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Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
Oscar must be so ashamed to sit on these mantels.
Apparently now the joy of psychosis will be jammed down our throats.
From the opening scene, the viewer is vomited upon with visual and verbal insanity and chaos, and it descends rapidly from there adding non-stop violence with bizarre spin demonstrating that they think violence is humorous.
This is what they consider the pinnacle achievement in film???
Inexplicably snubbing epic film achievements like Top Gun and Avatar, this is how much Hollywood has degraded.
It also shows how deranged the Academy Awards' voters are and begs the question, how do they get rid of them?
We viewers just keep falling for it.... thinking maybe, just maybe, this year will be different. Maybe that's our psychosis.
Uncharted (2022)
Pure Entertainment.
If you enjoy the Raiders of the Lost Ark (Indiana Jones), National Treasure kind of movies, you'll enjoy this one.
Had no clue this was a video game, and you don't need to know anything about the video game to be fully entertained..
The plot is predictable and the end sets it up for Uncharted 2. The movie is classic, formulaic, non-stop fun. The FX are excellent, the villains play their part, and no unseen twists, so just sit back and don't worry about trying to solve a riddle - the plot will unfold satisfactorily.
Not a fan of the primary villain who effortlessly kicks everyone's ass, has inexplicable loyalty from other's henchmen, and is literally everywhere without doing any work to get there. But, so be it.
America's Big Deal (2021)
Weighted competition is unfair - easy to fix
The entrepreneurs pitch one by one throughout the show and the audience buys their product if they like it. The person who goes first has the advantage since the one who sells the most by the end of the show wins.
Also, anyone who sets a large marketing budget can seed/manipulate the purchases and fix their sales.
Bridgerton (2020)
Pride and Prejudice + Downton Abbey = Bridgerton
You'll find many nods to Jane Austin in both expressions and situations. Thoroughly entertaining. Binged it in a single day. Not terribly original, but that's ok because I love how many balls they attend, the costumes, the characters....all of it.
Mary Poppins Returns (2018)
Some shoes are too big to fill
In the original, Mary Poppins is the answer to Jane and Michael's appeal for their own nanny instead of the bad ones they were stuck with. This one, the nanny pushes herself into the family ...why? No idea. The plot was a disjointed mess from Jane's rally, to the house debt, a broken bowl, to a bank eager to foreclose, to Michael's fake mustache, to Meryl Streep's bizarre, terrible overacting scene. Every time the wayyyy-too-long songs began, I felt inclined to fast forward because they were dull..... Just a lot of boring songs strung together with very little plot sprinkled in.
Mary Poppins Returns (2018)
Some shoes are too big to fill
In the original, Mary Poppins is the answer to Jane and Michael's appeal for their own nanny instead of the bad ones they were stuck with. This one, the nanny pushes herself into the family ...why? No idea. The plot was a disjointed mess from Jane's rally, to the house debt, a broken bowl, to a bank eager to foreclose, to Michael's fake mustache, to Meryl Streep's bizarre, terrible overacting scene. Every time the wayyyy-too-long songs began, I felt inclined to fast forward because they were dull..... Just a lot of boring songs strung together with very little plot sprinkled in.
Destination Wedding (2018)
God Awful. 2 speaking parts in the entire movie - Don't waste the $
NAILS ON THE CHALKBOARD ANNOYING. This movie thinks it's Woody Allen funny with superb conversational acting like My Dinner With Andre, but it is neither.
The movie is a conversation between Keanu and Winona. That's it. No other speaking parts. So from the moment they meet at the beginning all the way through to the end, they banter non-stop, never coming up for air, barely letting the other actor complete the sentence before retorting with the next line. By design, it's that way and it's terrible. They are both so flat in their delivery of their lines and so incredulous it was cringe-worthy.
I hated it so much I started fast forwarding through it to see if any other characters were introduced. Nope.
So a lot rests on their chemistry - which there's none; the dialogue - which is not funny at all; the acting - which is boring. I could go on and on but you get the point.
The Post (2017)
Stunningly Bad Streep Performance
Painfully overacted. Streep made it annoyingly obvious that we were watching an actor. Her signature snootiness and dragged out inflections, pregnant pauses, hitched sentences, glasses fidgetting, head-in-hands dismay, stare-downs, etc etc etc...ugh, ugh, ugh....all contrived. In dusting off all her trademark-isms, she sinks the ship.
Dialogue so dull it can't be resurrected...not even by Hanks.
Even the suspenseful music felt contrived.
A movie trying so hard to be important....thinking it was making a big difference....taking itself so seriously that it was almost humorous.
Can't blame the film technique because ....well...Bob Odenkirk. He overcame all the bad cards he was dealt and rose above the abysmal film emerging as the best performer in the group.
The Human Stain (2003)
106 Minutes I Can't Get Back
An utter snoozer - the kind of rambling, aimless movie you'd expect to be on the stars' earliest movies resumes, not work they'd perform after being famous. Then again, who can blame them for collecting their $ millions for so little dialogue, effort and acting needed.