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Everyone knows Lincoln was assassinated in 1865 and John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963. But that's only half the story.

Which other two presidents were assassinated? 99.99% of Americans couldn't even name one of them, much less the date or the killer.

James Garfield was assassinated in 1881 by Charles Guiteau.

William McKinley was assassinated in 1901 by Leon Czolgosz.

In a way, this movie is an unintentional indictment of the American education system. We're dumb. We don't know even the most basic facts about our history -- and our written history isn't even that long compared to a country like Greece, which has written records 5,000 years old. Not good.

The fact that the bad calls himself "Booth" -- ha! He couldn't call himself "Guiteau" or "Czolgosz" -- no one would get it. Huh? The writers had to LCD that one.

In any case, the movie is decent enough. Renee Russo is great in it. John Malkovitch is good too. His voice is creepy.

A great book to read is "Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong" by James Loewen. It's really good.

Jeez how long does this thing have to be?

More running and sword-fighting than anything, except perhaps boring dialogue.

No, this turkey can't hold a candle to the original Wishmaster or Wishmaster Deuce, both starring the wonderfully creey Andrew Divoff. No Divoff this time -- just a dorky, run of the mill replacement that we only really see in the Wishmaster getup for about 30 seconds the entire film. Make no mistake about it, the 3rd entry is cheap cheap cheap.

The creepy practical effects that did so much to enhance the film and contribute to its atmosphere, its world, are replaced in Wishmaster 3 by boring dialogue and so much running (why!).

I saw that 3 and 4 were filmed back to back -- I don't plan on watching 4.

That first scene is so lazy, it's so dumb, it's so bad that I just couldn't make it past it. I didn't care what happened after that. It's really shocking. That first scene is something that a 7th grader would come up with for a class project. It's like "What can I come up with in 10 seconds? OK, that." And then just go with it. Build everything off that original, stupid idea you thought of for 10 seconds. I'm amazed that this came from a novel, it's so juvenile.

Man, that opening scene was bad. I was shocked. It left a bad taste in my mouth. I felt guilty for something. The only movie I can think of that I've seen recently that had as bad as, or worse, an opening scene was Judgment Night. Same story with that movie. Opening scene, irritating/unbearable, change it to something else.

I watched the movie on Peacock. Gotta fill in extra words here. They had it on there. I don't really have too much else to say except for that first scene because that's all I watched. Is this 600 yet?

After 36 tedious, unbearable minutes my girlfriend and I looked at each other with that look -- let's watch "Project Runway" instead. "The Holdovers" is unbearable. It seemed like at about the time we turned it off it was starting to pick up, but too little too late.

This poor movie doesn't have a funny bone in its entire body. It's just a lecture no one wants to hear in a movie form. I heard it gets better but I just can't after that brutal opening half hour. That was savage. It was like I was being punished for something.

This won awards? You're kidding me. That's what wins stuff? This joyless, boring, preachy movie was really really bad.

I barely lasted 15 minutes with this turkey before I had to shut it off. It was like the movie was daring me to watch it. Challenge declined! Hard pass.

One of the most obnoxious, idiotic openings of any movie I've seen recently -- with perhaps the exception of "American Werewolf in Paris". "The Guys" show up and talk about guy stuff -- beer! Girlfriends! A boxing match! Pew pew! Uh oh -- a younger brother who does guy stuff! Cars! A scuffle between bros perhaps?? More beer!

Guess what -- the viewer gets to contrast this with his wife! And newborn child! A night out with the guys has never been so relentlessly moronic.

Someone should have just stood there with a sign that said "guy stuff - ya know, beer, sports, etc". Then fastforward through that monstrosity of an opening 10 minutes.

Byyyeeeeeee.

Hollow Man 2? Nope -- Hollow Man Reboot. This is not a sequel, it's just another movie with that idea. Title may as well have been "Hollow Man: Another One" or "Hollow Man: A Different Version".

It's just as dumb as the first one. But it's even more pointless. What a cynical effort -- and shame on Christian Slater for being in this turkey. He might have thought "Well, I need money, and I'll only be in it for 10 minutes, so maybe it won't hurt my reputation too much." Not a great approach to a film. He must have been going through a divorce or had gambling debts or something.

I've seen worse films -- at least HM2 has decent production values. But that's it. It's stupid beyond belief. What a disgrace!

What a turkey! This relentlessly irritating film starts bad and only gets worse. Every character is obnoxious in the extreme, and one can't help but wish they all would have jumped off the Eiffel Tower in the opening scene so the movie could just end itself. What a disgrace!

