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Banged Up Abroad: From Hollywood to Hell (2012)
WHO the frak's Erik Aude?!?!
I watched this show's first few series (seasons, in the States), and then - I can't recall why - I stopped.
Not that I didn't enjoy the programme.
One thing I have real issues with (and it's a real biggie when it comes to reality-based shows) is stupidity.
When one becomes an adult, you're responsible for your actions - good OR bad. I've seen (on shows such as Judge Judy) people who didn't think they were guilty of something because it was an... (ugh🙄) accident.
When they say things like this, I realise how fast and low the average intelligence of people in first-world countries was plummeting.
Ok, back to this episode; it's about a gentleman named Erik Aude (described as an 'actor who was tricked into smuggling opium').
I've NEVER heard of this... person, and from seeing him... talking, he's FAR from being the 'sharpest pencil in the drawer'.
He sounds like a dumb kid in a 'roided-up adult male's body (with the requisite crew-type haircut and having a neck which is wider than the average adult male's waist).
Hearing him say (and giggle! This guy giggles constantly. I'm NOT talking about over jokes, but ANYthing, such as) 'I got taken to death row', and listening to his, well, his stupidity (Erik seriously wonders why the DEA can't get him out of jail....in PAKISTAN. A foreign country - and NOT just any foreign country, but one where English ISN'T the national language, and being a Muslim nation, they're not 'rah-rah' on Western countries in general).
He sounds like a plastic Ken doll brought to life and everything he says it's just so much pablum.
After being locked up for a year, his family sets him up with a lawyer, who offers him a chance to get out in 4 months. All he's got to do is plead guilty (he claims he knew nothing about the crime he was charged with) drug smuggling, (what else?), the lawyer will give (pay off) the judge US$1 thousand, and he'll be home within four months.
He couldn't plead guilty because of his pride.
Erm, personally, if this had been me, I'd plead guilty to having killed Archduke Ferdinand to get the hell out of this nasty foreign prison.
If that's not enough for this muscled moron when he's not giggling (SO irritating), he next talks about some infamous guard who's had 'over 500 images or to death'.
What does this beef slab do?
If we're to believe him, he said he turned to the 'evil guard in a rather gentle-sounding voice that, NO, he won't give him any money, etc.
Everything this guy says sounds like it's from a really terrible, cliché-riddled script.
This person makes Steven Shal look like the most underrated, brilliant actor/genius.
Listen; if you have a brain, DON'T watch this episode unless you're a masochist.
The people who'd like this episode are the ones who-well, it takes a bunch of them to have their combined IQ in the double digits.
The Rake (2018)
👎🏼👎🏻👎DON'T waste A SECOND OF YOUR LIFE ON THIS! 👎🏿👎🏼👎🏾👎🏻
I've NEVER said the following, and I can't believe I'm even saying it.
First, this so-called 'film'-aside from the usual reasons to discourage viewers (poorly written, terribly acted, etc.)-has two other reasons, one of which had not really been so noticeable until a couple of decades or so ago. The last reason-well, until I say it-it's SO 'out-there' that I'm STILL in a bit of shock.
The second reason no one should see this is that it's made without any members of either SAG-AFTRA (those are the actors) or IATSE (that's probably the best-known of the myriad of behind-the-camera unions that help make the films everyone sees and (either) loves and/or hates).
I'm NOT saying there's no room for independents.
What I AM saying is that since the technology needed, which enables practically anyone the ability to make a high-quality, professionally-appearing film, is now affordable, its most significant effect has been to do just that: let ANYone become an auteur, whether or not they had talent.
Just because a monkey can paint DOESN'T mean it'll paint better than Matisse!
The last reason NO ONE should see this is so frightening, so out there, it's STILL hard for me to believe.
At one point in this mess, a 'character' says, or more accurately, recalls (in vivid accuracy - for her, at least) having a pregnancy terminated.
Let me take a moment to say I've lived my entire life in a democracy, and in that democracy, in an area where people are educated and understand that 1) people who don't have a good education tend to be religious and have relatively rigid views of morality.
This applies anywhere on this planet. It's not an idea; it's an easy-to-verify fact.
I'm not belittling anyone's views/beliefs, but at the same time, those very same moral/religious people tend to feel it's 'ONLY their ways' that should be abided by in a democracy.
Unfortunately, as we move forward in time, these people's views become more ossified (stiff, rigid).
I've NEVER heard (in ANY film, NOT even including those 'racy'-type films, such as the ones made (in the 30s-50s) about the 'dangers' of the pot, a film about a woman giving birth, and perhaps the best-known, 'Freaks', about carnival sideshow workers) ANY film in which such a graphic (and 'amped-up' to 'scare' everyone, even those whose political/religious beliefs are not the same as theirs) scene.
There's a separation between one's profession and personal life.
Many (natural, and by this, I mean any SAG-AFTRA member) actors throughout Hollywood's history had political and/or personal beliefs that were not the same as those of the film (project) they were attached (agreed) to make.
Most people would be amazed if they searched for 'actors whose religious beliefs were conservative' to see whose name(s) would pop up.
How DARE ANYONE decides, 'Hey, I'm of a conservative religious belief, and by making a scary film, I can subtly incorporate some things so people will be more tuned to believe as I do'.
For this ALONE, the persons who bankrolled, wrote, directed, and produced this garbage should NEVER be allowed to make anything to be viewed by the public again.
Tales of Tomorrow: Verdict from Space (1951)
People actually gave this readings above a '5'?!?!
I love sci-fi. I love the old sci-fi shows. I just saw this - my first episode of this series, ama found it so poorly written, still horribly acted (of I had to hear Lon Macalister overreact for one more moment...)
I'm not going to spoil the plot - what there is of it is so threadbare, but I will say this; the big plot point of this episode is about aliens (no, we never see them, or anything, but still, they're important) who obviously are located millions of miles - and many light years away
The whole in this plot is SO ridiculous, SO large it makes the logic of this episode a joke.
Without giving anything away, I'll put it this way; if you - somehow - had the capability of knowing that something (which currently spent even exist!) WILL eventually exist, and then - after even MORE time you KNEW - ALL of this in advance - that you wanted to get rid of it, WHY the heck would you WAIT - ALL THAT TIME!?!?!
Example; you moved into a totally clean residence, and even knew there were NO 'crawlies'or rodents either currently living in truss pave, or even currently capable of living in it, you 'just KNEW' that - after living there for half a century there'd be something which DIDN'T cause your any problems, didn't interact with your or your food, or anything else, and THEN, safety let's say 75 years, when your son had taken over the property with his family, ONLY then would some vermin enter, why would you WAIT ALL that time - doing nothing - ama only deal with the vermin 125 years after the fact?!?!
