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American Made (2017)
Further proof Hollywood is dead.
Politics aside, American Made is just awful. Looked like it was filmed with someone's cell phone. I decided to see this dog because movie critics gave it high marks and I liked some of Tom Cruise previous movies. Obviously critics judge movies based on its politics first and its entertainment value last, or not at all. I can only assume Tom Cruise chose to star in this terrible movie for approval from actors and the clowns who run Hollywood. This is the 3rd terrible movie I've seen based on movie critic recommendations and it'll be my last. Hollywood is dying because to many people associated with the movie industry are political elitist who look down on everyday "deplorable" working Americans - i.e. their customers.
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Disappointing
Blade Runner '82 was much better in EVERY respect, including visuals. Gosling's character was stoic, robotic and uninteresting. I don't think the movie is worth a lengthy comment but I have to write 5 lines.
In conclusion, I suggest you save your money for a better movie. Blah blah blah...
Dirty Grandpa (2016)
If there was a lower rating than awful, I would have used it
Dirty Grandpa isn't just a awful movie, it's a horribly awful movie. I'm far from being a feminist but I found this movie denigrating and embarrassing to all women. When satire fails to be funny, its just crude and vulgar contempt. It was torturous and embarrassing for me to watch a legendary Hollywood icon conscientiously degrade himself in such a way. Was it an insatiable desire for money or an insatiable desire to express his outdated 1960s counter-cultural views that inspired Robert De Niro to lend his namesake to this awful movie? Its a low-point for everyone involved, especially for movie fans. Dirty Grandpa is one of the worst movies I've seen and it will likely end up near the top of my list of all-time worst movies.
Inherent Vice (2014)
Hollyweird created a new film genre called PsyFi, as in Psycedelic Ficiton
A pathetic attempt by Hollywood leftist to rewrite history and slander Republicans and Americanism. The only fictional character missing from this liberal dream was Lena Dunham's imaginary purple booted campus Republican raping young hippie girls. Then again, I may be wrong because I couldn't finish the movie. BTW - Gov. Reagan didn't close California's mental asylums, which was just one of the huge liberal myths purported in the movie. In 1967, the California DEMOCRAT legislature passed the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act (LPS), which allowed local, private (i.e., non-state) mental facilities to accept more patients—particularly those with more treatable or milder forms of mental illness. Later, the Carter administration signed into law the Mental Health Systems Act of 1980, which largely promoted the same idea for national facilities which ultimately left the insane nowhere to go.
Godzilla (2014)
7 stars is just too high for this movie!
I saw this movie based on its rating and both were big mistakes. The only reason I'm doing this review is to knock this movie's rating down a peg. Hopefully I'll save some poor sole the agony and expense of making the same mistake. If the movie industry is using IMDb user ratings to determine what people want to see, that explains why Hollywood is making so many awful movies nowadays.
I'm something of a military buff and a technogeek. The technical flaws in this movie are outstandingly BAD! They must have hired Dianne Feinstein as their technical director. Why did they put smoke flares on the boots of HALO jumpers? Why did they transport nuclear tipped MISSILES by train and boat instead of simply firing the MISSILES? Why did they haul the entire missile instead of just the warhead? Since when did Minuteman Missiles use mechanical detonators the size of a dorm room refrigerator? Military aircraft are shielded against electromagnetic pulses so they can operate near in a nuclear war zone. If a magnetic pulse was strong enough to knock out all of a fighter aircraft's electronics, its highly likely it would have knocked out the ejection seat electronics too! Yet pilots ejected from stricken aircraft.
There was nothing SPECIAL about this movie's special effects. The effects were no better than the campy effects used in the old Japanese Godzilla movies. It looked as if the monsters were people in Halloween suites. By the size of Godzilla's derriere, I thought Godzilla was being played by Roseanne Barr.
Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
Good, wonderful, OK, blah blah blah.....
