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Atlas (2024)

2/10

28 May 2024

AI in sarcasm mode.

Oh, joy, let's dive into this cinematic masterpiece, shall we? So, Jennifer's emotional range in the film was just mind-blowing - all she did was scream, swear, and throw tantrums. It's like watching a toddler on a sugar rush, but less adorable. And can we talk about depth? Because her character was about as deep as a kiddie pool.

The plot? Oh, honey, I saw that coming from a mile away. Spoiler alert: Atlas gets what she wants. Shocking, right? And let's not forget the supporting cast, who were basically furniture because Jennifer needed to hog every single spotlight. Please, no sequel. Save your money, folks. Instead of wasting it on another snooze-fest, invest in some acting lessons for Jennifer - girl needs it - and maybe throw in some scriptwriting workshops while you're at it.

Here's an idea: try being original for once. Break the mould, like Atlas and Smith. Surprise us, do something unexpected. And hey, while you're at it, add some depth to the characters and maybe, just maybe, consider adding some diversity to the cast. Crazy concept, I know.

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Biosphere (2022)

3/10

A good ESG score, does not a good movie make.

10 July 2023

The acting was good, considering the material they had to work with. The set looks cheap. You can see the plants are wilted, because they did not originally grow in the hydroponic medium or the studio lights fried them or both. The pond is way too small for the size of the fish. It reminded me of the fish you see swimming in the tank before being served with fresh ginger and a soy sauce, with a little chilly.

This shambles of a movie looks and sounds cheap, thrown together by well-meaning people that need to work. Don't they realise that just because you can, doesn't mean you should.

Even if you are willing to suspend belief, it's still boring. It has one note, and that is a B-flat. You won't get that 1 hour and 40 minutes back. There is only so much BS you can take before you throw the baby out with the bath water. How does good Art get made? Not like this, you've been warned. If you're an insomniac try watching this before bed time, you'll be out like a light, sweet dreams.

John Money would approve of this movie, that's all you need to know.

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow (2023)

Season 2, Episode 3

3/10

It belongs in the street

30 June 2023

The best scene in this episode is La'an Noonien-Singh crying (Christina Chong). Very convincing and spot on with the way real people cry. It made me tear up. It is also clear she fights like a girl, and can't box. What is she 4'9'" and 50Kg?

With that out of the way, this episode is derivative and unimaginative. It's lazy story telling that lacks integrity. It's more of a cartoon than a thoughtful action sci-fi that StarTrek should aspire to.

Pelia (Carol Kane) sounds drunk which is sad and concerning. Has she had a transient ischaemic attack (TIA)? The continued lampooning of Spock (Ethan Peck) is not funny and disrespectful to Leonard Nimoy's legacy yet again.

Was it really necessary to have three consecutive episodes about strong independent women who maintain a feminist and "pride" narrative? Are all the white men useless, and basically red shirts. I loathe the writers and show runners continuing to destroying a once great franchise. Is it just a lack of knowledge about real science or is it a lack of real world experience that make these writers so bad at their jobs. Boo-hiss, you stink at writing.

Out of the three episodes so far, this was the best one, which doesn't bode well for the future, as the good stuff is used in the front-end and back-end of a season. This show belongs in the street.

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The Artifice Girl (2022)

2/10

The Artificial Girl is not the only artifice here

2 May 2023

Putting an under developed play onto "film" will always fail. The not so subtle white racism didn't go unnoticed and tainted the earnest attempts at caring about people. The subject matter is only viewed through a very small but extremely uninformed biased lens. The writer director is the liar here, not some fictitious AI. The reason this movie fails is all the writer directors' fault, I hope "it" learns from this.

The budget is low, the acting is over the top save for the old man, and the script tries to hard to be something intense.

Someone else mentioned the swearing, which was distracting, and I have to agree it sounded forced and out of place. This movie has one tone, it's an F-flat.

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Battlestar Galactica (2004–2009)

8/10

Scene stealer

26 February 2023

Dr. Gaius Baltar, this character steals the show in season one.

For those who call it childish or immature, what do you expect from a space opera, high art? The sound track makes this show what it is, and Number Six (Tricia Helfer) is a smokin' hot babe.

Baltar (James Callis) the bumbling, lying, spineless buffoon who seems to land on his feet and bluff his way out of impossible situations, while portraying a weak and hedonistic man.

