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Haunted (2018– )

2/10

WTF?

25 October 2019

I don't 'get it'. How is this show now in the third season?? I had hoped over time, somehow this show would come of age. Instead it is as weakly formed as the first episode.

There is no redemption here. The show's 'true life' speakers are all sycophants at the very least and most I suspect are sociopaths. They are actually as scary or scarier than the reenactment characters.

Nothing and nobody is accountable nor is there any fact checking going on. Most of the people interviewed/telling their stories are deeply disturbing....they are the real scary stories...just themselves. Juiced up on their own loneliness and self-importance, they spin these regrettable yarns. I'm convinced most of them believe in the fiction they create. The show should be titled, "Believe it or not, stories from the disturbed mind."

Three season.....wow! WHO exactly is their audience that's votes so favorably?

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Pete's Dragon (2016)

9/10

Elliot

6 April 2017

Warning: Spoilers

I watched this movie with my grandson. I cried in parts...OK I'm a sap but I'd rather be that then lacking in heart. It's a real rush to think of a boy with a magical dragon who breathes fire (only when provoked) and who saves him initially from a wolf attack. When Pete and Elliot play in the forest in that long running scene...few cinematic moments have moved me so. But you can't watch this film for mistakes...it's riddled with them...you just have to sit back, pretend and enjoy. And OK I'm just gonna say it, because I'm old now too...Redford's appearance and acting in this movie is substandard. He gives nothing to the movie and convinces us he's better behind the camera than in front of it. We should make a pact to quit dragging these old guys before the camera when they just can't act anymore. Maybe there's a vehicle for him still...this wasn't it. Besides all the obvious errors, Pete would have grossly long fingernails, toenails and calluses on his feet. We see none of that. His attire....come on, a tattered leather thing and tight shorts underneath?? I can understand obscenity/privacy laws and not allowing the risk of showing his boy parts on screen, but why that bizarre combination? Where would those shorts have come from (the car wreckage)? And in the hospital, they have chosen some kinda padded diaper thingy to wear under his robe? Great boy actor though...even better with some more direction I suspect. How does he survive in the (mock) PNW in the winter? I would have liked to see more plausible survival items in the cave, for example. Elliot is actually a giant, green fuzzy Pit Bull type character that chases his tail on occasion. I can understand the kid appeal, so I won't criticize the dragon...he is incredibly endearing. Second best scene of the movie; when Pete rocks up on his toes, chest out and growls at the bear with all his boy might. Watch this movie with a little one!!!

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XXY (2007)

Seriously?

10 March 2014

I actually think this is one of the better inter-sex movies out there, even though I think it stalls somewhat on its own content. But what really irks me are reading reviews with verbiage like;patient, abnormality, defect, diagnoses and the like. This isn't about a 'medical disorder', but very possible another gender that defies traditional male/female definitions. Since there's always been sexual reassignment surgery with these people, many at birth, who's to say if left alone they wouldn't morph into happy, adjusted individuals that just form another non-traditional gender? I think if you watch this movie through non-traditional eyes, you will most likely get more from it. Alex makes the plea at one point;"Why do I have to be cut at all?" Yes indeed, why? Inter-sex people have been around since the beginning of the human race. The medical community traditionally has made these people lab rats, why don't we set them free?

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Flatliners (1990)

7/10

A film worth seeing more than once...

1 June 2004

OK, I have had this movie on tape for a long time. I always reject the immediate urge to view it while looking through my library. I can't say why that is exactly, because I have much worse than this film. Actually, it's a pretty good flick and was a good vehicle for Roberts and Sutherland. Where it falls short is in its assessment of things Karmic or the notion of atoning for one's sins. All that is pretty much rushed through and cleared up in the end in a somewhat cheesy fashion...I think to appease the average viewer. There is a lot more this film could have explored, but was perhaps bound by traditional Christian dogma. I personally would have liked Joshua Rudoy to have actually spoken and given us some more insight from beyond the grave. What a sweet looking boy, I wonder why he exited film making?

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