pgrieves

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Climate: The Movie (The Cold Truth)
(2023)

Finally.. the truth
Great expose on how a trillion dollar green industry is socially engineering the masses and deluding us. You might watch it and say "well, there's not many climate scientists in the film"? .. and then you realise of course they're aren't because if you speak up about the truth - you become ostracised, defunded and that's the end of your career..Everyone needs to watch this at least once...and I really found it interesting and informative. Science is far too political now. Nuclear power and what about gravity amplifiers? We are all members of the doom and gloom club until you see the truth. I've seen the film on YouTube. The took it down but then it was back up. They don't want you to see the truth. Money, money , money .. manage the people.. more government.. more control over your choices and life.

The Northman
(2022)

Could have been cut to 70 minutes.
It's always proudly obvious how Hollywood these movies are. Here we have the age of Vikings 847AD and ravaged slaves with beautiful teeth and shampooed hair. 😂

Unhinged
(2020)

What did Russell Crow think about this film?
"I was extremely turned off when I read the script. I actually got a little physically ill, and I said to my agent, 'I definitely don't feel like I would engage in this at all, But "it just started to become something that I felt compelled to do, to flip the intellectual process aside and understand the importance of this subject. Where is this rage in society coming from? What do we do to unpack what we've built with that?" The difficulty in a character like this is his singular purpose. There's no way you can justify his actions. You can't use humanity to soften who he is because that would be cheap. This is a real thing. We've seen episode after episode of people taking these types of actions. Obviously, I'm alluding to mass shooting incidents, but in this instance, the weapon is not an AR-15; it's a car. But it's the same type of thought process where for his reasons, this man has stepped into a fight that completely lacks humanity and empathy, and he is just going to destroy until he is destroyed.

Van Helsing
(2016)

The Bold and Beautiful...pretty people trying to do vampires.
Why go to all the effort of making something that's already been made! In this day and age we are living in a world that is absolutely saturated in content (film, reality TV, TV series, music and games).

So people either do one of two things with a show like this: binge watch (not likely) or skip through the Eps. Yes! I watched the second Ep in 8 minutes and nothing really happened that i wanted go back for?

Some of these types of shows just don't have the budget for good writing and production...and how do people who have been dead come alive or come back and start talking with lipstick on the lips? What a joke!

Maybe Netflix made it for 12-15 year old people who like a bit the bold and beautiful with the occasional splatter of red.

I watched 2 Eps and that's it - I'll never watch this again. I doubt it was worth making?

The Harvesting
(2019)

Stay away from this - it's absolutely not worth your time!!
This is like The Channel that I accidentally watched a few months back. Why do directors and producers insist on making these "horrible" films. There is such a huge content of films in the history movie archives now that are solid films and yet some people still seem to think that "someone" would want to see this type of attempt at creating film. The actors were wooden, the story was lost and then drawn out...and there was nothing unhinging that happened? Stay away from this - it's another time wasting experience and one that will be forgotten because we have films like The Conjuring and Insidious that simply so far superior. Film makers like this - making films like this and The Channel need to think seriously about who they are exactly aiming the film at because he best part is when its over.

Independence Day: Resurgence
(2016)

Wish the aliens had won - so we don't endure a 3rd.
It's a movie made for 10 year old i think - why? Well they weren't around when the first came out and they just might like the undeveloped simplicity of this "bang and pop" attempt. It's so easy to make a modern sci-fi apocalyptic film. You need 3 teams. One on the PC drumming up average effect, another team pushing and pulling aircraft simulators back and forward with average actors inside yelling and flaying about with an average script and the third is a team of writers creating real human characters, relationships and tension. The third team must have emailed the script in over many months. Did anyone else notice there was no tension or real bonds between any character - everyone was animated - a caricature no different than the masked alien. Then it ends and we now expect a third lot of trite. I blame myself for allowing myself to be sucked in...it's a lifeless money maker.

The 5th Wave
(2016)

10 days, No water, No electricity - but still lots of foundation, blush and lipstick!!
This is another dystopian film like all the others they seem to be making in lots of three and the actors/actresses they all have wonderfully beautiful clean faces with lots of makeup on them after days/weeks of roughing it in a ruined and broken world. Why? It just feels inauthentic for an adult watching it but on a positive it's good for a newbie teen looking for no foul language and mum and dad can sit and watch it too. It's got just the right amount of gunfire to keep a 10 year old happy. I should have research the target audience a bit more before shelling out money on it. For me its only close to maybe a second wave but not really a fifth one. Better on DVD i think. "Solace" was better film I saw this week and aimed at adults - go see that if your looking for some fun and oddity.

