This is a good series that kept me engaged and trying to figure out who was committing murders and why and what the connections were. I found the acting to be excellent - very realistic, especially Michelle Kegan - she is very good in this, and so are all of the other actors except the detective Adeel Akhtar - it is painful to watch him take extremely long pauses between words and not spit out his lines. I found this was overdone to the point of being extremely annoying. Even the children actors in this were very good. The show was entertaining and kept me excited to see episode after episode.
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The Curse
(2023– )
Bizarre Ending
19 March 2024
I had to come back and change my rating on this from a 9 to an 8. This show was excellent up until the last episode then it went off the rails. This is not the first series I've seen do this, Search Party did the same thing by starting off normal for a few seasons then going Zombie.
Emma Stone is excellent in The Curse, her character is very believable. Nathan Fielder is very good as well, giving a surprise performance since it is much different than his character on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
I was really hoping for a second season of The Curse, but doesn't seem like there will be one. Too bad.
Emma Stone is excellent in The Curse, her character is very believable. Nathan Fielder is very good as well, giving a surprise performance since it is much different than his character on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
I was really hoping for a second season of The Curse, but doesn't seem like there will be one. Too bad.
Drive-Away Dolls
(2024)
Don't Watch
13 March 2024
I wasn't expecting a high quality movie, but I wasn't expecting it to be this bad. I don't think this is even a B movie, it's a C movie. It looks like it was filmed on a camcorder. The trailer looked humorous with the gangsters so I thought I'd watch it. Big mistake, I couldn't bare it, I skipped through alot of it. The acting was terrible, the cinematography poor, the dialogue was lame. I'm surprised Geraldine Viswanathan was in this, I thought she was better than this. I've never seen Margaret Qualley in anything else that I know of, but her character was super lame in this movie. Maybe this appeals to girls in their late teens/early twenties who can relate to wanting to go on a road trip, I don't know.
5lbs of Pressure
(2024)
Don't Bother Watching
13 March 2024
Poor acting. I would say everyone in this film does some pretty bad acting except Luke Evans, but even his character had the stereotypical Brooklyn accent and solemn tone. Some cliché scenes like the AA meeting where someone speaks to the group, then guess who speaks next - Luke Evans. The son looks like he's 30 but plays a character that I think is supposed to be around 17. (His mom says he's "impressionable", so that makes me think teens.) In one scene Adam (Luke Evans) says to his son that he was his age when he committed a murder. We know he was in jail for 16 years, so that would put Adam at around 33 years old, however Luke Adams is 44, and to me he looks like he's in his 50s in this film.
The drug dealer uncle, sitting at his desk in an auto repair shop with a safe on the desk is pretty lame. All the dim lighting is cliché of the seedy drug underworld. The Jamaican accent of the female drug dealer isn't very good, not a genuine accent. I can never understand why casting can't cast actors with genuine accents, especially for accents that so many of us are familiar with.
The film takes a long time to get to the real story, it was probably in the last quarter of the film that I realized where it was going. I prefer to know in the first quarter what the film is about and let it unfold from there. I wanted to stop watching it many times but was too invested to stop so I let it play, probably skipped ahead a couple times.
The drug dealer uncle, sitting at his desk in an auto repair shop with a safe on the desk is pretty lame. All the dim lighting is cliché of the seedy drug underworld. The Jamaican accent of the female drug dealer isn't very good, not a genuine accent. I can never understand why casting can't cast actors with genuine accents, especially for accents that so many of us are familiar with.
The film takes a long time to get to the real story, it was probably in the last quarter of the film that I realized where it was going. I prefer to know in the first quarter what the film is about and let it unfold from there. I wanted to stop watching it many times but was too invested to stop so I let it play, probably skipped ahead a couple times.
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