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A Family Affair (2024)
Typical tropes
Typical tropes of course for such movies.
Girl, 24, upset with mom for dating someone as if it's about her.
Things go well. Girl assumes. Man can't speak about it because "she told you to leave" and somehow nobody in the right mind can go "ok but would you just listen first?" like any sensible adult would actually do.
It's really an overplayed trope as if people don't have brains to just make them listen for a bit instead.
And it's all about the girl(Zara) in this case and she's the one who's problems are what matter and nobody else's matters and is so self centred with her narcissistic personality.
Overplayed. Just with different actors and scenes but pretty much always the same for such movies.
It's getting lame because the main character (or secondary in this case) doesn't realise it or care about anyone but her self in the essence and the male (or sometimes female) lead somehow can't figure out how to use a phone or show up to explain clearly.
So much potential to actually make it much more sensible and it'd have been a much better film already but nope.... Repeat the same tropes but with a new few lines and scenes. Make new movie. Repeat.
Hanna: Tacitus (2020)
Great to good to incredible stupidity now
Wow the show is a complete wreck now with the writing. Season 1 was amazing and drew you in. Then as season 2 started you see a similar story unfold with more and more incredulously crazy moments (in a bad way) and this episode is the nail in the coffin with how ridiculous it is.
Katherine, who knows her dad is in the cia or some intelligence agency at least, after being told that a woman he (dad) was supposed to meet was killed, asks "why always me dad? I don't want to go. No"
"Because it's dangerous"
Sheesh how incredibly brain dead does someone have to be with that? No sane person on earth wouldn't be afraid and just go with a "of course let's go now dad. Let's be safe" and even that would be 10x better than the script they made for that scene.
It's so bad to a point you go "yeah just kill her off. She deserves it" honestly.
The worst downfall of a series that I've ever seen honestly with each episode in the SECOND season being written with worse and worse plots/stories/dialogue and handling of the scenes basically.
And Clara/Clemency or whatever her name is... maybe she's starting to use a little of her brain and that's a tiny redeeming factor to a tragic downfall of a season and show.
I'd honestly just quit the show but would bear with the final episode just to see how the series ends in season 3. Even a CW style plot would be a marked improvement at this point for season 3.
Hanna: You're With Us Now (2020)
The train is about to get wrecked
Season 1 was amazing and it quickly became one of my favourite shows to watch, looking forward to each episode as I watched them weekly to spread the show out.
Season 2 started and it felt good too and then you could see the theme go towards Hanna trying to rescue Clara.... Over time it made less and less sense as Clara betrayed her and Hanna trusts Clara over Marissa who earned her trust and more.
Let's not even mention Sandy, who's incredibly delusional and maybe plain stupid with how she believed the made up life as real and all. It makes absolutely no sense other than the explanation that she's deluded and dumb as well.
And then, of course Clara decides she wants to live the life and her dumbness evolves further. Hanna suddenly flips 180 and becomes a stooge of the Utrex mission and unless she's putting on a ruse, it's a clear train wreck of a storyline where a great character turns incredibly idiotic and completely makes almost no sense as to who she was in really.
The season has been poorer as each episode unfolds and it becomes almost unwatchable after the great season 1 debut. Only hope is that season 3 is better and makes more sense to who the characters are/could be rather than this.
Hanna: A Way to Grieve (2020)
Good show but tiresome theme
Suddenly the fearless, amazingly intelligent and powerful Hanna becomes rather stupid and decides to trust Clara of all people, who wants to stay there.
It makes no sense. Clara betrayed her once already. She doesn't owe her anything. They don't have any kinship or connection anyway. But yet she still trusts her and not Marissa who's earned that trust and more.
Kinda spoils the show and character a little that "Hanna is tired of running" and just wants to stay even though she's surely smart enough to know it's all just for show and fake anyway.
And her "friend" that lost her sister is completely brainwashed and just purely dumb that she embraces a fictional story as reality.
This season at the Meadows really doesn't make too much sense with how brainwashed and dumb some of the characters are.
