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A Very Sordid Wedding (2017)
Drag Queens and Gays - forget this movie
I never saw Sordid Lives before. Maybe I should have. Came upon this movie at random, didn't know what to expect. My opinion? Save your money. This movie has it all, for starters, way over-done, too many ingredients, out of focus, should have been simpler and with more clarity. Add to that, bad script, bad directing, bad acting, bad editing (screenplay). This movie is all over the place and drifts away from main subject (of the wedding) so much that I found it confusing. Compare it to the Birdcage with Robin Williams. Now THAT was a great movie! Sordid Wedding had way too many characters to keep up with. Unnecessary. Getting back to bad script, actors lines seemed unnatural. Bad editing, too much camera time devoted to the old man drag queen. I found this character boring and really didn't help the movie at all. Bad directing, Is this wannabee director trying to be funny or serious? Make up your mind. Go back to film school. Whoopie Goldberg? I mean, like, what's the point?
Eloise (2016)
So sorry
I'm so sorry that my review will cut this movie up but it's garbage in every sense of the word. Loose ends, jumps, loopholes, complicated, unnecessary stuff, continuity? It's a sound story line in the first 15 minutes. But then it goes into stupid mode shortly thereafter. I mean, I found myself asking "WHY?" several times. If I saw this at a movie theater I would have walked out.
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
One of the best of its kind. Excellent! Loved it!
Very few movies attract my attention where I must watch over and over again, like Terminator 2, Aliens. But this far surpasses those, this one takes the cake on everything. The setting was like a post holocaust, in my opinion a huge meteoric impact, not nuclear war. Definitely some looked like they suffered radiation burns. Be that as it may, this movie had very believable characters. Both protagonist and antagonist had depth, sensitivity, emotion. Even though the main bad guy was tyrannical leader Imortan Joe, you could kind of empathize with what he was doing. I especially felt moved when he held his dead wife (one of them)in his arms and he was genuinely saddened. I felt for Imortan Joe, his cause was noble, he was a family man (a dad,) he had to make do with what he had, he had to ration and control the water, he had to maintain and harvest the crops, he was trying to produce superior human beings so that they may have the strength to lead. In order to establish a society emerging from a wasteland, to speed things up, you don't have time for democracy, you need slaves. These slaves all seemed like happy slaves. Probably because there was food, shelter, they seemed cared for. The backgrounds in this movie were so believable, the action sequences top notch edge of your seat non-stop. I'm ready to watch it again and hopefully they will make a sequel!
Interstellar (2014)
Movie could have been much, much better
Too complex to understand, McConaughey incomprehensible, too many unanswered questions. The script - storyline blew it on all fronts. Here's the way I wished it would have played out. Establish better setting & foundation. World's climate is changing for the worse, in haste and a means to provide hope, vast amounts of new money is granted into the world space program to investigate and explore an unknown anomaly (worm hole) found near Saturn. The first group of scientists penetrated it a few years back, disappeared from contact but somehow sent a successful radio signal back to Earth indicating they found something magnificent which would be considered one of the greatest discoveries of all mankind. Send in the next group of scientists (better equipped and better technology) to find out more about what happened to the first group. (You could have built an entire movie around that worm-hole by itself.) As they come alongside the worm hole, conduct tests, send in probes, then eventually manned spacecraft. Once inside the worm-hole magically transports to another galaxy and in close proximity of a solar system similar to ours of which there are planets that can sustain life. They find a planet there like Earth. Alien beings (smart and intelligent) welcome them to their planet. They find their comrades there in good health and well being. They exchange technologies and are told that a whole plethora of wormholes are all over the place in space but they need to be "opened" by some sort of gravity means. The aliens have perfected this. The aliens learn about the slow demise of Earth's atmosphere, they offer assistance. A few of them go with the scientists back to Earth and all is saved!! See? Now THAT would have been a better story than the Interstellar movie script.