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Outlast (2023)
Decent show
Has it flaws. But a decent show. Sort of like an Alone with teams. As much as I like Survivor it makes Survivor look quite silly. People are leaving do to being cold, hungry or possibly injuring themselves unlike Survivor where contestants get voted out due to taking more rice.
The First Season was a bit cringey as it went south really fast with a few contestants pushing the boundaries of 'good sportsmanship', but after seeing the entire season through one could say the right individual won.
Season 2 started out in Episode 2 going the same route but it was kiboshed.
Most of these shows have some moments, especially if it's team play, they need to prove something that they're a 'know it all's.
Whatever.
Meh.... I just watch it to be entertained.
The Fall Guy (2024)
Men ...think twice before watching
Guys...If you settle in for the night looking to watch a movie and you think you won the argument to watch a 'guy flic' to watch The Fall Guy....you lost. It's a love story. In other words lots and lots of conversations taking place such as the two main characters talking about for about 3-4 minutes of the movies Notting Hill and Pretty Woman. It attempts to be funny but succeeds at just being a bit humorous. Suddenly a story sort of develops but then it slides right back into the love story crap. A music montage, posing, smiling, having a blast... which makes one know the story is headed to a probable disaster. Hey let's go do some Karaoke, that'll solve everything.
Pointless crapola.
Men.....avoid at all costs.
Fantastic Four (2015)
Woke. Poor script. Poor special effects. 0 stars if possible
First off the movie is just plain weird, just a very light story that could have been developed much stronger. Time of course had to be needed to explain that Johnny Storm and Sue were brother and sister and as to why, how..etc etc etc because the geniuses at Marvel cast Michael B. Jordan(who I admire) as the Human Torch.🙄 Just what a super hero movie needed.
If if one watches the preview of the movie one could be enticed to watch it. But that's where it ends. Where to begin.... The Special Effects are effectively not so special of which the story builds into an obvious "well, looks like we're defeated" when suddenly the Four get together and beat Dr. Doom in a span of just a few minutes and the movies over. Done! Fini! Adios!
A Family Affair (2024)
Lacking in every crucial way
This movie is horrible. Period. Cathy Bates who I totally respect, her role is more like a cameo. She can be forgiven. She would be a breadth of fresh air even in Schindler's List. She's iconic. But same with Nicole Kidman...but why....whyyyy? You can do so much better. Just stay at home in Australia instead of being involved in a B romcom. Wait till something with more meat comes along.
Zac and Joey...this movie is about their speed until they grow.
An actor who apperantly has no friends has a few shots of tequila with his assistants mother start to make out and have an instant connection.
The daughter is a self-centered ignoramus throughout the entire movie, so enjoy that.
Zac Efron plays a ping pong ball. Swatted here and there throughout the movie which slows the development of the movie.
The daughter crashes and burns in the movie but opening Christmas gifts a few days latermakes it all better?🤔 Zac's character feels downtrodden about the roles he's playing in the movie but daughter inspires him with a 75 second conversation 🤔
The ending is obvious as "there was love right there all along".🙄
Hoffman Family Gold (2022)
Much better than expected
Improvements since Gold Rush:
*no more Jesus talk and how he blesses them with gold
* no more tapping helmets
*solid storyline
* not competing with and getting his ass kicked by Parker
*although surrounded by some excellent people they continue to struggle, which makes it watchable.
*no Tony Beets. No explanation necessary.
Unlike some ...I'm rating the show, not the Hoffman's performance as miners. For me it's a show. I'm not a Todd Hoffman fan from Gold Rush as I cheered on his failures of which made it watchable. Gold Rush has struggled finding a replacement for Todd ever since.
Getting that friend of Parker's, the military guy on the show was a bigger disaster to watch than Todd. Horrible. But watchable to a degree as he surrounded himself with misfits and homeless people it appeared. Unlike Todd, his failures were quite predictable.
No I don't mind Hoffman Gold as it's ten times better watching the Beets family on Gold Rush. For the last few seasons I actually fast forward past their segments being tired of Tony's filthy assed mouth.
