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I guess my era of DC animated movies began with Batman: Mask of The Phantasm and ended with the New 52, Justice League Dark: Apokolips War. I gave this movie two tries but I could not get into it. The voice acting was good with a slight adjustment to not hearing the iconic Kevin Conroy and Mark Hamill as the voices of Batman and The Joker, respectively. The beautiful Naya Rivera did an amazing job voicing Selina in her final role. This is a true Masked Detective story in the early years of Batman before Robin and the future Batgirl as a kid excited about going trick or treating with her dad. The action is very slow or nearly non existent except during the final few minutes of the film. I did not like the animation drawing style with paper cardboard characters. The post credit scene was meh. The movie was very dry and slow. There was more exposition than actual story being shown. For example, Selina had an entire relationship with Bruce off screen then they break up at a boat party. We never saw their relationship in the movie. When did Selina find out Batman was Bruce and why was he so nonchalant when she blurted out his identity? Better adaptations of Catwoman and Batman's relationship were shown in movies like Hush and Batman: Gaslight By Gotham. In other versions of Batman, there was action and suspense being supported by a great film or television score, this movie had neither. It was also weird hearing the bad guys constantly telling Batman how bad his detective skills were. Harvey Dent was also an uninteresting character in this adaptation along with his relationship with his disenchanted wife and their martial problems. I guess the house explosion was to trick the audience into thinking Harvey was becoming TwoFace and how they survived it made absolutely no sense to me. I was not feeling this movie at all. I did not like how the characters were drawn with the exception of Selina.

So I guess this movie is for a new generation of fans but it was not for me and I love different adaptions of Batman. Adam West Batman, Tim Burton Batman, Kilmer Batman, Clooney Batman, Kevin Conroy Batman being my favorite, The Dark Knight Trilogy Batman, Old Man Bruce in The Dark Knight Returns movie and Batman Beyond: The Animated Series, and New 52 Batman. But I am not into this Man of Tomorrow drawing style.

So I am not saying it is a bad movie. All I am saying is this reimagining, storytelling, and drawing style is not for me. I enjoy the old drawing style when Batman finally had eyes not the dark beady cartoon eyes like in Batman: The Animated Series, at least in the earlier episodes of the series. But if this the new drawing style going forward with the new generation, I'll leave it to those fans and will appreciate and rewatch the style I enjoy.

I Carly star Miranda Cosgrove stars as Rose Halshford, a college student whose life is upended when her mother commits suicide and her workaholic father Jerry Halshford played by Donal Logue (Quinn from Blade/ Harvey in Gotham) decides to move them across the country to a fixer upper house and Rose begins to experience strange things in the house which has a dark secret of its own.

Miranda did an amazing job starring in this movie. I'm glad they had her play a college student because she looks too old to play a high school student again. She looked like she could be a college student. The cute Austin Butler played Noah Henry, the guy who is working on fixing up the home and has a thing for Rose. Her neighbor the somewhat obnoxious Leila Markby played by Jessica Grant whose upset because her parents are getting a divorce and Tom Sizemore's quiet performance as Leila's dad Howard Markby.

It's a pretty good thriller and reminded me of movies like the 2012 The Pact and 2016 The Boy. Rose's dad is an architect who works alot and leaves Rose alone alot in a creepy house. Due to being traumatized by her mother's death and being forced to take a leave of absence from Stanford, prior to the events of this movie, Jerry had Rose in therapy and on medication afraid she would share the same fate as his wife and suffer from schizophrenia. So when Rose tells them of seeing things, her nightmares, or objects disappearing and reappearing, it's hard for him to believe her.

With this movie, the characters and suspects are shown and while the movie plays on, the viewer begins to pick who's the possible guilty party. Are these figments in Rose's head? Is she really nuts and imagining things? Is it the cute guy constantly popping up? Is he real? Is it the neighbor next door who had a connection to the house's dark secret? This movie leads you in one direction and shocks you by going a different direction. I wasn't surprised due to being desensitized by a stranger than fiction real world. But I still enjoyed the film.

I don't know exactly why but one of my favorite scenes in the movie was when the younger cast members are in the living room talking about the house's dark past and when the conversation could have went one way, the conversation was led back to a mature conversation which focused on the plot at hand.

I also liked how Noah and Rose's relationship was played out. Was he a figment of her imagination or was he too good to be true? It wasn't rushed and very tasteful and organic.

The movie was very realistic like it could happened in real life which it probably has and this is how rational human beings would react and handle this type of predicament. I enjoyed it and would watch it again. I liked how the actors played these characters in a natural way and no one tried to out act the other. It was a really good film with a good script, a great cast, and was well directed. I really liked it.

I've been passing up this Christmas horror movie for a while and finally decided to check it out. From the trailer, it looked stupid and it was stupid but in a very smart way. I think 2017 The Babysitter was inspired by this movie. The movie is about a babysitter named Ashley who is moving away in a couple of days to start life anew somewhere else. She decided to babysit Luke, a smart twelve year old she has been babysitting for since he was eight years old, one last time. She is very aware he has a crush on her and she has a cute boyfriend named Ricky who is blowing her phone up throughout the night to since alone time with her before she leaves town. Things go array when weird events begin to happen and Ashley goes into protective mode to protect Luke and herself from potential home intruders. This movie was an unexpected twist, had so much black humor and was hilarious. I was expecting a movie plot similar to 2017 The Babysitter, which I also liked, and I was thoroughly surprised. In the final act, the movie was starting to get a little steam but that ending was awesome. Great movie, great cast, great cinematography, great script, a perfect example how to write a twist to elevate a movie, awesome originality with the storyline, great pacing, and overall a great movie. Definitely adding this movie to my Christmas horror movie collection.

Hollow Creek is supernatural thriller starring Steven Daron as horror writer Blake Blackman, Guisela Moro as his girlfriend/mistress Angie, and Burt Reynolds making a small cameo as a grandfather grieving over the disappearance of his grandson.

Blake Blackman is a horror writer suffering from writer's block. So he takes a trip to stay at his friend's cabin in the small town Hollow Creek with his mistress, an illustrator named Angie. Hollow Creek is also dealing with the disappearance of three missing boys. Things begin to get weird when Angie's dog Brandi disappears when they arrive at the cabin and reappears with a baseball with initials TB on them the following day. Angie takes Brandi to go play fetch and something throws the ball back. After going to the doctor and finding out she's three months pregnant with Blake's kid, she stops for gas and noticed a boy in the back of an old Chevy car drawing a sad face on the window. She recognize him as one of the missing boys and ends up getting capture too by the couple holding the boys' hostage and everyone suspecting Blake behind her disappearance.

The world thinks he guilty, he loses his job, almost financially broke after his wife cleaned him out once she learnt of his affair, fails the polygraph test but never gives up on finding her.

I really enjoyed this movie. It was more of a thriller with a little supernatural elements mixed in. The actors did a great job. I like they were middle aged and average looking since in horror movies, it's usually a bunch of photogenic 20s and 30s years old who can barely act. The cast looks like regular townies folks. The main leads looked like a mature couple having a mature affair and had real issues. They loved one another but never tried to rationalize it and knew what they were doing was wrong. Yet, what happens in the dark always comes to the light and the characters had to deal with the consequences of their choices.

Even as the months passed, his drive to find her and keeping her dog Brandi and even the consequences of their choices helped them out in the end and the world who was watching changed their opinion on who was truly innocent.