If that's not cuckoo enough, all I'll say about the big plot point is that 'it' is faster than the transporter on the Enterprise (and a HELLUVA lot further!)
Add to this the leed actor (Lon Macalister) is SUCH a scenery chewer, constantly shrieking.
Annoying as as hell
His character's pulled into the 'plot' through through NO discernable logic - and but a supposed 'professor', who's dumber than wood, and dumber to Look Macalister, who - through no logic - instantly becomes the smartest person anywhere.
Ugh.
Listen; this is only the first episode of this series I've ever seen, and there's many episodes left.
I can't believe there all this paper-thin dreadful (I HOPE!), but what's also VERY scary is just before I began scrawling this, I was SHOCKED to see there's people who actually give this offal '7' and HIGHER! It just shows how VALUABLE education is, ama homeschooling (or, more accurately, 'hom skuling', and all the narrow-mindedness that's become endemic in the past several decades (esp in Southern and Midwestern American States) is REALLY taking its toll on more ways than one.
If (IF!) Tales of Tomorrow has much better episodes than this (and the bizarre thing is broadcasters usually try to get the first episode to be REALLY good, because that's when people are most likely to view a new show), all I can say is DON'T watch this episode.
Anthony's Animation Talk: Hurdy-Gurdy Hare (1950) - An Anthony's Animation Talk Looney Tunes Review (2022)
Utter garbage idea.
I doubt they've gotten licensing rights from Warner Bros. For the use of the(ir) cartoon(s), so to do nothing more than 'review' it is as pathetic as anyone on Y--T-b-who makes (so-called) 'react' videos.
Besides, I seriously doubt anything some no-name, no history, no credentials person can say SEVENTY PLUS years AFTER these iconic cartoons were made can offer anything 'new' and/or revelatory.
It's one thing when a learned person (i.e., someone with a well-known history in a given field) offers their insights into a subject, such as a Mary Beard, who's book and documentaries are only part of what this well-known, well-liked historian does.
Hell; even cracking open a book by someone like a Roger Ebert - who's history as a film reviewer is well-known AND also verified (it's pretty fair to say that if Mr Ebert gave a film a 'thumb's up', most people who are fans of his will enjoy somethi g he says is 'good').
That's totally differ not from someone with NO background, NO anything saying aomethi g similar (as an example; how many people out there know ME? Know my reputation - in terms of film and TV, and can comfortably say, 'well if he liked/disliked something, I trust him'.
Well? How many? I'd say zero.the only thing I - or anyone in today's totally screwed-up world where anyone who wants, can proclaim their 10-secomds of 'fame'- which totally DEFEATS the IDEA of 'fame', is to say, 'look, even though you don't know me, and have no reason to trust me, I want to offer my feelings about why - the idea - of someone (a totally unknown) must be taken VERY warily, if even viewed or listened to at all.
That doesn't mean - nor is it the same - as listening to, or watching someone 'new', who's not yet developed a large enough feedback from their WORK (and, it ultimately IS just that; W-O-R-K. Whilst Ms Beard and Mr Ebert are well-known, that's ONLY after they put MUCH EFFORT and HARD WORK to develop their reputations. They DIDNT do - as MANY talentless - people are trying to do today - get the NAME FIRST).
Who knows what this person's motives are - aside from trying to 'get a name for themselves' by using - without paying for - a well-known commodity (Bugs Bunny).
Whether it's this person, or another, I ALWAYS say; BE VERY CAUTIOUS!
Offseason (2021)
An 'emergency' at a cemetery? That alone is one the most idiotic premises I've ever heard!
Here's the set-up:
A young woman receives a letter (yes, this film WAS made only 3-4 years ago) from the cemetery where her mum's buried. The letter states her mother's plot has been vandalised. She's to come there as soon as possible, and with 'utmost discretion'.
Ok, right off the bat, this alone is so inept that it's frightening grown adults have been given ANY funding to film.
What kind of 'emergency' could be so severe that the next of kin couldn't handle it over the phone and at their convenience?
"Instead of roses, the latest monthly flowers arrived for your mother's tomb, and they're daisies."
"Oh, my goodness! Cancel our trips, book an emergency flight to get to this cemetery in person, go to the nearby florist, and speak - in PERSON - with whoever mucked it up! Damn it; I don't care if I've to waste these airline tickets to Bali; just book me on any flight to the closest airport near the cemetery! Don't forget a hotel room and everything else, because - daisies, my god, I will be stuck with this 'urgent emergency' for months!!!"
The 'utmost discretion' bit, even the royal Windsors don't need 'discretion' - when someone's ALREADY dead, there's NOTHING that - in ANY way - demands urgency.
This is the film's set-up, folks. If your intelligence is higher than that of a grain of rice, hearing this is enough to make you roll your eyes and say, 'I think I could better spend my time holding my breath than watching a film whose plot is so ridiculous, any intelligent 5-year-old would say, 'this sounds like crap.'
As Judge Judy Scheindlin's book cover said, "Don't pee on me and tell me it's raining," there's a given that going to any film involves suspending a certain amount of disbelief, it's garbage like this - 'written' (and I use that word VERY lightly) by someone who has the intelligence of a 'pinhead' baby which makes so many things made in the past couple of decades, AWFUL.
This is what a generation brought up doing nothing more than video games, F'booking, schools which don't teach, and having parents who told them they're the 'best in the whole world' brings:
Garbage. Its just as if the film Idiocracy's become reality, and everyone's an idot.
Hellraiser (2022)
Is it REALLY almost impossible to make a(t least a semi-)terrific film from Clive Barker's classic?!?!
If you're older (than a so-called 'millennium') than, I guess...30-ish, there's a pretty good chance you've got (higher) intelligence (than those above), who will think this film's far better than the people NOT fun that group.
I remember the first film, and I won't pretend it was 'great'; it DID have essential aspects. First, it was directed by Mr Barker, so, at the very least, it got what HE wanted to record as a visual record of HIS story.
The budget wasn't top-drawer, but despite that, the film cemented the central theme of Hellraiser and how the appearances of the Cenobites would look, especially the main one, who was (unfortunately) nicknamed Pinhead (much to Mr. Barker's dislike). I don't keep up with... well, anything, so I only saw this by happenstance, and (happily?) surprised, said to myself, 'I hope today's CGI can help to give 'bite' to the realm of the Cenobites, as well as other aspects of Mr Barker's POV.
