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The Green Knight (2021)
Boring
Love these actors but a slow, ambling, silly and pointless film. Lots of CGI, costumes and pensive close ups do little to detract from this dull snooze-fest.
I Care a Lot (2020)
Big miss
The plot has the bones of being a terrific and terrifying horror movie, thriller or redemption flick. But not all three. Although the actors are generally good throughout ... the movie is too genre-fluid and pivots and traverses until it reaches its flimsy finale. Such a shame! It may even have been a good, darkly comic anti-hero piece ... it probably tried to be, but missed.
Terminator: Dark Fate (2019)
Terrible movie - more fun reading the reviews
I can't really find any reviews over 5/10 and many are 1/10. So how can the average be 6.5/10? Could it be there is some fudging going on here? Surely not - look away people - nothing to see here!! I don't really have anything to say about the movie, except that my brother said there were a few good bits. I obviously think less of him now. What is interesting is how many times Arnie has died in a terminator movie Vs all of his other movies together. Anyone know?
Pacific Rim Uprising (2018)
Reviews more entertaining than the movie
Terrible movie - fantastic reviews. The CGI is ok, and glad they spent some money on actors. Nothing else to report
The Mask You Live In (2015)
Missed a golden opportunity
Such an important topic, namely trying to get to the route of masculinity to understand more fully why good boys oft turn into bad men ... and maybe, what we as a society, can do about this. But this documentary misses the mark, and turns out to be a confused, meandering, expose using irrelevant shock stats, several dubious commentators (and several excellent ones) and sadistic raw footage to villanise the male. The finger of blame is pointed at fathers, schoolyard bullies, schools, social hierarchy, TV, Hollywood movies, Internet Porn, Video Games, sport culture and rap. The message is that male dominance is endemic and pervasive, resulting in a small percentage of sensitive male teens become alienated, depressed, violent and possibly suicidal and *all* women being at risk of rape, violence and abuse. The female aspect needs exploration in a separate documentary, and to confuse the two in a documentary that masquerades as a factual narrative explaining the modern-male psyche is a big miss.