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Usually when a franchise gets 5+ sequels at least one is pretty good, but none of the JP sequels have been.

There’s a good film, maybe a great series, somewhere here. But King Ivory, for all its ambition, is content to stand outside the prison gates, listening to the stories echo off the concrete, and then driving home. The afterimage? A low good, like a drug cut too many times; you feel the rush coming, but the high never quite hits like you hoped.

I almost didn't watch Spellbound on Netflix, because it got such bad ratings on imdb (5.5) and Rotten Tomatoes (48%, 47%). But I did and I have to say: It's actually pretty good! It's very funny and imaginative and has something to say.

Sure, it's not perfect. It didn't have me on the edge of my seat the whole time and the songs didn't stay with me much after, but it honestly doesn't deserve these ratings! I mean it's a kids movie and it fully engaged the kid and had me and my girlfriend not only laughing out loud, but we all shed some tears in the final act end. It's a fine movie, definitely worth a watch with the family.

I'm really struggling to understand why it is rated so badly. I wouldn't say it is as good as K-Pop Demon Hunters (7.7 on imdb, 97% + 91% on Rotten Tomatoes) but I'd still give it a solid 7 or 80%. I mean we watched the feature-length episode 1 of Unicorn Academy and that was actually dreadful and still got 6.6 on imdb! I guess that's a bad comparison, though, because I expect it was just seen by way less people who rate movies.

Is it the embracing of non-traditional family structures that it caught the ire of the anti-woke folks? Is it just the unfavorably comparisons with simply way better similar movies by Pixar and Disney?

Has anyone seen it and can tell me their thoughts on it? I can't be the only one!

Edit: Going by the many 1 star ratings on imdb, the issue seems to be the message that sometimes divorce is okay 🙄

How does Tin Soldier manage to be this bad with De Niro and Foxx in the cast? Painful and took me a month and 10 sittings to finally finish this movie.

Watching this parade of nonentities blunder through one half-hearted peril after another, I found myself, heretic that I am, rooting for the xenomorph-T-Rex bastard, if only in hope of a mass extinction event that would put both humans and script out of their misery. The storyline stumbles about like a sedated raptor, random, twitchy, and never quite threatening. Not even the prospect of “heart disease miracle drugs” can raise the pulse.

Did anyone enjoy Jurassic World Rebirth? I would really like to hear what you liked about it.

Boyle and Garland have, in their dotage, outdone themselves. The first film was good, the second almost entirely forgettable, but this third act, wow, fucking fantastic. “28 Swinging Cocks”, “28 Inch Cock” or "28 Dicks Later", any could have been apt titles, but that’s too easy. This is the movie in which the anatomy is riotous, the intellect unashamed, the heart unexpectedly exposed.

Directed by Wake in Fright filmmaker Ted Kotcheff, the 1982 ‘vetsploitation’ flick is brutal, destructive and tragic – just like the world that men created

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Happy Gilmore 2 may not live up to the razor-sharp cult classic status of its predecessor but offers a unique blend of warmhearted sentiment and self-aware silliness. It wrestles earnestly with themes of grief and perseverance while indulging in the kind of over-the-top celebrity cameos and callbacks that Sandler aficionados crave.

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