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Slow burn to nowhere.

The film is shit. It's so damn slow. I could care less to even turn subtitles on despite half the dialog being in Russian. It's going for tension, a slow burn that doesn't work in the end. The best part of I.S.S. is the outrageous anti-gravity space fights, but even those are slow probably due to the actual lack of gravity.

And an entire scene devoted to the affairs and relationships of the onboard space marine, ass-kicking, black lesbian. At this point, I'm going to increase the woke score for I.S.S. quite a bit for the only reason that all this nonsense is grating. We got a DEI space floating crew and does Ariana DeBose winning Best Supporting Actress for the remake of West Side Story (a.k.a. Trans Side Story) and being a queer IRL entitle her to demand representation on the I.S.S. or were the filmmakers bound by natural laws to include a queer shipmate? We will never know.

I'm sorry but this was awful. The acting is ok at best. Leary gives a subdued bored performance. Nobody is likable at all in this, especially the mom who is the central character and narrates the entire movie. She complains the entire movie that nobody pays attention to her and she has it so hard and nobody appreciates her yet she is a horrible self absorbed person who makes everything about her and actually ignores others while they are literally having a conversation with her. I would go so far as to say she has a mental disorder as she spends most of the movie acting deranged and not in a funny way. There are very few laughs to be had. The writing is abysmal and nothing makes sense. She's obsessed with a stupid tv personality and sends messages to her kids that there is a contest, but doesn't tell them she wants to be entered and they don't watch the stupid show so how would they know? She gets mad and seems to have a complete mental breakdown when they don't enter her. The entire family leaves to go to a disturbing kids Christmas basically male stripshow for some creepy reason and she gets left behind and nobody notices until they are all inside watching the creepshow. They all have phones and she has her own car but rather than call or just go meet them herself she does what any irrational mental patient would do and abandons her family without telling them anything to drive to CA for the stupid housewife tv show contest. The writing is beyond implausible and it just gets dumber and more ridiculous as it goes on. The jokes aren't funny at all and there are only a few humorous moments in the entire movie. The scene transitions are abrupt and jarring with poor editing. Multiple out of place weird dance sequences with characters that aren't funny. As for woke....well the first scene is the mom going on a rant about how Christmas movies are all about men while the wives and moms get ignored and they are the ones who do everything. The usual feminist oppression men have it made bs. All the male characters are losers, or betas, or just pathetic. The daughter is a successful writer while her husband (who acts very gay) is pathetic who has an odd obsession with the lesbian sister liking him. The son is a loser without a job who's girlfriend leaves him then falls for the Asian neighbor who is naturally very successful. The husband seems to do nothing all day and can't even manage to put together a doll house without calling in 2 male friends so they can sit around acting like confused morons who still can't figure it out. Who gives a giant pink doll house to both twin kids when one is a boy anyway!! The husband also has a breakdown when his wife leaves and starts crying saying he can't do anything without her and he won't survive. Back to the lesbian daughter, whos entire character is 'I'm a lesbian who can't find love so I go around banging every other lesbian I can find.' The Asian neighbor who lives across the street with entire Asian family except for the white husband, need to get that mixed race punch card filled. There is yet another scene toward the end with a bunch of
females sitting around male bashing and complaining how unappreciated moms and women are and they do everything and nobody helps them.

The best show ever made

Pro-family, pro-race realism, pro-nationalism.
The story, the voice acting, the gorgeous hand drawn animation, the score, the script all amazing.
A kind of suspense that slowly unveils the story with each episode, will make you binge it in a week at most.
You just HAVE to see it! Trust me!

Could have been good

Loosely based on historical points, the show veers into elements of feminism, and then heavily focuses on the homosexual lifestyle of the eldest Guinness. Nudity and sex scenes of straight and homosexual couples is prevalent. Although the show is set in historical Ireland many scenes feature rap music and other modern music which only takes away from the historical mood. Another woke Netflix show.

Leftist trash that’s not even worth watching.

Oh shit—how did I end up watching this kind of garbage???
For people who love cinema, watching indie movies can sometimes help you stumble upon a few interesting gems along the way, but to do that you have to chew through a lot of bad weeds, hoping to find something special during the search.

This movie is a disaster. At times it has decent cinematography, which is what caught my eye at first, and the main character didn’t give off any girl-boss vibes or anything like that.
At the beginning, the film seems like it’s heading somewhere, but after the first 20 minutes it completely derails, with baseless, poorly structured arguments that can’t even minimally justify its title. As the story goes on, woke elements start to pop up, and because it’s so badly written, I honestly think that -ironically- they might’ve at least given the story a more coherent structure [lol]. But the goal was to try to tell a “cryptic” story, saying something without actually saying it (or at least that’s what it seems like in the middle of all this mess).

Bottom line: this is not cryptic. Akira (1988) is cryptic. This is not. THIS IS BAD CINEMA.

