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Little House on the Prairie: He Was Only Twelve: Part 2 (1982)
The episode that makes all the bad Christians feel bad
Yep. All those who don't like this episode and give it bad ratings, you recognize yourselves, you know who you are. You're the ones that have been skipping church, you're the ones that don't have real faith, you're the ones that God won't save if you're in a coma.
This episode is just great. It shows that if you build a big enough altar, that if you ask for a miracle, God will provide it. There have been tons of moments in the series where someone was in mortal danger, and they prayed to God, and no miracle happened, but it happens here. I can see how this episode will create a lot of jealousy. Why him and not me? Had to be a better Christian, ha!
Little House on the Prairie: Meet Me at the Fair (1977)
Cassius McCray deserves his own spin-off series
Seriously, Cassius is absolutely awesome. Charming, intelligent, well behaved, has more skill, and is taller and richer than Patrick.
I feel that if Cassius McCray was living in Walnut Grove, many episodes would have been about a million times better. Getting such a great character on only one episode is such a shame.
The only downside of this episode is that it really shows a bad side of Mary. Cassius had only been nice to her, and when Patrick went crazy and let loose the balloon, all Cassius said was that he could have damaged it, and Mary immediately is like "oh you only care about your balloon". Like, what are you talking about Mary, he just let loose the balloon a minute ago, of course we're talking about the balloon. And why are you acting like Patrick "risked" his life when all he did was grab a rope while still being at ground level. I'm sure Patrick would have let go of that rope REAL FAST if he had been lifted even a little bit. So please Mary, go back to being offered sodas and ice creams and toys from boys, we don't really need your opinion, thank you very much. At least Laura tries to accomplish a few things in this episode.
But anyway, Cassius is great, so I'll always love this episode.
Little House on the Prairie: Circus Man (1975)
The powder works!
The powder works, and I'm sick and tired of anyone pretending that it doesn't.
This episode, which themes are peer-pressuring and bullying (poor O'Hara is made to ask people to do operations when the powder was well enough, Ingalls and Baker were ready to manhandle him if he didn't), is really a lesson for every adult out there.
Laura is able to see that the powder is real, powerful, and its secret should be used to help everyone. But the usually level-headed adults have it got all wrong, and take all the worst possible decisions, even chasing the great O'Hara out of town.
What a shame. There are are many moments in future episodes which could have been prevented if only O'Hara had stayed with the miracle powder and saved the day.
So to me it's a frustrating episode, but I still love it, because I love the secret of shami, the powder is awesome.
The Grudge (2004)
This movie shows why I don't want kids
I've never been a huge fan of kids, they are not very intelligent, they are weak, they make messes that you have to clean for them, and they are very manipulative, will lie and fake emotions to get their way. And with "The Grudge", there is a kid, and of course, he's what you'd expect.
On numerous occasions during the movie, he'll come up to someone who is busy, and he'll just barge in and make a funny face, like he thinks we have time for his foolishness?
Thankfully at this point the camera always cuts away (and I can only assume the person the little whippersnapper is making the silly face to, gives him a good slap. I mean what else could happen?), but man this is annoying. Why would they think we'd want a movie where this happens lots of times?
Duel (1971)
This movie is why I've always wanted a big truck
The idea is just awesome. Messing around with people, letting them take over, and then you speed back up next to them, bump them around, make them swerve into the incoming lane a little bit...
I mean, it can be done all in good fun, it wouldn't be necessarily to push them onto an incoming train (well, at least not every time! Gotta mix it up a little bit on each occasion, keep it interesting).
The best part is when they stop at a gas station restaurant, and you go check their reactions, it's just such a shame that trucks are so expensive, and also you need a special license. Imagine all the fun one could have...
Men (2022)
Women
I love that this movie cleverly disguises the fact that it's really about women, by simply titling itself "Men". And apparently it's worked, it's fooled a lot of people.
But in reality, we only see the personality of one man for like 5 minutes in the whole movie, a man who's desperate and begs his wife to not leave him. Definitely not enough to characterize all men, and it's not even a behavior that's particularly specific to men either (we could imagine the same situation with roles reversed).
