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Dexter: New Blood: Sins of the Father (2022)
The Perfect Ending
I don't get why everyone is so upset, this is the perfect ending for continuity's sake. Dexter had to die, the son had to kill him, and a new, more perfect vigilante killer is born to rid the world of the evil that serial killers perpetrate on innocent people throughout the world. The next season will show Harrison coming into his own, picking up where Dexter left off, continuing to rid the world of demonic people who deserve to die. What could be more perfect than that? Harrison will become the next Dexter, only better and both his Aunt and his Father will be with him in his head to guide him and see that he isn't quite caught until he trips himself up, many years into the future. Remember Charles Bronson and his goal to rid the world of evil? This is just the natural evolution of vigilantism fifty years into the future. Who can argue against that?
Curb Your Enthusiasm: The Mormon Advantage (2021)
Emmy Worthy
Hands down, the absolute best episode ever! This season was easily my favorite and I've watched every season. Every writer deserves consideration for an Emmy.
Groundhog Day (1993)
Suspension of beliefs
I'm fairly certain that I have seen this movie at least 50 times and enjoy it very much. I have watched it 100% straight and 100% stoned on very good weed, my preference is to watch it quite stoned on primo bud. I have finally watched it so much that now I'm looking for real scientific miscalculations and the best that I can ascertain
is that there is one major inconsistency that just never gets thought about. Here it is: Phil is 100% aware that he is caught in a time-warp, reliving the same day continuously day after day. The inconsistency is that so does the rest of the town, except they are totally unaware that they too are living the same day over and over. Only Phil is aware that he has an ability to constantly change and improve. Everyone else experiences change,
but they are blissfully unaware that they too are reliving "Groundhog Day" over and over as well.
Plus, there is the inconsistency of Phil predicting events that stay the same day after day, yet other events change day after day. I've always watched this without questioning that genuine scientific impossibility, even though I very much believe in the possibility that someday mankind might discover a secret wormhole that allows for time travel and existence in two places at the same time. The fact that astrophysics is coming around to believing the universe actually folds in upon itself, thus paving the way for wormholes to actually exist gives me far more comfort than believing in the concept of "God's" existence.
Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
Stretches The Imagination
The story would have been far more believable, especially since we know from jump street that he intends to drink himself to death, if they portrayed his drinking as even humanly possible. I have been an alcoholic and I guarantee you that no one can gulp down quart after quart and stay upright. Any human on earth is susceptible to the same chemistry of alcohol metabolism per human weight versus amount consumed and % of alcohol. In simple terms, no one could consume that much alcohol without dying of alcoholic poisoning in the first 48 hours. Suicide notwithstanding, drinking, no guzzling bottle after bottle and maintaining enough sobriety to run around Veges was just too hard for me to accept, as a former Retired Chief Petty Officer & Navy alcoholic for almost 21 years. I have been drunk and partied in 35-40 countries around the world. I have never seen alcoholics that could guzzle bottle after bottle of whiskey, vodka or gin the way they show Cage's character. Cage's "over the top" portrayal reminded me of John Belushi guzzling that bottle of Black Jack Daniels in "Animal House." Even there, we all know the reasonable limits for drugs & alcohol as evidenced by John Belushi and a hundred other rising stars of entertainment fame who overdosed and died alone, sometimes in a seedy hotel room. All in all, the movie and performance by Cage seems to strive to be noir, but for me, the alcohol excesses stretched my ability to stay focused. Even Vegas throws out people who look like they have had one drink too many. Hell, I've been thrown out of bars in Vegas back in the 70's or 80's at the height of my drunken bar-hopping days, the Palomino Club was where I started the party every time. Anyway, I liked the love story angle of this movie and the tragedy of broken souls finding each other but please keep the limits of believability to a reasonable consumption of mixed alcohol that alcoholics can relate to. For instance, every year a college kid dies from alcohol poisoning by chugging a fifth or a quart of whiskey. Puts the body in a coma and death follows if you can't get medical attention right away.
A Hidden Life (2019)
Language Issues
Good movie, but would have been better served if it was accompanied with English sub-titles when Germans were speaking in native tongue.
Movie was ill-served when the English speaking audience cannot understand any of the German spoken language except for the intention of displaying Germany inhumanity to prisoners.