I DESPISE the idea of 're-boots', in general. To me - someone who's been in the business my entire adult life (and coming from a background comprised of others who worked in it as well), the ONLY purpose of a 'reboot' is to for out paying residuals to any/all parties involved, by rewriting the script, and - other than using the barest of minimal pieces of the original - fashion something new, hire actors who won't demand an outrageously high salary.
The result is it almost ALWAYS alienates the people who LOVED the original, and if the reboot's successful (that's NOT the same thing as 'liked'), the studio can make sequels, and - if the actors (who appeared in the reboot and) whose performances helped to generate money for the reboot makers) salary requests are... 'too much', they can be chucked (just like the original film's been), and totally 'green' actors can take over (at a fraction of the cost of the reboot actors), and their 'cash cow' just starting to give 'milk' (money). That's why many of these reboots get made - and they seem to be getting made more frequently.
The only one (who I HOPE) who's come out of THIS reboot (with a LOT of money) is Mr Barker because it's HIS (basic) creation. Otherwise, like rotting garbage, it stinks.
Waking Up Dead (2022)
The average iq of the world's PLUMMETED (RAPIDIDLY)
That ANYONE (with an auctioning brain) would give his piece of amateurish junk ANY (high) rating is frightening, but that these people think this (garbage) is brilliant, or the best thing these ever seen, should tell anyone STAY IN SCHOOL. Don't waste your time/life away on (anti)social media and video games.
Seeing that these cretins rated this mess as high as they did gives me shivers when I think that they are now reproducing (forget trivial nonsense like having a job, education, and just party, this is the real world-version of 'Idiocracy'. No one could make up trash like them - or this 'film), or more accurately, this 'digitally shot on ...something' if they tried to.
No, this isn't even watchable, and the dopes who rate things like this give the idea of legalising mandatory post-foetal abortion to anyone over 18 who's failed to graduate, failed to get/look for work, yet has managed to reproduce a REAL, REAL probability.
Do you want to find a better way to spend your time than watching this? Go to sleep. Skip rocks, breathe. Hell, ANYthing.
Evil Lives Here: He Asked Me to Be His Hitman (2024)
The absolute WORST episode. It's time to pull the plug on this show.
When this series first aired, it was riveting. The stories were true nail-biters, and some were of well-known crimes, if not nationwide, by many people all over.
As the series progressed, and whilst it was still about 'evil' people, who the person telling the tale LIVED with, they were... more the type of people who anyone on even the slightest introduction to, would say, 'this person's terrible news', yet the tale's teller would ignore all warning signs, all obvious hints of 'danger, danger's, and STILL live with them, and even then, on many occasions, I found myself furious - NOT at the 'evil' person, but, instead, the person telling us the story, who just acted so incredibly stupid (almost like 'well, the 'evil' person was harming animals, and beating me up, but, I didn't think it would get any worse when they started to buy guns'.... THIS stupid).
This episode throws out the show's premise; the person telling this ISNT a survivor, ISNT the person who was intimately involved with the 'evil' person, but was (I'm being generous) an acquaintance of the 'evil' one, and rather than bothering to report the overt threat the 'evil' one made (about killing his wife and kid), dumb acquaintance just bops along in their brainless world (his reason he didn't report anything before-hand? He has none. But, afterwards, why not?'(he) was a 'very well-known to the police dept, to the community...a (blank) person...a drug addict, sold drugs...robbed people...'
A moment; I'm sorry, but THIS is coming out of the mouth of Roger, the person. TELLING this?!?! Whilst murder and robbery are both two different types of crimes, they ARE both felonies and most importantly, I doubt that any of Roger's victims recall being robbed by him as an extensive, warm, fuzzy experience!
So, continuing with a lump of flesh, Roger telling his tale of woe, I just wanted it to be over (I'm a completing; I like to watch something, in general, from start to finish, but I think it only fair that if I'm going to leave a review, other than in a few rare cases, I'll do just that, out of fairness.
Thinking back over this series, I remember people whose parents did horrendous things - to them, their families, brothers and sisters, whose siblings did horrible things to them and others, loved ones, whose 'other' turned out to be a monster, but, I can't think of ANYone, except this scraping from the barrel's very bottom episode, in which an acquaintance tells the tale.
There's ZERO emotional connection with the victims or the event. None. It's as if someone's read a crime story. The only paper, and goes on-air to re-tell it. It's hollow.
Vacuous.
Had the victim's mother or father told the story, perhaps this would be a better episode, but this is a joke-a farce, and as such, this show should be ignobly ended.
American Monster: I Took Her Somewhere (2023)
Totally preventable had the parents raised an 'adult', instead of a 'friemd' who'd love them (this problem's WAY too common).
Yawn,
This is (yet) another story of parents (the mother - who says she worked 'in TV' is seriously frightening-looking; I've rarely seen such cheap, botched plastic surgery on someone. Terrifying. Not only that, this woman can't have been that old and needing surgery), who - in their misguided attempt to not alienate their daughter, really never taught her anything about how to act responsibly, and then, when she becomes involved with someone (who mommy let's move into their home - STUPID!!!) only kicks this young woman out AFTER she walloped her daughter, causing her to lose a tooth.
I'm from a family that never tried to influence my personal choices, etc., but, they did teach me how to act like a grown-up, and take responsibility.
This mother's over-riding fear of 'losing' her daughter, forever (even though the daughter never said anything like that) helped to cause this tragedy
There are times when a parent MUST let go.
There ARE times when a parent says, 'This is your adult life. You can't live here with your partner, but, I'm always your parent, and will always love you'.
This parent is one who - though it's never made clear how much 'stuff' she has bought for her daughter, and the daughter wasn't as being spoilt, as some I've seen, this was a problem whose roots can be traced back to childhood, as far as I'm concerned.
Yes, it's a terrible crime to lose a loved one, but, this wasn't like something we all hear on the news. Stories like a person (minding their own business) being brutally attacked and killed after leaving their job, or something which truly had no logic.
This was a(NOTHER) parent, who, in an utterly misguided attempt to keep their child 'loving them', never put any rules in place, and when it became apparent the now adult child wasn't able to make rational adult choices, let her bring her (misguided) choices into their home.
Dumb.
Evil Stepmothers: Caught in Her Crosshairs (2017)
WARNING! This episode contains an inordinate amount of the filler word, 'basically'.
I REALLY wanted to like this episode, but, it was next to impossible, due to the number of times one of the commenters said 'basically'..It's so hard to enjoy - let alone watch - any show, where there's people (some actually reading from a script!) In which they constantly (MIS)use the ('filler')word, 'basically (for those who don't know, a filler word is a word which people add to their speech, which adds NOTHING to the sentence. Filler words used to be the ones every teen says, at some point, 'like', but, in the past few years, with the reach of streaming media, and the internet, one of THE worst - 'basically' is constantly popping up).
