robert-macc Reviews

Protect the Innocent (2021– )

A self-righteous crew

[1/10 · 20 May 2024]

I am against predators and I don't feel bad for them, but she has to one of the meanest, smug people who just is as bad as the predators, especially because she targets those who are guilty of lesser crimes (20 y/o guy going out with a 15 y/o girl? Really, more of the self-righteous moral police?). Ths crew, as well, is arrogant, loves "Friends", she and her crew preach their arrogant morality. These are examples of bad predator catchers who will end up getting their suspects freed on technicalities. And they engage in the same type of arrogant brutality as the police. These are not people one should look up to whatsoever.

Skeeter Jean (2021– )

I don't hate the guy but I do take issue with a good amount of things

[6/10 · 20 May 2024]

And I don't feel bad for many of the caught predators, especially the gay ones, but a lot of the time I think he plays a lot of this, twistedly for comedy. Another iffy one is that he's friends with this self-righteous "Friends"-watching (WPIX-loving) predator-catcher, this girl (I forgot her name) who goes against 20 years olds who go with 15 year olds (I hate when that age difference is treated badly, it's bad but it's not like if the guy was any older and the girl was any younger. That being said, he's funny, and he's a good watch, but it's not something I downright glorify either. DAP is equally twisted, but at least he believes in what he claims to believe, and I herald him as a hero, however nasty and cruel his methods are in catching predators.

America's Funniest Home Videos (1989– )

Los Angeles, not San Francisco, was the real home of 80s ABC family fuzziness.

[8/10 · 20 May 2024]

This show, shot in LA, was Bob Saget's entrance into reality TV. It's campy but hard-hitting (and he got lots of girls with this). This really stomps the lame weird TGIF Universe. It's one time when he was funny and not a weirdo lame. In this hilarious show. When Bob Saget was host, the theme was the best, although the later theme was funny but it doesn't compare. This is a true comedy TV. You can see hilarious people getting hurt in accidents, and hilarious accidents, not serious ones. This was true family TV. It's unforgetable and anyone who wants to see the reruns should check them out on Youtube. Clear and crisp picture quality. UPN/Warner Bros./WB flagship classic and a WWOR syndicated classic. "Seinfeld" and this show are two of the funniest. Only this was one squeeky clean with warm moments. Unfortunately from 1997 the family aspect went away and the show took a more lethal "(the C- in place of the S-word) TV" (my preferred term instead of "trash TV") turn but it became "Richard Bey."

Million Dollar Movie (1955–1988)

Hard-hitting and memorable show

[10/10 · 17 May 2024]

Ted Mallie was a warm guy. And his voice bought happiness in viewers. He was just a happy guy. This was a classic piece of WOR-TV history. UPN/Warner Bros./WB flagship classic. This program was a powerhouse television show that aired classic movies from the times up until contemporary times. "King Kong," being this was a WOR-TV show, was perhaps the signature, but many classics like "Citizen Kane," "Casablanca," "Ben Hur" were played. Academy Award winning shows were aired. Again what did WPIX ever have that can compete. This show was highly popular, at least in New York, and did better in Secacus and New York than WPIX shows have ever done nationally, if syndcated shows, the likes of "Springer."

Vlad TV (2006– )

Avoid this stain like a plague.

[1/10 · 14 May 2024]

Everything about this guy screams Allied Nordicist Yankee "Friends"-watching "Seinfeld"-hating liberal. Now while I'm not a race-baiter and I don't believe these outlandish things, like he's a cop, and whatnot, because rappers who choose to give out incriminating details about themselves only have themselves to blame if they get arrested. But this guy, Vlad, is a baiter. And the funny thing is is that Biden is like a dumber version of this guy. Vlad would be downright funny if it wasn't so deathly serious. This guy baits people. He's like a comical version of Emil Roscoe from "New Jersey Drive." Who always treated every encounter with Jason and his crew as a joke. This is not a show you wanna see.

Star Trek: Picard (2020–2023)

Crappy show that just completely misses the established canon

[1/10 · 5 May 2024]

This show is on par with "Enterprise" for being one of the worst of the "Trek" shwos, although at least "Enterprise" stood for something. This is just name-in-only nonsense that has no purpose. Even most annoying is the retcon that the Romulans created the Borg, trying to tie the two culturally (Romulans being "bro"-saying non-white, Hispanic, Latin with Latin English accents Latinos, Romans mostly, and Borg being white non-Anglo people who aren't Germanic and have Penelope Cruz English accents). As though trying to say Allied Nordicist Yankee "Friends"-watching "Seinfeld"-hating types are instead Romans (don't even get me started on the inaccuracies on the Nazis and people who think they're Nordicist). I wonder if it's the fans of this show who think Cardassians (and I mean pre-Dominion) are less advanced than the major 3. When it's the other way around.