Deadliest Catch: Lights Out! (2024)
Confused of the direction of show
Not sure who's idea it is to push the storyline of two young people fairly not qualified to even be standing close to a captains chair let alone steering a boat.
It certainly bit two captains hard as one who is highly unlikeable and was fired off of Keith's boat and who doesn't listen to his new captains direct orders would be automatically demoted on any other boat. But when then coiler breaks down and Jacob has to coil the rope by hand, "he" stepped up, not just the rest of the crew, Jacob did. And now he's Captain material?🤔
Yet after the to the Seabrookes other inspiring Captain who as well did not listen to captains orders and did not look after the crew to have them at the boat by midnight. Coming in past 3am and everyone hammered was the alternative. Demoted? Nope.
The captain told her obvious things she already knows. She played the "I'm young card" and kept her position. This happened on the Saga a few years back and Jake rightfully fired them.
The show though would not allow that to happen. The storyline would be wrecked. In that way it is scripted.
We watched Jake earn being a Captain thru the years.
These two are being pushed into the role for a story.
Quite silly.
Survivor: Friends Going to War (2024)
4 ⭐ is actually an improvement
Four stars reflect not just this season which was an improvement to a certain degree ...which may deserve possibly 7 stars, but this game is still broken.
* Two finalists, not three. This has not worked for seasons now and it definitely not work at this season. The jury focuses on two of the finalists and the 3rd tags along plus the poor person looks totally uncomfortable.
* Helping during challenges. Giving verbal advice, fine. Physically helping, not good. Ganging up on Marie was not a good look at all. Hopefully this is corrected so they shut this door on this new development.
*Casting. Although (out of nowhere) people started to say the cast was not diverse we find that that the cast is still not diverse enough. I'm all for diversity, but adding one certain race seems rather odd over others. There is 18.9 Hispanics that make up the US population vs 12.5 of African descent. 6.0 of Asian. Still we see far more of African descent. 🤔How about reaching out to Native Americans for instance?
*The other item...screen these individuals for there mental health plus can the get past the first week? There was very early on some mental breakdowns by some. Casting has improved to a degree but not close to seasons previous of 41.
In all it was a good season. Horrible gameplay with people sitting on idols. Could have easily replaced any of the final three with 3-5 players on the jury in particular Tiff (and Marie) who were a stronger players than the other three finalists, in particular McKenzie and Ben.
Did McKenzie deserve to win? Maybe. Her social game was strong. In the end Marie gave her vote to McKenzie due to her answer thus shunning her #1, Charlie. What is strange is, it was then at that moment that Marie found out that McKenzie wanted to start a family and put money into her salon? It took her 26 days to find this out? 🤔 Hmmm. Likely not. She did however feel McKenzie may have needed the money more due to her story which in fact "her story" is not the reason why people should be handed 1,000,000.00, rather it's how they played the game. It's Survivor, not Storytime.
Survivor. Needs some fixing to get back to its heyday.
*Two finalists only.
* Be completely diverse.
*Screen (fragile) players.
Priscilla (2023)
Pointless
Unless living under a rock for decades many do know Elvis's life story of which Priscilla's story tags along. Then with the 2022 Elvis movie, although entirely accurate but still to a degree eye-catching it likely helped old and new fans acquaint themselves with the King and his life which included many of the ups and downs.
So I'm not entirely sure as to why we need a Priscilla story. It appears according to this movie of which I endured she was glum, rather unhappy, imprisoned at Graceland and apparently tried to make Elvis guilty that he was well.... Elvis. Yes, he made movies in the 60's of which took 4-5 weeks per. Sorry. Then he started live shows, tours. Sorry. Sorry making a living!
The movie depicted Elvis's alleged affairs yet does not touch on Priscilla's affairs.🤔
At the end of the movie it shows her driving through Gracelands gates for the last time smiling (as she drives the Cadillac Elvis gave her) as she becomes her own person milking the Presley name for all it's worth.
The movie is drab to a large extent. One has to watch it in stages to endure it.
Survivor: Don't Touch the Oven (2024)
Enough of the crying
I've come to realize that Survivors (which for the last 8 seasons or so has been horrible) casting has amalgamated with Big Brothers casting. Whiney, complaining, crying, emotional, people who are totally clued out on how to play just the basics of Survivor and surprisingly these are the ones who call themselves Super-Fans.