Unfortunately, I can't stomach watching anything where there's such misuse, because, it's by watching shows, and videos, where people misuse this word, that people become 'infected' by it.
I've seen many such transferences (esp amongst people from the American south and Midwest, and though I'm nowhere near this, I don't accidentally become 'infected'.
This is one of 2 or 3 episodes, wherein the constant misuse of this word keeps popping up - more than 50 times (in actual normal speech, this word wouldn't be used even once. That should tell you something.
I put these in place of a 'review' to warn people of what the specific show contains, and hopefully, anyone reading this will keep their guard up.
'If - I-F - this wasexcised out, the suffering of Derrick really hits home. I wish him much happiness. He deserves it.
Evil Stepmothers: Death Becomes Her (2016)
WARNING! This episode contains an inordinate amount of the filler word, 'basically'!!!
It's so hard to enjoy - let alone watch - any show, where there's people (some actually reading from a script!) In which they constantly (MIS)use the ('filler')word, 'basically (for those who don't know, a filler word is a word which people add to their speech, which adds NOTHING to the sentence. Filler words used to be the ones every teen says, at some point, 'like', but, in the past few years, with the reach of streaming media, and the internet, one of THE worst - 'basically' is constantly popping up).
Unfortunately, I can't stomach watching anything where there's such misuse, because, it's by watching shows, and videos, where people misuse this word, that people become 'infected' by it.
I've seen many such transferences (esp amongst people from the American south and Midwest, and though I'm nowhere near this, I don't accidentally become 'infected'.
This is one of 2 or 3 episodes, wherein the constant misuse of this word keeps popping up - more than 50 times (in actual normal speech, this word wouldn't be used even once. That should tell you something.
I put these in place of a 'review' to warn people of what the specific show contains, and hopefully, anyone reading this will keep their guard up!
Evil Stepmothers: The Price of Greed (2017)
Warning! This episode is FULL of 'filler words'!
It's so hard to enjoy - let alone watch - any show, where there's people (some actually reading from a script!) In which they constantly (MIS)use the ('filler')word, 'basically (for those who don't know, a filler word is a word which people add to their speech, which adds NOTHING to the sentence. Filler words used to be the ones every teen says, at some point, 'like', but, in the past few years, with the reach of streaming media, and the internet, one of THE worst - 'basically' is constantly popping up).
Unfortunately, I can't stomach watching anything where there's such misuse, because, it's by watching shows, and videos, where people misuse this word, that people become 'infected' by it.
I've seen many such transferences (esp amongst people from the American south and Midwest, and though I'm nowhere near this, I don't accidentally become 'infected'.
This is one of 2 or 3 episodes, wherein the constant misuse of this word keeps popping up - more than 50 times (in actual normal speech, this word wouldn't be used even once. That should tell you something.
I put these in place of a 'review' to warn people of what the specific show contains, and hopefully, anyone reading this will keep their guard up.
The Stanley Dynamic (2014)
Awful. Bankrupt of ANYTHING (either on-camera or off)
I'm a bit of a masochist, and I saw this (thing. A picture of them, anyways), stop, I said to myself, 'life's not too short. I can always waste a few minutes, here and there's. I turned it on.
I'm the first couple of minutes, your see a cartoon person coming down from above in typical cartoon style, likes snake, etc, all done to one of THE WORST attempts at incorporating a laugh track. It - or, rather, he (know the name starts with an 'L'. I'll call him Lancelot)'s one of a set of - get ready - twin boys. IGNORE the fact that the animation is TERRIBLE, and has NO relation to the other 'twins' look, nor the fact that of a person giving...birth (?!?') to am animated thing (which brings up the fact that being 2-dimensional should cause no pregnancy bulge)....
Within a matter of seconds, the rest of this 'family' (including the flesh and blood twin (another 'L' name, I'll call it 'Link'), the oh, I'm still smarty, yet I'm only 7'daughter, and the dumb as rocks sperm donor (i.e., the father)... wait a sec; it takes sperm and egg to name a biological offspring. What was involved in this animated garbage?!?!?!
This thing's PAINFUL, and here's a (guaranteed) prediction; by the time the real children are into/past puberty, they'll be hustling and hoping customers 'remember them'.
It's not '15 minutes of fame',, anymore, it's new seconds, and because so much of it is as bad as this, there'll be a LOT more people who's 'careers' will have included being in a TV series, only with so many outlets, instead of when there were only 3 networks (in Australia, America), there's almost an uncountable number. Instead of a hot being watched by 50% or more of the ENTIRE country (such as when little Ricky was born on I Love Lucy), a 'success' is 100 people streamed it.
This piece of sludge will go away, and NO ONE will miss it.
The Horrific Evil Monsters (2021)
J-s-s is chiming...🙄
I was REALLY views today, ama I purposefully decided to inflict some mental torture on myself.
I did this first, by putting on a free streaming channel, and then looking at the collection of 'horror' films, they offered. Then - after scanning the brief synopsis of each (BTW; that comment I just made - about 'BRIEF synopsis' was meant for some idiot by the nickname 'H-ggo', who's apparently got NO life. He's made it his 'mission' to summarise EVERY single film. One - VERY big problem; this egotistical dummy doesn't know WHAT 'synopsis' mean's - as well as a few others. A 'synopsis' is a VERY brief summary -2-3 sentences, MAX - instead he writes the longest, most adjective-filled GARBAGE imaginable. He's writing VERY bad - and still MORE info than is asked for. Anything longer is a 'plot summary'. You can find this idiot's garbage all over IMdB, as well as others who use hinds role model. If you JUST want to know - BRIEFLY what a film's about, let IMdB KNOW this).. I came across this thing, and just from the brief synopsis, I could tell before I even saw a minute of it, it would be AWFUL...
...and it IS!
Aside from their being not one professional actor in it (a 'professional' is one who makes their livelihood doing a certain job. Actors - professional one's, that is, are also all members of a union. None of these people are either).
This is what your get when you have WAY too many media outlets, all of whom need 'product' to promote. The pathetic thing is, in the last hundred years, ALL the major film studios in the States, in the UK, and in many other nations around the world, have been making films, many of which sit in vaults - unwatched.
Rather than filling the need for material with GARBAGE like this, there should be streaming channels (like Criterion and a very few others) who offer up these vaults' material to viewers around the world.
Instead, we get a laughably awful production, such as this.
I can only describe this by saying it was made by 'born again' people.