This show completely ditches, aside from that, everything proper that that "Trek" stands for. And I can be this show had reruns on WPIX. I have to Patrick Stewart, Kate Mulgrew, and many of the "TNG" - "Voyager" senior favorites, even if they don't like being typecasted or people thinking that they are their characters, found the storyline changes stupid. The whole weakening of the Borg is even more hilarious. The show values quantity over substances. And there just enormous nonsensical things which did not happen in the original shows. Even "Enterprise" tried to stand for something and had a message, however crappy the show was. There's also the fact that there's codelessness. After all, it was 2009's movie that had Karl Urban as the superstar of the movie. And he was of "Xena." And then even more unlikable is the fact, in something "Enterprise" started, that it's every man for themselves. The crappy 60s show, which was actually human, in that people were people not some overly stoic perfect people that "TNG" - "Voyager" ("DS9" and "Voyager" are exceptions because of the crew being far from perfect, Janeway is the exception), believed in teamwork and everyone sticks together, "TNG" thru "Voyager" was the same thing. Skip this nonsense.

Dinosaur (2000)

A family movie with a somewhat R-rated sensibility

[9/10 · 1 May 2024]

I saw this movie first on video in 2001. This movie has everything, but the major highlight of the movie isn't the first 20 or 30 minutes where they have land and their home, and water and just the pleasures of home (fresh greens). But rather after a major scene where we see the antagonists of the movie. I won't be too explicit as to what happens that Aladar and his crew have to travel. But this is an adventure movie. If you want a hint, just look at the poster and the DVD/VHS/bluray covers. Things happen and the crew are on the move. The major explosive event is a demonstration of superior THX/Lucasfilm LTD scenary. And this was a UPN/Warner Bros./WB flagship classic. Which for sure aired on UPN. And I plan to revive UPN and create WB.

Kron and Bruton, two affable anti-heroes, give the movie its much needed "Seinfeld"-like humor. And it's one reason why this movie did big bucks. The hilarity of Kron and Bruton, who have no sense of humor, is hilarious. In some ways them, and all of the brutal characters, are infleucned by the Klingons on "TNG" - "Voyager". In fact, "Voyager" could have made, only explicit and R-rated (and I mean hard R, to the point that it's an 18 in the UK or Sweden or Spain, I mean hard R for real, and "TNG," "DS9" and "Voyager" all had hard R episodes), an episode with some Klingons that B'Elanna knew only more R-rated and even more crude than the Klingons on "TNG" and "DS9" that was modeled after this movie. And they were funny.

The movie was major shocker to Disney and still is. Your average Disney movie still is family oriented, with PG-13 movies only coming out of occassionaly. Disney has not crossed that line too much. "Pirates of the Carribean" is the main PG-13 movie. But only this one and "Holes" were not cutesy. It's an anthesis and a funny movie at times. There is so much violence in this one that it's not for the faint of heart. It's about survival. This movie is "Star Trek Voyager" but tamed down for a family audience. Much like that show, this is about blood and survival. It wasn't musicals or cutesiness.

Star Trek: Voyager: Endgame (2001) Season 7, Episode 24

The perfect way to finish one of UPN's best shows

[10/10 · 26 April 2024]

Mind you I still think "The Sentinel" and "Smackdown" and "Malcolm & Eddie" were better show but only because of Jeri Ryan ruining this show with her Allied Nordicist Yankee "Friends"-watching "Seinfeld"-hating presence. Anyways, this episode is also proof that "Voyager" knew how to chill when it came to the futuristic, at the expense of the old, beliefs. In this episode, the Borg try one final attempt to silence Voyager and capture Earth and the Federation. It's a brutal cat and mouse. Unfortunately (in something that doesn't detract from my rating), "Voyager" has already done irrepairable damage to the once threatening superpower. They have a leader and she resorts to threats and pettiness, and even compared to the renegades in "Descent," they come off as harmless. Nevertheless this is a hard-hitting episode that bought big ratings for UPN, and is testimony to my UPN/Warner Bros./WB flagship. :) And another reason why UPN consistently stomped non-Warner Bros.ish The WB left and right all 11 years in the ratings, and even in accolades. "The Sentinel" was critically acclaimed but given the TV Academy's bias towards CBS and (sorry I know Disney changed them but they still have the stigma from the pre-Disney days) ABC and The WB, as well as the Academy's bias towards Universal and Columbia Pictures, they got snubbed. Establishment "Friends"-watching fatcats

