Like most PG-13 offerings, Searching is just emmental: full of holes, cheesy and too much will make you queasy. And it's not really gouda.
The movie's not a total waste, however. The found footage aspect (the film is entirely presented through screen activity on mobile phones, laptops, desktops...) is well done and the actors often hit their marks.
The film's major drawbacks, however, are the ending, which we know as soon as we see the film's MPAA rating (no matter how clever they think they are at trying to convince us otherwise) and the WTFs, like the police don't check a missing teen's text messages and no one has ever heard of catfishing .
Hey, if the film isn't going to give me any credit, I'm certainly not above doing the same.
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Try to use spoiler alert. By the way, I see your reviews often. Is there any movie you have liked? Or just "review" the ones you don't Only?
No trolling, just curious. And please, again, there's a spoiler warning, use it? Cheers
Wow Love is so stupid
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Both are. Kinda like her better cause she's impulsive, and a totally different psycho, an enigma even to herself.
Also her "novice" ways, are funny, Joe's? Every episode, more boring, he's just a Dexter without a real cause (the love of his life, c'mon. At first glance. Not even chasing, etc. He sees, he already knows... Hopefully he'll get it wrong (and Marianne alive lol)
Marvelous. wow. It's so marvelous.
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Indeed.
And cleverly so.
Huzzah
this better get another f*cking season, oh my god
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Huzzah!
Can't believe it already ended, so much wait!
I'm disappointed. She failed but without consequences at the end (everything is restoted as the beginning of the episode itself) and the patriarc's behaviour is no-sense. What's the point of all?
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It's a comedy. Loosely based on real events...
80% was decent but they Netflixed it for their Millenial audience and the ending was so aweful that it ruined the whole movie for me. That's why I prefer HBO shows - they are for adults and don't need ridiculous, unrealistic over-acting or over-writing to keep their audience edutained till the end.
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Totally agree on 'Netflixed..' spot on
I can’t make my mind up about this. One minute it appears really interesting, and the next it looks like a CW drama. I like the idea of it, and the way it delves into the effects of cults, but sometimes it’s just like any other show aimed at a teenage audience.
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Thought that too. Maybe, some balance, as it touch a very dark (an real, though the series isn't based on a real story it is a mix of all the cults) heavy,complex some things might seem unbelievable.. But they do happen.
In my opinion, mixing with teenage drama also has a a point as they are usually the easiest targets of these cults.
Without it, it would be a documentary.
OOOH F**K here we go again
I said and I'll say it again
Love will be Joe's downfallshe's so stupid and impulsive
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Not sure if she's going to be his downfall (me thinks he's already just repeating himself without a clue, versus the past, he had some ideal of YOU.. Now he's easy at psycho with an idea of what he wants, seemingly... Looooove at FIRST GLANCE, big jump)
Love? She has been, weirdly, the most entertaining part of the the show.
Thanks love for killing theo! irritating brat
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As teenager coming on age, mostly aren't... But.. Ooops.. I see a zombie
OOOH man Joe gonna be NEXT level beast for Theo I'm sure
also Love WTF get your shit together
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I thought that at first episodes. Now I'm sort of getting bored of Joe's sudden yet again finding the one and all that will follow.
I'm more inclined now on Love. She's f*cked up, but different, impulsive. Dunno, like a grasp of new air of methodical Joe, that until now hasn't shown something new (character or psycho wise)
Found myself amused by the oops of Love, and watching Joe's dealing with it and his so called purpose, to be a good husband. What? OK. Lol
Louis CK & Pamela Adlon.. What can go wrong? Pamela's time to shine!
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True. But... Noe, That statement is not showing it. Season 4, things are starting to get too much filler. Hope it's just this couple of episodes. I love the show, but there is getting a bit too much filler and not engaging. Crossing fingers!
This show is so odd. It's trying to slip in serious moments in an overall goofy type of show. You can't have serious and goofy at the same time when the serious really is serious, it'll just feel disjointed, and rightfully so. Pick one or the other. While the goofy aspect has been enjoyable so far, you might as well become more serious and drop the goofiness all together, or settle down with the serious aspects that are slipped in here and there. There's no in-between.
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In between, as in... Dramedy?
There are all kinds of mixes a show, film, xab do, and there are a lot of them. Another thing is if you like that or not.
Yes they can and they do mix goofy with drama and serious issues.
There isn't a rule, but you have an option. To watch it, or like it, or not. It's really simple.
Ever see a movie and you suddenly realize your IQ is dropping? That's this movie. I seriously cannot believe this movie got made, or that anyone in charge of the budget signed off on it. It's horribly dull, just scene after scene of people dancing and partying. These four "ladies" go on "spraang braaaake" and bad stuff happens. I kept waiting for the point, but really, the movie has nothing to say other than "look at these ladies in their bikinis." I guess the "moral" is that you shouldn't do bad things or bad things might happen to you? Maybe?