I don't care what, per even if, a person has any religious beliefs. I grew up in a very big cosmopolitan city, made up of people from all over the world. A person's religious beliefs are between themselves and their belief - PERIOD.
It's NOT something you need (or SHOULD!) FOIST into others faces!!!
Moreover, a lot of these aforementioned types aren't accepting off others beliefs. They'll say something like you can believe whatever you want, but it's is the one true one's, or something similar.
They're very narrow-minded, ama someruing'like this only shows HOWclosed-minded they are.
A 'film' such as this is the product of people who have VERY limited world views.
What I mean is, it's very clear, after having watched this, that its made up from combining the worst possible clichés in film and putting this... 'melange' onto a generic story, all in the service of a born again religious bent.
Let me be clearer; the first 20 minutes, or so, play out like this; first, there's nothing close to a real film set. It looks like it was shot in someone's home, and fast food joint.
We see some 'kids' (a 20-something man and woman, actually) break into an 'abandoned house', and they're almost IMMEDIATELY set on by a genetic, psychotic-looking farmer-type, who kills them - though we don't see it (remember; this isa religious film).
The two lovebirds are just there to introduce the farmer, as a group of people (all wearing blazers and buttoned shirts and skinny tires, and sunglasses (even though the house is dark, and it's nighttime when they're outside). They shoot what look like lawn darts at this psycho/farmer; HUGE pointed-tipped... projectiles. I'm a 'real' film, or TV show, this would've been filmed with ruby little blow-dart sized projectiles.
They're apparently coated with some tranquillising drug.
We're immediately outside, with good ole 'Eb' (I'll call him that) in the front-centre, and a pair of the aforementioned blues brothers/MiB-types behind him in the distance - still wearing their sunglasses, though it's clear it's night. Some guy - dressed the same, except he's got a red skinny tie, and he's apparently the 'boss', tells 'Eb' he's got 'plans' for him.
Next, the viewer's fooled because it appears an infomercial's starting. We see animated (done quite well!) kitchen items - utensils and salad... stuff, 'dancing', and then the words, 'Cooking with Alex Creed'. Apparently, he's a film star, like an Arnold Schwarzenegger-type, now reduced to doing George Foreman-type commercials (if only he was that fortunate! Mr Foreman's made SO much money from that alone).
This one's with a woman, who's standing next to Alex, as he introduces her (wearing WAY to much makeup😫, and opening her mouth likes porn actress, and who can't stop touching her... shoulders and hair,, oddly) named 'Winney Swinney'.
I've no clue WHO, or WHAT she's supposed to be, but the ONLY pluses in this dreck are for BOTH it's these people. He's a serviceable, generic actor, and she's just...nuts. She's got this wonderful, scratchy-sounding 'Witchiepooh-type voice, and even though she ('Winnie', that is) keeps picking up and holding the cutlery in ominous ways, she doesn't stop cackling..
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Right after watching this, we see 'Alex', sitting in a chair, kind of depressed that his life's come to this.
Trying to cheer him up is his 'agent''.
First, about the guy who's 'playing' the agent; his entire.... acting...'skill' - and I say that VERY, VERY loosely, is too attend there, and them thrust his arms, VERY fast, as of here's punching an invisible target
He does this several times, and his entire onscreen time is under two minutes.
I don't oredicta great future in film and TV for him.
I said, 'first', a couple of paragraphs ago, and this is the other thing; I'm not found to bore you with his (NON)-talent, I do want to say he's supposed to be Mr Creed's 'agent', and as someone involved in this business (professionally, that is), for quite awhile, it annoys me whenever I see something on-screen which is SO off from how/what a REAL agent does.
It's cluelessness like this which only helps to show how utterly without ANY understanding of ANYTHING the people involved in messes such as this are!
What do I mean?
Say you're a screenwriter, and you've decided to write a script about a small town bank robbery.
People, such as the ones who made this, think all they need do, is learn from watching films and TV shows.
Theirs A HUGE difference between reality and film and TV., and often-times things in realty are 'amped-up' - made bigger, simply because it works make the film's story pay better
All they get is from what they've seen, so their finished product will ALWAYS seem likes cliche - BECAUSE they used clichés they've seen, but don't realise there clichés.
A good screenwriter does something known as 'RESEARCH', and finds out as much as possible about how a bank operates in a small town. Then, the writer needs to find out everything they can about how a bank robber would plan it or, etc.
Even if they've very little money too work with,a small film can be just as good - and oft-times, these Lupé films are far BETTER, because of the pre-filming work done!
People who made this garbage didn't do any research, didn't do anything, except begging born agains, they decided to graft their Bible to a terrible, generic 'film'.
Instead of that small film I just mentioned, these idiots took what they've seen in big budget Hollywood films, and improvised.
They couldn't get hi-tech laser-scoped weapons, but they DOO have lawn darts! They've no makeup artist, so rather than trying too develop 'scary-looking', they took one of those life-like masks, put a little bit of green paint on it, sick it on some poor schlubs head, and voila! Instant monster (only this 'monster' can't make ANY facial movements (it also reminds me of Winbey Swinney, or more accurately, the person who portrayed her. I'm guessing either there person who wrote this thing never personally heard someone say 'VOILA' - pronounced 'vwa-LA', NOT like Winnie says, 'vuh-LA'.
First, you've got to remember; if you treat an audience as if they're idiots, they'll know, and they WON'T be happy.
The film's makers have one point and one goal; spread their myopic world view.
That's all.
Dead Ringers (2023)
Why?!?!
The film, Dead Ringers, is based on a true story, of two (male) doctors, from New York city.
It only goes to further the fact that Hollywood's DEAD.
Ok, maybe not 'dead', just yet, but, they're on serious life support.
There's barely ANY film, which are original (and I'm NOT talking about ANYthing based on comic books, or video games).
The studios have done this destruction to themselves - they've gotten to the point that each film 'MUST' cost more. And more, and on,. And on....
Up 'til the 90s, or so, there were films for ADULTS.
There were family films. Comedies. Love stories, and many small quirky films. In fact, I remember when Robert Rodriguez just burst out with his first 'big' film, the major stories talked about how HE FINANCED THE FILM...on his credit cards.
Could you imagine someone tryi g to do that today, ' I see here a charge of 80 million, for costumes, and 95 million for basic budget, and 200 mill...')
You get the picture.
Recycling mold films is just a way of saving money.
It's pointless.
If the studios don't want to continue their accelerating ride to extinction,they best move fast, and think about stopping this idiocy, and making new films, based on NEW material.
