chimichihuahua Reviews

Terminator: Dark Fate (2019)

Hollywood won't listen

[17 February 2020]

The woke feminist imbeciles who have seized the reigns in Hollywood are incapable of hearing anything that contradicts their worldview. We're trying to tell you how to save yourselves and movies in general. Please just listen.

They won't let men have any movies or genres for themselves. Making Terminator misandrist with an all-female cast is like forcing Little Women or romantic comedies to by oriented towards men and have male leads and despise women, but still expect women to be interested. Let us have our thing. Let us have male role-models.

If the bombing of this movie and the quick petering out of the new Star Wars trilogy doesn't get it through your thick skulls, nothing will.

Wokeness is a disease, and corrupts everything it touches.

Stop rewarding people for their skin color or gender. James Cameron didn't make some of the best sci fi movies ever because he was a white man, but because he's a creative genius with an iron will. Stop trying to force undeserving artists on us.

Just rewatched T2 and was reminded what a real genre masterpiece looks like.

After the Wedding (2006)

Melodramatic pap

[2 July 2016]

I'm shocked by the high user and critic ratings for this film. Every choice was confused. The hyper kinetic camera movement with documentary stylings and no lighting like a Dogme 95 film had no relationship to the Days of Our Lives plot twists and overwrought acting and dialogue. I think this got the over-inflated "international rating," where critics elevate mediocre foreign films because, let's be honest, how many great movies are coming out of Denmark these days? The melodrama was effective, in that it wrought emotion, but each plot twist felt arbitrary and absurd, and the central motivation of the principal figure didn't make sense. Certain scenes felt totally out of place, and should have been cut. And bookending the film in India made about zero sense, as very little of the film's story took place there.

Entertainment (2015)

Lots of great elements but a total misfire in the end.

[24 June 2016]

What's annoying about this kind of movie is that if you don't like it, it's assumed you just have no tolerance for dark and depraved realism or difficult films. I've liked many movies resembling this on the surface. I even wrote and shot one of my own before deciding this sub-genre was played out by European films in the 90s and Sophia Coppola ever since. This one is just a total misfire in tone. I'm a huge fan of a lot of the elements individually. I love the 'straight' character Turkington, his on stage character Hamburger, beautiful realist cinematography, and occasionally esoteric, stylized dialogue. They make zero sense when put together in this film.

I'd love to see a film about how it would really be for a character like Tarkington to interact with the world, or somewhat less so a character like Hamburger. But not this stylized dialogue where everyone is a silent foil in a world that looks and feels real but has no relationship to the reality we all inhabit. Just so confused by about 90% of the choices.