a high pedestal, but this movie is NOT engaging, and it's almost insulting to have these actors play these men. Keeping in mind that probably no man can do justice for playing any one of these men (let alone all of them), I continued watching, because I'm not gonna hate them for trying. I'm lying. Sam is the only character/actor who looks like he's got any actual life experience in his eyes. The rest of them just look like college students pretending "they've experienced it ALL".
Simple explanation: half the time it felt like there was no "forth wall". Maybe it's the directing of the movie, but it really felt like I was watching them film the movie (in the room while the actors where reading their lines). Again, the acting's not that bad, they just don't feel like they have any actual life experience.
In the Shadow of the Moon (2019)
Modern day remake of 12Monkeys (with modern day "satanic panic")
The movie is great (directors did a great job, and the actors did a great job), but a total rip off of 12Monkeys (lazy and probably politically motivated writers). The end is frustrating because you want so much more, but instead it feels like the directors are trying to pull off a real life "inception" -- Spoiler alert: (I agree with the politics of the movie, but I don't like when they force it unnaturally in a film, where this one seems to be saying:) if you don't start killing off everyone who disagrees with you (politically), right before the 2016 election, then the world will end by 2024.
Dave Chappelle: Sticks & Stones (2019)
Hello Comedy. Welcome back!
Not all of the jokes were in my taste, but it's refreshing to have a comedian come out and feel uncensored. Best comedy show of 2019 for sure!
Blindspot: 'Ohana (2019)
WTF
That's all. WTF?! Have you heard of product placement (Where a show or movie places a product in a scene for commercial promotion of that product)? This was like that, but every scene was forced to be product placement for that bad acting "science guy". Apparently he's a real actor/show, so the advertising worked, since it got me to look him up, but at risk of ABSOLUTELY NO STORY LINE!