My least favorite part was the constant repetition of lines. I feel like the "writers" couldn't come up with good dialogue, so when they found something they liked, they repeated it. At one point, the girls get arrested, and they keep saying "it wasn't supposed to be like this" over and over. I'm not kidding, I think they said it six or seven times. The film is visually stunning, if I'm being positive. They spent a LOT of money on neon lights and fake guns...and swimsuits. SO MANY swimsuits, and so many closeups of women in swimsuits. I kinda feel like the director graduated from "Girls Gone Wild" to artsy films, but this need more plot, character arcs, and less of James Franco's teeth. If you want to hear people say "spraang braaaake forevvvvvahhh" many MANY times, go for it.
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I agree 100% with you. Loved the way you stated, about feeling my IQ dropping. Made me laugh out loud, but so true.
I'm amazed it was made. And, mostly that I watched it entirely.
Well, was kind of half watching halfway, while not paying full attention.
Surprised this got into my watch list, I added it after seeing it recommended with good reviews HERE and Letterboxd.
Guess I just didn't, or failed to get the goodness of the movie that sites, critics and etc, viewed and was considered a "must"
For me, a must forget I saw it. Kinda already did
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Coppola agreed to do Part 2 if Al Ruddy was not involved. But based on what we've seen in the previous 9 episodes, their working experience wasn't that bad. And he chose to walk away?
loading replies@the_argentinian Not Al Ruddy, but Bob Evans. - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071562/trivia/?item=tr2761910&ref_=ext_shr_lnk
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Thanks for the link Very interesting! Adds more info to what I would swear it has a lot more.
I love the characters, the plot and even find the ending acceptable, now I’m just hoping Ryan Murphy doesn’t ruin it with season 2.
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That maybe it's too much asking. It's what he does best (Murphy)
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Alright, I did not see that ending coming at all. I am sad. Orlo was my favourite character, I loved how chaotic he became with every season that progressed, and now that's over... I guess it's because the actor got different roles. But regardless, I'm going to have to take a moment before I continue the rest of the season. It feels a little weird to have lost the one character who really wanted for Peter to die, and I will miss the perspective he brought to the story, hopefully they'll have a character who will take his place.
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It's one of the bits based on facts, a Lil bit hurried but things are going fast.
They presented well his loss of faith on the entire chaos surrounding, and his loyalty and respect lost.
Besides that, the kick start was chaotic as the series goes, compared, a lot more, the could have represented the frenzy n chaos not THAT overdone on some parts? Yes. My opinion!
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If the Terminator and Chucky met at a BDSM club and one of them got pregnant, M3gan would be the result. As cool as the doll is, the movie itself should've been better. Watch with low expectations and you won't be disappointed.
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Indeed! I can totally see it now. What a lovechild!
The premise of '40ies US americans taking on german fashism seems unrealistic.
They show video material from WWII in the beginning, so the war should still be happening.Anti-Semitism certainly did exist and open hate was certainly a posibility, but it wouldn't have manifested in people acting like bavarians on US streets.
Otherwise nothing special really - We had so many alternate History nazi stories over the last decade - its starting to wear out its effect.
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@player8472 and being 2022... They don't act like barbarian, 2021, none. Thumbs up
This is a weird one. It's intriguing but as @jecht-sin says, there's a lot of stuff wrong in this opening episode.
Just as weird is that Suzanne Mathis - the biggest flaw of this show, a psychiatrist, is re-assigning her daughter's room just like that, taking away her autonomy and privacy. Something she shouldn't do if she is in any way a competent psychiatrist and no, the fact she wanted to talk to her daughters before meeting Mae while "Ju-Ju-Jules" cut her off isn't changing that decision. A psychiatrist should probably know something about the psyche, triggers, emotions and human behaviour, yet Suzanne is dense af, doesn't even bother with her own daughters, plural, because she is so self-absorbed that she never asks the important questions but rather likes to say the emptiest of words given the chance, coming off as patronizing rather than empathetic or supportive. Just to feed her own obvious narcissism.
Suzanne apparently went through something similar as Mae, our victim, as it was hinted at in this episode so she identifies with her more than she probably should. Obviously Suzanne has some past she wasn't able to overcome yet by becoming a psychiatrist or did become one to help others overcome their traumas. Either way, that is her reasoning to go above and beyond in this story for Mae, to the detriment of her own family. Sucks to be Jules, I guess, excluded in High School by her own sister, ostracized in a sense by her own mother.