This is one of the few times where I like when a movie films that scene revealing the twist or what really happened because it meant something greater than themselves led Brandi to run off and fetch the baseball or Angie to follow that car, find those boys, and get captured. Her being pregnant and the crazy wife desire to have a boy kept her alive longer. Then when it was time for Blake to find her, it led her to Blake. With the supernatural element helping out a little bit.

I also liked how the cops naturally wise up especially in movies and in real life, their tunnel vision has cost a life which could have been saved if they simply listened to a narrative which didn't fit their own.

Yes, it looks like a low budget, simplistic written, and cheap special effects movie. But what saves it was the great actors and the movie had heart which rose above the material. It could be a faith based movie instead of a supernatural thriller. Because their faith and believing in something greater than themselves saved them in the end and led Blake to find his mojo again, revitalize his writing career after getting fired, forced him out of a marriage he was unhappy with, and forced Angie to have a change in her life when she was also unhappy with the way her life turned out and especially being the other woman to a married man.

No one is perfect in this movie about flawed characters. It doesn't tell you what's right or wrong but simply tells a morality story and allows the audience to decide their opinion of it and then it wisely ends with a final line and it's left to the audience to decide what happens next between them.

Good movie with a nice supernatural twist.

Okay, I will admit I do know all that is going on because this is a foreign film but it seems like it takes place several years after the original and it's a post apocalyptic South Korea where the survivors have adjusted to life with zombies. I'm assuming the mother and her daughters are the survivors from the original movie. It seems like they are stealing a truck full of money and satellite phone to pay for safe passage off the pensicula. It's action pack and not only does the cast have to battle the zombies, they have to fight something worse, other humans.

I enjoyed the core cast. I dislike the bad guys like in the first movie where that businessman made things worse than the zombies. I was happy when they faced their punishment. I enjoyed the ending which was emotional with the background music like most South Korean media does. I'm glad it went another way and it's nice to have a little hope in a depressing world. The older daughter was awesome along with the cute little sister being a kid born in a crazy world.

I like this movie. It's a South Korean action movie with zombies and guns. The only weak plot was the English actors weren't really that necessary and kind of took away from the movie. I guess they represented the United Nations or life outside of South Korea. So it was a good movie I enjoyed watching.

It lacks the creativity of the first movie because the first movie was a more contained story and forced to be creative. This movie is a continuation of that story. So it's not going to be the same as the original. And the key characters of the original sacrificed themselves so the pregnant wife and little girl could live. This is the good conclusion to the first movie for those who cares about what happened to the pregnant wife and little girl once they reached Busan. I liked it and will watch again.

I only learnt about this movie after hearing about the negative reviews about it and with a title like Kissing Booth, it was skip for me.

I decided to watch it for myself and I enjoyed it and have seen it multiple times. I liked this movie about two best friends for life named Lee and Elle who were born on the same day, their moms were best friends, and they do everything together even created a list of rules for one another. Trouble occurs when Elle matures and develops a crush on Lee's hot older brother Noah, which is breaking a rule of not dating a sibling. After Elle's body mature from tenth grade to an eleventh grade body, she's forced to wear an extremely short skirt which draws the guys' attention at school and causes Noah to get in a fight to defend her honor and stop his little brother from getting beat up.

Yes, this movie has cringeworthy moments because private moments are acted out in front of a crowd like an 80s teen romcom like the Molly Ringwald played in when she was teen who is in this movie playing Lee and Noah's mom and a voice of reason. I hated the prom scene for this reason. I also agree with none of the cast obviously are not teens in real life. One guy looks thirty playing a seventeen year old.

Yet, the criticism is Noah is what I find annoying. He's an alpha male character who loves Elle like a little sister, fights to defend her honor by other guys disrespecting her when he starts to develop feelings for her. He criticized for being protective over the woman he loves in a post feminist world where feminists prefer men to be emasculated Beta males like Lee who is borderlined gay, into crossdressing, and getting beat up by bullies at school. Noah is considered toxic masculinity because he acts like a red-blooded male. He's even treated like he's a horrible human being every time he defends Elle's honor against another guy disrespecting her. Even when his brother insults her, Elle sides with his little brother over her. It's ironic Lee is only disliked when he's possessive of Elle because she is the one thing he had his brother did not.

The main question in this movie is voiced by her father. What does Elle want? Because she's more concerned about preserving her friendship with Lee until it becomes borderline unrealistic and Noah becomes sidelined to the approval of his brother.

But despite this movie flaws, it had its fun moments and was enjoyable to watch. This is a movie you're going to either like or hate. There is no inbetween. I like alpha males who love, protect, and defend the honor of their woman, so I love the way Noah cares about Elle even though she though she behaves like the defiant female who ignores his good advice and has to be constantly saved from herself. So if you enjoy watching an alpha protecting his love minus a few cringeworthy scenes of guys cross dressing and private moments being acted out in front of an audience with 80s pop ballad blasting in the background which is forever linked to a better and an iconic 80s movie. It's a decent, imperfect teen romcom.

I rate it high because I like the characters and story. It's a simple teen romance which doesn't pretend to be more than it is. So I watched these movies because I enjoy watching the characters and the continuation of the story. The gay subplot was unncessary and added nothing to the story. But it's Netflix so they always figure out a way to insert a gay character in every movie. They did Marco dirty. He was a likable addition to the franchise, one of the best parts in the movie, and they only used him as a plot device to create drama between the relationship of Noah and Elle. If Netflix knew they were going to do a third movie which was filmed back to back with this movie, Netflix or the writers could have had the guts to break up Noah and Elle and explore her relationship with Marco who possess the good looks of Noah but is also a good friend to Elle like Lee. Noah could have explore his relationship with Chloe or another girl and if Elle and Noah were to find a way back together in the third movie, it would have made their relationship stronger. This movie is a weaker version to the All The Boys I Love Before movie which did the same thing. The heroine kisses the second love interest who is perfect for her only to realize she still loves the original love interest.

But otherwise it was a good movie, Elle created fake drama with Noah. The Justin Beiber fans upset over a Justin Beiber joke. Are they going to ignore the racist things he said about black people? His sickness or his newfound religion doesn't justify his racist remarks. The Kissing Booth scene ironically was the most cringeworthy moment but I guess it was inserted because it's the title. The 80s cliche where all the private/pivotal moments in their relationships must be acted out in front of an audience to cheer or gasp about. Besides the writing and overreacting, this is what separates The Kissing Booth and All The Boys. Besides the love interest showing his public display of affection for the heroine when appropriate, all the rest of the moments are private. In The Kissing Booth, those big moments aren't real unless done in front of an entire audience. This is what causes the cringeworthy moments and makes the viewer dislike the characters and makes the viewer believe every one else attached to the main characters of Noah, Elle, and Lee, who are all good matches for them to feel used by them to add unnecessary drama to the main trio's lives.

As far as Rachel and Lee, this movie places Lee in Elle's shoes from the first movie. He loves his girlfriend but he also loves Elle, his best friend since they were babies. He has to adjust to balancing his friendship with Elle with his relationship with Rachel. I think out of both movies Kissing Booth and All The Boys, the character who is the most realistic is Margo who dumps her high school boyfriend because she was going to college. Both of them still cared about one another but moved on.

Most of the drama in this movie was in Elle's head. Jacob and Joey did a wonderful job with recreating the chemistry of Noah and Elle even though they broke up in real life. Jacob is extremely talented and did a good job playing Noah who was head over heels in love with Elle and seriously trying to maintain a long distance relationship with her.

