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The Conjuring (2013)
After seeing so many 10 star and 1 star reviews... I give 6 stars.
After reading the reviews I am quite surprised how people watched this movie. I think expectations are maybe too high if you only read 10 star reviews. However, this movie is not THAT bad to give it 1 star either.
'It is nothing new, we have seen this all before'. Clearly this is another haunted house movie, we know this genre by now but the movie never really claims to be anything more than that. If you are tired of classic horror stories, than don't watch it.
Is it the most scary movie I have ever seen? No, but it kept me on the edge of my chair and there were for sure successful jump scares and unnerving moments.
I was entertained for most of the movies duration and I think that is what a horror movie like this is meant for and why it actually is better than a lot of other movies in this genre. No, there is no original creative story to it, yes at moments it is cliche (it is set in the 70's, In a haunted house, clearly the directors watched a horror movie before and they clearly do not try to avoid cliche's, it is basically the whole charm of the movie). The characters are not that complex, the story is not deep, the acting is a bit unrealistic at times, and the ghosts look like we have seen them before but as a whole I think this movie works and delivers just what a movie like this should be delivering.
Food Choices (2016)
Vegan Propaganda
I was excited to see another documentary about food on Netflix because the subject interests me. With an interesting trailer and introduction boasting about finding ''the truth'' about our food and finding the one and only, most healthy diet... I did not expect to have to turn this off after 15 minutes. I simply could not watch another subjective documentary about food (already sat through ''what the health'').
After minutes it is already clear, for people like me who take interest in healthy food, that this movie is not about finding any truth but just making propaganda for the plant-based diet. Although I appreciate the idea behind the vegan diet, I hate this kind of movies presenting pseudo-scientific mis-information as ''the truth''. They only show one side of the coin, leading to the conclusion that probably the whole movie is a lie. I will have to be waiting for Netflix to present a more neutral, informative documentary about this topic.