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Plot
Skeeter, son of a motel owner, has always loved the motel. When it gets bought out, he doesn't get to become the owner of the motel but a janitor. When his sister says that he needs to watch the kids, he is hesitant but agrees. Of course, all kids need a bedtime story before they go to sleep so he tells them a bedtime story. The weirdest thing, the next day, is that elements of the story come true. Is this a way to make his life better? Can he win the daughter of the rich hotel chain owner and maybe get his spot as an owner? And why are the details of the stories that are coming true so strange?
Rating Criteria
0/5 – No value whatsoever. Absolute waste of time.
1/5 – Barely worth any time.
2/5 – Pathetic but has a bit of something to hold the attention a little.
3/5 – Somewhat kept the attention but could definitely have used more. 4/5 – Good, but not awe-strikingly amazing. Could have maybe used a bit more to the movie.
5/5 – Go see it! Wonderful movie all around. – characters, music, theme, story line, etc.
4/5 - This is a wonderful family-oriented movie. Of course you have the corruption of wealth and threats towards tearing down a school (that the sister worked at), but in general this is a good movie. The kids are threatened when they run inside of the abandoned school building right before destruction but *SPOILERS* they are saved, along with the school's future.
Lots of fantasy in the movie, but that's because of the nonsensical feel of the bedtime stories. (Like Skeeter speaking only gibberish because a bee stung his tongue.)
Oh, and why the HECK would a guinea pig have eyes so buggy? Is that even possible in the real world?
Not my most favorite PG movie but recommended. It is a little realistic in the whole "my life feels like it has been destroyed" aspect but at least in the end, Skeeter was able to solve things realistically and the kids were saved (also reminded to keep dreaming, more or less).
Plot
Jonah is going to get married to Eva. To celebrate, Jonah's brother and a few of Jonah's friends have taken him away for the weekend to have a stag/bachelor party. The one strip club they go to turns out to be super lame. Someone there says that he can show them to a place where they can have a real good time, so (since their motto for the night is "Just say yes") they end up following the man's car through a creepy dark forest to a beautiful mansion: the "ultimate" party house. The guys pay for Jonah to get a good non-sex performance [with their favorite memories of their mother]. So Jonah is taken by Mr. Nyx to go visit Lily, whom is trapped in a room. Jonah has one hell of a performance as he listens to her song but finds that he can't leave her trapped in the room. Breaking her out, he finds that Lily has an ankle bracelet on. Taking that off of her, he finds out that she isn't just some pretty girl that can sing enchantingly: she's a siren (wings, succubus tail, and everything!). Oh, and she wants him for herself. Can he survive? Can his friends survive? Will he ever be able to marry Eva?
Rating Criteria
0/5 – No value whatsoever. Absolute waste of time. 1/5 – Barely worth any time. 2/5 – Pathetic but has a bit of something to hold the attention a little.
3/5 – Somewhat kept the attention but could definitely have used more.
4/5 – Good, but not awe-strikingly amazing. Could have maybe used a bit more to the movie.
5/5 – Go see it! Wonderful movie all around. – characters, music, theme, story line, etc.
1.5/5 - So it was labeled a horror film and yes there were some horrific things but it was pretty lame. The anatomy of Lily was interesting, though censored for television. The censor made the movie worse because how can you find a flat chested nearly androgynous woman attractive, especially when she's a supernatural creature that is smelling you out and killing everyone else in her path? Nope. *in my opinion* Anywho, she had a succubus-like tail, wings, creepy teeth that the ridges of her mouth split in the wrong manner for a human and her forehead seemed to split open. The creativeness of the creature's features really kept me watching. If it hadn't been for this design, I would have stopped watching the movie, in all honestly. Everything else completely failed. All of the friends died except one that had been tortured so that his memories could be taken and given to Jonah.
Oh, that is another thing: there was a character that could put a tattoo on the back of your neck, slip a leech into your mind and take a memory out of your head (through the leech that comes out the back of your neck with the memories absorbed). Then the leech would be put into a drink and you would remember the memories of that other person, like one of Jonah's friends that got a drink that the bartender [the memory lady] called "murder" when he asked what it was. Turns out the leech in the drink was that of someone else murdering someone, which drove Jonah's friend a bit nuts. That was also how Jonah's friends were able to pay for his song performance by giving up their favorite memory of their mother. This was another thing that made me interested in the movie but, without the memory manipulation and the design of the siren, there was nothing to keep me interested.