The other amazing thing that now happens for X amount of years is how some of these dumbdumbs suddenly think "Hey...so and so is playing really hard, we need to vote them out". Yes, they are playing a really hard game just as much as everyone else and the dummy's that say this should maybe play harder too. They seem to think others who are being friendly with other tribe mates as a threat.🙄 Alrighty then.
Survivor: I'm Not Batman, I'm the Canadian (2023)
Finally a good episode
I would give this episode a higher score except these episodes are an hour and a half in length and truly it's way too long for a show that contributes just one challenge. Now that there's finally emerge there will be an awards challenge likely so that might help. Other than that we are left with a whole bunch of chatter continually that one can only get confused to actually know what's going on.
This episode was good. Shot in the dark helped and it did help the individual that played it. Yet you can tell by the way the show is structured who would be your choice of five who the producers have chosen to interview or focus on the most. To predict the winner would be a challenge though as with the way the show is structured three of the last four winners totally did not deserve to win. Last year was no exception by far. Jam Jam or Yam Yam or whatever his name was did not do anything around camp, in competition or let alone being a leader.
"Here's your 1 million being gay, a minority and showing up".
It was the first time since Survivor began that I never watched the finale because I knew who was going to win anyway.
Survivor: I Don't Want to Be the Worm (2023)
Lower expectations
It is rather odd we are needed to endure 90 minute episodes this season. For the last 3-4 seasons CBS has chosen people who are not the Survivor geniuses we are use to. The last 3 winners were far from deserving to win, we all know that. Survivor has decided to have fairly dull, unathletic people who are either quitting or passing out on the beach yet we have to watch them for an extra 1/2 hour talking in circles about food, their lives back home, Bruce and other fillers. They jam even more chat about he said she said where by the time they go to tribal it's utterly confusing.
Go back to 39 days, one hour shows, two tribes and pick at least some athletic individuals plus ones who are healthy and want to be there. I don't care what race, gender whatever.
Survivor: Music to My Ears (2023)
Another quitter🙄
Two quitters this season. After 4 episodes that's not a good ratio. The choosing of players for Survivor is scrutinized for the last 3-4 seasons for good reason. Some are not truly interesting. Some claim they are bright, intelligent in the outside world yet this is Survivor. You have to be good at lying and good at impressing your teammates and worth having around.
These people who quit aren't even giving the game a chance. They miss their mate. This miss their kids. They don't like the weather. They're hungry. Boo hoo hoo. They knew what they were getting into. If it was up to them they would want a 3 day Survivor.
A Little Late with Lilly Singh (2019)
Funny if you are deaf and stupid
Lilly Singh is to comedy to what relish and hot sauce is to a topping for a banana sundae. Coming across as a smart ass on her short YouTube videos may be something viewers may find interesting to a certain point, but as a talkshow host who is a narcissist and a braggart with fake audience reactions to her idiotic takes has hopefully pushed her 15 minutes of fame where it belongs, down the crapper. Stealing jokes, ideas with a dash of poor delivery makes NBC look awfully stupid pf giving this woman a show just because she's a woman of color. She's a YT star. That means no discernable talent. Critics gave this trash high scores because they did not want to be called chauvinistic, racist etc. Sad little liars. Please read the audience reviews, they are far more truthful. 0.1/10.
Survivor: We Can Do Hard Things (2023)
Survivor 40, the last decent Survivor
We've known for the last x amount of years CBS has an agenda to open up a wider range of participants and be diverse, basically to people who would never consider to be on such a show. The result? There are people that should never been chosen to be on that show. Case in point Survivor 45's premiere.
One individual wants to quit and eventually does while another person is completely unfit to not only compete in challenges but work around camp.
The two sets of individuals that competed on the beach to gain an advantage by carrying logs were so unfit they couldn't do it. Like not even close.
As a suggestion to CBS, if you are to have so many unfit/unathletic people on your show perhaps lesson the difficulty of the challenges. Some of the challenges could include a 10 yd race. That's it, run 10 yards, get first place and you win. Perhaps a game of Boccie Ball or Croquet. Carrying an egg on a spoon a la the Office, Beach Day.
