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This one's a bit of a mixed bag. On one hand the acting is pretty good and it's a well made film. However it's all rather boring and almost
nothing happens until an hour into the movie. Even than there's almost no blood, the kills are bland and the story is not really very interesting.. While there's nothing woke I really wouldn't recommend this unless you like your horror very tame.

Considered to be an influential early slasher from Italy. I watched the subtitled version and the acting is not great but about on par for
1970's horror. Several of the kills are later copied almost exactly in the original Friday the 13th. There are some pretty inventive kills for the time and a couple of very brutal gory deaths with great FX. I found the movie to be a bit boring overall but it's worth a watch if you're interested in the beginnings of the violent gory slasher genre to come. Nothing woke.

This is completely pointless and has virtually nothing to do with the previous movies. It's a standard slasher set in the 80's with none of the
supernatural overarching themes. The acting is terrible and worse than the previous entries never gets the 80's right. Using music and props alone doesn't do it. The clothes, the hair, the dialogue the attitudes everything is wrong. The story is garbage and nonsensical. The kills are boring and bland. There is the usual to much DEI overrepresentation and of course the white female lead is attracted to the mixed Spanish boy. Even if for some reason you like the original trilogy this is much worse and nothing like those.

Well that was a complete waste of time. This series finished with one big giant garbage wokefest. This was so bad after about 30 minutes I started
watching the rest on fast forward just to see if it ended as I suspected it would. It's set in 1666 and for some stupid reason they decided to use all the same actors from the previous 2 parts but to play completely different roles. The acting is terrible and the accents are laughable. At no point does this ever feel like something from 1666, everything is way off from the language to the way people look to the attitudes, it's a bunch of Gen Z morons larping. The story is an absolute nonsense woke wet dream. The same mixed race sister and her black brother are back again this time with a white father, in 1666. The mixed sisters white lesbian girlfriend is back and there is a lesbian oral sex scene. Multiple instance of white men attempting to molest, rape or otherwise assault women and men are just in general bad and women are good. The entire series plot comes down to the evil religious homophobic white people are to blame for everything. The evil witch isn't really bad and is just the victims of the patriarchy and evil religion suppressing her lesbian love, IN 1666!!! This completely destroys any slight watchability the previous 2 parts had. Utter garbage!!!

Part 2 of a 3 part series. Continues directly after part 1. The DEI black brother and mixed sister with her lesbian white girlfriend are back but in minor roles the bookend the main story here. Ziggy character is the modern angry, aggressive, generally nasty unlikable modern feminist character. Almost the exact same character as the main one from part 1 actually. I immediately hated her as she is such a terrible person. Alice is another annoying female character and there is some general girl power stuff and DEI casting choices but nowhere near as woke as part 1. They got the music, clothes and aesthetics right for time but that's about it. The language, attitudes camera angles and everything else is off and just feels like modern kids playing a part. The story is cliché but it does move along the main overarching plot nicely. There are some pretty brutal kills and some decent blood and gore FX. However writing once again is just
not very good. You know there is a killer on the loose and you go running around camp alone screaming loudly trying to find people. Character breaks her ankle with the bone sticking out the side of her leg and just pushes it back in and is up and walking with barely a limp then
climbs up a rock wall face unassisted. Another character takes an axe swing to the leg and later is running across a field. Character is stabbed repeatedly in the abdomen with a large butcher knife and dies for about a minute and is brought back by CPR. Despite these problems I actually think this is a little better than the first one maybe a 3.5 but not good enough to round up to a 4.

Part 1 of a 3 part series. This is basically a play on the 90's slasher horror. The acting is ok and some oddities aside it doesn't too bad a job at portraying the 90's. It fells off in a few places and the actors seem like what they are, modern kids pretending to be 90's kids. The blood and gore is a little above average and there's some decent kills. The story is interesting if a bit of a cliché. The writing isn't too bad but there's a few lazy moments like music used that didn't come out until after 1994, using AOL dialup at the same time as talking on the phone. There are almost no adults around ever which is really out of place. There
is also a little overuse of music like they wanted to reinforce the 90's feel. They also state an established reason why and who the killer target, except there is at least 1 or 2 kills that break that rule. It is however crazy woke happy. The two main leads are a white sister and black brother, you never once see the parents. The black brother is obsessed with a white cheerleader. The sister is a lesbian. There is DEI overrepresentation everywhere especially considering the small town. Lead female is the typical violent, unhinged aggressive modern strong female type that the movie wants you to like except she's a horrible person. Multiple
lesbian kissing and make out scenes and the lesbian relationship is at the core of the plotline. Spoiler..........there is only 2 straight white people in the 5 core group members, guess which are the only 2 killed. It's somewhat watchable and entertaining if you can put up with the woke nonsense. If you're considering watching this I would suggest reading my review for the final part before starting.

Top-tier sci-fi

This is one of the best contemporary sci-fi series out there. They’re working on a second season, but it’s hard to know where that will go. For now, I can say the first season isn’t woke and it’s absolutely worth watching. It also works as a self-contained story, so even if the next season doesn’t live up to it, the first one wraps things up pretty well.

Highly recommended.

Enjoy it!