Still, this was a hard-hitting episode, and yes I prefer "Barney" over "Seasame Street" anyday, and "Barney" also aired in syndication on UPN (as opposed to Tribune favorite "Seasame Street.")

Genius: I Gotcha' Back (1994 Music Video)

A song/video that does no justice to the movie

[3/10 · 24 April 2024]

I don't wanna be harsh towards the Wu-Tang altogether, which is why I'm being merciful and giving it something instead of my original desire to give it only 1 star, especially because Gravediggaz is a hard-hitting act. But they are codeless and love "Xena." For me Boss, the hard-hitting, also bragging, combined with gangsta and hardcore rapper, from Michigan (also on the East Coast) would have done this movie far more justice. "Catch a Bad One" describes the NC-17 nature of this movie far better than this song, which is tainted by "Xena"-loving. Plus I felt like the song was too pretentious for my liking. It's no wonder why this song wasn't super popular when it came out. And it aired on unpopular The WB (the video that is) as well as its affiliates.

A song that is uncharacteristic of a powerhouse critically acclaimed flagship like my UPN/Warner Bros./WB flagship. And a great movie like "Fresh."

Home Sweet Home Alone (2021)

This is actually acclaim-worthy

[9/10 · 18 April 2024]

Unlike the disasters that followed the first 3, this one truly hits it hard. It's a well-done movie from start to finish. Acclaimed British child actor, in what appears to be one of his first big roles, Archie Yats is the main star, Max Mercer, a somewhat rugrat of a kid, who has an attitude. He sees a doll of value and takes it from the main cast. The beautiful Irish actress Aisling Bea is his gorgeous mom, Carol Mercer. She has a sultriness to her that makes her a knockout.

They go to the house of our other protagonists. It's the house of the main patriarch Jeff McKenzie (played by Rob Delaney, who feels like a throwback to every borderline mean 80s movie protagonist) who's doing everything to avoid selling their home, and his wife is Pam McKenzie (played by the equally stunning Ellie Kemper). They organize a plan to take back their doll.

The movie is fuzzy, and there's a shocking twist, which I may have hinted it, for anyone who can get it right away. A nice movie and like "3," much better than the first and "2," but then again Chris Columbus's somewhat establishment comments about this movie makes him on my list of people I find questionable to begin with.

Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

The classic minus some objections

[10/10 · 13 April 2024]

First the good, this is the true superior of the first two movies because of superior structure, and a likable main character (and it's not Sarah Connor, but John Connor, the one everyone dismisses as a delinquent). This movie really showed the tension between Arnold/Edward and Linda/James. Because no one on set liked Cameron except for Linda, who is the most unlikable actress and is Allied Nordicist Yankee "Friends"-watching "Seinfeld"-hating just like the director who made this movie.

What made this movie was, like the first movie, the other writer - just like Gale Ann Hurd's hard hitting vision for the first, William Wisher deserves the credit for giving us the crafted story. Because had either of them been James's story - it would have been a dark episode of "Mary Tyler Moore"/"Three's Company" and "Dream On" respectively. Two lame unpopular racist shows. Thankfully it wasn't. Instead we got the hard-hitting story that made this a great movie. The story starts off with two machines coming from the future. What makes it brilliant is that Wisher makes the story so ambigious. You don't know for sure what's gonna happen or who's bad. Robert Patrick's T-1000 makes you think he's the good guy and you're somewhat conditioned into believing Arnold is the bad guy again. And unlike what some idiots say, the bar scene in the opening is menacing. And the use of "Bad to the Bone" is a menacing choice for song.

