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On the Edge (2022)
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Let me put this as bluntly as I can... it's a dominatrix horror movie. Yeah... And don't get me wrong I'm no prude, I championed the uncensoring of the word "damn" in Gone with the Wind in the 30s. But no it wasn't the over the top physical punishment the character had to endure, it was a huge gripe in the technical department. It wasn't even five minutes into the movie and it already committed one major sin in the filmmaking handbook, bad audio. It's the kind that you would see in a kids home movie when he can't afford microphones and not that of the people who made American Mary. I have never seen American Mary or any of the Soska sisters previous movies but from what I've seen their audio in those were better, it's like they only used the microphone from the camera, which made it even more jarring when they recorded ADR, you know voice over dubbing if the take is no good? So it would constantly go backwards and forwards from hearing crisp dubbing to a hell of a lot of background audio because they're on a set that has floorboards. Now on to the story. It was ok, I feel like there was lot of padding. There was one scene that I do commend from a technical standpoint where the main characters reflections are making faces back at him, I don't know if they used a double but it looked pretty cool. Unfortunately the actor ruined it with the funny faces, I think he was trying to be creepy and psychological in it but it just looked very goofy and strange. I have to admire one aspect of the story, I normally laugh at female on male sadism and I was even laughing throughout the movie, until I found out the twist and it just made me feel guilty for laughing so much. I mean I could tell the twist coming but I didn't think it would actually go there. Plus there were some plot holes in the story that don't work with it. Having said that I do admire they were able to manipulate me into doing that only to have me feel bad after. First movie I walked out of in years, not because it was bad, just that I was at a horror fest and this one was overlapping another one on the program I wanted to see, I didn't want to miss the start of a better movie just because the end of this likes to drag it's feet.
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: The Gang Makes Lethal Weapon 7 (2021)
NOT A FAN OF THEM DOING AUSTRALIAN FACE
They've gone too far this time! This episode should be stripped from the records and erased from Hulu all together. Dee playing an Australian character (poorly too) is a bloody disgrace to all us Aussies. I didn't believe it when I saw it that I even had to adjust the boomerang on me roof to see if it was bad reception on the telly. But yeah nah there she is. Even the kangaroos weren't having it!
Do better next time ya drongos!
The Twilight Zone: A Traveler (2019)
Could've been shining but it feels like dreamcatcher
The one thing I've disliked about this revival series isn't the "political messages" like people are complaining about. This was always Serling's intention looking at a number of different episodes from the OG series. My problem is the lack of a good twist ending. My bets on how it was going to end was either the traveler was turned out to either be an elf or an angel who, once he saw the real townspeople's attitudes as soon as the power went out, would turn on them, or that he was a spy, or even he was who he said he was, a YouTuber who somehow got in and was subsequently killed due to getting in such a weird spot as the cell. But predicting these endings would've solidified my belief that if you can predict it, it didn't have a good ending. So I give it a few stars for the simple fact that I didn't see "he's an alien" coming until the chief saw his weird bug head. A twist ending you don't see coming doesn't necessarily make it a good twist ending
BoJack Horseman: Free Churro (2018)
ICU
Heartbreaking episode. Risky, a lot like fish out of water with its minimalism. I hope it transcends just the animated categories at next years emmys because I truely believe this is the best of anything on TV. Great reference to Becker too btw