Star Trek: Voyager: Riddles (1999)
A stand-out episode for both Messers Russ and Phillips, as Tuvok and Neelix
In an episode which is probably both Ethan Phillips and Tim Russ' best of the series, we see a side of Tuvok we've never seen, and with it, we watch a wonderful friendship between these two, which we know ultimately can't be for the future of the crew, in toto.
On their way back to Voyager, Neelix and tuvok are abord the Delta Flyer.
As they're still several hours away, Neelix tries to engage 'Mr Vulcan' (as he always calls him) in various attemots, to play game, or just or.. anything.
Yet,each attempt's rebuffed bytuvok, who always has found ('Mr)Neelix's personality Tobe his polar opposite, and though he doesn't dislike him, he tries to keep his distance, so as to avoid his merriment
After Tuvok's incapacated by an alien's weapon, he's saved from death, but, at the cost of essentially losing himself - all his life's memories and experiences, which are what constitutes all of us, and he's left as a new person; a child-like person; Vulcan by appearance, but not by spirit.
To aid in his recovery is Neelix (Ethan Phillips, who feels he owes it to Tuvok (personally, I always found Neelix to be highly...annoying throughout most episodes), and as Tuvok begins to develop anew, so does the nascent freindship.
Rather than wanting to do all the boring Vulcan stuff, Tuvok would rather spend time with his best friend, Neelix, and have...fun.
Without giving the entire plot away, I'll just say that it's a given that in order to deal with the alien's who caused the problem to Tuvok, he's going to ultimately be restored to his former self, and the - actually, very sweet, and touching friendship between the two won't survive.
In a very emotional scene,Neelix tells Tuvok he must do the treatment to restore him, but Tuvok doesn't want to be a 'boring' Vulcan, and he asks Neelix, what'll happen to the friendship between the two. Though Neelix knows he will be losing a real friend, Ethan Phillips handles it honestly, and stoicly.
I really think this is easily the best episode featuringNeelix, and is also a terrific display of both actors' skills.
Forensic Files II (2020)
The classic series confess back, with new stories to tell...
I'm guessing that many fans of this series didn't first watch it when it aired - most likely some time during the evening hours.
Instead, I have a 'day' which starts preturnaturally - very early.
Whilst I'd be getting ready for the day ahead, I had Forensic Files on, as I darted about my home, drinking my coffee, finding a sock.
A brilliant idea for a show of any type; it was very straight-forward; a crime had been committed, and over the next 22 minutes, we viewers would learn not just the 'who', did the crime, but'how' it was done, and how the pieces were put together.
One of the smartest things done by 'HLN' (I put it in quotes because I think one of THE DUMBEST things done was turning Headline News into just another outlet for shows - NOT news) was bringing Forensic Files back (hence the 'II' at the name's end).
Unlike so many shows brought back, they very wisely kept the format the same.
It's like people who are brought in to bring back (most ANY) show, series, film, etc. They don't realise the reason something's beloved has to do with what had been done.
Let me say that a bit clearer; recently, I heard a (cartoon) series would launch about the smartest passion in the'Mystery Mobile'; Velma.
I always loved Velma, and apparently, I'm not alone. What came on the air... well, it's one of the VERY few things on IMDb which has received MANY bad reviews, and a score of...1.
Other than Velma's classic, schlumpy sweater and skirt, everything about her was changed (and NOT for the better).
There's an old saying; 'if it ain't broke, DON'T 'fix' it'.
Wisely, the people who've brought us FF II clearly understand this.
I've very little to quibble about.
My only issue is ii's narrator.
The voice of the original series was Peter Thomas, who's mellifluous voice worked wonderfully in tandem with a show of this type.
Sadly, Mr Thomas died several years ago, and in spite off this, they found he couldn't work anymore.
A new cove was needed for II, and I think that - even if your didn't know Mr Thomas' name, his voice, and delete were so stunt associated with the series that he was somewhat like the original series' icon, so to speak.
This series' narrator, Bill Camp, has a voice which doesn't (for me) 'jibe' with the tone of the series, because his voice sounds somewhat like Stacy Keach, esp narrating American Greed (2007); slightly hyped-up,
Don't get me wrong; I love American Greed, and Mr Keach's slightly mocking tone, it's just that Forensic Files (either I or II) is something I like to relax and focus on. If it's night time, I'm probably going to sleep soon after. In the early morning, I don't want someone sounding like they're calling a horse race.
Other than that, it's terrific to have Forensic Files back, and since the crime of murder is not going to go away, w need a series, like Forensic Files.
War of the Worlds (2019)
The 'poor-man's' reimagined Battlestar Galactica
This 26-part series is SO indebted to BSG, that even this series' 'enemy', as well as the 'resolution' are both knockoffs.
I rarely like remakes, and this one - other than a few performances - is SO slow, SO dragged out, the entirety (26 hours of all three series) could be summed up nearly I'm 3-4 hours, it a couple of night's-worth.
Saying this is virtually identical to BSG, anyone with a brain can easily tell who this 'war's against, but in BSG, the war of the colonies versus the Cylons was told over 4 or 5 seasons, giving much time to explore so much detail. Here, all the extra 'padding' is just that; airless 'fluff' (I will say this; as one's able to easily fast forward watching steamed programmes, any time any of a majority of the 'fluff' was happening, is move ahead. But even doing that, there's long dragged out scenes.
As I said earlier, I rarely watch remakes - because of the majority of the ones I've seen begging so dreadful. I never planned to watch BSG, and it was only through happenstance that I came upon it, in its unital first-run, when the (still called) SciFi Channel was showing the series up to that point in back-to-back episode marathons. I was drawn in to the brilliant story telling.
Here, however, it's hackneyed (and by that I mean 'clichè', asks NOT the idiotic 'trope').
I'm NOT one who needs everything rapid jump-cut, as many millennials have the mind span of a mayfly. I do want some 'meat' there.
As I was able to compress watching this into a considerably shorter time, the main performance I liked was French actress, Léa Drucker as Catherine, a scientist.
In spite of her being a bit distant (at first), I think her performance was by far the most memorable.
On the other hand, in the thankless role of the head villain/psychopath, Adina, I felt bad for Ania Sowinski, who was given a one-note role, and forced to repeat it over and over (much like this series).
I'm not saying her performance was bad, rather, it was a terribly written role which was never expanded on by the writers of this dreck.
Last, I saw that somewhere which had mentioned Greg Kinnear was to have been in the Gabriel Byrnes role.
Had that happened - as well as what idiot thought casting him, an American slice of one-note Wonderbread, would have our this middling series into the deep abyss. WTF?
