Change Your Image
MikeHunt1075
Ratings
Most Recently Rated
Reviews
3 on 3 Dunk Madness (1997)
At the buzzer...... no good!!!
3 on 3 Dunk Madness looks just like an NBA Jam clone with more a Capcom style of graphics, but an NBA Jam clone it is not, and that's a shame.
Even tho it looks like NBA Jam, it's a very poor man's version. It begins on easy mode where the AI pretty much stand still and steals work. Then each quarter or game, the difficulty amps up more and more until you're left with a frustrating game of cheating A. I, and useless defence that leaves you aggravated at how unresponsive it is.
It's a no wonder this game was only released in Japan. It has a really cool feature were long distance or hard dunks shatter the backboard, but that doesn't make up for the lousy defence mechanics and a cheating AI that defence works perfectly for and they won't miss any shots or dunks, contested or not, it just sucks any fun out of the game leaving you give up in anger instead of wasting time trying to beat it.
Super Back to the Future II (1993)
Marty!! You made it!! Welcome to my latest review! Scroll down and we shall proceed!
Super Back To The Future II is a 1993 video game by Toshiba EMI that was only released in Japan on the Super Famicom home console (SFC), or known in the western world, the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES).
Even tho the game was never released in English officially, it's still found a small cult following from fans of the film. Plus, if you're familuer enough with the film, you pretty much know what the text in the little cut scenes are saying.
The game is somewhat based on the film, but by characters only... well that and the use of a hoverboard and appearances by the Delorean Time Machine. However, that's about where the similarities end. I mean, each level does throw a tonne of somewhat related things into it, but....
Do you remember that part of the movie where Marty skated through platforms and collected a bunch of pickups, or took out random thugs by jumping on them? No? Well, according to this game, that's how it went down!
You control Marty skating around on a hoverboard in a side scrolling platformer in the attempts to get from one end to the other and reach a goal, and every 4 stages or so is a boss to defeat, which is usually a Biff Tannen of each timeline and year the level is in.
It's pretty much like a Super Mario World type of deal, with all the things in between to avoid, collect, or lay it out in one punch. Visually, however, it's BTTF themed for each level and enemy..... well, for some parts anyway.... a lot of things included are typical Misc items, objects, enemies that all these based on a film games get filled with, and that is of coarse the public domain or filler things every video game studio had access to to just shove into any game, like swooping birds, barrels and bull-ohlala. Don't forget the bats. Every NES game like these had to have bats, so why would this SNES release be any different? It surprises me it didn't have any random snakes!! I especially don't recall any scene in the film where Marty had to knock out a Jazz musician with a bunch of cannonballs, but feel free to correct me on that just incase I am having an aneurysm right now.
Marty travels through time throughout each level, the same as in the film. From 2015 to 1985b, to 1955. The controls are pretty easy. It's pretty much like Super Mario Controls. However, tho I've compared it to Mario twice now, it feels and plays nothing like a Mario game. The controls can be a little less responsive sometimes and could've been much approved upon.
The graphics are a kinda anime-ish style. Or just that kinda thing 16-bit games often did by sorta going a realistic cartoon look with decent shading and making the head larger to look like a bobblehead. I dunno, maybe some people are supposed to find it cute or something?
The audio I found a bit annoying at times. The first couple of levels belt out the movies title score, but being so familiar with that score, it's really noticeable where they stopped creating it in this midi form, and just set it to repeat/loop, and it starts to sound irritating after a while... luckily, later stages use custom music.
Another downfall I felt was the lack of variety. Each level changes to the time you're in, but overall, every level feels just like the last. There are 3 or 4 variants, but it is too similar to feel fresh or different. It just feels like the same manure with a different coat of paint for every level.
What the game needed was some bonus levels, maybe play a mini game of Wild Gunman, or something that involves allowing the player to interact with the Delorean and take it for a spin? Instead of it just being an animation that drops you back into the game when spawning and respawning.
The game does feel much better than its NES counterparts and it's predecessor, but to me, thats the only thing I think its had going for it once westerners discovered this title in the early 2000s via emulation. It slowly picked up the steam it probably would've recieved had it been released in English outside of Japan in the 90s, but I can't say it's worth rating highly just because it's a game we should've had in the 90s, and would've loved, because I'm not convinced it would've actually been any better than the majority opinion being "Meh, it's OK. But I wouldn't buy it" had it actually been released outside of Japan at the time, and that's still how I feel about it today. Sure, it was heaps better than the NES titles, but it still lacks variety, has stiff controls, doesn't have great replay value, doesn't have much in discovery of anything new, and it's not really a game that can be mastered, it usually always comes down to luck, or just having a good day, but once the game is beat, it has no feeling of reward, just boring credits nobody cares about and no desire to come back and play it again anytime soon.
Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble! (1996)
Oooga Booga
DKC3 has its moments of fun and new types of levels to explore compared to the original and DKC2, but it feels very lackluster overall and, at times and areas, seems incomplete and unfinished.
My biggest annoyance with this game is the music. It's non-stop repetitiveness was irritating and unbearable at times, hearing the same thing over and over again that was not a good tune to begin with.
The second annoyance comes from the areas that feel unfinished or cut. There's places on the map that you can access that seem like they should lead to places, but they don't. If it was meant to keep players searching after completion for replay value trickery, then I give RARE a Star off for the deception. If it was typical RARE thinking bigger than a snes cartridge could store, then I understand and appreciate the effort.
The 3rd downvote I give to this game is the lack of color in the less vibrant sprites. DKC had such beautiful graphics with vibrant colors that made the background and stages just as memorable as the character animations. DKC3 does not. It feels very downgraded. Way more compressed and visually very repedative. It's possible things got more compressed to fit more into the game, but it did not feel like more was fit into the game. It felt rather short with a focus on trying to create hidden boss battles to discover, but making the game feel more like it doesn't all just come full circle in the end and gel together.
The controls are the same as the previous games, no issues there. But I will say I think it's absolutely pointless in creating a couple of levels where the controls are purposely backwards or left is right and right is left etc... there's no fun in that, and you can see it was an idea RARE tried here 30 years ago, and it did not catch on. So be prepared to play some failed ideas if you've never played this before.
Overall. It's OK. I'd only recommend it if you absolutely love DKC1 and 2. I would not recommend this over either of those titles, tho. The Donkey Kong Country trilogys ratings are equal to the order of release, with the first the best, but still leaving this one as far from a bad game, but the least favourite of the 16bit series.
Stargate (1994)
Not so much of a rush
A hit and miss action shooting side scroller type of game thats pretty much played it safe by being a game with Contra style controls, but pretty much in most ways really just a clone of the Super Star Wars games.
It's most likely why it was never a hit game and pretty much flew under the radar for most. Even I myself was a big fan of the movie, but I didn't even know there was a video game released at the time to conside with the movie.
Having played it now, I can see had I known about it, and purchased it, it probably wouldn't have been a favourite game, nor had very much of any fond memories, because as much as there is nothing wrong with what you get, it's the repetitiveness and lack of variety that leaves this a clone of the Super Star Wars games, but not nearly half as good.
For the most part, you're playing as Colonel Jack O'Neil, the character played by Kurt Russel in the film. For the period it was made,the graphics are pretty good and the character does look like Russel.
However all you can do is run around and shoot. There's no real variety to much else other than a couple of things to climb, but at least the Star Wars games gave you power ups and force uses to give somewhat a variety of more than just a machine gun and grenades.
For most of the game, that's it. You continue the same thing of running around, shooting enemies, and jumping platform to platform either looking for something or someone, which is pretty much just reach certain checkpoints before you can advance.
Sometimes you do get something refreshing to do, like fly one of the x-wing Glider thingies the film had the bad guys flying around in. But then it's back to running around and doing the same thing over and over again. Too many levels just had the same layouts, and it gets really tiring of just doing the same thing over and over again with only the one type of Glider stage appearing once or twice to mix things up. That might work in sports games, but a game like this, it becomes a chore rather than having fun playing it and leaves no excitement into wanting to keep playing.
Which is what happened to me. I grew tiresome of the repetitiveness and lost any interest on if this game was worth finishing? It had no variety, nothing compelling to make me want to continue and there was no fun to be found anymore. Perhaps that's why this game doesn't seem to have extremely negative reviews, but never extremely great ones either. It's just there as a meh. It played it safe copying Lucas's Arts Super Star Wars series, but didn't put that Acclaim touch to it where the lack of features made it great to come back to because of such n such.... I'd be willing to bet this was certainly no body at ACCLAIMS passion project, just a "We are contracted to get a game out to sell during the movies box office run to home rentals phase" so, just put together whatever they think will work within the short time frame we have.
