I enjoyed Inventing Anna. At first, I wasn't that interested in binging it, but a few things swayed me. First, I thoroughly enjoyed Julia Garner as Ruth Langmore in Ozark and am excited to see her future acting endeavors. Secondly, I enjoy Shonda Rhimes's work - specifically Scandal and HTGAWM, so I figured it'd be decent. I was right. I also find it funny that a bulk of the negative reviews come from people who stopped at two episodes or fast forwarded through the series. Those review should be null and void IMO, because how can your review truly be valid if you didn't even watch tht whole series? But I digress. The show is good. If you're a Shonda fan, there are moments that are starkly her - cc: Nell and Vivian's discussion about what she really wants in episode one. I thought Olivia Pope was talking at one point, but remembered who this work was tied to. Julia does a great job playing her role, but the accent is definitely cringeworthy. It's horrible. It was probably my least favorite thing of the whole show. Aside from that, Anna Chlumsky annoyed me on occasion, but that is probably because of how her character is portrayed/how she chose to portray her. All in all, it's worth a binge, but I do think it kind of dragged on after episode six. If you are fan of Scandal, it was like a mini reunion as quite a few familiar faces popped up in this show. I read up on Anna (Soronkin) Delvy after, and a number of the characters were real and a good part of the story is too. I recommend watching, especially of you enjoyed The Tinder Swindler.
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Gully
(2019)
The ratings are exaggerated...
21 February 2022
Hyperbole to say the least. I saw this movie pop up on Hulu and I added it to my watchlist when I saw the cast (Kelvin Harrison, Jacob Latimore, Jonathan Majors, Terrence Howard). Then, I looked it up on IMDb, because I'm that person and was appalled to see a rating of 1.4. I have never seen a movie have such a low rating. Ever. So I purposely watched it in hopes of disproving those opinions. And while it was not an Academy Award nom by any means, it wasn't that bad. Not necessarily good, but definitely not that bad. Also, the synopses are trash as well, because there was little to no drug use at all, just a few references, so maybe do better there as well. The movie is about three friends in the inner city of LA that are all going through their own struggles. One struggle overshadows the other, for (somewhat) obvious reasons. The friends decide they will take it upon themselves to fix said problem, and it kind of unravels from there. If anything, the worst part of the movie is the gaping plot holes throughout. Also, a number of characters weren't needed and those that were never had any real development so you're left confused more often than not by some of their actions. Even still, I've seen worse movies and there's no way this deserves a 1.4. I encourage you to watch for yourself and go into it knowing that even though some people didn't care for it, you very well could. I have not rated a movie on IMDb in literal years, but I couldn't just let people trash this movie when there are far worse getting praise on a regular basis.
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