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Zack (1983)
Amateurish christian propaganda
Amateurish effort disguised as a movie. Shot in 16mm with terrible lighting and way too many Vivaldi pieces. Acting, writing, everything is amateurish. People who go to film school can't graduate if they make something this bad. Probably financed by some evangelical church who wanted to make a "comedy" to trick dumb people into going to church. The dialogue is insanely bad and predictable. I wonder if this movie is bad enough to the point of being funny or if it's just plain bad. Good example of how difficult it is to make even a half decent movie. Might interest some film students but that's it.
Halloween Ends (2022)
It's not a bad movie, but it's a bad Halloween movie
I often complain that Hollywood doesn't know how to make movies anymore, and this is a great example. Things become successful and then nobody understands why, yet they keep trying to make it happen again. It's sad, really. This could have been a good movie, some nice ideas here, but they are all wasted in an empty story with no spine. Michael Meyers seldom appears. It's just not him, really. Making several little homages to John Carpenter films doesn't make a movie good. The characters don't make any sense, they change personality from film to film, from scene to scene. This film feels like 2 hours of people berating each other for past traumas. It's just boring and dumb.
Lansky (2021)
Predictable fodder for the streaming era
Whenever Hollywood studios claim they're going to start using ChatGPT to write their movies, I imagine they will be something like this. Predictable, pedestrian, milquetoast, naive. The worst sin in any form of entertainment and the Arts is being boring. This blatant example of a Save-The-Cat-a-fication of Hollywood forgot to remember that just because a story is based on real life events it doesn't mean it has to be as predictable as a Hallmark Christmas film. Quite the contrary, the artists involved need to take the facts and squeeze the drama and excitement out of them.
Keitel is fine, tho. Nice cinematography too.
In Fabric (2018)
Festival bait disguised as giallo tribute
Lots of good ideas, many promises, but ultimately falls flat.
I would love to watch a sequel that explored the strange department store with more depth. Also props for the music.
But the movie is too long and skips some very basic rules of storytelling. I'll keep an eye on this director, though.
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Shades of Gray (1989)
Farewell to a disposable season
This is the last episode featuring Dr. Pulaski and it's just fitting that her stint on board of the enterprise ended in a episode made out of scenes from past episodes, something producers blamed on the writers' strike of 1988.
Dr. Pulaski is the second most infuriating thing about this show (the first being the wasteful killing of Tasha Yar) so I'm glad this is her final episode.
I'm glad these first two seasons over, hoping that the show will improve from here on.