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Must see, especially for Trekies

No woke. It's a parody. The allusions to the nonsensical aspects of Star Trek and other early SciFi TV are nonstop. Tim Allen and the rest of the cast are at their absolute best. Some of this movie may be lost on younger generations who didn't experience the early days of SciFi TV.

The dizziest cow

The premise of this one is trivial: the hairdressing X-games in rural England.

Rickman, Richardson, Griffiths, Clarke and Nighy are just having a smashing good time. And it's contagious. They're brilliant. They also show range. Griffiths, in particular, once again goes above and beyond.

Hartnett and Cook, not so much. I guess their characters are meant for teenage Romeo & Juliet appeal, but they sound so much out of place. What with the accent, lad? Frankly, jarring.

Mrs Shircore gets a prominent place in the credits: she did make-up and hair design for the movie. With a dozen-strong team. They're basically the VFX team for this. I also think they do drugs.

As for woke, well, we do have a lesbian couple. Which is not pushed as anything special. They're good characters, pushed by good actresses. That's enough for me.
Possible male homosexuality, as well.
Then again, they're hairdressers. Clichés exist for a reason.


This is not ZAZ comedy; this is the very English, very serious treatment of a very stupid concept.
I find it very endearing.

The makings of the modern boss bitch

Full disclosure: 2nd screen viewing while doing some light work.

This movie follows the misadventures of a mother-daughter team of marriage con-women, in a long-form vaudeville format.

Could be good, but 1/ Weaver has neither the presence nor the charm to pull this off, and young Miss Hewitt does have the slutty sex appeal if not the acting chops but 2/ their characters are utterly unlikeable. They're not Newman/Redford, nor Caine/Martin, Clooney/Pitt, and so on.
They're boss bitches prototypes, devoid of morality, compassion, and with all the aggressivity of a weak man. Early-adopters feminist 'baddies'. Or simply, remorselessly evil.
With the explicit assentiment of society at large, making this a realistic movie after all.
Another woke point for trying to normalize female-on-male violence and exploitation.

Pedantic detail: no idea if they had focus issues or the lenses they used were too soft, but there's some serious blur going on at the edges. And not the artistic kind.

The script is paper-thin and predictable, which is forgivable in the genre, considering it's meant to proceed quite briskly. Here, it does not, the movie clocking in at nearly 2 hours. It has time to go cringe. Both female meet their cookie-cutter male foil, expected plot twists ensue, but not hilarity.

OK, the Beatles by a balalaika band was fun. The Inara George piece was eerily reminiscent of Dear Prudence, though.

Speaking of, Hackman and Lee seem to be having fun with their roles. That's two happy customers.

Might not be many more.

Should have listened to some music.

Where no comedy has gone before

Pretty well-known Star Trek parody, nothing to add there.

Rickman, Allen and Shalhoub are all criminally under-rated actors, and rock-solid in this. The rest of the cast is very competent, but in far less demanding roles,

What sets this movie aside, in my opinion, of the slew of parodies of the times (back when we still had comedies), is that it makes fun of the source material without making light of it.
Roddenberry, self-awoved socialist scoundrel that he was, knew that the whole point of heroic stories is to breed more heroism, and that mankind's destiny is to look up and rise.

Galaxy Quest follows the standard hero's journey for they who pretend, but is also a clever meta-commentary on fiction, fandom, and those who choose to believe.

Plus a good movie.

Unexpectedly charming

Still not a good movie by any means; more like the curse of having a teen-aged daughter.

The movie does not dwell into "deep lore" or the pathos of the genre, but keeps it light-hearted and comedic. Although it's amusing more than funny.
It's a chick flick, so, not the audience.

The main cast is hit-and-miss.
Silverstone is good, but ironically looks rough for mid-forties. Hollywood ages women.
Ritter is bubbly, and Weaver had been on a downward for some time already by this movie. Her attempts at comedy have always been tepid anyway. Galaxy Quest was Rickman and Allen.

Supporting actors do shine through, though. Mostly by not taking this seriously. Always a pleasure to see Shawn and McDowell (hey, at least they make rent), and Kirk, well, got to love what he did.

Some very discreet representation in the background, but nothing to cry about. Some parts did put a smile on my face.

Could be worse.

Not too terrible or much to talk about here.

Could be I'm not 100% invested in these Conjuring people. Not paying full attention to The Conjuring: Last Rites, didn't notice any background liberal mind altering techniques. Isn't that what they want? Subliminal! Any film without two dudes getting it on with each other wins points with me anyhow.

It's a fairly spooky film. I'm trying to watch the franchise; I'd like to at least get a feel for the story and all. Last Rites seems to follow kind of the same plot as the others. If you're looking for a supernatural scare fest, this movie will fit the bill.

They even botched being a family.