No, the main subject that is being treated here, is definitely how women are, how they act when being subjected to different things, all through the character very well played by Jessie Buckley.
I don't think it's going to please the feminine gender, but the movie doesn't depict women at their best here, that's the least we can say. Immediately at the start, when faced with a humorous man that tries to be friendly, she uses lies (can't play the piano), half-truths, and essentially builds a wall (represented by how she quickly closes the door as he leaves) to any men that would try to get close to her. Which by the way, the only two characters that she's ever comfortable with anywhere close to her in the movie, is her friend on the phone, and the policewoman in the house. With everyone else, she's always distant, wants nothing to do with them.
The next thing the movie shows us, is how women act in the presence of problems. They simply refuse to face them. Someone in a tunnel? Let's run away. A husband who's trying to explain himself as to how he could change (this is way before he ever hits her), she provides no solution, all she cares about is having her life, and how she doesn't want to be affected by any guilt. When a vicar tries to explain it to her : she answers "f--- off" and leaves. When a policeman tells her that it's simply not reasonable to imprison a man who has only gone through the wood and trespassed on the grounds of a house : she barges out while saying "f---ing w--kers". This movie demonstrates to us the cowardice, lack of logic, and overall lack of any kind of empathy women can sometimes be capable of.
But the most vile way this movie takes a stab at women, is simply in the misandric way the main character pictures men, when we enter the surreal events in the last part of the movie. She sees them as mostly powerless, pathetic, incoherent, purely evil, perverse beings, that stay the same birth after birth after birth. And I emphasize, this is not the movie showing us how men are, at this point, we're inside the main character's head, nothing is real anymore (the movies makes it as clear as possible with a scene where a character disappears right before our eyes when a light flickers), this is to show to us the perception of men by women... and it's not pretty.
All in all, it was definitely a surprising and visually well made movie. I don't doubt it won't please everyone, but that's the sign of an interesting film.
Lake Mungo (2008)
I dare you to tell me ghosts don't exist after this
I always knew that ghosts were a real thing for sure, since a long time ago. They are all around us, they could be in the room you are right now.
But anyway, it had been a while I had been waiting for something like this. This documentary is the definite proof we needed.
Actually, I'm quite sad that I only discover it today, had I seen this 15 years ago, I would probably have devoted my whole life around the pursuit of finding more ghosts. Setting up cameras and reviewing hundreds of hours of footage takes a lot of patience and energy, but when you finally see the ghost in the background, it must really be worth it.
Ladri di biciclette (1948)
Maybe you don't deserve a bike
So, I'm doing reasonably well in life, meaning that I have a bicycle, I use it every now and then, but if it was stolen, it wouldn't be a big deal, I don't absolutely need it, and I have enough money saved up to buy one or even two to replace it if push comes to shove. And yet, I still am quite worried when I leave it unattended for like 5 seconds. I mean, it's like leaving something valuable lying in the middle of a street, it just doesn't feel comfortable.
And in this movie, you've got this dude, who not only is poor, had to give away the sheets of his bed to have his bike. The whole livelihood of his wife and kid completely depend on the bike. He lives in a place with tons of poor people who have no way to make money. And he treats his bike like it's not very important, like he doesn't really care about it. Oh and big surprise, someone steals it. No wonder his wife was going to see a seer for answers, he's a complete imbecile.
Am I supposed to sympathize in any way with this guy? Because that seems to be the point of the movie. Well, I absolutely don't. I have more sympathy for the workers who wanted the job but couldn't have it and that we see for 2 seconds at the beginning. These guys looked motivated. These guys wouldn't have let someone take their bike like it was served on a silver platter.
And let me tell you, with no empathy for the main character, this movie is quite a chore to sit through, we have to see him bother other people to help look for the bike, he runs around everywhere around town for 5 hours, at one point his son (who he forces to go around with him for some reason), his kid asks if he could have stayed at the church to eat some soup, and in response he hits him and tell him to shut up, that he deserves to be hit... I mean, it's like the movie is trying to make me care less and less about him ever finding his bike.
Dozens of other movies have shown characters in miserable situations and done it a million times better than what we have here.
