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Squid Game: The Challenge (2023)
THIS IS NOT PART 2, THIS IS A REALITY VERION WITH REAL PLAYERS AND REAL MONEY!!!
The rating on this is dragged down for a simple reason, no one knew this was a real game, not the series part 2, that will come soon.
Ok, now that we all know this is a bunch of players in a reality game modeled after the Squid Game for the winner of over $4,000,000. So this is very real and can be dramatic as more and more players are eliminated.
I just sort of had this on in the background on a split screen and was surfing on the left side. I found myself getting more interested in the characters, their personality, their drive and emotion and how they choose to play the game and make friends/enemies and form alliances that fell apart.
I have only watched the first 5 episodes (1 hour each) and the next 5 will be released I think in December. It was worth the watch to wonder also, what would I have done.
Bama Rush (2023)
Interesting
A very well done piece on this topic and I expected to be a hit piece, or very negative on Alabama, or sororities in general, but did not find it that way at all. It did expose some things about the selection process about how good looks and racial preferences were taken into account, but I think one look at some of the sorority group photos at any major university over the years and they will all look the same (pretty, thin and mostly blond and white). Thankfully that is changing and maybe a piece like this will help move that along.
At the end of the day, the thing that struck me the most was not about the sorority's themselves, but rather the students going through Rush, and that they all had one thing in common, and that is a desire to belong to a group of fellow sisters that made them feel like they were understood and would have their back. The importance that these young woman placed on the "complicated" process of Rush was just startling and maybe the same that a young man feels about getting invited to the Alabama football team. The fact of the matter, we all basically want much the same thing, but we usually have different processes to get there. By the way, Alabama's reputation was not hurt a bit by this at all and I hope they embrace this and perhaps learn from it, whatever goodness there is to be learned, like maybe changing a rule that doesn't allow you to wear wet hair on the first floor!
L'iceberg (2005)
Horrible Waste of Time
I like a good artsy film once in a while, but this was just one of the worst movies ever, what a waste of an hour and a half. 6+ stars, what kind of drugs are you people on, give me a break. My wife and I both hated it, the best part was the end, when it was finally over. The acting was bad, the idea and plot was bad. The filming was not good either, lots of blue screen ocean shots. Don't waste your time and ignore the positive reviews, there is always someone that likes every movie, regardless of how bad they are. Were there a few redeeming and humorous scenes, of course, there are in almost every movie, but we found this very painful to watch. However since it was so short, we were stuck after giving it 30 or so minutes, we had to finish it up. Trust us, don't waste the effort.
Strangers on a Train (1951)
Too many plot holes
This is a very disappointing AH movie because of many many plot holes. It has very good acting and can be entertaining at times, but intellectually I could not make it through the movie without being frustrated so times saying to myself, he or she should just do this or that, or why did they do that! Because of the plot holes, I could not fully immerse myself into the movie because it was not believable to me. Usually I am willing to give a lot of latitude to a movie and just accept inconsistencies, but this one overwhelmed my ability to do so. I cannot believe the IMDb reviewers, who are typically very astute, find this such a good movie. With that being said, watch it and judge for yourself, you may love it, my wife did, until I pointed out all of the things I thought were wrong with it from a plot and intelligent analysis point of view. She still liked it, but understands what my issues are with it as you might after seeing it as well. I just expected more from AH I guess.