It was a reasonably entertaining flick and the 32 ounce IPA I bought at the theater certainly helped. The special effects were excellent but the movie wasn't entirely focused on eye candy - maybe 80% of it was. Tom Cruise seemed uncomfortably convincing playing the role of a sniveling coward and a much younger man. I thought Emily Blunt's performance was good. Its hard enough accepting naked time traveling tentacled spinning monsters with lights coming out of their gaping mouths yet Ms. Blunt did a not too awful job convincing me that a 5'7" skinny well manicured babe is the baddest soldier on the battlefield. Is anyone else sick of Hollywood's insidious need to impose their PERVERTED POLITICS on us? I'm surprised they didn't mention global warming or sneak a Prius in some of the screen shots. I thought the ending was totally predictable but I wasn't disappointed by it.
I only gave it a 6 because they shouldn't get credit for the excellent beer I drank during the movie.
Promised Land (2012)
Just another Hollyweird propaganda film masquerading as entertainment
I wasted $9.00 on this Hollyweird anti-fracking agitprop "Promised Land" so you won't have to. The movie's sole purpose is to exploit people's fears and their lack of information about water pollution from fracking. Damon's character is an energy-company representative dispatched to a struggling farm town to buy drilling rights on their land and prey on their misfortune. He meets an environmental activist played by John Krasinski, who co-wrote the movie with Damon. Matt claimed in a Playboy interview that fracking is only a backdrop for the story but given his political predilections, that's poppycock. At one point in the film, Matt's character Butler tells the land owners "gas means "F*** You money" just one of many not so subtle metaphors throughout the film. They want you to believe fracking is a relatively new and untested technology yet more than 1 million wells in the United States have been hydraulically fractured since 1947. If you're simply looking for entertainment, the trailer is the most entertaining part of this film and its free.
No credits given to the state-owned media company in the United Arab Emirates yet they partly funded the movie.
I guess Matt Damon is so rich, he can devote all of his time making left-wing feelgood propaganda films. Even rich super stars need a hobby! If you really want to know what's driving the anti-Fracking movement(money and power), you won't find it in this film.
Main Street (2010)
Yet another liberal Hollywood message movie
Main Street is yet another liberal Hollywood message movie masquerading as entertainment. The dialog is lame and the message is lame. Their subplots are no more than sugar syrup to get you to swallow their progressive poison that "all technology is bad." Strip away all of the subterfuge and what do you have left? Recycling industrial waste is all bad! A true lie if I ever heard one. Obviously this movie was made to promote the progressive anti-industrial agenda by forming public opinion against recycling industrial waste. They don't tell you where the waste came from nor do they tell you what products or materials were manufactured to produce the waste. And they certainly don't tell you how many people earned an income generating this so-called evil waste.
Doyle and Foote must hate average Americans – assuming Americans are their intended target -- because of their underhanded use of illegal Hispanic laborers to foment hatred towards the evil industrial waste.
Why did Doyle and Foote choose an American town for this movie? I thought progressives had successfully driven away most manufacturing from this country? Oh I understand now. They want to form public opinion against building more nuclear power plants. So where does Doyle and Foote think we'll get the juice to charge up our electric cars? Then again, where will we find jobs to afford the $40,000 electric cars in the first place? If you think I spent too much time on the politics of this movie, then I have made my point.
The Time Traveler's Wife (2009)
Boring and predictable
This movie isn't worthy of a long explanation so I'll keep my comment short and to the point. The movie was so boring that I wrote out my shopping list to pass the time. It was tediously predictable and full of progressive Hollywood clichés. The movie was technically flawed and full of contradictions. Henry is incapable of changing the past or future yet he could win the lottery using numbers he got form the future. Does it make sense to beat the stuffing out of someone because they have a phobia of people like you? Doesn't that prove their phobia is justified! At least they didn't jerk the camera around and it was less than 2 hours long.
Quantum of Solace (2008)
I want my money back!
The filming was absolutely terrible! I couldn't follow the action and I defy anyone who claims otherwise. I suspect the camera jarring was a lame attempt to compensate for the lack of creativity of the director and writers.
As with most films today, this one is ripe with Hollywood politics. It has the usual icons of the including hybrid and electric cars, multinational corporations, oil, environmentalism and of course, implied American greed and corruption.
Aside from the movie's politics, it simply lacks entertainment value and that is why I pay to see a movie. This one is a stinker and I want my money back.