Movie Review: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows

Good morning, good afternoon, good evening...whenever it is you have found this entry.  Today, 2/19/18, I am checking out the second of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie. Out of the Shadows.  It stars Megan Fox, Will Arnett and Tyler Perry.  "After facing Shredder, who has joined forces with mad scientist Baxter Stockman and henchmen Bebop and Rocksteady to take over the world, the Turtles must confront an even greater nemesis: the notorious Krang."  I will admit the inclusion of more of the TV characters (I have never read the comics) does make me slightly excited. However it is still the horrible designs and writing so I a sure it will not be good.  It currently has a 6.0 with 68,497 votes.

• Good grief I forgot how bad the voices are in this thing
• Or how bad they look
• Why am I watching this?  
• That pizza would be ruined with all the flips
• Do we really need to be introduced to the characters?
• Nobody wants the Knicks to win
• So the Turtles spend their times making spitball shooters...
• Do you think Baxter ends up in drag at some point?
• That might be he best acting Fox has done...ever
• She looks like Allie McBiel
• Ah the teen boys like school girls scene
• Who wore the school girl outfit more?  Britney Spears or Megan Fox
• Thta Bumblebee costume looked better than the one in Last Knight
• ITS SHEAMUS FELLA!
• I have a feeling that Jones is going to "fail this city"
• yeah why are the shells in the back...oh he said bag...my bad
• Their horn is their theme song?
• Donnie was REALLY exited about seeing a helicopter
• Wait...Krang already has his giant robot suit?
• Why does everything look so horrible in these flicks
• So basically Jones is a 12 year old.  "I'm going to be a detective someday!  And play catcher for the Yankees!"
• So the team won't be unified for long
• How did he get his outfit back?  From Krang?
• Of course we had to see Rocksteadys butt...of course
• Really?  They looked at their dicks?
• That is the worst fake running I've seen in a while
• Oh alien jokes...because they said the turtles were going to be aliens
• Seriously...they are playing the video game music...seriously...this makes sad...on the inside
• Even Splinter is dumb in this flick...
• Finally tuned?  These two?  And what are they eating?
• Oh I think it is spaghetti
• Seriously...fart jokes...sigh
• Who planned this soundtrack?
• They're monsters...really?
• Where did they get a tank?
• A really long 30 second window
• Their shells look so bad
• The tank still works?
• Really with the sound effects?
• Gozer is coming...I mean Krang
• I love the "shocked guy getting out of a cab" shot in every flick that has the chance
• Mikey has arm bands like the Ultimate Warrior?  Really?
• Do turtles even have knuckles?
• Are they trying to call Captain Planet?
• So no Baxter as a fly?  BOO!
• BeeBop and Rocksteady are the best in the flick!
• Krang's suit is pretty cool looking
• Why does Krang stick out of the suit?  That doesn't protect him at all

Well that was about what I expected.  Some decent action (that you could not always see just like Transformers) and some really bad dialog!

I cannot fault the acting at all as I think everything did the best they could do with what they given.  I felt for people like Amell and  Linney who are used to better writing.  While the action was similar to Arrow I wonder what Amell thought while saying some of the things he did!

Fox was her usual one blank expression self in the flick and Arnett was almost absent in the film which was surprising as much as he was used in the first one.

The repeating, as they do in EVER TURTLE MOVIE EVER, of the brothers fighting then coming back together is getting REALLY tiresome.  

Overall I guess I call it a very normal and average flick.  I would say 5/10.  Nothing major and exactly what you would expect for this...nothing great!

Movie Review: Son of Bigfoot

Good morning, good afternoon, good evening...whenever it is you have come across this entry.  Today (11/22/17) I am checking out the 2017 flick Son of Bigfoot.  It currently has a 6.1 out of 10 at IMDB.  It stars Cinda Adams, George Babbit and Laila Berzins.  "A teenage boy journeys to find his missing father only to discover that he's actually Bigfoot."  I downloaded this because I thought it would be a bad movie...unfortunately it is a weird cartoon.  Lets see what happens....