Ginny & Georgia: I'm Triggered (2021)
Terrible Ginny but also Georgia
Ginny is being a bratty teen who thinks everyone owes her something and she's something special. Pretty typical trope for many stories.
Georgia however, is passing her trauma onto her daughter despite not wanting to and what they've been through has been contributing to it in ways. She's also to blame for her secrets and trying to basically avoid them and more.
The whole "I'm protecting you" and "it's my life I deserve to know, how dare you keep secrets" trope really is something that needs a better way of showing it.
You can definitely see why many of the "I hate Ginny" reviews hold true because they overplay and overdo the angsty teen trope as many shows do anyway. Ginny has many valid points though if you remove the layer of her acting like a complete jerk and self absorbed self.
Old (2021)
Decent movie, absolutely terrible dialogue
The premise is kinda cool but it's being let down by some of the most unnatural and/or poor dialogue you can imagine in a big name or even basic film.
Some of the acting is also on the side of poorer rather than not and it just doesn't make that much sense either. It's insane how one keeps getting attacked and doesn't even try to protect themselves much or even stop the attacker for example... completely nonsensical.
Very unfortunate that it could've been so much better. No idea how the whole dialogue and such got passed and thought of as "oh hey yeah this is great let's go with it..."
If you can ignore the dialogue and just take it as it is as well as the acting, it can be enjoyable enough to watch and pass the time.
Retribution (2023)
Decent story. Terrible supporting cast
The supporting characters are terribly stupid in how they act. Sylvian trying so hard to convince the woman to not do anything but her being too stupid to listen and more while he just couldn't knock her out to save their lives.
The stupid police who "I want to believe you" sound just dumb. Utterly stupid and nonsensical that the guy wouldn't just punch the woman to shut her up and save their lives or that the police negotiator wouldn't at least listen and be sensible.
The plot is decent and the villain is normally bad and all. Him not being able to even explain to his best friend also is pretty stupid.
The police negotiator is basically a half wit but also reasonable.
A decent plot ruined by terrible illogical responses by anyone not in the main story basically. Liam Neeson is what makes this a passable rating. Utterly terrible supporting act.
Family Guy: Con Heiress (2018)
What a Terrible gag they used.
Literally paused the episode due to the long name gag at the birthday song being repeated for the THIRD time. What's with this show and cutout scene gags being overplayed/dragged and things like this? It's beyond rubbish and just lazy and horrible.
The show overall is okay but the overdone cutout scenes all the time is just annoying now and I shall fast forward through them at times now. This was the first time I skipped parts due to the name gag too. Horrendous idea. Horribly overplayed and overdone things.
The Kissing Booth 2 (2020)
Zero character evolution
Elle still is as insecure as ever. Always makes the worst assumption about others, especially Noah where she's basically looking for something to be upset with despite him already proving it from the first movie that he was sincere and more.
Lee still being a whiny person about "Elle not daring to apply to another school" as if he owns her and decides life. He would even break up with Rachel if Elle didn't like her. Grow a darn spine and have some brains already for goodness sakes.
Rachel still being nice but seeing she can't compete with Elle in many ways which makes sense as Elle, is doing exactly what she accuses Noah of doing.
However of course she can do whatever she wants in her narcissistic way of life because it's all about her and Lee. Lee doesn't have a leg to stand on when it comes to thinking for himself.
Similar to the first but more annoying because none of them learned anything. Elle was insecure in the first movie and that made sense. Now? It's just beyond annoying and "oh but you have to see it from her point" still. Again, that's the only accepted way.
Pretty ridiculous really that Lee is also still so ignorant about anything else too in several ways.
It's a sequel, not a continuation where nothing fundamental changes. At least some character evolution would've been good.
Close (2019)
Nothing new but not the worst either
It's not something you wouldn't have heard or watched before in a sense of the story, plot, style and all so skip it if you want something good.
The movie is too predictable in that you can literally (in the real sense and meaning of the word) guess what's going to happen at some points and be correct. For example, you can tell that Zoe was going to puke right after the van scene because it's just something about the way it was made that gives away too much of what will happen and nothing is new or refreshing at all.