I'll update this review when I have watched the complete series to see if he makes it to the end, with all his faults updated, and maybe a redemption arc for the poor man.

Update as promised.

Baltar crying does wear a bit thin. Star Buck is annoying, a horrible person that needs a slap. What happened to responsibility and consequences for your actions? The president was not my cup of tea. I felt sorry for Kandyse McClure's character, she deserved better. Nicki Clyne destroyed her own character in real life, enough said on that.

The ending was an ending, so there's that.

Sci-Fi fans got some strong episodes among some so-so episodes, but generally got good TV with Battlestar Galactica. If you do watch this quality sci-fi drama I suggest you enjoy the journey, not the destination.

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M3GAN (2022)

5/10

Dancing robot, dance!

25 January 2023

The best thing about this film is the robot and the actress that plays the part. Without "that" dance vignette, would this movie have been so successful?

All the characters are pastiches of real people, and are somewhat schizophrenic in their behaviour and thinking. One minute they say something and the next scene they say the opposite, to fit the moment.

The script and story line can do with some polish, and a grown up to help with the hard bits. As I said the dancing robot was the best part. The actress that played her should be proud of what she has achieved, with the help of her dance coach, it made a so-so movie millions.

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The Big Bang Theory: The Extract Obliteration (2012)

Season 6, Episode 6

2/10

Misandry at its finest

24 July 2022

This episode exemplifies the majority, if not all episodes, that men are bad, women are good. The female characters on this show are awful people. Penny emotionally manipulates her fawning partner, while Bernadette emasculates hers, and then there's the other one who started out well, but who is now no different from her cancerous girlfriends, awful.

The writers of this show don't like men, apparently that's okay, but allowing white privileged women to run roughshod over deliberately pathetic men is the sweet spot. This show is sexist to its core.

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: All Those Who Wander (2022)

Season 1, Episode 9

2/10

Nothing new

30 June 2022

They serve up intersectional tropes a plenty.

This is like watching the Office in Space, Office Space you might say. All the characters are there each doing their part selling 'feelz' instead of paper.

These characters may wear uniforms, but they are purely symbolic, like a school uniform. More needless role reversals brings yet greater shame to the art of storytelling. This show pleases those that crave a better ESG score, while pandering to their intersectional overlords to keep them at bay.

Get it while it's hot, it won't last that long, they'll get boarded and move onto something else they can destroy instead of create something unique and NEW.

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Ghosts of Illyria (2022)

Season 1, Episode 3

2/10

Bait and switch

20 May 2022

So the two main characters, the captain and the Vulcan science officer, are relegated to filler. People have already commented on the gynocentric nature of shows these days, so I'll leave it at that.

The story was pandering and weak. The science is now just fantasy with lens flare. The writing is what you would expect from the "entertainment industry" these days unimaginative and socialist propaganda in nature. The irony of the level 5 lock down is that it didn't work, I was shocked!

Expect the show to go downhill from here into "woke and cope", that's my prediction.

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The Bubble (2022)

2/10

Family first

2 April 2022

Not funny and too long. A bunch of moments stitched together in a desperate attempt to be something, anything. This movie was made as a vehicle for the director's daughter. That about sums it up.

At least the writer/director was honest enough to tell you how bad this movie is, just watch the end credits.

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Without Ward (2022)

2/10

Not good, just awful

27 March 2022

This is awful, awful writing, awful direction, and awful acting.

Awful, awful, awful, awful, cheap 'n' nasty, awful.

It doesn't fill you with awe, just awful.

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Save Yourselves! (2020)

3/10

The irony is strong in this one.

26 March 2022

The short comings of this low quality movie are many. The sad thing is the couple aren't a parody or satire of real people they are just millennials in America. How do these people even get a job, they are completely useless.

The guy is incompetent, that's funny because he's a "man", right? No, no it's not. The woman is no better, but in a patronising annoying way. She's supposed to be the smart one, what a shocker. A woman being signal boosted at the expense of dragging a man down.

A sad indictment of todays 30 something waste of a generation. These people will be running the earth in 20 years. You're screwed, RIP humanity.

This is not a "funny" movie, just sad.

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Last Survivors (2021)

4/10

Desperate people do desperate things

6 February 2022

Warning: Spoilers

The story would have made a good short, say 45 minutes, not the actual runtime of 98 minutes. That said everyone did their part and the scenery was nice.