As it is, I still like the beautifully directed (in glorious Technicolor!) Byron Haskin directed and George Pal produced version from '53, with the amazing ships designed by Albert Nozaki, followed by Spielberg's version (here the alien 'ship' is a giant donut, which, for some unexplained reason houses nothing more than a circular staircase. No, it needent be something akin to 2001: A Space Odyssey, but there's A REASON for LOGIC, and that's something quick is in short supply, here).
Evil Lives Here: Fantasizing and Hunting (2023)
The 'dum' talking about the dumber...
I don't know who who this is about , about, but that several things tucked me off right at the very beginning and I said; 'NOOOOOO'.
I really (REALLY) dislike American southerners. I hate stupidity, yet, within a few seconds of this starting, we're subjected to WHY I can't take them; this is being told by the ('bad' person's) brother, who's very first words were how he 'had to ask his (psychotic, bad brother)' if it was 'ok' to do this.
Gee, how thoughtful! I guess that give and take between the two just must've been a bit clogged when 'bad' bro was flint whatever.
They next show a clip of the brother, after his arrest, and he says how he 'used to be normal', , and then 'flip-flopped', and became a person who had a(n) 'alternate normal life'
🙄
A what?
Yes , an 'alternate normal life'.
To make how utterly stupid he is clear, only a moment prior to uttering this but I'd brilliance, they show a picture of him; graduating from high school.
The world's frakked.
I'm sorry, I value my life, and even though I do like to watch true crime, I won't throw my time away on utter bumpkin-hood.
Evil Lives Here: Kill Him, Save Yourself (2023)
David's an 'energy vampire'...
Before I say anything about my feeling about this particular episode, I want you to know some things:
I think having the 'perfect' family's, or 'perfect life', is a myth.
No one I've ever known has, but, the point of living life is that, no matter what, once we're adults, our lives, are OUR lives, and NO ONE can take that away. We can soar as high as we want, or just become a person, who's almost the equivepant of that old Warner Bros cartoon image,wherein Bugs Bunny sold look at them, and as he's looking, the person's replaced by a giant, lollipop, with the wrapper saying, 'SUCKER', in big, bold letters.
I won't allow ANYone to hurt me, and I hope neither do you, because the ONLY way we allow others to hurt us, is if WE allow them to.
No, I didn't have anything close to a 'perfect' life.
I was sexually abused, and many other things, the details which I'm not going into.
But, that was in the past.
I have a plaque,; 'learn from yesterday, dream of tomorrow, and live for today.
There's no 'scale', to 'compare' the troubles of our earliest years. No one can fairly say, 'well, I was emotionally abused for my entire childhood, and that's worse than being sexually abused'.
That's nuts!
So, with that, I'm not going to say that what this family (and the two siblings, featured) was 'worse than', or, anything than whati went through, or you went through.
I know growing up as I did, it was HELL!
But, I've made a good life for me. It's mine.
As, I just said, this episode features a brother and sister - talking separately (from different parts of the country, I believe) about the nightmare they had growing up, in their case, it was a hyoer-violent father.
I found it very difficult to watch (the brother, David) talking, as no matter what he says, it's in this droning, flat monotone.
By contrast, his sister (who, as I said, we're all suffered differently), but there's no 'scale' to compare 'badness', yet, she speaks ... normally.
Even though the brother says he's 'still traumatised' by what happened, it makes me wonder, what kind of counciling , and treatment has he had, and what, exactly has left him so 'dead'?
But, I have to wonder if this droning of David's isn't 100% authentic, because we've all heard of someone, or know someone, or, ARE someone, who's gone through hell and back, but, are now far closer to 'better' than David.
Even though the horror ended (tragically) appx a decade, or more, ago,and several years after that,, a pictue's shown, of a now adult David, wearing his cap and gown, and his two sisters, all with very real (not faked, not forced) smiles on their faces.
A fake smile's easy to pick out when you realise a genuine smile involves many more facial musclesl than just the 2 major ones, which pull your smile 'up' at the corners.
Those photos don't lie; they're all VERY happy. And that's a terrific thing, so, now - several years AFTER that graduation, and several years PRIOR TO THAT, when the nightmare ended, yet, David's sits there droning - on, and on, and on, and...
I prefer the tone, and style, this show used to have, wherein the person who's story's about to be told, sits, and an off-camera assistant pushes a photo towards them. This, is just the whine, and whine style, and it's horribly fatiguing to stomach.
Another thing going against David, is several times, he says a variation of this; 'obviously, my life has been indescribably difficult, and full of tragedy that most people will never experience in their lives'.
Those are HIS exact words.
'Obviously'?!?!
Just try and walk into a support group, and tell the other memebrrs, 'I'm sure you had tragedy, but, mind's head over heels worse'.
Aside from being offended, they'd probably say, 'David, this ended well over a decade-plus, ago. Since that time, you went through high school, went to a university, and graduated, and now - several years after THAT, and you're STILL whining?!?!
Then, how come you and you sibling looked deliriously happy several years ago?!?'
Either one's going to stay mired in their miseries, or they'll strive to get free of them. You DONT progressively get 'better', and, then , at the proverbial 'drop of the hat', turn on the droning, 'poor me' attitude.
I was brought up believing there's two roads one can take; one - after having something bad, terrible happen, and then just sit there, like the proverbial bump on a log, with such obvious gloominess, that it makes others run.
The other, is to do WHATEVER it takes, no matter how hard, but, to do THE BEST we can.
No one minds when someone they know's hurting. No one would be adverse to doing whatever possible to help the person overcome their trauma.
But, there ARE actual people, who thrive on being constantly miserable, and if all they're going to do is kvetch and whine, they're just a bottomless black hole, sucking the life force from those around them.
Though I can't be absolutely certain, judging by this episode, and seeing the massive difference between David, and one of his sister's (I'm guessing the 3rd sibling didn't wish to participate), I really think that David's (what I refer to as) an 'energy vampire' - someone who could walk into any room, and instantly suck all the energy and oxygen out, leaving just nothingness.
Jeepers Creepers: Reborn (2022)
Why was this piece of offal not stopped when it was just an idea?
There's fun trash and bad trash.
This is the latter, and that's a shame.
This film's SO bad of the 'JC' (Jeeper Creeper) tales, it makes the second one (the one directed by the pædophile, and is about a bus load of really hunky teen jock boys trapped on a broken bus in the middle of 'Creeper's'b hunting grounds) seen like an academy award winning masterpiece.
This is sad-bad; i.e., you wish it would be fun, it worked revitalise am interesting original story, instead, it's so awful, you're sad it was allowed to be made.
Take one talentless pool of on-camera .
