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The Midnight Club (2022)
This one is ROUGH
I was intrigued with this series, I like the idea of terminally ill kids getting together at midnight to tell scary stories. Great premise right? A few episodes in I started to get pretty antsy with the stories, and by the end I hated every single story and every single character. I read some reviews that said once they shifted gears and realized this was more for teens that they were able to enjoy it, but I say, even if it's written for teens, it should still be well written!! I'm the parent of a 3 year old, and I watch stuff made for children that is more engaging and well written!! I got to the point that I didn't even care what was gonna happen, I just wanted SOMETHING to happen. It makes me sad because we all know that Flanagan is a great writer. What happened man?!
Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities: The Outside (2022)
It's so bad, I'm actually angry
It's like the writer just drew a bunch of ideas out of a hat and crammed then all into a story. *Reaches into hat* taxidermy! Yeah taxidermy is creepy, let's put that it. *Reaches into hat* weird sexual lotion scenes! Yeah, let's put that in too, why not?
It's literally, woman hears noises, her husband comforts her, setting up that she has a loving and patient husband. She goes to work, wants to be included with these (awful) women, who end up including her and inviting her to a party. She tries their lotion, and has a bad reaction. Then all the sudden the TV is talking to her, telling her to buy more of the lotion, which for some reason she does. Meanwhile, her husband is reassuring her that he loves her how she is. The TV continues to talk to her and she continues using the lotion. All the lotion congeal into a lotion humanoid, which she makes out with (of course) which apparently turns her into a murderer. She submerges herself in the lotion, becomes beautiful (with the help of make up and a new hairdo), taxidermies her husband and now fits in at work. Taa daa. I just saved you 58 minutes.
It was well acted sure, but the story was so inconsistent and all over the place. When she called her husband because she heard a noise and he reassured her that she was safe, why did they never revisit that? Why did the women invite her to the party? It didn't feel like they were trying to be mean to her, if anything they were including her. They were absolutely unlikable, but not because they were being mean to her. Why was the lotion such a sexual thing? And why did she have to make out with the lotion creature? Why did she kill her husband and taxidermy him? It didn't feel consistent with her character or the story at ALL. She wants to be beautiful, she's not a murderer. Sure, the idea of that is cool and creepy but not when it's done so poorly.
Why not set up that she's unhinged, then she imagines the TV talking to her, then she starts to see herself in the TV as young/beautiful/popular and she starts to neglect herself and her life because she lives in a daydream? She could even start to rot away and look all gross but she doesn't care because she's so consumed with the daydream. Honestly I don't know why the women at the bank are even in this story. She could have been watching the TV and seen beautiful women and then seen the ad for the lotion, bam. Done. Why not have her skin herself! That could have been cool. She made that comment that she wants to throw her skin in the garbage and she knows how to skin things, they've set that up, run with it! Or maybe she could have killed and taxidermied the women at the bank, then she could bring them all home and hold dinner parties every night with them where she's the center of attention and they all love her! Another reviewer mentioned she could have gone on a rampage and killed the women at the bank! Sure! Do that!! That would have been better. I am NOT a writer but I feel like I couldn't have written something more interesting and more cohesive.
Man, I just really disliked this episode. Too many conflicting ideas all creamed together. I get what the writer/director were going for, I really do. But holy freaking crap, this one is a mess.
Word Party (2016)
Wow
This is a new kind of awful. My eyebrows became sore after only a few minutes of watching this because they were so furrowed. This is for sure a show that I won't let my kid watch, just because of the shear annoyance level. It's really really terrible.
Hilda (2018)
Perfection
I love everything about this show! It's cute, clever, sweet, unique and somehow feels so cozy. It's also beautiful, the animation style and the colors are just gorgeous. I want to love in this world. The voice actors are all perfect too. Well done Luke Pearson.
Devs (2020)
It was almost really good
It's tricky to review something like this. I really like SO many things about it. It's unique, it's well done, super atmospheric which is cool, but the lead female is so distractingly bad. It's definitely worth a watch if you can put up with her, but it's ROUGH.
Zombieland: Double Tap (2019)
Such a disappointment
I had such high hopes for this movie. I had been looking forward to it ever since it was announced. I love Zombieland. I think it's funny and clever and the characters are all so likable and it's just a lot of fun, but this one just fell flat for me. Same tired old jokes. I found myself super bored and I didn't laugh at all. The first movie had me laughing so hard I was in tears! I think during this movie, I exhaled through my nose a couple of times, that's as much "laughter" as I could muster. It just completely misses that spark that the first movie had. It's a shame.