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Wind River (2017)
True to life
Note: This review is slightly satirical. Please do not take it too seriously.
In this movie you have the hateful ex-wife. You can see exactly why he divorced her in just one conversation. That's how you know the dialogue is good. It's exposition without being obvious about being exposition: the dialogue reveals their character traits and their history in one fell swoop. Excellent writing.
Then you have the over-emotional, flying off the handle female who goes off on the drop of a hat. :D
Another woman is ready to commit suicide when she loses her daughter (can't say I blame her, though, but her husband is much more calm).
Whereas men are portrayed as much more calm and level headed. Just like in real life!
Then you have the racist minority characters who refer to the white characters as "cracker" or maybe "white boy". Just like in real life, it's the minorities who are usually racist, not white people. White racism is mostly made up in order to control the white population (and the minorities when you really think about it).
Very true to life film. Then you have the white savior character who at one point yells "they were forced to live here!" (referring to the fact that the native Americans were forced to live on the reservation). I'm not sure how true that is, and at one point the same character tells a native American character that "You could've gone to college or into the military. You had a choice". Perhaps he means their ancestors were forced to live on the reservation? Not sure how true that is either, but I will have to research it. But either way, this screams white savior and "look at me sticking up for the minority!" Just like the virtue-signaling liberals like it! :D
At the end, when the woman FBI agent says "You saved me" to the main character, he responds by saying "You saved yourself. You were strong" clearly pushing the feminist agenda. :D
So, this movie is SJW and feminist and yet also very true to life and non-politically correct. All in all, it was a good movie.
8/10 would watch again.
Also, all the politics aside I have to mention a couple more flaws. 1: when the rape scene came on, the other characters in the trailer didn't seem like they had rape *in them*. One of the characters was built up as a drunk piece of sh*t who wouldn't take no for an answer but it didn't seem like the other guys would be as evil. They didn't seem drunk either. It seemed like as the scene went on at least one of them would've said "Hey, hey! Enough is enough!" and broken the fight up but they didn't. They just kinda went along with the rape and let their "friend" rape the girl. Huh?
Also the main character had a mission to hunt the three mountain lions killing local livestock. He finds the three cougars near the end, but he doesn't kill them. What? We heard him say "End of the line for you" (referring to the lions), but he doesn't actually kill them or do anything with them. He just walks up the hill past the lions. Not sure if we missed something or not, but both my mom and I were both very confused by that.
Extremedays (2001)
Rewatch value through the roof
I've seen this movie at least 10 times now, and I plan to watch it many more times. The characters are relatable, the gags are consistently funny, and the movie moves at a brisk pace. It also has a good message and is clean. How many movies nowadays can you say that about? Most comedies these days are filled with "trash" humour and sex jokes. Not so with this movie. It manages to be funny without resorting to the lowest of the low.
"BAWR RAWR RAWR RAWR! RAWR RAWR RAWR!"
"What was that?"
"I DON'T KNOW"
But it probably could've been a little better, so I'm giving it an 8/10.
Cheap Thrills (2013)
Dark, twisted, and hilarious
At 1 and a half hours long, this movie never bores. The characters behave realistically. There was never a moment where I questioned what they were doing on screen, and the way the characters behaved hinted brilliantly at what was to come.
The arc the main character goes on is great. At the start, he's an utterly defeated man in a financial pit. He has a rigid personality and doesn't take risks. But by the end, he has committed despicable deeds.
As I said, it's funny. The character reactions are both believable and hilarious. For instance, when Colin says "I'm cumming, too, baby" in response to his wife yelling, "I'm gonna cum!", and Vince goes, "Oh, f***, noo!" and promptly relocates away from Vince, I laughed out loud.
I would've liked to see more at the end -- give us more consequence to his actions, ie: how does his wife react? Do they go on living? Does she find out about what took place that night? Do they get divorced?
Overall, this movie is well worth a watch.
The Walking Dead: The Grove (2014)
Still suffers from the same issues TWD always has
*** FULL SPOILERS ***
Yay, two throwaway characters dead just like that. And this episode had some good unintentional comedy.
"They just want me to change! ...maybe I should make a change." Terrible child acting as always and some of the same mediocre dialogue/behavior the writers/directors want you to believe. Case in point: the scene where Mika and Lizzie are sitting on a bench after Carol and Tyreese tell em to stay put. Mika's like "they'll be OK". Uhhh, what??? Lizzie didn't appear distressed or anything.
As a whole it was a decent episode if you can overlook the dialogue and human behavior. The plotting, atmosphere, and cinematography were well done, so that's why I'm giving it a 5/10. But, as I said, the dialogue and human behavior still leave much to be desired. This series has been extremely contrived, forcing bizarre shifts in character when they want a character to die or relocate. I get that they were trying to say Lizzie is a psychopath, but the acting just didn't convey that. All this time, it felt more like she was being stubborn or for some odd reason just believed zombies were 'ok'. At one point, I felt like the writers would reveal some past trauma that caused her to believe this, but it never came, and so the huge twist that she's a psychopath killer came kind of out of nowhere for me, and it was really only slightly alluded to when, she provided some unintentional comedy as I called it, just a few scant moments before she murders Mika.