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John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023)
So repetitiously STUPID
Cheesy amateur dialog with tough guy attitude and stone faces acting like they are dropping Zen pearls of observation.
This is non-stop ballet of idiotic destruction for no purpose at all. A world of low IQ powerlustful idiots duke it out.
John Wick has no purpose other than to survive another day in his unexamined life of reflexive mayhem.
Tropes of loyalty and family loss are so lame, predictable, and ultimately without meaning as all sides are unworthy of admiration. A world of assassins who are ass-ass-ins.
An eye for an eye, but no one has a heart or brains. Watching pretty lights and fancy sets be destroyed may be some form of revenge-relief in today's Idiocracy, but all it does is stimulate the basest parts of your limbic system...which is what the Masters want in their quest to make you dumber and more complacent every generation.
Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe (2022)
Stupid is no longer funny
All things must pass. The spotlight of Idiocracy needs to be turned on this retread rerun of a movie. B&B were once a favorite chuckle, an anarchist's guffaws at Stoopid-in-Society.
Now...the same lame heh-heh cackle has worn thin. The smartness of B&B's "stupid" is gone; the 'wisdom' of the Fool has proven itself empty.
Obi-Wan Kenobi (2022)
Lame and disappointing
I saw Star Wars when it first came out. All of the revivals have been downhill from there.
Ewan McGregor was quoted as saying this back story series was important, but it is not. It is repetitive, unimaginative, cliched dialog, as if written by an adolescent AI.
Get your paycheck Ewan; this is more shame upon the franchise.
The stupid medieval Jedi robes, the backwater dirt towns, the Buck Rogers grungy fliers...the whole concept has lost all its grace and is now a B level cartoon.
Welcome to Earth (2021)
dumbed down
Will stares at the desert sand with his sidekick. "You're, like, all Zen man."
This is Disney Katzenberg woke level education for twitter twits and Toob Boobs.
Welcome to Earth (2021)
dumbed down
Will stares at the desert sand with his sidekick. "You're, like, all Zen man."
This is Disney Katzenberg woke level education for twitter twits and Toob Boobs.
Hawkeye (2021)
More Woke revisionism
How predictable. A child replaces a seasoned mature adult (male or female) and now is aimed at the immature fantasy Woke world, where like Star Dreck, Foundation, etc etc etc., the leads are young female and most likely non-white.... don't want to hurt anyone's feelings with the reality that older more grizzled characters who don't spend an excess of time double-checking their emo feelings (like the irritating Star Dreck, where you are made a captain because you are young, female and black...oh let's be fair.) Just consult the people who expect results: the military. You gotta earn your stripes.
But hey I wouldn't want to hurt your self esteem by implying you too could not emerge from your equality studies and basement to become a Super Hero too!
A Second Chance: Rivals! (2019)
wasted possibilities
Upfront alert: I'm 75, cineamaphile who has seen movies go through many stages My father was cinematographer so maybe I am a snob.
The most exciting part of a movie like this is watching the form and skill of the girls as gymnasts. But the fluidity of this was constantly RUINED by framing too close so we can't see the full body; then adding insult to injury, they would go into split screen so we had TWO gymnasts at the same time: both of them framed badly. I remember MTV and all the quick cuts. But WHY? Is everyone on Ritalin now?
Who shot this? Someones cousin on their cellphone? pull back man. And slow down. More long shots, more slo mo.
This was a disservice to the girls.
Adding to the irritation was the "music" which was loops played over and over, samples you could trigger with one finger. Silence would be better.
The "actors" are amateurs so I guess this is low budget. Less is more kids.
Predictable plot too: gosh, let's see. Snotty city kids put down country kids. O gee I wonder....?? will the underdogs come back to win?
Wish I could answer that (except to be willing to bet they DO, of course!).
I turned it off midway.
Coda (2019)
Disconnected
Let's see...an Earl Grey sipping gay man who is half-Borg in his ambivalence towards women can't give us the chemistry to convince us so they use Romantic composer music to try and fill the gap?... What could go wrong? Star Dreck.