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Room 203 (2022)
Slow Slog
Taking me forever to finish this slow slog of a movie that making little sense.
I'm guessing someone cast spell on an apartment, but the title calls it a room and two friends move in. The building is creepy and so is the landlord. The pay in cash and don't ask for a receipt, which was really scary.
Something evil lives in the walls or in the room-apartment next door.
One girl has substance and issues. A necklace that comes through the wall if you're dumb enough to stick you arm you in an oozing hole in the wall.
In the prelogue we see that the necklace causes a girl to immediately freakout and kill herself, but druggy friend put it on and she starts acting weird and somehow a music box figures in.
Anyway, the other girl is taking journalism in college. She spends most of her time blabbing to anyone who'll listen all about her friend's drinking and drugging problems, because everything is about her or she has no sense of privacy.
Druggy and blabbing friend go out. Druggy picks up a guy, passes out because she does drugs, and someone stabs her one night stand but apparently he doesn't bless or die because there's no blood or body the next day.
I'm not making any of this up.
College student starts dating a guy from college, who learns about the gross oozing hole in the wall.
They research a little and find other residents of the apartment-room have gone missing.
They make out.
College girl has bad dreams.
I don't know what happens next because you can't see the screen and I'm only halfway through this movie. It's been 40 days of constant rain and there's no end of sight.
... Of this movie or the rain.
Matriarch (2022)
Held Our Interest
The movie opens with the bandside of a naked man going into a marsh and drowning himself. We have no idea who, when, why, or what.
We cut to...
The protagonist, unlikable from the getgo. Everyone is unlikable, except, the supervisor, who knows the main character is abusing drugs and wants to help.
We get one throwaway line that leads us to believe her tolerance of a drug-abusing employee may be because her own daughter died of an overdose.
Anyway, daughter goes home to mom and we soon know why she's such a hot mess and not particularly likeable. She pretty much tells mum off and explains mom and her upbringing to a tee.
Anyone, brought by a abusing narcissistic parenting will probably be triggered - so warning.
I glean that mom did the entire gaslighting, it's your fault, you make me treat you this way form of narcissistic parenting. Forced the daughter to learn piano, to be perfect, and called her fat and disgusting, so daughter abuses drugs and is bulmic.
Anyway, earlier on we see the daughter basically die after an alcoholic, cocaine binge when her heart seizes. Black ooze, much like the marsh water, oozes into her mouth and she wakes, but not before dreaming of a mother eating her baby's face.
She staggers into work, insults her boss about the death of her daughter, quits her advertising job and calls mom, who had called earlier to her job. She hadn't seen it spoke to her in 20 years and has told people, her mother was dead.
Back to creepy English village where mutilated dead animals lay decaying on the side of the road, a couple is in a car makingout to the death, and adults are mean and nasty.
Enter an old friend who seems to be spying on her. No one has aged except the friend, whose mother died of cancer and whose father is the village vicar. A bitter man of faith in his God, wife dead of cancer. The daughter had it but was miraculously cured.
He's bitter because the people have turned from his god and we suspect they are worshipping something else.
Mom keeps drugging the daughther and attempted to drag her to her dead husband's old greenhouse. But the daughter wakes and mom runs off.
I won't spoil the story. It doesn't make a whole lot of sense, but you do want to know what the heck is up with that village and Mom~
Anyway, it appears worshipping anything doesn't really bring satisfaction or desired results and worshippers are in the same position as secular people - you live and you die and that's about it.
No one and nothing is coming to save you! Gods are selfish and only in it for the worship of themselves.
The End!
True Story (2015)
Neither Actor...
...really pulls this off. I've seen them in other films and they are decent.
Jonah didn't have the gravitas and Franco didn't pull off creepy or chilling well enough.
Jonah just look like that fat dumb kid in third grade that believes any outlandish story you told him. He just walked around with a blank look on his face, his mouth hanging open.
Sorry Jonah, I really liked you in The Wolf of Wall Street and even your first comedy - I think you played an irreverent babysitter? Loved you in those.
I mean maybe you were portraying Finkel the way he actually is. After all, he claims, he believed Longo. In which case I apologize and you got dumb and gullible down in an Oscar-worthy performance!
I've seen other films where real-life killers were portrayed and you got the sense of how people would believe them, but Franco just made me scoff, like, what idiot would believe any of this guy's bs?
I doubt that's what the scriptwriter, director, and actors were going for!
I'm watching this in 2024 after I happen to come across the third Chris of the family annihilator infamous trio of Watts, Coleman, and Longo.
Watts and Longo famously tried to blame their wives and Coleman tried to setup his murders (wife and two boys) as the work of a stalker (he was the stalker).
