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Bollywood X-Men!

about as good as a Corman movie, but with more singing and dancing.

The script is drunken copy and paste, special effects are Tsui Hark, Chinese Ghost Story level but without the charm, and the acting without nuance.

Chopra is extremely attractive, Roshan is India's hunk (could easily pass off as Italian or Spanish, though), they both can dance, but it does not make a movie.

Made a killing at the domestic box office, though.

1 woke point 'cause the morality expressed in here doesn't sit well with me. Might be a culture thing. Well, morality _is_ cultural. Arguably.

Not any better

This one was sold to me with "Aamir Khan is the Indian John Malkovich" and "You need to see the full trilogy to really appreciate it".

Well, not convinced. Although this movie is among the highest grossing ever. Indian domestic.
Kahn and filming on location in northern America must have ballooned the budget, though.

The script is heavy handed, but yeah, I'll probably, at some point, take some time to try Khan more serious movies.

The cinematography is surprisingly decent, actually; the director got better with practice.
The discount Moore's era Bond special effects and vehicles are, well, Moore had the charm to sell them. It's a rare gift. The twin (practical) effects are not too bad.

Oh, it's almost 3 hours. It feels slow and repetitive too. A 2-hour cut would have earned an extra point.

More of the same

First opus made heaps of money, so a sequel was inevitable.

Cookie-cutter script, one dimensional characters.

The two leads have a WTF attitude that make their characters funnier, at least.

Rai is ludicrously gorgeous, and Roshan is stupidly handsome. They both can dance. But they sure can't play ball.

It's a long movie. Not only the runtime. Acceptable when second screening, but would not recommend.

You can tell very quickly where this was going right at the start. It opens with a CIA team spying on the movies villains. The team is made up of 3 white males 1 black male, 1 Asian male, 1 white female and 1 Indian female. Way to check the DEI boxes. The Indian female is of course the one in charge and is a total girlboss. Naturally the villains are white and there are the usual feminist 'badass' females characters everywhere. The op is compromised and all the males are easily and quickly
killed off while the girlboss is superhumanly invincible and amazing. We are then introduced to the POTUS John Cena. Once your done laughing at the absurdity of that bit of casting we meet the black Prime Minister, never mind there has never been a black prime minister. Naturally the president is a complete buffoon and an unqualified joke and ex-actor who is an abrasive loudmouth who only cares about popularity. It seemed to be trying to make fun of Trump but honestly I'm not sure if it's that or just the U.S. in general. The prime minister on the other hand is smart, intelligent and capable. Some of the acting is pretty bad, the action scenes are poorly done and the jokes just aren't funny. The DEI casting in general is through the roof and white people are a minority unless their villains or stupid. I couldn't take any more and gave
up about 30 minutes in.

Rapidly paced and mildly angered

Watched this on the (repeated) recommendations of a friend; predictably, half Indian himself.

I would say Temu Fast & Furious knock-off, but I haven't seen any F&F movie, and it's more of an odd couple buddy movie I guess.

As with many of my forays into Indian movies, it's mostly average form and little substance.

The people in there are better dancers than actors. The 2+ hours runtime includes probably half an hour's worth of dancing and singing. They're all quite fetching too, as expected from Indian movies.

The cinematography is comparable to late 90s direct-to-DVD. Better than 80s direct-to-VHS, I guess. Except for the musical pieces. They're much better quality than the rest of the movie.

The plot is very forgettable (I already have), standard fare. Not to put a too fine point on it, but I second-screened this (all three, really, I'm a masochist) while doing repetitive, non-demanding work, and I don't think I missed any twist.
I don't even speak the language this was shot in ...

This being Bollywood, no explicit violence or nudity while coming as close as censorship will allow, but also a strangely lenient moral relativism despite being ostentatiously manichaean in its presentation.

As for representation, this movie is full of Indians. Joke aside, every character is very light-skinned, so, yeah, colourism is still going strong over there. Well, was, 20 years ago.