Over the Top (1987)
This is why cancer can be a good thing
Usually people always say that cancer is horrible, cancer is the worst thing in existence, bla bla bla...
But then you watch this movie, and you change your tone real quick. Cancer can actually be pretty badass.
How would this story be possible otherwise? It wouldn't have happened, you can't abandon your children and never visit them and then be gifted their custody back, if cancer wasn't there to make the wife more and more desperate before her death.
Think about it. We could even have had the grandfather catch cancer real quick before the end, maybe he would have become a nice guy as well, try and make up with the father and everything.
Or better even, you could have like a penalty for losing in the final of the wrestling tournament. The loser gets cancer. How about that? How epic would that be?!
The Father (2020)
The Ultimate Con
I thought I had seen it all in terms of con movies, but this one might take the crown.
Watching the daughter and husband carefully and maliciously create more and more situations to make it seem like the father is losing his mind, is a work of art.
All is meticulously planned to make him lose face in front of a nurse every time one is present. Telling him that stuff he believes, isn't true, even though she told him exactly that it was the day before... I'm pretty sure I would have thought I was going crazy myself if I was in the father's place.
In the end she gets the apartment, and I think she even got his expensive watch (we see at one moment that she has a watch in a box), while he rots in a home for people who can't take care of themselves.
Final shot, the leaves of a tree, but are they yellow, are they almost ready to fall? No, they're bright green, full of life, for we know that he in fact still has all his head.
Brilliant.
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
Dr. Sapirstein all the way!!
If I have to be completely honest, I didn't really understand everything about this movie, I think it was about paranoia or something, I mean, half of what happens seems to be hallucinations and dreams, it's very confusing.
But this movie has been very memorable to me thanks to one thing: Dr. Sapirstein. Now that is one doctor I wish was real.
I've never had the courage to have a kid, and I'm starting to understand why... I don't have access to such a great doctor as Dr. Sapirstein. Like, if he existed and was my doctor, I would feel so much comfortable having a kid. He only gives you your daily dose from fresh products, he won't accept any nonsense from books and stuff like that, and if you stray from the right path, he's there for you immediately, to ensure you have the best care, his care.
What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)
I have never seen such a dumb kid!
What is eating Gilbert Grape? More like what is eating through my patience at lightning speed!
Now don't get me wrong, I've seen many stupid people in my days, people who are goofy, clumsy, forgetful, or even downright idiotic and stubborn...
But nothing, nothing could have prepared me for the kid in this movie.
You know how in the beginning of the movie they tease us with the fact that he could go at any time. That some day you want him to, some you don't.
Well how about showing us some days where you don't, instead of all the days where you do? Then they repeat it at several points in the movie : "I could go at any time, any time!".
So it really hyped me up, like... WHEN is it going to happen? Because it can't be soon enough.
Thus, you can really imagine my disappointment when the movie ends. At least good old Gilbert got a slap in or two before that (I was jumping around in my room: "That's my boy! Go Gilbert!").
Reservoir Dogs (1992)
No reservoir ! No Dogs !
I've always been into water reservoirs and stuff like that, and my uncle has a dog. So when I saw this movie, I thought for sure this would be the perfect movie for me.
What a huge disappointment. I was expecting dog battles, jumping into reservoirs and stuff, an awesome movie in short. But this is not at all what we have here.
You get these... guys, some sort of thugs, and then you think to yourself : "oh they each probably have a dog", and then you wait for the whole movie for the dogs to enter the scene (in combo with the reservoir setting, perhaps?), you wait you wait you wait, and then the movie ends. I've never seen worse than this. Animal lovers beware. Reservoir fans beware.
Jason and the Argonauts (1963)
I always suspected it to be true
I was always wondering "how could there be only one god?". Like, if there can be one, then there can be two, and so on.
So it came as no surprise to me when we discover in this movie that there are several gods. But what blows my mind even more, is how they even got to get them to agree to play in the movie, that is amazing and something we rarely see (of all the movies I've watched this is the first where I've seen them).
Remember this is from the 60's, so this is before they could fake everything from a computer, and in this they actually got to show us on camera some (probably not all) of the gods, and even a place where they live among the clouds.