Suggested? No. You could watch it for Lily's design, if you are a person that likes unique ideas about monsters (especially those that have been talked about for decades), or for the memory manipulation lady but not worth it. At the end of the movie, I was disappointed that I had wasted all of that time watching it. If you do watch it, don't say I didn't warn you.
This is a movie review for "The Human Centipede: First Sequence", released in the United States on April 20, 2010. I watched this a while ago through Netflix (I think? or maybe it was Hulu).
Plot
Two American girls are touring in Germany and wanting to have some fun. When they are driving one night through a forest, they get a flat tire. One guy stops by and gives them a hard time in German (if I recall he mentioned sexual favors) but does not help their tire issue. Instead of waiting out the night in the car, the girls decide to walk through the forest. DUMB! You're in a country which you don't speak the native language, at night, walking through the forest, and it's raining. This can't be good at all.
They stumble across a house and ask for help from the owner, Dr. Heiter. He pretends to call for roadside assistance but gets a crazy look in his eye and drugs their water. The two girls wake up in the basement and find themselves as test subjects for his idea of a conjoined triplet via the gastric bypass system [first person's ass to the second person's mouth; second person's ass to the third person's mouth]. The girls try to escape but cannot. They try to resist but cannot. He does the procedure and they are sewn together as a human centipede. What will the outcome be?
Rating Criteria
0/5 – No value whatsoever. Absolute waste of time. 1/5 – Barely worth any time. 2/5 – Pathetic but has a bit of something to hold the attention a little.
3/5 – Somewhat kept the attention but could definitely have used more.
4/5 – Good, but not awe-strikingly amazing. Could have maybe used a bit more to the movie.
5/5 – Go see it! Wonderful movie all around. – characters, music, theme, story line, etc.
1.5/5 - For being a nearly "cult classic", this movie sucked. Music was bland. Suspense was not there. The horror of the medical procedure and the doctor that has no mercy for his patients was the worst of the whole movie. Aside that, it was very 'meh'. I had a hard time watching it because it was so basic and bland. The medical description of the procedure that the doctor told the three was kind of interesting because it was describing how the gastric bypass system works but the procedure itself was not spectacular (gross but very dull). And the cops that come in the end were so stupid that I was like "seriously?". Oh, and *SPOILERS* everyone dies except the third person of set. The cops, the doctor, the asian guy and the end-section girl die [her death was from sepsis and infection from the ill-treatment]. So what happened to the girl sewn to her dead friend's mouth and a dead man's butt? The movie ends there without a conclusion. Sorry, but nothing else.
*SPOILERS*
Swoop Entertainment's "Human Centipede in 60 seconds"
Suggested? No. Cult worthy? No. Sequel worthy? No, but it has two. Very much not cool. I was very disappointed in this movie because people said that it was soooo much better than it was, which the answer to that is no. A waste of time except to say "I've seen it".
This is a movie review for "The Purge: Election Year", released in the United States on July 01, 2016. I watched this through On Demand with XFinity back in November/December, so please be patient with my forgetfulness. Working a full time job over 5-6 days during the week takes its toll on writing, ya know.
Trailer
Cast
Frank Grillo...Leo Barnes
Elizabeth Mitchell...Senator Charlie Roan
Mykelti Williamson...Joe Dixon
Joseph Julian Soria...Marcos
Betty Gabriel...Laney Rucker
Plot
The Purge is an annual event that allows everyone to commit nearly any crime they want, to nearly anyone they want, and with nearly any weapon they want. This year is an election year and they've changed the rules some. The New Founding Fathers have approved of attacking higher level society - NONE are exempt from the Purge. Why? Because one lady, Senator Roan, is causing a ripple effect in the country and the New Founding Fathers want to get rid of her. So everyone is game because of her, though she's working to end the Purge. Thanks, Roan. Can you survive the night? If Roan survives, can she win the election to become President of the US and end the Purge?
Rating Criteria
0/5 – No value whatsoever. Absolute waste of time.
1/5 – Barely worth any time.
