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I Care a Lot (2020)
One star for good visual style.
I'm not sure I've seen this many good actors together in such an ill-conceived movie. The over the top feminism is the first cliche, then there's the "Wall Street" style greed is good depravity, and top it off with the completely ludicrous Thelma & Louise crimes. The only character you can care about is the gas station attendant.
Awful people doing awful things.
If this type of exploitation of the elderly actually happens we need to open some investigations.
The director should be ashamed of making this movie.
Noelle (2019)
Completely Offensive
As a descendant of the lineage of St. Nicklaus I found this movie to be awful. this is what is wrong with Hollywood. "Santa Claus" is short for St. Nicklaus. A real person, that did good for their community, and this ruins that history. Boooo
Lost Girls (2020)
This may hold you over until another David Finches film
My wife loves true crime stuff so stuck in on our first "social distanced Sunday" we stopped on this little slice of serial killer fun.
Spoiler: Compelling in that it is an ongoing investigation.
Cinematically, it looks like a David Fincher film (that is why I gave it 5*).
Acting isn't horrible, but it isn't really noteworthy either.
Every man in this movie is treated as an enemy, every women broken by living in a world supposedly dominated by sex-crazed or detached white guys.
This is becoming more and more an alarming trend.
Summer '03 (2018)
A TRUE INDIE FILM!
Came across this little gem looking through IMDb and saw it was free on Prime. Set in 2003 it truly feels like an indie film from the 90s/00s. Camera work, soundtrack, great teen angst, and a solid cast of people that have been in a lot of good stuff in recent years. Characters are solid, acting is effortless, and the themes are relatable. You could pick much worse fare.
Our Idiot Brother (2011)
8 years changes my perspective on this ...
I was excited when this movie came out, because of liking what everyone in the cast had done up until this movie. I found Paul Rudd hilarious in 2011, and he's still a favorite actor in our home.
Watching the movie again in 2019 I find all the characters analogous with the current state of disarray in class and gender politics.
Look past the cliché characters and see the humor in Paul's character, and his wide-eyed sunshine soul.
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story (2017)
Watch Without Your Preconceptions...
The interview tapes of Ms. Lamarr used here were recorded in 1990, well before most of the people watching the film to supply more fuel for their misandry were even born, but of course young enough to be barely aware of life before video games.
Men worked with her the entire way, maybe for the wrong reasons sometimes, but who among us hasn't done something special for someone with whom we were infatuated.
There is entirely TO MUCH speculation as to the intentions of the subject, as well as those around her. A lot of 'I think' and 'it seems to me' is heard. I challenge anyone to invent something and take it to the military THEMSELVES and see what happens. The invention wasn't thrown in the vault because she was a woman, it was because the world was at war and it was a far fetched idea. A good idea, but as we all know from our own jobs it sometimes hard to get stuff approved during crunch time.
Everything is always being spun, and it sad.
Hanna (2019)
Movie With Strong Female Lead Turned To TV "slow burn"?.
Let me start out by saying I was going to give this series EVERY chance to stand apart from the brilliant movie starring a young woman I knew would be an Oscar winner, but it doesn't heat up until episode 5.
An intense, and murderous covert CIA operative with a doting boyfriend?
Their relationship is less than believeable
The insipid teenage lesbian girl crush?
Clubbing?
"Clueless" level makeover montage?
What could have become a Mission Impossible, or Jason Bourne level character development for a female lead almost turned in to a Jane Austen story.
If you loved the movie you may be disappointed.
What Men Want (2019)
If I Could Give This 0 Stars I Would...
The original version of this script/story line with Mel Gibson was well done. Mel Gibson's character was someone you wanted to see come around, and you wanted the main characters to get it right, and It didn't make fun of the male/female dynamic the way this one does. This movie is full of the equivalent of female dick and fart jokes. Did an actual male person have anything to do with this script? The 2000 version had lovable characters trying to figure each other out, while this one just has that nouveau cliche' of women sitting around hating men. A movie made in the time of the marginalized attempting to assert some dominance over a world where they don't think they fit in, when the real enemy is the economic system.
Trial & Error (2017)
This Show Is/Was Brilliant
John Lithgow? Genius.
Kristin Chenoweth? Brilliant as usual.
The rest of the cast? Absolutely hilarious!
This is the kind of intelligent camp I expect from a good sitcom. The constant banter, the one liners, the physical comedy, and the double entendres are all well written. Even quite a few running jokes and multi-episode built up jokes. Its a lot like modern family in style, and diversity of humor. Was surprised to find season 2 cut short, but the ending left it open to be brought back. I hope someone sees the sense to give it another go before the show, and all its amazingness is forgotten in the annals of tv history.