Unlike most reviewers I won't go into the fact that the stories twist is telegraphed way too early, leaving a hole that needed filling before the end scenes. No the thing I want to really comment on is the motivation behind Jake's dad and his desperate actions. I can guarantee very few, if any, will see this point, but I feel some empathy for the dad. The family courts these days can make a man desperate and a little crazy. The fact that he's portrayed as a stone cold serial killer, and a misogynist to boot, is the only way the writer could make the audience feel disdain for the man and his actions. The father never went looking for people to kill, that's an important point to note. We know nothing of the man before he turned feral, the life he led before he lost his mind. All we see depicted on screen is a crazy, selfish, deluded liar, with trust issues, who loved his son very much. His only redeeming feature is he taught his son how to survive without society as protector and nanny. All he wanted to do was shield his son from an unjust world, and he did it the only way he knew how, to run and hide.

The way the young man was used as eye candy, is a little excessive, showing double standards are the only standards these days. The shower scene was appropriate and conveyed meaning, the other nude scenes are purely for people to perv on, like I said, hypocrisy thy name is Hollywood.

I'm with the dad on this, women can be trouble. The movie inadvertently shows this by the female leads actions. She's older and wiser than the young protagonist, yet she asks few pertinent questions and provides little in the way of useful information. Then she doesn't tell the sheriff exactly what happened, so of course he's going to put it on the back burner. Contrived convenience wouldn't you say?

Society is to blame for Jake's state of affairs, make no mistake, the father is also a victim. Desperate people do desperate things.

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Clean (IV) (2021)

5/10

Style over substance

29 January 2022

The storyline is not new, but tried and true. It could've been a good movie, maybe even a great one. The actors do their jobs, and the cinematography is sufficiently bleak. The ingredients for a good redemption story are all there, so what happened?

It's the small things that add up. The viewer is pulled out of the story with WFT moments. It's the number of these moments that spoil the film. Style over substance is never going to work, it's distracting. The constant exposition of why Clean feels dirty is excessive, we understand his motivation. You don't need to hit us over the head with a monkey wrench, we get it.

It's a misfire, style over substance.

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Home Team (2022)

3/10

For the kids

28 January 2022

The premise is a, not so subtle, rip-off of a 1998 film of the same name. It's not a remake, because American football, okay.

The cast is the usual bunch of Sandler's buddies (and his wife), more power to them. The coach (Kevin James) is played mostly straight, which seems in contrast to James' usual physical comedy style.

The vomiting scene is indicative of this movie trying too hard to be funny. Disjointed would sum this movie up. It has no core, everything just happens. It struggles as a feel good film, and falls flat as a comedy.

It didn't really work for me, not my demographic. This movie will entertain the kids, maybe.

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Pandora's Promise (2013)

6/10

Dogma and ignorance still persists.

11 November 2021

Six stars because it starts discussions about nuclear energy production. Environmentalists need to stop lying about nuclear energy production and come to terms with reality.

In the 80's the population was bombarded by anti-nuclear documentaries and films. The films where the scariest things you could ever imagine, people dying on mass from radiation sickness, the planet turned in to a giant snow ball. For sure No-Nukes! What the environmental activists did really well was to entwine nuclear bombs proliferation with nuclear energy production. Of course you can't have fissional material without a nuclear reactor to create it. That's a whole topic on its own.

As with all things political, the decision made by Admiral Rickover for submarines, should never have been used for commercial electricity generation. Nixon and the Governor of California, at the time, are to blame for this blunder based on nothing more than a political power grab.

Global warming is a farce and will be proved to be yet more political folly, which cost people's lives and the environment to boot. Heavy metals and plastic wastes are just two problems with "renewables", a topic in its own right.

"Facts don't care about your feelings" might be considered a throwaway line, but in this case it is critical to knowing the truth about "Climate Change". The physics of renewable energy just doesn't add up, and never will, because of the natural laws of the Universe.

If you're still scared by nuclear power generation then you have your head in the sand. If you refuse to listen to facts and reason then you are against intellectual growth. You have become a cult member, you are a member of the environmental church of closed minds.

Cheap, clean energy is the only way to make our world a better place. It's about time the left woke up and stopped using arguments from half a century ago.

