Reviews

If you ever wanted to see the worst war movie ever made, this is not it. This is the 2nd worst ever. Horrible dialogue, crappy CGI, fake storyline filled with propaganda.

This is an older movie, but since it is still on streaming I wanted to review it. Some movies are so bad they are fun to watch - this is NOT one of those movies. I am kind of a science nerd, and I saw at least 981 science fails before I lost count.

But the main fail was "where did all that water come from"? There is a fixed amount of water on Earth, so if enough evaporated from the oceans to cause that much rain, the sea levels would drop drastically. (this is the same fact that shoots down the original Noah fable).

While not the worst SF movie I have seen, it is for sure the most illogical and total science-fail one (except maybe for one where they were using Sonar in space). The dialogue was filled with nothing but heroic cliches and overused tropes.

This movie is a prime candidate for Mystery Science Theater 3000.

Not quite the worst, but very close. Aside from the bad acting, bad dialogue, and science/logic fails too numerous to mention, it was overall just BORING. I am no fan of faith-based shows, but even this is the bottom of the barrel.

This seems to be a throw back to those awful dubbed kung fu movies of the 60's and 70's - but then they at least had an excuse in the very low budgets. This on the other hand is just awful - totally made up history, hyperbolic tropes about racism, excessively fake martial arts, and a host of other issues.

I have to confess that I am a k-drama addict, but that said, this is by far one of the best Korean TV dramas ever - surpassing not just the usual run of Asian dramas, but also most US TV dramas.

This show is from a new writer, her first TV script. I think it will not her last. The main star for me is Bae Doona, who I first came across in "Sense 8". The show is absent many of the far too common k-drama tropes that make so many of them seem rather silly - like dozens of totally incompetent cops, the stupid sidekick that is supposed to be funny but seldom is, and several others. A very tightly written script with almost no "WTF?" moments.

Of all the Star Wars movies and shows to date, this is by far the worst ever. It ranks right up (down) there with Independence Day Resurgence. End to end recycled clichés, crappy CGI, same old re-re-recycled plot. And those are the good parts. How many freaking times can Scotty "reroute power" in a ship that has been blown to bits and magically make it all work? It is so full of plot holes that if it were sold as Swiss Cheese you would have an empty package. Most of the acting is stupendously bad, the funny lines are not funny, the tense moments are as tense as watching paint dry. This movie apparently had a lot of Chinese/CCP censorship attached to it also, as anything even remotely controversial is simply not there.

I have to admit I only made it about 2/3 of the way through this. Aside from the poor acting and multiple plot holes that others have mentioned, the supposed "science" was just awful, and in parts sounded more like some internet conspiracy garbage. What stood out was the spiel on how Tesla had apparently been murdered by "Big Edison" to keep his free power broadcasting a secret - something that seems to have come right off the pages of Info Wars. And of course all the other participants in the plot just automatically bought into to it without question. If what are supposed to be the worlds smartest people buy into such crap without question, it is not "science" - it is voodoo.

I had no plans to watch this, but it showed up on Amazon Prime as a freebie for members one day.

In short, this is just awful. Aside from all the really bad science that others have mentioned, there was so much that simply made ZERO sense. You spend more time facepalming and thinking "who the F*** would ever actually DO that?" than actually paying attention to the movie. Acting was mediocre at best, and the plot was all over the place and full of holes.

And seriously - a farmer refusing to sell to her because she might be an undercover spy for (Monsanto, no doubt)? And why couldn't she just go to her local Walmart and buy organic?

I actually watched this reluctantly because someone wanted to see it, and ended up loving it. Not for the plot - there really is no plot (documentaries do that at times) except for her voyage, and the events leading up to it. To me it was just amazing that a young girl could do such an adventure alone, while others of her age were much more worried about how many followers they had on Twitter.

Much of the photography sucks (not like a cell phone is a real professional camera) - but that also adds to the feeling of realism, and pushes home the fact that there were no followers, no camera crews around - she was totally on her own. Unlike so many of the pseudo-documentaries this one is not filled with fake drama.