It's more of a "watch an action flick to pass time and not think too much" kind of movie and for that, it serves its purpose. There are far better movies of the same genre or other types even if someone is looking for a good film.
5/10 because it was still alright enough to see from start to end and they didn't particularly make the female lead so unrealistically strong that she finished off any male assailant like some flicks do but just too many predictable moments and lack of punch/depth to make it good. Rapace probably made it more bearable than it would've otherwise been. Even the dialogues seemed a bit forced/false/out of place in some scenes though so it really becomes worse when you start to analyse the film.
Would only recommend as movie to pass the time with and not delve into.
Riverdale: Chapter Thirty-Nine: The Midnight Club (2018)
Train wreck
You get so used to the characters being who they are and then they do the laziest and cheesiest flashback episode where everyone becomes their parents' younger selves. Even as the story was playing along you need to keep track that Veronica is actually Hermione for things to make sense and it just seems like a whole bungling screw up as you need to keep reattaching the faces to their new names for anything to make even one bit of sense.
Didn't go as well as they hoped perhaps. Not entirely terrible as a passing the time sort of show but the episode made it hard to follow and digest
xXx: Return of Xander Cage (2017)
Unwatchable
The first few minutes with Neymar was so forced you'd be forgiven if you turned off the movie and never watch it again. Even the parody spy flick Johnny English is at least more palatable and has good moments and a decent cast despite a rather stupid premise.
Samuel L. Jackson shouting goaaaaaall when Neymar kicked the napkin dispenser was about the last straw that made the movie from trying too hard to simply, utterly garbage.
There has been numerous movies where you think the rating is harsh and it can't be as bad. Xxx? Nope. The ratings are not harsh enough and should never have been made. The first instalment was actually decent enough and all but the second was barely passable as a "dumb action flick where you watch to pass time" and this one didn't even pass any of that.
Easily one of the worst movies to actually sit through even if the cast is good. Nope.
Grey's Anatomy: You Can Look (But You'd Better Not Touch) (2017)
Something different but similar
A nice change where only three are the focus in a different sort of episode with prison being a focus which, was rather poignant perhaps given the previous episode's revelations in a way and what Alex did at the end of it.
However, once again Jo proves to be extremely annoying and self centred in several ways just like Amelia is. Both of them are possibly the most narcissistic and self absorbed people the show ever had till now and only really listen to their own voices and need validation to feel any sense of worth.
Jo once again only wants her world and "I just want the world to be good. And be wrong. And have sunshine" without caring about anything else. Just like before when all she wanted was for the attendings to know she was around. Or how she's important to Alex even though Meredith just lost Derek back then.
Amelia as well with her crazy emotions and lack of self worth being attached to even crazier emotional outbursts.
For all the annoying moments other characters like Arizona or Callie and even Meredith had, they all grew or outgrew most of it and evolved while Amelia and Jo seem to be more and more intolerable or just hover around the same old nonsense.
Alex told Jo to never let anyone call her trash but nobody needs to because she live her whole life seeking validation and being so insecure and self absorbed enough for it to just show the kind of person she really is in several ways.
The wrong Shepherd was killed off the show and the wrong resident/intern (Mousey) died in season 9 too.
Younger: The Exes (2015)
Utterly ridiculous plot
"Liza wait..." she doesn't listen. As if he can't just shout what he needed to say if it were that important and of course, logic always goes out the window for any such situation in any tv show or movie because when someone says "I don't want to listen" and made their minds up, you can't tell them anyway even if it were life and death important or something just, very pertinent. Yes, real life works that way, if your life is a script from every tv show or movie ever made with the same stupid trope.
Riverdale (2017)
Poor show overall with just horrible adults
Almost all the adults are either unscrupulous, annoying, pathetic, criminals, vindictive, evil or just some combination of a hack job of a poor amalgamation of anything they could throw together to masquerade over a horror of a show with just poor writing and storytelling overall.