All 3 of them were immediately suspected. All 3 wanted out of financial obligations and two of them had gfs on the side. Both Watts and Coleman had awful parents who hated their DIL and seemed to care less that their grandchildren were taken. And didn't have the sense that god have them to hide those facts when speaking to the public. They were nearly as despicable as their two sons.
I was unable to find any YouTube channels that covered Lingo to any level of satisfaction and so decided to watch this movie.
Anyway, back to the movie. I rented the DVD from my local library. I'm a true crime fan and currently this movie is streaming only on MAX.
Others complained this movie had no payoff, I disagree. All along even if you never heard of Longo, you know his story is implausible (your entire family is murdered and you're 7n Mexico? Oh! Come on!)
Finkle pretending he believed Longo on any level, puts his entire credibility (aren't good journalists supposed to be natural skeptics, hence the impetus to search out the truth?) just screams liar, liar, liar pants on fire! A couple of references are made in the movie about how great a journalist he is - never heard of him and I've been reading the Times for years!
The most chilling performance in this entire movie was by the actress playing the wife Felicity Jones. At first I found her annoying but there wasn't a lot of for her to work with except staring off in the space and taking showers.
And I couldn't for the life of me understand why she wasn't berating her husband about spending so much time with the murderer and even believing it.
But that one scene when she confronts Longo was well worth it and well played.
For me the one thing that was really lacking in this movie was giving us any kind of meat to work with as to what drove any of the characters.
I still think this is a movie that's well worth watching. The director took a different approach than the customary one in dealing with these kind of True Crime cases and he held my interest.
Them: Are You Scared? (2024)
Worth Watching
This review is for the first three episodes. I watched the first two episodes with hubby, but I don't think he was as into it as he was with the first season, so rather than wait for the next time that he wants to view this I'm just going to go ahead and binge it.
So far this isn't quite as good as the first season was, which just gripped me by the throat and wouldn't let go. The first episode I watched I was literally shaking before I turned it on and I had to get a glass of wine to calm my nerves. I kid you not!
I literally could only handle one episode a week, because emotionally it was just more than I could handle.
While with this one, I'm binging it, because,it is holding my attention and I certainly want to see where it is going.
While the season was found to be quite terrifying not only with its story but also with the music and the direction and the acting it was just awesome in my opinion, this one isn't as scary as much as it is simply a bit of a mystery and who's doing what and you really want to know where it's going.
I'm hoping this has a twist to it and that is not as obvious as it might seem in the first three episodes as to who the villain is - in in this case - is it the aspiring actor or is it the cop or is it both?
The title of this series is Them. And that could be black people/minorities or it could be white people or it can be the cops. Because everyone's got an Us and a Them and am Us versus a Them.
The series is also like the first season in exploring race and racism and bigotry and how we see things through our own filtered lenses.
I think despite the fact that it's not as gripping as the first season, it's still good and worth watching.
Desaparecer por completo (2022)
Kept Out Interest
This wasn't particularly scary. A bit of a slow burn. However it kept our interest and thankfully this is captioned and in the original Spanish.
I don't like shows that are dubbed in English because the English is always flat and it doesn't really express emotions correctly.
Anyway, I liked the cinematography and production value. I thought it was really good. The acting was fair. I found that, mostly this just kept my interest rather than being frightening. It wasn't particularly scary, but I did want to see where it went. I also liked being able to see different parts of Mexico and something other than "bandidos" or "bad hombres" or drug cartels and other stereotypes.
My understanding is that this movie is based on folklore?
My husband and I watched this together and we both enjoyed it.
This is not a ringing endorsement, but if you want to see movies made by directors from other countries, you can add this one to your list.
By the way this is very similar to another movie where the entire population of the world gradually loses its senses.
Under the Bridge (2024)
Here's My Problem...
I don't like the author character, Rebecca. Once again, a white woman becomes the center of a story about the murder (or any story) about a brown or black person.
I don't care about her angst or problems. I'm not interested in her insertion into the story. I'm interested in the story of the kids involved and the child that died.
So I'm rolling my eyes. First at the character's willingness to lie so easily - To the housemother who said, no, you can't talk to underage girls in my charge and then her sitting on the girl's bed cross-legged, smoking, and giving themcigs like she's one of them.
Give me a break!
No, you're exploiting them for a book. Rules actually apply to you, too.
Then she goes to the police station. Lies again easily and inserts herself into a murder investigation, again for her book.
I actually dislike the character more than I dislike the girls and I don't like snotty teenagers, especially ones who bully and murder.