But there are subtle hints that give way that, at the risk of giving it out, but given Arnold's insistances after the first "Terminator", I think it's safe to say it was common knowledge the Terminator would be good. At first, the Terminator, even before his hilariously awkward bow to avoid violence, doesn't kill anyone at the bar, and only hurts those who get in the way of his objective. The T1000, before we even know that he kills, does very similar things to show he's a murderer. And his pursuit of John is downright creepy from the very beginning. Then there's the fact that when he goes to John's foster parents (who are arrogant) he says, "I wouldn't worry about him," as though indirectly warning us that he's the bad guy. The Terminator, though he's brute force, avoids killing anyone, an indication he's good. But the way it's shown is suspenseful. And masterly done. It's too bad James had to be the one to ruin it against Wisher's desire to keep it ambigous until the 30 mark. Eventually the Terminator reveals he's the good and protects John. The story is enormous. We see the mental hospital oppressing Sarah (that is if you can separate fiction from the actors, because with Linda it's very hard, and with "Friends" and "Three's Company" it's very hard, they are they unlikable). The story is a tour de force. UPN stations aired this one for sure. UPN/Warner Bros./WB flagship classic. And a WWOR classic. That got nominations for Best Pictures, but I would not have given Best Director to that s-stain.

James Cameron deliberately ruined the "Terminator" movies with "Dark Fate," and there's evidence he doesn't care about the first two movies. It was prophet. Again Ann Gail Hurd and William Wisher deserve the credit for giving us the two foundations of the franchise - the first and second. I appreciate them, and I appreciate them for giving the finger to Cameron, who appeared on "Friends"'s sister show, "Mad About You," another Allied Nordicist Yankee "Friends"-watching "Seinfeld"-hating shame s*itshow.

Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018)

A fuzzy film about teamwork with Cailee Spaeny

[9/10 · 24 March 2024]

Who hates Taylor Swift. This hard-hitting feature is about a team who goes stop the bad guys. Haven't seen it yet, HOWEVER, one aspect of this movie serves as inspiration for my own expeditionary film. Shyrley Rodriguez and her bond with the younger Cailee :). That broish black haired "bro"-saying Latina (who's anything but a Rodriguez, and is likely Roman, not Spaniard) coached her little powerpuff baby in a role (given one training video). That to me is the essence of big sis and her bros/their little sis, which is demonstrated in this movie. It's "Seinfeld"ian. I plan to have those two in my own movie, with Annabella Sciorra too.

This movie is already kickbutt, but Cailee adds a cuteness to the scenes.

The Seven-Ups (1973)

A WOR 70s classic movie

[8/10 · 22 March 2024]

One of the hit movies that had to have aired on WOR (and later WWOR) in 1974 and 1975 (I don't for one second buy that their library was lineup was limited to just classic RKO and WB movies from the 50s, they did air reruns of current sitcoms of that time, as well as their own programming, including a famous kids show in the 70s).

WOR was the top-rated station (and would become the flagship to the main top rated network in 1999, UPN, that would stomp The WB, a network which never succeeded to overcome being the lowest rated network along with CBS). That being said the movie: Buddy Russo is back. And this time he's formed an elite squad of the NYPD known as the Seven Ups. The Mafia is threatening to take over. This is when parts New York was truly terrorized by a force that could buy off cops (particularly Queens and some parts of Manhattan).

Buddy Russo is investigating several murders. There is a dangerous twist to this though, and someone among his own is setting him up. It's a story with vicious twists and turns that will leave you shocked at the end. One of the highlights of the movie is a nasty 20-mile chase that spans from the Upper East Side (although the garage scene was shot in the nearby city of Brooklyn, not New York) to likely the border of NJ and NY, on the Pallisades Parkway.

The movie shows the grit of 1970s New York. For all my highway Latinos and -lovers, who love highway trips, high mast lighting was beginning to be built at select locations of the Interstates (and the Interstate Highway System was with its last decade and a half of building, with I-80's end in NJ, connecting with I-95 before the GWB, being the final link). For the most part Westinghouse was mostly a city thing (thankfully). But most highways were by the classic Westinghouse (not the street lights New York already, but the classic highway and street lights that graced the city, and most America, before the 1960s).

Having lived in Brooklyn, I do remember the Fort Washington housing community there having had them until recently, when they replaced by the car-looking lights. NEMA heads were also common in most of the North and South, on many highways, although many still had the classics. I prefer the classics and high-mast lighting, but I do love NEMA heads too (the car lights are not true highway lights). You'll get highway scenary in this movie. Bet on it.

