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Madame Web (2024)
So bad it's good
K... so I read all the negative reviews and honestly, it made me want to watch it more to see how bad it was. Mostly because some movies are so bad they are actually hilariously entertaining, like the Marine.
It is not as bad as people have made out, I've watched WAY worse, however, the story has its moments where you are certain it was written by an 8th grader.
That said it definitely has some great "so bad it's good moments. The beginning and ending in particular are hilarious.
That said I would love to see a sequel that embraces this aspect of the movie where completely ridiculous situations occur with completely ridiculous frequency, and have completely unexplained consequences that do not follow logical reasoning.
FBI: Clean Slate (2021)
Not believable.
Love this show. It's always twisty and relevant. The subtext on social commentary is amazing and seeks to humanize a lot of deeply divisive issues. The agents are smart and think outside the box.
This episode deviates in every way. No deeper message, transparently obvious perp, and the agents don't think to look at the parents of the girl the father killed? Not believable. The father had no way to abduct the girl, eyes were on him the entire time. To not look at the only possible enemy, I couldn't. I had to skip the naus while they investigated the father, got to the part where they realized it was the brother of the girl years ago and Quit.
How to Change Your Mind (2022)
One side of a High school debate.
I'm a proponent of psychedelics, they are useful and I have benefited from taking them. The film is an interesting, however one sided information is presented as fact. Pretty fun to watch if you realize that you are what you are watching is a proponents "for" sided argument in an academic debate. Factually there are some foibles:
Bill Wilson started getting sober in 1935ish, LSD wasn't distributed until 1947. It did not birth AA, AA was around before WWII.
During the LSD experience the fella at the start has, he described himself in the womb with the umbilical cord wrapped around his neck such that he couldn't breathe. Then described this as a memory from his past. It didn't seem anyone attempted to explain to him you don't breathe air in the womb. It was much more likely that it was metaphorical.
Pretty interesting if you realize you don't have to do psychedelics to accomplish something great, nor does taking psychedelics mean you will invent the next PCR technique.
Alone (2015)
Was pretty good up until season 8.
Besides the terrible, cheesy, repetitive, 2000's reality tv editing this show is pretty incredible.
Seriously, save yourself 30mins out of an hour long episode by streaming (not watching live, I can't imagine how boring that would be), and fast forwarding through the repetitive recap, intro, post commercial break, and post episode ramblings. Basically skip the fat and get right to the meat of the show.
The previous seasons (1-7) were amazing. Season 8 should be captioned The Bum Fight: watch 10 people who need money try to survive the longest at a fishless lake, in a land abundantly occupied by an unhuntable predator.
Seriously, It's gone from a survival skill show to a glorified bum fight. "Who needs the money the money bad enough to push themselves to the brink of starvation to win a chunk of money."
Pair it with the terrible, terrible cheesy editing and this season has taken my favorite show and made it nearly unwatchable.