I know this is a character, but she's written in a very typical way in a trope that I'm finding really annoying from so many other movies throughout the years.
There she is lying, removing someone from a murder investigation. Like, WTH? I hope she gets charged with obstruction and kidnapping for removing a child from police custody without parental knowledge that she has no relationship to.
The arrogance and confidence that nothing will be done to you!
Very poor and annoying writing in my book. Isn't she supposed to be the hero of sorts by writing about this case? Well, make her less glib, unethical, and annoying and globbing on to the pretty little white girl.
Where were the writers of color? Why is this white-centered in a story about child of color who was brutally murdered in real life?!
Carol (2015)
Gave This a 7, Not Sure Why
Maybe it was the cinematography, because it sure wasn't the story, which was long slow and boring.
It was like watching everyone on too much Xanax. There was no excitement. The one lesbian love scene was tame and boring.
I didn't know it at the time that this was a Patricia Highsmith adaptation of one of her books of the same name. I saw this in an artsy fartsy theater in a hoity-toity part of town and maybe just because of where I saw it. I thought it deserved a seven.
Anyway, there was no high. There was no low. There was no tension or suspense. I'm not even sure what the attraction was between the two characters as the Carol character was cold and didn't really seem to be particularly interested in the younger protagonist.
I remember reading, maybe it was a critics review, about the big lesbian sex scene and I thought well maybe it'll pick up at that point.
That sex scene couldn't have been more boring, if it was missionary style with the lights off, between a, impotent minister and his frigid wife of 50 years.
I'm leaving this review after seeing the movie several years ago, because apparently there was a reason why I gave it a seven but I can't remember why I would do that, because I remember being completely bored the entire time I was watching this movie 0 waiting for something to happen and it never did!
Again, it was probably the cinematography and the ability of the movie production to capture the style of the time.
This is one of those adaptations based on books written by gay people who were born in the early part of the century or in the 50s who remained in the closet and so when they wrote books or created films, the subtleties were well hidden, supposedly, from the mainstream public; and because of that, all sexuality, tension, thrills, storytelling, what have you, remained completely buried and in the closet and just meh.
What Jennifer Did (2024)
This Netflix Doc fills in Some Blanks!
This case is well-known to me and, yes, I've seen the JCS channel on this.
I've also watched Investigation Discovery ID and other true crime channels on tv about this case.
This is what's good about the Netflix documentary: You get to hear from the detectives, see news reports, the highlights of Jennifer's interviews, interviews with the boyfriend, and crime scene photos.
Of all the docs I've seen, I've never seen interviews with Wong, news footage, interviews with investigators, or crime scene photos. Just voiceovers about the strictness of the parents and the interviews with her. In at least one doc you did see camera footage of suspicious dad tracking the daughter to a workplace where she claimed to be employed and that's about it.
Now maybe Netflix was aware of the takes already out there, so they went with another POV with the small amount of other footage available.
The doc is short and can easily be supplemented through the ID channel on TV or any number of true crime channels on YouTube.
If it delved deeper and longer, everyone would complain about padding and/or that it was too long and needed to be only, 90 minutes.
Well this doc is just that, about 90 minutes.
One thing of note is the lack of information about the other suspects. But they atleast showed Wong being interviewed and I've never seen anyone showing that. Never seen Nick on the other suspects either or even any court footage of any trials.
The other thing I noted was, everyone was an idiot. I mean the parents were clueless and just never saw that their daughter just wasn't as smart as their expectations, although she apparently was very good with the piano, but that's a different skill set.
Wong also was no genius. He gave everything away in his interview. Talked way too much, bringing up things that were never asked and directly making the cops suspicious of him and Jennifer. Neither asked for lawyers.
As far as I can see, no genius was in operation here from the parents to Jennifer to the bf and the 3 clowns that couldn't even shoot straight.
What a dumb mess. At no time did anyone tell Jennifer or did she tell herself, I'm an adult and I can walk away. The time and energy put into lying and creating false documents for 4 years could have actually gone into going to school and getting a decent job and moving out!
Yes, I know about the issues with parents and kids in Asian and immigrant cultures, but guess what, millions of people go out on their own every single day.
She had choices and chose the wrong one! Sad all around. Her diary indicated the pressures were more about her drug-dealing boyfriend than anything else. Abby parent would object!
Also, I think the Netflix doc gave is enough information about her motivation. Also, is never heard she tried to do it before! Not sure how much more Netflix could spell it out. She maintains her innocence to this day so no more information is coming forth. They all won retrials, too!
Into the Dark: Culture Shock (2019)
Lost A Star for Dragging In the Middle
I'm married to a descendant of immigrants... From Europe. Yeah Grandma and Grandpa came through Ellis Island. Nobody wanted them either.