Just a bad show

Woke?
Not really. But let’s be honest, The Muppets were never exactly top-tier. This time they roll out three guests straight out of the woke mob, and they barely contribute anything beyond a few comments about the show itself. It’s insanely self-referential for something that’s supposed to feel like “let’s see if this works,” yet it mostly comes off as a parade of people who clearly paid to be there or maybe cleaned some money to get a seat.
At this point, who knows? It’s genuinely hard to tell what Hollywood is even aiming for anymore. But the real low point is casting someone like Maya Rudolph and framing her as if she were genuinely appealing for this kind of show. That’s hitting rock bottom

The oposite of woke, if this is possible

Some random thoughts but it is what it is:

From the doctor’s point of view, the family’s arrival is what destroys the “utopia.” Their very normality (them being healthy, functional, practical) hits him like a moral and psychological shock. They cope, improvise, and keep going, and that success forces him into an ugly comparison: it makes him start seeing his own sick wife as a burden he can’t afford.

The same collapse happens in his conflict with the Countess’s camp. He comes in with established beliefs about how fighting against the strong is somehow immoral; after all this is why he chose to escape to this island. He and his wife began as pure idealists; early on you even see her judging Sidney Sweeney's character for marrying a man “damaged by war,” meaning he has held weapons and has probably killed.

But reality corners him. He realizes that without weapons and the willingness to use force, life is unsustainable; and crossing that line breaks him further.

By the end, their idealism is exposed as fragile, as something that only works as an escape from real life. And the film’s verdict is blunt: neither the pretentious liberals nor the pretentious philosophers are actually fit for life.

The only people who endure are the family, the normal people: ready to love each other, work, adapt, and do what needs doing, without thinking too much and without turning everything into a performance or abstraction.

Couldn't make it past the second episode

As a fan of 24, I was eager to see Kiefer Sutherland in action again. I was a bit leery given I had read that it fell off after season 1 so I put it off for several years. Thought I would give season 1 a try.

I got through the first two episodes and gave up. While Kiefer did a good job and I was pleased to see his character rise to the occasion, episode 2 had the governor of Michigan rounding up Muslims. They were being beaten in the streets and one of them was beaten so severely he died. Nothing like that happened after 9/11 and this was inserted to send a not so subtle message about the dangers of Islamophobia. It became obvious to me that no way was a foreign country involved or any Islamic terrorists...the bomber must be some sort of right-wing domestic group. Homeland did that in season 5 or 6 and it was so blatantly political. Hard pass.

Another terrible Jurassic world movie if you can even really call it Jurassic world at this point. Where's the dinosaurs? These are some kind of mutant alien looking things. Outside of a couple of the leads most of the acting is pretty terrible and the VFX are all over the place. Some scenes look very well done then others look half finished or rushed really low quality stuff. The story is just garbage and makes no real sense. The evil rich white man they want you to hate is only 'evil' because he's
a capitalist who works for big pharma and is spending millions to develop a new drug. Then there is the Spanish family, the most
pointless annoying DEI insert in recent memory. They serve no purpose whatsoever to the plot or anything in the movie. Their acting is abysmal, they are so insufferable stupid and annoying, I was pleading with my TV for them to be eaten, but I knew it would never happen. There are only really 3 white males in the group and the only portrayed as good is the beta, liberal who wants to steal the samples from the Pharma company who literally is paying for the entire trip and services and then release them into the world for opensource medical development in some implausible socialist utopia. Two of the 3 white males don't want to rescue the Spanish family. 3 of the only 4 deaths in the movie are white people. 2 of them are 'bad' white men, one of them is a completely random death of a white female with hardly any screen time anyway and 1 black male who dies nobly saving others. Johansson's character as the
lead mercenary wasn't as bad as I expected and thought she is a bit miscast she never went full girlboss or overpowered feminist. Then
there is the writing, my god doesn't anyone read these scripts first. Your trapped on an island with creatures everywhere that can kill you and you go crashing around screaming your lungs out every second of the movie. There is no attempt at hiding or stealth and they make every effort to get themselves killed. This brings me to the creatures. They aren't even that threatening. They all move so slowly and just ignore people right in front of them or just stand there for long periods of time looking at them doing nothing. Then they just give up right away and walk away. This is most apparent in the single T-Rex scene that is laughable bad. There is a giant T-Rex somehow laying down hidden in what appears to be 5' of grass and nobody sees it. Then it just ignores or watches the Spanish family that it should of been able to kill many times over in this scene before ever so slowly going after them. It snatches up a blowup
raft and chews on it for a solid 20-30 seconds just to drop it without a single hole punched in it. Then loses sight of the family behind some rocks and just gives up and walks away. A similar scene takes place in a huge wide open valley where there is nothing but grass about 5' tall. Then suddenly dozens of massive towering creatures just stand up out of the grass like they were invisible. The Spanish father severely hurts his leg and says he can't walk then swims to shore with no problems and is walking around then 2 minutes later can't walk again without leaning on a stick. They all jump out of the boat into the water with creatures everywhere when the boat is speeding toward land and about to beach itself 10 seconds later. Why would you do that!!?? There's more but you get the idea. If you liked the last one then maybe you will like this as well otherwise stay away.

I am three episodes in. Almost an all male cast with the exception of a potential love interest who does not get much screen time. She looks bi-racial. I'm not an expert on the fictional setting, but a woman brought in from a different continent doesn't seem that out of the real of possibilities given all the invading of other countries that may have occurred. If this were any other show released today, you'd have a female knight who was just as good as the men. None of that here so far.
The pacing is a bit slow, but the characters are likable. I'd say it is worth supporting.