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Detroit Rock City (1999)
Unbelievably bad
I went to high school in Detroit in the 1970s, and people did not look like or talk like the characters in this movie. The main reason for only one star in my opinion the characters are not interesting, the camera zooming in and out in virtually every shot is so overdone it just seems pointless, and the plot and dialogue is utterly predictable and stale.
Provinces of Night (2010)
Stereotypical southern gothic/trash film
In this genre of film (southern gothic/trash) you can expect to find all negative characters who are wasting their lives away, killing each other, acting crazy, and essentially wasting your time too. You can also expect the main character to get stabbed through the chest near the end of the film by an arrow, or in this film, a pole of some kind, it was never clear what it was .
The character motivations are all obscure and the story in the end becomes just a confused stew of sex, hatred, and insanity. The of the two stars I give this movie is for the beautiful retro Oldsmobile that shows up in almost every scene, and for the a few of the younger actors, who are quite good.
Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
Prosthetic teeth nightmare
Freddy Mercury's teeth were nowhere near as crazy as Rami Malek's prosthetic teeth. This was a caricature of Freddy Mercury, superficial in many ways. Just go and look at any of the interviews. His accent was not nearly so pronounced as the accent Malek was doing. This is just a well meaning stereotype of a beloved musician.