I'm also a child of an immigrant. This is a country of immigrants, except for the natives of which Mexicans were here first. Lol!
I have no problem with immigrants. They come here to work, just like everyone before them.
A large portion is in Mexican Spanish. Anyway I have no problem with reading captions as I do all the time in English because my household is also a Deaf one.
Anyway, a lot of people in the reviews upset over some fiction. Oh and please note one reviewer - Obama shipped more illegal immigrants back to their home country than any president before him! Lol!
Anyway, this episode started off great during the first half. I felt so sorry for the kids and women and men who place themselves in danger and are taken advantage of because they are desperate and vulnerable.
The second half losses steam, while at first it was interesting and you waited for the twist. But then, it dragged and dragged and the twist wasn't really good and kinda silly, as the amount of money to do such a thing and what would be the purpose? Made little sense even with suspension of disbelief.
If only the American Dream actually existed for other than the very well-to-do and the rich!
We should take care of Americans first, some people scream and then vote against anything that actually would help Americans and all those fetuses that were born! It would be hilarious, if not so hypocritical and sad and exposed why they're so against a particular immigrant!
Anyway, towards the end as the entire premise crumbled, I just wished this to end and I lost interest.
But that misspelled tweet was hilarious!
It's just fiction people! Fiction! But not very good fiction!
Into the Deep (2022)
I Enjoyed It, But Understand The Other Reviewers
As a woman and an older one at that, I was especially annoyed by the fact we needed to see her boobs in the shower. They are nice boobs. But, really? Why?
The other thing that annoyed me, but unfortunately, way too true to life was Jesse's naivete and trusting nature.
Are young woman still getting drunk with men and expecting nothing bad will happen? It shouldn't but it does do, don't do that!
Why on earth would you get on a boat with some stranger alone, not tell your best friend or text your dad, or, much better, not get on at all. Tell him to bring back the booze. You'll wait.
Then you drink and trust him to make you the drink and don't think, I don't know this guy and he could be a serial killer/rapist who could assault me right now and no one would know or drug me, rape, stable me, and toss me overboard.
My momma taught me to think like that! So it's a, no, for me!
Like, are you that stupid? Don't you read the news? Social media?
Then, of course he drugs her or maybe, still stupidly, drank too much and passed out and waked up un the middle of nowhere and then apologizies like it's her fault.
Women, we really have to stop being so f* polite, afraid to hurry men's feelings!
Then proceeds to sleep with him with zero protection, not knowing what disease this dude has.
Anyway, we're later joined by another girl and at first I thought she was flirting with our naive young lady or just kinda loose. I mean, you want a drink after getting knocked out?
I thought this was going to go the way of two women fighting over a man, but it does take a turn - in another direction. At first you're guessing and then it become pretty clear that two someone's are willing to go that extra step to protect themselves and do away with inconveniences.
Even though, I spent some time talking to the TV, as in, well you're a dummy, like a lamb to the slaughter, it was still engaging enough to keep me interested.
I'll probably rewatch at a later date with hubby. I've seen worse and this one keeps you interested in my opinion.
Into the Dark: I'm Just F*cking with You (2019)
Awful!
Everyone was unlikeable. I watched the whole thing just to complete the Into the Dark series, but this was awful.
Not a fan of trolls or practical jokers. Both main characters were homely and unlikeable and creepy, even the sister.
I get it, trolls are disgusting, sad, annoying little cretins. They was nothing to empathize with here. Characters so unlikable you just wish all of them would die so this annoying episode would end.
No depth. No growth. And nothing that we didn't already know about trolls, so the confession really brought nothing to the table and didn't bring any possible sympathy to the character. We never really learn anything new or why practical jokers think they are funny.
What a waste of time. Really hated this one.
The First Omen (2024)
The Origin Story of a Certain Politician~
Well at least now I know how it came to be!
This movie could have been so so much better.
Immediately, the movie gets right into it, coasts along really well and then stumbles, and stumbles, and stumbles, taking forever to get to the point that we're all waiting for if you've seen the original classic.
It can stand on its own as a confused mess, but does a poor job connecting itself into the classic 1976 movie although they do at the end make a straight beeline towards it - just making you want to see if you can find the original and classic streaming for free this evening.
Apparently, this wasn't prophecy, but a goal of fear-mongering to bring people back to God. Basically, it's a script about what a certain political party and religious group has up to since the 70's and why they believe a certain tanned rotund, burn steak eating, Bible selling con is the Second Coming.
It also makes sense now!