I do not find that or the Suzanne character believable at all, nor likable. It's full of clichès and really boring.Take a traumatized young woman, who was severely tortured, covered in blood, refuses to speak until the threat/pressure of being shipped off is made and put here in a household of a wife and husband with three other daughters. That seems a bit overbearing and dangerous for the family. But then again, that is the actual plot of this show.
Who, in their right mind, would think this is the correct environment to throw that, perhaps mentally unstable, person in? After just a few days barely enough to medically examine her. I guess, trying to force a "normal" environment can be helpful, but that should probably be eased in to avoid any trigger to go off or prevent alienating your own family in this process (Mae taking over Jules' place for example, the already troubled pubescent teen - drama inbound). This whole situation should have been discussed with the daughters beforehand and without Mae being present. Her being there is a "this is the situation, you cannot do anything against it, Jules, you move out of your room, now"-drama-TV-setup. It's manipulative and incredibly toxic coming from a psychiatrist mother.
But the blessing should have been discussed somehow, too. But ignored for making this more mysterious than it needs to be. Meh.The husband is spineless who should just have said that the buyer pulled out and he couldn't sell the house.
Oh, the mortgage and shame after that little speech/love bombing of his wife, who is a surprisingly shitty listener and uncappable of reading emotional cues, booho. But I guess, it further supports my claim of her being narcisstic, making him the victim of abuse here, so I perhaps shouldn't be too hard on him - yet.
However, this subplot is another unbelievable clichè to make up drama that's going to only serve the plot somehow later on I am sure.I liked Emily Deschanel in Bones, early-to-mid seasons. Unless there's a twist like her character is somehow the mastermind (not a victim) behind the cult, giving reasons to why she is the way she is Deschanel should have declined to be a part of this.
She's doing okay with what she is given but she is never believable whatsoever.
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C'mon it's one episode, and everything already figured it out. No need to spoil, but it gets complex and all what doesn't seem right,...
Oh well. I'm defining a TV series. It develops. Not on one episode!
There is so much wrong on this episode. A girl gets found in the middle of the street, abused, with wounds clearly depicting an evil symbol and for three days no policeman (or woman) shows up. No guards, nothing. And the dear doctor even takes her home, to live with her kids, because the county has no funds or whatever. No discussion about the blessing either.
Oh well, it’s a mini series. Hopefully it will have few scares, no matter how stupid.
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Stupid?as cults do not exist. And in one episode, akkn must be cleared...
Better to watch a documentary? Just saying.
Dani, probably the only likable character in this besides Detective Lopez, is absolutely adorkable but I think she is severely neglected in this family. She's shoved to the side way too often or just used as a plot device. Given she is the adopted child that is very telling about the entire family and their dynamic. So much for "fitting in", more like she falls through the cracks of this family. Cracks we saw in this episode, especially between the parents.
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Fitting and belonging it's mostly as it is shown, and known, the way of cults work. Targeting young people, the better, as they don't understand, feeling as they belong is the point. Also from the victim point, belonging to that family, willing to (whether she does or not it's for a viewer to realize, I guess by this episode) she wants to rely, belong, is easily surprised to any sign of acceptance.
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Why did I spend 8x 40 minutes of my life watching a tv show where absolutely nothing happens? I had high hopes for the last episode, but forget it: nothing ever happens!
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Probably because you had high hopes...? You decide what to watch..or as you also said, spend hours of life..
Just saying... I think nobody forced you
Comments like these baffles me.
Disclaimer
There's no bad intention on this comment. It's an opinion.
This film was so pretentious that the people in the cinema weren't fake laughing, they were fake chortling.
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Maybe they thought it something like Pirates of the Caribbean,... Something easy.
Ok wow that was good. Like really good.
Man just a lot of fun.
So plot wise this is a movie about two people both of whom are bad people. They meet happenstance and find out they're both going to the same destination wedding. Lindsay is the former fiance of the groom (he left her) and Frank is his half-brother. They both hate the groom Keith but it barely unites them as they both just hate everything.
This plotline sounds familiar because it's basically all you need to know to watch FX's absolutely excellent You're the Worst. But this is just a movie version of that pilot. So what you really look for in this movie is not so much the plot which we all know (Boy meets girl, ... , They get together), but the chemistry and how they get together. Ryder and Reeves have EXCELLENT chemistry and the writing was top notch. Which it had to be because this movie is 90% Lindsay and Frank riffing off one another. It doesn't feel improvy or forced. But the sheer endurance of the back and forth between them is impressive. They should be together based on that alone. But Keanu plays a character that in other people's hands would feel lazy and dull. I love Bruce Willis movies but ever since I learned he has a rider that says he films his parts in like 2 days and then collects his money and they film the rest of the movie. It suddenly clicks what is wrong with his performances lately. It's that he's not performing. Reeves does the oppsite here. He takes a character that is written as lifeless and stiff and he performs that stiffness. Ryder's Lindsay on paper is pathetic. Keith broke off their engnagement like a dick but she sues him and is still coming to this Destination Wedding performatively instead of saying no and sparing herself the pain. Ryder infuses her with pain and anger and spite. Yet she's develops a hesitant but honest and open affection for Frank that keeps her interesting.