Thunderbirds, retro-futuristic aesthetics are on point. Though it looks atrociously non-functional, especially the robot. And the fashion. We never should have stopped dressing like this, especially the women.
I'm pretty sure it's full of Easter eggs for the true fans. Which I am not, but many details look a bit forced, like they could be there for the true believers. The rocket is named Excelsior; I got this one. I think.

The Thing's head is weird, so is his voice; Human Torch is emasculated, so is Pascal; he's living proof of the existence of a third sex at this point. Clearly not male, but not female either. And then there's the all-too Visible Mary Sue. And the ever-present black female authority figures.
As with other recent movies, this one bears a lot of small, discreet scars; weird hiccups or suspicious danglings at the end of a scene. Feels like the brunt of the woke ended up on the cutting room floor.


And then there's Shalla-bal. Always thought it was a place, thanks to Satriani. But I knew it had to do with the surfing alien. Why a female surfer, and why butt-ugly (tits-ugly too)? Because current year.
Seriously, VFX have dropped off a cliff in the last 10 years. Same for many tech fields, really.

The emphasis is mostly on visuals there: Thing and Torch are wearing their watches left-handed, which is good for the symetry of the composition in one scene, but they act clearly right-handed. Form over substance details, everywhere. See the surfing scenes.

Pet peeve: they clearly show the baby being upside up at the end of pregnancy, and nobody cares. And there's far worse regarding the handling of the baby. Crap, Torch clearly is the most thoughtful among the four. And Richards is a moron's idea of a pathologically intelligent man.

There is some good in that movie, in unexpected ways. But they botched the expected, easy ways to shine. They made a sort-of-maybe-nice-if-you-don't-think-too-much movie where great was within easy reach.

The overall script is shallow, and (I think) they purged what woke they could in the last minutes, because (surprise) it's not bankable, leaving a pretty, polished but empty and direction-less shell.

Meh. The curse of the Fantastic Four.

They named the dog Indy...

The director achieves the tour de force of having a dog as his main actor. He uses his own dog, Indy. Yes, he named the dog Indy. And the result is impressive. The acting, not the name.

The downside of this is, dogs don't really pretend. For one who speaks fluent canine, Indy's behaviour or mood are often incongruent with the purported situation. Well, not when reacting to the actor's feigned distress. Indy really is a good boy. Fun part is, one can guess how the director got his dog to act.

As a (horror) movie, it's atmospheric, well shot and decently scripted. Not much acting or dialog, obviously. It does have the obligatory naked shower scene, though. And the dream sequence scare jump.
It was apparently done on a tiny budget, which shows in the photography, and shooting from the dog's point of view is a tad gimmicky. The short run-time helps it not get tedious.

Pleasant movie. Don't watch with the little ones, unless you want to have one of the complicated conversations.

Traditional values with tiny woke element

Pretty good movie. Better than the second and the third ones of Conjuring movies.

Woke stuff is limited to overrepresented diversity for background roles, and doesn't really bother me.

A lot of traditional values, which felt nice (family, traditions, church, etc.), so I'd say it has much more anti-woke than woke. Pretty wholesome.

Am I satisfied with movie? Yes.

Utter woke garbage. Lead character is bi and has a pointless random lesbian sex scene in an airport bathroom. The lesbian podcaster
is a completely pointless character that serves no purpose to the script other than to get that DEI point. All the cops are corrupt and
bad. Julia makes a statement that nostalgia is overrated and one of the characters says F the 4th of July. The acting is average at best,
the plot makes no sense and can't decide if it wants to be a sequel or a remake. The kills are lame and unoriginal. All the male characters
are either stupid or bad, while the females are smart and good. The OG characters all look bored and much older than they actually are. Speaking of which the originals had the group as teenagers who partied and made a terrible decision after having an accident with someone crossing the road. Here they seem to be in their late 20's early 30's who are actively in the middle of the road in front of cars just being assholes
and cause an accident that kills someone and they still so the wrong thing. These aren't dumb kids they are adults that know better. Skip
this unnecessary woke garbage and watch the originals instead.



Warning spoilers follow...




The character assassination they did with Ray is disgusting and completely against character with who he was in the originals. This entire movie is one big girl power nonsense and they just couldn't have a male be good. The female killer claims she is just a strong empowered woman chasing her destiny. There is literally 1 meaningless throwaway female character death in the entire movie and every single male character is killed. The large muscular men are easily killed with no problem yet the smaller females always manage to fight the killer off and get away.

Degeneracy 101

All men are bad, a doormat, a deadbeat dad, a super narcissist, a rapist, a pdfile.
+ rainbow stuff, of course.
Avoid.

Outstanding series completely abolished

Series 1 was the best series to come out of Apple TV, ever. Since then they’ve gone full feminist woke. Men are portrayed as bumbling idiots while they put in boss girls everywhere they can.
This show is now unwatchable due to the political ideology Apple is pushing.