• Don't use your gun gun?  What does that mean?
• Why do bad guys always have the mohawks?  Is it because good guys know it looks stupid?
• Really?  A teacher reading the inquirer?
• Yes....push your feet back into your shoes
• Wait...so wrapping your feet in toliet paper is a better idea?
• The nerd is on the football team?
• Ah yes the stereotypical bullies
• Cheese and crackers nice ears ears
• Wow an Asian camera joke!
• Was that kid wearing under roos?
• I wonder if this is what constitutes good writing in Hollywood these days
• They're just going to stand there?
• Yeah...because the dad you never meet is the best thing to go looking for....
• Getting into a truck with a stranger....yep...nothing wrong there
• Wait...so his mom banged Bigfoot?
• A lot of random animal shots in this flick
• His feet have minds of their own suddenly?  This is so strange
• Zombie bear?
• That bear trap is getting used a lot in this flick
• Bigfoot dad didn't think about sending him back to mom or let mom know even?
• Bigfoot with a banjo....a rednecks worst nightmare
• How does he know what bigfoot hair looks like?
• Maybe the worst dad ever
• Is that car made of out paper?
• Worst guards since Stormtroopers?
• The guy called tech support for a bear attack?
• A lot of feet in this movie...and feet are gross
• The hair keeps growing?
• Dad of the year strikes again
• The building would be insured and could rebuild.  Just keep the kid until the rebuild
• Not a big music budget in this flick....
• No one is saying anything about the fact that the mom banged bigfoot?
• A new song....weird
• She is still banging bigfoot?
• No one calls about a bear in the neighborhood?
• Good grief is she going to bang bigfoot too?

Well that was interesting.  I guess I will give it a 5/10.  It wasn't bad but it wasn't good.

The moral of the flick, that being different is okay, is a good thing.  I think it is an idea that needs to be said more often for people actually.  That is really where the good ends for this flick unfortunately.

It had that weird "modern" art where the humans do not look like humans and are over exaggerated.  I am picky about my cartoon art as you know and I am not a fan of this art direction.  I also found the voice acting to be...well pedestrian.  It was there and honestly was about the same throughout.  It felt like everyone was just reading their lines with no emotion.  The end where the mom says something to the effect of "don't mess with my family" it was like she was ordering from a drive thru, no real emotion behind it.  

It was average at best.  I can not say to watch it or not watch.  I wont' recommend it but it might be worth watching if you have younglings.

Movie Review: Dunkirk

Good morning, good afternoon, good evening...whenever it is you have come across this entry.  Today, 1/20/18, I am checking out the flick Dunkirk.  It stars Fionn Whitehead, Barry Keoghan and Mark Rylance.  "Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Empire and France are surrounded by the German Army, and evacuated during a fierce battle in World War II."  It currently has a 8.1/10 with

320,700 votes.

• How does he know that water wasn't poisoned and left for them to drink
• Probably should get out from behind the WOOD door kid
• Its his own people?  
• I hate to say it but yeah running is probably the best choice
• Digging his own grave?  Nope...covering up a dead body after stealing the boots
• Yeah, everyone on the beach seemed like a bad idea...and this is why...bombers
• That actually did a lot less damage then I would have expected
• They look like twins running 
• Those life jackets won't do any good against a U-Boat boys and girls
• I think I'd stay on the beach personally...but then again they have them against their backs and the sea in front of them...not good odds
• Why does Nolan have to use such weird shots in most of his flicks?  Odd camera angles and what not
• Lots of good actors in this flick which isn't suprising
• Sitting ducks on the bridge and boats
• Did a good job of locking the door with no noise
• Fuck you'd have no idea where to go, underwater, dark, in a ship you don't know....the thing of nightmares!
• Scarecrow does NOT want to go back no matter what!
• Jesus...what a waste of life!
• War...war never changes
• I don't think I'd get in another boat....
• Don't they realize they're the only civilian boat we've seen thus far?
• Talk about fish in a barrel!
• Use the gun and shoot son or you are going to drown
• How could you live with it?  
• Nope not the only civilians coming to help
• An amazing story!
• Is it bad for a ship to get into oil?  
• Poor Georgie....never let your name be Georgie in a flick I guess
• I wouldn't have told Scarecrow Georgie would be okay.  I think I'd probably have thrown him overboard after bashing his head in
• No answer to the soldier asking if they let everyone down...that says a lot without saying anything

