Alex Ramsundar

Trash movie that barely shows the kills. Watching paint dry is as interesting as most of the movie that despite only having about an hour and 20 minutes of runtime, lasts way too long.

Despite a premium premise, the movie manages to be astoundingly boring and absolutely wasted the easy opportunity to tell a good story. Rather than depicting humanity’s initial reaction and fight against the aliens, the movie follows some random people who meander around Manhattan (in New York City) and do not fight aliens. I was excited as I was expecting the movie to showcase the military’s fight against the aliens and how they lost. Rather, the movie forgoes even grazing any interesting topic such as the military adapting their tactics to fight the aliens, international reaction to the alien invasion, or the consideration of the usage of nuclear weapons. I watched the first bit of the credits to see who was responsible for making this garbage out of such a promising concept, and apparently it was a man by the name of Michael Sarnoski. While watching the credits I also noticed that Michael Bay was a producer, and I’m sure that the movie would have been far better had he had full control over the story.

A poorly acted disappointment and social messaging propaganda vessel that seems more like a sitcom. It’s a shame that this was made part of the Stargate franchise, especially following the masterpiece that was Stargate Universe.

Easily the best Stargate show/content with highly enticing plots. It’s a shame the show only got two seasons.

The movie has a decent and original premise, but essentially every character is incompetent and the main characters have no coherent motivations. Overall, the movie is unbelievable, boring at too many intervals, and nonsensical.

The Creator is less derivative than many other Hollywood movies of its time (especially superhero movies), but still has a fairly generic plot, especially regarding the shift in the protagonist. The major issues are not plot-related, and instead pertain to logic. In the movie, “the west” (of which only America is shown) is at war with “New Asia,” a fictional country that widely uses A.I., which has been banned in the west, encompassing the land several southeast Asian countries control in real life, in 2065. Throughout the movie, New Asia is shown to have virtually no air defense as America routinely violates their airspace and is able to land soldiers deep within New Asian territory. The plot revolves around an American vehicle called the U.S.S. N.O.M.A.D. that scans for targets and fires missiles at them from low Earth orbit. An East Asian robot modeled after a child that can grow like an ordinary human was built as a weapon to deactivate electronics and will eventually be able to deactivate the U.S.S. N.O.M.A.D. as her abilities simultaneously grow with her. The Americans are desperate to destroy her as they see her as a threat to their sole source of victory (N.O.M.A.D.), however the U.S.S. N.O.M.A.D. is not even essential to an American victory because of the aforementioned deficiency in New Asian air defense. America could easily win using 20th century technology as the New Asians are shown to be so poorly equipped that they lack drones and artillery. The New Asians’ military ineptitude was highlighted by the Americans’ stupidity. They deployed comically-large vehicles deep into New Asian territory and employed soldiers who walk around as if they are playing Call Of Duty and not real soldiers, and yet still achieved decisively positive results on the battlefield. This lack of realism is not exclusive to The Creator, and rather is fairly common within movies, so it does not detract too much from the movie’s quality. Overall, the movie is an average movie that is fairly generic but lacking abject flaws.

Babylon is well made, but its writing lags far behind its production quality. Despite being set in the 1920s and 1930s, Babylon seems to depict a 21st century society with its LGBT propaganda. Manuel “Manny” Torres is easily the best character while the main protagonist, Nellie LaRoy is quite detestable (although this can be considered intentional, so it is not necessarily a flaw in the writing). The exhibits an anti-elitist message, ironically however, as it is clearly quite elitist itself for its time.

Ms. Marvel is a clear woke pandering attempt. It was completely unsurprising that the writers wanted to push the narrative of Muslims being oppressed while also belittling Muslims for their conservative values.

An entertaining movie with an original motive for the villain, but it’s short and plagues itself with hypocrisy by criticizing a “Stab” movie for including social commentary while this movie does the same with a lesbian character.

This is one of the best movies of all time, and it even surpassed the goal of a movie by increasing the number of people who joined the military. Whether it was meant to be a propaganda/recruitment movie or not (which wouldn’t be a bad thing), it distinguishes itself as an irreplaceable movie by being the only movie to be about planes in such a way and use real jets in its filming. It is a prime example of a patriotic movie, original movie, and high quality movie with the only issue being that it’s too short.