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Artemis Fowl (2020)
Doesn't Deserve The Hate
I first watched the movie without having read the books and I really enjoyed it and disappointed with the critical reception.
After I watched the movie, I read the first book for the first time and the movie is much closer with the story than these negative reviewers made me think. And the changes they did make don't bother me.
I think the plan that the team had behind the movie was for this first film to be an origin story for Artemis becoming evil. The Ho Chi Minh scene (which is available in the extras tab) was going to be the scene that shows the audience that Artemis is willing to do whatever it takes to get to his goals. My major point was that if this was to become a franchise of movies, Artemis would be more similar to his book counterpart in future movies.
IMO, you have to take the book and movie and look at it as 2 different ways to tell a similar story.
Since it has had such a negative reaction, I'm disappointed that the chances of a sequel being greenlit is very low.
Once Upon a Time: Leaving Storybrooke (2018)
Unless you're a Regina fan, this is a horrible finale
I hate being negative about this show, because I've been a fan of it for years. I've really enjoyed all of S7 except for this finale. That's one of the reasons I didn't like it. It's completely disconnected from the season
The characters this season were supposed to be about: Henry, Ella, and Lucy did not have any lines at all
Emma, Snow, and Charming's returns just felt like "We have to be here because it's the finale"
Wish Henry forgiving Regina, hugging her, and calling her "Mom" is the stupidest thing and makes no sense. Regina never even even apologized to him.
Imagine:
Someone came into your house, kidnapped and killed your family, then left you alone. Years later, you run into them again, they say "I didn't mean to kill your family. I can take you in as my own." Any rationals person would run for their lives after that.
Uniting the realms makes no sense at all. This season revealed there can be multiple different versions of the same realm. Does that mean there are thousands of different Alices', Cinderellas', Snow Whites' etc walking around Maine?
The ending montage did not include anything from S7.
We should have seen Emma, Hook, Snow and Charming with Henry, Ella, and Lucy.
We should have seen Wish Hook and Alice with Emma and Hook.
We already got a "Regina is accepted as Queen" ending for her in S6. Why did we need to spend the last 7 minutes of the show saying it again?
The best part of this finale was Rumple sacrificing himself for Wish Hook and reuniting with Belle, because it was the only part connected to this season.
A Christmas Story Live! (2017)
A Wonderful Show
I don't why this has gotten so negatively received, I absolutely loved it. I loved the musical numbers, the actors, the set design.
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul (2017)
The Hate For This Movie is Ridiculous
I was a big fan of the other Wimpy Kid Movies. I'm not big on theaters but I remember the last movie I saw in theaters was Rodrick Rules when I was around 15 years old. I don't even need to read the 1 star reviews for this movie because I know most of them are extended versions of the same point "I hate this movie because it has a new cast."
This is the first time I've written a review for anything on here but this felt necessary. I watched this movie right when it came out on Amazon video. It has the exact same tone and feel as the other movies. If you enjoyed the other movies, this movie will be no different. My biggest complaint of the movie is that there was too much toilet and gross out humor for my taste
Jason Drucker does the role of Greg justice.
I feel like they dumbed Rodrick down a bit for this movie, but Charlie Wright does a great job with the material he's given. He does not deserve the hate he's getting just because he doesn't look like the original Rodrick.
The parents and Manny feel exactly the same. It would probably be jarring if you watched Dog Days/The Long Haul but I had no problem with their portrayal
For Rowley, he doesn't have much to do in the film so we don't see too much of what the new actor brings to the character but of what we do see is great.
By the first time we see Greg and Rowley together in Greg's room, the new actors have already won me over and I see them as the Heffley family and Rowley. Of what little we see of it, Jason and Owen have the same chemistry that Zachary Gordon and Robert Capron had in the other movies. I would not be against seeing more movies with this cast.
The #Notmy___ is completely ridiculous and mean to the actors who made this movie. They put as much work into it as the other actors did in the previous films. Even if you see it as a joke, the people who are the target of it don't know that. Do you really want to see a college age kid try to be a middle schooled. For those "They could have done it with Greg in high school" people, that misses the entire point of the franchise. Greg is supposed to be a middle schooler forever.
For those that say they could have kept some of the original cast: I personally thought the same thing at first, they could have kept the same Rodrick and the parents, but someone pointed out to me that a mixture of an old and new cast would be even more jarring than an entire new cast. Imagine seeing Zachary and Devon being brothers in Dog Days to seeing Jason and Devon as brothers for The Long Haul. It would look too odd.