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Gimme Shelter (2013)
Hollywood Giving Deadbeat 'White' Dads a pass.
Ten minutes in I'm annoyed by the fact that her father seems to have been given a pass on his part in her horrible life up to the point he's introduced.
Where was 'he' all those years?😠😠😠
Ok her mom was abusive. Bad mom! But again, WHERE WAS DAD! The movie plays out like he knew of her existence from the time she was born, so I can only conclude he was deadbeat who abandoned her.
The redemption is about HIM finally taking responsibility for the child he left literally out in the cold.
Abandoned (2010)
Nicely paced, Mild thriller
The movie jumps right into the plot, and is paced well from the beginning to the end.
Mary Walsh's (Brittany Murphy) boyfriend goes missing from the hospital an hour after being left by her for surgergy. Mary frantically searches the hospital and pleads with staff, (who claim to have no record of him being there) to find him. Her detetmination leads to the unfortunate circumstance of she herself being temporarily forced into the hospital's mental health ward as a patient. The movie moves along concisely, as Mary evades hospital staff and conducts her own search until she uncovers the truth.
I disagree with all the negative reviews about the acting of lesser known and unknown actors. Their acting is realistic as hospital staff, which 'adds to' the movie's authenticity. The only actor who seemed a bit off was the hospital security guard, but he was at least adequate.
The movie is a mild thriller that kept my attention from start to finish.
Ruthless (2020)
Too Much Depravity
The one woman was used to showcase the entirety of physical abuse. First puched in the face, then beat down by three men, then even the woman she brought in was ordered to beat her🙄🙄🙄🙄, still she had to be dragged out by her hair-the whipping post of sick fantasy.
The raping of the boy.🙁🙁🙁🙁.
I suppose these scenes mimic what goes on in real life cults.
Cindy (1978)
Cindy's lovely singing is the best thing about this musical.
The best thing about this movie is Cindy's lovely singing, especially the church scene.
I don't like that it was somewhat of a parody. Because it was done that way, it allowed for too much condescension and mean-spiritedness by the male leads towards the female leads. The lines when the draft-dodger calls Cindy "country," and when he said he was "marrying a stupid girl," turned me off. I was also put off when the military man tells one of the step sisters the military was looking for nerve gas volunteers. It was a funny roast, but unnecessarily cutting. The men came off as jealous queens with those lines.
As with Dorothy in both the Wizard of Oz and the Wiz, I didn't care for using obviously adult women in adolescent roles. Why not tweak the writing a bit to make them young adults, in all aspects of the roles? They should all take a queue from Ever After with Drew Barrymore (the best done version in my opinion).
The all Black cast was different, but it's not a version I'd watch again.
Family Reunion (2019)
Lacks Authenticity and just not entertaining
After only about ten minutes of watching, I get the impression the writers are not Black Americans, didn't take the time to really get to know a single Black American family -- even as diverse as black American families are; and just decided to throw in stereotypes of old-school Black American family ideology versus stereotypes of young and liberal Black American family ideology, and put it to a laugh track.
Not funny and will cause "I smell something stink"-face.