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Breaking Bad (2008)
VERY VERY GOOD
As a former addict, I've never seen a show depict the lifestyle, the characters, and the spirals of addiction and greed as honestly as this show does. People think that the drug game is all rap soundtracks, guns, running from the cops, and extremes. Nope! Not my experience nor is it the experience of a lot of people I know.
It's a lot of low level knuckleheads who don't know what they're doing. It's a very, very slow trip to a very dark place, with many close calls in between. Magnificent. It's amazing that they were able to tell such an incredible story over such a long period of time without "jumping the shark" as they say. Or finding the need to squeeze the last bit of viewership out of the audience (well, they did make Better Call Saul, but I can forgive them for that).
Pearl (2022)
HELLO
So why didn't we hear more about THIS movie? This is probably one of the best movies I've seen in a long time, let alone the best horror films. I think for the reason that it's just so damn creepy and disturbing is the reason why you didn't hear much about it and main stream but it's a really good film. It's well acted and well directed. It's got a good plot, it keeps a good pace... Mia Goth is amazing. I was thoroughly entertained by this movie. It's been a long time. I highly recommend.
It's also the right amount of gory, not too much not overly gory. There are some parts that are disturbing gory, but I wasn't put off by it in a way that it seemed gratuitous.
Midsommar (2019)
UGH, Such High-Minded BS
It is a movie, and it does want you to relate with how all these characters are all just sacrificial "lambs" in the name of whatever religion they're practicing. I can't even remember what it was now...
However, it doesn't not preach or pretend to be anything else, all the way to the end. The characters are REAL. Really real. It's tough to watch. In parts you feel like you're watching those "Faces of Death" films. If you make it to the end, it won't make much sense to the rest of the film.
Like where did she all of a sudden grow this pair of balls and want to become their Queen of the Spring (or whatever)? I guess I'm just supposed to accept the plot just like she did?
Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
TRAGIC... WE'RE SO USED TO IT BEING HANDED TO US
It's so sad that if a storyline isn't handed to us, it's not good. The name of the movie is "everything, everywhere, all at once" and still you get reviews of people, describing it as "... a mashup of bizarre and strange things happening, I don't get it".... I mean??? Am I missing something? Were people expecting another Marvel movie? Or maybe the new, new, NEW "X-Men"? I like a good X-Men movie just as much as the next person, but holy @&$#! How many of them can you watch? How many of them can they make? I remember when Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon came out they thought it was a bunch of Asians dancing around on the screen. The general population thought it was crap. Ang Lee won a bunch of awards... didn't matter at the time. Now movies like Crouching Tiger are the formula for how all martial art movies look. Innovation.... INNOVATION. Think on that for a minute. Or go see the next DC/Marvel mashup. However, they only MAKE those DC Universe movies look amazing in the ads.
Laal Singh Chaddha (2022)
ITS NOT FORREST GUMP
If you're watching it comparing it to Forrest Gump, then you're going to have a tough time enjoying it. It's not exactly that. Who hasn't seen FG a million times to know the movie to the point of quoting it? Also, I think there are cultural differences in Forrest Gump and Laal Singh Chaddha that make it difficult to make a direct remake.
On the flip side, because of this, it follows the original, but not close enough. So that some of it appears to be a mistake. I think they did the best they could with it. They didn't try to make a whole new movie.
I think the lead in this movie is a better actor than Tom Hanks was in FG. I know that's going to be controversial, but I never thought Tom Hanks was doing a good job at pretending to be dimwitted, but I like the movie overall and I like this one for different reasons. They did a good job.
The Munsters (2022)
THIS IS GOING TO BE GREAT
This is why we can't have nice things... We get nonsense every year. This is the PERFECT campy kind of thing that none of you losers could have put together yourselves but you have all the nerve to bash.
Of course this is the greatest thing he could have done here. The Munsters is campy, so this is going to be too. It was supposed to be. I was subjected to watching it. My parents liked it. This looks like the perfect reboot.
My only criticism is Fred Gwynn's character. He's not quite the same. Gwynn had more of a dark, "put upon", straight man, tone, probably because he didn't want to play Herman. Otherwise, I'm so here for this.
House of Hammer (2022)
SO GOOD
I can't believe that people didn't like it... I mean it wasn't the best documentary but not because it totally destroyed Armie Hammer's life. He was clearly on a path at the least. I just think, it was a little too much on his shoulders.
If I was ever called out for being f-ed up, I should hope it would only be for MY SINS. Not the entire family. But it was interesting to hear and it gave light... but not in a compassionate way.
But he clearly did s-t. We've seen this before. The voicemails, the writings, the instagrams... not to count the multiple accounts from women.
The only reason why women make documentaries like this is because people don't listen and the justice system fails.
Busanhaeng (2016)
KICK ASS
This movie is amazing. I can't believe that's stupid Squid Games got a better rating than this. Well acted. It's one of the best zombie movies made. And a shot basically in one place the entire time.