Well that was an amazing flick and part of me wishes I had seen it in the theaters.  The acting was amazing, which is not surprising looking at the cast.  Visually it was not Saving Private Ryan but it was right up there.  If you take out the weird camera angles during the dog fights and it was almost perfect.

Honestly I cannot come up with much to say bad about the flick.  The weird camera angles that Nolan does often and I hate not knowing what happened to Tom Hardy.  I know it is not a true story but based on one but I hate not knowing.

I would suggest anyone who likes a good story or a good movie to check this out.  I give it a 9/10.  One of the best flicks I have seen in a while.

Explain something to me....

Okay I need to have someone explain something to me because I don't get it...

There are people who believe that Colin Kaepernick isn't being hired because of his actions with the national anthem.  His lawyers are going as far as to say that there is collusion between owners, general managers and the NFL to make sure Colin didn't hired.  They are even trying to get text electronic messages containing certain phrases per a report by Jason La Confora.   They supposedly exchanged over a hundred thousand documents recently.  They are even looking to see if President Trump helped not get Colin a job!

1.  There is no law that says Colin, Tom Brady, Greg Hardy or anyone else should have a job in the NFL.

2.  Colin had an average completion percentage of 59.8 per ESPN, so lets round that up to 60%.  That makes him the 25th best QB in 2016 roughly.  25th best.  If I don't round it up in 2016 he was the 26th best QB.  If he had played in 2017 and stayed at that he would have been the 27th best QB by that rate.  He would be above Mitch Trubisky, Cam Newton, Trevor Siemian, Jacoby Brissett, CJ Beathard and DeShone Kizer.  Only Cam Newton was on an above 500 team and that is because he runs as much as he passes.  

3.  Lets say a team like the Browns or the Bears did see Colin as an upgrade why would they pick him up with all the baggage that he brings to the team?  Ignoring if you agree or disagree with what he did (you can go back and see I've changed my mind back and forth myself) you are dealing with a PR nightmare at this point for a bottom quarter QB.  You are going to isolate a portion of your fans..perhaps more than a portion; could be a majority...for a slight statistical upgrade?  How does that make sense?

4.  I don't believe the owners of the NFL teams could agree on how to spell cat if you spotted them the C and the T.  They are constantly fighting over things but they are ALL going to agree to not hire a guy?  They couldn't agree on how to handle the kneeling during the National Anthem but they are all going to agree not to hire the first one?  

Overall I hate to see this happen to a person.  Colin did what he thought was right, even if you or I don't agree with it.  However he has to live with the consequences of his actions.  

And if you really want to know I don't like what he did.  I don't think not standing for the National Anthem got what he was trying to get across.  I agree with equality and that we are not doing enough to help the inner city youth (be it black, white, yellow, green or whatever color their skin is).  I don't believe we are doing enough to help the youth of America in general.  I believe that there is a race issue in this country...however I think it is exacerbated by the media and the actions of some people...but sometimes that is what is needed to get an eventual favorable solution.  However I don't agree with not standing for the National Anthem.  I feel it is disrespecting to our veterans, but that is my own opinion.  I however believe that he has the right to do what he did.

I guess what I don't understand is how is it wrong if the NFL did say we don't want this person playing the game.  If I was a player and used drugs they kick me out why not if I do something that has an negative impact on their business which some could argue this did?  I don't know the answer to this I just struggle to see that a team HAS to hire a person they don't want.