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Battle Scars (2020)
utterly painful to watch - may as well buy an audiobook.
The script is the laziest story-writing i've ever come across...
The director makes zero effort to visually tell a you story.. so you spend almost 80% time listening to the main character (mikey) tell you what is happening in his life and why... vs actually seeing a story.. Mikey just goes on and on pretentiously deeply about his trauma war, darkness, horror etc etc utterly unconvincing... but there is no story just a bunch of background, scenes and flashbacks and overused cliches.. You may as well buy a really bad unoriginal audiobook. There doesn't seem be any supporting characters, they just appear and pretty much disappear with no development.
There were lots of attempts at intense, dark visuals, imagery and could see what the director was trying to do but its so overused its just annoying.. i watched it to the end just to see if it was the bad all the way through... and yes.. it was..
Lastly, it then dedicates itself meaningfully to brave vietnam war veterans and their conditions and ongoing suffering (this is the only decent part of the film) as if it legitimises this awful piece of film - but it doesn't. Its bad.
The Critical Drinker (2012)
Stunningly insightful commentary presented with acidic wit and charm
There's not much to say beyond the headline... i wish hollywood would hire him before they turned their rubbish scripts into rubbish movies.
Mainstream cinema has gone downhill with the blockbuster hyperactive but forgettable spectacle taking precedence over meaningful, emotive and character driven scripts.
The critical drinker provides a great analysis with some good laughs along the way - give this gentlemen a TV show!
The Super (2017)
Starts well.. but degenerates into an utterly contrived, incoherent and badly dubbed mess.
The movie starts with a good opener with sufficient tension and shocks to bring you in.. it seems to build slowly and week but then midway it seems they never had an ending planned or started filming before they finished the script and then realised it was bad and tried to change it (witness the awful dubbing of new dialogue throughout the movie and especially the end).
Anyway, any promise is lost as it degenerates into an incoherent mess, and while there was the seed of a nice twist, the character's behaviour/actions make no sense or are not explained. It's so poorly done it's annoying.
Don't watch.