Many reviews says there was no growth. There was a smidge of growth. When Marco tried to egg Noah in a fight, Noah backed down and walked away. Lee's relationship with Rachel is forcing him to gradually let go of Elle and forcing him to create new bond with someone else even though he created drama between the girls by not having the guts to tell Elle his girlfriend wanted time alone with him. Besides having two cute romantic love interests, Elle remains the same. Creating drama out of nothing, crying about a faithful boyfriend while lusting over another guy over the school's intercom, dragging the other cute guy in her drama and kissing him in front of her boyfriend and an entire audience. Not being mature enough to tell Noah how she feels or questioning him immediately in a nonconfrontational manner about finding another female's earring under his bed, picking a school based on what the men in your life want her to pick instead of picking the school she wants to go to. This movie treats Harvard like it's an expensive state school so easy to get into. It's also kind of strange in both movies, she's more worried or emotional about her relationship with Lee than Noah her boyfriend. In the first movie, the climatic lawn fight scene between Noah and Lee. In the sequel, the climatic Thanksgiving dinner scene. What Molly Ringwald said to Elle after this scene pretty much sums up the entire movie. I guess because Noah understand their friendship better than Rachel, he never let it bothers him. After Marco and Chloe, Noah is the most realistic of the main three characters. The only mistake they did with Noah was make him seem like a regular jock in the first movie but never shows how he was smart enough to get into Harvard.

But I like the movie. I enjoyed the two hour runtime time of seeing the cast again. If you enjoyed the first movie, you'll appreciate this pace. If you didn't like the first movie and only watching this teen romcom to criticize it and tear it apart, you'll find this movie too long and a chore to get through. Like Noah or Marco to Elle, I like this movie despite its flaws. It sucks the writers played it safe not to upset the fanbase by not breaking up Noah and Elle. It made the movie too unrealistic, too safe, too predictable, no little nice twist. The cast is pretty solid for the writers not to challenge themselves with a solid script. Noah and Elle can be endgame but they could have used the second movie to have them explore new relationships. Anyway I liked the movie. Can't wait until the epic Kissing Booth 3 where Elle finally picks a college.

Covid-19, social distancing, the MeToo movement, smart devices. Socially Awkward Humans hardly interact with each other anymore. Walking down the street, at work, in the car, in the bathroom, at dinner, at family/social gatherings, at home, in bed, humans heads are down and glued to smart devices which can do everything for humans besides cook for or have sex with them for now. An entire generation born technology efficient but with weak verbal communication skills with one another, speak to the opposite sex, or having access to instant gratification. Men with something to lose being afraid to interact with women for fear of being accused of harrassment or assault if they attempt to ask them out, touch them, speak to them, or give them a compliment or even being accused of rape after consensual sex if the woman feels violated days, months, years, decades after the act. Thanks to issues such as low birth rates due to the young adults being drowned in student loan debt with low paying jobs, women prolonging having children or choosing to remain childfree, a growing single population rivaling the married population, and laws like China's one child policy, women outnumbered men in the world. This is the present. The subject of this movement is eerily close to being a reality. So it highly possible for men to rather pay ten grand for a sex doll than deal with consequences and cost of dealing with a real woman with the added benefit of not being jailed for needing to pay for illegal sex with a prositute. Single, independent women over thirty who want a dream guy to go out with and listen to than deal with the headaches of dating or trying to find this dream guy in real life when the pickings get slim as they get older and slowly lose their beauty may be willing to pay ten grand for a sexbot who listens and are designed to please them.

It seems like a joke now but it's happening in Japan right now. Single and married Japanese men paying ten grand for realistic sex dolls. And the sex dolls are not too far from looking as humanistic as the sexbots in this movie.

Can you truly have a meaningful relationship with a machine? Can having instant gratification with a sex machine designed to be your ideal sexual partner and have all the traits you desire in a mate make you happy? Does having perfection bore you and stop the feeling of loneliness? Is it cheating when it's sexual relations with an android versus another human being? Can you truly fall in love with a machine? Do you get bored having the artifical dream girl or guy catering to your every wish or desire except the ability to have an opinion of their own because they are artifical machines programmed with your desires to only please you? This movie asks the question about what is the meaning of being human or any other social norms such as marriage, relationships, and family. The ending is meant to open-ended because there is no easy answer and society will judge you either way. This movie presents the question about using nonjudgmental artifical intelligence for fulfulling the physical needs of human's sexual desires and/or their emotional need for companionship and allows the viewer to decide what is morally right or wrong.

Dean Cain does a great job as Maxwell, the creator of the sexbots. After a walk though a ridiculously long warehouse, Maxwell gives a great speech when the protaganist complains about falling in love with his sexbot or e mate and accuses Maxwell of making machines which manipulate human emotions.

If you're looking for a raunchy comedy about sexy, submissive female robots, then this is the wrong movie. 2050 is an analysis of the way our world is heading in merely thirty years from now when people depend on androids to fufill their emotional and physical needs and desires.

Great near futuristic film about human desire and using technology to fill the void we believe we are missing in our lives! Dean Cain was great in his role along with the rest of the cast.

I'm given up on the horror genre. It's a dead genre which needs new blood to revitalize it. I'm exhausted with lowering my expectations for this genre. With the exception of the originality of Jordan Peele's new movies, there are no Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, John Carpenter's Halloween or Wes Craven's Nightmare on Elm Street. Everything now has been reduced down to sex, violence, and gore with dumb characters, horror cliches, or decent actors but poorly written scripts. Dumb twists and final jump scares inserted at the end of the movie for no reasons. Instead of having original ideas, intelligent, likable characters placed in a bad situation and trying to survive, with atmosphere, tension, and build up, creativity, and so forth, we constantly get the same tropes over and over again.

The trailers lied about this movie. Good actors, dumb script. It's a movie starring Christopher Lee Page as Harry, Caitlin Crommett as his girlfriend Rose, and Erik Hammerland as the villain aka The Stranger. Harry and Caitli Rose's relationship is on the dumps. They can't stop arguing with each other and fighting. So in a last ditch effort to save a dying relationship from break up, Harry invites Rose on a trip to spend a week at a remote cabin in the middle of nowhere. Rose complains the whole ride there about not wanting to be there. The cliche old guy at the gas station attempting the worn the couple not to go are in this movie a bunch of old guys watching them strangely while they're in the store but says nothing. When they arrive at the cabin, it turns out to be a dump, Rose complains about wanting to leave immediately. The Stranger is the only one there and takes time to greet them while taking a break from killing a farmer Texas Chainsaw/Hostel style. No phone reception. His car gets stolen and they're stuck across the lake from The Stranger's land.

The stupidity happens The Stranger attacks them wearing a creepy mask for some reason never explained. It's absolutely obvious who the killer is because he's the only other person there. The dumbest part is he is an average height guy. The same as Harry. In real life, Harry and Rose could take him. In the movie world to justify an hour and half runtime, fake tension must be built. So Harry constantly suggest for Harry and Rose to split up like Fred on Scooby Doo. Rose thinks it's a stupid idea but agreeds to it. Weapons like knives and chainsaws are seen, but our heroes choose not to use them or if they do, hit the villian, drop the weapon, run away instead of killing the bad guy, and repeat. Jumping out of windows of short distance to the ground and twisting ankle. Falling down while the killer is chasing after you. With the villain, we learn nothing about him in a long scene of Harry walking through The Stranger's house and nothing happening. Harry is a beta male character so the villian constantly sneaks up on him and knocks him unconscious. He's crying out for help but it's already establish no one else is there and Rose is across the lake. I understand why Rose wanted to end the relationship. Her character was not much better, but she was written with a little more spunk than Harry. But it was annoying how many times she dropped the weapon and ran off. The ending was stupid too but to give this movie a symbolic flare I guess it was meant to symbolize the death of a relationship which has run its course and Rose sticking a fork in her relationship, mourning the end, and traveling alone along an unknown path.