Just watched this on PPV, and wasted $6. Among all the recent animation films I have seen, such as Ice Age and similar, this was one of the worst.

It was totally formula, and not even a very good formula. I have seen Anime where the plot made more sense. Nothing is explained about WHY any of the characters would do various things - like why did those "loving parents" just lock the sister up in a room instead of .. you know, maybe trying to cure it or find out WHY??

The dialogue was stilted and the plot totally predictable, but the songs were 3rd rate at best - reminiscent of really bad musicals from the 50's. The basic plot made no sense, none of the characters did anything that real and/or normal people would do (even in a fairy tale). The overall plot resembled a Korean makjang rom-com more than a Disney movie. The plot had so many holes in that it resembled Swiss cheese.

There have been a lot of good animated films out in the past few years, but this is not one of them. The only reason I can see for the initial very high ratings is that they were given by die hard Disney fans, who would be far more inclined to see the movie in theaters as soon as it came out.

This is a nice to watch "feel good" movie about the trials and success of a girl that was deaf from around age two. I watched this when it first came out, and there was a lot of press coverage in the Japanese press - a lot of it negative, mainly for it's glamorous portrayal of the Japanese hostess club scene.

Unfortunately, the key word here is that quite a bit of the movie is pure fiction, and it ignores or glosses over a lot of the less savory parts of her story. Somewhat interesting for it's view into the super-expensive Ginza Mizu Shobai world, but it only portrays the glamor and little or none of the dark side.

"Hitsodan" refers to written communications, in this case written notes, and is a key part of the story and movie. However, according to nearly all Japanese press reports that is largely fictional. While you have to give kudos to anyone that could get that far with that handicap, the movie itself should be taken as entertainment, not fact.

This series somewhat surprised me in how well it showed some of the problems with pride and prejudice on both sides. The stigma on Japanese first and second generation that were repatriated to Japan is almost never covered by any Japanese media.

But it was not without its' flaws: 1. While there are quite a few comments about how bad the atomic bomb was, nothing at all is mentioned about the Pearl Harbor attack except for the fact that it happened.

2. I guess because nearly all the characters were played by Japanese actors (no real Isei, Nisei, or Sansei) much of the American dialog does not ring true. Probably due to the writing, which was also totally Japanese done. They pretty much totally ignored the fact that nearly all Nisei and later generations could speak perfect English - and the fact that many do not speak Japanese.

3. It put forth the view that nearly all Japanese-Americans at that time were far more "Japanese" than they were American, which is simply not true. The loyalty and/or attachment to America in fact ran across the whole spectrum - a fair percentage in fact considered themselves betrayed by Japan.

Unfortunately, this series starts out fairly well, but then about 1/3 of the way through it really starts going downhill.

If the series had stuck to the main plot and characters it would have been OK, but the introduction of never-resolved subplots, and totally extraneous characters ended up spoiling it for me. For example, far too much time was spent on the totally air-headed presidents daughter, who added nothing at all to the story, and is left at a dead end. Flashbacks were way overdone - it seemed like the object was to fill up space rather than advance the plot.

In general, the main plot and most subplots are so full of holes and unresolved issues that have to wonder if 3 hours or so was assembled from outtakes to fill the alloted number of episodes.

If you are a Korean Drama fan, "Lie to Me" and "My Girlfriend is a Gumiho" are much better choices.

The series started out like "The Dirty Dozen" and ended like the purple dinosaur "Barney Goes to School" video.

Not only is the movie full of plot holes, it leaves loose ends all over the place. And what the hell are herds of live cows doing in a factory that is supposed to be abandoned?

The characters just seem to wander around aimlessly and get killed off one by one (wow, that is sure a new plot line..). They cannot seem to protect themselves in any way, even though an abundance of possible weapons are lying around all over. Overall, I get the feeling that a lot of the wrong parts were edited out of the movie.

In short, this movie is only worth watching at 2 am when your only other choice is watching vacuum cleaner infomercials.