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She-Hulk: Attorney at Law: A Normal Amount of Rage (2022)
As bad as predicted
I had already read that it wasn't very good - but I am capable of making up my own mind on viewing. So yes, it is distinctly poor.
She-Hulk's origin is raced through (and changed) and Bruce tries to teach her important lessons about being a Hulk. But the only lesson she learns is that she's already better than him and doesn't need to learn anything. The show also knocks down Bruce and what he's been through, to make her look better.
Ah, but it's a comedy, so it's okay right? Someone has to be the butt of the joke. Well, maybe, if the jokes were funny. But they aren't.
Other gripes: when she hulks out, she merely looks taller, with longer hair. As a Hulk, shouldn't she get bulkier and more muscular? And that fight at the end with Titania was pathetic. A ghastly outfit, and Jen knocks her out with one punch. Is this the level of threat she's going to face: sexist male idiots and weakling supervillains?
By the time of writing this a lot episodes have been shown, so other people will know whether things get better. I hope so, because the lawyer version of Jen in the comics was really good, but this is a very inauspicious start.
Thunder Force (2021)
Save your time, watch something better
When you consider that Melissa McCarthy and Octavia Spencer have been friends for 20 years, and that Melissa McCarthy's husband directed it, it is a lot easier to see why this film got made. Certainly, it has little reason to exist in its own right. The plot is tired and predictable. The humour is crude and unfunny. There is a shoehorned-in romance that is more cringe-making than anything, and the bad guy is a total joke. The characters are paper thin, and acting almost non-existent. Of all the ways you could have made a superhero movie, this is one of the worst.
The War of the Worlds: Beautiful! (2019)
The third is the worst
I reckon the budget must have run out after the first two episodes. There is no more action, they are stuck in a couple of locations, and all that happens is that some people talk at each other.
It was so dark that you could barely make out what was happening (which must also have been convenient for the budget). And the Martians are... three-legged carnivorous spiders? Not exactly the cold, brilliant creatures you'd imagine building spaceships and giant tripods to invade Earth.
The metaphors of what empires do to those they invade, and the results of arrogance, are not so much hinted at or alluded to as beaten home with a hammer. Subtle, this wasn't. To be honest I quickly got so bored that I lost track of what was going on. Not much though, in fact it could have been summed up in a couple of sentences and scenes: "The Martians get sick and die. There are signs of hope for the future."
I Heart Huckabees (2004)
For God's sake get a haircut...
...and have your eyebrows done, and have a shave too. You know who I'm referring to, and seeing Albert's hideous mug was a distraction in itself. The rest of the film was pretty awful too. The characters Albert and Tommy were seriously irritating; the others were just boring. It was full of well-off, well-fed people complaining about how bad their lives were and how no-one understood them; the answer apparently was a breathtakingly banal, simplistic thing about how everything is connected and we're all the same. What a load of meaningless tosh.
While the film was technically well-made and acted, the concerns expressed left me cold. Most people have no time for the self-pitying, self-obsessed antics of the characters, they just have to get on with their lives.
Inferno (1997)
Amateurish action film
After watching this movie, I looked at some other works of Fred Olen Ray's on IMDb. This is one of his better ones - but that's not saying very much. This is an action movie, deficient in many respects. The acting is poor. There are three unnecessary (and not particularly erotic) sex scenes chucked in - just to pad the movie out, perhaps. Second-rate action meets third-rate martial arts - Don 'The Dragon' Wilson has a nerve calling himself that. The plot, such as it is, doesn't make much sense, with several huge coincidences. There are funny things too, like the inept henchmen, and when (not a spoiler) a Western woman wears a black wig and a sari to look Indian (she doesn't).
By all means see it, if you really have nothing else to do.