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Halt and Catch Fire (2014)
Should have stopped after season 1
I've never watched a series go downhill after the first season as quickly and as abruptly and Halt and Catch Fire. I really enjoyed season one because we actually got to see the characters working together to develop new technology, but after that first season, it became the Cameron Howe whiny meltdown marathon. In my opinion, the years-long jumps between each season were a bad idea; they should have just stayed in the eighties. You might enjoy seasons 2 - 4 if you like soap opera drama, but if you're really into technology and product development, you'll be bored. I liked seeing where Joe Macmillan ended up in the last episode of the series; it probably would have made for a cool spin-off, but it definitely wasn't worth watching seasons 2 - 4 just for those five minutes. After season one I really didn't care where this show was going; I just turned it on for background noise to help me fall asleep. Most of the time, it worked.
Fallout (2024)
Was clearly written for children...
Episode one was mildly interesting. Episode 2 was a cliché-ridden bore. It was as if the writers had a very short list of things that were going to take place during episode 2 and had to drag out the action sequences as much as possible to take up time. Lots of pointless gore and really dumb in-fight choices on the part of the protagonists. I'm familiar with the game - never played it myself but have watched others play it. Maybe if you like the game you'll like the series because you'll see references to it throughout the episodes. But, if you're not a fan of the game, and you actually read books with good stories, you'll probably hate this series, so I recommend you don't waste your time. Like most garbage being produced these days, this series telegraphs everything that's going to happen, because the writers seems to not have any original ideas of their own.
Spirited (2022)
Hard to Sit Through
The script was actually a clever take on the Scrooge story, and Ryan Reynolds and Will Ferrell both did a good job. Sunita Mani was probably the best supporting character (very funny). However, the musical numbers were really difficult to watch. Something about the music and lyrics was really off. In parts where they tried to sound sincere, it sounded corny; in parts where they tried to sound funny, it wasn't working. At just over 2 hours, it felt like an eternity. This shouldn't have been a musical. It would have worked better as a comedy. I recommend you skip it. Or just re-watch any of the great Christmas comedies already out there.
She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (2022)
Not. One. Single. Laugh.
I wasn't expecting this to be serious, but I was hoping it would at least be funny. It wasn't. Nobody in my family is interested in seeing anything past episode one. Disney needs to hire new writers. For EVERYTHING. What a colossal waste of talent. Another seriously rushed origin story written for unintelligent children. Please watch it just so that you can leave an informed review. Maybe Disney will take notice and stop ruining every piece of Marvel intellectual property it touches. At this rate, DC will overtake Marvel in a few years. The CGI isn't really that bad. The writing is absolute garbage.
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)
Lame. forgettable. I fell asleep. Skip it.
This was hugely disappointing. Not a proper sequel to Doctor Strange or WandaVision. Very much geared towards young children, despite the supposedly "dark" or "horror" content which it did NOT have. The kind of Marvel movie you will never watch a second time, nor mention in conversation to anyone.
The Lost City (2022)
Just watch the trailer....
... the only funny moments are all in the trailer. Don't waste your time. Channing Tatum is a very funny actor, but he wasn't given much to work with here. Sandra Bullock plays her character like she's perpetually annoyed.
Hellboy (2019)
R-Rated Movie for Children
Pretty awful. Another pointless remake/reboot/sequel. Really bad CGI and tons of pointless gore. Uninteresting characters (although Harbour does a fine job playing Hellboy) and silly story. I was counting the minutes until it ended.
Hellboy (2004) and Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008) are vastly superior.
NOS4A2 (2019)
The Good and the Bad...
Let me begin by listing some of my favorite TV series (in no specific order):
-WestWorld
-Cobra Kai
-GLOW
-Stranger Things
-Star Trek Discovery
-The Orville
-The Twilight Zone (old and new)
-Wayne
I really enjoyed season 1 of NOS4A2. It's not perfect, but very entertaining. Here's why.
The Bad: some of the earlier episodes are slow-paced and overall the series spends too much time on Vic McQueen's family instead of developing the other characters and showing you their backstories.
The Good: Zachary Quinto's acting. Plus, the story is original and hard to anticipate where it'll go.
If your tastes are similar to mine, you might enjoy NOS4A2. Be patient, and give it a chance.
Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi (2017)
A Space Comedy, just like The Fifth Element
I'm not a Star Wars-obsessed fanboy. And I'm not some middle-aged guy who watched Star Wars as a little kid and fell in love with it. I also do NOT hate Disney or their films (I actually like a lot of them). I'm simply a reviewer who appreciates good movies and good storytelling.
This movie was AWFUL. This story was just stupid.
I didn't think The Last Jedi would actually be worse than The Force Awakens, but I was wrong. It's much worse. The Last Jedi is essentially a lighthearted family Disney comedy (i.e. children's movie) done with live action and CGI instead of animation.
The story is awful; very poorly written. Probably the worst aspect is the overabundance of corny one-liners and slapstick humor. The comedy diffuses all the tension in every scene so that you never really invest emotionally in the movie.
I wasn't even going to see this in the theater, but my family asked me to come along. I wasn't expecting much, but I did see the trailer. I thought for sure the producers would try just a little harder to make a good movie after noticing how many people disliked The Force Awakens. They didn't notice, or just don't care about anything except $$$.