If you like the silly tropes of uncreative horror films, here's another to add to your collection.

Sometimes a final twist elevates a mediocre movie like Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines. Most time it undermines a movie. This movie has an interesting twist but it wanted to be so ambiguous like a Christopher Nolan movie that it undermine a movie with the potential to be great.

I've been a fan of the horror genre since I was a kid but I'm learning there is no one size fits all horror movie. So what I may find as a good horror film is boring and not good for another fan. I want an interesting concept, good execution, strong acting, tension, atmosphere, well placed jump scenes, a compelling storyline, good writing, to be scared, no nudity, a sympathetic yet smart hero with an equally compelling villain. A good pyschological thriller like 1408/The Shining. A good, entertaining slasher flick like some Halloween/Friday the 13th movies or a compelling horror fantasy thriller like Mama. Yet, other horror fans simply want the traditional tropes of sex, violence, and gore. They want the bloody violence of a Saw or Texas Chainsaw movie. They want the gritty/exploitation films of trailer park trash movies of Rob Zombie/Quentin Tarantino of poor country whites using excessive profanity every scene, naked women every scene, and excessive gore and violence. Like Rob Zombie's version of Halloween. Fans of the original hated Michael being taken out of the surburbs and being placed in a trailer park trash movie with bullies, a peverted, fouled language disabled stepfather, promicious sisters, a stripper for a mother, and having psychological serial tendencies like a real life Jeffrey Damher. Others loved those exploited movies.

So this movie annoyed me because it had three strong leads: (Ricci) Anna, the heroine schoolteacher who wakes up in a morgue after a car accident, (Long),her longtime boyfriend Paul, Neeson (the mortician Elliot), and Cantebury (Anna's death obsessed student Jack). I hate how people always bash Justin Long's acting. He's a good actor and can only do so much with the weak material given. The kid actor was good too and there were a lot of symbolism used with this movie.

If the motivation for this film is we're not living fulfilling lives then why not have a success happy ending of the heroine wanting to live and not fear love and the hero willing to risk his life to save the woman he loves. Yet, the ending becomes ambiguous and the twist is he gets the same fate she gets of questioning whether he's really alive or not. Yet, it was dumb because it was revealed she was alive. And the hero loved the heroine. He understood her craziness, wanted to marry her, and accept a job opportunity else. So he wanted to live and the ending only cheated him out of life and love. His fate was cruel not horror movies obsession with making every movie a M. Night Shyamalan twist when that twist worked in his overhyped movie The Sixth Sense because it was original at the time.

The actors all did great with the concept given. But if Anna Taylor dies, what was her lesson learned? You choose life and love and a crazy mortician still buries you alive. The movie makes the ending ambiguous but it's already established she was alive. So the movie could have been great but besides the crazy Elliot doing his nutty job of convincing alive people they are really dead and making the audience between he can actually talk to dead people and the easily manipulative kid with a fascination with death and invalid mother. The rest of the cast was stupid. When Anna had a chance to escape, she wouldn't speak thinking Paul coming for her was in her head. I have met dumb do nothing cops in real life but no cop could go investigate Paul's story after another cop admitted there are cases of drugs out there which can make a body look dead or the cop who copped a feel didn't think a corpse's moving its head was a big deal.

it was an okay film which outsmarted itself out of being a better film

This was my final movie on Danielle Harris' movies binge. She's literally only in the opening scene. I assume this movie is based on a stage play from how it's filmed similar to the movie Fences starring Denzel Washington and Viola Davis. There are literally three characters or four if you include the female bartender. This movie stars my favorite version of Lex Luthor himself, John Shea as Robert, Lea Thompson as his ex wife Emily, and Danielle Harris as their daughter Jenny who has become recently engaged. Their daughter's engagement causes the former couple to meet up and have a dinner where they spend the night analyzing their lives and their relationship.

I respect movies like this especially when the dialogue and writing is pretty good. Emily is a successful writer married to a rich husband she's bored with. Robert is the struggling artist living in a tiny apartment and having one night stands with women young enough to be his daughter including the female bartender. The movie analyzing their marriage, what led to their breakup, their daughter's life, aging, success, and even Robert being conflict avoidant to even discourage his daughter from marrying a man who he believes is her fail safe. This movies makes the viewer take a reflection of where they are in their lives and are they truly happy. Is it wise to continue pursuing a dream if you're still struggling to make ends meet? Is success based on luck or chance? Their conversation even causes Robert to question his place in life as a single middle-aged man or was it wise for him to give up on their marriage. One of the final moments of the film was the realistic choice Robert had to make. It's one thing to live in the moment. It's another thing to deal with the consequences after living in the moment.

I figure it was going to be a movie based on stage play based on watching the trailer. I'm not for sure. I'm only assuming based on how the movie was filmed. But I appreciate these films because it reminds us to take a breather and reflect on where we are in our lives. If you like movies like Fences (2016), Before We Go (2014), Closer (2004), or Before Sunrise (1995) and its sequel Before Sunset (2004), you'll enjoy this film because it's based on the strength of the writing and its delivery from the actors. However, if you don't like stage play type films with only a limited number of sets, no action scenes and the actors simply talking to one another and expressing their feelings and emotions through words, then you should skip it. I really enjoyed this film. Would recommend and watch again.

Inoperable is a crazy movie about a woman named Amy (Danielle Harris) who is transported to a hospital after a car accident and constantly reliving the same moment over and over again like an endless loop during a Category Five hurricane artificially created in a military lab. She has nurses, doctors and a priest trying to tranquilize and lobotomize her. She constantly sees a young woman holding a stuff elephant and a cop named Ken (Ryan) and a beautiful model named Jen (Katie Keene) both trapped in the time warp too. Every time the cycles starts over and she resets to the beginning of the moment, she grows a little bit weaker and must figure out how to get out of the time loop before it's too late.

Inoperable was a crazy movie with a nice twist ending. This is one of the few times where a movie show the twist scenes at the end leading up to the incident which actually fills in the holes in the movie and help it make sense. And in a crazy way, the ending is more believable than the psychotic mind trip of a movie we're given. This may be a stretch but for Halloween IV (1988) fans, one could say the ending pays homage to that movie.

Crazy, enjoyable movie and one of the better horror films.

I've been on a Danielle Harris movie binge watch. She's a great actress, but I noticed many of the movies only use her as a cameo or to trick the audience into watching or paying for a movie where she's hardly in the movie or her talents are underutilized or wasted. This movie truly is a Danielle Harris driven movie. In this movie, Danielle Harris plays Wendy, a secretary with low self-confidence who survives the attacks of a serial killer repeatedly trying to kill her and gains confidence in herself. I lowered my expectations of movies when it comes to the horror genre since many disappoints. So compared to other movies, this was a good horror movie which allowed Harris to shine and show off her acting talent. The movie also stars John Jerratt as the serial killer, Franklin Rood, Casper Van Dien as Detective Delgado, the beautiful Rae Dawn Chong as Detective Burdine, and the late Valerie Harper in a small but memorable role as Wendy's overbearing mother. Good cast, good writing/storyline, good heroine/villain match with Harris and Rood.

