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Knock at the Cabin (2023)
Horrible, but not in a good way
The actors did their best with this subpar story (adding a star for them), but they were unable to save this movie. Usually, I try to defend M. Night Shyamalan's films from mockery, but this one is simply too bad and cringe worthy. The outdated religious undertones driving the story were just unbearable to watch and the ending was the final nail in the coffin. I cannot recommend this movie and its inadequate message.
We watched 'The Cabin in the Woods' right after as a palate cleanser, which I highly recommend over 'Knock at the Cabin'. If you need even more cleansing, you could additionally watch 'This is the End'.
Monk: Mr. Monk Takes a Punch (2008)
What happened to Monk?
Monk is my favorite show but since the seventh season I am very disappointed because the show just lost everything that was good about it. My growing disappointment reached its peak in this episode. I started to wonder if they exchanged the writers for it with a whole new set that has not even seen any of the previous episodes or know anything about Monks past or worst of all simply don't care. In general the show lost on wit and esprit, the murderer and motive are obvious and can be solved by the audience immediately. The jokes are dull and not very funny. I started to feel sorry for the actors to be given such a bad script. Specifically in this episode Monk is portrayed as a physically unfit person who can't run for more than a few seconds before he collapses on the ground in pain. Hello?!? I thought I couldn't trust my eyes and ears. Remember the episode "Mr. Monk and the Marathon Man" where Monk is watching a marathon to see his boyhood hero Tonday Mawwaka, a legendary marathoner and where you find out later that Monk used to be a track and field star in high school. In the end he is given new running shoes from Tonday, whereupon Monk is picking up running again. This all doesn't fit together with this episode. Furthermore Monk doesn't seem to solve any crimes any more as he used to do. Where is the moment where Monk solves the crime and gives his glorious explanations starting with "Here's what happened..."? Instead you just see a halfheartedly flash back of the past incidents. In addition, since when does he touch a door to a dirty recording studio all by himself without Natalie around to give him at least wipes? Since when can he balance on a wooden beam without any protest when he can't even go on the first step of a ladder? And most of all how can Dr. Bell's office interior change every time he sees him without upsetting Monk. Monk likes everything the way it is without change. He used to know every single item and its place in Dr. Krogers office but here everything changes from episode to episode and scene to scene, from different chairs to tables or no tables at all, etc. I wish the writers would put more thought into the episodes and consider Monks disorder and his reactions to certain circumstances. Otherwise Monk is not Monk any more and he becomes non-credible as a character and therefore not enjoyable to watch, which would be a pity and a great loss.
Whose Line Is It Anyway?: Show No. 110 (1999)
A plant in the show?
In this episode Brad Sherwood and Wayne Brady perform a "Duet" to Sara the IT consultant. Although Drew Carey, the host of the show, claims to pick someone randomly from the audience, he seems to pick too often the same young woman for the games "Song Styles" or "Duet". She appears on several shows with different names and occupations and is obviously a plant. Finding out about it spoiled this episode for me. Above all, I think, it is also a critical aspect because the show claims to improvise and a viewer might get the impression that not everything is improvised, but sometimes also scripted. Nevertheless I still like the show and think the performers did a great job in improvising!