Jesus is rolling in his grave... No!... Wait!.. What?
Anyway, I liked, but wish it was so much better than it was...7 stars for holding my interest, the acting, and the set design!
Needed way better script!
Split (2016)
The Subplot Served a Purpose!
IDK why some people didn't get what the subplot was intended to do.
It was there to show she knew how to use a shotgun, which comes into play later.
It was also too show she was the more capable girl, because of the trauma she's been through i.e. Waiting until you can determine the endgame, how to gain trust from your abuser so you can turn the tables, and that she was more observant (she noted just how strong he was).
I'm all for girlpower as a woman myself who has met several men who's butt I would have given anything to beat with my bare hands, but even the skinniest of men can have way more muscle power than the average woman.
As she said, just one punch could have knocked them out; and trust mem I'm all for several woman going after a guy from multiple angles to give ourselves a chance to get away.
The one girl hit Patricia as hard as she could with that chair and she didn't even flinch, just got pissed, so if you're going to take a chance with physical force, you better aim good and deadly. Even the cops will tell you to use whatever method you can to stay alive and sometimes that means cooperating, seeming to bond with them (as she tried with Hedwig) to gain trust.
Apparently, for some people there wasn't enough gore or violence or sex to keep them interested. I thought James and Betty were excellent in their parts, perhaps even better than the script and Anya did the best she could. The two other girls were supposed to play "normal" ditzy teen girls, which may be an annoying stereotype, but you have men making these movies, soooo... But it was also a play against what the Horde believed - that they were naive. Never watching their surroundings. Always expecting everything to just go right - look how long it took them to stop staring at their phones to notice a stranger in the car - never had trauma and so deserved their fate.
Also, when Anya runs out of bullets, The Beast sees the scars (she cuts herself) and recognizes she has experienced trauma (one of the horde had been tracking the two girls for a while, the Anya character wasn't supposed to be there).
These are two other facts that people seemed to have missed - the shotgun wouldn't fire when she had the chance at a clean shot and the motive of the horde.
Anyway, I watch movies to be entertained and so spend less of my time being critical of what I'm watching, which, for me, just ruins a movie. Sometimes, going back and rewatching, you can see what the movie was going for.
I found the same with the movies, Don't Worry Darling and Run Rabbit Run, both taking underserved hits IMHO. On initial viewing, I sat there thinking, WTH? And not until I read reviews from other people who paid attention, did I go back and realize just how great this two movies are, than I initially thought.
I get it, a lot of people (mostly men, I think) don't like Night, yet continue to watch his movies and then bash them. Makes no more sense than they claim about his movies! Lol!
On the Line (2022)
Knew Everything Before The End *Spoilers
Knew it was a hoax, because the writing was that bad. I kept saying that the voices of the daughter and wife sounded fake, so did the protagonist's.
And Mel's lines were so hokey, it was just no way any of it was happening (not to mention him staying on air. Most men would have gone flying out of the building.)
Then of course when the kid fell you knew another twist was coming.
Just didn't feel right and so I kept thinkingm this is a hoax and I know the new guy is in on it. Pretty awful movie, but somewhat entertaining, but we've seen it all before.
You've seen worst. Considering this was Mel, I really enjoyed the "kosher" line (giant eyeroll).
I Am Legend (2007)
ReWatching in 2024 and I Can Do...
...without the religious nonsense. God still loves us. Oh really? It's batting 1,000 with his domestic violence of humans. Like a spouse beating their mate and saying, I'm doing this for you own good or you make me do it!
Anyway, the I'm Anna and this is Ethan is a gender switch on Adam and Eve and they're headed to Bethel in Vermont. Bethlehem...see? Get it?
Giant eyeroll. You can tell this is an American film because no film is repleat without mention of god and Jesus. So tired of fairytales for grownups.
Like everyone else, I praise Will Smith's performance. Back when it first came out, we didn't know what a giant... He is.
The first half is great and the scene in the bank had me in the edge of my seat with suspense.
Others are complaining about the fact that the story doesn't spell everything out. Oh come on! You don't need all of that. There's enough exposition to give you a good idea of what happened and to put two and two together. American audiences always win everything spelled out for them!
The virus went airborne so even if you weren't treated for cancer, eventually the virus mutated, became airborne much easier to transmit.
And we see with covid what it was like and how people refused to believe that it was real or to wear a mask or to take precautions. So it's easy to see how a viral infection can spread very rapidly from zero to a worldwide catastrophe.
I didn't need all those details but yes I agree the ending felt rushed and the film was pretty much ruined by the rushed ending as well as the CGI monsters.