This is exactly the sort of movie I would buy just to have on tap when I need something to watch that's entertaining but not stupid.
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Agreed. Nice review, hope it helps to not letting it go, at first sight. (yep they're annoying at first. A lot. It flows.
Many left in there it seems :-(
Hilarious! How can you not get it. It's hilarious! I cackled.
The whole sequence when they crept away from the wedding, the mountain lion and the sex scene, was hilarious!
Also, his character, despite his dour protestations, is INCREDIBLY SWEET. From his first word to her to that annoying noise he was making just before she opened the door.
Just very funny... I liked it a lot.
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Yes! How they start, and how they interaction flows through, gets as you said, sweet, gives also a good point of view.
It's a boy!
Lol
Winona Ryder and Keanu Reeves star in the satiric romantic comedy Destination Wedding. The film follows two misanthropes who are paired together at a destination wedding as they critique each other, the wedding activities, life, and love. Both Ryder and Reeves give strong performance, and prove able to carry the film; which is entirely focused on their two characters. And, the witty banter is incredibly clever and has a nice rhythm and style to it. Still, it can get a little raunchy and nihilistic – which kills the romance vibe. It’s a bit of a gimmick film and is kind of limited by the two character format, but Destination Wedding is entertaining and delivers some laughs.
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As you said, it's a satire. Isn't going to be full of jokes, easy ones, there's a lot of sarcasm, and observations hidden. I agree with most of what you expressed, don't understand the so low rating. Seems contradictory
My take. :-)
It was nice to see both Winona and Keanu aging well and in display of their fine acting skills. Loved the movie, I found it hilarious !! Great ending too..
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The ending is surprisingly hilarious and with a nice message. Nice twist of of them interacting...
I can't believe I'm saying this about a movie with Winona Ryder and Keanu Reeves, but this is insufferable.
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Why? Weird reviews here
I don't like it. Why. Because I don't
Seems to be the style of bad "comment /review./critic.
Says nothing.
They were good on Dracula,
Here they are doing comedy, sadly is taken as rom com or just another comedy.
It's what can you expect from these two actors. Hysterical on purpose, let's say. There's a point in that bickering that's repeatedly been written here,... If maybe patience to let it flow.
(it got annoying for me at first, almost as you said insufferable.. But I kept watching, seems to be the same, not linear. That bickering gets a click. Just my take. Just wanted to know the why, of many reviews of one word. It's bad, not even watched, or.. The worst movie. Says nothing. Sorry, I don't want to be offensive... Started asking why, and ranting. My fault.
incredibly pretentious script full of cynicism. I loved it. its a great black comedy about the possibility of hope.
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Agreed. Added to the protagonists chemistry, and improv dialogue,
Witty and dry, snarky, sarcastic humor. Loved the neurosis full on smoothly changing.
Some parts reminded me of some W. Allen films, but darker, yet neurotic absurd and cynically fun.
It's two people bickering. No I didnt watch the whole movie. I couldn't take it that long.
Winona says JD powers gives out awards, and Kenu responds no that's the magazine. I was just so confused. JD powers does give out awards, so I didn't understand why Kenu mentioned a magazine at all! It seemed like the bickering wasn't even trying to be factual. He was just trying to disagree no matter what was said.
They weren't having a real conversation. From what they were saying, I wondered why they would keep talking, and if the whole movie was like this.... then I turned it off.
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Couldn't take it, or couldn't understand it?
Apologies, it's a true question, got me curious as to why rated low, didn't saw it entirely, it's about two people bickering, but that bickering isn't understood.
If I don't get what you wanted to express, please, sorry. (And my written English sucks, I know, it doesn't helps )
Puzzled with reviews /comments about films that get low rating based on not watching it entirely, (my thing, even if i don't like it but already 20'/30' I keep watching, even those that I don't understand or don't like it. Many times found that waiting paid off or try to understand is also a challenge, finding movies that I considered bad at first, did end up differently. (Same as seeing a movie for second time after a long time,.. N one gets a better take on it)
It's a pity that many get bad rating (and many people guide themselves with them, yes) when they haven't seen it even half. Not understanding does not mean isn't good or bad, I personally think one can say it's good /bad based on making an effort. Some movies are a complex, or have a different kind of humor (of many) some seem complex, but you get to understand the difference of not your cup of tea, a mediocre, or a mess. Or giving it a chance, a nice surprise.
Eh, got over myself. End..... Hiding..
