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Hazbin Hotel (2019)
If you have any semblance of decency and hate modern degeneracy, SKIP THIS
Gross, tawdry and vile, this latest modern evolutionary result of juvenile, material-deprived, degeneracy pushers like Seth McFarlane. You know how every year adult cartoons get grosser and grosser and how every year show runners thank people like McFarlane for "paving the way".
Paving the way for what?? Scenes of endless vomiting and sex jokes? A lack of sophistication? Heck, this show opens with porn. It is a progressive free-for-all where no degree of morality, ethics or even clear train of thought on the part of the writers is detectable. Why does depravity like this receive such renown? Wholesomeness is rejected and reviewed badly, and sheer debauchery wins in spades. What is going on in the world?
House of Darkness (2022)
Neo-fem at its best... or worst? Who flippin' cares??
Here we go. At first I thought the annoying ramblings of Justin Long would have a satisfying payoff. I've been diving into new movies hoping for something that didn't end in a juvenile lecture or tantrum cooked up by today's Hollyweird. By now, that's an understatement. Just call it what it is HollyWYF. Another missed chance on something great in order to promote the neo-fem and anti-man agenda that has been so prevalent in film lately it makes you wonder why males even watch movies anymore. They sure do teach us males a lesson though. Sitting through that self-sanctimonious, new-Hollywood, lib-tantrum garbage was a lesson I'll never forget: stop watching movies.
The Pope's Exorcist (2023)
Is nobody seeing it...???
Ok, so Father Gabrielle has the same back-story as Father Merrin from the original Exorcist series from way back. Nothing new, nothing original. Same regurgitated tripe. The Rite (Anthony Hopkins) was better ten years ago than this. That was an astounding exorcist movie! Even the sequels to the original Exorcist movies were better. This had no tension, no impact, no stakes. A snooze. Even Crowe's acting couldn't avert this.
If they intend on making a franchise out of this, they need to stop repeating themselves over and over and over again. Who gets clearance to make these endlessly repeating stories? Is this for the benefit of Gen Z which has no prior knowledge of superior films and therefore deems something like this acceptable?
Babylon (2022)
Degenerate and historically misleading
This movie thrives and endures on the idea that Hollywood and its components are ridiculous, over-the-top, excessive and wildly one-dimensional. And we are meant to celebrate its whacky, infantile irresponsibility.
However, it does much more than that. It takes historical revisionism, bias to a whole new level and implements modern political correctness that makes the whole movie unworkable, one-sided and crass. Completely a work of fiction without a glimmer of fact. An acknowledgment of stupidity but a validation to repeat it because the ones making it say so.
If the word "gross" could encapsulate its need for attention just because they are trying to capture the excess of an industry we shouldn't be celebrating in the first place, it goes as far as to say as one skin type will always be worse than other. The obvious and sickening bias that proliferates this film is disgusting. Everybody of a paler shade is bad and those of a darker shade are good. Even the protagonists have self-hate etched all over them to conform to an agenda that will exist long after we're gone. This needs to stop.
If I could use every profane word none to man, I would assault every one in this production and accuse them of tactless monotony. The message the story is saying: " We hate whyte people. They are the worst and we can only learn lessons from people who aren't whyte."
Knives Out (2019)
This movie is so bitter...
Overall, this would be a great little breezy murder mystery. I liked the things that reminded me of such movies. And then the movie became politics. Not the subtle politics, but the type where the director is only on one side or else his movie doesn't get made. And we all know unless your name is Spielberg, you have no control over your own movie unless you let your handlers tell you what's best, in which case you've abandoned all your "principles as an artist".
This movie is about fixing what isn't broken and assigning guilt on a side that never should. It reeks, it abandons and it disgraces.
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
It's difficult to give a 10 these days...
Anybody reading this is interested enough to understand what a 10 means for viewers, especially in an age where thousands of films are made a year and the standard by which we judge these films changes depending on what sphere of mentality we subscribe.
This movie is lovingly and carefully created to an extent that true cinema-lovers will once again find the reason for their appreciation. This is not a cookie-cutter, studio deadline. It has no overbearing, preachy contemporary message that certain audiences will either hate or love. The contextual messages are subtle and human component is rich. While nothing is perfect, this comes close.
This will please fans of the first movie. It reminds us that professionalism and a hybrid of nostalgia and new-wave can still exist within the right parameters without p*ssing everybody off.
