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I wish it was better because it deserved to be, but it was all over the place in terms of the timeline. Nothing was really in chronical order, which was a shame.

They moved from one album to the next, but the next was the album before they just went over, so igt needed some real good re-editing.

Knowing Me, Knowing You is covered, but that album came after the next song, Dancing Queen, in the documentary. It made no sense, and some of the stuff was repeated too many times like Agnetha's fear of flying, she literally talked about that 5-6 times.

And the biggest shame is they did't interview any of the band members for this documentary, it's all old footage.

I mean originally I thought it was an interesting concept, but quickly it began to follow no logic.

She was time traveling based on songs she heard? What?

Then the forced DEI cast didn't help. Stop casting actors based on some checklist HR department handed out.

And like people are actually playing vinyl everywhere? I mean, come on. And someone actually said "what in the Luther Vandross name is going on." None of these zoomers have heard of Luther.

It was shot well, and it had a nice mod to it, but I didn't buy for one second any of the characters and their relationships. The lead is best friends with a drag queen? I mean, seriously. Never happened in real life and the only reason it did happen is because of the DEI requirements.

She still went to recovery meetings after 2 years of losing her boyfriend? Again, really? Do you know ANYONE that goes to meetings after losing someone?

The direction was just poor. They tried too hard too hard to make something emotional and didn't succeed.

What the heck did I just stumble upon?

I don't know what this movie was about nor did I ever finish it. She works at a convenience store but also as a stripper? Huh, what? It made ZERO sense. The reason why girls strip is NOT to work a normal job and make more money. They didn't think this through whatsoever.

And she is supposed to be best friend with the BBBW? What, like really, what? Then the gender confused little brother? Were they just trying to score every DEI box when they wrote this? I don't know what this movie was about.

And then the stereotypical strict "Christian mother" I mean seriously, how many times have we seen this premise before? So tired.

Nicola Peltz Beckham cut her husband from the movie apparently because of his bad acting, but did she look at herself?

The whole thing was just so cringe and tried way too hard to make the audience cry and feel emotional.

SKIP IT, SKIP IT GOOD!

This movie was just ridiculous. I don't even know what the point of it was. I didn't care about anyone, including Fassbender who was cast a pointless lead that had no story. He essentially took revenge on some girl I never got to know or cared about.

None of the killings hit home with me, because I had no idea who any of them were, nor did Fincher care to spend any time with them to set up some sort of character and/or relationship between Fassbender or them. I can maybe understand the opening scene had a non-established character, but why on Earth would they spend 20 minutes with him?

Let's forget that the opening was about 25 minutes long, yes 25 minutes long.

Basically it was hit job gone wrong and then the hit man was the target, apparently, although not every clear. Try figuring out who each person was. Again, I couldn't care less about any of the victims nor the killer, pun intended.

The film brought nothing new or interesting. And you have to ignore all the unbelievably not believable scenes, like getting punched in the face multiple times, with uppercuts etc and he didn't get KO'ed.

Then the VO was annoying.

In the end, the Killer had zero redeeming qualities so I say SKIP IT.

Solid film... but, kinda ruined by the silly side love story that was totally unnecessary.

Norton and Brandon stole the show. Both great performances. De Niro was okay, but this was a point after his heydays. Jackie Brown was probably one of his last movies De Niro put any thought into. Everything after that was pretty much phoned in.

At least Norton and Brandon added some flavor to their parts.

And we also didn't need the small side story of getting code numbers. It didn't really add anything. It was just a long dramatic tense scene.

It had the same issue as Heat , which they added too many side love stories. Also, the silly jazz club took up too much time. If they had cut that out it would have been a much better film and 20 minutes shorter.

Having said that, I would still recommend it.

Nolan is by far one of THE most overrated directors. He has problem telling a coherent story.

Sure he is a master of special practical effects, but that is defeated by his illogical stories.

The dialogue was so boring. I am so tired of writers that make everything written so on the nose. Everything is so devoid of the daily minutia, emotional exchanges, but instead focus on tedious exposition.

There was way too much flashy edits and effects, instead of letting the story just unfold in an organic way, they had to cut every 30 seconds, back and forth etc. Probably because it was the only way to save an even worse movie.

I guess Nolan's praise comes from the fact that movies are in such a poor state and have been for 2 decades.

I literally checked out after 2 minutes and stayed checked out for the rest of the film.

Oppenheimer was introduced like 12 times during the first 15 minutes by different characters. Totally unnecessary. And then the annoying music. Why does he always have wall-to-wall music?