2/5 – Pathetic but has a bit of something to hold the attention a little. 3/5 – Somewhat kept the attention but could definitely have used more. 4/5 – Good, but not awe-strikingly amazing. Could have maybe used a bit more to the movie.
5/5 – Go see it! Wonderful movie all around. – characters, music, theme, story line, etc.
3.5/5 - Dystopian society? Check. Quest for vengeance for the murder of main character's whole family (15 years ago) by stopping the yearly Purge? Working on it, so check. Politics being worse than politics because of the Purge and trying to kill the one that would stop said Purge? Check. Unnamed character from last movie suddenly getting a real name? Like the second movie for Joe (the stranger in the first movie that got the Sandin family in trouble and got a name in the second movie), one of the unnamed characters in movie two ("Sergeant", the one out for revenge for the murder of his son by a drunk driver) got a name in the third movie; check. Excessive stupidity about finding ways to survive? Not as bad as the second movie. Leo, whom is the security head guy for Senator Roan and whom also happens to be Sergeant in the second movie, actually has become wiser about how to hide from attackers during the Purge. His strategies to keep the Senator safe during the Purge were thrown out the window when a mole allowed attackers to enter the house, but somehow there was an escape hatch that only Leo knew about so they got out of the house mostly safe [a bullet in the shoulder wouldn't make a 100% perfect escape]; docked for the "only the head guy knows about the escape hatch" idea. Oh, and the bullet has a tracker in it. How the hell, I don't know which is why I docked the score for it.
Somehow, in the whole Purge nation, Leo and the Senator run into Joe (whom now owns a convenience store that, unfortunately and ironically, lost Purge insurance hours before the Purge) and his store worker Marcos. Somewhere in the movie, Joe had suggested to Marcos that he would like him as a partner, not just a worker. *foreshadowing!* *SPOILERS* Joe dies so Marcos has to take over the shop.
Anyways, a friend of Joe's (that was at his shop before the Purge and is a supposed badass) has an emergency vehicle for Purge nights that she drives around helping people that seem to be in distress and takes them to safe locations away from purgers.
I like the idea that Laney is just trying to help people survive the Purge but why the hell would you go out in that sh*t? Just putting your neck on the line to help others might get you killed, even if just by an accidental ricochet or something like that. That's why the emergency services (Police, Fire Fighters, Ambulances) are not in service during the Purge. So why would you, Laney? Docked for this.
There were other things that I did not like, for example the blatant "let's kill the Senator so that we can keep the Purge" plot. It was the MAIN plot! So what if she's on the radar for the Purge? The other people shouldn't be trying to go out of their way to attack her unless maybe they think she really is a threat. But why aren't you high falootin' society folks worried about your own 'carnal' urges? Why focus on her?
*SPOILERS* Roan barely survives (which I don't see how) and wins the election. The Purge is canceled and a lot of the Purge followers [and of the New Founding Fathers] go nutso on a non-Purge night because 'we want our Purge': Riots, looting, attacking police officers, etc.
I found it funny to see the trailer says "Keep America Great" during the summer that Donald Trump was running for President with his phrase "Make America Great Again". Foreshadowing? Hopefully NOT!
Here's a great spot teaser for this movie that I just had to laugh when I saw it, surfing for the ending scene. Keep America Great with the Purge. It is so terrible (considering the timing to real life election procedures) that it is funny.
*SPOILERS*
@CinemaSins ' "Everything Wrong with The Purge: Election Year"
So do I recommend this movie? The Election Year was the best of the three, with Anarchy in second and the original one in third place. It wasn't the best movie of all times, mind you, but Election Year was definitely the best of the series in my opinion. I think I liked it the best of the three because it brought in more motivation to end the Purge "holiday". It wasn't just survival; it was politics and had more "meat" to the story. For horror, this is pathetic in my opinion. I wouldn't think a second viewing to be a complete waste of time but similarly I think I wouldn't vote to watch it again. Watch it if you wish, but it seems to be just a time filler.
This is a movie review for "The Purge: Anarchy", released July 18, 2014 in the United States. I watched this via On Demand with Xfinity back in November/December, so I might be a little rusty (sorry).