Hunting Hitler (2015)
History revised.... Once again
Oh dear Lord.... Where do I start???
Aside from the the fact that this so-called CIA investigator of 20+ years actually believes what the History Channel is paying-I mean- feeding him facts, that I believe! And if he's CIA, we're in trouble.
Numerous eyewitness testimonies on Hitler's death, including Traudl Junge, his secretary! They carried two bodies out the room in which they killed themselves. Now it's not true? The bodies that were wrapped up in blankets were doubles? And the countless people witnessing Blondi (Hitler's dog) die saying it hit him worse than any death he'd previously faced?
Yup, this ghost of a man decided I'm going to leave Berlin. (Btw if you've read his architect's memoirs and secretary's memoirs) they're both the same in terms of what happened). And wanted to create a shell of Reich on South America?? He HATED South America!
He said, "ich verlasse NIE Berlin!". (I will never leave Berlin.)
Fourth Reich? Hardly!!! Nazis in South America? Yes! Martin Bormann made it out?? NO!!! Kaltenbrunner being a fall-guy? NOOoo!!!
Also the fat journalist got a lot of history, people and translation wrong during the entire show. He was truly vexing. Schnellenkamp was not a bodyguard, my friend!
This should list as fiction and be reprimanded as telling lies to the American public. And people ask why we think we're so paranoid. If the History channel can lie to us, who else can?
Men (2022)
Supposed art-film Ill-designed...
This had such promise, such premise.
The film revolves around a grief-ridden woman who can't get over a tragedy in her life which she could or couldn't have prevented.
This suddenly turns into a treatise on the patriarchy. Everything from the pagan and biblical times associated with men is terribly translated into a slow-paced over-indulgent chaotic feminine lecture on how terrible men are... which climaxes into every variation of man (the same white man playing different characters, by the way) literally being born physically out of their anuses. The last man emerging being... you guessed it... a black man.
The victim? The cause? The future? Who knows. It's wretched in it's idea of being clever. Any outcome of this extremist filth belongs viewed where only rich folk can feel special about how tuned-in they are to the world.
Nope (2022)
Surprised
Sci-fi fans may feel a bit a conflicted about this one, but I was nevertheless entertained and not turned off by unnecessary political commentary. There is, however, commentary on our lifestyles and how we've become too dependent on our cameras (many elements of the film elude to this message). Peele has stylistic grace.
Some characters are underutilized, some that aren't don't speak very much. Peele can make the characters' interactions seem organic depending on the actor, but fails to nail the depth of the movies subtext.
I think any X-Files fan would like this, although sometimes the movie falls flat on where the direction of the film is going.
Obi-Wan Kenobi (2022)
Silliness abounds...
Out of fairness I watched all mind-numbing episodes of this absolutely unnecessary and legacy-tarnishing series.
I won't write a five paragraph, which I'd love to do, so I'll just summarize: convoluted... grasping at straws... inane plot... horrific writing. And once again: completely unnecessary. It's only saving grace was seeing Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen again. They deserved so much better than this tripe.
Jurassic World Dominion (2022)
Where to start? That's right! They never should have!
Where do I begin? I'll make this short:
Remember that feeling you had when you watched the first Jurassic Park? The fear, the enchantment, the wonder, the plausibility?
And then you were substituted by a cartoon parody that stole all of that to make a buck. To literally suck the marrow out of the bone in order to validate it's own significance.
That's this. That's your nostalgic tale. And we just spent $25 on it.
Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers (2022)
For whom was this made?
Trying to expand the Roger Rabbit universe? Do so with a little bit more charisma. This movie lacks any of the magic it tries to recapture. Even the attempt at evoking any kind of nostalgia falls flat on its face. The "traditionally" animated characters are mechanical with no natural flow and the script is stale as week-old rye. But will definitely commending it for keeping wokeness and politics out of it.
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022)
Not even hardcore fans can stand it...
My family has true fans of this universe. It was amazing to find us all being so bored by this that we found ourselves on our phones.
First, Dumbledore's "secrets" aren't that secret. The group of characters meant to stop yet another bad, evil, sinister white guy with the help of yet another bad, evil, sinister German has to depth, likability or character. Newt is simply annoying. And the plot revolves around an election.
Yes, that's right. Around a flipping political election. And you know what side Hollywood is on. The magic is gone. Woke is broke.
The Northman (2022)
Good old-fashioned filmmaking
Wow! What a breath of fresh air. No politics, no agenda, modern social commentary - just good ol' story-telling. Something that Eggers does exceedingly well with all his films. He is a credit to his craft.