Wendy starts out as a young secretary working a job she hates, afraid to ask her boss for a raise, an overbearing mother treating her as a constant disappointment, a boyfriend named Jeremy she's not really interested in and obviously trying to get her back to his place to sleep with her, and a mediocre life which seemed like it's going nowhere. Yet after facing death from the serial killer Franklin Rood who murders his unsuspecting victims by strangling and beheading them to death with a garrote wire, Wendy manages to get away unlike his other victims. Instead of finding another target, Rood becomes obsess with killing Wendy and Wendy slowly transforms into a more confident version after surviving death.

I thought it was going to be a stupid movie since the killer was revealed in the opening act of the movie but Rood was a compelling, crazy, and almost likable villain similar to Freddy Krueger was to Nancy in Nightmare on Elm Street(1984). It was astounding how he always managed to stay one step ahead of the cops and wasn't afraid of getting caught and leaving them breadcrumbs to find out who he is or who was his latest victim His fearlessness made him a compelling villian. I'm not a feminist but I liked how in this movie, her beta male boyfriend or the cops were not able to save or protect Wendy. Wendy had to find creative ways to outsmart the villian long enough to stay alive and save herself. I liked how she took advantage of every opportunity to save herself and reacted how a normal individual would react when placed in a crazy situation.

Wendy's transformation is actually realistic. When faced with a life or death situation, you either developed a flight or fight response. Wendy chose to fight back and by doing so she became stronger, bolder, and empowered in other aspect of her life. She stood up to her overbearing mother who was so shocked by her daughter's transformation she finally shut up and listened to her daughter. She was forced to move on from a unfulfilling relationship of convenience she didn't want and into a new developing relationship with someone possibly more interesting. By facing death, she became more competent and learnt the only person she really needed to depend on was herself.

Most horror movie cops tend to be idiots. There were a couple of idiot cops in this movie, but for the most part Dien as Detective Delgado and Chong as Detective Burdine were actually written pretty good as cops in a horror movie. Their reactions were realistic and their investigations into the murder moved the plot forward and we began to learn more about the killer and his motives while Wendy and Rood played their cat and mouse game.

I realized enjoyed this movie. The entire cast shine and I liked how the tables were turned in the final scene. Definitely would recommend for someone who wants a decent horror flick compared the myriads of mediocre ones out there .

Never watched the first movie. Check this out because it had Scream Queen Danielle Harris playing Amy, a mortician, who decided to cancel her birthday plans with her friends to assist her coworker with the influx of bodies from Jacob Goodnight's killing spree including the supposed corpse of Jacob who's not really dead. Her friends decide to bring the party to her, sneak in the morgue, and the killing spree begins. The positives of this movie is good dialogue and chemistry amongst the cast. Katherine Isabelle, Danielle Harris,Kaj-Erik Eriksen, & Michael Eklund. The rest are just standard. The jump scares throughout the movie and the first two acts were good but the movie lost its steam in the final act.

The negatives are the protagonists seemed weak and helpless against the villian when trapped in a morgue with plenty of weapons to cut open bodies. Likable characters are murdered for shock value. Instead of fighting back. It's more like hiding from the bad guy.When a moment arrives to insure the death of Jacob, the protagonist doesn't take advantage of it. The viewer is left with no one to root for. The only thing the creators of this movie forgot is horror movies are about survivalism in being placed in a horrific situation. The audience wants a final girl/guy character to root for whether it's Jamie Strode in Halloween or Nancy Thompson in Nightmare on Elm Street. They want a compelling victim. The only scene which somewhat made Jacob interesting was the bathroom scene when he felt conflicted in murdering yet it was undermined by the victim dying any way from her injuries. I guess his character is motivated by a mix of Friday the 13th's Jason Voorhees and Pyscho's Norman Bates. Both influenced by a pyschotic deceased mother. The brother's death was cruel and mean spirited yet symbolic of the hopelessness of this movie. Harris' Laurie Strode Halloween: H20 moment made her seem small and puny compared to Jacob. Seth was an interesting character but he had two opportunities to kill Jacob and he didn't do it. The final shock scene was annoying. Everyone dies and the villian wins. It's a hopeless movie where evil triumphs over good.

Finding a decent horror movie is like trying to find a needle in the haystack. So I have very low expectations for these movies. All I ask is good, creative plot, good writing and storyline, interesting characters played by actors who can act, an interesting villian and hero/heroine I want to root for and survive, some well-timed jump scares, and a movie that's scary but not gory and unnecessary sex scenes fillers. Enjoyed the first two acts but after Will's death, the only character who actually really stood up to Jacob and wounded him, the movie went downhill.

Another insulting thing is Will sarcificed his life to save his sister's life. This movie rewarded his sarcfice by killing off his sister making his death pointless. Good attempt at horror by WWE. From the flashbacks, I will probably never watch the original but this movie seems like an improvement from the original. However, the creators of this movie needs to focus on creating a more compelling villian and a stronger ending with a sympathetic hero/heroine to root for, which they had with Amy. Yes, I was annoyed with Amy being murdered on her birthday after witnessing the death of her friends, her brother, her coworkers and finding love too. But I was extremely annoyed that the character of Seth, a beta male compared to Amy's alpha male brother Will who died fighting the villian to give his sister and Seth a chance to escape, was killed also. The movie missed a perfect opportunity to carry on the franchise with Amy or Seth with Amy being the stronger character.

So not the greatest with a final act that drags on but an improvement compared to other horror films with a good cast doing the best with the material given. It's worth a watch.

Lawerence Fishburne and the late Bill Paxton were great in this post-apocalyptic thriller about a group of humans living in colonies when the world has frozen over. This movie reminds me of the current COVID-19 world where people wear masks and a common cough can cause stigma, isolation and in this world your choice of death or exile. Lawerence plays the leader of the group. Paxton plays the strict enforcer of the rules who is quick to get rid of individuals who are sick. Lawerence is the reasonable leader and when a disrtress warning from a nearby colony is heard, Lawerence, Sam the protagnoist, and another guy go on a mission to help the other colony only to discover it has dissolve to choas and cannibalism and the humans have become feral. Despite Lawrence throwing dynamites to blow up the colony, the ferals escape and follow their footprints in the snow. Once Lawrence's character is sacrificed, then the movie loses its purpose. Paxton plays the stubborn antagnozing antihero who's not really a likable character but provides a great final sacrifice. Then the movie ends without the final arc of the humans making it to this Utopia place where there is sunlight. The movie had a great premise in the first act but whoever had final say turned this into a borderline human vs cannibalistic feral humans action film in the second act, with no payoff in the final act. So we're left wondering did the humans make it to the promise land? Were the sarcifices made by Lawerence and Paxton worth it?

Not a horrible movie. Started off boring, became interesting in the second act once they discovered what was really happening in the other colony, then it ended when Lawerence's character was killed off. The rest of the movie simply drifted to a closing point with no payoff. I guess we're supposed to assume they made it to the Promise Land.

This movie is very similar to Dean Cain's 2004 Post Impact post-apocalyptic movie. But at least in that crazy movie, there was a final payoff. Entertaining second act but no real payoff.

Checked this movie out because the premise looked interesting for an Ethan Hawke movie. This is a crazy time travel movie about a continuous paradox of a man/woman time traveler falling in love with different versions of him/herself throughout his/herself, going back in time to procreate a baby version of themselves with their male and female self, then kidnapping the baby version of themselves and then traveling back twenty years in the past to drop the baby off at an ophranage so they can grow up to as the female version of themselves to mate with the male version of themselves to create a baby version of themselves which the future version of themselves will kidnap and then go back in time to drop the baby version of themselves at the orphanage to start the cycle again. The final predestination is the protagonist meeting with the future antagnoist version of himself. Instead of accepting the dark part of himself, he kills the dark part of himself and begins the neverending cycle once again.

