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Nope (2022)
"Nope" - I ran out of hope...couldn't cope...but stayed to the end ...like a dope.
I just didn't get it...at all. Maybe it's me. I kept checking the time left on the DVD for it to mercifully end. You know when your gut tells you to bail out while your time-investment so far is still low...but you stay with it just a little longer because "maybe it's gonna start to make sense"...and then it's too late because you've invested too much time so you feel like to have to stick it out to the end...you know that feeling? I told the person who recommended "NOPE" that they owe me two hours of my life. But like all films, books, music, art...it's subjective...you may love the film. Sorry, Jordan...I know these comments may be harsh.
Exposed (2016)
Terrible
Sorry to be unkind, but...this was one very painful movie to watch...almost bailed a few times, but, unfortunately, waited too long to do so and got to the point that I didn't want to totally waste the time I'd invested. Horrible plot...horrible acting. Got me wondering who thought this would be a good investment to pour money into making and why would actors sign-up for this. Needed the work?
Grand Isle (2019)
Who's Idea Was This?
This was one of those movies that make you wonder 1) who thought this was a project worth investing good money in?...and 2) why do great actors like Nicholas Cage attach themselves to such a dumpster-fire? This was also one of those movies that - when it's over - you must resist throwing things at the screen for the wasted time invested in watching. And just what was that business with the patchwork quilt of a military uniform (?) Cage's ex-USMC character finds himself in? I, too, was sucked-in by a trailer that was much better than the film. Hate when that happens.
Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
Pretty Good Film / Issue with DVD Extras comment
This film was very well done, IMO. In DVD Extras / "Recreating Live Aid," Queen drummer Roger Taylor says 1985's Live Aid was "the first time that music really stood up and done anything good for the world." I believe most folks in the world of rock music credit and recognize George Harrison's "Concert for Bangladesh" - 14 years before Live Aid - as the progenitor of all the benefit concerts that followed. I'm sure that just slipped Mr. Taylor's mind.
Andersonville (1996)
One of those little-known stories
I saw this film when it first came out 1996, and for all its flaws it's always had a special place with me - especially among the more romantic / heroic Civil War stories - for telling a story few of us have heard. I've recently watched the film again having just returned from a trip that included a visit to the actual site near Americus, GA. There is nothing of the original camp there except - perhaps fittingly - the cemetery (still active) and the creek which was the source of more miser than relief. Two small sections of the stockade (one with gate) have been re-created and the location of the stockade / dead line has been outlined by white stakes. Read the real history of this camp and the history of the Union equivalent in Elmira, New York. SPOILER: in the cemetery, with its rows upon rows of markers where the dead were buried in trenches shoulder-to-shoulder, are six lone headstones together but apart from the rest of the markers...these are the six Raider ringleaders who were tried and hanged...though buried in ignominy who still got better than they deserved, if you ask me.
Invictus (2009)
An inspiring story...do also read the source book
The story of perhaps one of the most unlikely outcomes in my lifetime - Nelson Mandela, a black man jailed for "terrorism" in ultra racist Apartheid-era South Africa, becomes its president. This movie is really pretty good, but for the real-world version of this significant event, do read John Carlin's "Playing the Enemy" to see how even more unlikely and miraculous was this turn of events. The "People who liked this also liked..." section of this IMDb review should include "The Color of Freedom" (2007)..."the true story of a white South African racist whose life was profoundly altered by the black prisoner he guarded for twenty years. The prisoner's name was Nelson Mandela." With Joseph Fiennes as the prison guard and Dennis Haysbert as Nelson Mandela.