Archie tells Veronica he kissed Betty and was buried alive and all she thinks of is the kissing.... the teenagers are the only ones barely passable as they're the stars and the only thing that prevents the show from being an absolute trash of a series is that some of the mysteries and plot make it somewhat acceptable.
Nobody listens to reason, nobody knows anything apart from being horrible people as adults and some of the teens like Cheryl. Even then, it's so easy to see through their facade.
Watching the drama filled medical show like grey's anatomy gives you more to look forward to than this mess of a series honestly and that's really saying something considering that show thrives off drama more than medicine or so.
It does make for good passing time tv where you're having a meal and wanting to watch something completely mindless perhaps so that's one good thing.
Very surprising it's rated as high though.
Grey's Anatomy: The Sound of Silence (2016)
Great episode in general
But once again Amelia has everyone bending to her will, forgiving her, walking on eggshells around her and her being the focus. She needs to be forgiven. She needs to be accepted. She needs to be able to do what she did. Everything is always about her (and Jo since last season it seems) in one way or another.
Meredith suffers a traumatic loss soon enough after her husband died... but nope, Amelia is the one who needs coddling. Amelia is the one who gets to lash out and people should accept it because of her volatility.
How on earth is she even a good hire and not to mention chief of neurosurgery is something ridiculous. Her excuse is she was a drunk and drug abuser so she gets away with any and everything from being more mad at Meredith because Derek died, or calling Meredith a poor widow and mocking her, or just lashing out at anyone and everyone who allows her since they all do.
Meredith has enough moments to just edge the episode out but Amelia is possibly the most insufferable character the show has had to date and just rather unpleasant more often than not.
For as much as Bailey thinks she's too self important over the years, she learns and adapts at least with a lot more pleasant moments from her than Amelia ever could have perhaps.
The other annoying character is Jo who is also so insecure her self worth depends on everyone acknowledging her because she's so incapable of fathoming things othwrsise.
Shame the wrong shepherd was killed off and Jo is the way she is.
Riverdale: Chapter Fifteen: Nighthawks (2017)
Rather ridiculous
Firstly, how on earth is the sheriff in power being as incompetent as he is? How is it that Cheryl's dad threatening to kill Jughead if FP didn't confess falsely to the murder of Jason not something in the details of the case and issue at hand? How did it take Cheryl suddenly having her (regular but sporadic enough) moment of not being the evil and self absorbed one for it to be known to the public or judge despite it being a lie(she didn't hear or see it but he was threatened nonetheless)?
It doesn't make sense. Either the sheriff is just the worst piece of trash as a law enforcement officer or, they somehow ignored an extremely mitigating situation as to why FP hindered the justice of the murder from coming to forth with his false confession.
There're a number of things that make no sense at all. Let's not even mention how the mayor is also rather corrupt in some ways just like all the adults not related to Archie or Jughead for now.
Too many things going all over the place to make it a good episode with a lot of holes and poor flowing of things.
Riverdale: Chapter Two: A Touch of Evil (2017)
Interesting enough but with typical tropes
Betty pretends to be okay, blames anyone and everyone but herself, is so self involved that only her ideas matter and what she wants, her theories are what holds, people have to bend to her will and if she's mad at them then it's their fault.
Replace that name Betty with almost any female or male character in Tv shows and you get the typical trope of an irritating character whose self worth is defined by (usually the guy liking her) a person wanting them because they like that person and if that feeling isn't mutual, they turn destructive and blame everyone and start being annoying. Then make sure everyone else apologises to that person too despite that person blaming them for something that isn't their fault. "You're taking his side now?" as if it's archie's fault he had no feelings for Betty so, he must be wrong and he must like her or it's him who's the bad guy.
It's getting tiresome when even well written shows like Dexter fall prey to this so it's not a surprise that a more dramatic show like Riverdale immediately revert to this trope of ages in episode 1 and now a lot more clearly, episode 2. Oh and of course Betty runs off with her nemesis who's made her feel horrible all these years because logic doesn't apply and she's just that shallow and worthless now.