It's like they weren't even trying to make a good movie. There were a lot of great actors in this movie, but their talent was wasted because the story/script/screenplay was so bad.
Adults: don't waste your money on this garbage.
Alien: Covenant (2017)
Supreme Disappointment
I loved Prometheus and was very excited about a sequel that would answer some of the unanswered questions from that movie. Unfortunately, Alien: Covenant is garbage. You're basically just watching the crew of the Covenant get picked off one by one by CGI aliens, and there's about 5 minutes or so that answer a few questions about what happened after the end of Prometheus. The plot is like something written by a teenager. The characters are uninteresting and unlikable, and you're really not given any time to get to know them or care about them. It looks like the film didn't earn back what they spent to make it. They deserve to take a loss for releasing such a lame movie like this one.
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)
So Bad, It's .... Bad!
Oh. My. God. What have they done to this franchise?
There isn't a single aspect of the "Amazing Spider-Man 2" that is an improvement on the 2002 film "Spider-Man".
The CGI looks really amateurish, the dialog is horrible (hey scriptwriters, that is NOT how people speak to each other), the story is simply uninteresting, there is too much going on and no aspect of the story is really well developed, the villains have no character development at all, and the acting is atrocious (even Jamie Foxx did an awful job).
Don't waste your time - don't waste your money. Trust me, you DON'T need to see for yourself just how awful this is.
The Hangover (2009)
The end credits are funny - the movie isn't.
Did you think the scenes in the trailer were funny? Well, they're actually not very funny at all; it's all slick editing. And yes, as expected, these are the only highlights (if they can be called) of the movie. IMDb's top 250? You've got to be kidding me! Remember that old Tom Hanks movie from 1984 called Bachelor Party? Well, the writers tried to put a new spin on the concept of a crazy bachelor party as movie material but with one big difference: they left out the bachelor party! Now, this fact is not concealed in the trailers. It is made very clear that this movie is about a group of buddies trying to piece together what exactly happened the previous night during their wild bachelor party from which they can't recall anything. However, the writers didn't really make that into a particularly funny story.
So, here's my spoiler: during the credits, you see photos that were taken during the bachelor party. This is just about the only funny part of the movie. And it makes glaringly clear how the movie would have been so much fun if they had simply made it about the bachelor party. Spoiler over.
My advice is to wait until it's out on comedy central. There really isn't much inappropriate material to get cut out for network television anyways.
Gwoemul (2006)
*PLEASE, Don't waste your money on this overrated Korean krap!!!!
This movie sucked for several reasons. First of all, the CGI is of the quality of a TV commercial. I'm serious. The people who wrote reviews saying the effects are so cool must be smoking crack. The Geico gecko looks more realistic than this monster.
Second, the monster is seen in broad daylight at the beginning of the movie, so there is no build-up of suspense. Then, you don't see the monster for a long time, so it really sags in the middle. The monster is not even scary-looking at all. It looks like a big mutant catfish with hind legs. Also, most of the characters act retarded, doing stupid pointless things for no apparent reason. Some might call this 'quirky', but it's really just lame filler to compensate for the lack of interesting story and decent movie-making skills. There is nothing likable or interesting about any of the lead characters.
Third, this movie is sloooooooooowwwwwwwwww. There is a lot of boring, pointless dialog. In addition, during these scenes of dialog, the camera doesn't move or cut at all, so you feel like you're strapped in a chair with your eyes pried open a-la Clockwork Orange. The little girl in this movie is trapped for days in a sewer. Ironically, this movie drags along so slowly that YOU will feel like you're the one trapped in a dank sewer for days.
Ignore the hype and the 7-star rating. Hollywood movies may have their flaws, but at least they're entertaining.
Next (2007)
a good idea ruined by Hollywood clichés
If you saw the trailer, then you saw everything worth seeing in this movie. This could have been a great movie if it had been a psychological thriller, or something along those lines. But instead, the producers decided that Nicolas Cage had to be saving the US from a nuclear terrorist attack. A lot of pointless (and unrealistic) action was thrown in, along with a pointless romance between Jessica Biel and Nicolas Cage. Probably the worst aspect of this movie was Julianne Moore's performance as a FBI agent. It was so uninspired and stereotypical. Her lines in the script were so ridiculous; I was laughing every time she spoke. Also, the ending was really lame and left you with a feeling of "That's its? I want my money back!" It seemed like every actor was sleepwalking through this movie, just to collect a paycheck. If you like this kind of stuff, rent Deja Vu instead.
I Think I Love My Wife (2007)
Can a ni**a get a table dance?!
I don't know why this movie got such a low rating. Usually, anything less than a 6 means it's a waste of your time, but that's not the case with this movie. It was very entertaining and I laughed my arse off. Really not a single dull moment. I don't know - maybe you have to be married to get into it. I thought it was a really refresing take on a topic that's been done many times. Chris Rock's dialogue is great. Not because it's profoundly deep or anything like that: simply because he's raw. Don't be worried by the low rating it got. If you're in the mood for something light and funny (and especially if you're married, and not terribly uptight) you'll enjoy this one. Trust me.