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Dragons: Riders of Berk: In Dragons We Trust (2012)
Weak!
This is by far the weakest episode of the season!! Stoic can not put two and two together here?? Snotlout & Hookfang fall through mildews roof and then boots go missing to be blamed on dragons!! He could not even tell the footprints were not deep enough as what a heavy dragon would leave!! The great hall gets destroyed and blamed on a dragon that flames up when it rages, yet the chief ignores the facts??
This episode insults the intelligence of not only adults who love this franchise but also this children that watch!! Why the writers of this fantastic show thought this was a good idea is a mystery!!
Hysteria!: Hysteria (2024)
Good but.....
The story is good for going along with the "satanic panic" of the 1980's, but it is far from being accurate to the time period and to Heavy Metal in general!! As a metal chic who lived through the 1980's, we did not wear black metal makeup in the 1980's!! The Number Of The Beast came about when Steve Harris had a dream!! It's not really about the devil but mostly about the Universal Monsters!! Watch the video Maiden did and you will see many clips of said monsters!!
The female bassist is dressing modern than 1989's metal chic! Metal guys did not wear an actual dog collar but bought spiked collars to wear with spiked bracelets!! They did not paint their fingernails black either!! Back then, if a fellow student showed up to school looking like the kid in this did, he would have been laughed out of the building!!
Also, NO ONE talked like progressives talk today!! No one was referring to hate crimes like the girl did with the bands new shirts!! Mixed race relationships in 1989 were not looked upon in a friendly way as this portrays!! Bands that are mixed with the members this band has, did not happen in the 1980's!! I just wish Hollywood would actually do a period film the right way no matter how offensive or politically incorrect it is!!
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Behind the Lines (1997)
Second real review!
Do not believe all the fake hype you read about this episode!! The writing is awful!! The Odo storyline in this episode is what ruins it!! Odo goes from not wanting anything to do with his people to this?? He killed one of his own people and is the only changling to do so and we end up here??
How does the storyline for Odo get to this point?? He all of a sudden wants to meld and does it a couple of times with this horrible female changling and then he's acting just like them!! The plot holes are enormous here!! How did she not even question him on how was about to become one of them again?? How was it even possible in the first place for his liquid "people" to make him a "solid" at the end of season 4 to begin with? The writing has truly kept this series as the worst of the Gene Roddenberry timeline!! Even the good characters like Sisko, Dax, Warf, O'Brian, Bashir, Neris, Nog & his dad can not help this series!
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Things Past (1996)
Real review!
Just two episodes ago, we saw a time travel episode where the crew on the defiant went to the original series season two episode called trouble with tribbles!! Now we get a "time travel" episode to to when the station was controlled by the Kardashians!! What was the purpose of this episode other than just being a filler episode?? What was the point in doing this to Odo??
Nothing about this filler episode makes real sense!! It just goes to solidify something I have said before, this show is poorly written!! This show is truly living up to being the worst Star Trek show ever made!! It's no wonder it did not get movies like the original series and The Next Generation got!!
Inside Out 2 (2024)
How is this rated so high?
I truly would love to know why this was ever made and why they would want anyone to rate it so high!! Not only does it follow the biggest plot of the first film, but the new emotions are ridiculous!! They completely got anxiety wrong!! They try to make that emotion to be kinda good!! Who would lock away happiness, anger and sadness?? The person who did that would basically be like Sam on Supernatural when he did not have a soul!!
For Disney to market this garbage towards kids makes you wonder what is really going on behind closed doors there!! Seriously, keep this garbage sequel away from your children!!
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Tribunal (1994)
Where is Kirk and Bones?
Can we say Star Trek Six, The Undiscovered Country? ? Yes, this episode basically re-worked that movie!! Remember when a high ranking Starfleet officer, a Starfleet Vulcan and Klingons that wanted no part of the federation?? Remember how they used Kirk's hatred for the Klingons against him when they set him and Bones up?? That's what they did with O'Brian in this episode over the cardassions!!
This season has not been as good as most of season one was!! Having to re-do an original series movie storyline for an episode of Deep Space Nine only goes to show just how bad this season is and to how lacking and creative the writing was!!
Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction: Caitlin's Candle/The Flower Jury/The Mentor/The Old Bike/The Music Teacher (2002)
Unbelievable!