There simply isn't much good tv without the annoying trends and tropes anymore because every character has to be so obsessed with love that they're worthless without it and they have to be so self involved and complete trash in character to others otherwise. It's getting stale.
Thankfully there's a bit of the mystery left with the shooting but it's barely sufficient to get through too many cliched tv and movie tropes.
Grey's Anatomy: Do You Believe in Magic (2013)
The one where everyone dances around Bailey
Miranda Bailey. No respect for authority apart from Richard. Doesn't treat anyone the way they deserve to be treated at times and thinks she's royalty.
Leah was suspected of being the cause of the infection? By all means, berate her and lash out. She's the cause? Oh. No. How dare they call the CDC. How dare Richard not back her didn't allow her to check on her patient (despite her being the risk) because it's her. Anyone should let Dr. Bailey do anything she wants.
Meredith messes with the trial? Don't you dare come near any of my work the chief handed me. I blame you. You selfish woman. You don't even think. My god. Take the blame. And be punished. The more the better. And then my justice too for what you did. Never mind that Richard forgave her as she helped Adele. Nope. Meredith helped out in the outcome of the trial? Oh, let's not even thank her but let's get angry still.
And how dare the crash victims sue the hospital for grievous trauma and the death of Mark Sloan and Lexi Grey. Didn't they think of how Bailey would've reacted and suffered? The audacity they had to not bend to her will and wants or even ask if they should proceed.
Miranda Bailey is about as self centred as you can get at times and the last couple of seasons really made her an annoying character who was insubordinate, expects royalty treatment and one who doesn't show respect for the rules as long as it suits her and only her.
And Avery's girlfriend? "Is it because you're running the hospital? "Why yes" but nope, she doesn't accept it. Her self worth is attached to whether Jackson spends time with her, never mind being the head of the board and an attending surgeon at that too. Pay attention to me! That's all that matters. Or I feel useless...
Jo- oh now her boyfriend doesn't like her for who she is and so she's pissed since she was living a semi lie and that's fine, as long as she had a guy.
A lot of ridiculous things really
Insatiable: Why Bad Things Happen (2018)
No evolution even till the end
Patty once again, struggles with the biggest insecurity complex that's ever existed in the entire universe for any living entity.
I'm a good person. I'm a good person. Yet she still relentlessly smashes Christian. Hypocrisy at her finest where she condemns people for doing the very same thing she wanted to do in kidnapping, ruining others and only thinking of herself.
From day one of episode one, she's only been narcissistic and so insecure that her sense of self worth of even being alive, is tied to everything anyone thinks of her and what she wants and only what she thinks of.
There's almost no character evolution apart from her being more annoying as the season goes by.
Debby Ryan does a good job of portraying this character but there's absolutely almost nothing likeable about Patty.
Bob ties his worth to being happy and also wanting to have what he wants.
The story has a bit too much flip flopping between wanting to be serious and wanting to be comedic and it does a bit too much of it perhaps.
You see short series like others from Netflix where characters progress in their mindset and there is a development but for Insatiable, even till the very end, there's hardly any character evolution apart from being more self absorbed and more "me me me and oh no, really, am I destined for bad things/good?"
The core ideas and all were nice and interesting in terms of storyline but it seems like there was a bit too much of the self absorbed personality being in play here from most of the main characters and if it diverted from that, not much progression or delving was done in those directions.
Every character (the most of which portrayed by Patty) seems to only think of themselves and Patty seems to epitomise only caring about what she wants and doing whatever it takes to get it, justifying it with whatever she can come up with and then going through the whole "it's bad, oh no, I had to, I'm sorry, I'm bad, no I'm good" roller coaster yet again.
To say she's a bit of a narcissistic psychopath is probably not far off so it's not surprising in the end that she did what she did. She had to kill Stella Rose, fair enough since she was about to be killed if not but therein lies the issue yet again where Stella Rose's sense of self worth is yet again tied to someone (Bob) and their acceptance of her and wanting her. It's almost as if nobody apart from Brick and Coralee could function without anyone approving everything they do with some mention to Choi as well who could've had a bigger part in the story hopefully next season.