For that alone, this movie needs some recognition.
Moonfall (2022)
This is why I love science
When I dropped out of school, I never looked back, I knew I wasn't missing much, most of it was completely useless, stuff that I would never use, or would never care about. But there always was one exception: science. I miss science because it felt like an amazing world of new possibilities, stuff that you'd never guess existed. And I was sad that by dropping out of school, there would be so much that I'd never learn.
That's why this type of movie is always welcome to me. Like, maybe it's common knowledge to you and your friends, but personally I had no idea that the Moon was a megastructure before watching this movie. So it was even more fascinating for me to discover it as the story unfolded. I love how the movie takes its time showing us how it was discovered thanks to the effort of a scientist that no one would believe before that. That's really inspiring.
Anyway, I don't like to call myself an intellectual because it's a bit pretentious, but I have to say that I pride myself in watching movies where you learn something. Where it's not just fireworks and spectacle. And this is one of the best movies in this style for sure. Don't turn off your brain before starting this one.
Licorice Pizza (2021)
This movie is NOT about licorice pizzas
I hate movies like this.
You think you're going to see a movie about something, and it's not even in it.
I was so excited, as a pineapple pizza adorer (well, technically I mostly like pineapple pizza with blue cheese, not just pineapple by itself), I was eager to see a movie that features another new great kind of pizza.
At the beginning of the movie it starts right off with the characters talking about going to the restaurant... But no luck, when they get there, big disappointment, they don't eat anything (let alone licorice pizza).
Later we see Gary eating inside the car with his mom, and I'm like : "alright, are they eating some licorice pizza?! How does it taste? Do they like it?", but NOPE, it's just some boring burgers.
A little later the girl is having her boyfriend dine at her family's home. And there I thought for sure this was going to be it, I mean, a big table like this, no doubt, the licorice pizza is going to finally appear. And it's yet another huge let down, once again the characters are sitting at a table for a meal, they talk to each other, but they don't eat.
I really don't understand what they were trying to do with this movie. What's the point, really? Spending all this time waiting for the licorice pizza, then it ends... Avoid at all costs!
The Game (1997)
So this is what people did before video games...
I found this movie very good, not really for the plot or characters, but because I found it very informative.
I always wondered what people played before video games, and I had no idea this was it. Very interesting stuff, and an important movie for people to learn about the ways of the past.
Majo no takkyûbin (1989)
An anthem to child labor
Pretty much.
They give us witches, but "nice witches", they're kind hearted, they have magic powers... Basically people you would want to be.
And they use that vessel to expose us to the idea that child labor is good. Once you're turned 13, yep, it's time to go work every day, go work in the rain, get literally ill from working, get anxiety from your responsibilities and lose your friends because this life of work is taking its toll on your emotions and social skills.
Out of the dozens of adults that see the child work (and even pay her for it), not even one gives the slightest inch of disapproval to her working. Not even a smidge. They all find it perfectly normal, they're all encouraging her.
That's where I find this movie very effective in its message : it's viciously disguised under very nice characters, they all look so kind. That's the easiest way to pass on your ideas. Kind of like Stalin who was called "Father" by the nation's propaganda.
Monsters (2010)
The real meaning of this movie
I see a lot of people giving this movie a mediocre review, but none of them have understood what this movie is all about.
What this movie is telling us is that people are the real monsters.
The poor aliens are just scared on a foreign planet, trying to survive however they can.
But us, humans, what are we? Well this movie makes it very clear with the main character : a paparazzi who is here to take pictures of monsters and persecute them.
This movie makes us endure 1h30 with two characters that are the most egoistical people you can find. The guy gets super emotional and angry when he has to pay money to get on a boat. The girl thinks of only one thing : "Oh I need to get home". And and she's apparently also the type of girl that's gonna get engaged in a relationship she doesn't really like that much, and then divorce you later after she's changed her mind or something. Real nice.
And by making us have to painfully watch these two characters, we quickly realize that humans are the monsters, and we're starting to root for the aliens. Unfortunately this movie doesn't have a satisfying continuation after that, it just kinda ends when you're hoping for the aliens to finally kill the two humans, that's a real shame... They almost had something great there.