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Fargo: Somebody to Love (2017)
A lazy letdown
Ambiguity isn't a way to avoid easy answers, it's the easiest answer possible. It isn't clever, it requires less thought. Even when it's done well (e.g., I would say, Inception or In Bruges), it still breaks the illusion of the world you've created and shoves the director in front the screen, waving his hands and shouting "Hey everyone! Remember me? I'm here! Look at me!"
Doubtless, some will say that anyone who objects to this season's ambiguous ending are just weak-minded people who can't accept the ambiguity often found in real life. Yes, life doesn't always resolve, and ambiguity in storytelling can reflect this. But simply stopping the cameras before something important happens is something else. Fear of commitment is a thing. Riding the current wave of "subversive = good" is a thing.
I've really enjoyed this show up until now, but I honestly don't know if I'm going to continue it now. If I want to feel unfulfilled, I can just watch Lost.
La Brea (2021)
Really pretty bad
Just a few minutes in, someone is fleeing in a car, but their car runs into another car, so they get out of the car and run... and then they show clearly that they would have had a lot of room to just drive around the other car; they weren't completely blocked at all. It would have been so easy to just move the car about 10 feet, which would've actually blocked their way. But they not only didn't bother doing that, they then show you a clear shot of the crashed car's unblocked path. So right out of the gate, they're telling you - hey, just so you know, this show is, you know, stupid. This is of course followed up with things like a shot of a wolf jumping after a couple people who just ran off screen, so that the wolf is obviously about 10-20 feet away from the fleeing people, but then there's a cut and suddenly the people are magically much farther away from the wolf. This show insults your intelligence.
It actually has the line "its like we're in an episode of Lost."
This show has no business not succeeding for how much they promoted. How many times did we see the commercials during the Olympics, all with that one same scene? Oh, and then they replay that same scene again, right before the show starts. I feel dumber just thinking about it. It is so, so dumb. Sooo dumb. So so so so so so so so so so so so so dumb. It's really dumb. Stupid, and dumb. Also, dumb.
Jesus People: The Movie (2009)
Hilarious, not hurtful
Man, I didn't think this movie was just ragging on Christians, at all. I grew up as a Christian and am still serious about my faith, and I loved this movie. It was hilarious! The humor didn't feel vitriolic or spiteful to me, at all. It reminded me of the way Napoleon Dynamite lampooned Junior High dorkdom - I don't think N.D.'s point was to trash middle schoolers; whenever I've heard people laugh about it, it's them seeing parts of themselves or their friends in it. Same with this movie - it reminded me of certain foibles of Evangelical Christianity, but I laughed affectionately, not mockingly. Maybe I'm off, perhaps the filmmakers really do despise Christians, but I'd really be surprised if that were the case. Just watch, laugh, and enjoy.
Also, having lived in Nashville for a while
Yeah, they nailed it.
Explorers (1985)
You will feel like the guy who gets his eyes taped open in Clockwork Orange
It's really pretty fun at first, chugging along with 80's charm, and then
BIZARRO WORLD. What. the. heck. The last half hour goes completely off the rails. I guess there was studio trouble, but they still designed what they designed at the end there. It hurt to watch. It especially hurt to listen to it - it was like they told Robin William's not-as-funny cousin to just yell things for 20 minutes, then didn't edit ANY of it out, then added a bunch of TV screens flashing static and super-saturated, washed-out clips of explosions or people yelling or other chaotic things. I kept going and finished it just to be able to say I did, but it actually made my stomach hurt. It was harder to watch than a lot of horror movies I've seen. It was like watching Transformers, except with nasty puppets instead of at-least-it-looks-sorta-cool CGI. It was a little difficult to think a clear thought afterward. I felt like I was going insane.