Insatiable (2018)
Falls prey to the traditional cliches
It's a good story idea with how a former fat girl dreams of beauty and stardom.
However, it falls prey to her being the most narcissistic and selfish, self absorbed disgusting person of all time. She could look like Aphrodite but would still throw anyone and everyone under the bus as long as it suits her. Her her her. No one else matters. Not even after how they've helped her live and regain her sense of worth because her worth is basically attached to only her own self absorbed and warped reality where it must and should always revolve around her.
It's all about Patty. Nobody else does nor will matter. It's only her world and her definition of things that matter in any context or aspect of things basically.
Found the first boy she's had a long crush on finally liking her? Dumps and cheats on him because she's more keen on something else. Then gets irritated when it's potentially not about her. Ignores and completely glosses over how he may have been hurt (Brick) but that's immaterial anyway since she's figuring things out.
Lashes out at her mum and blames her for everything. Doesn't matter if her mum had issues too from her teenage days. Immaterial once again because her words and all she does is what counts.
Tries to make up for being selfish, digs deeper into her own world.
They've made Patty out to be the most self absorbed character to have been created for a tv show or movie in the essence and every time she tries to move forward or make amends, she dives deeper into her selfish and self absorbed/self centred world yet again.
It doesn't seem to be a show about self image and overcoming it more than it's about someone so full of themselves that no amount of exterior change can fix her personality and she torches anything associated with her.
This bit of being self absorbed also extends to the other characters and it seems to be a main theme of the show where everyone basically thinks only of themselves and not how it may even affect others to an extent in some way.
What started out as a promising and new idea of a show quickly delved too deep into one aspect where it limited the expansion of character progressions as the series went on.
Good moments and a different show but a little too much of the "me me me and only me" storyline and tropes/cliches where the main character is too indulgent on her own wishes.
Hopefully they expand more on the storyline and focus instead of drive down one particularly main theme to no end.
Grey's Anatomy: Song Beneath the Song (2011)
Overdone. This is what happens.
Overdo something and a potentially great episode turned to trash. Not every part has to involve signing. Every short conversation turns into a new song. They overdid it by 20 basically. Sporadic songs would've worked nicely but nope, let's throw a song into everything and even have it on while they have discussions about the medical condition.
This is a perfect example of how something should never be overdone to death and destroy a good thing.
Done for the fans? Unless you're into something so cheesy perhaps but even then, it detracts from the emotion of the episode that was supposed to be right up there. That alone warrants it a 0/10 for not having restraints or having absolutely no clue when to blend and when not to do it but the actual plot of the episode was good enough to salvage it despite too much music and singing in between.
It's undersrandable to pick such a powerful episode to experiment on and use the whole plot and emotion to try and carry any failings but, it was a case of too much experimentation and too much of something basically.
RED 2 (2013)
Still good enough but barely
The movie takes place after the first one so, it is definitely a sequel and not just one that's franchised or whatever.
The jokes and plot are about the same as the first but with more exploration and travelling done.
Most of the characters remain the same in their quirks or good side of things but there was a bit too much of Sarah being whiny and such an insecure person who's trying not to be useless (but fails at times and succeeds at others) such that it becomes annoying really. Her actions look rather ridiculous in terms of her decision making process. She isn't an agent and hasn't any semblance of a clue regarding the stakes involved at times it would seem and is just too preoccupied with her insecurities and her world and how she should be allowed to do this or something in a subtle and sometimes clear way.
That alone made the movie almost a cringe to slog through during those parts.
Catherine Zeta Jones was a nice addition that unfortunately didn't add too much but she wasn't a bad addition to the whole dynamics and story, even if it was a bit clichéd. At least, her roles and the way she acted made more sense with regards to the gravity of the situation they were all in.
Good and entertaining movie still but with a huge caveat of an insecure character who feels things should include her, or that she should be more important and such a little too much to make it a funny moment than an overdone plot aspect. Tone that down and it would've been more in tune.