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Frasier (2023)
Frasier should have stayed out of the building
The original Frasier series was, and in my opinion, still is the smartest show on TV. The humor was so well written, and the actors had such chemistry that the show felt completely natural and effortless. Nothing in the original Frasier felt forced. If I had to distill this reboot that no one wanted into a single word it would be just that--forced.
Everything about the writing and acting reeks of trying too hard. Everyone sharing the stage with Frasier knows they're not Niles, Roz, Daphne, Martin, or even Bulldog, and it shows. They all are just trying too hard to be funny, and the laugh track is so out of place it hits you like a ton of bricks every time you hear it.
Just go back and watch the original Frasier instead of this sludge, you'll be glad you did.
The Rise and Fall of LuLaRoe (2021)
Racebaiting garbage
Yeah lularoe was a scumbag company that manipulated unwitting people into selling not just shoddy but also grotesquely hideous leggings, but the people who made this "documentary" are way worse than anyone who ran lularoe. It doesnt take long for the racists who made this to clumsily make the problem with lularoe about how the organization mostly comprised white women. Were they upset blacks and asians werent also getting exploited? Skip this racist marxist trash.
Army Wives (2007)
The inaccuracy makes this beyond utterly cringeworthy
Granted I joined the Army a year after this show first aired, but good lord is this show inaccurate. The settings and characters make it look like it was written and advised by someone who got discharged halfway through basic training and is just taking their best guess at what life in the actual military is like.
If you've never been in the military (not just the Army), don't know anyone in the military, and are more or less completely unaware of what being in the military is like, you might get some enjoyment out of the actual drama of the show, maybe. Even trying to look past the glaring inaccurate portrayal of the Army, the dialogue is vomit inducing.
To anyone who has served for more than 5 minutes past basic training, this show is totally unwatchable--the inaccuracies are that distracting from even the ridiculous dialogue and story. It's almost laughable how bad it is.
Unsolved Mysteries (2020)
This is NOT unsolved mysteries!
If you even slightly enjoyed the old Robert Stack Unsolved Mysteries, then you will be severely disappointed with this terribly shameless cash-in on the name by netflix. This show features no host/narrator, only one boring drawn out "mystery" per episode, and most of the footage is simply the people involved talking about their feelings instead of giving their account of the incident and what information they are looking for. The mysteries themselves are lame and its pretty obvious what really happened to even the most dimwitted viewer.
Everyone involved with this show should be ashamed for ripping off the name of a beloved series and using it for this disgrace. This travesty is nothing like the original unsolved mysteries that creeped us out 25 years ago. Even taken not as unsolved mysteries, this is just a very poorly made cold case crime show.
Captain Marvel (2019)
Captain Marvel Dethrones Iron Man 3 as worst MCU Movie
Marvel has a knack for plucking their characters out of obscurity and launching them into the limelight, as proven by the original Iron Man, Ant-Man, Captain America and some of the others who just weren't household names like some other superheroes such as Spider-Man or the Incredible Hulk. However it only worked for those characters because in their own comics they weren't completely rebooted multiple times.
While the DC cinematic universe has mostly floundered, it found success with one character--Wonder Woman. This put Marvel on its heels as they haven't had an MCU film with a female protagonist. Enter Captain Marvel. The problems with this character in the comics manifest themselves in the movie. There were several versions of Captain Marvel in the comics (some male, some female) and they all fizzled because they're not interesting characters. She is too powerful and therefore extremely boring. Not too mention Brie Larson is at best wooden, and at worst cringey in the delivery of her lines. Her on screen presence oozes of "I'm too hot to be playing in the nerd movie what's on my instagram".
Furthermore, this film disrupts a decade of development of the MCU--several plot holes abound from trying to shoehorn this unwanted character into the MCU just so they can split the final Infinity War into a second movie.
Really the only thing you'll get out of this movie is standard Marvel visuals, which are fine but not nearly enough to carry this loser character across the finish line. The supporting actors do their best, but this protagonist is just so lame.
I think Captain Marvel would have been received much more warmly into the MCU if she wasn't presented to us in a standalone feature in the 11th hour as a deus ex machina to save the world from Thanos after the Avengers and guardians of the Galaxy all failed to defeat him. We were teased for six years with Thanos before finally seeing him in the fight, but we get a character no one asked for with Captain Marvel. Scarlet Witch, Spider-Man, Vision, and Black Panther were all introduced without their own movies at first and it worked.
