Watched May, 2025.
The acting was mediocre, the scenery was cheap, and the sci-fi tech required an infinite amount of memory for data that can't be acquired in the first place. In the end, the bad people are brought down by exactly what every viewer knows can't work, but then they live happily ever after doing what was just proven to fail. What I really don't understand is the 7.6 rating on IMDB.
Watched March 16, 2011.
This was so violently twisted that the characters had to be unbelievable, and even a guy like Pacino has to overact in a movie like this. An unrealistically large amount of stuff happens in what is supposedly 88 minutes.
Watched January 6, 2016.
Generally bad script and acting. Who would like the main characters? No one has any personality, aside from being fetishist whack jobs.
Watched April, 2025.
This would have been a 5, but I had to deduct a point for the inexplicable final 15 minutes. Sorry Nicole, you and Antonio weren't hot enough or sexy enough, and the fantasy wasn't erotic enough, to get a better rating. Stick with Fifty Shades of Grey, essentially the same plot, I gave that a 3 but at least the chick is hot.
Watched April 10, 2025.
This is agonizingly slow; this movie should be a half-hour long. The college researcher puts the preacher in his place but then the preacher walks quietly away. The church members don't want to believe the kid, but they are not questioned about whether they believe what the Bible says about Jesus. The Lithuanian subplot could have been better used. Presumably the preacher's financial problems were resolved by the book and movie deals, but the movie does not call his motivations into question. Was the kid's experience profound or just monetizable?
Watched April 2, 2025.
In real life, any sacred text can be interpreted to suggest contradictions and other errors. In order to suggest that all sacred texts are wrong, the screenplay's character must pick interpretations as if they are the one and only interpretations. For all the man's intelligence and study, he apparently never talks to anyone who can argue with him in as as an equal. This leaves only young girls who come to his door. If that's the best the writers can do, it's just a run-of-the-mill horror flick and it gets a 7. The girls are too smart for teenagers, the man is too smart for an evil recluse, and the ending shows that the writers were not smart enough to invent a truly satisfying twist.
Watched April 1, 2025.
A movie about a folk singer can only be so exciting. It is hard to imagine why any women found such a brooding whiner to be attractive, especially as portrayed by an actor (Chalamet) who looks like a 12-year old, but sex and lovers' spats are the only excitement there could possibly be in Dylan's life. The reenactment of Newport was interesting, but even then, Dylan was a brooding whiner. The best scene is where Al Kooper hits the organ on "Like a Rolling Stone". Taylor Swift should watch this to see how a melody can have more than two pitches.
Devs Watched May, 2025. The acting was mediocre, the scenery was cheap, and the sci-fi tech required an infinite amount of memory for data t...
