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Meet Dave (2008)
Wonderful Family movie
I don't get all the hate. I love this movie and I think Eddie Murphy is as funny as always. Did you haters miss his hilarious facial expressions? One of the best angles of his comedy. This is just a cute, feel-good movie that is a bit of a rom-com between the Captain and his No. 3. It's an intelligent and quirky story it reminds me a lot of Holes. I frequently rewatch this little gem when I need an emotional pick-me-up. It is an adorable movie, low on cussing and zero violence; no cruelty; and Elizabeth Banks is a very talented actor. I love violent thriller movies but this is such a nice change of pace and really appropriate for children.
Carnal Knowledge (1971)
From a Late Boomer
When this movie was banned in Americus, GA, I was in middle school in another small Georgia town. I basically missed it; in those days once a movie finished its first run it was gone, gone, gone. Especially if it was too risqué for Turner Classic Movies. As a woman with a long and successful career, it is painful to watch this movie. All these men care about are tits and asses women are nothing but animals to them. And they are brutes the way they treat the women and the women tolerate it. It's just too painful for this aged feminist to watch. It is nowhere near the movie the Graduate or Catch-22 proved to be. I'd advise you skip this drek and rewatch Some Like it Hot or All About Eve for a much better movie.
The Yellow Birds (2017)
Insult to war veterans
Just to show how little this country really cares about the Iraq War or its veterans. There were so many horrible mistakes just on the range scene I turned this movie off. Veterans have come home scarred and unemployed and this is how they are dishonored. This movie was filmed in Georgia there is a retiree or veteran under just about every piece of granite and they couldn't ask ONE for advice? The reviewer who called these filmmakers morons was too kind. Routinely the press gets the military wrong but after years and years of watching accurate war movies, at least with reasonably accurate uniforms, somebody made this piece of junk. You ought to be ashamed. People died in that war and you do this. Happy Memorial Day weekend. Enjoy your barbeque.
Rollerball (1975)
Today is 2023
Today is 2023. There have been movies since 1975 with far superior action sequences, even some not aided by CGI. I missed this in 1975 but I turned 18 that year. I want to make this review with the benefit of 45 years of movies, higher education, and life experiences.
WOW. What a movie. It explores my favorite human theme: free will. In this dystopian world, the Man has bought off human free will with luxuries and beauty. Beautiful women, gorgeous homes, green grass, and trees are all provided. Nobody seems to work for a living but nobody has any choice, either. Our protagonist, Jonathan, is provided a new and gorgeous "housewife" every time he comes home. He hates them. He is not attracted to them. He misses his one love, who was given to a person of higher rank.
Jonathan doesn't really want to buck this system, he just wants to understand it. As a sports hero, when he steps into the game he is Michael Jordan, Wayne Gretzky, Tom Brady, Albert Pujols, and Steph Curry. The Man can't kill a sports hero so he sets up a game made for slaughter because Jonathan won't retire when he's asked, prodded, bribed, and threatened, to do so.
Life is so much of a joke to these entitled people that they burn down trees with a flame gun for fun. All literature has been censored and summarized by computers and is not available. Not only is there not anything to read, but because there's no culture, there's nothing of meaning in existence, and nothing to talk about other than Rollerball. It is a violent game but no worse than Bob Probert hockey fights, not really.
I will say this: I'm watching the cocktail party, a typical Hollywood-ized presentation of beautiful women and powerful men. I'm going, like, what's wrong?? Oh! Women didn't have boob jobs in 1975 when this was made. Those low, low necklines and spaghetti straps are just not filled out. Please don't censor me for this.
Kill List (2011)
NO NO NO NO NO NO NO
This movie popped up on a Facebook group I belong to, where the film recommendations are normally so good. So I sit down and for about 1.5 hours I'm watching a Guy Ritchie movie about a couple of Army veterans doing hits in the UK for rich people. The viewer has NO IDEA why these guys are getting killed but they are criminals. Then, all of a sudden, you get a 90 degree HARD right into the end of the Wicker Man. At least the Wicker Man had foreshadowing that it involved a bunch of weirdos living in a cult. Not this movie. Oh, no. Nothing foreshadows this situation. Nothing. So you get this Wicker Man ending that goes splat on the floor and you just want to shake your head. This is a terrible movie.