The Northman is a mix between transcendentalism, mythology and historical lore. If you are of Northern European extraction (like me) and love everything Viking, you will thoroughly enjoy this movie.
Although lacking a bit of a climax, the beauty of its construction makes up for it. Definitely worth seeing.
The Batman (2022)
Stop already. You're embarrassing yourselves.
This is hilariously funny. It doesn't take much to tickle some of you folks anymore.
1. Pattinson does not incorporate Batman. At ALL. No way.
2. Runtime UNNECESSARY. Almost 3 hours for FILLER???
3. They should have called it "The Batman... and Catwoman aka Hallie Berry's Woke Redemption Story and Commissioner Gordon's Overacting"
4. It loses momentum in the first 45 minutes and doesn't regain it. This director got high off of his movie too soon to direct it correctly.
5. Catwoman calls out all you white viewers by saying that all the bad politicians and cops out there are "white and privileged". Labeling and generalizing as most movies do these days. The African American female replacement mayor (quote) "unlike the other people of this city" isn't afraid to stand up. From there on out, I was done.
6. The Riddler is John Doe from the movie Seven. Very obviously, transparently derivative and close to embarrassing. The same dialogue, the same scenes (identically), the same villain motive, the same musical score.
False Positive (2021)
People who make movies like this need counseling
Transparently neo-fe*minist, man-hating ode to the "glory" of a*bortions. Appalling, grotesque and enraging in it's inherently evil, degenerate message.
The Devil All the Time (2020)
Avoid
Another spectacle of Hollywood's war on Christianity where all of the Chri*stians are delusional, psychotic, murderous degenerates. The creators of this film exhibit a violent bitterness towards Chri*stians which manifests in them all being corrupted, especially those closest to the church. An*ti-Christian and an*ti-white propag*anda. Avoid.
The Last Duel (2021)
What is going on here??? HAHAHA
I went into this movie with zero expectations. And then Ridley hits you hard with a whole parody! I mean, Affleck and Damon? All I see is Mallrats with bad accents! And then the material itself is as flaccid as the casting! I started laughing out loud (during scene transitions) that I couldn't take it! At one point I thought I was watching Law and Order France 14 A. D.! I could not stop laughing (my wife as well) when we were forced to take these characters seriously. Then it dawned on us: This is a parody, and Ridley Scott know it!
Blonde noble Frenchman Affleck AND Batman?? I couldn't stop laughing!!!
Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021)
The Amusement Park Continues...
Martin Scorsese and Ridley Scott are right! Superhero movies are like amusement park rides. They provide adrenaline, prolonged sense of duration, superficial emotional attachment and zero longevity.
A lot of white shaming and white guilt baked in.
You are basically paying $20 to be dumber than we already are.
For Hardy and Harelson this was a paycheck.
Animaniacs (2020)
Spielberg should know better...
... then again, no he doesn't. The Jewish powerhouse is monopolizing his own creations, effectively destroying them to accommodate lesser talent and wokeness. What used to be a wholesome and beautiful animated program is sending children powerful political messages with an agenda
Avoid at all costs.
Dune (2021)
A snooze
After an hour (which felt like two) the combination of stale dialogue, snail-pacing, dull exposition and SAND makes this film more like a cure for insomnia. The at times beautiful images don't make up for its lack of intrigue.
The Night House (2020)
Captivating...
It certainly does a good job of leading you to where you didn't expect... several times. The pacing isn't solid but the idea and execution is brilliant in new-age horror sophisticated, conceptual thinking. Strong performances.
I think it's worth watching twice just to get your sea-legs. Attempting it a second time might be more satisfying. That being said, I don't want to know the mind of the person who wrote the treatment...
Supervized (2019)
Cute, with heart
Refreshing movie that doesn't take itself too seriously with a legendary cast that combines heart with good old-fashioned fun.
Naked (2017)
Very funny!
Just good ol' fashioned fun without vulgarity, drugs or sex. Had me laughing wholeheartedly!
Free Guy (2021)
Thank goodness they had Reynolds
The premise was compelling but in the end pretty predictable. Familiar formulas, familiar tropes. Good for an occasional laugh but definitely not worth the hype. Not to mention you might get a little annoyed by Disney lazily referencing it's other cross-conglomerate franchises to elicit a chuckle and in the end comes across tacky and cheap.