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The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
What Bride? Where!?!?
1st of all; Frankenstein is the name of the scientist not the monster so to call this movie "Bride of Frankenstein" is just wrong in the first place as its not the scientist who is getting married to her (he already got married earlier in the movie). They SHOULD have named it "Bride MADE by Frankenstein" or "Bride BY Frankenstein" or something like that.
2nd of all: the humor scene with the mini-people was..pointlesss!?!? And not even funny!?!? I mean yes..for a movie this old its very cool special effects but why was the scene so long??
3rd and most importantly: Where even IS the bride!?!? Oh you mean the woman in full lashes and pretty eye makeup, and almost no scars/stitches at the last 5 minutes of the movie?? So basically this entire movie was a TEASE for the last, rushed up 5 minutes!?!?!? EXCUSE ME!?!? Is that even allowed!?!? To trick the audience like that!? Could have just skipped the mini-people-in-jars scene and instead spend the last bit of budget on more scenes of the BRIDE?? But nooooo! Lets let the audience watch an entire hour of NOTHING and then we're gonna suddenly remember the title of the movie and what the actual plot was SUPPOSED to be!
All in all: Please do yourself a favor..don't bother to waste 1 whole hour. Just watch the last 5 minute scene of the movie on Youtube instead. Because trust me.. that's all you gonna get of the actual "Bride BY (not of) Frankenstein".
Bring Your Own Brigade (2021)
Started good and then it lost direction (and one song was missing in the credits)
First of all; they didn't include all the song titles from the soundtrack in the end credit. As a fan of old school 70's- 80s goth rock, I got SO surprised and excited when they started to play an instrumental version of "Bela Lugosi's dead" by the british band Bauhaus. The reason that I didn't find it in the end credit wad actually because I liked the opening song and because I hadn't heard it before, I had to watch the end credits to get the title of the opening song and that's when I noticed that even though they used an instrumental version of "Bela Lugosi's Dead" for a VERY LONG TIME...they didn't include this title and performer in the end credits!?!? Why!?!? Isn't this a strike against copy right laws??...fine. I am boring you now so I'll focus on the main problem with this docu instead; the structure and direction. This all started VERY strong with fantastic, heartbreaking opening scenes and an amazing opening song to go along with them (a song that they DID include in the end credits). It all startee off to give you goose bumps. Showing you the sheer horrors of flames and the terror and helplessness of all the people (and animals) trying to escape the hellish inferno. Then the docu adds more depth as it tries to explain the reason for all the wild fires and even mixing in a little bit of conspiracy theories in there... (I am not gonna spoil any specific theory but there were some conspiracy there that was interesting). And so up until now you're thinking "hey! This is a great docu!"...but no. When there is about an hour to 30 min left of runtime this "journalism" starts to mix in all political things, and marihuana use and racism...all this which seems to come out of nowhere and has very little to do with fires. As if that wasn't a downhill enough the documentary also seem to "forget" the lady who was the main commentator/journalist throughout the entire documentary as she (both her presence and voice) suddenly "disappears" and rarely seen/heard from again until the very end. What we are left with instead is random stories about culture that ok, it has SOMETHING to do with the fire but we don't have to stick around this topic for such a long time...? But the worst tip of the iceberg is the constant screentime of some middle aged guy feeding his BLIND and very fragile 90 year old mother MARIHUANA COOKIES .... Ok excuse me !? I thought this documentary was supposed to be about fires??
In short; I felt as if I was watching 2 documentaries roughly about the same topic but with several different scriptwriters/producers/directors etc (You get the point!) All handling the topic differently. I am pretty sure I just saw 2 documentaries (one much longer than the other) about forest fires but VERY different approaches to the topic and that (for whatever reason?) these 2 documentaries had been merged together in the cutting room to fill out 2 hours.
I never understood from this documentary if it wants us to think that the fires were horrible or..that it wasn't so bad after all!?!? (See it for yourself if you want to understand what I meant by that statement) but be prepared to be confused by the last 60-45 minutes as to exactly WHAT the final message is supposed to be/what the docu creators wants us (the audience) to think after seeing it. The 3 stars are for the opening and first half, because like I have already mentioned; it DID start out VERY STRONG. But sadly ended in a confused mess.
Totenfrau (2022)
It wa good until they stole two scenes
I was really enjoying this until they stole two scenes (around the 2 or 3 last episodes) from a dutch/german ww2 movie (from 2006?) called "Black book" (Schwartzboek). I am not gonna mention which scenes that they stole but they were nearly identical and that disappointed me. Also there are some illogical things, especially in the beginning that kinda annoy you once you notice them. I get that those event had to happen to drive the plot forward but they simply wouldn't happen in a real investigation, and so it kinda falls flat. But yeah what annoyed me the most was definately how they stole scenes from Schwartzboek/Blackbook. There was however a nice twist near the end but the two stolen scenes and some illogical things at the very start of the show, drags my review down from a 7 to a 4. And lastly the main actress is sometimes really dumb and she doesn't plan ahead and therefore she is getting caught and needs to be rescued. Seems like she is suffering from the oh so typical "dumb main character in a crime/thriller/horror show-syndrome" which is also disappointing! A part from what I have mentioned she show was at least watchable unlike MOST GARBAGE that is produced/made by netflix so I have to give them that!
TV Junkie (2006)
Great study of how narcissism works!
Everytime Rick would look into that camera and lie and say that "Family was the most inportant to him" and then minutes later he would get high again...every time I wanted so badly to slap him. That man deserved JAIL and I wonder why he didn't!?!? The police would have had all that video footage of him blazing that drug and admitting that he is a drug addict and for some reason that slimeball just got away with it??? Time after time...Why!?!? And his wife should have left him the first time and not being so naive and believed his lies...over and over. I've dated a narcissist myself and I know exactly what kind of dirt they are; its all about them and their awlf loathing and fake crying! Over dramatic acting because "boho I am always the victim!" Just do as a favor and shut it! Seriously! Never felt so angry watching anything in my entire life, before this ego-one-man-show that was Ricky Kirkham! Very American too with the most jockey/fratboy song for the end credits. Really, in all honesty I felt bad for the wife and kids and wished his wife would have taken his kids away for good the FIRST time Ricky failed re-hab and kept on arguing and filming...if she would have come to her senses WAY sooner...she should have taken their sons away, because they deserve a dad who doesn't make this all about him!! And video taping his crying wife instead of helping her!! Nope this was just a big, smug ego-boost ad campaign to show off how Rick could get away with everything! And for how such a GREAT father he was for doing the most basics of things like; making breakfast...looking after the kids (but getting DRUNK while doing so!?!?!? Etc...basically this jerk wanted to get creds/praise for simply BEING A DAD! Don't feel sorry for him one bit! What a cringy, disgustingly smug narcissist! The world doesn't need more of those or at least they should ger punishments when they DERSERVE it (just like Ricky). Watch this one ONLY if you want to be angry, yourself. Because you WILL grind your teeth and wish you could smack Ricky through the screen! That's it! That's all the effort and energy I am willing to give to this slimeball!