I think Nolan is more after cinematic poetry rather than comprehensive narrative.

And then the acting was just so bad for the most part.

5 stars for realism, acting and simplicity... -5 stars for story, or lack thereof and confusion.

I am okay with movies that sometimes not a lot happens in them, but having some sort of edge, like a tone, or something that is enjoyable, like funny characters, dialogue etc. E. G. Lost in Translation. Even Days of Heaven was enjoyable with very little happening.

This is very Sean Baker'ish and Noah Baumbach. A slice of life, and while I like Sean Baker's films, he always seem to miss adding SOMETHING, ANYTHING, to spice it up a bit. Although Baumbach does the same type of films, he seems to do a better job and making his films (for the most part) interesting. My biggest issue with Hollywood films is it's all action/effects/violence etc, and my biggest issue with Indie films its all characters and relationships, and very little happens. Such as the instant case.

You basically have to guess what is going on or infer a bunch of things, which is fine to some extent, but I don't want NO answers either.

While the acting was phenomenal and everything was approached in a very realistic way, which is rare in movies, I found myself really frustrated with Peter Sarsgaard's performance, which was likely due to poor direction. He couldn't even remember 5 minutes in the past of what happened in a movie, but then other times his memory was crystal clear, like he had been married, his wife died etc. But had no memory of other things, like he remember Sylvia, but didn't remember the waitress at the cafe he goes to all the time. That was very confusing. It was not well thought through.

The other confusing part if I had no clue who was who and what their relationships were, and although I eventually figured out some, others were still unknown by the end of the film.

I don't think there was enough for them to start their relationships.

At least thank god for no DEI cast. Refreshing to see a movie that reflects reality within the world they are showing. Also thank go for no fancy camera movements and annoying score, but a nice diegetic film. It makes it feel so much more real.

Overall they could have added more events to make it more interesting, they don't need an action packed Marvel movie, but a little something would have made this better.

Watch but keep all these notes in mind.

First mistake... casting. What on Earth were they thinking casting this guy for Marley, he looked and behaved nothing like him.

I just couldn't get over looking at this guy and seeing ZERO resemblance to Marley. Same with his wife.

It is soooo hard to find any decent movies these days. So disappointed to see movies with such high budgets, access to any writer, director, actor etc and still fail pretty much every time.

It was just uninteresting, uninspiring, slow and boring.

They just did a terrible job at establishing a coherent story I cared about, mostly because of uninteresting dialogue.

Who green lit this script?

SKIP!

There is Terry Gilliam, then there is Tim Burton, then Gaspar Noé and now Yorgos Lanthimos. They all have one thing in common, they make very weird obscure movies. While Gilliam and Burton have been able to create some commercial appeal and a smidge of logical comprehension of their movies, Lanthimos proves there is no such thing here.

I have no clue what I just watched or what the purpose of the film was. It seems like an exercise in abstract art laced with gratuitous sexual content, all for, at least to me, served no purpose at all. It was like Edward Scissors hand meets Jim Jarmusch meeting pørnhub.

I didn't last more than 20 minutes before I started to skip through this mess.

Most of it because it made no sense. How did Bella progress that quickly without aging with her child's brain? She went from barely being able to say one word to speaking normal and then engaging in adult courtship and sexual interactions.

I still don't see why this movie was made, nor why it's getting this amount of praise.

I would stay away from watching this.

I literally turned it off after 15 minutes. I did not believe a single thing that happened from the acting, to the writing and then the overbearing melodramatic music over everything didn't help.

Are there ANY good movies anymore?

Of course you get the standard DEI cast and no surprise, but yet another British or foreign actor playing an American. Apparently there are no more American actors to play Americans. I'm surprised the lead British actor didn't have a POC wife.

The dialogue was so unbelievable bad, overly written. No one speaks like that.

Then the annoying "phone messages/calls" credits over the screen, like they are too lazy to do an insert of a phone ringing or a text.

And if you want me to believe that a long-term married couple would still behave like they are on their first date, all romantic, dancing to a 60s soul jam, you must be kidding. Nothing, and I mean, NOTHING was believable in this film.

Everything was so cliche.

A BIG NO from me.

It just didn't maximize its potential. The premise isn't new. This movie is a recreation of two films essentially, a mix between Robert Townsend's Hollywood Shuffle and Mel Brooks' The Producers. So no new themes or other groundbreaking material.

The latter, was about someone who did something to fail, and the former how Hollywood (really just white people) forced stereotypes upon the lead character. Like what it means to be black etc.