Andre (1994)

A prototype to "Facing the Giants" and "Spirit"

[8/10 · 22 March 2024]

A true (regarding the main girl and the daughter and mother, since I'm a manly man and I'm not gay) cute story. A little girl befriends a seal, but it's really the big sis and mom story that really is fuzzy. As well as the entire family. It's a family story full of love. Set in Maine, in the 1960s, based on a true story, it's about one girl's triumphant against every naysayer who thought Andre was a dangerous seal, and threatens to send it away for killing (although the movie is euphemistic, appropriately so, about that since this is family movie) With fuzzy performance from everyone this is a true family classic for the whole family to enjoy. With acclaimable story and acting worthy of a Disney or RKO movie, this is a cherishable story for all generations and generations to come. A very fuzzy movie with lots of warmth and hugs, unlike lukewarm "Flicka". A true Dixie movie, despite being set in Maine. 100% Allied-, Tribune-, The WB-, CBS-, "Friends"-, "Flicka"-, and "Xena"-free.

9/11 (2002 TV Movie)

A hard-hitting documentary

[10/10 · 21 March 2024]

Too bad it was on CBS, and not UPN, an award-winning network that was more popular than this network or The WB. Anyways this is a brutal documentary about the realities of 9/11 as told by two French brothers who were the firefighting precinct that is displayed in the film. It is the most gritty and realistic documentary, as presented by Robert De Niro, who is the documentary's narrarator. It's a classic documentary that deserved the accolades it got, and is far more realistic than many of the 9/11 movies, and it's better than that crap movie that came some 4 years later, with Maria Bello, of "Flicka." See it.

Cop & ½ (1993)

Campy hard-hitting fun

[7/10 · 16 March 2024]

Not a classic movie, but decent and good enough. Having seen the theatrical trailer on Youtube, I had to see the movie. Although I probably did see this movie on WABC or WNBC or WNYW or WWOR in the day, before UPN of course (which I know this movie aired on). Norman D. Golden stars as Devon Butler, a child with a very active imagination and aspirations to become a cop.

BTW, a warning to parents: this movie is not a family movie. It comes from a time when PG movies still had PG-13 level and sometimes borderline moderate R content ("The Seven Ups" which goes back to when PG really wasn't a family rating at all, is an example, two F-words).

Devon Butler gets himself into trouble because he's too prideful. He shoots water guns at teachers, gets himself bullied, so much that his grandma has to call him out. His big opportunity to ride with the big dogs comes later: when he accidently witnesses a Mafia killing. Talking to the police, Burt Reynold's character, Nick McKenna, an easily angered, jaded cop who hates running (LOL), asks him about the details. Devon secures an opportunity and agrees to cooperate, on the condition that Nick allows him to ride with him through the streets as a young honorary cop. Nick at one point threatens, obviously not figuratively, as he probably is not gonna hurt a kid literally, in irritation, threatens to sling Devon "on your ***", and in some ways he's a comical funny version of Picard ("TNG" having aired on WWOR), who hated kids, and the show was wrapping up its last two seasons at the time of this movie's release and popularity.

What follows is a funny hilarious ride through Tampa (which this movie is set in). Ironically, this movie portrays Tampa as it has become or at least predicted. Allied Nordicist Yankee "Friends"-watching "Seinfeld"-hating smugness runs in the veins of these people. One mistake I didn't like, which was a tiny troll compared to the nonsense I've seen is one scene with Spaniards. Yes they were portrayed as white with a somewhat divergent accent (Nuyoricans and Italians are non-white, Hispanic, Latin with Latin English accent), but they had them say "nada" (in the form of saying, "it don't matter nothing" - Spaniards are very proper, they do not use ebonics, and many are truly racist people; no I don't mean what peopel say about Hispanics, which means Nuyoricans and Italians, who are non-white, Hispanic, Latin, with Latin English accents, as opposed to Spaniards - that they are racist but use black slang, no Spaniards can be TRULY racist - and emulating black people is not something a racist would do). That being said accurate portrayals.

Changing Lanes (2002)

A strong morality tale

[9/10 · 14 March 2024]

Like others, I was pleasantly surprised. This was not an action thriller with lots of revenge and tension, in the likes of "Ransom" (nothing wrong with that movie it's a favorite). I was not surprised at what happened. Without giving it away, or at least at the risk of maybe giving it away, Gavin Baneck really isn't what he appears to be. The movie makes him out to be a bad guy that Samuel L Jackson will end up winning. It's a lot more complex than that, and he's far from being a downright villain. And Samuel L Jackson is far from being a downright good guy as well.

