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The Hill (2023)
Bad cliches, acting and music
I'm baffled at all the great reviews. This movie was awful. I swear it's like watching a spoof of a baseball movie - like when you're watching a comedy like Curb Your Enthusiasm and they're watching a bad movie that has all kinds of clichés and over the top music in every scene - that's what this is.
Everyone is miscast and if you know anything about baseball and watch the kid/grown up version of the person swing the bat, they're just swinging a bat level with no real baseball skill and then it cuts to a ball flying over the fence.
But honestly, forget the bad casting and cliched lines in every single scene - it's the over the top "heart wrenching" music in every scene. EVERY scene.
Then he goes 10 for 10 in his big game - gets his and instead of taking his base, he's going to still hit - and of course it couldn't be any predictable. It's like a Simpson's parody. If you just told someone it was a parody in the Simpsons and explained it, they'd laugh.
Awful movie. As someone who loves baseball movies and can even sit through a bad Christian movie if it's entertaining, this was dreadful.
Saw X (2023)
In this one, John Kramer is the hero!
Ug, supposedly between Saw I and Saw II, Shawnee Smith filmed the first one 19 years ago. She looks every bit of 19 years older (maybe a little more) in this one.
In this one, Jigsaw is the hero! He loves children. He really gets the bad guy who tried to screw him over. Or did he?
Someone does not die who should have and it's left open, which is pretty odd for a prequel. Some really dumb stuff in this one. Overall just another SAW movie, I mean, these aren't Shakespeare.
And of course a bunch of the things HAVE to happen a certain way for things to fall into place as they did. Any number of things could have not happened and then the plan wouldn't work but in these types of movies, no matter how absurd or out of the way, the people always do what Jigsaw knew they would. Um, okay.
Hustle (2022)
Great film, not many great basketball related films out there
I had this movie for a while and never watched it and kept thinking it was American Hustle so I wasn't going to watch it until I had nothing else to watch. Finally got around to it and was pleasantly surprised.
I don't know why I didnt know anything about this because I would have watched it right away if I did. Sandler is great and Queen Lafitah is too (can she be considered underrated anymore now that she's won an Oscar?). Even better for me was not having any idea what this was about and just letting it fold out.
The only weak spot was Juancho Hernangomez who has no acting skills and his character was so unlikeable. There had to be better choices out there for this role (I like the China version they originally planned to do better - after reading the background of this script).
Outside that, great basketball films. There are not a lot of great basketball films out there, oddly. This IS one.
Brake (2012)
Solid film with ridiculous ending
Another film where 98% takes place in one spot - guy wakes up in a glass coffin it turns out is in a moving car.
Interesting and holds your attention. Drama plays out and the stuff that happens is watchable. For having your whole movie in one spot, you have to have tension and drama and they manage to pull it off. You wonder the entire time "what would I do in this situation?" Me, who is massively claustrophobic, would probably cave in, in 5 minutes.
But the premise is okay and then it gets to the end. Then it completely falls apart. Believability at the very end goes out the window? That's all it takes? A glance? And you've figured it out? Makes zero sense. You see people here talking about how the ending sucks and it does.
Also, what happened to the bees? Somehow, despite the fact he's now lying on a bunch of dead bees, they have went away.
Where did the bees go?
Overall good but ending is terrible.
Overnight (2003)
Wonderful documentary - has held up over time
The story of Troy Duffy. Had everything handed to him. Could have had a nice writng/direction career. But his ego. Man, what was he thinking.
And if you know anyone in the business or trying to get in the business in LA, you may know someone with a big ego like this guy.
But he had it and he blew it. Instead of being appreciative of what he had and buiding his career, he just assumed he was going to be a big star.
So if you want to see a guy get what he deserves, this is the film for you.
Interestingly he eventually did do a sequel to Boondock, it bombed and that was that.
YOU have a better chance at a directing career in Hollywood than this guy at this point.
Godfather of Harlem (2019)
Completely overrated - how does this get an 8 rating?
I'm reading some of the reviews and I have to ask if this is real.
Then I see a couple of the negative reviews and what they're writing is dead on correct. No sense of tension. Cliched characters. Waste of good actors.
Every character is unlikeable, which is fine, but are they interesting? Nope. Our main character, our "hero" is a terrible person who just one note angry all the time. Our main mobster is just a cliche.
It's so boring, I made it into the 4th episode and had to stop. I don't care about anyone on this show or what happens to them. Just boring beyond belief and the worst thing is the modern music thoughout. Supposed to be in the early 60s but we've got modern day hip hip playing. It's severely annoying. Takes you completely out fo the show and reminds you you're not in the 60s, it's today and this is a bad show that takes place in the 60s.
Hey, maybe it got better after the fourth episode. I doubt it. But who knows - what I saw was beyond boring.
Tulsa King (2022)
Not bad if you keep your suspension of disbelief
The writing is good - Stallone's narration is well written. He's also good in this role. The show moves along and is entertaining. Problem is you have to believe that in today's world, someone would just show up to a town like Tulsa, start knocking people around and making demands and people would just fall in line and not call the police.
In reality, every incident in this show where he knocks someone around and gets what he wants wouldn't happen. Ever. The person would simply call the police, they'd come, see that he did in fact commit an assault, that's he's an ex con recently released from prison and he'd be in jail waiting a new trial.
But in this fantasy world from 1960 (that takes place today) he just makes demands and people does what he wants.
If you can accept that, you can enjoy the show.