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Christmas at the Holly Hotel (2022)
So bad but, like a train wreck, I couldn't stop watching
On Thanksgiving Day I tuned to this movie by accident (one channel off from the football game), and soon realized it was terrible. Before I could change to the game, though, my brother-in-law and some friends dropped by and they started watching the movie and joking at how bad it was. Its awfulness became sort of a cause celebre. We started to feel bad for the actors and writers and anyone involved because the whole thing was insipid. None of the characters had anything interesting to say except maybe alfalfa (not a spoiler). There were two dead characters but we didn't know why (not a spoiler). None of us had the heart to turn off this mess. We watched it all, laughed most of the time, then turned to the football game. Rated 5 for the unintentional humor.
The Escape (2017)
Many questions, no answers
For the first hour of the movie, I'm just waiting for Tara to leave home. Finally she does, and then I wait for her to do something. Anything. So many scenes in this movie, sometimes just one shot, raise questions and provide no answers. What is happening there? Where is she going? How will this end? Who knows? The only reason to watch is to see Gemma Arterton. She is beautiful. But she's in other movies which may be more worthwhile.
Yesterday (2019)
Had me then lost me
Great premise, but the whole thing fell apart about halfway through when it turned into a trite love story.
Cosmos (2019)
Not for me
I tried to watch on Prime Video, only got 45 minutes in. If I'd been in a theater, I probably would have walked out. Three guys in a car with such deliberately slow dialogue and plot development. One advantage of streaming was that I could skip ahead to see if anything actually happened. No, still talking in the car ... talking in the car. (And I enjoyed My Dinner with Andre, so it's not the lack of action that bored me.) I don't know what they found in space and I guess I'll never find out.