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Fresh (2022)
Where are the "Fresh" ideas?
In terms of satire, Fresh projects itself that is has a lot to say about modern dating, but it doesn't say as much as it thinks it does. In terms of horror, this was a bit tame for my personal taste. It borrows ideas from other films and mashes it all together. Which is a bit of a shame for me as the cast does a fine job and I did chuckle at some parts here and there, but this script is devoid of any FRESH ideas. Overall, this felt tailor made for people who thought Promising Young Woman was "bold and shocking."
Playback (2012)
Doesn't deserve a "Playback"
The whole time watching this movie, I was wondering how they got Christian Slater is take part of this. Not that I'm a fan of his work, I just thought he still had a tab bit of dignity in him. The plot sounds like it came straight from a Japanese horror film, the only problem is that this film doesn't even bother to attempt to elicit any scares. To me, it was just a cheap excuse to have bare breast and gore. The acting and writing in this film is quite poor. I was disappointed with this film due to the fact that this film was released by Magnet, who have released good films such as Rubber, Hobo With A Shotgun, Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie, Outrage, and so on. By the time the film got to the plot twist, I was already unengaged with this film. This film is worth no one's time. Even if you like Christian Slater (I'm not sure if anyone still does), just avoid this at all cost.
Battleship (2012)
The Battleship sinked pretty deep
I'll be honest before I write this review. I thought the idea of making a movie based off Battleship was a pretty stupid idea. I think making movies based off board games is a pretty stupid idea in general. Let me first start off with the good aspects of the movies, the special effects are actually quite good, which is why this movie gets a two besides a one. In a technical aspect, this film isn't badly directed, and there isn't a horrible performance in the cast. That is the only positive things I could say about this movie. Now let's start with what I think is wrong with the picture. First off, the dialogue is this film is god awful, most of the characters in this film are scientist and members of NASA who manage to talk like 12 year-old children. The film had a budget of over $200 million and they couldn't afford to get a good screenplay writer? Wow. What's worst was that it seem Peter Berg tried to make Battleship a comedy as well, it seemed like when there wasn't action going on, Berg starts pushing in this cheesy sitcom style comedy that feels off to me.
My perfect way of described this movie is that GI Joe and Transformers had sex in a pool, they thought that they couldn't get pregnant in the act, but then Battleship came out unexpectedly 9 months later. This movie is big, overlong (it's over two hours) and dumb blockbuster, the worst part is that it's not enjoyable dumb. If you want to make an enjoyable dumb action movies, please resort to The Expendables or the recent Rambo flick, this is just a waste of time.