What starts as a regular day for our man, who has it all, Gavin, ends up becoming a dark and dreary day. And this movie does a good job of calling out and exposing the worst people (not that the arrogant Allied Nordicist Yankee "Friends"-watching "Seinfeld"-hating element isn't there in some of the characters, including two street toughs who harass Doyle Gibson - Samuel's character) that we learn later on, without giving it out. Gavin is on a way to a settlement hearing in court. On FDR he gets into a fender bender with Doyle, bumping into his car by accident. Gavin is in such a rush, and he's blinded by being power-hungry, because his character is not innocent, but as you see, it's more of him being pressured by the family he's married into, and we see start to seem him struggle with what he's doing. Essentially, he's lied a rival family's member patriarch into giving him $350000000 (or something to that effect).

Without that slip, he doesn't inherent a kingdom, figuratively. And he can go to jail. Doyle is in a messy divorce, and he's trying to at least give his sons (and hopefully his future again-wife) a new home in Queens (not a spoiler *laughs* but it's a goof because the house is clearly in Brooklyn, right next to the Williamsburg Bridge). What promises to boil into all-out war is susprisingly calm (without giving it out). What we get is a complex tale of the disparities between the rich (Gavin and his family) and the common man (Doyle, his family, his friends). It's a movie that will have you wanting to shed a tear at the end. All I can say is this movie is not what you're expecting, and Paramount did real well by not insulting the audience's intelligence. One of those rare movies that respects the intelligence of the viewer. And deserved the accolades it got.

End of Days (1999)

Not a bad movie; while not perfect, it's a true story of the Bible and End Times

[8/10 · 14 March 2024]

I will say I love how all of the West is portrayed as being a potential ringer to the Antichrist. I personally believe Denmark might be the home of the Antichrist because they've done too many bad things in their history, and their liberalism is mind-sickening.

That being said, the Roman Church is not shown in a good way, and the movie shows the West in general as opening the door (I don't mean America, as America's founding was pure and was based on religious liberty and freedom). A true UPN/Warner Bros./WB worthy title. Arnold Schwarzeneger hits it hard as the main character - fighting evil. I haven't seen the whole movie but I'm very impressed by it.

Charlie & Co. (1985–1986)

Wholesome comedy

[8/10 · 4 March 2024]

And this should have been Jaleel White's main show, not that weird "Family Matters." A show about a fam with a strong father figure. When you want a comedy that showed black people living the way black people wanted to see themselves live (high, wealthy, educated), this show was groundbreaking just like "The Cosby Show."

The mom is a teacher and the father is a construction worker. What I loved about this show was it was rougher and working-class. "Cosby" gets boring after a while for that reason. As a working-class kid, this show is closer to my life. Too bad that this aired on CBS, however. This should have been on ABC, Fox, or NBC.

Facing the Giants (2006)

A good movie that stomped "Flicka" in the box office

[7/10 · 26 February 2024]

Even though it was not a worldly movie like that, this movie was far more fuzzy than that hateful smug movie. A movie with a heart. The premise is simple: a football coach is about to be kicked off the school team by those who deem him unable (Allied Nordicist Yankee "Friends"-watching "Seinfeld"-hating types). Having a major epiphany he helps his team find Christ. There's nothing but love-dubby in this one. Unlike Tim McGraw and his self-righteous self who is a joke to everything Dixie, and the hatefulness of that family, this is a story about facing your fears, or your Goliaths. A movie that hits it hard and is UPN/Warner Bros./WB flagship FTW! This movie was good just like "Andre" from 12 years earlier (1994).

Home Alone 3 (1997)

I'm going to diverge once again

[9/10 · 26 February 2024]

Talia Shire and their bros' tough mother(expletive usually said in a non-good or hood way, but in this case Talia would use it because Selma perserved against MS - multiple sclerosis)... well that's Selma Blair, but Scarlett definitely applies to that title to some decree. She's feisty and hits it hard just like her wolves Talia and her bros. The Latina's baby. She's adorable in this one. Which goes on top of the next thing. A lovable family, and while the bro and sis of our main pick on Alex, and maybe a little hard on him throughout the movie, being hard on someone is not hateful. The McCallisters are all slimy WASP (and they are Protestant not Roman Catholic, likely Presybterians).