The only one that could be true was the one about the bicycle!! Where the first story is actually proven faked is the claim of no money or insurance!! The father would have easily gotten disability benefits!! That means a monthly payment and insurance coverage!! Plus a candle is not going to ignite by itself and start a fire, then it goes out all on its own as fast as it starts!
The second story is completely false because no judge would allow flowers as a witness!! The "confession' would have been thrown out due to the prosecution believing the suspect was forced into confessing based on the what the flowers "said"!!
The music teacher segment is basically a repeat of almost every episode!! A ghost comes? It's just been over used in this show!!
Nöthin' But A Good Time: The Uncensored Story of '80S Hair Metal (2024)
It's nothing new!
It claims to be the uncensored story but it only goes over what we fans of the great 1980's already know!! It's things that have been covered in other documentaries on the era!! The first episode focuses too much on Motley Crue as if they were a great musical band!! It then focuses on W. A. S. P. for a time, (they were a theatrical metal band & NOT a hair band)!! They do an interview with the late Steve Riley who makes it out like he was the original drummer!! He came in after their debut album had been released!! It covers Ratt and Dokken very little! It leaves out several other bands from the first half of the 1980's!!
Second episode only focuses on Poison, Guns an' Roses and the clubs like the Wiskey and Cathouse!! It leaves out Cinderella and others all together!! Any fan of the metal and hard rock genres know Guns an' Roses are not "hair" metal! The third episode covers Skid Row and truly tries to paint a very young Bach as the solo bad guy in the band! It completely leaves out the drummer leaving because they fired Bach!! It also leaves out the number of singers Skid Row has gone through to show it's not Bach that is 100% to blame!! It gives a couple other bands a little coverage but trys to focus on the end of the era by mentioning grunge and focusing on the drug excess most of the bands were doing!
It's an okay watch for us fans but it's nothing to rate higher than five out of ten stars!
Football Night in America (2006)
One person has ruined it!
One person has ruined this show!! Her name is Maria Taylor!! Why did NBC think hiring her and putting her not only on this show but the college studio show?? She is not at all worth listening to nor actually knowledgeable on football!! She is more worried about players getting contract extensions over doing her actual job! Watching the show before the 2024 opener with the Rams taking on the Lions, Maria wanted to mention numerous times that Dallas made Dak the highest paid player!! One time in the beginning of the program should that have been mentioned!! Not with Maria though! As the guys in studio want to talk about the actual game, Maria kept bringing up that contract!
If they would send her packing and bring in someone who wants to do the job, it would be a great program!
The Garfield Movie (2024)
Disappointing!
I knew from the trailer of this that it was not high expectations, still! The voice cast was not the proper cast! As good as some of the cast are in other rolls, this was not for them! Samual is not a "fatherly, caring" type of actor! Chris Pratt took Garfield from a pasta eating lazy cat to a more hyper one! Odie was great! Nick is a great actor but he didn't get who John is! The rest of the voice cast was a toss out for me!
Then you get to the story! The story had its dark moments, (not kid friendly)! Having a "security guard" that takes cats serious and even has a translator app for animals was DUMB! Let's not leave out that the story was not even original but followed countless other films storytelling!
Overall, contrary to what one "reviewer" claims, this is far from being as good as the 2004 Garfield! Bill was great voicing Garfield! It also had a good storyline!
Byôsoku 5 senchimêtoru (2007)
Very disappointing!
I am a huge fan of Makoto Shinkai. My favorite anime of all time is Weathering With You!! Even own several of his other films on Blu Ray. I was so looking forward to finally seeing this film, but when it ended it was a what the hell kind of film!! The story is great until we get to the final five minutes and it just falls off the edge!! It gives zero answers or even attempts to give a single answer to the two main characters!! It's clear they both still think about each other, (the guy more than the girl)!! She kept his letter and even re-read it! She even dreamed the same dream he did, yet when they passed each other at the train tracks, he stopped and waited but she was long gone! The ending could have truly given us some kind of closure instead of the credits rolling right after that! This is truly the weakest of Makoto's films by far!
Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction: House of Shadows/One Hand in the Till/Teasdale's Motor Car/The Vision/The Grave (2002)
Really?
They said the attempted robbery, where the college student literally pulled a gun on the clerk who ended up looking like his father actually happened!! Yet in real life the college student would have been apprehended because the silent alarm would have been triggered!! He would have been charged with attempted robbery and brandishing a weapon!!
The story of the bus was made up?? It has been recorded that two people have had the same dream!! It's also been proven that people have had dreams of something happening that actually came to fruition!! I can see why this show actually ended after this season originally finished!!