If they had focussed on that story, it would have been much better, but unfortunately, they added way too many unnecessary side stories and watered down the film. Like the maid's love interest, his mom's health problems, his brother's issues etc, all of those could have been a movie by themselves.

The director could have had some hint of the lead's personal life and family without spending 50% of the movie on it because the crux of what was good was the hilarious

All the other stuff was just low-key family drama we have seen a million times. The latter, although derivative of Hollywood Shuffle could have gotten an updated spin with all the new stuff going on in the world today, so it is really a shame he didn't focus on that.

In addition, it was way too slow and 30 min too long, and the constant melodramatic music didn't help (like so irritating and distracting). And I didn't believe for one second his new girlfriend loved his fake book and their forced fight that came out of nowhere. In the end, what started out good, got worse and worse over time, and by the end it was predictable and unfulfilling. A note on the end, which made zero sense, since the pseudo name was obviously all fake there would be no way the cops would come and arrest him.

After doing this review I had further reflection which took it even more in a negative direction. The characters were so one-dimensional and if the movie was about breaking stereotypes it failed because there was not a single white person in the film that wasn't an absolute dummy or ignorant or unlikable. The family make-up was also ridiculous. A writer, a gay man, a sister who is a doctor, a mom with dementia, a dad who was a serial cheater, and the overweight maid who seems to be the only one who was smart and put together well. We have seen it all before.

At the end, it is in need of a serious edit.

For those reasons I can only give this a 3 star, and because some of the lines in the movie if said by another race would be rather offensive.

What happened to this show?

I watched first few seasons and loved it, but then it fell off with Simon leaving etc.

They also ruined it with adding instruments to the auditions. It gives some people advantages over others who don't use it or can play an instrument.

Then the latest judges, like Katy Perry are a joke, they don't take it too serious. They try too hard on every level, by being TOO emotional, too over the top personality.

The excitement of the first season where we didn't know what to expect, neither did the contestants, it was unpredictable and fun.

Also too many people are picked because of their story, not their voice.

We just need to hear them sing acappella.

I don't know here to begin. First, it was so slow. The music was ripped from a Hallmark TV movie and so on the nose of how you should feel. It was just too distracting. Tommy Lee was useless in this. The acting for the most part was terrible, but especially from Jenny Ortega.

And then the writing was just so bad. Like the "dad" coming into the bar in the beginning and caused a scene, which just would never happen.

The movie didn't know what it wanted to be. It was all over the place with too many ideas and not enough focus. 45 minutes into it and nothing has really happened, except the superfluous rushed relationship between Mabel and Charlie.

I just don't see why this was even made. What was the point of it? If you want to make a movie have something NEW to say., like a message, maybe just pure entertainment, but then it should be funny. This was nothing new. It reminded me of the Perfect Storm, kinda.

Everyone seemed unlikable and uninteresting. Over an hour into it and I'm bored to death!!

What was once funny has become dreadfully awful. Everything that was funny about the original Borat character is totally lost here. Sacha Baron Cohen suffers from what too many Hollywood people suffer from, which is TDS and political obsession of promoting their ideology.

The problem with this sequel is that they are taking everything too serious and that includes themselves. It seemed more important to make political jabs at their political opponents rather than just telling a story and being funny. But this happens to people that get too political, they simply lose what made them funny to begin with, and become way too focused on being an activist.

They literally explained too much and some of the humor was repeated, but not funnier.

Plus Sacha has gotten too old and his acting was way worse and too obvious in his manners, unlike the first one. Something about his character seemed awkward. I remember seeing the original Borat and laughing basically throughout. This one I cracked maybe a smile a few times.

Like others have said, it was way too forced, and as I mentioned, the jokes seemed derivative. An example of this, is they open with old damaged film footage, like anyone in the world still using 16mm film footage to shoot stuff. Over all they should have toned everything down. It was WAYYYY over the top and didn't know whether it should be a Borat sequel or a anti-trump political peice.

SKIP IT!! Sacha.

Who the hell decided it was a good idea to BLAST Cardi B's WAP during the opening so you can't understand what anyone said? The music STUNK in this film. Everything wrong about music today was added to this film, and what a let down. It was so raunchy, but not in a fun way, but in a bad vulgar way.

And then we have the latest Panderverse from South Park come true in this. Pretty hilarious.

Some movies just don't translate well into cinema, like stories about poker, stocks and other computer related issues, unless you center it around something other than those topics.

And the whole mask thing was beyond annoying, yeah I don't care if it was happening during mask mandates, it ruins it.