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Free Guy (2021)

3/10

Nothing new

24 September 2021

Hollyweird continues to target the usual stereotypes, indulging in blatant racism, and a lack of self-awareness.

The premise is a cross between "They Live", "Ground Hog Day", AI becomes sentient, and every movie ever made about video game culture, i.e. Inaccurate and pandering.

The whole movie is a little off, and it spoils any potential enjoyment, of what looks like a lot of money and time spent on a mediocre offering.

Not even Dead Pool can make this piece of bigoted trash sustainable.

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The Walking Dead: Acheron: Part I (2021)

Season 11, Episode 1

2/10

Coincidence or conspiracy?

20 September 2021

The "clever" men stay up top to do the grunt work and send in the "stunning and brave" women. Check.

Needlessly endanger people to create a deadly situation. Check.

And on it goes rinse and repeat. Check.

These people have been in this dystopian world for eleven years and they still make the same bad decisions over and over again. Don't plan, don't check equipment, don't use logic or strategy.

Also the 10s, 9s and 8s out of 10 are not realistic after eleven seasons, the bell curve, or lack of, proves this, let's be real about this people, paid ratings are paid ratings.

If you have a look at the season one reviews they look amazingly similar to the first episode of season eleven reviews. Coincidence or conspiracy, it's interesting to say the least.

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Synapse (2021)

2/10

Off

12 September 2021

The production values are off, mostly bad lighting. Most of the props are garbage, literally. The acting is wooden and the script is cheesy, in a bad way. The visual effects are straight from "Visual Effects for Dummies".

Not even worth a watch, it stinks.

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The End of Meat (2017)

2/10

Propoganda by Vegetables

9 September 2021

Why is it you don't have meat-eater documentaries propagandising about the evils of grains and vegetables? Lectins anyone? Also, let's talk about excessive destructive land usage, loss of native species habitat, and the mass slaughter of animals in the process of planting and harvesting grains and vegetables. And then there's the chemical poisons used to grow and maintain crops. These are a few things to consider when eating your morning cereal with fruit.

Why is the human gut so short, when compared to other primates? Why is our appendix becoming a vestigial appendage? There are many questions the vegan won't ask or care too know the facts of.

So what's the difference between a vegan and a meat-eater? Psychology of the fanatical verses everyone else. Bon Appétit!

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Pig (I) (2021)

8/10

The memory of taste and smell.

17 July 2021

The dinner scene is an emotional wave crashing on the rocks, the crescendo of a slow cooked story worth savouring.

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The Report (I) (2019)

8/10

Unaccountable, unelected and lacking scruples.

12 July 2021

So it is, there are a few good men and women.

The "sunlight" clearly shows the Deep State in its full unaccountable splendour. Neither this movie or that report will change a thing. The only real change is the players.

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Settlers (2021)

3/10

Disjointed

11 July 2021

If you're looking for a movie that works only on an emotional level, then maybe you'll be happy with this offering.

If you're after Sci-Fi and logic look elsewhere.

The story is as dry as the desert it's filmed in. The plot points are confused and disjointed, relying to heavily on the audience being able to read the writer/directors mind.

My biggest beef is the lack of knowledge regarding human behaviour.

Yet another Sci-Fi movie that fails at Sci-Fi.

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The Colony (2021)

3/10

A "Doctor Who" movie

8 July 2021

Why are movie writers so bad at research? SpaceX and Blue Origin are capable of landing a space craft without a parachute, but for some reason, in about 160 years, they can't do this?

A small tepid story, which might have worked well as a Dr Who episode. It falls short of its goal to challenge and entertain for those who believe Sci-Fi is about a hopeful future, not some dystopian hell hole where man is always the bad guy. This idea that primitive man is somehow better off is purely a Victorian fantasy for wealthy elites who have a Gaia Cult fetish. The Climate Change trope is done to death and has become a tagline. Maybe they should frame it as Earth after "Build Back Better" was implemented, with Schaub stroking a white cat.

If you're having trouble sleeping, give this a watch before bed time.

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The Education of Fredrick Fitzell (2020)

8/10

Lysergic acid diethylamide

20 June 2021

The hero's journey on acid.

Lover's lost in time on acid.

Wanting parental approval on acid.

Free at last.

The writer director has taken acid, it's plain to see.

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