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Don't know where the high ratings come from. This show is not good. It's slow, empty, cliché and totally not "cool" or "tough". Luke Cage was the only show that was nice to watch. Probably something to do with the American cliché of having the worst life, drinking alcohol to drown in your sorrows and having had loss (which we all have in our lives). Being able to relate doesn't make this a good show. Hoped for a surprise, but it's nothing special and even a bit bad..
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@allendar Try to perceive the show from the perspective of a veteran that returned from war. The show is anything but empty, the message is clear in the end, an endless war inside a war veteran, the vengeance story is a perfect metaphor for an internal war that a returned veteran feels. The last scene from the last episode makes this clear.
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VIP8Is it just me or is there some circlejerk going on at Disney where they keep using the same group of actors over and over again for their different brands? Just stop using Taika Waititi already.
The movie itself is pretty whatever.
It reminded me a lot of Onward; you could do a lot worse, but it probably won’t be remembered within the broader Pixar catalogue.
Not a lot of depth or subtext with this one, it’s a pretty straight forward adventure (which is also fine of course).
Some good animation (lots of visual ideas are being pulled from Star Wars), decent voice acting, fine characters, story’s alright.
It’s kinda inoffensive and doesn’t really warrant some of the extreme reactions it’s gotten.
The whole ‘woke’ label is baffling to me, it just seems like a smokescreen certain people use to cover up for their own homophobia, which only emphasizes how the word ‘woke’ carries little to no meaning nowadays.
Any regular person will be fine watching this, regardless of their political leaning.
Ffs, it’s mass entertainment after all.5/10
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@jordyep Agreed on the "woke" part. The same sex relationship didn't feel forced at all, it was well done and just normalized, just like you can see a lot of couples like this in real life. The whole "kiss" discussion leading up to the release was completely overblown, if was barely a peck.
Oh and my 8 years old didn't even register the same sex marriage, for him it was just two adults in love I guess.
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Rosario Dawson crushed it as Ahsoka Tano - call me a fan of the character now. I'm still not sure Dave Filoni can direct live action as well as everyone else hopes, but boy can definitely produce and write well. Episode could have lost at least 5 minutes.
Name drops of Thrawn, hints to Anakin. Season 2 has done a great job with world building. I don't know where Season 2 is leading to and who else we may meet along the way or at the end. And that's exciting.
Also - I have no issues with the name of The Child. It's growing on me.
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@theavereviewer He is Baby Yoda, to me.
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VIP4I have watched the movie in Cinemark preview yesterday, and I can say, well done! The movie is genuine and funny, you will enjoy every moment of it and won't feel bored at all. The dynamic between Ryan and the boy is amazing, and the story, camera, and dialogs are good, and there are some emotional moments too in the movie, plus the action, drama, and sci-fi. I highly recommend watching this movie.
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@ahmedhamdy90 I think the bad guys could have been better, but otherwise the movie was really entertaining. :)
Wtf did I just watch.... on a side note, she definitely did that shit
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@seanmsu well when husband number 2 ends up missing, you can swoop in there and comfort ol'Carole Baskin hahaha
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I loved the conversational scene between the cops and everyone else. I’m really impressed by this film.
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@datbabyaintmine Yes, I loved that scene as well!
[HBO] In the absence of new evidence, the filmmakers launch their main theory: Woody Allen and his PR team have brainwashed the whole world into accepting pedophilia as normal. The master of mass manipulation has made our love for his work prevent us from accepting that he is a sexual abuser. This stupid documentary does a disservice to the version Mia Farrow and Dylan Farrow have defended for so many years.
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I'm confused by your last sentence. Are you saying Mia and Dylan don't feel this documentary represents how they think about the events that have happened? And if so, do you have a source for that?
This is a very good series - has taken me a while to watch it but glad i finally did.
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@jd11 It was always something I’ve been wanting to watch over the last 19 years. Finally watched it during COVID-19 lockdown in March/April 2020. Was so worth waiting for though. And it doesn’t feel like it’s aged at all, if I hadn’t known better I’d say this was made in the 2010’s.
That was boring again, well, until the last 5 minutes or so but Ellie sure did fuck them up.
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@emjay2d :cry: and FU
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The reason I don't like documentaries is that they aren't enough like this one. No narrator, no melodrama, just authentic home videos and interviews with the people involved. A must-watch if you saw the film Foxcatcher.
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@emjay2d Same here! I think that's the best order to see this pair of movies.
This entire show and everyone in it makes me sick to my stomach. Screw all of these people and their sick hobbies.
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@drumnugget being dissgusted and rating a documenatry a 1, thats's not how this works lol
Very slow moving, and WAY too much religion - I had to fast-forward through a lot of tedious monologue. Couldn't finish the 3rd episode - don't care what it was all about.
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@asiacrisp Cause it's still valid to say I gave up at three ... obviously. If you don't like my review, just ignore it!
[Netflix] Without knowing the book on which it's based, this doesn't seem the most successful portrait of white America that, like Amy Adams' character, falls over and over again in the same mistakes. Ron Howard builds a loud, histrionic movie based on a flimsy script, banal dialogue and messy construction. While Amy Adams is contagious of the histrionics of the film, Glenn Close manages to walk in the limit.
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@emjay2d Well, the book "Hillbilly Elegies" has as subtitle "A memoir of family and culture in crisis", referring to the values of Appalachian culture, which have their origin in European colonization. The writer Nancy Isenberg referred to them in her book "White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America" (2017), in which she speaks of the "evacuation of Britain's human 'waste' from the country's slums as part of the English nobility's efforts to 'fertilize' the New World ". In a New York Magazine article, titled "No sympathy for Hillbilly," Franck Rich wrote that "maybe, they’ll keep voting against their own interests until the industrial poisons left unregulated by their favored politicians finish them off altogether."
In my opinion, the film fails in that description of this part of the United States (it would have been more interesting if it had gone beyond the simple family story of a drug addicted mother), and therefore I think that "this doesn't seem the most successful portrait of white America ".
