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How I Met Your Father (2022)
Even if you don't compare it to HIMYM, it's not good.
It's really just not a good show. The acting is flat and boring, the interaction between the main characters lacks any sincerity, and I don't know who thought Hilary Duff could act, but they should be committed for a psych eval. Her acting chops peaked at age 14, and they weren't that good then. I gave it a shot. It didn't deliver. NEXT!
Bel-Air (2022)
Ridiculous, and not in the good, cool way.
I can't believe Will Smith would attach his name to this. The acting, for the most part, is not good. The twist of turning it into a drama, doesn't work. The forced tension between Will and Carleton is just sad and contrived. Such a waste of studio investment and time.
Chad (2021)
Whoever greenlit this abomination should be blacklisted in Hollywood
Unbelievably bad. Not a single redeeming element. The titular character is obnoxious, whiny, ignorant, and childish. What they are not..is funny. The primary question. I was asking myself was "do I really hate myself so much that I would watch this?"
The answer is "no".
The Greatest Showman (2017)
A spectacle destined to become a timeless classic that you'll watch over and again!
Little did I know that when I told the missus that we had a "Great Escape" movie pass we needed to use before the end of January, and to pick something she wanted to see, that we would be sitting down in a nearly empty theatre, waiting for what would soon become one of the best movies we've seen in several years.
From the opening title cards, then BOOM straight into a glorious musical number that sets the stage for the rollercoaster ride of spectacular visuals, incredible music and a sweeping range of emotion.
The decision to make the soundtrack a collection of contemporary-styled songs works perfectly against the Victorian-era backgroup of P.T. Barnum's journey. Every song is exceptionally well-written and married perfectly to its scene.
The ensemble cast supporting Hugh Jackman are all talented performers, delivering great vocals and touching spoken scenes. Excellent choreography highlights the power of the vocals, without distracting from them. The writers even managed to work in a little social commentary without being ridiculously heavy-handed about it.
Visually, it is a riot of color, interspersed with bleak vignettes of grays and black, with incredible cinematic impact. If there was greenscreen/mocap/CGI, it was perfectly blended in.
We left the theatre wrung out, but enthralled with this film. I immediately bought and downloaded the soundtrack, and I've pre-ordered the Blu-Ray. If they release an extended edition, I'll order that, too.
This is a movie that will see regular rotation on my home media server, along with other great movies like The Shawshank Redemption, Newsies, Frozen, Unforgiven, The Godfather and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 1. One of those movies that even when you own it on tape/DVD/BluRay, if you happen across it while channel-surfing, you stop and watch it, even if it's halfway through already.
In a word, perfection. (or at least as close to it as any movie I've seen in the last 5 years)
A Christmas Story Live! (2017)
Everybody associated with this production needs to be blackballed from the entertainment industry...
Having been thoroughly disappointed by Peter Pan Live, The Sound of Music Live and Grease Live, I'm not sure why I expected A Christmas Story Live, based on one of my favorite movies of all time, to be any better. (ed. It was worse. Far worse than I could have possibly imagined.)
The good: The kid playing Ralphie did look kinda like Peter Billingsley.
That's it for the good.
Everything else, from the awful pre-intro by some atrociously auto-tuned and over-mixed pop thing, to the horrible finale, was just wave after wave of telecinematic diarrhea. It was like the producers, director and Matthew Broderick went out on a weeklong bender of Pabst Blue Ribbon, dubious quality burritos, chili-cheese fries and buckets of MSG, then proceeded to explosively defecate this show on the consciousness of the North American people.
Broderick, your career was pretty much dead. You should have let it die completely, rather than sign on to this.
Every character, completely mis-cast, and without getting into specifics, the liberal-agenda political correctness B.S. sprinkled throughout was glaringly obvious and contrived.
Everybody associated with this production, from the executive producers, all the way down to the youngest performer, even the poor kid from the catering company who put out the napkins, needs to be blackballed/blacklisted from the entertainment industry, and be forced to eke out their existence flipping burgers. And not the good $15/hr burger-flipping jobs in Washington state. The crappy $10/hr burger-flipping gigs where the employees still get treated like scum.
Sadly, IMDB does not allow me to give this piece of excrement a zero-star rating. I'm looking at the other reviews, and anything that is not a 1star, I'm thinking "What the hell did you watch? Because you clearly saw something different than what I was watching."