Plot
The Purge is an annual event that allows everyone to commit nearly any crime they want, to nearly anyone they want, and with nearly any weapon they want. If you're caught on the street, you might as well kiss your life/ass good-bye. This year (2023) is no different. Three groups find themselves on the streets during Purge - one by purpose to go exact revenge for his son's death, two by accident when a gang sabotages their car prior to the event so they can be prey, and two by accident when the government ransacks their apartment and drags them to the streets. All five need to find a way to survive and, some how, they all manage to get together into a group to find a way to do so. Through many struggles against the corrupt government harvesting poor for the rich to slaughter, the gang coming after the one couple, and other madness that the Purge allows, can they survive until the event is over? Will the one guy get his revenge? Will the corruption of the higher society be revealed?
Rating Criteria
0/5 – No value whatsoever. Absolute waste of time.
1/5 – Barely worth any time.
2/5 – Pathetic but has a bit of something to hold the attention a little. 3/5 – Somewhat kept the attention but could definitely have used more.
4/5 – Good, but not awe-strikingly amazing. Could have maybe used a bit more to the movie.
5/5 – Go see it! Wonderful movie all around. – characters, music, theme, story line, etc.
3/5 - This movie was violent but it was better than the first movie. The first movie was an over-dramatized house break-in. This one had a larger scope since it was 'survive the streets'. Why the people didn't try to hide more often was a huge problem for me. If you knew the streets were bad, why didn't you find a place to go? Also, for the one couple, why the heck would you go grocery shopping RIGHT before the Purge was about to start? Are car issues like a dead battery or a flat tire or the starter going out not a thing in 2023?
They did bring in the stranger from the first movie, though not for a lot of time. He was basically part of the "Anti-Purge" group that was trying to stop the rich peoples' personal Purge sessions.
The one main thing that saved this movie was the ending. *SPOILERS* Sergeant was gunning for the man that had killed his son prior in a drunk driver accident. At the end, he finally gets there to 'gain revenge' but we find out that he did not kill the man. Instead, the man saves him from one of the big Pro-Purge guys on his lawn by shooting the Pro-Purge guy in the head. I say that this ending saved the movie's rating because it proved that not everyone has to kill to get revenge or to make things even. Just breaking into someone's house and reminding them of your son is good enough to make you sleep at night. Why kill when you can force the photo of your dead son into the drunk driver's face? *The Purge: Anarchy logic*
Decent movie. Higher suggestion for this one than the first one, but not the best of the series. Dystopian society? Check. Logic? Little, but check. Violence to make the world better? Why is this even a thing?
I wouldn't say it was a complete waste of time but I wouldn't watch it over again, personally. View at your own risk.
*SPOILERS*
@CinemaSins ' "Everything Wrong with The Purge: Anarchy"
This is a movie review for "The Devil's Own", released in the United States on March 25, 1997. We own this movie on VHS, so I watched it a few months ago (Sorry for the delay for the review! Day job keeps me busy way more than I wish it did.).
Plot
Northern Ireland 1972 - a young boy watches his father being shot to death at the supper table. Twenty years later, we find out that the boy was Francis Austin McGuire and that his father had been killed for supporting the Irish republic for Ireland to be rid of British rule. Now a man, Francis (Frankie) is also fighting for Irish independence with the IRA [Irish Republican Army] but he needs some more weapons to fight the war against the British military. To do so, he goes to America. A supporter of the IRA gets him lodging with a New York cop named Tom O'Meara. As Frankie (known as Rory in the US) gets his provisions together to bring back to Ireland, everything goes to crap. The black market provider attacks the home that he is in as well as captures and tortures a friend of his that had come to the US prior to Frankie's arrival, and the US and British governments are coming after Frankie for his acts of war that he had committed in Ireland. Can Frankie get the armaments back to Ireland so he can save his country?
Rating Criteria
0/5 – No value whatsoever. Absolute waste of time.
1/5 – Barely worth any time. 2/5 – Pathetic but has a bit of something to hold the attention a little.
3/5 – Somewhat kept the attention but could definitely have used more.
4/5 – Good, but not awe-strikingly amazing. Could have maybe used a bit more to the movie.
5/5 – Go see it! Wonderful movie all around. – characters, music, theme, story line, etc.
