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Hemingway (2021)
Hemingway the documentary covers a lot of ground, but the man was kind of a hot mess
The Heminway bio covers all of the essentials for anyone interested in him. I found The Snows of Kilimanjaro to be self indulgent. The movie adaptation of Farewell to Arms with Gary Cooper was pretty good. However, as a human being...EH seemed to be a mess. Womanizing, judging his parents, spending lots of time indulging in bull fights, hunting, sport fishing and getting drunk. Seems pretty one dimensional to me. I've never understood the attraction that many seem to have for him. I wonder if in 2021 (at least for my generation), his writing style along with neurosis's and machismo would garner him many fans. It is sad that he had so many problems but then again, who doesn't?
The Sinner: Part VI (2020)
Not sure which is more far fetched- the cop or the nihilist
So sorry I invested time getting to this point. I worked at a police station - there's no cop that would ever do anything even close to this. Like ever, under any circumstance. So far fetched as to be laughable.
Dirty John (2018)
It is a great depiction but due to the outcome & mindset of lead...will be hard for many to witness
I quote another IMDB user here because she said it more succinctly than I : " I could not believe that at her age, and after multiple failed marriages, she could be so naive." Talk about hitting the nail on the head. I cannot believe that the lead character still has a relationship with her children after what she put them through. She was the mother, the adult, their role model. Even if it was domestic abuse, she put her children in REAL danger for her own personal gratification.
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017)
Season 1 and 2 were great. Then came season 3.
If I have to hear the words "Shy Baldwin" one more time I cannot continue to watch. Season 3 seems to lose it's way. Maisel's parents, her ex, her manager, all down in the dumps for the large part of the season. There are a lot of fancy clothes and sets so the eye candy is nice but cannot save the lack of charm. Her comedy is not funny. Someone needs to go back to the formula that gave interest to the plot of a woman going out on her own in the 1950s. Less campy/ vamp stuff would ground the show and let Tony Shalhoub, Zach Levi, Jane Lynch, Kevin Pollack and Alex Borstein earn it.
Jack Ryan (2018)
Major, major plot holes. Atomic crater size fail
There are some spoilers here: What are the chances that the analyst who is tasked with saving the US from imminent attack by rogue Middle Eastern terrorists would be dating the doctor in charge of infectious disease at the very hospital in which this drama plays out? Even though I like Krazynski (sic) a lot...how many times does he have to take his shirt off to get paid for this series? Last, at the climax of the drama, wherein all loose ends are being tied up- the fact that the terrorists have managed to infect a couple dozen people with ebola is swept under the rug. Their plot to use the vents of a hospital for a second bio chemical attack is foiled but the rescued hostages (laden with Ebola) have in-turn come into contact with military, flight staff, and their families are never mentioned again. We only see that POTUS is "ok" and his friend is stable. I used to love Tom Clancy novels. This was a far cry from The Sum of All Fears or Clear and Present Danger. Fail
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)
Ballad of Buster Scruggs is a masterpiece- we can meet at high noon if you disagree
Wow. I don't review many titles but have appreciated viewing decades of classic films. This work weaves together tales of mortality like no other; in short it is an allegorical masterpiece. One particularly disturbing tale ends in the death (not shown) of a character who has reached the end of his usefulness. Another shows that serendipity can quickly place the "shoe on the other foot" when a gold miner is able to persevere over his foe- who ends up paying the ultimate price for his treachery. The central theme running through each of the stories seems to be that the end comes to all. Some cause their own demise and remain ignorant of the machinations that bring about the end.
It was a delight to see.
A Family Affair (2015)
Interesting story but not fully developed
The grandmother is just the worst. For reasons that are not totally revealed, she jettisons her kids when they are very young and temporarily reclaims them later. She is a total narcissist- and it is bewildering that the universe would allow one who had acted so egregiously to "suck air" for over 90 years. I felt terrible for her grown sons, who decades later are still trying to bravely face the trauma visited on them by their beastly mother. She claims to have been "too young" to face raising children....ok, she then fails to acknowledge that her kindergarten age children were also "too young" to face life without a parent. Caught up in her own self absorbed delusions, Marianne escapes all accountability for a lifetime of grief that she caused her family. The single saving grace of the movie was that the near criminal behavior of the grandmother seems to bring together the surviving males in the family. It is a compelling story but takes a long time to unfold and is never fully explained.
Phantom Thread (2017)
I am one of a handful who can relate- but it's not love
I am the adult child of a father who lived for 25 years with a woman who had one illness after another. Each of these illnesses, from allergies to TMJ to back pain would resolve...and then another would present. My father spent two and a half decades being mother hen to her. I dare say that the more attention he gave, the more she rose to the occasion with a variety of medical issues.
In the end, when he was diagnosed with dementia- she left him. She moved away for several years; she filed security alerts at her place of work and alleged that he was stalking her. She waited until the disease progressed far enough that he was willing to marry. Less than two years into the marriage she committed him to a locked, private pay nursing facility and had full financial control of his affairs.
This brings me to the dynamic in Phantom. It's not love. It is some type of sick symbiotic relationship. Sometimes one party has the power and is a manipulator but on occasion the roles reverse. It was uncomfortable to watch Daniel Day Lewis's character be subjugated by Alma
The Gift (2015)
I loved it...a little Hitchcock meets "She-Devil"
I keep reading reviewers' quotes about bygones. The more appropriate quote for this trio, as quoted from Gordo: "You may be done with the past...but the past isn't done with you".
As someone who is in the same age bracket as the actors, with a family, I can say that this movie is a lot scarier than most of the ridiculous and far fetched pulp produced in recent years.
SPOILER: the wife knows something is off and not just because Gordo may have a few loose screws. When I left the theater, I kept thinking of a movie that I saw years ago with Roseanne Barr called "She-Devil". In that movie, Roseanne goes from frumpy housewife / mom -who has lost everything- to a bit of a success story. Along the way, she manages to pull herself out of a pit of despair. In doing so...she visits one kind of Hell after another on her previous tormentor. The Gift left me thinking about the characters for hours afterward. LOVED IT