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Nimona (2023)
Not recommended
I don't recommend this film's story for children or adults. The way the characters written is undesirable to myself and anyone else with a taste for quality family films. The interaction and relationships between characters is atrociously written, resulting in a complete failure of the film from the outset. Animation quality is fine, poorly written characters that halt the viewer's immersion into the film, not fine.
The script could be fixed with some relatively straight-forward edits of several of the deeply flawed characters. It's like the writers had marginal knowledge and experience in family entertainment character development. Creating believable, realistic, characters that can be identified with, and enjoyed by the family, is a skill.
Fixing the few poorly thought out and written, broken, characters, could turn this film into something special and fun for the family.
But what a waste as it is. Not recommended.
Cobra Kai (2018)
Started great. Ruined in season 2.
Was really enjoying it until season 2 episode 9 when Netflix pushed their fringe agenda and ruined it. Very disappointed they couldn't leave their rubbish out of it for once.
Le sommet des dieux (2021)
One key part was frustratingly nonsensical.
This is me venting about how a pivotal, but nonsensical, moment can ruin the feeling for the remainder of the film.
That part being the way the kid Buntaro died. Habu was pulling him up as he dangled helplessly on the end of the rope after a fall. Habu stopped hoisting when the rope showed it was fraying as it dragged over a ledge. The reason Habu stopped was because he said the rope would snap if he kept pulling Buntaro up.
Habu was not injured or tired, and only stopped hoisting the lighter Buntaro up when he saw the damage to the rope.
Buntaro ultimately dealt with the problem of being stuck by cutting the rope and falling to his death, freeing Habu from holding him any longer.
Utterly absurd given any remotely normal person would have requested Habu to continue hoisting, and take the risk of the rope snapping!
For goodness sake, nobody is going to choose certain death by cutting the rope when they have a chance of being hoisted to safety by a healthy, fit climbing partner who is not in danger themselves and only stopped hoisting you because they were nervous the rope would break!
Good grief.
Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts (2020)
Started well, then ruined.
Unfortunately liberal writers badly ruined the storyline after the first several episodes. Started well, as they typically do, then boom, dived off a cliff pushing undesirable content.
Shadow and Bone (2021)
Started good, then ruined.
Ruined in ep5 by liberal writers pushing their views.
Bigfoot Family (2020)
Should be shown to kids as part of identifying propaganda
Protestors protesting even before there was any wrongdoing identified, simply because oil company = bad. Everything oil companies say is portrayed to be false, and anyone not reporting negatively on them is compromised by 'big oil' money?
Super friendly Canadian border entry vs unfriendly, unsmiling US Alaska border entry? Oil pumping displayed in the most ridiculous way of pooling to the surface and destroying everything.
I'm from NZ where we have a huge amount of renewable energy, but this sort of twisted perspective that aims to deceive is aggravating to anyone who can think critically. This film is full of it. Rather sad.
Enola Holmes (2020)
Refreshingly free from Neflix's perversion push
Good clean family movie refreshingly free from Netflix's social engineering that they've been planting in their other "family" entertainment.
Recommended.
Arthur (1996)
Propoganda
Unfortunately I cannot recommend Arthur due to it being propagandized as exposed by Brandon Tatum and Anthony Brian Logan. Disturbing.
The Larva Island Movie (2020)
10/10 for first time viewers
10/10 for those that haven't seen Larva Island the series. If you have seen the series you'll be rewatching mostly recycled content in this movie. Still, it had been a while since I'd seen the series so I still enjoyed.
A great movie as a standalone which is how people should be rating it.
Uppity: The Willy T. Ribbs Story (2020)
Interesting, but evident you're only one side of the story
Pretty good motor sport doco. I'm a NZer and don't know much about US motorsport, so it was interesting to see historical Nascar, Trans Am, Atlantic Championship, IMSA and Indie car racing and more.
All in all enjoyable, but you do start to get a strong sense that Willy T had a big ego and enjoyed boasting, something people rarely find endearing regardless of skin colour. While there was doubtless racism going on, you get the sense that the race card is being played too often to explain this or that problem. There's always two sides to the story and this, for better or worse, is definitely a one sided story by a proud racer. It would have been interesting to hear the full story from those that stood accused.
One thing that stood out is the supposed intentional crashing of Willy T by Pruett in IMSA. The footage looked like Pruett had the inside line and Willy T turned in on him. The camera angle didn't do Willy T any favours for his side of the story. To hear that Willy T then hit the guy while he sat inside a car next to a woman just wasn't cool, but Willy T is portrayed as the victim in all of it.
To recap, decently interesting for people into racing. However critical watchers will note that this is definitely a very one sided story.
Bard of Blood (2019)
Kinda need to switch off your brain.
Unfortunately saturated with constant and silly implausible actions, worse than a cartoon in many cases. Just as I had a moment of getting into the story, someone would do something glaringly ridiculous, or there would be something unfeasible glossed over, or a hole in the story which constantly caused frustration. If you are the type to point out stupid mistakes in a film, this film will provide a tremendous number of opportunities.
I'm not bothered by a fair amount of unrealism as it's generally part and parcel of action films, but there gets a point where you start constantly face palming at the stupidity.
Production value was very good, but it's like a child, or someone with little common sense and zero experience wrote many parts of the story.
Watching English dub, it was good in that there was no profanity or nudity.
The Great Hack (2019)
Strong politically left documentary hypocritically attempting to show online data usage by the political right as negatively as possible.
If you were looking for an objective documentary, look elsewhere.
Encapsulated - the political left in the USA and Britain were stung when Trump and Brexit campaigns won respectively. This documentary endeavours to paint the right as using unethical campaign strategies to win the above. Specifically, harvesting data people post about themselves online in order to identify those who were persuadable. The company hired by the right was "Cambridge Analytica" which is roundly painted as evil and blamed for manipulating people into voting for the right.
The documentary 100% excludes data usage strategies by the left, conveniently ignores the massive budget advantage of the left (Hillary $1.4B vs Trump $958M. Remain £19.3 vs Leave £13.3) and the overwhelmingly pro left media bias that so dramatically mis-predicted the USA 2016 election.
The documentary strains to create a picture (entirely unconvincingly) that Cambridge Analytica stole people's private information, using companies such as Facebook, to target and manipulate them like mindless idiots into voting for the right. Thus the political right was able to surmount money and media obstacles and unjustly win the vote. Not one hint of what the left does with the
same data.
Ironic that this biased documentary unapologetically commits the crime of manipulation they accuse Cambridge Analytica of. Yes, describing this documentary as "rich" is appropriate.
I give this documentary 2 stars because it is interesting in a 'watching an elaborate, but ultimately empty, tantrum from the left.' kind-of-way.