Listening
(2014)

Watch out for critics who lead you astray
I thought this was an interesting concept film - sure there are relationship breakdowns in it but these characters depicted are clever - they are not perfect. This film is simply about accessing Telepathy and what you might do if you could read or influence another persons thought processes and what happens when a g'meant gets hold of technology for controlling its citizens thinking. Listening is an interesting concept film. I say concept because you need to constantly watch out for the critics (rotten tomatoes) who review films - they give big scores to crap films like Spy and Turbo Kid and then hang crap on a concept film like this. I don't understand what exactly they hope to gain out of honoring stupid spoof films or comedy genital overloaded jokes films with there 8/10 score. They don't like concept films that's for sure!!.

The Fear of Darkness
(2015)

Australian Thriller - I liked it.
I know other reviews might have questioned the merit and pace of this film - but I liked it. It kept me interested and it becomes stranger as it nears the end. Some people might question this films intention and believe it's useless or superfluous film. But it is a thinking person film with loose ends. I'll have a go with what i think happens at the end and others can consider their own conclusion. Sky is told that Sarah is not real and she has been in treatment for 10 years for a drug psychosis.The treating Dr says "she's nearly there" and they drug her to rid Sarah from her mind. Unfortunately Sarah is the only protective factor in sky's mind - Sarah knows the darkness wants Sky and has always frantically protected her. So the treatment appears to work and Sarah is dispelled. All is good until Sky looks in the mirror and then appears consumed by the darkness - to me it appears she was possessed by it as she leaves the hospital. She heads back out to the house where it all began and where the darkness resides. On the way someone or something stops to help her in the truck and we are lead to believe the darkness is within her or within the truck. She leaves the truck and goes toward the house and further into darkness OR there is another way of viewing the ending - that she never left the hospital but just moved deeply into psychosis (the darkness) after having her protective factor removed and we see sky's "dark" thinking just like we have seen her reality and world right through the whole film. Anyway - it made me think and I liked this film. i particularly liked that Aussie scenery and the birds on the water and mood of the film.

Spy
(2015)

A film for pubescent teens
Watched half and gave up. Not sure who the target audience was? Seems like the plot and the script/lines were put together quickly. Why film makers seem to think that if they get some actors that get really well paid- this will be enough to carry a film, i just don't know. Its not easy to make a good comedy,i think, and its lazy to make a crap one like this. It's just another dick/vagina movie that maybe they hoped teens going through puberty might like. Life is too short to watch junk films. Please spend more on paying people to write well and funny lines. Melissa Mc is just another Adam Sandler type of character who needs to be retired after 10 minutes.

Stung
(2015)

Comedy Horror
You have to watch the fist half hour to get into this movie. It's setting things up. I was bored and was going to switch it off after 20 minutes but stayed on. It worth watching...The acting is average and the relationships are pretty poor but maybe that's part of the quirky making of this film - not sure? The most peculiar thing is the the main character continues to run around in this movie as if he is unstable on his feet and always looks like he's going to fall over. It begins at the start falling over chairs? What the hell is this about? It looks extremely deliberate - maybe its part of the stupid comedy aspect? If you like horror with some quirky comedy then get on board. The best line is when the mother mutates and three people say in sequence "holy....mother...fucker!!" that was pretty funny.

Come Back to Me
(2014)

Good mix of Horror and Thriller
Rotten Tomatoes gave this film 20%. That's 2 out of 10. Why?

After watching this i have to ask myself if some critics just love to hate a film and maybe are completely saturated in screen viewing to the point of being desensitized? They say this film is "ludicrous that logical conjecture is doomed to fail.....it lacks sophistication...that it's predictable and obvious".

It's a horror film and it's a thriller - it's not a documentary!! It's not an educational program to bring the masses IQ into genius? It has twists and turns and interesting death and dieing concepts for those with an imagination in the esoteric or occult afterlife.

I have no idea what a critic expects - lots of "the sixth sense" again and again and over and over with caliber actors? it appears it made U.S. $4,500k a the box office. I would have paid a ticket to go and see it.

Yes - the film feels a bit stilted at times - but as whole it does what it's designed to do - gives you a bit of scare, thrills you and makes you guess how it might all be concluded?

It's good to see an Australian actor playing a main role too.

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