This family is a loving family. Alex is a young boy with a loving mother, played the beautiful Haviland Morris <3 <3. While the stakes are a little higher, because this time our main boy is up against some Allied Nordicist Yankee "Friends"-watching "Seinfeld"-hating (much like the two villains of the first film) hi-tech terrorists, the movie is not dark as we don't really see their activities, and when we do it's cyberhacking. Interestingly enough, Marv and Harry are far more sinister and evil in the way they are presented than the characters here. The antagonists are true comic foils. The violence they could have employed it not shown. They mostly are there to annoy Alex and, without giving too much, let's just say you won't really sense he is in mortal danger throughout the movie. Whereas there are moments when Harry and Marv are going to hurt Kevin throughout the first two movies, and they terrorize him repeatedly, you don't sense that this group is going to terrorize Alex. It's like "TNG"'s Rascals (it's one of the reasons the Ferengi were chosen as the episode's antagonists rather than the Cardassians, as they were deemed too deadly to be around children).

It's a warm fuzzy film. Where the fam stick together and when thick and thin happens, Scarlett stands by her little bro throughout the movie (and I bet Talia and her bros saw this on UPN or on ABC - whichever aired it, cause unlike the first two, this didn't even as much as air on an unpopular Tribune station, much less non-Warner Bros.ish The WB, the way the first two movies did - WPIX notably, although to be fair it was on WWOR too).

I'm not bashing the first two, they're classics, but in my bias, I prefer this one only because the warmth in this movie is cooler. This is a warm movie, and lacks all the darkness and hatred of the first two movies. This is a wholesome strong fam, that doesn't have hate. The fact that they couldn't get Kevin McCallister for a 3rd movie is a blessing. I prefer this one all the way.

Home Alone (1990)

An enigma of sorts... ("3" is still my favorite)

[8/10 · 24 February 2024]

This is the first movie and it's a well-estasblished classic. But it's like the "Trek" franchise (for instance I will never consider that Allied Nordicist Yankee "Friends"-watching "Seinfeld"-hating Rodenberry joint true "Trek" - although much like this movie, there are redeeming qualities, Spock and Uhara hit it hard, and unlike "TNG" - the equivilent being "Home Alone 3," this show was a CBS fair which Tribune's stations shoved down America's throat in post-run, and just could not shut up about, Howard Stern was probably very proud - I mean his show was on WPIX as well)

But with all that, let's get into the movie: first the negatives. The family is incredible hostile (not old-fashioned Allied Nordicist Yankee "Friends"-watching "Seinfeld"-hating hostile). No, instead, more smug self-righteous know-it-all liberal arrogance. They won't hit Kevin, but instead they're psychologically torture him in open arrogance. I don't know how I put up with this movie knowing that they're, on one hand portrayed, as protagonists, and on the other, that they're portrayed as abusive. But this does set the way for the story. Kevin and the family have dinner. And it goes very badly, without giving it out. Kevin is punished, and blamed for it, when it wasn't his fault. He's sent to the attic. Because of their negligence, as the title shows, they forget Kevin, and leave him home.

This leads to a wild ride, that is pretty dark and violent, as the movie progresses. We see Marv and Harry (played by Joe Pesci). They are evil villains, who want to rob houses. And, as a hint, given what they do to Kevin in the movie, at the risk of giving it out, let's just say they are cruel people to be around, to say the least. Kevin hits it hard and lives it up, until he has an epiphany and realizes that no matter how bad his family may be, they're still better than nothing. A nonsense epiphany. But anyways, the climax is a terrific build. The only bad thing about this, it's Tribuneish. The movie aired on WPIX a year later. Like unpopular The WB, like unpopular their stations. But it's a good movie.

But "3" was for me real "Home Alone."

Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992)

A good movie (but again "3" is my favorite)

[8/10 · 24 February 2024]

Don't get me wrong I'm not disrespecting the classics that the first 2 are. But I'm not gonna go far to give them an outright praise of glory either.

The fact that his family is openly abusive (although, and maybe it's just more that we see Catherine O'Hara, and her hostility seems more manufactured in this movie for the plot rather than genuine in the first movie, and it seems, even then, she's not really trying to be mean, she's the lone exception and, perhaps, feeling guilty for the way she treated him in the first movie) to him still makes this an uncomfortable watch (no one "Harry Potter" seemed to have portrayed the Dursleys well; I mean are they not a non-white extention pretty much of the fam from this movie?) Anyways the Allied Nordicist Yankee "Friends"-watching "Seinfeld"-hating nature of this fam seems to be in full circle. Buzz and the rest of them, abuse him. This is not a spoiler. It's well-known (you don't have to see the first two to know it). This isn't bashing, though, because it's part of the story at least.

