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Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
(2024)

It was pretty boring and only a couple funny parts
Besides it being boring and not funny the lazy writing made me angry especially towards the end. I won't spoil it but I suggest you don't spend the time watching it but if you do you'll see for yourself how bad this movie was. The younger girl leading it was no good and the dad, forgot the actors name, is no longer funny. (The actor who plays ant-man and the character from 40 yr old virgin) I feel like I lost my money and will never get that back which is true. Ernest Hudson and the original GB squad were okay but the new young kids are nothing memorable to me. There seems to be absolutely no character development. The main monster is extremely poor and whoever created it did a super bad job and they shouldn't created monsters again.

Sound of Freedom
(2023)

good message but not as true as you think
The part where Tim kills a cartel leader deep in the jungle at his encampment and saves the girl is false yet tim says this is a true story just to pull listeners in when he markets it. The movie was definitely longer than it should've been. Nothing super memorable from it other than the island raid which happened to be true. The tears came rolling down his eyes way too much in this. The sex ring bust on the island actually had a lot more lives which were saved than in the movie. These inaccuracies make me question everything else. No really good supporting actors and the acting overall was generously a 6/10. I can understand why the end was completely fabricated because its a movie and they felt there should be a happy ending but thats not how life works for stories like this. Would've been better off if the movie was actually accurate like tim ballard promoted it to be.

Jesus Revolution
(2023)

A very harsh oversimplification of reality.
I noticed that 47% of the ratings were perfect tens. Shawshank redemption had 55% of their ratings perfect tens and The godfather had 51% so i was thinking this movie could be promising and almost just as good. That's how open my mind was to this.

After watching it today at the matinee I found out it was no where near as good as those movies. The characters weren't that likable, partly due to the lack of depth in 99% of them. The mobie felt like a trip on drugs itself because of how unreal scenarios played out. Not something you would see in reality. The acting was only good from a few. Lonnie, "white jesus" was pretty cool and kick started a great vibe and he was very attracting at first but slowly progressing towards the middle of movie you came to dislike him and at the end you feel relieved he made an exit. I nick-named him white jesus as his appearance is the portrayal of the Caucasian version of jesus christ and he chased a own personal high of his, "saving people" by baptising them outdoors in natural waters like jesus christ and also on the spot miracle healings (healing someones hearing, depression and drug withdrawals from a crippled man in a wheelchair) so as you can imagine it got to his head and his ego went through the roof quickly becoming all about him. That's pretty much it. He just ended up disappearing off to florida after the help of sparking the movement.

Greg was okay on the other hand but i felt his scenes throughout the film were extremely cheesy and extremely unrealistic except the ones about his relationship with his mom. The moments with him and his girlfriend made me cringe at times. Chuck smith played by Kelsey Grammer had to be my favorite character and thing about this movie. He did a AMAZING job. If it wasn't for him, this movie would have been a total disaster.

Everyone else had their moments but it was kind of overdone by some like Anna Grace Barlow. She seemed like she was trying so hard not to play her character but to win an oscar. Quite a lot through the movie the forced tears kept working it's way towards scenes where they didn't have to be there. It's like she never sobered up from her acid trip in the beginning of the film. With the cut and editing they were obviously fake tears. Not the genuine tears you would see from a top tier actor.

To describe this movie in a single sentence I would say "it's a wholesome version of a 2 hour long soap opera" at best. There was only a couple characters at times throughout the movie i looked forward to seeing. It has a good message about unification but the plot is very weak. The music was pretty good but nothing you haven't already heard in other films especially from 60-70s classics.

Also, if you have kids be warned, it may be PG-13 but there is HEAVY drug and alcohol use. Moments where people are high as a kite, driving, overdosing and even drunk while driving getting into automobile collisions.

All in all i feel the overall rating was much higher than it should've been so be warned. To sum everything up Jesus Revolution was pretty mediocre to me and i felt cheated because the first half hour or so was really nice then it slowly went downhill. It's definitely missing a lot of things that make a perfect 10 film.

I find it very interesting that such film can have a higher rating than classics like First blood (1982), 300 (2006), breathless (1960), friday the 13th (1980), 28 days later (2002), Patriot Games (1992), top gun (1986), blade (1998), dumb and dumber (1994), I am sam (2001) or As good as it gets (1997). The thought of it getting a rating just as high as The curious case of Benjamin button (2008) or American gangster (2007) is mind boggling. There is no way this movie is 10/10. Don't let the reviews get your hopes up like it has mine. I went into it with too much expectation so just let that sink in.

The Metacritic user rating and just about everywhere else is more realistic. Looking at the user review rating demographics you can tell they're biased here but you will always get strong bias in Christianity films.