Interesting concept which is way easier to follow along than Cloud Atlas. This movie explores The Great Paradox. As humans, do we have free will or are our lives, paths, choices predestined?

Watched this movie two days ago for the first time on Tubi TV. Catchy tagline: Honor Student at a prestigous high school by day, hooker by night. Fell asleep the first time. Watched it again the following morning. I'm a bit straight laced but I really enjoyed this movie. High school honor student Molly goes to a prestigous high school, is quiet, reserved, and a straight A student. By night time, she goes by her street name Angel walking the streets of a 1980s Hollywood Blvd prosituting herself for a living to pay the rent, bills, and her school tuition. She has a different set of friends who are also teen prositutes, a street clown who does yoyo tricks and obvious had a crush on one of the prositutes, an aging Western movie stars, an aging drag queen, and eccentric landlord with crazy drawn on eyebrows and hair. Oh, and there's a serial killer on the hunt killing prositutes, which brings on homocide detective Lt. Andrews trying to solve the case. Things start to get crazy when one by one Angel's friends are murdered by the serial killer ending in a iconic chase scene and climax.

This movie could have easily been a sleazy 1980s movie but the cast is what makes the movie great. The actress who plays Molly/Angel makes her character vulnerable, resilient, and sympathetic at the same time. You're rooting for her to win and desperately try to keep her worlds separate when they inevitably fall apart. Her hard life of her dad walking out on her and her mom when she was six, her mom abandoning her when she was twelve to go runoff with a man, forcing Molly to start prosituting herself at twelve years old to keep a roof over her head, excelling in school in hope of a better life and keeping the facade up for three years that her mom was still living with her so she wouldn't be swallow up by the system. It's heartwarming how her band of misfits are a better family and protectors than her parents were. Kit and Mae are like parental figures to her, the other prositutes were like sisters to her and they were even planning vacations together. Even the homocide detective forms a fatherly bond with Angel and watches with sympathy and astonishment as a fifteen year old girl who is mature enough to maintain a double life for three years yet still have the childish dream her dad would finally return and take her away to better life.

The killer is irrelevant and the viewer could interpret his obsession with murdering prositutes in multipe ways. I think the killer storyline was thrown in to give this movie a plot. Yet that final scene of Angel chasing down the killer on Hollywood Blvd was iconic.

The main actress did a wonderful job making a street worker a sympathetic character. I'm not going to waste my time watching the three sequels based off this B movie. But in my mind, I hope Lt. Andrews would get her away from that life and raise her as his own or the female teacher could take her in. This movie could have easily been bad and exploitative but the colorful cast and the main actress' innocent protrayal of her character makes it a cult classic.

I'll never understand why Warner Brothers refuse to let the writers for the animated movies write the live action movies. Ever since I was a child, their animated movies and storytelling have been amazing. One of my forever DC animated movies is Batman's Mask of the Phantasm. At first I wasn't crazy about the new 52 movies, but after they tweaked simple things like placing Clark back with Lois and Wonder Woman with Steve Trevor, I grew to love it. They did a wonderful job setting up this universe and this movie was a masterpiece. I like that they didn't play it safe. This movie is way better than Endgame.The major plot point for Endgame made more sense in this movie and I liked they didn't play that card until it made sense in an "end of an era" way to create a new chapter. I will watch this movie again but well done to the writers, animators, and all who put together such a wonderful universe, with a great understanding of the characters, giving them their moments to shine, and also a great yet poetic sendoff. I also never understood how the powers of Constantine fit in with the DC universe or Justice League. Now, I understand. Will definitely miss this version of Bruce, Damian, and Dick/Nightwing. Heck, I'll miss this version of alot of the superheroes. But it was a great sendoff and look forward for the next era of the DCAU. Awesome movie!!!

Over the years I saw the promos but I thought it was a ripoff of White Collar so I paid it no mind. When I heard Prince Harry was dating a black girl who at first glance I thought was white, I became curious and decided to check this show out. It's Meghan's best work and her strongest acting of her career. The rest of the cast is phenomenal too. Love Jessica (the goddess Gina Torres), Harvey, Mike Ross, Rachel Zane and the rest of the gang. The first few seasons were great then it got silly once Jessica finds out Mike's secret and Harvey and everyone with the constant backstabbing and doublecrossing. The show became more about style over substance. Instead of focusing on legal aspects since it is a series about lawyers at a law firm, it became a soap opera. While Grey's Anatomy had drama in the elevators, this show they walked fast and met in the middle of the hallway.

It could have survived the character of Mike leaving the show and Meghan quitting acting to marry Prince Harry. However it hired show killer Katherine Heigl in its final season who is the Maxwell Caulfield of 21st TV shows. Instead of getting back to the basics, it stayed with the soap opera drama and was cancelled a season after Markle left. The show lasted for eight seasons but the first three seasons were its best.

I watched this movie for the same reason a lot of the other reviewers did to see Meghan Markle act. This movie is extremely mediocre. Plain Jane and Plain Joe have an awkward conversation at a coffee shop, don't exchange names or numbers, and ensues a romcom about finding each other. Meghan is the best part of this movie and that's not saying alot. Her character was the plot device which moved the plot forward. Her best friend needs a ride home. She calls Meghan's character to pick her up. She's needs help finding the male love interest. Meghan's character sets her up with an online dating profile along with eventually helping the main characters finally meet and connect.

I don't blame Meghan for this movie. We get the roles we can. None of the actors were bad but the story was very bland and they did their best with the writing. If you're interested in seeing Meghan act, watch. If you want a good romcom with a cute meetup of love/hate at first sight, good editing, a pop ballad out of nowhere getting stuck in your head, and an emotional pulling scene skip this movie and go watch a superior random encounter movie of fate bringing two starcrossed lovers together like Serendipity (2001), Sleepless in Seattle(1993), An Affair to Remember(1957), or A Walk to Remember (2002).

This movie started off strong and ended on that balcony scene when Wonder Woman dissed Superman's advances for a kiss and came out as a lesbian because she grew up on an island full of women. Part of the greatness of the Superman mythology is his romance with Lois Lane. Lois Lane wasn't romantically available because in this alternate reality where Superman's spacecraft landed in Communist Russia instead of Smallville, Kansas, USA, Lois is married to Lex Luthor. I can accept this in this reality because in a way it makes sense since Lois and Lex are both ambitious personalities who would do whatever it takes to get what they want. They're like an animated Bill and Hillary Clinton power couple rising from nothing to the top of the hierarchy.

So then we're introduced to Diana, Princess of Feminist Island, dancing with Superman. For old Wonder Woman in the Golden Era of the DC Universe, this is one of the more beautiful depiction of Wonder Woman where she wears the skirt instead of the red, white, and blue leotard. I know in some adaptions of Superman when he's not in a relationship with Lois Lane, he's paired with Wonder Woman. It was denied in this movie and Wonder Woman had to keep reiterating to the audience she was a lesbian. It kept hitting the nail on the coffin with Wonder Woman being a misandrist lesbian. Of course, Wonder Woman is a feminist icon and for female empowerment but in other adaptions, she was a powerful woman who loved men, was their equal in battle, had hope in mankind, and embraced her femininity. Everything great about Wonder Woman was removed in this movie and she became nothing more than a feminist mouthpiece who criticized and blamed men for everything and constantly scolded any men she could find and berate about how bad they were. That is really what irked me about this movie.

