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Argylle (2024)
Just Feels "Lazy" On So Many Levels
Nothing in this movie seems to fit or gel well together. At times it feels like these characters have never met or interacted in real life. Maybe it's the way it was filmed - but the choppiness of each Actor's scenes is distracting and nonsensical.
I shook my head in View Disbelief when He drops the cat - that whole scene was just insulting to a Viewer's intelligence. Not to mention the choppiness of the Effects.
There are a lot of great names in this and it still doesn't have the ability to make you want to keep watching just because of Them.
So it misses the mark on those levels. I will probably just let it keep running in the background just because of my love for Cranston.
Friends in Low Places (2024)
Garth Brooks Proves...
That Old Rich White Men should DEFINITELY keep The Mystery Alive.
I have adored this man since early adulthood. Now - after watching just over half the first episode - I feel it's *very* important to preface that I enjoyed this man's MUSIC. Why? Because I don't sense that Garth is coming off the way Garth thinks he is coming off in this Series.
Almost like an industry inflated some of the person's perception of who he is. Perhaps this much "reality" is not necessary when you reach a certain point in your career. And I just feel like this is the second show in a Prime trend that shows an ageing Artist (I'm looking at you Jlo) struggling with the very Human part of loosing their Hollywood lustre. I say Hollywood because if said both Artists had not subjected Us to their (seemingly oh fudge I'm ageing out of my Industry Crisis) Documentary Style - we wouldn't be having this conversation.
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2024)
I Like My Spice with SOME Spice
Oof - what a swing and a miss in so many areas. First off - I think the Writers missed a chance to lock into some Spicy Independent Diverse Spies and ended up with a modern day blah fest of some horribly average (hard to believe) spy characters. With a heavy dose of Codependency and wayyyy overdone attempts at "humanising" said spies (at least I think that was the goal). Anyhoo - my point is that the energy these characters give off is NOT super successful spies. More like newbie spies who accidentally don't get themselves killed from mediocrity on all levels of job commitments.
I just couldn't find a way to respect these characters as bad a*s spies. I do think the actors are quite capable of more. So the issue is somewhere behind the scenes.
I did make it all the way through - but it rapidly became a "background noise" show as I did other things. And I did not miss much for doing so.
Umma (2022)
A Solid Movie - Subtle Nuances I Can Respect
I can't really find anything "wrong" with this movie. I agree with everyone else - it was not "moving" in any core memory remarkable way that lingers. Unless you have Mommy issues and you get a bit triggered.
I liked that when the movie ended - I didn't get that "2020s WTfrick did I just watch and why don't I feel a bit satisfied with this story ending?" *churn and burn* production feel. Meaning - so many Streamers are putting out frustratingly stitched together (unnecessary) 8 episodes that lead to no real Satisfaction in the Season's end. Or to this note - a quicky written and produced shell of a movie. That was NOT this movie. It had a solid beginning, middle, and end. That wrapped up the story well for all of Us.
One thing that subtly stood out for Me was the 2 Women Leads who were Charmingly Supported by the Male Lead. He was such a refreshing compliment to the Women and He (character and actor) simply 'let them shine" and be who they are without trying to "complete" them with outdated stereotypes. Actually I'm gonna go from a 6 to 7 for that subtle nuances appreciation for writing and acting that you just really haven't seen a lot of *ever*. Like when you watch a Tom Cruise movie - it's the Tom's World and We are Just living on the peripherals feel from acting to plausibility. None of that was in this show. And I'm here for it.
So perhaps this is a Subtle Evolution in the tide that does not evoke great emotion either way and is just not a horrible way to spend an hour and a half with PG13 family members? I have missed that Vibe in Streaming!
The Power (2023)
Would Insulating Shoes Blow The Whole Plot?
Never read the books - but made it through the series. If I'm completely honest - I couldn't engage with the characters until about episode 4. The spread of the "new power" seemed implausible. So much so that I wondered - Is no male smart enough to just wear insulating shoes all the time? (To break a complete circuit and forbid a flow of electricity from passing through your body.) I found the parts in brackets by Googling "can wearing grounding shoes save you from an electric surge?" just now. First search result.
Sooo unless electrical currents are just "different" there - the majority of realistic "fear" from the general public seems to really fall into what I "think" is the point of the Societal Premise that men will never allow women to have any significant powers over them. To the point of genocide and annihilation.
The part about 'transferring" the powers to other women doesn't hold a cohesive thread of believability enough for you to engage with the story or the characters. Half the time you dislike most of "The Powered" because they are being exactly like the "male" Energies they hate. Meaning it's just really hard to "root" for *anyone* in this Series because most "heroes" don't selectively mame and torture or accidentally kill the people they love when they get slightly pissed off at them.
It is so difficult to have any empathy for anyone other than the "mob wife" character. Actually the part when she killed the husband was one of the only parts that I felt a fuge state murder made a lick of sense in the plot. Everything else was self indulgent and super hard to say "yeah I get it - years of oppression". Okay wait, two times, when the trafficked women killed the guy after becoming powered - I also chuckled.
I guess the bottom line is this - the whole series does a "phoning it in" job at writing to make us feel something for anyone. As if "sparkly fingers" is enough to make us so enamoured with a "possibility" that it totally backfires and insults your Intelligence as you desperately hang on through each episode for a reason to love it.
Love,
A Woman.