Day of the Outlaw (1959)
Very Good, and Unusual, Western
This is a Western but as one other reviewer noted, there is no clear good guy v. Bad guy. All of the characters have moral flaws, be they war crimes during the Civil War, adultery, lust, or good old-fashioned over-juiced testosterone. As the leader of the actual "outlaws," Berl Ives is excellent, and he knows the second his men get to alcohol they will lose control and rape the four women who are present. He does not know he is a dying man, as the local veterinarian took out a bullet slug but knows the "cure" won't last and once the Yankee Captain dies, his men will commit a panoply of crimes including rape and murder. So you open into a Western you are certain is going to be about a barbed-wire range war, and it flips on you. Excellent story, acting, and dialogue, and as an Alaskan I can promise you will die going through snow like that, even on horseback.
Kampen om Narvik (2022)
Finally, A Mother's Wartime Struggle
I am truly disappointed by all of the "low" reviews of this marvelous film. I'm a retired Army Colonel and a woman. I've watched every war movie ever made, several times. They are all about what is depicted here about Gunnar. Men, sacrifice, guns, and undiluted patriotism. I love these things, too, but men and women do different things for different reasons. Ingrid, in her bright green coat, will do anything to save her child. Just the same thing all higher mammal mothers do. Anything. What's truly amazing and different about this story is that Gunnar comes to see her point of view and then puts his family first. Fighting forces, especially American ones, have been far removed from family for over one hundred years and none of us in the US have come face to face with the challenges of civilians undergoing an enemy occupation. As Ingrid says, it was English bombs that injured her child and killed her father in law in the first place. England also ended up betraying Norway in the end. To her, it is not England=Good; Germany=Bad. To her, she must save her child the rest doesn't matter.
For Gunnar, it is as it has always been. Rah, Rah. Fight for your brothers in arms and your country. I get that. I've been to war. I cry during the National Anthem. The US didn't come for me but I served anyway.
These are simply two sides of the same coin, but Ingrid's side has not told in war movies at all. Now it has been. Wonderful story. Excellent acting and production values. Good movie.
Race Against Time: The CIA and 9/11 (2021)
Not Propaganda IMHO
I was in DC on 9/11 and I went to Iraq on a tour in 2007. This piece tactfully outlines how detrimental the Iraq invasion was to the war on Al Quada and the work our forces were doing in Afghanistan. True that our forces in Afghanistan were building schools and bridges and really helping the population but they all got sucked out to go invade Iraq. People in DC at the time KNEW that the Iraq invasion was outright illegal; heck, Joe Wilson spoke at my Rotary Club and told the whole yellowcake truth and that his wife's CIA job had been outed. Helen Thomas wrote a book on how the press just gave W. Bush a free pass on that illegal war and why Colin Powell and Condi Rice signed off on it I will never understand. The film also points out that torture was wrong. It is true that the Dept of Justice wrote a memo justifying torture but DOJ lawyers do not know anything about the Law of War and that torture violates all four Geneva Conventions. Those are treaties the US signed onto and is duty-bound to follow. Plus, as stated in the film, torture never results in actionable intelligence and none of the post-911 torture was no different.
Money Heist: Korea - Joint Economic Area (2022)
Never Saw The Other One
What is the deal with these reviews? What "other" series? Who cares? I understand a lot of Korean and I used to live there I love their drama. This was a GREAT series! What a great binge watch and great twists and turns. Great action with car chases, bombs, guns, and tear gas. Great characters including the jerk hostage who was the Mint Director. Who hasn't worked for this guy? Who hasn't tried to work a project and get somewhere with a guy like this in the room? If you understand Korean/Chinese counting the scene where the guy reads out his phone passcode "Il I Sam Sa" is hilarious. Drama, pain, comic relief, this is a great show. Watch it.
Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
A flawed movie, but a good watch.
Watch the Director's Cut after seeing these reviews I just stopped the regular version and pulled up the Director's Cut. The good: It's beautiful and vast in scope to watch on the screen. The bad: The character development for the main dude is deeply flawed; for all his pretty face Orlando Bloom spends most of the picture gazing out over the horizon with his, admittedly beautiful, hair flying all over. The "bad guys," even those expertly played, are shallow caricatures. The ugly: somebody else already said the worst shipwreck scene in all of moviedom and a ridiculously short sword training scene. I think any movie buff has to watch this but I can't see it as a rewatch, especially compared to other Ridley Scott masterpieces.
RRR: Naatu Naatu (2021)
Fun Ride!!
This is a just plain fun, fun, fun movie. The special effects rock, the CGI animals look real, and the plot rocks and rolls with surprises and reveals throughout. This is the first Tollywood movie I have ever seen I had to look up the word. I loved the mid-stream major dance scenes and enormous dance sets. I loved the over-the-top acrobatic fight scenes. The mostly male dance troupe were awesome and athletic. Make no mistake: this is an action/hero movie but with dancing. OK it's long but I wanted and needed to get away for awhile right in my own living room and this film did the trick. I feel escaped and rested. Watch it. Watch it over 3 nights if you have to. I can see how this isn't everybody's cup of coffee but it is NOT trash and it is NOT a bad movie. Enjoy.