I don't understand why they couldn't hire a hundred extras preferably acrobatic people, people who are extra bendy, thin people, people who are dancers, people who are very athletic and use them because the CGI is just awful.
Anyway I've seen this movie multiple times because I really do enjoy Will Smith's performance and the setup of the movie. And I loved the dog!
Medium (2005)
Tina DiJospeh Can't ACT!
She plays the assistant too or the deputy mayor or something and oh my god!!! It is so obvious that she is no actress; that she has to be either married to or sleeping with someone on the show.
I'm all the way up to season 3 episode 5 and I can't take it anymore, so I looked her up and sure enough she's related to the writer or the producer of the show. Itaa is so obvious that she is the result of nepotism.
I feel so sorry for the other professional actors having to be in the scene with her! The screen literally goes dead every time she opens her mouth.
She's trying to play a scene right now of shock or surprise or incedulity or...something... I'm not really sure what emotions she's supposed to be conveying; but it was it was so horrific, I had to stop watching and come on here and write this!
I looked her up and thank goodness she was only in two other mediocre movies and hopefully has never been heard from on the silver screen ever again.
She's so bad that at first I thought she was this other "actress" that used to appear on Dexter. I wanted to gouge my eyes out and pour hot wax into my ears every time she entered the screen and here I am watching this chick and it's the same awful.
People, please, stop putting your no talent relatives in productions. It ruins everything and I'm sure your professional actors suffer for it!
Listening to Alice Dubois attempt to cry in any way that sounds realistic is bad enough. Yes, please stop giving her crying scenes. She's awful. Like the series, no matter how unrealistic it is,but the bad acting part, it's got to go!
Rant over! Lol!
Imaginary (2024)
We Liked It!
Movies that keep me engaged or interested or entertained always get a 7, because really that's all we can expect from fiction movies.
My audience was completely engaged. It seemed like a mix of old and young and teens. No derisive laughter and the free jump scares worked.
This movie made little sense, but it was different in the premise. You had the usual tropes of creepy old ladies and teens work angst. The dad was wasted.
The initial scene was really good and made you want to see more.
There's a little confusion because stay that scene we start seeing a little girl growing up a bit and O had no idea she was the Jessica character. I thought the little girl was the child of the Jessica and her husband.
Took a while to figure out who was who. So that could have been done better, because we jump right into her being stepmom and I was like wha?
Suspend expectations. Could it have been done better on better hands that know how to bring the creepy we all want when we watch horror? Yep. It ain't no Hereditary, but I wasn't that big a fan of that weird movie either!
China Moon (1994)
Love This Movie!
I really love this movie. Ed Harris was wonderful. He's small, short, and bald, but somehow came across sexy as hell!
As, a woman I want to be loved like that! Y favorite live and scene is when he cries, "I was loving you...and you were f* me!"
Man, Harris, I'd love you to the blue China Moon and back! I felt his pain! Wonderful actor!
My husband and I watch movies on the afternoon, when we don't have any plans and I chose this for our afternoon movie.
Of course I have the DVD and of course I've seen this multiple times. I actually figured out a part of the plot that was always a little muddled for me, even though I've seen this movie multiple times
Anyway, it's 2024 and we watched the movie for the first time (hubby's) today and he was totally into it. I can always tell when he really likes the movie when he does it nod off! He was glued to the TV screen and declared it a winner!
Anyway I like this movie way better than Body Heat, which was way way over the top about how sexy Kathleen Turner was.
To me this was more realistic about a man falling in love with a beautiful woman than anything Body Heat had to offer.
Body heat was about lust. This movie was about love. And I like that!
Wendy Williams: What a Mess! (2021)
Held My Attention, But What A Mess
I was never WW fan. Never Heard he3 on radio. Didn't know she existed until I heard about her because of her talk show. I've seen a couple of parts of her show. I can see some of her appeal.
I'm a little more interested in her since her diagnosis because that's a very human thing and because now that I've seen what a hot mess she was/is, she more interesting as a person than a personality.
I first watched the Where's Wendy doc and then this. I found it kinda annoying, especially the weird constant crying.
With celebs that are always on, you never know what's a real emotion and what's for the camera. Regardless, I think she was really hurt by her husband and who wouldn't be.
But on the other hand, you knew he was cheating for years, so the grieving should have happened and been over long before now.
She did manage some restraint. I'll give her that, because if I saw my husband Backwards Barbie riding in my Rolls, I'd be he up on charges lol!
But then that's the reason why you don't take a man off the street, then clothe, house, feed, and employ him. Leave him right where you found him. You didn't need him. You were already made.