And I didn't believe most of the stuff like the nurse knowing all about stocks etc.

There was not a single likable character in this. The most unasleep film in a while. You can figure out what that means.

It was just BORING.

Yet another wasted opportunity.

It started out looking like something potentially really good, but it quickly descended into absolute garbage. From the bad acting, specially the lead, to the bad cliche derivative writing.

They tried too hard to make it emotional, but it wasn't done in an organic way. It had every cliche imagined.

Same problem they did with Rogue One, little to no build up that justified any of the pay offs.

Juxtapose it with New Hope where they spent 40 minutes getting to know Luke and his family before any real danger happened. In Rogue One they spent 2 minutes with the lead and her family.

Then the lead guy (from Rogue One) was just as annoying in this series as he was on Rogue One, and mostly because of his annoying accent and his awful acting.

The DEI casting nonsense wasn't as bad as usual, but nevertheless annoying. And what's with the cast being all non-American, like everyone. Why can't Hollywood cast American actors anymore? Only British actors wre available?

There were some good things, like the effort to do something different, the set designs etc, but the over all premise seemed frivolous.

This was just the prequel to Rogue One, but a needed one.

I wish Disney would hire people that actually got Star Wars.

The premise is ridiculous and the CGI looks terrible. I like the concept of someone surviving something cataclysmic and having to survive.

Love movies like Cast Away, but this was ruined by the zombie/virus aspect. It's just so ludicrous. I'm not even gonna spend time on the debunked germ theory. You can look that up yourself, but somehow these people turn into night of the living dead zombies ruined everything for me and then they roar like lions. It should have been some sort of weapon that used radiation or something else that killed off all the people. This was proven by the whole covid craziness.

If your CGI isn't very good and/or believable don't use it. We don't need to see bad looking lions in the middle of Manhattan. You can also tell what's green screen and what isn't. That just ruins the experience to an already bad story.

Plus Will Smith's overacting didn't help either. Just making a tense face and yelling a lot doesn't make you a good actor.

And too much random nonsensical drama put in just to add more drama. I hate when characters make such bad decisions that were done by a lazy writer. A knife stuck in your leg doesn't make you immobile. It just made me frustrated.

And of course the only other survivor is a beautiful woman,. I mean, really not some cop, plumber, accountant or fireman, but a super hot young woman? I mean, really? And the casting of the woman was too obvious.

I've watched it 3 times now and it gets worse each time.

If you enjoy over the top SNL skit type of humor, this is for you. Why did every actor play their part like they were winking into the camera trying to be cute/funny? I actually like Awkwafina, but this was a big miss. Everything from the formula story to the annoying cutesy music.

How many times have we seen the awkward nerd be a genius in some game show for someone to realize they need to play the game. White Men Can't Jump, for example.

Will ferrel is just awful. He never was funny, because he TRIES to be funny and forces the humor/characters.

Everything was sooo over the top, which means they didn't feel secure with the script/actors so they over did it. Typical of insecure actors and directors.

I didn't buy a single scene in the film.

Skip it.

I expected it to be much worse reading the reviews at the first part was mildly and I mean mildly entertaining BUT then it went downhill real fast and got worse and worse.

The acting was a bit hokie at times. Having been mildly amused there is NOTHING that was believable in this film from the judge, the police, the ward etc. This crooked "ward" went up against the Russian Mob and didn't flinch. Even after her girlfriend told her to end it.

The first half was better and then it became really ridiculous. If you for a second believe that someone can just be taken away without anyone being able to visit them you are delusional. The way she talked and acted toward the mob was just RIDICULOUS and ruined the film. Like I said, NOTHING was believable. How did this ward become James Bond?

I could NOT care less about the two female leads and actually wanted them to get killed. This was just some fem gibberish. NOTE: Anti-heroes are NOT unlikable. They have flaws and not perfect beings, but never unlikable.

How do you have a movie with the main protagonists so unlikable that you wanted them to fail and get killed? I honestly wanted to trash my TV toward the end.

Also, the music was quite annoying. I mean REALLY annoying. The ending was SO ridiculous... I ended up HATING this film..

Horrible unless you believe the IMPLAUSIBLE...

Used to love this film, but now watching it after years of not seeing it, it seems so buffoonish, as in way over the top and unfunny

I don't mind comedies, but I'm not a fan when they make average characters so incredibly stupid. Like beyond stupid. I could point out a million things that happened that even the dumbest person wouldn't do.

Like when their car was crushed at the dealership and he still tried to open the door, as if he didn't notice the car was crushed. I know they are going for laughs, but can they make the laughs within the realm of reality?