Star Trek: Turnabout Intruder (1969)
Truly sad ending to a once great show!
They could not tell before leaving the planet that Captain Kirk was not himself?? When did he ever day, "Captain Kirk to Enterprise"? He always says, Kick to Enterprise, Kirk to Spook, Kirk to Sulu or Kirk to Scotty!! They could not even see it was not Kirk by mannerisms that James never exhibited before!! How many times has the main cast seen Spook and know of Spooks ability to read minds?? How many times has he used that to prove things??
The writing for this episode that came a couple months after the previous episode seemed to show that they knew the series was over and just put out whatever garbage they wanted! I guess it is a fitting ending for the worst and lowest rated season of the series!! It was, as they say putting it out of its unfortunate misery!! Thanks for ruining this series with many bad episodes during this season!
Everwood: Fate Accomplis (2005)
Good but awful!
The episode has some good parts like the son, father and hunting accident!! It really is a heart wrenching and warming plot!! Seeing what a father was willing to go through to help his child was heartwarming!! Then you have the situation with Bright that was good!!
But the worst part and probably making it one of the worst episodes of the show is Madison!! They should have wrote that character and storyline completely out!! They did nothing but go on her word about who the baby actuals father was!! Then having her tell her ex about the baby and all was just completely worthless, wrong and unnecessary!! Many kids have been adopted without a paternal father knowing it ever happened or needed to happen!! This is where the writing was just awful!! They should have kept on a similar path to what season one was and that made that season great!!
Star Trek: That Which Survives (1969)
I must touch you!
This episode continues the downfall of this once great show! A square computer?? Robots.that Lee. Merriweather plays poorly "must touch certain members" to kill them! Clearly shows the lack of creative writing!! It's a.like this season has been one filler episode after another.with a decent episode here and there thrown in!! How many episodes does one season need where Kirk goes missing?? He went missing on a planet that was of indigenous people and he had amnesia!! Kirk was missing while on the ship because an alien race trying to survive speeded him up to where no one could see or hear him!! There were other episodes where he went missing but this one he goes missing with Bones, Sulu and an ill fated crewman!! Any real Trekkies know that Kirk went missing more than Picard in half the episodes that TNG is!
Space Cadet (2024)
Amazon, stop!
Amazon needs to actually listen to people about the majority of their originals and just stop!! They have only made a decent series in The Boys and one good series in Fallout! They have made no good movies and this one falls into the worst of their worst!! What was the point? The writing is just dumb!! Where did they dig up the writers and casting director?? It's like them getting bots to try and boost this lost movies score! Just pull the film and move on!! Write it off as the horrible loss it truly is!! Save yourself the time and energy and pass on this movie like it is a sake of freshly made lava rocks!!
Star Trek: Spectre of the Gun (1968)
Very missed opportunity.
As some have said, it is a missed opportunity and that's no joke!! The "recreation" of the gun fight is completely misleading!! It is portraying the Wyatt and his brothers in a negative light as the bad guys and the Clanton gang as more of the good guys!! The towns people welcoming them as if nothing bad has ever happened involving the gang!! The gang was a cruel gang in reality though!! None of Wyatt's brother "shot first" then asked questions as this episode portrays!!
The production set is a pathetic one but it is not the real problem with this episode!! It's clear why the show was canceled after this third season!! Too many bad to mediocre episodes that ended season two and started season three!!
Star Trek: By Any Other Name (1968)
Run out of ideas?
They must have run out of ideas when writing this weak, if not weakest of all time for the original series!! Aliens who can freeze any being by touching a little button on their belts!! Completely unimaginative even for the 1960's!! They want to conquer the galaxy was overused even for the mid 1960's!! It has also been well known that arrogance always leads to the demise of the arrogant!! The acting in this episode is extremely subpar for the regular cast and especially from the guest cast!
Can not leave out the stupid part of turning crew members into ridiculously shaped stone that is clearly sponge like material! Do not believe the hype for this horrible episode!
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Chain of Command, Part I (1992)
Potential!
After watching this flop of an attempt of a good story, it's clear the writers and casting director were in wonderland!! The writing really needed more intelligent writers to pull off the story without replacing crew members!! The casting director must have had a slim pickings of guests or was just not knowing what they were doing! The "new captain", (Ronnie Cox) was like picking to plant cactus in the middle of a rain forest! He's more comfortable playing bad guys than playing a "team player"!