Everything was your choice. You do exactly what you want and from what I can see from the doc, you always have, regardless of what's best or what the people who love you want. So stop crying and feeling sorry for yourself.
Where Is Wendy Williams? (2024)
Why is everyone so clueless?
This was really sad. Her family seems like really decent people.
I'm not a WW fan. I've caught some parts of her talk show and did enjoy what I saw. When I first heard of her, she didn't seem like a very nice person dealing in that gossipy hurtful "journalism" that unfortunately too much of the public likes, so I wasn't breaking my neck to catch her. Never heard her on the radio.
As an introvert, I don't understand the need for public attention or wanting to be famous and like a lot of people with that goal and achievement, it's a long slow road to destruction.
Like other famous people who basically demanded and were catered to, to do whatever the heck they want, there's a price to pay later.
I doubt she could have ever been influenced or controlled to do what was really best for her and so family that may have wanted to do best couldn't and the enablers and users were right there to keep the wreckage going.
She needs to be in a private hospital/care facility getting treatment, otherwise we know what the headlines will be soon...going the way of Michael Jackson, Lisa Marie Presley, et al.
I'm waiting for someone on this doc to stop blowing smoke and say, flat out, she's sick, she's suffering mental decline, and stop with the accolades. That crap is over and done with, not coming back. You're asked if you took her to a hospital and you say you can't answer that question???
Yeah...
Banks will take action to protect someone's money who is incapacitated. This can help with elderly people who are being taken advantage of by caretakers or housekeepers or people who befriend them with the sole intent to steal their money.
I don't think the decision to do such drastic action is taken lightly. Actually, it's good the bank took those steps.
I give this a low rating because it feels like exploitation to publish the so-called documentary and watch someone who's been so obviously ill in many ways.
Audible (2021)
A Rather Odd Very Short Doc
This was a little odd and it seemed choppy, but I think, and it wasn't until near the end, this I finally got the point of this.
It really wasn't really about Amari or Teddy as much as it was about this Maryland School for the deaf football team and it's long winning streak and what the future may hold for these young Deaf men and women as they leave a supportive environment and go into the hearing world.
So if you look at it from the point of view that, this is just a little microcosm, a small slice of life view of this school for the Deaf, Deaf teenagers, Deaf culture, and the lives of just want a few Deaf kids and what was going on with their lives in this moment in time, then I can understand better what the film was going for. We really didn't get a lot about the child Teddy who was bullied and hearing school and ended up taking his life. I think if we learned a little bit more about him at the beginning and then we segued into the story of the school for the deaf with Amari as the focus, the film with have come across more coherent.
It was a bit annoying to not be able to turn off the captions. I know sign language and while I always watch with captions on it's distracting when I'm trying to watch people signing.
Suitcase Killer: The Melanie McGuire Story (2022)
Typical Lifetime Movie, But Watchable
I'm aware of this case, because I'm into true crime, but never delved deeply into it. I've seen interviews with the real murderer and she just isn't credible.
She talks in this quiet, modulated voice that I've seen other female murderers use, as if to say, see I'm so sweet and gentle and feminine I could never commit murder. Yeah, right.
Right off, the movie paints the husband as a bad guy, but on the other hand (if it is true or near the truth), she knew what she was getting into, but ignored all the signs. I mean he cheated on someone to be with her and she saw he was a philanderer, so cry me a river.
But people (especially women) always think they'll either change a man or that she's so wonderful a cheater won't cheat on them. I'm a woman, so I know.
Anyway, we see here in the movie and in real life, she had no problem with cheating herself and for years.
Hey, if things aren't working out, get a divorce! Don't marry a guy you know is a cheater, a drinker, and a gambler - it's not going to go well, A hammer to the head would be more subtle.
Lifetime assumed most of its viewers are women, so they need to give a background reason for the premeditated plotting of murdering and dismembering you spouse, by a woman, instead of opting for separation and divorce.
What this didn't show and maybe can't is that there are plenty of people who for a variety of reasons decide that murder is a good and the only option. And apparently she did.
Some people claiming to know (really you don't) insist she's innocent. But DNA and a lot of circumstanial evidence and motivation points to her. I'm not buying her claims of innocence.
He may have been a cad, but she had options and chose murder instead.
Despite, the obvious bias by Lifetime, this was watchable and the actors did decent jobs.