Kevin has a Christmas show at his show, which the fam watch. Without giving it out, if you've seen "Home Alone," you know how that's gonna end. All things aside, this leads to the events that cause Kevin to be separated. But unlike the first movie, this is a far more exciting prospect. He's in New York this time, while his fam are in Florida (and to be honest, perhaps it's God's punishment to them that their vacation is far more stinkier, without giving it out, than their original 1990 vacation in Paris, where at least they had good food, and were in a nice hotel, and got to see the Eiffel Tower backdrop). The exciting backdrop is Kevin arrive in NY, in Queens. But it's a little unrealistic, lol, because it's LaGuardia, but it's positioned as though it's right next to the East River, when it's like 20 minutes away from Manhattan. His adventures takes him to Manhattan, where he says at the Plaza Hotel. As you can guess, to add to the hatred and smugness Kevin already deals with, he deals with some smug punks.

I won't say too much more. Let's just say it's a thrill ride for the masses (my only complaint is that this movie, along with the first, aired on WPIX - whether they later aired on The WB or, more recently, The CW itself, I don't know, but it's not surprising that much considering that this is flavored like something that Tribune would fund for, if not make, but it did air on WWOR, much like the first movie, as well). The two evil villains, Marv and Harry, will keep you on the edge of your seat. This movie is far deadlier, and the stakes are higher. Along with a mysterious old woman, you are in for an adventure, if you get past the somewhat WPIXish/Tribuneish/The WBish nature of this feature.

Star Trek: Enterprise (2001–2005)

The worst (even worse than the 60s show)

[1/10 · 23 February 2024]

This show on the other hand is Allied Nordicist Yankee "Friends"-watching "Seinfeld"-hating crap. One episode glorifies the Allies in WW2, when it was the Allies who provoked Italy and Germany into being the way they were. And that ties into the who the characters are as people. Arrogant smug punks.

Let's get to the root issue. This show didn't even deserve the coveted network, UPN, which actually at this time had just finished its reign at number 1 (2000 or 1999 was the year they were a top-rated network, beating the other networks, even its predecesor, Fox). Everything about this show is cultureless (I can't even say it's CBSish, this feels The WBish, Tribuneish, and mass-produced, non-Warner Bros.-like). The crew is unlikable. You have you the British character who is completely so uptight and stuck-up, culturally. You got Charles Tucker, who is another Yankee, and is rude and mean, and just a Hell to be around. And of course, yes the main captain himself, Johnathan Archer, who is just so bleeding heart and slimy, which Kirk wasn't (Kirk was old-fashioned arrogance, which I can tolerate a little better, and made no bones about it at least). Everything he does is underhanded. And then the one episode, which was a lame attempt to remake the "Voyager" episode "One" in their own image, had them exagerrating their unredeemable selves into torturing Phlox. At least with Seven of Nine, as unlikable as Janeway was, there was nothing real about the hallucinations. They were more like demons, not literal people exagerrating their worst in some twisted sense of pleasure at seeing someone suffer. Everything about this show is The WBish crap that UPN no doubt wanted nothing to do with.

Editing the stars.

Star Trek: Voyager: Basics, Part I (1996) Season 2, Episode 26

This episode is gangsta/beastin

[9/10 · 23 February 2024]

And Chakotay, you are the father. Richard Bey (whose show was de-facto on the network much like "Voyager," although he wasn't a UPN show in reality, but a syndicated show) would be proud.

I say that joke because someone said that the crew acted stupid because they essentially abandoned ship because Chakotay had child support payments. Jokes aside, the show is interesting. Basically put the crew battle a few Kazon, who are manipulated by Seska (of the more advanced Cardassian race), although in reality she really is truly part of the Kazon tribe, that she married into as isn't manipulative, but is opportunistic, as she and the Kazon hate Voyager). The entire episode is a vicious thrill ride. And I also want for those who think "Voyager" had the reset button, this was a prototype to "Year of Hell." Voyager gets bombed in this episode very badly. And the crew have to abandon ship. Plus, as part of the show, replicator rations were common.