CBS must get thousands upon thousands of applications to be on that show, but yet in the city that I live in I can probably round up some unfit disinteresting people in one afternoon to be on a Survivor show. Does CBS purposely choose these types "I'm really intelligent" or "I'm a lawyer" btw, how many lawyers are on this year?🤔 plus the terribly unfit, people having panic attacks, whiney voices and as unattractive as sin or just plain quitters.
Long gone are the days of Boston Rob, Tony, Bobby Jon, Parvatti, John Cochran, Sandra, Natalie.
Last year I didn't watch the finale' as I totally knew who was going to win...likely one of the most unfit person ever on Survivor but he fit CBS's agenda.
I doubt CBS Survivor is winning any new fans.
Survivor: Absolute Banger Season (2023)
Average seaon
The producers are rebounding a bit with interesting game play and a bit more idol play plus wedding out some of the pointless garbage that they added a few years back, their so-called ""twists"". Sadly though they seem to be running out of ideas when it comes to challenges as we have seen some of them time and again.
The other item although there has been a bit of an improvement of choosing players it is still a far cry of anyone memorable for game play. If anyone asked who won the last 3-4 seasons.... I couldn't tell you.
No more Russell's. Parv. Sandra. Ben. Tony. Boston Rob.
Sadly these last few seasons are just a watered down version of what Survivor use to be. No more 39 days. 26 days? Sheeesh.
This year Yam Yam won. No kidding. CBS telegraphed that practically from the first episode. 😂 Not sure if the dude could have gotten any more face time🤔
Deadliest Catch: Bering Sea Superstition (2023)
This week on Ladies of Deadliest Catch
A native lady who's a greenhorn splashes her piss in the crab pots for good luck. Wild Bill catches between 30-45 crabs per pot.👍
A lady Captain of a fishing boat other than crabbing sits along with Wild Bill in his boat. No one knows why. When they started to pull in the string she said. " Here's pot #1". When they were pulling in the second pot she said " Here's pot #2". A great addition for those who lack counting ability.🙄
Another female greenhorn treats her menstrual cramps with Fentanyl. She was kicked off the Time Bandit. Of course it was everyone else's fault according to her👎
Another female greenhorn on the Saga has aspirations to be a boat captain. Expect this story to be ongoing for weeks to come 🤔
Survivor: The Third Turd (2023)
Uneventful
Thankfully the merge is coming up to mix things up.
So far this season has been a snooze fest. No real blindsides. Nothing surprising.
Athletically for the challenges...oy! Every season for about the last 5 seasons it just gets worse and worse.
There might 2 players who actually knows what's going on.
Not too many geniuses out. There was a time one would remember who won one year to the next. I honestly cannot remember these days any more of who's won over the last few years. CBS is so worried of checking all the boxes of their agenda they seem to have by-passed interesting, physically fit, smart players.
The Fabelmans (2022)
Such high expectations....
When words such as masterpiece or a classic is thrown around there should be some substance in behind the movie. Let's just say expected much more. If I were to compare this movie for shear enjoyment with a similar period piece such as Woody Allen's , Radio Days...Radio Days was much more enjoyable to watch.
Home premiere describes the movie "as a coming of age tale about a young man's discovery of a family secret and the power of movies to help us see many truths". The audience figures out the "secret" fairly quickly and the making of movies really does not have the "power" you'd expect aside from Sam being defended by a jock. The entire cast is excellent. The script could have been honed in a different manner to include the entire family.. especially Paul Dani's character versus Michelle Williams character of the mother who irritated the heck out of me as some scenes with her dragged on too long.
A one time watch for me. I think I'll now watch Radio Days again😊
Amsterdam (2022)
Bob saves this movie to a degree
This movie is very easy to figure out due to there being nothing to really figure out. Someone is killed, the murderer's identity is rather apperant throughout the movie and there's the obvious notion it's because of communism this all happens. The story bounces around to pact (a pact of 3 friends that stand up for one another. For what reason...not sure)
There's a murder with very little intrigue.
It trudges along with far too much dialogue, some dress up with dancing.