For people claiming she's innocent or are in doubt, including the actor playing the victim - Oh come on! -The guy was found in suitcases he owned and she admitted to, human "sawdust" (a term coined in an earlier gruesome murder case involving a frozen spouse and a woodchipper), the fact that her brother and she drove to AC to the man's car and used the victim's phone to make it appear he was still alive, a medical drug was found in his blood, a substance similar to that used in household furniture was found in the body, medical grade towels she had access to were found with the body, the missing gun she purchased, the cost of bullets on the receipt and the price from the gun dealer, the Internet searches, the trip to where the body was dumped and then trying to get .90 cents removed twice, the matching of the plastic bags containing the body to ones at the house, etc., that's not a Mafia hit; That's not someone annoyed with his gambling debts, that's someone with motive no matter how weird, means, and opportunity, who worked in a medical facility and had access to those things.
Circumstantial doesn't mean I could have done it or you, it means the circumstances surrounding the likeliest person - and that's her. The fact that fragments of his body were in the car is enough. That means she was in close proximity. No wonder the jury convicted.
The fact that she's sticking to her story means nothing. Why would she confess to her lover? She has no regard for human life, so swearing on her children's lives means nothing either. I've seen cases of females who murdered using them to play to the public as though being a mom means you can't murder. I can think of two cases right off the top of my head.
They got the right person and the movie was fairly decent.
Expats: Home (2024)
Please Don't Do A Second Season
I get it... It's about women's pain. I'm a woman and old enough to experience children, infidelity, marriage, divorce, second chances and still this didn't resonant nor move me. It was so bland. And meh. Like major things happen. A couple of tears shed. No real emotion emoted. Just, meh, s* happens, shrug. Get on with it.
There was no passion here. Nothing. Everyone just looked like they'd just had bad kimchi for lunch. It was like watching a fish flopping around, gasping for breath. You just want to knock it on the head and put it out of it's misery or just throw it back in the water.
Unlikable people. Unlikable children. Even Gus was just annoying and just disobedient, a tragedy waiting to happen.
You hand your kid over to strangers and then show about as much passion and pain and anger that your frozen visage can now muster, I guess.
The director got nothing out of her actors. The only thing I got was she loves her country and wanted the audience to see it. That's fine for a travelog, but this was supposed to be a movie about... Something.
But all we got was 6 hours of boring, entitled miserable rich people crapping on their invisible servants and then treating tragedy like an unfortunate incident, like finding out the last high fashion outrageously expensive must-have doodad just got sold. Most women can't relate to that.
Expats: Central (2023)
Hey On With It!
We're on the second to last episode and we've gotten no where. Only more examples of the vast divide between the haves and the havenots.
I sincerely hope Margaret's housekeeper, babysitter, nanny cook, maid, handservant, "just like family" all around doormat goes home to her real family and gets a much needed and deserved retirement and rest.
You'll pay her American wages?! WTF why weren't you paying her American wages to begin with. So you stiff her in an expensive city?
You already lost one child, because you were reckless, stupid, and jealous. Why not try raising the two you have left. Millions of women actually do it without "family" doormats. Why her husband isn't blaming her for the loss of their son, I don't know. I'd be raging.
Poor Puri, her ma'am gets drunk then wants to force herself on her to keep her company and play dress up. The woman was in her bed relaxing after waiting on her all day. And then the next day, she's back to boiling soft boiled eggs and being a maid again.
Then the other one living all alone and lonely in a big ornate house while hubby bounces out to be with his mistress. I thought she was going to bounce herself. Nope, back to hiring some poor soul who had to abandon her children to work like a dog to send money back home to support an entire family that probably includes grandparents and siblings while these ladies walk around with their heads up their butts.
All the kids are insufferable brats.
Anyway, we were forced to sit through an hour of scenes telling us what we already know and not really delving into the world of the serving class. Once again, they are nothing but a backdrop for the rich.
The Final Storm (2010)
The Wife Was Awful
Man o' man every time the wife opened her mouth I was yelling at my tv.
Everything her husband said she disappeared, didn't believe, or doubted and never had his back. Every single time... And for a stranger no less.
Besides being in the bathroom while a stranger is bathing, who should have been long gone, when her injured husband is outside in danger, which we know because fires were started, so it's either Silas or the men from town, she's no where to be found! Unbelievable!
When she asked her husband where would Silas go, I wanted to throw my shoes at the TV. Silas is a grown man! Not your problem. Not your husband's. You have a kid to think about! Who the hell cares where Silas has to go as long as he's gone! WTH?
She was so poorly written, she was an awful wife and mother and dumb to boot.
The movie made no sense even as an allegory. I read the terrible reviews, but they're was just enough they're to keep me watching.
So what was Silas? A fallen angel? A prophet? The family gets over it's differences only to be snuffed our by god?
My the end, you don't even care. Could have been so much more even on a limited budget, but instead we get this schlock! Until kids. And unfaithful wives. And men that take way to long to getting around to protecting his family.