2/5 - Character development was absolute rot. Sure, Rory and Tom got to know each other but it seemed very superficial since Frankie was just trying to get weapons to bring back to Ireland. The relation that Frankie made with an Irish girl during the movie was also very shallow in depth. Maybe the character needed to have very little ties with those that he was interacting with because he was a product of the fight for the IRA? Maybe Frankie didn't have any other thought or feelings because he knew he would just have to go fight anyways?
Harrison Ford was a pleasure to watch, as always, but he was the only thing that kept me watching. I highly do not suggest this but you can do what you want. If you want to watch it, go for it but don't say I didn't warn you.
This is a movie review for "Guardians of the Galaxy", released August 1, 2014. I watched this on the television (months prior to the typing of this review so give me a break....).
Five criminals (various crimes from theft, murder, etc.) are accidentally thrown together into a rag-tag group to save the world. An item that "Star-Lord" Peter Quill stole from an abandoned planet turns out to be something that can devastate a planet with a simple touch. Essentially, this gem (contained within an orb for safe keeping) will send a wave to kill everything on the planet. So these five get together to keep it away from the bad guy, though Gamora is supposedly one of the bad guy's daughters [actually stolen from someone else but that's another story]. Let's just stand for the galaxy and defend it. Oh, will we have to find a way to guard it too? No way.... Is that why they are called Guardians of the Galaxy? "Shocking."
Rating Criteria
0/5 – No value whatsoever. Absolute waste of time.
1/5 – Barely worth any time.
2/5 – Pathetic but has a bit of something to hold the attention a little. 3/5 – Somewhat kept the attention but could definitely have used more. 4/5 – Good, but not awe-strikingly amazing. Could have maybe used a bit more to the movie.
5/5 – Go see it! Wonderful movie all around. – characters, music, theme, story line, etc.
3.5/5 - *SPOILERS*
First off, the ending of the movie was predictable. Of course they would survive and become the Guardians of the Galaxy by banning together against this powerful gem. So everyone who touches it it practically wiped out? Well, we'll hold hands together and combine our wills/strength/luck to survive it. Of course! Why would it be any other way?
Secondly, the character development of the individuals was not very noticeable. The main thing that changed was the fact that they banned together as a group and decided to stick together. Why? I don't know aside convenience. Like, if they had different characters, would the group still be together? Probably. The whole "we got thrown in together so we're stuck together, first forced upon us and now by choice" thing was just not very pleasing for me. Sure, Quill saved Gamora at one point by giving her a mask to survive being in space but that doesn't mean that she has a reason to stick to him later, does it? Those that are mercenaries would thank you for saving them and leave, so why didn't this group? It seemed like they were perfectly fine alone beforehand (with the exception of Groot and Rocket being a team before the five were thrown together). Oh, but we need to stay together to make sure this gem is safe against anyone else. Keep it in the orb and it will be safe! You don't need to bring a weapon of mass destruction out. Period.
Thirdly, I liked the music. A little "old timey" for newer generations but much better than the pop music out there. That saved it at least a half star. See the title scene (after the "before the story" story) at the 2 minute mark:
*SPOILERS*
@CinemaSins ' "Everything Wrong with Guardians of the Galaxy"
In an island apartment building (complete with all the amenities anybody could ever want), a sickness has taken hold. A parasite is infecting the inhabitants and making them mad: crazy for sex and mutilation/destruction, but mostly sex. Logic is out the window. Can any of the inhabitants survive? Can they find a cure? Can they stop the infection?
Rating Criteria
0/5 – No value whatsoever. Absolute waste of time.
1/5 – Barely worth any time.
2/5 – Pathetic but has a bit of something to hold the attention a little. 3/5 – Somewhat kept the attention but could definitely have used more.
4/5 – Good, but not awe-strikingly amazing. Could have maybe used a bit more to the movie.
5/5 – Go see it! Wonderful movie all around. – characters, music, theme, story line, etc.
3/5 - This movie took a lot of effort to watch. True, a lot of older movies are more difficult to watch due to less spectacular effects and potentially slower plot line movement but this one took most of the movie to get to the "oh wow, this is getting interesting" feeling. The infection was slow at first, with someone investigating the death of a doctor who committed suicide after killing a (college?) student by pouring acid on her stomach. After that, they had to figure out those that might have had contact with the two victims. Some time later, the infection started to spread. *SPOILERS* By the end of the movie, all were either dead or sex zombies. It was even suggested that they left the building after all were infected so that they could spread it to everyone else.