The second thing is I don't know a lot about communism. Born in America, we're taught in school, books, and on television and movies, it's the worse thing in the world. Back during the J Edgar Hoover years, if an American was suspected of having ties to the Communism party, you were spied on by the FBI and arrested. So it would have been nice if we could have seen a pro communism movie since Superman believed in it enough to make a lot of sacrifices for his beliefs. It already had Lois Lane Luthor and Lex Luthor to balance out the pro democracy side of the argument. Before the movie went downhill, Lois Lane and Superman had an interesting argument about the pitfalls of the communism in the USSR and the hypocrisy of America's democracy and the slaves it was built on. I was surprised to hear a little truth in an animated movie and also surprised to see they had Jimmy Olsen depicted as a straight black male. I was surprised they didn't make in him gay or a beta male like the new stereotype a lot of live action and liberal propaganda pieces are portraying black people as side characters to the white main character, in an interracial relationship, or LGBT. Yet, the ultimate message of this movie is communist bad, democracy good and the movie ends with Superman learning the errors of his ways which of course is realizing pro USA is the way to go.

I loved the New 52 movies, Death of Superman and Reign of Superman and hope DC continues without those storylines. I like the romance between Clark and Lois and getting a little more Clark Kent instead of the trend now in both live action and animated movies of focusing more on Superman as Jesus Christ/ a godlike figure and less on Clark Kent. Yet, I gave this one multiple shots and it had a chance to be great like Gotham by Gaslight, another alternate reality movie where Batman lives in the Victorian era battling Jack the Ripper and has one of the best depictions on screen of his romantic relationship with Catwoman. Red Son had a chance to be just as great but it replaced a chance at being a great movie by being another liberal propaganda mouthpiece instead of telling a great story.

This movie had the potential to be great. Batman was good as always but I don't think he said much of anything. Wonder Woman was annoying and equivalent to watching the women on The View bicker every five seconds. Luckily, her appearances in this movie was limited like Captain Marvel in Endgame. I like they had both Hal Jordan and John Stewart as the Green Lanterns in this movie. I love John Stewart as the Green Lantern and can only wonder why (ahem skin color) does DC focus more on Hal Jordan as Green Lantern instead of John Stewart. If they do include or mention John, he's reduced to being a background character to Hal, is only shown for a minute, or is on a mission. Yet, it was nice to hear the Phil LeMarr reprising his role as the voice for John Stewart for the two minutes he was in the movie just like Kevin Conroy voicing Batman or Mark Hamill voicing The Joker. I liked Lex and Lois as a couple. They did Superman wrong in the love department with this movie. Lois was married to Lex. They turned Wonder Woman into a misandrist lesbian and they let Lana die in his arms but the words she told him lived on.

So give it a shot and make your own opinion. It's a good political piece. Be conscious it is a feminist, SJW, LGBT, politically correct, and an idealistic version of America liberal propaganda for nonblack people who continued to dismiss the contribution and suffering of the black slaves this country was built upon and still til this day have received no reparations for the continued injustice and domestic terrorism and oppression their descendants continued to face in a country where the American Dream is granted to everyone who is not them.

The one thing I like about Arnie and Sly is that they do their best to give their fans what they want even when the critics panned the film. Nothing is spectacular about Rambo: Last Blood but it's a pretty by the numbers action flick. I checked it out because the SJW PC critics panned the movie, so if it annoys them, it usually an indicator, it's a good film. I'm not a fan of Rambo, but I enjoyed this film. It's a simple film about an older subdue Rambo who lives on a ranch and raised a Mexican girl as his daughter after her mother died and her biological father abandons him. She finds out her biological father lives across the border in Mexico and wants to visit him, even though Rambo advises her not to. Like most teenagers who think they know better, she goes across the border to meet her father without Rambo knowing and finds out her father is a jerk. She ends up being betrayed by one of her friends and gets kidnapped and thrown into a sex trafficking ring. As soon as Rambo finds out, he crossed the border to save his daughter. One of the saddest scenes happens which you don't expect in a movie like this, and he goes on a quest to avenge his daughter. I liked how Sly Stallone is respectful of his age now and no longer trying to reclaim his glory days like he does in the Expendable movies. He kicks age appropriate butt for a very fit seventy-year-old and the action gets bloody in the third act like the trailer warns you this movie will be. You already know how the movie ends, but it's a fun ride to watch.

The SJW PC are upset because Rambo touched on the sex trafficking happening in Mexico and accused it of being xenophobic when sex trafficking of young women are happening all over the world on every continent. Yet, since they are catering to the Hispanic immigrant population, anything which shows them in a negative light is considered racist and means you're a Trump supporter. It wouldn't have been an outrage if the villain was Russian or North Korean for the 50th million time in the movie or if was talking about sex trafficking in Africa, Asia, or Europe. We have sex trafficking right here in the United States but the liberal media brushes off the Epstein case since many prominent liberals are linked to him. Since his death, the media has practically buried the story like most cases of sex trafficking have been for years. Rambo bravely brings light on the subject and acts as a hero many of these young women wished they had in real life.

So if you like Rambo and want an hour and a half of escapism of liberal propaganda, you'll enjoy it even if you're not a Rambo fan. It's a combination of the Rocky Balboa version we first see on screen in Rocky Balboa meets Rambo. Great film for action fans!!!

This movie was way overhyped. I knew nothing was going to happened at movie theaters, yet I was bored and went to go check this movie out since the media said not to. I'm fifty percent sure, it could have been a publicity stunt from the studios to draw more interest in a movie, which was not as violent as Sylvester Stallone's Rambo: Last Blood or the John Wick movies. I don't get white guys'' fascination with murdering psychopaths or the necessity of making a movie about a fictional white guy comic book villain who thinks it's fun to murder people. Yet, they were excited about this movie. I'll admit it was a good story, a good character analysis of the making of a serial killer, and Joaquin Phoenix committed the heck to this role (one of his best performances) and deserves Oscar recognition, but I found nothing extra about it. It represents how the media likes to paint white supremacist males as the victims or in a sympathetic light. Who cares about their victims who names get lost or forgotten in the story, let's make their white supremacist male the victim, the hero, and if the victim is the wrong color or socioeconomic status, let's paint them as the villain responsible for their own demise. Villains, fictional or real, get documentaries or myriads of movies made about them as the media loves to analyze the psyche of these characters almost as if it's a fetish.

There is even one scene which stood out to me about the black female neighbor who he fantasized he had a whole relationship with in his mind, and the audience doesn't realize it wasn't real until she finds him in her apartment unexpected sitting on her sofa. She tells him he's in the wrong apartment and fearfully begs him to leave. The audience is left wondering whether he killed her or not. I wondered if this scene was an inside joke about what happened last year when a Dallas police officer Amber Guyger killed a black man named Botham Jean in his apartment and said her reason was she was in the wrong apartment and thought it was her own apartment. She was recently sentenced to ten years in prison, but since the star witness another black man named Joshua Brown was murdered in a funny style at his apartment complex too, it's uncertain whether she will serve time.

The scene which stood out the most to me was the one with the fat guy and the midget. This is also one of those rare moments in the twilight of his career do we get to see Robert Deniro actually act instead of phoning in a performance for a paycheck. He was the second best actor in this movie. I didn't get all the horrible dance scenes and tai chi scenes after he murdered someone. Yet, it made it into the trailer. But it was great movie which shows how Gotham made Joker and the Batman and why their fates will always be intertwined until one kills the other. It's a dance which will never end and that's the greatest joke of them all.