The Snowman (2017)
Bad Movie
Really big disappointment when I loved the book. Reading the trivia explains why it's so bad. They built a 90 yard football field and it doesn't work. Skip it and watch either Dragon Tattoo.
Moonfall (2022)
As bad as can be
This movie is bad. It's bad on the level of throwing every possible thrill plot trope, including car chases, custody disputes, arrogant teenagers, lying government officials, robbers, and a wronged hero into a planetary disaster movie that could have been really something. This movie is bad. Skip it.
The Ice Road (2021)
It is what it is.
This is a Liam Neeson action thriller. No more, no less. Doesn't overdo to the point of nausea like San Andreas and the suspense and reveals are timely and unexpected. I have a big project coming up and I thought here I am, Liam Neeson to the rescue!! Yes, it's predictable to the point of being lazy but it makes it an enjoyable and easy to watch distraction of a film.
The Clovehitch Killer (2018)
SPOILER!!!!
Grocery store lady was already dead so they left her. They got there too late.
Spiral: From the Book of Saw (2021)
It's a Saw Movie!
It's a Saw movie. No more, no less. I thought Chris Rock was awesome and there was more suspense than gore. Great plot twists. Great villian(s).
The Outpost (2019)
Finally!! An accurate post 9/11 war movie.
OIF vet here this film is ACCURATE. War accurate Army accurate. Thank you!!!
Overboard (1987)
You've seen life from an entirely different situation
I love this movie. What could be rom-com schlock is elevated by an excellent cast, chemistry between the two stars, and a delightful bunch of children. Mainly, the story of "diddems" coming to realize her own lifelong prison and escaping its bonds refreshes after all of these years. I love this movie.
The Gloaming (2020)
A good watch. . .
I enjoyed this binge. I agree with other reviewers who found the acting and script clunky and there were some sequences that were just plain bad. But overall, an addicting and entertaining binge watch.
The Dead Don't Die (2019)
It's HILARIOUS folks
I laughed the whole way through. Man I feel bad for y'all who didn't get it. Funniest movie I've seen in a long, long time. Hilarious. Loved it.
Spy (2015)
A Fun and Funny Ride
Very fun movie here. Wonderful spoof of a genre I endlessly enjoy and Jason Statham and Jude Law both sell it. The women do have some flat moments but you can love them as real human beings. OK it's not Blazing Saddles but it is not a bad movie and deserves better than all the one stars it gets here. Way better.
Mother! (2017)
Notion of Eternal Return
I get some of these allegories, including the biblical ones. Mine is Nietzsche's eternal return. One knows before the very end that the crystal is the essence of the Man's eternal return. And that the Man is coming back, and that the fire started everything in the first place. To Nietzsche, the question is always not whether one actually returns eternally, but whether one would live such a life as to want to do it over and over again. Well, why wouldn't the Man? He does absolutely nothing while the Mother cleans up after him, after all of his messes, and after all of his invitee's messes. And those messes are enormous, but the Man never lifts a finger. The Man feeds off the adoration of the public and the Mother but has nothing to offer other than his words which do not feed, quench thirst, or provide shelter. The Man is happy and narcissistic and has all of his needs fulfilled. Needs for love, needs for adoration, needs for a home, needs for immortality through procreation. As usual, what does the woman get out of this? Pain and heartbreak. But she keeps on picking up, and picking up, and repairing. When one woman wears out and enjoys the peace of death, another is right there to take her place. Just like any other abusive relationship.
Enter the Dragon (1973)
A 2010 view on Bruce Lee
I actually saw this movie for the first time recently. I got more interested in Bruce Lee after learning some of the inside themes related to Bruce in the Kill Bill movies. I have also learned about Bruce Lee's philosophy of exercise and fitness, which was decades ahead of his time. IMHO, the key to enjoying this movie is the incredible and athletic fight sequences. The movie has many -- one on one, one on three, one on many, fighters grabbing and using, and defending against, different sets of weapons. But no firearms. Bruce does most of his fighting shirtless and while I like men with a little more meat on their bones his athleticism is simply awesome.
That said, the movie is really grade B so don't expect anything more. The plot is ridiculous, the acting lame, and the dubbing positively medieval. But enjoy Bruce for his amazing talents, both in fighting and choreography. And mourn his loss to all of us at such an early age.