After Infinity War was over, I heard multple people exiting the theater going "who the hell is Captain Marvel?" But in any case, this movie makes Iron Man 3 look like the crown jewel of the MCU and not the festering roadkill it once was thanks to this abomination of a movie.
Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)
The carefree humor of Ant-Man is replaced with lazy PC tokenism
The first Ant-Man was a pleasant surprise. I think the writers knew that audiences would react to the character with an emphatic "who the F cares about Ant-Man?" so instead of trying to pull another character from obscurity and launch them into a household name as with Iron Man 1, they decided to have some fun and not take themselves too seriously. And with Paul Rudd as Ant-Man, the formula worked.
But SJW-types just couldn't have that for the sequel. The sequel required that Paul Rudd not just share the stage with a more badass and skilled female counterpart, but give up the stage to her when it's painfully obvious she has none of the wit or charm or charisma as Rudd. Furthermore, we're given the villain that Ant-Man must face off against--some college girl in lulu lemon with extremely ambiguous powers and a backstory and motivation crammed into 5 minutes of the cringiest exposition in a marvel movie yet. But hey, her parents are an obligatory token PC interracial couple! (YAY SJW points!).
This movie, as evidenced by the poster art even on this website, suffers from "actors playing masked superheroes who are too good looking and narcissistic to wear their characters' masks syndrome". Whereas in Ant-Man, when both the hero and villain were in their suits, they were in them head to toe. But surely because we couldn't hide our female hero and female villain behind silly character helmets/masks, any character in a suit or costume is removing their helmet or mask literally every time they have dialog. Superheroes removing their mask or helmet used to mark a significant moment in these movies--either the hero showed they were willing to risk their identity by removing it, or it was so damaged it was no longer useful, or it was removed at the end of the movie for a heartwarming monologue or conversation. But in this movie, it's almost as if they can't wait to remove them, even during action sequences where it makes no sense at all.
Finally, the whole plot of the movie is very flimsy and the stakes don't seem very high. Basically Hank Pym, decades after his wife's disappearance as explained in the first movie, decides she is still alive and can be rescued. Besides that, this movie really only exists to remind the audience multiple times that Ant-Man was in Captain America Civil War, and clumsily justify his absence from Avengers Infinity War.
Overall it was a disappointing sequel to what was a sleeper hit in the MCU.
Bird Box (2018)
You like it because facebook and netflix tell you to
This is really one of the stupidest movies i've ever seen. Politically correct casting, incoherent storytelling, god awful plot, cardboard characters with random totally inexplicable actions, just...ugh. The thing that causes people in the movie to commit suicide is not even vaguely explained and tends to change throughout the movie. There are people who are immune to whatever it is, also they're bad for some reason. Regardless of your political leanings, they shoehorned a really bad joke into a scene that just didn't make any sense and you can tell the actors were like why would anyone say this phrase during a situation like this? A guy shows up with a bunch of spooky looky drawings that have nothing to do with literally anything. And at the conclusion of the film literally nothing is resolved, the movie doesn't "end" it just stops. Utter trash, not to mention it's a rip off of a M. Night movie that came out like ten years ago. Only impressionable morons who like exactly what their facebook feed tells them to like could possibly enjoy it. Don't be fooled by the hype, you'll be glad you skipped this stinker.
First They Killed My Father (2017)
Absolutely awful liberal revisionist tripe
Having lived in Cambodia for over 18 months, I was glad to see a movie bringing the many atrocities of the Khmer Rouge to light, for the simple fact that far too many people have no idea what happened in Cambodia from 1975 to 1979, and those who do, don't understand the why behind it. This movie not only fails to inform about the truth, but also intentionally misinforms with straight up non-facts that fit today's alt-left anti-US sentiment. All this amounts to both a simply terrible movie, and an utterly shameful insult to the upwards of 3 million victims of the ultra-communist Khmer Rouge regime. I understand the source material is the memoir of a survivor who was a young girl at the time, but the presentation of said source material is over produced, needlessly artsy, and even the supposedly emotional scenes lose impact because the film does not add any context to the events that unfold. Which is very coincidental, as the Khmer Rouge targeted intellectuals for extermination, this very movie leaves out a lot of facts which would make the false narrative purveyed by the director crumble to pieces. Looks like the alt-left ultra-communist playbook hasn't changed much after 40 years. Do yourself a favor and show respect to the victims of this tragedy by skipping this movie and reading some of the very informative books out there. Even better if you could actually travel to Cambodia and visit Tuol Sleng (S21 prison) and Choeung Ek (the killing fields).