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Death to 2021 (2021)
Just another thinly veiled propaganda
Some parts were genuinely funny. Especially Hugh Grant rocks as the professor of old school values. However anyone with a brain can see that this isnothing but a thinly disguised propaganda machine to make people take that vaccine. It is soo funny with everything else, but every five minutes or so you have another jab at taking the jab, and if you do not you're a delusional conspiracy theorist. Disgusting.
Hitler: The Rise of Evil (2003)
Watch it for the flare not the facts
This movie has me torn. I love the set pieces and the acting is superb. It has this vibe of authenticity to it.
However that is just it. It is a perversion of facts. Hitler was not a psychopath openly like this movie would have you believe. He was very soft-spoken and loving to his family and friends. Why do you think he won people over so easily? He was an incredibly charismatic man. He was certainly not the psychopath portrayed in this movie.
One example I'd like to bring up is his relationship with his niece. Everything was really great about that until he had her running around in a circle and stop at his command. However the relationship they had before that is more or less how Hitler was to people he knew. Remember he LOVED people, he just didn't love what was then called lesser developed races, like the Jews. He wasn't alone in this assessment at that time. Eugenics was the top-tier science of that day, and the US and Scandinavia practiced it just as much.
Of course no one knew how far the SS would go. Before the war Hitler was loved globally, and considered a great leader; he had single-handedly brought Germany out of its debt, was the creator of the "People Wagon", ie the Volkswagen.
After the war, the greatest scientists of the Nazi party were imported to the US and created was to be NASA.
This movie is sad in how desperate they are to portray this man as an evil person. I'm not sure how much Hitler personally knew about the death-camps - it is certain that he blamed all of Germany's problems on the Jews. They had some hardcore occult / magick aspirations as well, as the symbology will tell you. BUT to portray him as just this evil psychopath like in this movie is just complete hogwash.
Disenchantment (2018)
The problem with entertainment these days
I have read some of the reviews on here already, and it strikes a chord.
This pretty much sums it up:
"Kept me entertained, pretty mellow but I think it'd get much better with a second season."
Wow. Just wow. This is the accepted standard nowadays, with comical satire? "I could endure it, but it will probably get better next season like Futurama."
???
Now call me old-fashioned, but isn't a good show suppose to blow you away from the start of the first episode? "Kept me entertained"? Is that sufficient nowadays? Just lay back get inebriated and be somewhat entertained, hoping for better things? Is that the status quo?
We are at a cross-roads as far as comedy fiction goes, and it is a battle between the need to placate the social justice warriors who are offended and triggered at simply everything and the "naughty naughty" need to show those people the finger and be as gross and intimidating that you can get. Long gone are the wonderful slapstick era of the 80's and 90's, that would show a satirical tongue-in-cheek mirror to our current culture, while still remaining family friendly (no boobies are not and should never be cause for R ratings!). Movies and shows you could watch again and again, and the dirty stuff was such that only adults would understand it. "Nice beaver!" anyone?
No but the show must go on, and it does. Another copy of the Groening tent, set in a different location but showing all of the same problematic non-direction. Futurama / Simpsons / American Dad ... Same character sheets and vulgar exclamations. Really boring stuff, dressed up to look good, because yeah sure we all laugh in the same places, like tired old trained monkeys.
I may just be picky and maybe I am a bit cliche myself, but I would love a REAL and truly new IP to come along in the comedy entertainment business. Hell I would love some new IP ideas to come along in the entertainment business period. I want to see something that is NOT a hero / antihero flick, a remake, or worst of all a remake of a hero / antihero flick!
But I guess I am just picky with my limited time on this earth...
Mr. Robot (2015)
Mr. Robot succeeds at being real AND entertaining
I love this show. It is clever, and somehow manages to be real enough to not make nerds like me frown while simultaneously being entertaining and suspenseful enough for a total computer illiterate. It doesn't hurt that the cast is great, and especially Christian Slater makes his character multi-faceted and charismatic.
The Pilot will be your one hour gained or lost, and it is a great hour to be sure. I am sincerely hoping they do not cancel this one like another great show with Mr. Slater which was Breaking In. We are living in a new golden era of television, much thanks to intelligent creations like this.
I recommend it to anyone who enjoys smart shows with lots of intrigue. Not sold yet? Their team's name is fsociety, for f's sake!
Give it a shot!
Under the Dome (2013)
Good drama based on Stephen King novel
This is a good version of the book, but flawed in some serious ways.
Why they didn't let the story unfold as in the book I will never understand. The book by King was a study in how people would react if closed inside; quarantined if you will. It was a study in human psychology.
Here they have turned this all around. The protagonist of the novel is made into a criminal, while Big Jim - who in the novel is the psychotic townsman who uses the predicament to his advantage - is portrayed as a lawman with a few issues. People behave as sheep, and only the Law seems to know what is best for them.
So why do I give it such a high score? Well it IS a good drama. I disagree with other reviews on the acting being bad. Despite all of the clichés these actors are doing a good job.
Someone here commented on the dome and "why don't they just dig a hole". That is a fine statement, but if you know anything at all about physics you would understand that the dome must be a sphere. That means the dome goes underground.
All in all, I think it is a fine entertainment. Mind you, many of the points of the book are wasted to make it easy to understand. It is dumbed down, for the American consumers no doubt.
In a way, the book is a study in the fact that perhaps we as a race have been quarantined by the more advanced civilizations since we are such a warring and hateful race. It is no accident that UFO activity increased dramatically after the first atom bomb. We are a young race, and we are learning from our mistakes, but in our insolence we are at this stage of the game quite capable of destroying not only ourselves, but all of the earth.
Stephen King's novel is a study in how we are and how we handle ourselves when confronted with isolation. The series is more of a result of the same people that Big Jim is than a truthful representation of the novel, and for that - if you watch it with that in mind - it is a worthy addition to TV.
Evil Dead (2013)
Humanized evil and lost touch with the original
I had such high hopes for this movie, having read some of the reviews. It was a pity then to see it, disgusted at how low-end it was.
The original was a work of art, succeeded only by part two. The madness that the Ancient Ones were portrayed having - to utterly inhuman perspective - was interesting and poignant. The absurdity was the alien nature of the Old Ones, and how it was handled by the magnificent Bruce Campbell.
This version is cold, to say the least. The Ancient Ones have been given human values of evil, and the human characters are all imbeciles. The director seems to have no feeling for the Lovecraftian evil, that is both bizarre and ridiculous. We are talking about praeter-natural beings that move between the spaces, completely oblivious to the workings of the human mind, but this movie makes them into your common psychopath killer, with human motives.
The fear that entices in the original is not the life of the characters, but their mortal sanity and very soul. Here it is all about staying alive; the risk for your soul scattered about more like an after-thought. Tons of blood and seemingly almost immortal humans are kept alive until the last parts of the movie, where they die in pointless manners, so that you just go , "So what?!" or even "Finally!" instead of "WOW that was!".
The final scenes are the biggest yawn in history, without giving spoilers.
It is a testament to Sam Raimi - who created the first Evil Dead - that with the limited budget he managed to create a classic. This becomes even more apparent seeing how an AAA budget could miss the mark so greatly.
The funniest part is that it isn't even entertaining in a bad way. The production value is great, the effects are stellar, the cast of actors know their job; what is missing is the soul and the mystery.
Something the movie DID accomplish was to make me want to go and see the original trilogy again. Cthulhu Calls!