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The House (2017)
Same old WIll Ferrell CRAP !!!
Really People!!! How does this guy keep getting to make movies? Are the people in Hollywood really that stupid? Nothing Ferrell has ever done is worth spitting on, and somehow he keeps getting money from somewhere to make more mindless crap and drivel like this. After seeing him on TV, I vowed to never go to a film with him in it, but one of our friends wanted to go see this pile of manure, so we went. NEVER AGAIN!!!! I would rather shoot my friend and myself in the head before ever sitting through a Will Farrell movie again! Everything this guy has ever been in is mindless, stupid, shallow, crap. Come on People, quit spending any money on fools like Ferrell and the movies will eventually stop metastasizing like a sick, runny, green, smelly tumor on the face of the earth. The world would be a much better place without assholes like Ferrell polluting the ozone layer with the never ending flow of toxic methane that emanates from the hole in his face. ( I will not even mention the face . . . ) Stay away from any crap he does! Spend your money on better things, like maybe, research to cure anal leakage or something! Anything he does always has been and always will be . . . CCCRRRRRRRAAAAAPPPPP!!!!!!
It (2017)
Horror Movie, but not IT
I have had high hopes for this film for several years now. When I first read that it was being remade again I thought, "Finally!!! A new version of IT that will have to be better than that '90's TV debauchery with John Boy starring as Bill Denbrough." Now I will give Tim Curry HIGH praise for his performance in the TV miniseries version. Frankenfurter really nailed Pennywise perfectly. Also, the child actors in the TV version were fairly competent as well, and pretty much carried the movie, however, the adult, TV, so-called actors were abysmal at best. It was like; all the way through the movie I kept waiting for Richard Thomas to say, "Good night Maryellen, Good night Mama. . . " and then have Pennywise pop up and scream, "OH ROCKY!!!" The TV version has been tolerable to IT fans for many years because it has been all that there was. Finally, there was going to be a, much anticipated, and much desired, new feature film version.
The Steven King book, "IT" is an extremely well thought out, well developed, touching, tear jerking, interesting, scary, supernatural, epic of the lives of the seven losers in the story. It is probably tied with "11-22-63," and, "The Stand" as the best books he has ever written. (Also give honorable mention to "Dr. Sleep." It is incredible!) The reason that fantastic works of written fiction endure, and are still read many years later is simple; THEY"RE GOOD!!! That is the reason that they still want to make movies from the books. That is the reason that they still sell copies of it in the book stores, and have new dramatized audio book versions released. If only someone could do a movie and follow the book a bit more closely, then the movie would also be just as fantastic.
With all of this said, The 2017 Version of IT is fair at best. It seemed to me that they made a list of all the events that occurred in the children's lives in the book, Then moved it forward 27 years from the book, then kept those basic ideas and forgot about everything in the book and started a new story kinda sorta loosely biased on the book, then changed everything again to achieve a shallower, disjointed, CGI laden, jump-scare movie, about on par with some of the other mediocre horror movies that pop up every 15 minutes or so these days. They totally changed many of the characters into more stereotypical cookie cutter personas, and either changed, forgot, or ignored the significance of the characters to the story line. They also combined, cluttered, or ignored many of the significant points in the story line that were crucial to the plot, or development, or the reason the kids would ever embark on such an undertaking. So many details were left out or glossed over that were essential to the development of the story as a whole. If they had called the movie, "The Derry School Kids and the Killer Clown," that would have been fine. It would have been a more accurate title for what the movie actually is, and I would probably give it a better review now. BUT, if you are going to take an epic work like IT and put that same title on a movie, and purport to have the movie be based on the book, you'd better make sure you live up to the story.
If you have never read the book, "IT," then this will be a fairly middle of the road decent horror movie. If you HAVE read the book, then I can only say that the only thing the movie shares with the book is the TITLE.
Throwing Shade (2017)
DRIVEL -- 1. saliva flowing from the mouth, or mucus from the nose; slaver. 2. childish, silly, or meaningless talk or thinking; nonsense; twaddle.
I looked forward to this show, and had high hopes for it. We have a large group of friends that are a part of the LGBTQ community, and thought that the show would be a voice for these groups, and bring to light fun issues that people have to deal with. Boy what a let down! It reminds me of a VERY bad high school skit that was thrown together at the last moment. The gay host is atrocious, obnoxious, not funny in the least, and almost every word that comes out of his mouth is a gross exaggeration, or an outright lie. He is like a rich bitchy little school girl who just can't keep her opinion to her self. And speaking of ladies, what is the female host's trip. She is like a spastic schizophrenic that has forgotten to take her medication. The show on the whole makes about as much sense as a bag full of doorknob parts. I am still trying to figure out how to block this show without blocking the entire TVLAND channel. It is so bad that I don't even want my satellite dish to receive the signal from space. On the whole, I gave it a 1 in the rating, but only because there are no negative numbers in the IMDb rating system. I think there are a lot of issues and events that could be dealt with with this type of show, and it could be done well, but this show delivers nothing but DRIVEL!