Iron Fist: A Duel of Iron (2018)
Why do the producers stray from the comics so much?
What a BS pandering end to a decent series. I love the reference to Sokovia, and Alice Eve was a huge standout in the entire second season. She was scary intimidating. I hope that they reestablish Danny's legacy in the inevitable "Heroes for Hire" that will bring in his relationship with the Avengers and Black Panther.
Blue Like Jazz (2012)
Thanks for helping me...
Avoid a disappointment. I like jazz. Thought this sounded like something I would watch, even if it isn't necessarily about jazz. Then I find out it's some hokey feel good bs about finding faith and I'm like "whew!" dodged a bullet there. If someone needs reaffirmed in their 'belief' it's because in the back of their head they know that an adult should give up believing in myth, and fairy tales.
Younger (2015)
A Review By a Non-Target Market Rep
Sutton Foster is a Tony award winner, who can sing and dance like a dream. She was brilliant in "Bunheads" and is more finely tuned here. She is a fast talker, and they write for her ability to male every line a joke in one way or another. While there are obvious plot holes with the premise (HR Dept I'm questioning your procedures) the chemistry is there betwixt the main characters. Miriam Shor's character, Diana Trout, is part TDWP's Streep and part Marx Brother, and all brilliant. One fake smile she gives gives Duff's character would have made me spit out my fruit loops if I had been eating sugar that late at night. Feminist agendas aside, this is a humorous take on the new dymnamic that will shape our work environments from here on, GenX vs. Millenials. FYi, GenX wins because our music is better, and millenials are mainly whiny, entitled brats as indicated by this show. We get all the 'will they, won't they' and plenty of pop-culture jokes. Hillary Duff is ok, the stereotypical sage older black lady is replaced with an artist lesbian (Debi Mazar), and the chemistry with the protagonist and her boss is a good guessing game as well. And the dude was NOT having sex with a sheep. Someone out there did not get that joke!
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)
Great romantic/coming of age in the early 90s
I may be biased as a Smiths fan, but this film definitely lived up to the John Hughes films of the 80s. A love story, if you will, to the era before we really lost it as a society. Finding the Smiths on a mixtape is a lost adolescent milestone for the marginalized. I am not an Emma Watson fan, but she nails the alt girl of the 90s. I love that Ann Veal (haha) was in it. I love that they talk about the old record store in Pittsburg, EIDE's. I took many many many roadtrips from Canton, OH there as a teenager (and then a Primanti Bros visit). Cinamatically, it reminds me of great films like "Rules of Engagement' or "American Beauty". Definitely glad I finally gave it a watch.
The Freebie (2010)
good old fashioned indie film, it makes you think.
I'm gonna keep this short: I was impressed with the camera work as it told the story very well. Every shot made me feel more uncomfortable with the subject matter, which is the unrealistic notion that a night off from a stagnant (routine) marriage is the key to rejuvenation. I can't help but think of Dr. Tobias Funke saying, "no, it never works for them...but it could work for us!" It doesn't, it can't and it won't. This story is told very well. I love Katie on the League, and Dax is pretty much playing the same character he does on Parenthood. It works. I would have liked to see a better supporting cast, but the girl from Altamont Now is good. I hope to see her in do more, but I have yet to get thru Blue Mountain State. Thanks for reading.
Das Leben der Anderen (2006)
Humanity behind the iron curtain.
I grew up hearing about the horrors of living in an Eastern Block country. The blandness of life, the constant looking over one's shoulder. The Trabant! I was always fascinated by the irony that Soviet Russia reacted to the fall of the 3rd Reich with a socialist mask upon their fascist faces. This movie was a wonderfully intimate look at the grim reality of the Iron Curtain, and the humanity that simmered under the surface eventually leading to the wall collapse. Reagan didn't bring the wall down, the people did.... and Roger Waters. ha-ha This was a compelling movie. I can see why Depp and Jolie fell in love with the director. I can only hope his next film is better than The Tourist.
Watching the Detectives (2007)
Characters!
A movie by a member of Broken Lizard that rings a bit like "clerks". I wondered the whole time how many scenes were inspired by old film noir stuff. I wish I had seen more of that style of gumshoe stuff. I always liked the banter. Cillian was likable in his role, and reasonably hesitant. Lucy is trying to show more range. I would have liked to seen more from Jason Sudekis and I saw one of the guys from "The League" in there. I liked the premise, the playful tone of Violets character and the best part? Detectives Barlow & Lowenstein, Hilarious! I wonder who is the Sebadoh fan. Lou Barlow & Jason Lowenstein are two parts of the Boston indie band Sebadoh. The sets could have been lit better, more contrast to get that feel, the way the old movies looked with the characters in dimly lit rooms.