ecwfanatic93 Reviews

The Oscars (2021 TV Special)

The Worst Oscars in Decades.

[1/10 · 26 April 2021]

This entire show was poorly mismanaged and structured in a way that made the entire night drag on more than it ever should. The way the nominees were presented had some thought to it but ultimately was made to seem more pretentious rather than illuminating. The order of awards was obviously a poor decision as the main award of the night was given out third to last not giving the Nomadland team the recognition past winners have been given. Not only that but the restructuring was clearly to pay homage to the late Chadwick Boseman who didn't win making the show seem like a big build up to a hugely deflating moment that isn't fair to the viewers, the nominees, or the winners. The In Memoriam segment was nothing short of shameful with this cheery music accompanying fleeting images of people who didn't get their moment of recognition because of the pacing.

This is the most shameful show I have seen from watching the Oscars year to year and they must do better.

If the biggest award in film is handled this way then why have it at all.

A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)

Not as good as one would hope, but still a step in the right direction (slight spoiler)

[7/10 · 24 June 2010]

Nightmare on Elm Street was okay, not as good as the first(clearly), but still solid. I mean look at Freddy's Dead, Nightmare 5, Freddy vs. Jason and Nightmare 2, all of those are horrible but were accepted. Those movies were campy and Freddy turned into a running joke than a murdering psychopath. This one however has a very serious Freddy, played by Jackie Earle Haley, and was truly creepy and perverse, which is what the last few Freddy movies were missing. Haley truly embraced Freddy and made him truly disturbing. The other actors in the movie are campy and not attractive like the original. They are very lifeless and very annoying for the most part. What saved this movie for me personally was Haley's outstanding performance and the suspense. Samuel Bayer did a great job setting the mood and kept me jumping from the very beginning. The main part in which the movie suffers is the very poor story. I liked the daycare idea but they needed it to be on Elm Street and not some other random street. And the fact that some of the children were in different places was jut a dumb idea, no clue what the writers were thinking. Other than the crap story, Haley and Bayer did a good job with the material they had.

7/10

Robin Hood (2010)

Worst movie i have seen in a long time

[1/10 · 31 May 2010]

I was excited to see Robin Hood this past week. When the first scene hit, however, i knew i was going to be in for the worst movie of 2010. The first 45 minutes was excruciatingly painful. A huge war scene and we don't know who robin hood is fighting or why. all we know is they are fighting and Scott is apparently sticking to a PG rating cause all the action is close up, cant really tell what is going on and they cut away from everything. POintless and stupid. then there are some kids stealing seeds and one of them is in a deerskin mask, they never really tell who these kids are. Then we meet Little John, who i deeply enjoyed watching even though h maybe has a total of 10 minutes screen time. other than that the rest of the movie is a waste, a desert dry middle and yet another long and pointless war scene in the end. The last 5 minutes are really great, too bad you have to sit through 2 hrs and 25 minutes to get to it. overall this movie is pointless, long, and not well put together. Ridley Scott needs to STOP directing if this is the best he is going o do after Gladiator.

by the way, The Little John they label in the TV spot isn't little john in the movie. The guy they label plays a mandolin the whole time. CRAP.