So it's a good movie. Go watch it when you have the most energy. I had to drink a coke not to fall asleep and the couple next to me fell asleep and snored very loudly during the second half of the movie. Great analysis of a white supremacist male, great Joker story, great writing, wonderful cast, and great cinematography. So if you're into movies about serial killers and analysis about the minds of psychopaths, you'll enjoy. If you're not into that or Batman, then you are going to ask yourself, "What in the world did I just watch?"

This movie is a step in the right direction for Big Willie prior to the disaster which was After Earth. I think people are being way too harsh on this film because it's a Will Smith film. It almost like they wanted this movie to flop compared to the overrated Joker movie. When these same critics praised Rambo: The Last Blood which I enjoyed but it was also a standard action flick. What I loved about this film was the all star cast with Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Toast, Benedict Wong as the pilot friend Baron, and Will Smith as Henry (older Will Smith)/ Junior (clone Will Smith). Also Clive Owen as the bad guy Clay. I also liked we got some classic Will Smith and I found myself laughing a different moments throughout the film. The cast had pretty good chemistry and the character of Junior had some depth in discovering who he really was and what he was designed to be by his father Clay. This movie was like an inferior version of I Am Legend and The 6th Day. So, I hope this movie first week failure which will be recouped once the film goes overseas will not hinder Will Smith from returning to his glory days as the twenty million dollar man, the box office king, the leading man A-list actor, and the number one movie at the box office. He's heading back in the right direction, but has to pick better directors with better scripts and better writing. Regardless of how good he is as an actor, he can only carry a film so much. I hope the billion Aladdin made earlier this year is enough of a cushion.

Now, onto the bad parts. The CGI was overhyped. Will Smith kept talking about how the character of Junior was the first 100% CGI character,, while everyone else was thinking, "Oh, they shaved his beard." Will Smith has aged well, used some Photoshop to smooth out the wrinkles here and there, add a flat top, and you have a 20 year old Will Smith without the high cost of CGI. The CGI looks unspectacular. The night scenes were better, but in this day scenes, you can see it's a CGI character, equivalent to a video game character. We checked out the movie because it was Will Smith. It probably would have been better if Will Smith just played a double of himself like Arnie did in the 6th day. The CGI was an unnecessary gimmick.

Nothing is wrong with the script, but it was too generic for an overhyped movie. This movie script went through production hell, rewrites, and multiple actors being linked to the role for years. To get this script greenlit, the producers banked on Will Smith's star power. Yet, even with Will's charisma and acting his butt off, even the best of actors can't save a mediocre script and chunky dialogue. This goes the same for the rest of the cast. Clive Owen's talent is wasted here as a generic villain. The characters aren't given much to do and the script became confused with its message it was trying to convey and contradicted itself sometimes.

Yet. it wasn't a bad movie. Just mediocre and a movie you have seen a doesn't time. It had the potential to be above average if it focused less on the gimmicks and more on the story. The action scenes, the cast, and the cinematography were fine. Yet, the script could have been so much better. If this script was as strong as the cast, then it would have been a better, deeper movie.

I'm slowly starting to like the New 52 version of Wonder Woman. I'm glad they ended her relationship with Superman and placed Superman in a relationship with Lois Lois starting in Death of Superman along with now placing Batman into a relationship with Catwoman like in Batman: Hush or Gotham by Gastlight (which I don't think is apart of the New 52 DC universe). But I'm slowly growing on her character which has become more likable to me even though the early 2000s Justice series and animated version of Wonder Woman voiced by Susan Eisenberg is always going to be my favorite animated version of Diana Prince while the 1970s Wonder Woman played by Linda Carter will always be my favorite live action version of her. In this version, Steve Trevor finally gets to be Wonder Woman's love interest again so I hope the writers keeps exploring their relationship.

Well, in this version, Bloodlines digs a little deeper into Wonder Woman's origins in the mystical feminist island of Themsyrica and how Diana learns to adapt to modern day society with the help of an archeologist named Julie and her teenaged daughter Vanessa ( I think that's what the daughter's name was), who becomes a surrogate family for Diana. Over the years, Vanessa grows jealous of her mother's favoritism towards Diana and when her mother is unexpectedly killed years later, Vanessa blames Diana and joins the bad gals to get her revenge against Diana allows the villains to turn her into a dangerous assassin, Silver Swan. Diana goes on a quest with the help of Steve Trevor and his assistant Etta Candy to save Silver Swan before it's too late.

I liked the romance between Steve and Diana and the small reference to her brief relationship with Superman. I hope the writers give them a chance, because this movie and her relationship with Steve humanizes Diana. When she was first introduced in 2014's Justice League: War, she was kind of obnoxious, headstrong, and godlike. It only grew worse as the movies continued. This movie showed Diana's vulnerable side which was as equally compelling as her stronger side. And even when she's in over her head and the odds are against her, she never gave up. I hate her New 52 outfit and when her hair was in the ponytail, but I have gotten used to it. But besides the action scenes, my favorite moments was when she wore her original costume. The voice queen herself Cree Summers graced us by voicing Hippolyta, the queen of the Amazons and Diana's mother. In one scene, Hippolyta got her moment to shine and showed us why she was leader. And of course, Rosario Dawson did a wonderful job voicing Diana. My only gripe with the movie was the character of Etta Candy. I'm cool with them changing her character from white to black. She's a side character so her race is irrelevant to the plot. But I'm getting annoyed with liberal movies and TV shows making every black side character both black and LGBT. It's happening so often in so many shows and movies, it's becoming it's own stereotype. Etta Candy is a likable character but it seemed like she was kind of forced into the plot and action and was better off as a background character assisting from behind the scenes like Oracle from the Batman universe or Felicity in the earlier seasons of CW's Arrow. Her character wasn't necessary and only used as unneeded comic relief. Come to think about it, in every version of Etta, she's pretty much the same. She's the Jimmy Olsen of the Wonder Woman universe.

But overall, I liked the movie. I'm enjoying the new 52 universe and the continuity of the movies. Superman has a healthy relationship with Lois Lane. Batman has a son named Damian Wayne, Nightwing, the rest of the Batman superhero gang, and an off again on again relationship with Catwoman. Now, Wonder Woman has a potential healthy relationship with Steve Trevor. So hopefully, he doesn't get sideline by Batman and Superman again. The last time I saw Diana have somewhat of a healthy relationship with Steve was over forty years ago on the 1970s Wonder Woman TV show played by Lyle Waggoner. Yet, even then, he had the hots for Wonder Woman but never found out her secret identity as his secretary Diana Prince. Otherwise, he was killed off and replaced by his son in the 1970s, blown up sacrificing himself in World War I, being sidelined by a billionaire playboy costumed vigilante with psychological issues then by an immortal sun god from another planet, a World War II vet in a nursing home, or dead. I understand Diana is an immortal princess, but it would be nice to see a romance between Diana and Steve and I also like in this version that he knows Diana is Wonder Woman.

Anyway, pretty good movie which humanizes the immortal goddess and gives her a love interest with Steve Trevor. We get see Diana get her Death of Superman moment and the final battle was pretty good. Some of the plot is a little weak but it's balanced out by character driven storyline. Overall, I enjoyed it and look forward to the continuation of Wonder Woman's storyline. Loved the direction the writers are taking these movies. Looking forward the next one.