The cast is incredible and they do their best to keep this movie afloat although there is only so much room on the door(Titanic pun😉) Look at all the Oscar winners on one screen!!!!
Christian Bale stands out as he has the most demanding role. Margot Robbie is excellent but dang!!!!...her looks are so distracting. You cannot take your eyes off of her due to her acting abilities or her heart stopping beauty. Yet, the story trudged on.
Then Bob arrives!
A perfect part for him and he handles it with great care and attention. A prominent actor playing a prominent part in this movie, who better than Bob.
This movie is far from a whodunnit and it's really not a mystery. In fact to a degree I found it more humorous. I do not regret watching it due to all the incredible talent.... I feel bad for all the people that expected much much more from this story after seeing an interesting preview.
Fresh Off the Boat (2015)
Improves after each season, specifically Season 2
Season 1 started out fine although the focus was to a large degree Eddie who also did voice overs as well. Season 2 they stopped Eddie's voiceover but the scripts were more about the mother or Eddie which is too bad because he's basically an irritating little snot.
Season 3 a noticable change, the content of the scripts were much more interesting, they spread the storyline around more with the focus on the entire family.
Constance Wu has a knack for comedy with being the over protective parent/wife.
The supporting cast is excellent as well with Chelsey Crisp and Ray Wise.
The producers obviously saw this show needed improving and they did a great job doing it.
The Last Big Save (2019)
Just above Ed Wood quality
Danny Aiello's rendition of what became of Bela Lugosi in the Ed Wood movies, wasted talent.
Not much of a story, if you were to sports fan you may believe how far fetched it would be to activate the goalie that hasn't played in 20 years. A lot of fillers, I enjoyed the portion of about 15 minutes in of a rotation of a woman laying on the couch and two old guys bowling, switching back and forth with pointless dialogue.
The big game comes along with beer league quality which was quite fitting.
The best part was at the end of the game where the opposing coach who was played by Dennis Hull looked really happy his team lost, so that's nice.
Mad Men: 5G (2007)
A revealing episode but oddly written
An episode that was quite interesting as it revealed a small portion of Don's past. We know this happens throughout the series and then explodes in the finale, but this is just the beginning.
The only thing that I had trouble with is the writing of this episode, which seemed rather odd. If you didn't think that it was Don's brother that had approached him and the dialogue between the two, you would swear that this mystery person was a former lover that's the conversation between the two appeared to be up a person finding a lost love.
The reaction of Don's younger brother towards him just seemed rather odd.
Passing (2021)
Waste of two good actresses
I thought, hey this will be interesting.
The movie got right into it which was nice which made anticipation of where this going to go.
Where it went was basically nowhere. The script trudged along.
You did hope at one point with the white husband saying derogatory things about black people may add some fire to the script...actually no.
The two main actresses did what they could with this script, I respect both of them immensely.
Better Call Saul: Nippy (2022)
Great episode, incredible cast
The Gene storyline is coming to an end and it was wonderfully done. Man, I was crapping my pants when the dude wiped out on the floor.
The cast was incredible starting with of course Carol Burnett.
Seasoned actors Paul Healey, Jim O'Heir plus actress Kelsey Scott were fantastic.
No doubt the episode was proving that Saul is ready to burst out of his Gene disguise but is being careful in doing so.
Elvis (2022)
So far the best Elvis film yet
Just a few things about this film.
First, Austin Butler was incredible along with Tom Hanks. I was quite shocked of how dead on these roles were done by these two actors and what was achieved.
The suits, the atmosphere all took as back. If you were not an Elvis fan, perhaps you are now.
There were obvious timeline mistakes if you were a fan you'd notice right away. Graceland for instance was purchased in 1957 not 1956.
The firing of Parker had to do largely with a waiter about to being fired at the Hilton Hotel and what Elvis said was not overly a tantrum at all on stage.
The only "real" complaint was the sound and these explosive sequences that they still felt the need to have Parkers voice overlaid on top. You can barely hear what he is saying, actually for the first 1/3rd of the movie one has a hard time hearing what Parker or Elvis are saying. Later the sound gets better as they toned down the background music.
All in all... excellent!