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UFO Witness (2021)
Boring
If you hooked Ben Hansen's personality up to one of those EKG machines, it would be a straight line.
Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020)
Dreadful Woke Crap
Pretty much everything that's wrong with Hollywood. Of course Bill and Ted can't be the heroes their feminist daughters have to be. Absolute garbage. Don't waste the $20 it's not funny and it's so woke in the casting you'll think you're at an Antifa rally. There are few funny moments and no attractive women. It's like there's a new rule all women in film have to be ugly now. At least there wasn't a puking scene. Take a hard pass.
Space Force (2020)
Odd, schizophrenic show
Hard to recommend. The show alternates from being laugh out loud funny with the rich and sharply drawn characters to mean-spirited and downright dark. It would really help if the creators could decide which show they were trying to make. It's not a comedy although it has comedic elements and it's not a mean nasty vicious hate fest either although it has those elements. Some scenes are just so awful that they're hard to even watch. Others are heartwarming and kind of funny. Steve Carell is fine as you would expect him to be in a role where he basically has to play a dumb but nice guy, but other actors seem to be completely wasted. Why they chose to put Lisa Kudrow's character in prison is beyond me. If she didn't wanna be on the show they should've just written her out after the first episode. Instead we have this fairly ridiculous and very unsatisfying situation with her in prison for apparently the rest of her life. The supporting cast is good, especially of course John Malkovich, But he seems oddly out of place here in what is at least suggested to be comedy. Ben Schwartz is the real find here, stealing basically every scene he's in. He has a great future in comedy but I'm not sure the show does. At least not until it decides if it wants to be a comedy. I'd say give it a few episodes, you might enjoy some of it but it's not nearly as funny as it could've been and they need to really step away from the meanness and darkness if they expect to go much beyond season two.
Star Trek: Picard (2020)
Utter S***
The only serviceable things about it are Jeri Ryan (who's still hot) and the visuals.
Altered Carbon (2018)
Watch Season One, skip Season 2.
Season 2 is just like season 1 except for not having a lead actor you like or care about, a coherent story, and boobs.
Watch Season 1, forget season 2. It's woke garbage.
JFK to 9/11: Everything Is a Rich Man's Trick (2014)
Watch the first half
Watch the first half. Excellent background information on a lot of history most people don't know. But turn it off when he gets to the mechanics of the JFK assassination. That's where it completely falls apart. Also, George HW Bush was not in Dallas the day of the assassination, that's verified by FBI documents. The man he claims is Bush in Dealy Plaza is just a local businessman. Other photos of him show it's clearly not Bush. The 9/11 portion is ludicrous. Watch the first half, but buy the book "Ancient Aliens and JFK" if you want a much better picture of the Kennedy assassination.
Another Life (2019)
Awful
Awful. Dismal. Abominable. The writing, the acting, the casting, everything. Just abysmal.
Polar (2019)
Poor Man's "John Wick"
This is a very entertaining film. Campy, bloody, gory, sexy, pretty much everything you want out of a 90 minute distraction. This is Micklesen's best role since Casino Royale, and he chews the part up and spits it out. Great fight scenes, plenty of sex and female nudity (thank you Ruby O. Fee) and plenty of action and violence. Vanessa Hudgeons has never looked so puffy and frumpy, be she's excellent as the marginal female lead. If you liked John Wick watch it. Polar may be better.
Strange Angel (2018)
Off to a Slow Start
As the author of a best-selling book (Dark Mission: The Secret History of NASA) that deals with Jack Parsons, Crowley, Hubbard and their influence over JPL's occult patterns, I have to say the pilot was disappointingly slow. The show's writers chose to focus on a fairly non-descript period of Parsons life, but that's no excuse for how dull the episode was. The show pretty much glosses over what a complete lunatic Parsons actually was, and how poorly he treated many of those around him. There was never really a point in his life where he was in any way "normal" as is portrayed in the show. He had major emotional problems and his hatred for Western Civilization and its mores defined him from an early age. I know the shows creators were going for a slow set-up, but not much at all actually happened in the episode, nor is there really a hint of who Parsons really was or what he would become.
That said, the show has some potential and I'm sticking with it, hoping the writers, directors and producers pick up the pace and get to the juicy stuff. Honestly I could have written them a more interesting take on Parsons life and the extent to which NASA and JPL are still influenced by Parsons relationships with L. Ron Hubbard and Crowley. But, I won't get that chance so I hope they go deep into the story and bring out the honest truth about what Parsons really desired, which was no less than an apocalypse. How they treat the Babalon Working will be the key to it all. It will be interesting to see if they recognize that the Working was the basis for the film "Rosemary's Baby" as well. I'm all for ripping the lid off the occult freak show in Hollywood as well as NASA, and I hope they can pull it off.
Skybound (2017)
Would have liked it more if there were tits.
Silly, bad acting, implausible science average visual effects but a great idea for a low budget movie. Don't expect to see any of these actors except for the guy who plays Erik in anything else.