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Laced (2023)
Not Terrible
Interesting plot line with a few holes in it. Small cast because they're isolated in a snow storm. Dana Mackin as Molly turned in a very good performance. She was very believable. Zach Tinker as her brother Austin was also very credible. Hermoine Lynch as Victoria is one of the WORST, most campy and wooden performances I've seen in a present day film. It was no surprise that she couldn't convince the antagonist Charlie of her identity in an early scene. She couldn't convince an audience either. Not sure if she was cast as some kind of professional or personal favor, but I am fairly certain she didn't audition. Watchable for Kyle Butenhoff, Dana Mackin and Zach Tinker's performances.
The Act (2019)
Thud.
I wanted to like this. I enjoyed Patricia Arquette in Escape at Dannemora. She and most of the others take this almost to the level of a good Lifetime movie, but sorry, Joey King's performance is terrible. I don't recall ever seeing her in anything else. I hope she was better than she was as Gypsy.
Steve McQueen: American Icon (2017)
About McQueen's Faith
This film is not about Steve McQueen's life. It's about his Christian faith. It touches on very little before he was born again in the last year of his life - after he was diagnosed with terminal cancer. I didn't mind the the subject matter, but I left feeling like I didn't learn much about his life leading up to his diagnosis. I felt deceived. These were full-priced feature cinema tickets. I wish they'd been more up front about the subject matter.
Gypsy (2017)
I wanted to like this, but
It's a very long Lifetime movie with a decent and very good looking cast in different states of dress, selfish passion, but it's a cheesy midlife crisis plot where I don't wind up liking any of them. Billy Crudup's Michael is the closest I can find to someone I'd cheer for but he's a one-dimensional boy scout who's there to be the victim.
Control Alt Delete (2008)
Yikes.
Office comedies are usually fun. This is one of the worst movies I ever watched. Tyler Labine must wish he never did it, even though it is his brother's movie. If Tyler as the humorless straight guy isn't weird enough, this movie is so repulsive, I kept watching it anyway. Beginning to end, they went way out of their way to break new gross-out barriers. Not in the typical slapstick college humor kind of a way, but in plain-old bad taste. The three stars I gave it were out of respect for Tyler Labine, and because I don't like to be unkind. If you can get through the whole movie and keep from hurling, you've earned the other seven stars. I usually like the indi style of Canadian movies. They don't necessarily follow the usual Hollywood formulas. They're not afraid to be different, and for that alone, I generally find them interesting. Cameron Labine should have clung to some kind of convention (or decency) here. This was interesting, but more like watching a car wreck. This one doesn't even get points for being "so bad it's good". Just... "delete". You won't want to reboot this movie.
Disaster Movie (2008)
Over 80% gave this a ONE?
15,549 voters (83.5%) gave this a ONE? I'm sorry. Grossly unfair. This must be some kind of cause celebrity smear campaign like smoking or not voting. If these people actually watched the whole movie, I think they went into it with the wrong mindset. Any kind of a critic is the last kind of a person that should watch this movie. It is what it is for Pete's sake.
A lot of pretty good (enough) actors (or lookalikes) went to a lot of trouble here. I"m giving it a ten to help balance the scales. I'd give Kim Kardashian and Carmen Electra each a ten {spoiler?} for the wrestling scene alone. Kim - call me.
You snobs know you loved to hate it. It's a fine line. Was it not so bad it was good?