And this leftist piece of crap is SUPER WOKE because it’s funded with Canadian taxpayers’ money. If that weren’t the case, it would just be a bad movie—but no, this is taxpayer money badly spent, ending up in the hands of artists cushioned inside woke culture, AND ON TOP OF THAT, WITH ZERO TALENT.

Gets woke fast

Didn't get past the first episode. Thankfully it got woke fast, so turned it off.

and roll a natural 1

Well, not really, the movie isn't that bad. But it's definitely a miss.

On the plus side, it's a pure, genre-mashing product of the early 90s. Same vein as Shadowrun, Torg, or even Roger Rabbit.
It shows no qualms in savagely mixing two sets of conventions, here noir and 'magic' (I'll get to that later).

Always a pleasure to see Ward, because Remo Williams and Tremors. Not the best of actors, but he really comes off as a genial chap.
I've always held Brown as hugely under-used, and he definitely is here. I understand he's a big voice actor, but the Kurgan should not have been the high point of his in-person career. Oh, well.
In my opinion, Moore made a living of coasting by on her physique; same as her Temu knock-off, Chastain. They just don't do it for me. Jessica Rabbit was far better.
The rest of the cast are C-listers, some better than others, Walker and O'Connor being surprise stand-outs.


Now for issues.
First, the movie can't decide on a tone. The light-hearted noir is down pat, no argument.
But the magic part can't quite decide between Xanth-like played-for-fun magic, and eldritch horror (_many_ Lovecraft references, beginning with the protagonist).
Both can be mixed (Ghostbusters!), but it does require a deft touch, which is sorely lacking here.

Then comes the money. And no lack thereof. This was shot for TV, and for (apparently) 6 millions in 1990. That's movie money. Not big movie, but still.
Campbell's direction is adequate (he's done better since), but can't hide the cheap.
The photography is hideously flat, the colour palettes are not noir, they're just drab, and the costumes!
People and cars are all swell, but the various monsters, spells and creatures are barely on the level of dirt-cheap, product-placing Japanese sentai shows. Go go rubber Ranger. Although _that_ would make for a funny commercial.
Frankly, it's so bad it's distracting. The gargoyle is just plain sabotage. The mythos elders from beyond the stars are truly indescribable, though. I simply cannot describe the horror.

The script is very average, but it's mostly a vehicle for world-building, or more precisely showing off the quirks of the movie's world, so, OK.


All in all, I'm torn between a 60 and a 40% mark.
I'll go with 60% because I like the high concept, and some of the actors.
If you don't share my tastes, make it 40%, call it a miss and watch something else. It's just not good enough.

The only woke is maybe some DEI casting in secondary characters, but race is never mentioned or made an issue so I just can't bring
myself to give it a woke rating. This was a surprise find I had never heard of and just stumbled across. Surviving WWII vet travels alone
to France for the 70th anniversary of D-Day. There are some very funny scenes and lines and a really great performance by Caine in particular
but really everyone involved. There is also a lot of very real looks at veteran trauma and grief both past and present after coming home from
service. Based on a true story this can be hilarious laugh out loud one minute and very sad the next. Absolutely excellent movie.

Doesn't really hold up so well as back in the day. This was supposed to be the big break out action movie for The Rock and it's a decent watch although not as good as I remember when I first saw it. He's still young and not yet become the loudmouth douche political pawn he his today.
The acting is decent and most of the FX are good save for some shoddy cgi scenes, but it is 2008 so still not too bad. There are some
funny scenes and the action is over the top, loud and cartoonish. It's probably more of a 3.5 really but I rounded it up to 4. As for
woke, well it's the usual evil rich white man taking advantage of the good noble natives and the leader of the rebellion is female. Walken plays a good over the top villain and there are a few preachy scenes but nothing too bad in my opinion. If you've never seen it before and watching it for the first time the woke score probably goes up and the movie score goes down.

One of my absolute favorites

It's not perfect, but in my eyes it is. Stands the test of time, so far. Great cast, great one liners and worth repeat watches.

Results of "science fiction movies I might have missed"

I came across No Blade of Grass by searching for science fiction movies I might have missed and this is one hell of a miss. On one hand, the story is well enough to keep you engaged, minus the occasional psychedelic turn, gang of English Easy Riders and absolutely rotten theme song. On the other, it's kind of lazy and dated: montage of pollution stock video and of dead animals, mediocre acting and the plot inevitably winds down to kind of a crawl.

And No Blade of Grass is "Anti-Woke" in its portrayal of subservient women and all powerful, all knowing men in the film. They go hog-wild on that and it gets a little cringe after a while.

What did I miss? It's not a classic, but it'll do. I'm happy I stuck around past the opening theme song.

Nothing woke. A thief gets trapped in a small town after a botched robbery with his drunk bumbling partner and hijacks an extremely dysfunctional couple while trying to figure a way to escape. This is not your tradition family friendly Christmas movie but it is a hilarious one.
It's very 90's but it holds up well. Great performances and humor just don't expect a happy hallmark movie.