OMG. This movie was BAD. I understand people were looking for a movie to see that sounded like it had potential, but, this one failed. It was boring. The three stars was because the batmobile was cool... but they always are. Too bad... I was hoping for gritty and fun, but this was just awful. Bad casting. Bad directing... Editing for max time which always makes pacing just DRAG...
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Willy's Wonderland
(2021)
Why 2 Stars... Because it lacks required explanation...
15 February 2021
Warning: Spoilers
I know... I know... Cheesy horror and this guy wants story... Well... And this may be spoilers so turn away now... But....
They don't tell you anything about Cage's character. Even stupid back story would at least be something... Even someone saying there was a myth about some guy that came from hell to take them back... SOMETHING... But, they tell you nothing about why he is... or why he does what he does... Which he has some idiosyncratic tendencies that are NOT best left unexplained... But, they do leave them unexplained. This is just another example of how those making movies are not the artists but the ones that know who you need to know these days...
As for the kids toys killing people, yea, same as the 1000 other times you've seen it so average scores for that part of the movie...
They don't tell you anything about Cage's character. Even stupid back story would at least be something... Even someone saying there was a myth about some guy that came from hell to take them back... SOMETHING... But, they tell you nothing about why he is... or why he does what he does... Which he has some idiosyncratic tendencies that are NOT best left unexplained... But, they do leave them unexplained. This is just another example of how those making movies are not the artists but the ones that know who you need to know these days...
As for the kids toys killing people, yea, same as the 1000 other times you've seen it so average scores for that part of the movie...
These Amazing Shadows
(2011)
Please........
19 January 2015
I understand the need to preserve great old movies, and the national registry seems like a great thing for doing this. Will help us remember the way people dressed, and their mannerisms... to see old cars, and street views...for that these old movies are priceless...
But then.... this documentary goes into how movies will remind us of our past history... What?.... wrong! Nice try Hollywood, but, anyone with half a brain should understand that movies are movies... Fake, false.... even the ones that say they are based on fact are not factual, or as Hollywood would put it in the credits, "this film was enhanced for dramatic effect".
Then it gets worse... this documentary tries to say that because someone made movies exploiting women, that was the culture of our time. Because someone made a movie that was blatantly racist, that was the culture of our time...it falls to diversification for the sake of diversification. No longer able to base it's own judgment on good vs bad, but more on what's good for specific minority groups.
For example, they have an American Indian man they are interviewing that is appalled at the way Indians were depicted in the movies of the 50's and 60's... Well I have news for him, read your history books, because American Indians were a lot worse than the movies depict. They scalped people... kept the scalps as trophies. You don't hear anything like that today that isn't related to some serial killer. Sorry we took your land, but, check your history books for something in this world called "conquered people". You'll find your weren't the first, and weren't the last either.
If you want to find out what history was like, take a course, read a book, or watch a documentary blessed by a good historian. Don't ever look to Hollywood movies for more than anything but a way to waste a couple hours, you'll never get back.
But then.... this documentary goes into how movies will remind us of our past history... What?.... wrong! Nice try Hollywood, but, anyone with half a brain should understand that movies are movies... Fake, false.... even the ones that say they are based on fact are not factual, or as Hollywood would put it in the credits, "this film was enhanced for dramatic effect".
Then it gets worse... this documentary tries to say that because someone made movies exploiting women, that was the culture of our time. Because someone made a movie that was blatantly racist, that was the culture of our time...it falls to diversification for the sake of diversification. No longer able to base it's own judgment on good vs bad, but more on what's good for specific minority groups.
For example, they have an American Indian man they are interviewing that is appalled at the way Indians were depicted in the movies of the 50's and 60's... Well I have news for him, read your history books, because American Indians were a lot worse than the movies depict. They scalped people... kept the scalps as trophies. You don't hear anything like that today that isn't related to some serial killer. Sorry we took your land, but, check your history books for something in this world called "conquered people". You'll find your weren't the first, and weren't the last either.
If you want to find out what history was like, take a course, read a book, or watch a documentary blessed by a good historian. Don't ever look to Hollywood movies for more than anything but a way to waste a couple hours, you'll never get back.
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