Can not leave out the poor choice for Admiral in this episode! The woman playing her played the part as someone who is abusing the power position! You can even catch the uneasiness amount the regulars and these two guests I mentioned! What I mean is there was zero working chemistry between them! Casting better and writing to temporary captain by an admiral for the secret mission would have the right choice!
A Very Vermont Christmas (2024)
Wow!
There is nothing new with this movie! The writing is not spectacular or worthwhile! The acting is flat as a piece of paper!! Do not know where they found these people but they need to send them back!! The chemistry between the cast is also lacking one hundred percent!!
Brewing beer is the business for this film is a sad choice!! These are supposed to be family friendly movies but as we know, no one under twenty one is allowed to legally drink beer! Do not know what Hallmark is thinking with this new direction in story writing but it's just not working! Hopefully when we get the countdown to Christmas, they will have learned from this mistake and give us better movies!!
To stress how bad the writing is, her recipe for a Christmas beer gets stolen while her ex-boyfriend is in her office. She leaves him alone in there and he takes a picture of it!! Instead of her realizing that, she blames her new love interest for stealing it!! Common sense would tell her to think of who was in her office with the recipe, but bad writing keeps that from happening!!
Uchiage hanabi, shita kara miru ka? Yoko kara miru ka? (2017)
Haters don't get it!
All the negative Nancy's just do not get this film!! The film is basically about teenage love told through a sci fi fantasy angle!! It's brilliantly animated with bright, vivacious colors!! It's got a fun and enjoyable script!! Being able to redo a day or even hours is something everyone has dreamed about for centuries!! Just can not grasp how anyone can give this movie bad reviews though!! One of the producers produced You're Name and that movie is highly regarded in anime circles!! Just give this fun and enjoyable movie a chance, I absolutely do not believe you will regret a single second!!!
Falling Like Snowflakes (2024)
Just not that good!
The chemistry between the two lead actors just is not there!! I noticed they did another movie before this and they just haven't developed any chemistry!! One other pointed out the special effects to this and they were not kidding. The CGI snow blowing is awful!! The roads get wet but you can tell it's not from melting snow!! I live in a place that gets snow and melting snow is more mush than just water wet!! Let's not leave out the snow plow being a Diesel!! That engine can still be heard inside the cabin no matter how new the truck is! When you see the scenes of them "driving", you hear zero engine sounds!
One good thing about this is this, they are not really pushing it's a "Christmas movie"! This movie is more a "winter" one than anything else! Hallmark does need to do a better job with details and writing! Also, can't leave out that there is no black ice on a dirt road! I laughed when he claimed they hit black ice on that dirt road! Also, a city/state owned plow can not be used as a personal vehicle like the guy does in this!
Blaze and the Monster Machines (2014)
Educational?
When did cheating become educational? Blaze uses boosters to help him win and the other trucks do not have boosters!! The getting the kids to say things with them has been done on how many other kids shows?? How is it Blaze has a human driver and the others do not need one?? Why are there humans in this when it's a world of nothing but mister trucks?? Parents need to teach their kids right from wrong with cheating! Parents also need to teach their kids life instead of putting them in front of a television screen! Ignore the positives on here from fakes. Ten or less reviews is what the positives have! Overall, this show is a must skip for development or teaching for kids!
The Premonition (1975)
A let down!
Such a let down for a movie that sounded promising!! I watched this on YouTube today and thought after reading the description that it sounded pretty good. How misleading that was!! It does have its thrilling moments but they are few and far between!! The editing hurts this film like so many other low budget 1970's films! The acting was also subpar!! The charters did not mesh well together! The ending was pretty pathetic with having the girl walk out like a zombie then have her just lay down! Having the adopted mother walk down to her and just stroke her head smiling was extremely lame! She should have been trying to get her medical help! That would have been more fitting for this film! Overall this is a skip everyone!
Legacies: Facing Darkness Is Kinda My Thing (2020)
Weak ending!
The last two/three episodes exposed the writing that really hurt the vampire diaries and the originals!! By having Josie doing the black magic bit was a huge problem!! It showed the lame, childish writing that hurt those shows! This series has been the best of the franchise up till the black magic Josie nonsense!! Hopefully we get the return of the good writing and storylines that made this series enjoyable until this!
It did help to see Elizabeth grow and see her true potential self though!! Besides Hope and Rick, Elizabeth is one of my favorite characters on this show! Let's get back to making this show kick butt!!