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I Fellout of my couch because i had fallen asleep in episode three. Was it because it was boring? Was it because it was insipid? Was it because it was so contrived? Was it because all the actors were bland, not only unbelievable but unrelatable? I am convinced it was of all the above.

Pro: Looks bright and colorful.

Cons: CG is smeared on some of the creatures and looks almost as bad as the Scorpion King movie. Too plastic and silly moving. Especially the mutated bear. It looks awful.

Walton Goggings is Walton no matter the role. Whether it be in The Shield, SOA, Fallout, He is always going to be Walton.

The lead is silly, annoying and unbelievable

The music is atrocious. At first it is novel and cute but by the middle of episode one the Yankovich style covers get really old really fast. The rest of the old re-hashed songs of the 40s and 50s just get mind numbingly trite.

The writing in very lazy. We have to go here to see this but first have to do this and see that before we can actually do anything. Just terribly lazy.

The rest of the cast is exactly what we Hollywood has been directed to feed us.... No substance or relatable traits.

Easy pass on this one.

A young girl with a major attitude problem runs around destroying other people's property, maiming and killing other people but yet, she is supposed to be a "Hero". This plot is so laughable and unrealistic in every sense other the matter. The direction and fight choreography is worse than Netflix Iron Fist. The over all plot is just as shallow and unoriginal. "You hurt me so I have to behave poorly." Yup that's the plot.

At one point said horrible person even decides to take on one of Marvel's biggest and baddest City villains. Yet, this unseasoned, untrained, unfocused, mustache laden female succeds where Spiderman and Daredevil have failed, numerous times. Why? We don't know why, other than she is so full of angst and terribleness that it supposedly drives her. Leaving the rest of the viewers to agape in wonder at how this thing was even made. Kevin Feige was right, Echo is terrible. It is not and was not releaseable. However Disney had to try to make its money back somehow.

I found this to be a charming movie. It's not a Bigfoot horror or Bigfoot hunting movie. It's a story of a man and healing.

Basically a man mouring his wife goes out on a hike of self discovery and bufferfly catching. Along the way he falls into situations that make him rethink his past and heal his heart.

It is not a fast paced movie or exciting movie, but decently paced. The lead is goofy and funny and he does his part well, whether he is standing around in his tighty whites or struggling to climb a steep hill. He just makes it all so believable and entirely possible.

The rest of the cast is just peachy, the little we get to see them, but they add just enough information to make this a feel good watch.

WORTH IT.

Wow.

Where to begin. Take three highly hip and annoying American teens and give them a Best Buy camera and watch the IQs fall. Rapidly.

Yes it is your typical fakeumentary style video. It's awful, just awful. The characters spend most of the time yelling and screaming for no reason what so ever. Not because there is something happening, but because it is what youngsters do now days. Just yell for no reason because they think it will make people pay attention to them. Then they made the decision to plaster emojis and words all over the screen thinking it would make this more interesting or authentic. It doesn't. It makes it more unwatchable and leaves me wondering if this is what they spent their student loans on instead of an education.

THE END.

Derivative boring slog fest of video game stupidity and nonsense.

There is nothing new or refreshing here. It's just another attempt to recreate The Walking Deads success with nearly none of the soul or talent. It's darn near a clone of TWD, angry women, tragic males, snotty kids, even the music is this faux country/bluegrass garbage. All so unoriginal

Basically a walking musroom takes over the world and the few walking non mushrooms walk around alot with a snotty insufferable brat doing stupid and unnecessary things. While doing said things they maintain perfect dentistry, foundation makeup and stylish clothing. Even though 20 years of the fungalpocolypse has passed their cotton clothing stays great, technology works, there's electricity and people still do drugs and there's plenty of alcohol. Meanwhile, Pedro Pascal looks just as constipated here as he does in everything else he does.

On the upside, the annoying girl in the beginning becomes less annoying 15 minutes into the show.

The End.

I went into this with my typical Netflix apprehension along with my usual King apprehension. King movie adaptions are generally abysmal save for IT and the original Stand.

What we get here is a decent human interest story between a boy and an old man. Sutherland is generally disturbing but likeable in this role and he does a terrific job playing a secretive and veild person.

The young man does a great job playing a meek young man with an average life at home and at school.

But that is where it ends. There is no real emotion involved or attached to the writing and the pace is very stagnant and still.

It worth putting on your list for a quiet night or day.

As a 56 yer old gay male I found this time to be very embarassing and stereotypical. It does not represent me or most of the gay males I know orr have known throughout my life, even after living in San Francisco for 23 years. It's just in bad taste in so many ways. The drug use, the overblown effemininity, rampant sex . All of it was just discouraging.

I now see that those involved are crying phobia and victimization. That certainly isn't the case. They made a mediocre film about a very streamlined and targeted demographic aimed at a limited interest audience. Plain and simple.