Does everything have to go wrong?

I guess I should have kept the sweet memories I had of this movie, instead of watching it again and being super disappointed.

If I have to see one more murder mystery where a cop or two cops go to arrest a suspect and one cop leaves a single cop to do the arrest while leaving the room, I'm gonna puke.

Not only does that NOT happen, but they literally bad a bunch of cops OUTSIDE the house, but none of them went inside? That is just ridiculous.

The sound design and music overwhelmed a lot of the scenes and became distracting. And the melodramatic slow motion shots. I.e they tried to force the tone and emotions way too much.

A lot of stuff just went nowhere. However, it was still decent despite a lot of things not making ANY sense or characters forced to do things they would never do in real life, just to create drama.

I thought NICE, when I saw a 45 min documentary, but I realized it was a 3-part documentary, total 2 1/2 hours long, but it needed to just be 45 min. It took an hour and 10 min to just get the basic story, KINDA, because we still didn't get the full story then, nor did we ever find out what happened. They TALKED about what allegedly happened, but never showed what happened leading up to the incident. I wish they had much more of what was presented at trial etc.

There was WAY too much speculation and conjecture on the part of the defense team, and I mean team in terms of everyone on the side of White, his family, friends etc.

Then why did we need to hear White's back story/history? It's totally irrelevant to what happened.

It's disgusting how the defense attorneys/D. A. constantly used race and saw everything through the prism of race, when race had NOTHING to do with it.

Krasner is a political hack and led White on during the interview.

White's counselor talked about White being under privileged, while simultaneously saying how much help White got from a bunch of high profile attorneys/activists and ultimately Krasner, the D. A.

The documentary did a good job at showing both sides, but it too way too long to get there.

So obnoxious to see how political the "justice" system is. One of the D. A.s (Keir) actually said they needed to hear what a "black mother feels like."

I liked it, but I can't give more than 6 stars since it was 3x as long as it should have been.

3 stars for mindless entertainment.... but that's it.

You REALLY have to suspend your disbelief in order to enjoy this movie.

The writing was cliche and lazy. Lead lost his wife, gets replaced by a puppy that gets killed by some random high class bad people that seem to have nothing better to do than to steal a guy's car.

I'll take $200 for things that never happened.

Lets ignore the fact that Wick killed probably 100 people in this film, but none of them were able to hit him with the many bullets shot at him.

When they finally had a chance to kill him after he got captured, instead of just shooting him, they of course, had to bring him to some remote warehouse where the villain gives him a Bond speech (how many times have we seen this?) before using a plastic bag to kill him. Why didn't they just shoot him when they captured him? Why use a plastic bag?

All they did was basically remake Taken, which at least was a bit more realistic and seem to have more purpose.

Then the acting was pretty horrendous. If you enjoy some total mindless entertainment, then go watch. If not, there are way better action movies that don't take themselves too seriously.

This was a missed opportunity and totally overrated. I guess that means the book was the same, but here they had a chance to improve of fix the problems of the book.

Every single character was one dimensional and stereotypical. And in a very annoying way to the point of being totally useless and uninteresting. The dad was the worst offender. He was pointless. He was essentially just there and served as a emasculated male providing the MUCH NEEDED masculine energy in this film. You never get to know anything about him.

The mom came close second as someone who basically just kept saying "oh, honey, I'm sorry."

The DEI quotas come off as condescending, obligatory and phony. There was literally a line from Margaret to the teacher of how great of a teacher he was, but all they showed were his few awkward moments.

The only thing that came close to being interesting, which was the religious conflict between the factions of the families lasted about 3 minutes.

If you are into watching 11 year old girls praying for their cycles to begin and growing breast, then you will love this, but that is all this movie was. The religious aspect of this was a tidbit and never went anywhere. In fact NOTHING came about anything in this. The girl friendships, the boy crushes, the family feuds.

This was really just a mess. And I WANTED To like it.

Is this a joke? Seriously, is this really a joke? Because honestly it was so beyond bad. From the bad color correction, to the poorly written dialogue and acting to the constant music overlapping trying to cover up a horrible movie.

What happened to Mel Gibson? He seems to be doing nothing but b-movies now.

I don't think I bought a single character in this film. And the distracting "music video" editing made it even worse, as if it couldn't get any worse.

There was NOTHING believable about this film, not a single thing.

How did this get green lit? Nick Stahl as a cop? I mean, maybe a drug addict, but not a cop.

This is a BIG NO from me..