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The Dark Knight (2008)
Good but highly overrated
Take away Heath Ledger and this is a mediocre movie. Christian Bale's Batman seems bored with his role. It's not poorly done it's just completely average. And that voice changer they used when he's in the bat suit is so over the top it's annoying and at times hard to understand.
Harvey Dent/Two Face is basically a cardboard cutout and offers nothing dynamic. It's competently acted because Eckhart is a good actor but his character is blandly written. He openly tells you his traits and motivations, the 'show don't tell' rule is completely thrown out the window for his character.
Rachel Dawes is probably the weakest love interest in any movie considered to be "great". Maggie Gyhlenhaal isn't a bad actress but like Eckhart she isn't given a well written role, everything is tell don't show. There is no real depth to these characters, everything is surface level freshman philosophy class dialogue paired with a standard sappy romance. Also, she just doesn't look like someone who would be in a love triangle with those two men. I'm sorry to say it but if you're not going to give her an interesting personality the character at least has to be highly attractive. Maggie is not highly attractive.
Heath Ledger's Joker is what makes this movie seem more than it really is. He completely immerses himself in the character. But if you take away his interpretation the lines really aren't anything special. Just more freshman philosophy class pandering.
The movie itself is way to long at 2 and a half hours, the whole third act and secondary antagonist seems tacked on and rushed. Two Face did not need to be in this movie, it only slowed things down. This probably should've only been a 100 or 110 minute movie.
I don't think it's a bad film. It's very good if you're into the super hero genre but the rating this movie gets is way out of whack with reality. Probably because of Ledger's performance and the real life events that took place afterwards for him. Lets not kid ourselves, if he didn't pass away he would not have won an oscar for this role. This movie has been romanticized to the point of being highly overrated.
Coherence (2013)
Interesting but, poorly cast, annoying characters, annoying camera work
Not simply for the low budget, that is easily forgiven. But the dialogue is too "pretentious hipster-like" for my taste. Over the top "pretentious hipster-like" to the point of being annoying in my opinion. And this movie is ALL dialogue so if you don't like cliched trendy pretentious hipster talk you're going to have an issue with this film. One character in particular, I don't know if it's intentional, but this one character is cliched hipster to the point of supreme annoyance... talking seriously about feng shui and calling themselves an empath and offering holistic "chill out" medicine. There's also a lot of passive aggressive talking down to each other type of dialogue that some might find makes all the characters come of as pretentious douche bags.
Another thing that is highly annoying is the camera work. It's a mix between found footage and low budget equipment styled shooting. It was kind of headache inducing.
If this was cast better and actually had a script it could of been a pretty good movie but, it wasn't so, while being somewhat of an interesting sci fi plot it turns out to be a very mediocre movie. The 7.2 rating it's currently getting is definitely not deserved, in my opinion, but I'd still recommend it for a viewing if you've got nothing better to do.
The Matrix Resurrections (2021)
It's time to stop now.
It's time to stop giving Lana Wachowski (and his brother for that matter) chances at making big budget movies. The first Matrix was great, the second Matrix was fine, the third Matrix was not good and pretty much everything else they've made after that has been mediocre or down right awful. For Jupiter Ascending alone they should've been given a 10 year timeout. This movie wasn't as bad as Jupiter but, it was still significantly below average. No spoilers and I still say you should see it for yourself but... I'm starting to think they got lucky with the first one and that they don't actually have very much talent. I wouldn't be shocked if someone else was a ghost writer and the Wachowski's just directed the action. Which brings me to another point.... the first Matrix had ground breaking action scenes, the second one wasn't too far behind but everything since has been... meh, things we've already seen before. They're clearly been just mailing it in since 2003. And this latest entry by Lana was clearly just a cash grab. I understand why Hugo and Lawrence passed... whatever they might say in public, the real reason was the script was garbage.
The Chronicles of Riddick (2004)
How does this carry a 6.7/10 on this site?
This is a bad movie. It takes itself way too seriously without having any substance which is a critical failure for any movie. It tries to be a space epic but, it just comes off as stupid. It waste's a pretty decent cast. The writing is seriously sophomoric when it's not being needlessly convoluted. Diesel has a physical screen presence but he can't act to save his life. The special effects come off as window dressing because the writing and plot have no real substance. If you're a pre-teen boy you might enjoy this, maybe. Anyone with half a brain and any amount of critical thinking skills will be bored when they aren't being offended by how stupid the writing is.
Real Time with Bill Maher (2003)
Not What It Used to Be
Recently (the past 12-18 months) this show has gone from left leaning but still a real debate show to a straw man setup for pretentious people to clap at themselves over.
Speaking of clapping, about 25% of the show's runtime (not an exaggeration, it's probably a higher percentage actually) is a studio audience laughing and clapping on cue. It's very obviously dictated by an applause and laughter sign. I really don't understand why show's like this still do that, it's so fake that it actually takes away from Maher's "punchlines". If you need to tell people to laugh and clap at your material that probably means you and/or your writers suck at there jobs.
No matter what your political disposition is, this show has gone downhill from a real debate comedy show to a faux debate "comedy" show. And I'm not the only one who stopped tuning in... 2014 = 4.5 million/episode.... 2020 = 1.4 million/episode. I wouldn't be shocked if this show doesn't make it past 2022 or 23.
Joe Rogan: Strange Times (2018)
Not a natural comedian
He works hard and has been doing this for a long time. You can tell he's well prepared but, he's just not that funny.
His delivery is overly shouty to the point of being annoying. He has strange body language sometimes, like how he grips the mic very tightly and holds his elbow up and out, it's like he's flexing his forearm at the crowd the whole time... it's weird, like a nervous comic thing but he's supposed to be this long term vet of the business and the way he talks about comedy on his podcast you'd think he was in the top tier of stand up comedy.
All that could be forgiven though if not for one thing, his material is pretty bland and at times very shallow. If you've seen his podcast you've heard all of these jokes before. To quote Joe himself "there's an originality problem".
I love his podcast, enjoy his UFC commentating, actually liked Newsradio, but have never been a fan of his stand up. I keep trying to give it a chance because of how he talks about the "process" of creating standup like he's an all time great but I constantly get disappointed but what he puts out on stage. He clearly doesn't have a lot of self awareness when it comes to his standup abilities (dunning kruger effect in action) and I'm starting to think the majority of his comedy fans (and high ratings) are coming from his die hard podcast followers who are more than a little biased.
Watch for yourself though... always.
State of Affairs (2014)
Why? (in a nancy kerrigan post knee smashing voice)
It's really bad. Heigl is miscast, just not believable as a super agent. She seems way too young (not to mention unstable) to be peers with the tippy top of American leadership. Probably should of gotten a stronger lead as this show seems to be completely driven by the main character. It almost seems like they are pandering to 19 year old alcoholic college students that are hoping they can still get wasted every night while being at the top of their professional careers after college. Sophomoric thinking at best, but hey, that means you passed at least one year.
I lost hope for quality writing when a Syrian senior agent sneaks a phone through metal detectors by the ingenious method of ----- putting it under his hat. I guess the machines don't detect metal above the shoulders. There are many more implausible situations but I don't think punishing myself from any further recall of that show is warranted.
If this show continues its trajectory it will irreversibly damage whatever credibility Heigl had left. The pilot was bad enough I won't stick around to find out.