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Jesus Revolution (2023)
These events took place during my high school years
This movie, like many, shines a favorable light on the many self styled, self aggrandizing, 'leaders' of who profited, and mislead, thousands of innocent mean and women who had actual need in their life.
Many of the followers who followed them are the same, lying, beguiling frauds that rule the right wing politicians today, but are not idententified properly in the film, and thus leave the viewer with a wholly (not holy) view of the film and the history of the movement in general.
Professionally well done, but that's not always the truth of the story, nor justification to continue the lies, and misrepresentations.
The Lost Pirate Kingdom (2021)
Good series
Enjoyed the show. Well done for a docu-drama except ..... every time someone said Nassau and pronounced it 'nassow' instead of 'nasaw', I wanted to slap them. Wikipedia even shows it correctly .....
Angels Fallen (2020)
Definition of a 'B' Movie
Loaded with some of the most familiar bad actors in holywood, and a couple of talent-less newcomers. The concept is poorly conceived and visualized, the scrip is week, the soundrack is monotonous.
Unless you enjoy doggin' these type films while you watch, give it a pass. I couldn't finish it
The Magnificent Seven (2016)
The Lifetime Channel version of the legendary story
Akira Kurosawa introduced us to "Seven Samurai', one of the greatest films made.
John Sturges created the english story "The MAgnificent Seven" with Yule Brenner in the lead role, and maintained the legendary status of the original in a new country language and genre.
The basic story has been taken up in multiple genre's with varying degrees of success.
Although there are several quite capable performers involved in this production, it becomes the 'Lifetime Channel' version of its glorious predecessors; relying on the reputation of the original Elmer Bernstein score to sell the feeling of the original western, regardless of what else we see and hear.
Elememts of the rewritten story are just plain silly. Seminoles in Texas is just the first obvious sillyness. The dialog is mostly meaningless banter attempting to endear the characters to the vuewer without any real subtlety.
Watchable if you ignore the attempt to claim the glory of its predecessors, and don't mind the bland character of the production and direction.
Cursed (2020)
Perverse confiscation of Arthurian Characters
Some descent players and an interesting story line, though nothing truly new. All Spoiled needlessly by trying to make this an Arthurian tale with characters perverted from the charachters we've all know for hundreds of years, and set in lands never seen before.
Horse Girl (2020)
SyFi not Psyco
My take on this film appears to differ significantly from those who jump to the assumption that she is mentally ill....
But first, it is a well crafted film with a fine cast, in which Alison Brie shines in her portrayal of the title character in a life that loops endlessly. (the reason that those looking for a solid end to the story are disappointed).
In this film, in a present time frame we see her [re?]discovery of the end of her time in this era, and her attempts to make sense of what is happening to her, (or her unbidden memories of things that have happened before).
Her confusion and inability to demonstrate the truth of her thoughts and experiances causes the people around her to become convinced that she is suffering from a mental breakdown causing the delusions, (just like most observers of the film)
In truth, at the end of the loop, she connects with a man, intimately. The event becomes the final trigger for her full understanding of the situation, and what her next actions must be.
As she rises from the forest floor she begins the cycle again. Return in some manor to her past, and pregnant from her intimate encounter, she beomes the parent of one of her parents, (never revealed as mother or father) and the cycle runs it's course again. No Ending.
A similar story was explored by syfy author Robert Heinlein in his classic story of Lazarus Long, in "Time Enough for Love"
Well worth the watch, just don't fall into the trap of mental illness....