Me 40 – Google

This was a fun movie. I fully expected this to be really bad. Instead, it was funny with good dialogue, good acting, gratuitous gore, and some wild meandering through the plot. I had no idea where this movie was gonna end up, but its fun qualities made it a great journey. I don't understand where the low ratings come from. It's a dark COMEDY. It's not really trying to scare you. Don't listen to them. Watch it with an open mind and form your own opinion. We need more of that nowadays.

This is an extremely entertaining social commentary. (I don't usually like social commentaries.) I've heard it compared to "Squid Games", but it actually has a very different feel. This review is gonna sound pretentious, but that's not what I'm going for. While enjoying this series, my brain was making all of these connections and I was struck by the intelligent writing that made my down time seem like analytical homework BUT made me like it. Like, what?! I truely don't understand how the people with bad reviews couldn't see what the writers were doing here. Spoilers ahead, maybe. As we watch the interactions of the players with each other and see them learn to interpret the extremely basic rules they are given, we really see the rise and fall of society, class systems, and the human's struggle with greed. Although this can obviously be applied to capitalism, it is most definitely applicable to any "ism" you can think of. This is how humans have been built since our earliest days. However, we haven't k---ed ourselves off yet. We survive, we thrive even, because in the end the vast majority of us have an almost unbelievable amount of compassion hiding within us, and we are able to come together and help each other in dire times of need. It's actually really beautiful and made me tear up. It's a very well-written story.

So awful. The acting was good, but the plot was boring and slow--so obviously a "statement". That's enough pushing agendas for me. Yes, "toxic masculinity" is bad. This film doesn't have that conversation with the audience, calmly commiserating over complex characters and a moving storyline. It shoves it down your throat with typical Hollywood self-importance and then the Academy tells you you better swallow it and like it because THIS is film-making at its best.

Really, really, just so terrible. It's only funny when the old characters make brief appearances. However, since the show is really about the kids, it's not worth the watch. The new actors are just awful. I'm sorry, but none of these kids can act and they have zero chemistry together. Their characters have cheesy dialogue and the laugh track goes off after every sentence--none of which are remotely funny. It's like the writers were trying so hard to recreate the magic of the original characters that the new ones became parodies of what they were intended to be. This is a Nickelodeon-quality show with what would be child-level humor, if it wasn't for the adult content. It's awkward, at best.

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore

This was a very disappointing movie. For one, the story was all over the place and nothing felt fleshed out. Second, there were so many extraneous characters just taking up space. Also, Dumbledore and Grindelwald's relationship felt so awkward. In addition, there were so many inconsistencies between this movie (which is supposed to be a PREQUEL to Harry Potter) and the Harry Potter movies we all loved. Why, for instance, don't Dumbledore and McGonagall (or any wizard, for that matter) wear long robes in the past, but they do in Harry's time? You could weakly argue it's a Hogwarts uniform (I mean, there are plenty of scenes in Harry Potter outside of Hogwarts in which they are still wearing robes), but here they are wearing muggle clothes even in the brief Hogwarts scene. Why does practically no one utter a word when using their wands in the past, but Harry's generation has to? Also, why do they make Ezra Miller's character look and feel exactly like a young Snape, when he's supposed to be someone else? Like, that's just Movie 101, right? Make each character look/feel different so the audience can distinguish them in their hearts/minds. There was so much wrong with this film. Ugh. There are few movies I really dislike, but I found myself wondering when this one would end 20 minutes in. This does not deserve to be in the Harry Potter franchise. I find it hard to believe JK Rowling was involved at all. I guess it's all about the money now and the story is an afterthought.

Wow. Congratulations, Showrunners. You've managed to accomplish the seemingly impossible. You've made a worse finale than the original. You had the opportunity to fix a huge faceplant. The nostalgia of seeing Dexter and hearing his voice again provided the opening you needed to pull disappointed fans reluctantly back in to the franchise. Instead, you made it worse than before AND ruined it forever. You should be questioning your life decisions right now. I'm not angry. I'm just disappointed.

Being a 90's kid myself, I really wanted to like this. Ugh. This was TERRIBLE. It's just a bunch of rich, spoiled has-been celebrities complaining about how hard life was for them while they were rich, spoiled celebrities. (Yet, every home video is taken at some party or another. Rough.) I mean, Bryan Austin Green whining about how much it hurt that his RAP career never took off? Come on. I kept waiting for this thing to get better. Instead, I wasted over an hour of my life. I'm willing to forgive you this time, Hulu, but don't do this again. Bad. Bad, Hulu!!