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The Fall Guy (2024)
Don't think, just pay for the ticket and laugh
This thing is mindless. If you can't laugh hysterically at car stunts, don't bother. That's the best thing this movie has going for it. Blunt keeps way too many clothes on, and as usual, we see lots of. Gosling. They spend WAY too much time just talking. I hate movies that feature lots of talking. It's supposed to be cute, and this is supposed to apparently be a rom-com, and I hate both. I thought I was seeing an action film. There definitely is action, but the plot and plodding way-over-abused "romantic tension" gets in the way of cars exploding. Lesson learned, if a movie features Gosling, and you are very normal guy, take a pass and leave it for the girls.
Civil War (2024)
So pointless it should have been a M Night movie
This thing is awful. I was very pleasantly surprised to hear not one, but TWO Suicide songs. That was it. California teaming up with Texas? Get real. The plausibility is impossible to buy. Bunch of guys running around shooting anything that moves is somehow well enough organized to take on the most powerful army in the world? The main character running around using film? People can't upload pictures, but entire military units are communicating. And the roads were so bad they have to take back roads, but the military has no problem moving around at full speed. It's just insane. Some people think there is a message in this movie, but there's not. This can't happen in the real world, And the only message transmitted in the entire thing is "wear your kevlar". Take a hard pass on this mess.
Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire (2023)
Star Wars Episode 99
How do you make a Star Wars sequel without calling it a Star Wars sequel, prequel, remake, or whatever. Every single thing about this is Star Wars. Take away the witty banter, sexy princess, and very small robot, and this is what you get down to the light sabers, super high tech sword fighting, androids with British accents, and easily destroyed interstellar battleships, one really nasty "general", and bazillions of shots from laser shooting pistols that hit no one in particular. I only got to the part where the princess was not nearly as sexy or scantily clad as Carrie Fisher and I was done. It seems to have kept all the bland and none of the glitz of the Star Wars. I finally totally gave up with about 15 minutes left in the first episode. Won't be going back.
Das Signal (2024)
Give me a break
The ending of this series was so contrived I seriously felt like it was an April Fool's joke. No one could have seriously thought this was in any remote way possible. They took the plotline from Star Trek: The Motion Picture and dumbed it down so far I was literally stunned. First of all, there are no dead zones in orbit any more. Second, Voyager didn't broadcast, it sends dots and bleeps. Thirdly, everyone knows Veeger, er Voyager would have burned up in re-rentry. Thirdly, there was no reason for the billionaire to kill her only connection to the coordinates of the landing. Fourthly, about one million people would have seen Voyager returning to Earth. Fifthly, the only thing the "alien" told her, for three months, was "hello"? And from that decided to tell the world? And no one she talked to questioned that? It just keeps getting worse and worse. Don't watch this. You'll hate yourself if you watch the entire thing.
Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)
Robert De Niro in Oklahoma and no big questions answered
This movie could have gone a lot of different ways, but what we got was probably the worst. Sound quality was awful, which meant some people like me struggled just to hear it. As long as the movie was, this proved tiring. By the end of the movie, I was just relieved it was over. It sets the plot by mentioning literally hundreds of murders, then resolves itself on the prosecution of one man for a few very specific people. What about all the other victims? Did they ever get resolved? The biggest questions go unanswered. This could have been a who-done-it, but we're told very early in the movie who does it. Why, if they have no problem shooting people almost at random, did Ernest think slowly poisoning his wife was a good plan? And most importantly, Robert De Niro plays every role he does as Robert De Niro. He's not a good actor and he falls 100% flat in this movie. Then we have the goofball ending that defies description, making it seem as if the entire gut-wrenching movie you just suffered through was all a made-for-radio skit.
This is truly an awful movie will that will be forgotten very quickly.
Babylon (2022)
Written by 7 year olds
I really felt like this was written by small children. The fixation on bodily fluids, eating gross things, vomiting on rich people, sneaking elephants into parties, was just childish. Yeah, I get it, Babylon in it's infancy was extremely self-indulgent and Hollywood morally bankrupt. But, that could have been summed up in one sentence. Spending nearly an hour illustrating it got old, real fast. Literally the only part I enjoyed was the early filmmaking, and even that was stupid ( I doubt extras were stabbed by flagpoles ). This thing is just awful. I gave it an extra star because it could be fun to look at.
Moonfall (2022)
Is this supposed to be a parody?
From a sci-fi perspective, this makes the B movies of the 50's look smart. This is awful. Nothing makes any sense to the point of the Moon orbiting the Earth in the wrong direction, the Moon's gravity being greater than the Earth's, Shuttle with no fuel tanks zipping to to the Moon in hours, and stars fitting inside the Moon. Every single scene is a goof. But, for a parody, it's not funny.