If you can survive the Super Cringe

Cringe movies, in this case, where a weak couple from the "city", usually writers or bootlicking leftist socialists (whatever that entails) encounter powerful, evil tricksters that play mind games with them and attack them and make them cry are a tough watch. Think: Dark Night of the Scarecrow or Straw Dogs. Bone Lake is no exception.

I had to fast forward to near the end when the obligatory blood started flowing. We all knew it would. I guess we could consider Alex Roe's character Will a soy boy of sorts, and that contains woke elements, but I think it's part of the plot. I like Maddie Hasson. I can't tell if she's an excellent actress or if audiences like her, I guess, but she's great to look at. As for Bone Lake, Beavis and Butthead jokes aside, I'd skip it.

TL;DR: gets worse with Time (Lords), watch the older stuff

I'm rating the newest batch, assuming most readers to be young'uns.

Also because I finally got around to see what the protest was about.

New-Who is atrocious. It's uninspired, slop propaganda writing at its worst. Or best. Pinnacle. The agenda was clear when the Doctor got to be a woman, then a black foppish man. Both are flat, amateur actors, and their companions are no better.

Honestly, I watched less than 2 hours worth of these new series. More like desecration rituals. All the leftist talking points.

The revival series do have some merit. Eccleston is a solid actor, works brilliantly with Piper, and benefits from excellent scripts.
Tennant does a good job of bringing together traits from the previous Doctors, and has a few smashing episodes (Weeping Angels, anyone?). His comeback was a sell-out, though.
I didn't really follow Smith's and Capaldi's tenures; good actors, but the show was going to shite, and I just didn't bother, so, maybe some good in there.


The classic series are definitely 10s out of 10 in my book (nostalgia alert). Pertwee's Doctor is fully inhuman, going from disarmingly child-like to monstrously calculating in a jiffy, and Baker's is the incarnation of madness-with-a-method. And a scarf.
The show did flounder in the 80s, but we had high expectations at the time; it probably was still pretty decent.

I guess an apt comparison in the US would be original Star Trek vs Lower Star Trek. TOS had some many things to make fun about, and yet, well, the dog's bollocks.

I felt like the world stopped being real, walking out of the cinema

That's how immersive the movie was. No idea how it compares to other Scorcesse movies, it was my second one (First, if you don't count Goncharov), but it certainly was one of the most impactful movies i've seen. Even if most aspects of the story went over my head, as I'm not originally from the US

Also
People in the reviews act like this is some made up alternate reality. As if the plot wasn't based on accounts of actual native tribes. As if things like this weren't actually happening in american history.
What's next? Are you gonna call WWII movies woke, because they show white people killing a religious minority, and calls them the bad guys for it? Some of you are too insecure and it shows

Mild Surprise as with Popeye the Slayer Man

I didn't have much faith going in to Screamboat, but as it turns out, it ain't too bad. Kind of in a Popeye the Slayer Man way. The production and acting are well enough and we can guarantee ourselves the simplest plot of all time.

I'll say that this refresh of Grimm fairytales, etc. like Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey and, I think there's a Bambi one out there too, are running out of steam, but if the producers can just keep these movies on a Screamboat or Popeye the Slayer Man level, they just might have something.

No plot. Dubbed from an alien planet. Not terrible.

Everyone reading this review must see this film. It has zero plot. Like, there's millions of things going on: some kind of virus and quarantine, abusive fathers, therapy, zombie weirdos and even bank robbers! None of it makes sense at all and on top of that, the dialog is dubbed direct from the studio.

In Isolation has to be one of the strangest films I've seen in a long time. Reviews on the Internet say it's horrible, but I suspect they can't even get past the dubbed in voices. It's so much more than that. It's not cringe. Not woke. You don't have to think about it or understand what's happening and the plot runs in any direction it wants.

I also liked the soundtrack.

There are WOMEN and they are KISSING

Which I am lead to believe by this site, is very evil

About as woke as it gets

Not much to say, you got women kissing, men kissing, one of the only heterosexual relationship is between a "girlboss" and a "manfail"

But it was a great watch with a friend. Scorpia is adorable!