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A Teacher (2013)
Not bad, but stopped short
While the movie was not bad, it did stop short of showing the consequences to both parties of an adult teacher having a romantic relationship with a minor student. The movie does do a good job of showing her emotional state, especially during the aftermath, I wish it would've stretched further and shown the consequences of such a relationship, e.g. Her destroyed career, legal problems/jail sentence, and how both she and the minor child get destroyed in the long run after such a relationship. Admittedly, the TV miniseries made 7-years later with the same title does actually show most of that. If I were to recommend a preference, it would be the TV series of the same title.
Unplanned (2019)
The Terrible Truth of Abortion is Revealed
This movie definitely is a graphic depiction of what happens within abortion clinics as presented by an insider who used to work for an abortion provider. The movie is very graphic and will likely cause discomfort, but it shows the terrible truth of what goes on within this industry, and anyone should see it regardless of where they are pro life or pro choice. As such, it should wake a lot of people up to the truth about these clinics.
The Babysitter (2017)
Strange but Slightly Entertaining
One strange thing about this movie is that it deals with a stereotypical pre-teen geek who is getting picked on and has a cool babysitter/friend to defend him at the beginning. When being babysat, he has a good time with his "cool" and fun babysitter, until he decides to pretend to be tired and takes a sneak peak at what his babysitter does while he's sleeping theoretically. While he is expecting her to sleep with her boyfriend, he realizes it is much worse than he expected. This leads to some corny drama that has him running for his life and looking for ways to defend himself. That part was portrayed somewhat entertainingly but awkward as well.
Adoration (2013)
Boring and Lacks Pizazz
While this movie takes on an uncommon and awkward issue of young adult male friends falling for each other's mothers, it should have been made more dramatic to stay interesting. Instead, it was very boring and very weak drama that it just drags along for nearly 2-hours. When 2 best friends since childhood decide to sleep with each other's mothers, one would expect more dramatic conflict and turmoil to result. Instead, it proceeds along a more boring path almost to an extent where the characters nearly accept it as normal.
You Get Me (2017)
Similar to Fatal Attraction, but more amateurish
This movie isn't as bad as several reviewers seem to think. When I saw this movie, I thought it was similar to Fatal Attraction in many ways, except that it involved young people, it was a little tamer, and was obviously an amateurish film. For an amateurish film, it did a pretty good job of portraying a boy having a one-night stand and the girl becoming obsessed with keeping him in her life.
Ghostbusters (2016)
I'm glad I saw it at the dollar theater. The movie was a lousy attempt to be "politically correct"
This movie was very boring, and the very few chuckles during comical moments. For most of the movie, pretty much all that is seen are two ladies arguing about little things (2 of the Ghostbusters Melissa McCarthy and Kristin Wiig). This happened on and off until the action sequences during the last 20-minutes of the movie. While the action sequences are okay, I was too bored out of my mind to even remotely appreciate them.
While there will be no way to prove it, I believe that the idea for this movie was to cater to the ideals of radical feminists and what they believe to be politically correct. If anything, their first mistake was trying to remake a well-liked classic movie. Their second mistake was to make the four main characters women in order to please radical feminists. Their third mistake was to have a story that was obviously poorly written. The result of this was a flopped movie that caused the film company (Sony) to lose over $70 million. After seeing this poor excuse for a remake, it is no wonder the film company lost so much money.
Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising (2016)
I'm glad I saw it at the dollar theater
While clearly this was intended to be a funny movie, I rarely even uttered a chuckle while seeing it. I saw the bad reviews of this film, but I still wanted to try it out. Thus, I waited for it to appear at the dollar theater. I'm glad I did, because it was so poorly made that I still felt somewhat ripped off even with the $2.85 admission price. Even halfway through the movie, I was looking forward to it ending. I know I wasn't the only one who felt like this as I saw a number of people checking the time on their cell phones during the movie, and several others walked out before it ended. As such, I definitely do not recommend this movie, and I don't think you should waste your time and money going to see it.
CBS Afternoon Playhouse: Portrait of a Teenage Shoplifter (1981)
Still Relevant
Although this TV movie is almost 35-years old, the topic is still one that is very relevant since shoplifting is still a growing crime that costs billions of dollars. (Spoiler Alert) Toward the end of the movie, when the parents of the girl caught shoplifting were talking to the police officer, the officer was telling them how judges get very tough on shoplifting, and that how, at minimum, the shoplifter will get a police record that will follow her for the rest of her life. That appears to be one thing that has changed since then, and now judges seem to be getting very lenient about shoplifting. As a result, people are getting arrested multiple times for repeated shoplifting mainly because of such lenient judgments. Another result of the growth of the shoplifting problem is that some police departments handle shoplifting on a citation basis instead of immediately arresting and prosecuting the thief.
(Spoiler Alert) As this movie ends in the arrest of the shoplifter, throughout the film it depicts how easily such a crime can become a habit and a thrill if/when the first shoplifting attempt is "successful." It is definitely not a path that one should start down as it can become a habit that is very hard to break.
The Day After (1983)
Dated; But Still rather horrifying
I was 11 years old and was living in southeast Missouri when this movie premiered on ABC. At that time, the attack segment of the film scared me to the point of bursting in tears and having nightmares off and on for two years afterward. After having seen it again as an adult on the Sci-Fi channel (toward the beginning of 2001), I realized that the horrifying part of the film was the aftermath of the attack.
While this film's material and graphics are very dated and not as scary (visually speaking), it is worth watching because the message of the film (to inspire people to avert nuclear missile exchanges) is still very real. In fact, vivid images of this film came to my mind on the day of September 11, 2001. Though we may no longer be threatened by a cold war with Russia, the threat of a nuclear missile exchange with terrorists is very real and an even bigger challenge to avert.
I have also seen the British film "Threads." While I tend to disagree with those who say that "Threads" is scarier and/or more graphic, both "The Day After" and "Threads" send the same message to viewing audiences.
While now a days, critics of this film tend to focus on the flaws and goofs that are undoubtedly present, they should remember that this film reportedly caused then President Reagan to burst into tears. Also, a few years later, he reportedly had a conversation with director Nicholas Meyer saying that seeing "The Day After" caused him to reevaluate the view that he and other US congressmen had on nuclear war(which apparently was, at the time, that there CAN be acceptable losses in a nuclear war). Also, he reportedly changed some national policies on the use of nuclear weapons a couple of years after this film premiered. Therefore, the movie definitely made (and still makes)its horrifying message very clear.