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Against All Odds (1984)
So many weird choices
Jeff Bridges plays a professional football player but cannot seem to brawl to save his life. Even an old security guard hits him three times before he knows what is happening. He basically plays a doe in the headlights trying to save a rich girl who keeps shooting people. He finally gets rid of the bad guy but doesn't get the girl in the end. She cries while looking at him from 50 feet away for an awkwardly long shot while the credits role. It's not like she's in jail or anything. They're at a real estate event. That's the movie.
Every character is a cliche. This feels like one of those low budget noir movies made in the off season using a big name or two to raise money to bankroll a summer blockbuster.
A Black Lady Sketch Show (2019)
Great at a certain brand of humor
I love this show. I've showed it to some other people and some love it and some don't get it. For me it gets better every season and the editing is so tight and dense in that modern style. No wasted space. Love. I've cried laughing at this show.
The characters are really what makes it amazing. The actors are all so versatile and can play so many different roles, and they commit 110%. Character driven sketch like this is what I have always found the most resonant with my funny bone and my husband and I always zoom through the season as soon as it comes out. I wish there were more episodes! Keep it up ladies!
Tiffany Haddish Presents: They Ready (2019)
They all had their moments
I watched all the episodes back to back. A diverse group of comics. They all had me laughing at some point in their set, and I was always entertained. I love that Tiffany Haddish did this for her comedian friends that hadn't had their real shot yet to reach a wide audience. Makes you realize how many female veteran comics there are out there just one high profile show away from the next level. It was worth watching all of them.
Amy Schumer: Growing (2019)
Hilarious evolution of Amy Schumer
Being a woman and having recently had a baby, I related so much to this special. Amy seems to be a comedian you either find hysterical or don't get at all. I have always found Amy to be tears-in-my-eyes funny and this special was particularly resonant.
Inception (2010)
Great Concept, Narrative Lacking
Let me start by saying that I thought Inception was an amazing concept, highly creative, and visually stunning.
I found the dialog, however, to be too shallow, literal, and over-saturated with exposition to drive the plot. There was no subtext to anything anyone said, very little character development of anyone but Leo's character, and I found myself not really caring about any of them more than I would a stranger in a tough situation. I've heard people say that Nolan is the new Kubrick. I would have to agree if I were judging him based on Inception alone. His combination of great-concept-little-character-development does mirror 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining, and Dr. Strangelove, where all the main characters are just out of reach.
But looking at Nolan's past works like Memento and The Dark Knight, I wouldn't say the same thing, as the relationship dynamics in these two films were rich with layers and subtext. He also had other writers helping him with these films, whereas he was the sole writer on Inception. Maybe he shouldn't be flying solo as a writer yet. Amazing director, creative thinker, needs to work on creating more sophisticated dialog and developing interesting varied characters through character-defining decisions and how their decisions reflect/don't reflect their words. One character making one big decision at the end isn't enough to make up for 2 hours of shallow dialog.