Galaxy Quest (1999)
The most under-appreciated sci-fi movie of all time.
I could write a novel on why I love this movie. Just watching it is more rewarding.
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
The Greatest sci-fi movie of all time
2001 is everything a sci-fi movie should be. You're not distracted with obvious shortcomings. You never get comfortable, you never feel confident. And, you can interpret this movie almost infinitely. I've loved it since it was released, I probably love it even more now.
Countdown (1967)
If you love sci-fi, run away. Run very far away. Run as fast as you can.
This movie was not directed by a sci-fi buff, obviously. The goofs outweigh what he gets right 10 to 1. If you like cheesy daytime drama, it's got that going at least. The entire premise of the movie, the Russians sending civilians to the Moon, is absurd. The entire Russian space program of the 60's was 100% military. There's no way they would have allowed someone other than a military person to be a hero. None. Likewise, the US Space program used people who knew how to fly experimental craft. They would not have sent someone with no flying experience on a mission like this. Every single pioneer Apollo astronaut came from the military. The premise was unnecessary given the pressures of the Moon race. The drama this created in the movie was poorly acted and not how military personnel would have dealt with it. Duvall's pettiness would never have been allowed. Then it just goes from bad to insane. A hose pops loose during practice, no one tells him to re-attach it. The Moon lander is a Gemini capsule sitting on a lunar lander. The lander is wider than the capsule. It was launched on the usual Titan. No way it could have fit on a rocket. Caan is blinded by the sun because he has no visor, all spacesuits ever in the history of space had visors. When he's on the Moon Caan just strolls around like a walk in the park, impossible on the Moon. The beacon he's supposed to find from space is spinning in a horizontal circle, impossible to see from above. At the end of the movie we just have to assume he made it. We don't know if they ever rescued him or not. The spacesuit on the Moon hangs loosely on him, it's not pressurized. You see plant shadows on the Moon. You see a drawstring on his helmet blowing in the wind. He trains extensively in an Apollo capsule for a planned trip in a Gemini capsule. On the Moon he spins a toy mouse and goes in the direction it stops spinning. In reality he would have run out of air before it stopped. The Russian crash site looks like a car wreck. Stuff wouldn't have just laid there where it hit. The Russian's face plate is open, that never happens during a landing. For a guy lost on the Moon with limited air supply, he wastes valuable time playing with flags. I don't think anyone else would have been so casual about their impending painful and slow death.
About the only worse "serious" Moonshot movie would be Apollo 18.
The only upside to this movie was the total cooperation of NASA and the insights that provided.
The Disaster Artist (2017)
You only need to see this once.
First of all, DO watch The Room. You have to have perspective of where this movie is coming from. Once you have experienced The Room, this movie won't make any more sense, but you'll enjoy the awesomeness of the experience. And, you SHOULD get a greater appreciation for James Franco. He nails it. He has soooo much to work from he couldn't have nailed it. This story is insane. Seriously. Just watch it.
The Silence (2019)
Too Stupid to enjoy
Without giving away too much, at one point, in order to distract the mindless creatures, the dad turns on a shredder which instantly pulverizes about 100 of the creatures. He then turns it off never to be used again in his struggle with the animals. It's hard for me to get past really, really, stupid plot lines. It really doesn't get any better as it goes on and the ending is pointless. Awful.
Nocturnal Animals (2016)
How awful can a movie be?
Take two genres, intermingle them a lot, and toss in every possible politically correct cliché you can imagine and this is what you get. Rednecks in Texas attacking poor innocent college professors. They don't mask or hide their effort, labeling Republicans as bigots and racists. It starts with grotesque imagery no one wants to see, then laments the fact the creator of this "art" is going bankrupt, but is redeemed because she hates conservatives and Republicans. What's to like there? Her previous husband sends her a book he dreamed up about a family being attacked with the mother and daughter being raped and murdered. Should we like this guy? Her current husband is screwing anything that walks besides her. Not much to look up to there ( well, maybe ). It just goes on and on, developing characters no one would ever care about. I can't spoil the plot because I didn't make it that far. The "hero" wimping out and hiding while his family is murdered was pretty much where I gave up caring about anything else that might possibly happen to this cast of losers. This movie is bad on SOOOO many levels. Don't ever pay to watch this for sure. And, if ancient aliens or crashing jets is on, watch that instead. My son forced me to watch The Room a couple of weeks ago. Trust me on this, watch that instead.