The Whale
(2022)

pretty decent film but the average user rating is way too high
No spoilers at all here but I just want you to think about this...this movie has higher ratings than classics like:

American Gangster (2007), All quiet on the western front (2022), The day the earth stood still (1951), The outlaw Josey Wales (1976), Home Alone (1990), The Hangover (2009), The Fifth Element (1997), Superbad (2007), As good as it gets (1997) and American Psycho (2000)

Let that sink in..... We get it, there was a huge controversy behind this film amongst other things so it brought attention to many people and they came here to support our most loved Mr. Fraser but there is NO WAY this movie should have anything close to a PERFECT 10. A perfect 10 screams bias and there are suspiciously many 10's here...

This isn't even worth a second watch for me so I deleted it right after I was done. Maybe I'll give it another watch but that won't be anytime in the near future.

It wasn't exciting yet it was interesting enough to watch the whole thing through yet didn't meet any type of gratification at the end... nothing at all blew my mind in the slightest about the film and the only likable people to me were Liz and Charlie so at times I got pretty bored especially during scenes with Thomas and Ellie that i felt were too long. The acting was pretty good I can admit! In a couple scenes it could've been better.

I love Brendan to death as I grew up to him since Airheads. It kills me that this is now his highest rated film ever.

Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe
(2022)

So disapointed because I love mike judges work
I couldn't stay focused watching it, lost interest. Was a couple funny parts but maybe I should've not been sober because that's the only way this movie would've been great to me is if I was off something. I downloaded the series and idiocracy to get some closure... this just wasn't it for me. Big let down because I got so excited when I first heard about it listening to him on the joe Rogan podcast when I had no idea it was a thing. Maybe it's MTV's fault who knows.

Coneheads
(1993)

Classic comedy
Maybe not one of the greatest comedies but it's still a classic. Ignore the review bombing. There is no way this movie a 1 star. Most likely BOTs and one was entirely motivated by their religious purposes. Anyways, Funny but not on the floor laughing or have your stomach hurting funny. It has it's memorable moments that I'll remember forever.

Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City
(2021)

This money grab is up there with some of the worst
Part where cop shot a man on the train with a rocket launcher but was unscratched seconds after

The dog scene in garage was aweful

some characters were supposed to be special operations but you couldn't sell a blind person this

The movie all together is down right unbelievable and not in a good sense.

The Book of Boba Fett
(2021)

overall an okay show but have high hopes of it getting a lot better
I only seen the pilot obviously as the other episodes have yet to be released but from what I've seen so far, as a huge boba fett fan also, is that it felt so forced. I felt like they didn't use all the resources they could have to make it look and feel a lot better.

Like the COMBAT: WAY TOO MANY CUTS in the combat. It did not look believable at all which left me unimpressed at everything and at times confusing as to what's going on because the camera kept cutting constantly and changing angles. This wasn't in every fight scene but in the more advanced ones like when he fought along side Fennec Shand.

The CGI: throughout most of the episode was not only heavy but it looked unbearable at times. From the chase seen in Mos Espa jumping from roof tops to the scene where Fennec Shand and Boba are being shocked by the electric baton-type weapons and especially the end of the episode when boba fought the creepy, unheard of sand creature.

Overall the mixture of bad choreography and CGI during fight scenes was a big let down. The CGI with the massiff wasn't bad CGI until the action came after it gained consciousness and started chasing Boba taking him down.

BUT I DID enjoy the scenes with the sand people, those were my favorite. Most viewers see a whole different side of them because they seemed more organized and complex than your usual gang of raiders. That is what gives me hope in this series. The character development. I did enjoy the fight scene with boba and the tusken raider. I also feel the politics side of this series will be interesting with Boba in charge.

But yeah, the EXESSIVE USE of CGI (I'm guessing they used a lot because it was easier to make the series in the middle of covid pandemic) and CUTTING almost every fist that's thrown in fight scenes made me cringe a lot. Overall I will still have hope and continue to watch. It's not a deal breaker.

The Sopranos
(1999)

what am i missing?
Gave up in the middle of second season. Just not my cup of tea I guess. Watched too many mob related titles/movies and it all seems the same to me. Got boring and at times predictable.

The Wire
(2002)

Very well made show
Very well done, of course the show is slow but it's supposed to be. It's a simulation to reality it's not going to be action packed every episode. These people expect some fake stuff like dexter or breaking bad. Love how haters are trying to ratio the title, there is no way this series gets 1 star, so i gave it 10 on purpose. This show is clever though , my real rating would be a 8/10.

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