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Mysteries at the Museum (2010)
Good show, but could you use artifacts that were ACTUALLY involved?
I love this show, but as others have stated, one of its biggest flaws is how repetitive it is. From the way they describe the objects, to the adjectives used to describe the "sinister" plots or "daring" plans, to the way they film dramatizations of events.
But my BIGGEST problem with the show is that 90% of the time the artifact shown has NOTHING to do with the story told other than being the same object. For example, the story might be about a treasure found at sea, but the artefact will be some random coin in a currency museum that wasn't in that treasure and wasn't even involved at all. It's just a coin similar to what was found. I just finished watching the episode about wine bottles etched with the president's initials using a dentists drill. But the artifact that they use was some random dentist drill from some museum that has never had anything to do with the story. Like this would be interesting if it was the actual drill used, but instead it's just some random drill that happens to be similar to the one used. The show is called "Mysteries at the Museum", not "Mysteries Told with Random Objects at the Museum"
This Means War (2012)
Left feeling empty.
I have never written a movie review before. I've never even had an account on IMDb. But the ending of this movie was so unbelievably disappointing that I literally felt compelled to write a review.
Don't get me wrong, I actually really liked the movie up to the ending. It was funny, there was action. It wasn't the best movie in the world, but it certainly wasn't the worst. But you come to the end. Lauren has two options. The sexy, suave, ladies man who could not take no for an answer if it would save his life, and the cute, sweet, caring, maybe not as exciting or outgoing, but incredibly genuine guy. One genuinely wants to find his person, his love, his best friend for life, which is what Lauren wants too. The other wants to take yet another girl to bed. Then even after Lauren makes it incredibly clear that she's not interested in him, FDR takes things to creepy stalker levels to get Lauren to agree to a date. So at the end of the day, any friend who would still pursue a girl after clear negative signals, AND knowing your best friend is genuinely interested in the same girl, is a really awful friend. It should have been dropped there (maybe they find out after a few dates?) but whatever, this is more funny I guess? Putting that aside, after all the lying and deceitfulness from FDR, and, although collected rather shadily, simply finding out what Lauren likes from Tuck, Lauren still chooses FDR? I mean at the end it's even clear that Tuck risks his own life to jump in front of the vehicle to save Lauren, where FDR doesnt (FDR ends on the side, unmoved, with Lauren, Tuck is found in the centre rather than on his side where he was originally). So once again, the good looking jerk gets the girl, and the genuine nice guy is left sad and alone. I mean on its own its a awful ending because it just feels so wrong. It feels like it goes against the entire movie. The entire movie seems to not only put you on Tuck's side, but it makes you feel like FDR grows a heart and backs down. But no. Instead the message will be that being a terrible person gets you what you want, and as the saying goes, nice guys finish last. I literally felt so empty and disappointed and even sad that I could barely finish watching the movie. An ending much more disappointing than that of "The Sopranos".
All in all, the movie was pretty decent, but the terrible ending ruins the entire thing for me and makes it not worth watching.