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Love Me (2020)
This Was a Really Sweet and Quirky Movie
Here's a gentle feel good movie that you can safely watch with anyone. However I suggest you watch it with someone you love.
This movie was really kind and sweet. It was shot mostly or entirely in Scottsdale, Arizona. It made me proud that a gentle movie like this would be made in the town that I live in.
To be clear, I don't know anyone that has anything to do with the movie, and I didn't have any idea that it was filmed in my hometown. That was just a pleasant surprise.
I just read a review mentioning this was made by a Christian movie group. If so, I didn't catch a hint of that. However, a movie that celebrates kindness, love, caring and a little redemption is ok by me. The relevant religion here is our shared humanity.
Yes, you should watch it.
Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)
Soooo Godotful. (godawful, get it?)
Soooo Godotful. (godawful, get it?)
Believe it or not, the movie was worse than my pun, and much, much, much, much, much, much, much longer.
After the semi-passable start of the film with young Dianna, the movie goes downhill continuously. It was like the year 2020, every time you think it can't get worse, it does. The worse the plot points, the worse the acting becomes. It's as if they're all desperately trying to finally get this ungainly behemoth off the ground before it crashes at the end of the runway.
Sadly it never flies, but even the crash at the end isn't noteworthy. It's more like the whimper of air leaving a withering balloon. The movie can't even muster a satisfying pop to signal it's demise.
This movie was boring! It meandered aimlessly, stringing together a bunch of weak plot moments into an incoherent mess.
There was no internal consistency, and the special effects were great for 1980.
I sat through it as an obligation, not because I wanted to finish watching it.
Sadly, it just refuses to get better as the movie progresses. It goes from boring to slow, to schmaltzy. It remains awful all the way to the end.
My wife and I made a home made lasagna once. Even the noodles were homemade. We had invited a NY Italian friend of ours to dinner and wanted to impress him. We labored for hours, and used a lot of expensive ingredients. The ricotta made the lasagna taste funky, so we added tomato sauce to mask the taste, but then there wasn't enough meat so we added hamburger, but then we had to cook more noodles, which meant we had to make more noodles.... On and on. The final result was so awful that I rushed out to Costco and bought a pizza instead.
We had our so much effort and money into the lasagna mess that we couldn't just toss it,. so we froze it. Then we snuck tiny pieces of it into meals that would hide it, for a full year after that. Yes, believe it or not we suffered through that lasagna for a full year. We finally threw the last quarter of it away.
That lasagna is a perfect metaphor for this movie. It's was a total mishmash of a disaster that was too expensive, was plain awful, was really unpalatable, but we suffered through it anyway.
Actually that gives the movie too much credit. At least the lasagna wasn't boring, and we had enough sense to not feed it to our guest.
Yeah, I know you're going to watch it anyway, but I warned you.