The hubris to try to remake the original 80s film. Whereas that film was fun, fresh and funny the 90s "sequel", if we can call it that, is dumb as a rock. Relentlessly annoying and there isn't a single funny joke in the entire film.

This film is floating around a 5.0 user rating -- wow! I'm amazed it's anywhere above a 3, it's one of the worst, most irritating films I've seen in the last year.

Oh yeah also John Landis killed three people on the set of "The Twilight Zone". Yes, John Landis is a murderer.

Tubi just put a tonnnn of 70s and 80s shows on streaming so I've been watching a few of them. I really want to like Scarecrow and Kang but it's just so dull ... nothing ever really happens. And when something does happen it's the last minute of the episode.

There just isn't enough in this series to like for it to be do-able. It's so dreadfully dull, I'm amazed it lasted more than one season. For example, there's a guy and a young lady as the main characters so there's an obvious opportunity for romance -- but they don't do anything with it. There's a bit of sexual tension, sure, but that's it. It never goes anywhere.

Final thing about this show ... the decision to cast gorgeous Kate Jackson as a frumpy mom is baffling. Just a few years previous she was one of the hottest young ladies on TV in Charlie's Angels. She could have had a similar role but instead they give her baggy clothes to wear and put her hair up in fuzzball. Makes no sense for someone so attractive.

5/10 tops, only good for an afternoon watch / nap.

This film is for a narrow segment of folks -- the "what about muh rights?" kind of cavemen who think any laws about anything infringe their right to do whatever they want. This film is a preachy, annoying 2A snoozefest, a Republican "pew pew!" fantasy on film. These are the same folks who forget to charge their Hoverrounds and say stuff like cIviL wAr iS coMinG then say "Cleetus, plug in muh oxygen!"

A neanderthal approach to society -- guns and Jesus. Everything else is bad. Healthcare, environment, education -- nah, we're good.

Whew, Michael Ontkean is tiresome in this one. He preaches and preaches and yells and yells. Grab your rocket launchers, folks! His smirky little tirade with the reporter is typical "don't trust the lib'rul mediuh". Pathetic. *eye roll*

What about a movie called "Well Regulated"? Oh yeah, that's in there, we forgot about that. We ignore the parts we don't like, like the slavery thing too. That's not in there, that's a lib'rul conspiracy. Them dang dems and their book learnin'!

Right about the hour mark the psychologist guy says "This is stupid. Idiotic!" Yep, nailed it.

How on earth would Lara Flynn Boyle's character know how to do all that stuff with the recording equipment? Did they ever bother to explain that? How does she know how to control the swimming pool area, the "supermarket" ... like what? None of this makes any sense. How ... how would any of that even work? It's one of the central aspects of the plot but they never even bother for it to make sense. Ugh.

Anyway.

The Poltergeist franchise is easily one of the most overrated horror franchises, I've always been amazed how popular it is and shocked by how many folks like it. Such a dumb series of movies.

By the way ... has anyone ever bothered to count up the number of times Craig T Nelson, Tom Skerritt, and everyone else on the block screams at the top of their lungs

"Carol Ann! Carol Ann! Carol Ann! Carol Ann!"

Had never seen The Fan before so when I turned on Tubi after work and saw it suggested I thought I'd give it a try. Snipes flicks from the 90s are so much fun, my fave is U. S. Marshalls.

Anyway, something felt weird right ... off the bat? ... shall we say. Bah dum tss. The opening credits sequence was twice the length it should have been. The strobe light effect thing can only go on so long. Unless it's the last 20 minutes of Alien, then it's fine! :) Opening credits of The Fan went way too long, I was bored before the actual movie even started. Not good.

But then when the action starts I actually got into it. And a pun for my efforts -- "Knife doin business with ya." Ha! Best line of the 30 minutes I was able to stomach.

Well, cut to the scene at the ballpark when he's yelling, cursing, and being a d**k and I had to turn it off. Look, I live in Queens, if I wanted to hear some old dude yell and be an a** I could just walk outside my apartment.

Unwatchable. 1/10.

An outstanding film, I was really impressed with it. It was always engaging, never let up, and never had any downtime with boring subplots. Everything works to the main goal, everything is interesting. I have read I think 4 Stephen King novels but never any of his short stories and I really want to buy this collection.

Brad Renfro delivers a standing ovation-level performance -- a 14 year old kid with only a few years experience acting holding his own across from a classically-trained British actor. What a performance, he is excellent! I somehow didn't know about his tragic death, so sad.