Westworld (2016)
OVER MY HEAD
I don't think the second and third season was bad, I just think the seasons went COMPLETELY over my head. It was like existential surrealism. I've seen things like that in Japanese cinema, but I didn't get it when it was done there either. It was gorgeous, and well acted, but the 2nd didn't fit with the first or third season. The 3rd season was completely kick ass, but again, over my head. I don't know how much I wanna watch something that I don't understand, but is beautiful. I think I'm gonna be totally lost again for the 4th season. I'm still gonna watch. I should probably give it seven stars, but I give it eight simply for Jesse Pinkman.
Them (2021)
REALLY GOOD
I wasn't super blown away by the screen play. The acting in this was really amazing. For people who say it was like Gordon Peele really aren't thinking out of the box too much. It's like "...wow, I wonder what made you make that comparison?"
Is it because it's a horror film starring a bunch of black people, with racial overtones? Can we stop making comparisons on things with black people to black people and look at the body of work please? It really reminded me of Poltergeist at first; i.e., the house, the eerie man, the spirit cult... However, the acting in this totally blew me away.
If the series was super preachy, it would have been a turn off. We've seen this sort of screen play and other movies. Like parts of it in Poltergeist, parts of it have been in Stephen King movies, parts of it have been in movies about race and racial tension. Instead it felt fresh and new and the acting made it feel fresh and gave it power and a motivation.
I understand people need something to compare it to, it was just like Gordon Peele. It's actually not. Gordon Peele is much more creative when it comes to a writing.
Dominion (2018)
HMMM...
I don't eat farm animals and I know I still can't watch it. I don't know if that's superficial. I don't know what that is. I stopped eating pigs, cows, and chickens after seeing a short scene in a documentary that touched me deeply. What got to me was the soulessness of the people "processing" the animals. They loss a will to be affected by what they were seeing. I want nothing to do with the mass murder of the lives of farm animals. We care so much about pets, but treat a cow worse than they do dogs in Korea.
I know that people, as a whole will not stop the inhumane treatment until we have proper regulations. Just asking people to be vegan isn't going to do it (just look at how asking people to wear masks worked). The treatment is sick. It's not something we don't know about. It's something we don't want to talk about.
The Good Doctor (2017)
Furthermore...
I don't believe they ever said the main character had autism, so stop comparing to your son, daughter, next door neighbor, aunt, etc., who has autism. I don't think they said what he had. It may be implied because of his abilities, but he's described in the show notes as a "Savant" which encompasses a person with extreme mental abilities. They are essentially recreating all of what it means to have extreme mental abilities, but defective social abilities...... On the "Spectrum" means just that. There is no one set face of autism. Just certain characteristics of some one on it, which manifests in many ways.
The Twilight Zone (2019)
Great Writing
I thought the original Twilight Zone series were lame. My mother watched them. And however creative they were for the times, they weren't interesting enough for the hour or 1/2 hour they were on because the writing sucked and characters were lame. This series improves on this and keeps the viewers interest all the way through and people compare it to the original because, it has people of color in the episodes. Let's call it what it is. There's nothing wrong with a new take. It's not the original Twilight Zone. It just has the name, but who wants slow pacing and boring set-ups? Get use to it.
Leslie Jones: Time Machine (2020)
Hilarious
It was very funny. It was ahead of it's time. Leslie Jones is an electric powerhouse who doesn't care what people think about her or her views and she's funny! Reminded me a lot of Chris Rock. She is coming into her own.
Bosch (2014)
I'm Hooked
It's honest, fast paced, and theatrical. It's what Law and Order was for me when I first saw it. I think it's more like some of the British crime dramas I like to watch like Luther and Wallander, where you have the main characters internal "struggle", then you have the overall series case they're working on, and the smaller discoveries/pitfalls in connection with the case that moves the series along/dismantles the case putting them back to square one. It's a formula, but one that keeps things exciting without having to change characters every season like True Detective or have a gimmick like 24 (also series I enjoy). There's no crazy one liners, you feel like you're watching REAL cops, they don't insert music at chase scenes or to tell us how to feel. The only thing I dislike about the entire show is the theme song. It's horrible. It's like a late 80's, soft-core, Cinemax, flick bad.
Citizen Kane (1941)
The Best Movie Ever...
A movie that shows all the greed, vanity, pain and suffering required to attain the American dream. Kane wanted power and money so bad, that he was willing to end up a lonely bitter man because of it (reality may have dictated fiction in the case of Wells and his later dealings). The drama is amazing. The story is original. He used effects never seen before, like the boardroom scene, and the Eicher-like snow globe scene in the beginning. Not only is it a hallmark of a film, Orsen Wells wrote it when he was only 25 years old. Can you remember what you were doing at 25? Anyone who rates this movie less that a "10" should not be rating this movie.