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Yellowstone (2018)
Not Available to Stream
What's with the money grubbing bs? The only way to watch the 5th season is to pay for it. If we're paying for Paramount+ streaming, this should be available to stream the second it's released. To say that those who don't have a cable provider and pay monthly to stream on your platform can't view the most most recent season, which started airing months ago, is pure greed. And that's exactly why I won't give Paramount another dime of this family's money. You don't get to make shows exclusive to cable subscribers and expect streamers to continue paying. If anything, the show should be exclusive and readily accessible for your streamers, not the other way around.
The L Word: Generation Q (2019)
Lots of folks who hate the evolution of characters
Listen, I watched the original every week at watch parties. I even own the entire original series on DVD. I was young and graduated from college in the second season of the series, so I felt like I was watching characters who were a lot like me. They did have more successful women who had already achieved success and kind of mentored the babies who were just creating their own path to success in life.
It only makes complete sense that those babies, like I, have evolved and achieved success over a 15 year span of time. And it makes complete sense that they're now the mentors helping to guide the younger generations as they all continue to evolve romantically. The wit is very much still present, but those who watched the original as young people, have also evolved intellectually and are naturally less impacted by it as a result. This is not a lesser series; it's simply evolved with us and may have a much stronger impact on the younger generations who are the age we were when the original aired. It's the right series for the new generations. And if folks like me would keep in mind that they're going to react differently to the same things they thought were mind blowing and amazing 1.5 decades earlier, they would definitely see this show offers the younger generations everything the original offered us.
You can either evolve with the series, or you can be one of the folks striving to stop progress because you refuse to embrace change. Why do you want to see more of the same thing you saw 1.5 decades ago anyway? Reboots fail when they don't change the formula at all. We see it all the time with streamers rebooting sitcoms from the 80s and 90s. What worked then, is often incredibly elementary and annoying now. Just imagine a Seinfeld reboot today. The show was funny because it was aimless. The characters talked about pointless crap. Imagine attempting such a series in a time of political turmoil, war, mass shootings, global warming, etc. It would fail in epic fashion. We're living in a very different world and time.
Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey (2020)
Fantastic!
Don't listen to the reviews claiming there isn't a storyline. The lesson behind the entire movie is literally the last line spoken in the movie. And for the folks who say it's all gospel music, they clearly don't ever listen to gospel music. The music was phenomenal, the acting was every bit as good as any dominantly white Christmas movie, and it certainly wasn't boring. Just watch it with an open mind and decide for yourself.
Halloween Kills (2021)
Halloween Obsessed & Sorely Disappointed
Let me preface by explaining that I saw the '78 original in '79 when I was four years old and spent my lifetime obsessed with Michael Myers as a result. I was really impressed with the 2018 follow up to the original and had been anticipating this one ever since. Unfortunately, I was utterly disappointed in this one. The acting was decent, but the writing was really, really bad. Every kill came as a direct result of a what must've been a severely mentally challenged character doing the exact opposite thing any sane human being with a mediocre intellect, would do. And many of them were survivors of previous Myers attacks. There were several tag lines from the original thrown in, which provoked cringes instead of nostalgia.
If you're a fan of the franchise, you're gonna watch it no matter what. My aim is to warn you that this may have been the worst of all the sequels, and we all know that's not an easy feat. So, please, watch it impaired so you can at least get a good laugh in. It's fully entertaining, just not in a scary slasher film kinda way, which is why I still gave it 5 stars.
Rapture-Palooza (2013)
Perfectly Droll Entertainment Dripping With Sarcasm & Random Humor
The movie does not pretend to be something it is not. Some may feel the ending fell flat and/or the actors seemed bored by the childish humor. I believe it was all very intentional.
The blatant absence of political correctness was, in my opinion, incredibly refreshing. Every now and then a good punch in the face is needed to wake up from incessant exposure to overly cautious censorship forced on us by societal standards. Words will only offend if they are allowed to do so.
Those who have a droll sense of humor, enjoy random comedy and do not have a tendency to take everything seriously, will find this entertaining. Then again, perhaps one must be exposed to copious amounts of idiocy and/or eye-rolling ignorance to fully enjoy such a dry, sarcastic treat. Whatever the case, if you can keep an open mind, I would certainly recommend this for a good laugh.