Okay, so infectious disease affecting more than a small group of people is intimidating. However, sex zombies? People infected causing damage and just wanting to have a massive orgy? Not that great of a plot but okay. I could see how this would be more creepy in the past but it almost seemed cheesy. Horrors nowadays are much more defined in detail instead of a creepy monster that leaves a blood trail in the basement. Yes, "Alien" and other jump-at-you horror movies still don't have the creatures defined which is one of their things but once you saw the creature that had infected the people of this building, the reaction is just "seriously?". If I recall (it's been months since I watched this movie), it was a slug that could potentially get into your digestive system. Like get some of the blood into your mouth and it takes you over? I don't remember exactly but I wasn't impressed with it very much. My mister ended up walking away from it so I had to finish watching it later by myself.
1970s horror film? Check. Suggested? Not necessarily but I don't have any other 1970s films to compare it to so yeah, sorry about that. If you want to, feel free! I wouldn't waste my time watching this again, though.
Alice is a young nineteen year old that has dreams of a strange other world. She doesn't want to be like the other girls in corsets whom flit about like mindless creatures. She'd rather not wear the multiple layers (that Victoria age says should be normal). She attends a party which she finds out is an engagement party where she is going to be asked for her hand in marriage in front of hundreds of people. Finding it rather sudden, she spots a white rabbit in a suit top. Leaving her engagement party, she follows said rabbit and falls into a long hole filled with strange items and where logic and physics do not matter.
After she gets to this other realm, she finds herself being asked if she is THE Alice. "But she can't be. She's not Alice enough." *SPOILERS* Turns out that Alice was the one that had been to Wonderland before (called Underland, not Wonderland?) and that she needs to remember herself to become more like she was. Maybe she needs to imagine things more? Or believe in things that could "not possibly" occur/exist but do in this world?
Rating Criteria
0/5 – No value whatsoever. Absolute waste of time.
1/5 – Barely worth any time.
2/5 – Pathetic but has a bit of something to hold the attention a little. 3/5 – Somewhat kept the attention but could definitely have used more. 4/5 – Good, but not awe-strikingly amazing. Could have maybe used a bit more to the movie.
5/5 – Go see it! Wonderful movie all around. – characters, music, theme, story line, etc.
3.5/5 - Okay, so I did let my viewing of the 1951 Disney version sway my feelings towards this movie. It was much darker than the 1951 version: epic battle between white queen and red queen, death of the Jaberwocky, gouging of the Bandersnatch's eye (and popping it back into place? ew), and other things. The Red Queen was a laughable character versus what she was in the 1951 version [whom was scary to see chasing this young character and trying to kill her]. In this version, the Red Queen is super sensitive about the fact that she has a HUMONGOUS head. {Watching the video by Wotso Videos regarding The Queen of Hearts and the Red Queen, it looks like the two characters were separate entities in Lewis Carroll's story so I will let this sit as is.}
This movie was missing something, as a stand alone movie, but I can't say what. The graphics were good but weren't amazing. Some people have said that this movie was a waste of Special Effects (and 3D?). I wanted more world building in the movie, but it was snuffed short. The only explanation about the world was this clip:
I've heard that the next movie "Through the Looking Glass" tells more of the past of the world, which I will look forward to eventually but not right now. I'd say that the music from this movie kept it from losing at least another half star of rating. WONDERFUL music, even if you don't want to watch the movie. Here's a copy of the soundtrack on YouTube that I found.
Yes, this is a PG rated movie. Why? The few examples I gave at the beginning of the criteria as well as the caterpillar smoking a hookah and other things. If you want your kids to watch it (which might be okay), just remember to remind them that this is a story. If you get offended by any violence, don't watch. Otherwise, I recommend for the music. It isn't a bad movie to watch in general but not my top 100 favorite for the storyline, especially for everyone saying "You're not Alice" where she actually is but needs to find herself (but they never say "you used to be more courageous"; the Hatter says at one point "You used to be much more Alice."). Watch if you wish!
*SPOILERS* Everything Wrong with Alice in Wonderland