. 'talent', add a script which seems to be three, or so ideas which have all been thrown into a blender, take (what was) the original story, and bake.
This is the dreck you'd get.
The biggest 'name' is Gary Graham (you might remember him as Soval, in Enterprise, amongst his many appearances, elsewhere), who - either he's been made up to appear really old, or he's appearing 'au nauturel' (no! Not naked! Just without all the silicone fillers, no hair pieces/replacements which almost everyone uses).
He's gone after the first few minutes.
What follows is a mish-mosh of varying ideas, none of which seemed to every been filled out.
One is that the (previous 3 films) are just that; films, which led to less intelligent people thinking they're actually true stories.
The female lead is a 'scientist' - of what, who knows, and she really doesn't seem to have much intelligence. She's driving through this area where those films were set, and her boyfriend's really into this stuff.
They drive into a small town, ama wouldn't you know it, it's got a requisite 'creepy odds and ends'store, run but some 'eerie' lady ('eerie', if your idea of that is a day woman in a bowler, and a bit of goth makeup).
A scientist-chick's about to leave, she touched the hand of 'eerie lady', and as soon as she does, she starts having... VISIONS!!!
They're weird, and semi violent, but our intrepid sconce chick doesn't even so much as mention this to anyone (from this point in, it's almost like ANYTHING she touches, causes those 'eerie visions' to start up.. nothings every said - by her, and you'd fights tarry, Herr behind a scientist,...
The next scene - and this is midway, and up to this point, there have only been 4-6 scenes - really long ones - she and her (boy)friend(?) are at some seriously low-rent outdoor carnival, and the few who work there, all make comments to her (she goes to their knock down the pins, win a prize game, except, instead of a you rifle, it's those 4-VERY-pointed weapons used by 'JC' (creeper guy), and she gets yet, another vision, only sideshow guy starts in with the 'you DO know what it is you're holding, right', and that kond of babble.
This tries to be one of those clever break the fourth wall films, but it's terrible. I've only sat through the first half, and I KNOW exactly how this'll end.
The Wild Wild West: The Night of the Two-Legged Buffalo (1966)
Nick Adams is barely rexognisable
This episode's gust star is Nick Adams, and, sadly, he looks barely recognisba.
Yes , I understand, he's portraying this 'prince', bit his face is bloated, and he was only in his mid-30s.
The episode's typical West;, but, even though I watched it all, I was just (sadly) shocked by Mr Adams, who died, not long after.
This is not one of my favourite episodes of the series (and I prefer the first season's black & white, as they were still a new series, just feeling their way). By the nextcouple of years, though there's a few stand-outs, most episode's fall into a very formulaic pattern, and I'm not that crazy about it.
Pillow Talk (2017)
The high scores are just plants from the people who made this cr-p
There used to be an inside joke in the entertainment industry; many people worked as waiters, and there was a tee-shirt, which said on it; 'actor,msinger, dancer, model, waiter'.
Of those who want to have a career, less than 5% actually ever get anywhere (and a fraction of that actually makes it 'big').
Unfortunately, in today's world, where people are obsessed with being'famous', they don't think it entails anything more than that - a desire to be famous.
Here's yet another bit of dreck, and I can just here the conversation between the 'brain' behind this, and someone else, who has their feet planted in reality.
'Hmmm, I'm a twenty-something, and I'm gonna make my original mark I. The entertainment business.'.
'What can I make an amateur series about? I know - all I think about is how horny I am, so, I'll make it about a guy who tries to fight his libido, and put him into a world of sexxxx'.
'Erm, that's not very interesting, nor is it original'.
I'll call it Pillowtalk (one 'word', so I'm not too obviously tealing from Piloow Talk, but, hey; if anyone makes an inference between the two, good for me, right?'
Did you actually study writing, or, any aspect of the film and television industries?'
'No, but, I have seen a lot - I know the entire film and television industry, inside and out - since 2000 (anything before that's 'ancient')'.
'I also know how to make movies with my iPhone!'
'I think you should do what you're really best at . Get a job at a fast-food dive'.
I guarantee anyone wanting their time with trash like this; no one in front, or behind the camera will ever amount to anything more than 'wannabe'.
Titanic II (2010)
I KNEW going in this would be awful, and it most definitely is
The moment I saw, The Asylum' as being the producer, I KNEW; trash awaits.
There's some garbage - just like certain food - which, even though you know are bad, fall of sugar, still beckon.
Then, there's the other type, which looks as bad as it tastes.
ThisIS the latter.
The cast is a who-who, of, who-the-f...? It only is worse when you hear these 'actors' speak.
In this day and age, with so many outlets for new material, you'd think that even a cesspool like Asylum could actually find enough competent actors to fill out their cast. The only names Bruce Davison, who's only one 'big' picture was the 1974 disaster click, Mame, the infamous musical version of Aumtie Mame, but rather than getting the talented original broadway star, who opened the musical (Ms Angela Lansbury), Ms Ball, who still had a lot of clout - stole it from her. That picture will's infamous for her frog-like voice (smoke a few more, Ms Ball), and the super-SUPER Soft focus anytime there's a shot just of her (watching that film, many people thought they were losongtheir eyesight).
I can't believe any reputable actor would agree to be in anything made by Asylum. I'd rather keep my reputation.
Love the Way You Lie: Girl Gone (2014)
Terrible. An extremely bad 'recreation'
I'm not a fan of recreated action. In fact, 'til the early 1980s, if I'm correct, it was extremely rare.
Since that time, it comes in two 'flavours'; the physical movement recreation, and the breaking the fourth wall-type, wherein people portray the actual real people, and every once in a whilst, they say things - not true, nor necessarily even accurate, to the audience.
This is the latter kind.
There's a telling reason why there are only 6 if these. I'm not the only one who found this to be ABYSMAL.
Even worse, the 'real' people in this are the mother's of both the victim & assailant (the assailants mother; wow, is she wrinkled!). They comment on the story (the 'Greek chorus'... on the cheap), as do a couple of others, who knew the two people this story's about.
To 'recreate' this tale, apparently, wherever this was made - whatever backwater that was, their was a shortage of blond males.
To pay the athletically built blond, there've hired some short, doughty brunette who's for some bleached hair. Instead of him begging a tanned beach boy-type, they got someone who's a naturally swarthy complexion.
It just shows how cheap this is.
If you want to cut out all the cr-p, is highly recommend you watch this story as it appeared on Forensic Files. It's titled, A Husband's Secret.
Watching these two - one, clinical and honest, the other, so covered with dreck, you'll understand who/why the killer was with no doubts from watching the Forensic Files version, hands down.