A random Elias Koteas cameo here is interesting. David Schwimmer as the guidance counselor (or whatever) is fun too. Bruce Davison, the father, was in Willard -- and Seinfeld! The FBI guy was in Terminator.

Boring movie. I didn't care about the plot, the characters, or anything else about this movie for that matter. Nothing interested me in even the slightest. Only reason I gave it a deuce is because it had decent production values.

Keanu is wasted in this flick, he has nothing to do. I thought this was gonna be a John Wick kinda thing but it's just people talking to each other. Who cares?

I just realized I actually don't know what the plot is. I couldn't explain it to save my life. Someone gets kidnapped or something? I am filling stuff out here to get to the required characterz number.

Will never watch again. 2/10.

Just listened to a funny holiday episode of How Did This Get Made that did this movie (December 2022) so i just watched it for the first time. Forgot it existed.

The opening act of the film has been taken almost entirely from The Crying Game. Guy in jail with girlfriend he tells his cell mate about, guy dies, cell mate pursues the girl. That's the first half hour of The Crying Game.

The "I just want a hot chocolate" / "I just want a piece of pecan pie" is taken from Hudson Hawk. In that movie he says "I just want a cappuccino." In addition, both Hawk and Rudy are recently-released convicts.

This is the second movie I've watched today (the other being "Aspen Extreme") that has a scene when people fall in water in a freezing cold environment -- and then are just fine after like no big deal. No hospital, no emergency surgery, no stroke because of lack of oxygen to the brain, no frostbite, no gangrene, no problem. Just warm up and move on, you'll be fine. That's not how that works!

I rented the original last night on Prime and watched Part 2 this afternoon on Tubi. The OG is serviceable but nothing special. I'm surprised it caused such a tizzy in 80s America, but I guess we were prone to fanaticist outbursts like that back then. It was before the internet/cell phones so outbursts like that was a way to connect like-minded outragers. Or something?

Anyway, Part 2 is the laziest film I've ever seen. For a film in which the first 45 minutes are just cuts from the original with voice overs added, it's pretty shocking the voiceovers give erroneous information about the original film (like who was really in the santa suit and which nun helped him out).

That is really shocking from an editing/continuity perspective. I knew these were errors right away, having just seen the original film the night before for the first (and only) time. How did no one in the production notice them?

My favorite line of dialogue from Part 2:

*tough guy voice*

"My old lady couldn't afford to send me to college. {pause} So I got a JOB."

I surveyed some reviews on here -- only 27 user reviews, which seems really low -- and some of the comments mention: insipid, banal, sitcom comedy. All absolutely spot.

It's one of those dishonest 80s movies like "Can't Buy Me Love" that is just a sequence of cliches. There isn't a milligram of original or fresh content/ideas.

Is her boyfriend Dana Ashbrook? Too lazy to look it up but it looks like him. Legend -- Twin Peaks and Waxwork I know him from mostly.

I'm watching the film right now and I'm 47 minutes in, the scene where they go to the coffee shop and get into a drag race confrontation with the high school bullies. The cliches just go on and on and on! Hysterical.

Did want mention that I actually like the idea of a character that is "father that is fearful -- but meets his daughter, her boyfriend, and other teens at their level". That would be cool if they did it with an authentic, genuine approach but since this movie can't transcend the cliche level they keep it at that level rather than for going original. Does that make sense?

Yes Resurrection and H20 are goofy -- but they don't take themselves seriously. It's just fun. By contrast, Ends DOES take itself seriously. And with that tone, that approach, it comes off as embarrassing and cringey. Scene after scene after scene made me cringe. Ends is just awful.

Worse, it's pointless. It huffs and puffs and pretends to be really important and meaningful but it's just a daffodil in the wind. It's neither here nor there.

Another sin Ends commits is dividing the main character's importance. I can't remember which one it is -- Friday the 13th 7 or 8 or something? -- but there are other killers other than Jason in that one. Whyyyyy? Screenwriting 101.

Finally -- worst of all -- is the title. Halloween Ends? Uh, no. We all know there are multiple reboots in the works. However, I won't see them. I'm done.

Watching for the first time in 2022 -- I didn't even know this movie existed! Having just re-watched AVP over the weekend I was excited to check it out. However, that excitement quickly turned into mega-disappointment for one reason.

The lighting. What on earth? Why would anyone make a film that only shows half of what's going on?

Did the director and producers actually think "if it's dark, it's scary!" That kind of childlike reasoning is what has doomed the movie.