It's a simply boy meets boy loves story wrapped in sad attempts at humor by marginalizing everyone who isn't a male even though 90% of males in the film act nelly and effeminate. I really thought the gay community was past this. But the creators of this horror show have shown me that we haven't.

First off this is supposed to be satire but satire is generally funny. So they miss that mark right out of the gate. The writing and direction is very sophomoric and general production value below average.

Next we get a bunch of people making things up that are just borderline defamation and slander but they try to hide it as supposition. Here again they miss that mark of making anything coherent or probable much less prove anything.

It's a sad state when you spend millions on a poorly written, produced and cast political movie when that money could have been used to actually help people.

Then there's the cast. Not especially known for anything or even being of much talent. The only person of any note whatsoever is Gina Corano. I believe she was cast as the Man Thing a while back but got fired for her rabid and rancid views and not being easy to work with. Also, note that this politically produced film is composed of 30% Russian citizens and stake holders. Seriously you can't make this stuff up.

First off i love how Amazon is only allowing mainline high reviews. That says a lot right there. Like, their lack of confidence in the series itself.

It looks great! The CGI, makeup and costumes are top notch work and should be recognized for that alone. It is the rest that falls apart and seems disingenuous and shallow.

The series takes place long before The Hobbit or Return of the king. Galadriel is a young elf full of violence, inexperience and judgement. She also inst very smart. She also has the penchant for over narrating to the point you feel like "why don't I just get a book on tape".

The rest is very forced and empty feeling to me. There are those that give this a wide range of freedom because it's "Fan Fic" . I call bullocks on that because I don't believe a fan would take all the glaring liberties with Tolkiens works and the world's he had created.

It isn't about race or inclusiveness it is about how it is handled and presented to the viewers. When it is forced and pandering it's insensitive and insulting not only to the minorities but to viewers intelligence. If you wish to include different humanoid races into this world then just do it. But don't force it upon us by creating new main characters just to pander and cater. This really has become a disgraceful procedure in Hollywood that needs to be called to light.

As for the rest of this story, we will see. I was hopeful and now I'm just "Oh another episode come out. I must have forgotten".

So I went into this with zero expectations. What I found a a pretty typical teen slasher movie with a few slight differences and notions. First off the entire cast is Latino. Awesome! Not once does the script or actors or director shove that fact down the viewers throat. Instead, what I found is that it did not matter what race, culture, lifestyle is in the movie at all. It is how it is fed to us and how patronizing it can be.. In this case it was handled wonderfully and unassumingly. Which is the opposite of just about any other television and film production company out there.

Next. What we get is a fairly typical teens go to a cabin and someone is picking them off one by one. As the story develops and the bodies start to pile up we are hit with the Scream or I know what you did last summer kind of plot twist.

This is my second review of this abysmal show. The other review obviously triggered someone even though it was within the guidelines.

This show was a PC pandering mess from two separate eggs from different donors sharing a womb to explain racially different sisters to a racially different father. Just an insulting pandering mess. Some executive somewhere thought it would be good to sign off on this idea because it covered all lifestyle and cultural difference as cheaply as possible.

In general the writing is just poorly executed and very convoluted, which in the end, ends up not even telling a story at all. Just sloppy.

The CGI was equally as bad and the story silly and trite in typical Netflix teen drama. Why can't a show just be about people and things and stuff and things without all the filler cultural nonsense?

Apparently, my last review upset someone, it was deleted even though it complied with all standards.

So on to the show

It is a snore fest of bad CGI, poor directing, large stretches of boredom and even worse writing. Yes I said writing. Gaiman is only a mediocre writer, and it really shows here. In what ways?

Ther is a lot of walking around rooms and hallways talking about nothing that matters. Then there is more walking around and whining. Followed by another scene of Bad CGI and attempts at humor that you can see coming a mile away and aren't funny or even smile inducing. It's just a mish mash of ambiguous gender, alternate sexualities and boredom all wrapped up in mediocre writing. Because Gaiman is a mediocre writer at his best.

This is a slaughter film veiled with way too much Christian mythology. Some demon possessed a dude steals a cop car and he drives around debating "God" with a whiney woman in the back seat in between killing people that have broke the law. Whatever.

Strange movie with a plot all over place. Aliens, Deamons, Satan, Mad Scientists. It's all here. So I'll give them credit for that. The dialog is horrendous and acting terrible. There are a few really strange people. Like the commander with too much mascara or the guy with the ever changing deep voice that obviously isn't his and the lead female that needs to wax her upper lip, daily!

This is an updated German version with an Asian thrown in for PC measure of the classic Deliverance. There is nothing new, refreshing or necessary about this film.

Netflix wonders why it's going broke.