If the lighting were better it would have been passable; as-is it's a 1/10, unwatchable. This turkey would have been at least a 6/10 if the lighting were decent.

Great premise for this film -- gives it a nice element of realism. It's relatable. Filmed in pretty San Francisco neighborhood which ads to the local charm/context.

But there just isn't enough on the line for this to be a top-notch thriller -- all that could happen is they get foreclosed on. Sure that sucks but at the end of day that's all that's gonna happen. Things get more to the point - more for what I'm looking for - in the film's final scenes but it's too late; that stuff needs to start building much much earlier on to get the audience on board and keep them there.

Tension is built fairly nicely but I just wanted things to be more extreme/go further. Seems like all the ideas are there for this picture to be good and having Keaton in the baddie role is a goldmine. But the writer/director just don't do enough/go far enough in my opinion. Great ideas but only mediocre execution.

Was watching old Siskel and Ebert reviews on YouTube the other day and Siskel said something funny about movies that have bar fight scenes: there's no need for them to actually be in the film -- just put up a card on the screen that says *bar fight* and let the audience have a little intermission. We know everything that's gonna happen in a bar fight scene, it's a stock scene you can just insert without it having to have any particular/specific qualities.

Fast forward to me watching "Spun" (2002) this weekend: Instead of making this movie, the producers should have just posted something on social media that just said *tweaker movie* -- done! No need to make the movie, everyone knows what's gonna happen in every scene anyway. No need for for the predictable storylines, the monotonous plot, the unlikable characters, the telegraphed conflicts, or the inevitable conclusion.

Not a single scene or line of dialogue surprised me. Not ONE! I rolled my eyes about a hundred times. Jeez, an hour and a half of this crap? Come on. In trying to be edgy and weird the movie comes off as ordinary, predictable, trite.

The movie huffs and puffs and really really tries hard. It's desperate to please. When that's the case you know you've got a stinker on your hands that the actors are just trying to do their best with. I don't fault them at all, they're just working -- the fault is the writer and director. Garden variety doesn't even begin to describe it *eye roll*

Hey, if this movie can get funding and actually be made with established actors, have heart young filmmakers -- anything is possible.

Poor guy doesn't have a funny bone in his entire body. Makes me cringe when he tries to be funny. I wonder what would happen if he tried to do a set at Comedy Cellar. He get heckled all the way home.

Amazing he has a career in comedy - I've never actually heard him tell a joke. It's all "delivery". Thing is, making weird faces and acting like you're dumb isn't funny except to maybe a 3-year old. Truly, truly embarrassing.

I've been really into shot on location movies filmed in British Columbia lately: this one, Malone, Lake Placid, Beyond the Stars, First Blood. Stunning scenery, it's so beautiful. I've never visited but really want to.

Anyway yes this is a preposterous movie but it's fun, has a great leading man and leading lady, and is filmed in a beautiful setting. Cheesy afternoon movie fun.

Just watched this flick I had never heard of on Tubi - they have such good content! Nightwing from 1979 is way underrated on here -- a 5.1 is too low. I probably would have given it a 6 but I gave it a 7 just because.

Anyway, I love shot on location desert movies -- The Car, The Wraith, Kingdom of the Spiders, Cherry 2000, and now Nightwing! Love the southwest desert for a setting.

Highly recommend! Watch for free on Tubi.

This delightfully corny 80s yarn popped up on autoplay while I was watching some afternoon movies on Tubi. When this one autoplayed I thought "eh whatever I'll give it a shot" and boy, was I surprised!

Hasselhoff as the sheriff, Clu Gulagar, the lady from Hunter (I always forget her name), Adrienne Barbeau -- there are some solid names in this flick! As a random observation almost all of the actors guest starred on Murder, She Wrote.

Anyway I just loved everything about this movie, it's silly and fun. The current 4.9 rating is way way harsh, it deserves higher!

Watched the first 3 Omen pictures this week. I had seen the first one before but whew, it blew me away. Great suspense, next level kills, psychological realism, all in a dark, gothic context. It's sublime.

The second one I thought was good. Big shoes to fill but it was definitely good.

Then we get to 3. I just didn't get into it; I found it boring. A BIG however though -- *spoiler* - the scene where he's doing the interview and the crew member slips and gets hooked upside down and swings back and forth after catching on fire, smashing all the glass and drywall and everything and getting wrapped in burning plastic ... WHOA! That is one of the absolute most fantastic scenes I can remember from any movie. My eyes popped out of their sockets, my jaw dropped. Absolute perfection; that's the kind of scene that feels inspired from the first one. More of that please!