The Milton Milton Show (2019)
The terrible terrible show
Early 2000s looking flash cartoons, in a Late Show with David Letterman setting, stars a baby-like host with an annoying voice changer voice, obsessed with shaking his leg, presents God awful jokes and conversations on repeat every episode that are just as terrible as the other characters that deliver the same recycled joke over and over that didn't work to begin with.
It's trying too hard to be bizarre, and failing miserably to be funny, or entertaining. Why is this even a show? It should be some obscure thing buried on YouTube where 10 people in 20 years will see it, and the closest thing to a positive comment it gets is that idiot who says "First!!".
Nothing works. The stupid repeated jokes, the dumb voices, the done to death repetitive episodes, the swearing like it's supposed to be funny or shocking, but it's just as stupid as the rest of its attempt to entertain.
What baffles me the most is that more than one person worked on this dribbled out waste of everyone's time.
I Saw the TV Glow (2024)
I saw the back of my eyelids
Oh, how I've become so sick and tired of fake reviews here, there, and everywhere.
If you see a single review here saying this film is good, watchable, scary, great, or a rating above 2 stars, it's a blatant lying fake review.
This is a boring, dull, slow paced snore-fest with a boring kid actor who wants to stay up late and watch some stupid show on TV that his mommy won't let him watch, so he does it anyway by sneaking around and Zzzzzzzzz huh? Oh, sorry, I bored myself to sleep trying to review the boring plot.
Only watch it if you want an ambient noise helping you sleep, as this movies god awful sound is the only redeeming thing about this movie when it bores you into a good night's sleep. Otherwise, avoid it.
Island of the Dolls (2023)
Island of the Zzzzzzzzzz
I don't know why this movie has an average to higher rating. Oh, wait, I do, fake reviews. Don't be suckered by any saying anything positive about this badly put-together snore-fest.
The plot is loosely based on that island filled with Dolls in Mexico somewhere. This, however, is not set there. It's in a place they could afford in some woods they cant even do a good enough job to make it seem like an island. Some guy decided to place Dolls everywhere on the island, for no apparent reason, after leaving his family for no apparent reason till one day a little girl with no identity for no apparent reason is found dead for no apparent reason and the guy buries her instead of notifying authorities for no apparent reason and her ghost doesn't like that the guy gave one of her Dolls to another little girl and that other little girl hears the ghost girl calling her back to return her doll 20 years later and then her and her boyfriend go to the island where her story comes out, that he knew nothing about, for no apparent reason and they go along with a brother and sister and also meet another couple out of nowhere played by people with no chemistry, no charisma, no acting ability and no other reason to be in the film other than to be predictable victims. Then a stupid ending and a boring done-to-death outcome.
Don't bother watching this. It's not worth even just a single view. Its editing is bad, jumping from thing to thing with no explanation or setup in between. It tries to force character history but fails to provide anything of interest. Its atmosphere is not creepy at all. For an island full of 20 year old Dolls, they wouldn't look so new and clean, killing off any chance of making anything look plausible. Did I mention the characters are absolutely boring?
Avoid it. There's not one thing worth seeing in this low-budget garbage. Not even a laughable kill scene.
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)
Wrong choice for a leading man.
This is a film that looks a million dollars in CFI effects and should have been a big hit, but it fails to deliver due to bad casting. Mostly from the main leading little man who has no likeability to make the role work.
He has no charm, no charisma, no emotional range, and just comes off like he's trying to be an overconfident egotistical Keanu Reeves type of incantation while mostly looking stoned the whole time.
It completly destroys the suspension of beleif and just going with he's some sort of expert military specialist of some kind in what appears to be a late teens body. I dunno, maybe this things based on a book that explains it more, but this is a movie, and gives no explanation why the two protagonists are of a younger age and hold ranks of space colonel's or whatever the are.
The plot is that a space station hosting inhabitants of 8 thousand different alien species has a mystery to solve who a group of unknown theives are causing panic. So Captain Fantastic and his sidekick Miss Generic Personality are called in to track down these rouges and put a stop to it. A bunch of stuff happens in between that's merely special effects driven until the mystery is revealed, and we're supposed to care about the two lead characters' lives.
Unfortunately, there's 0 chemistry between the actors, and its impossible to invest in caring about them one way or the other. They are empty, shallow, and worst of all, highly predictable.
A bunch of other stuff happens, and there is really very little character development for anyone. It's one of those typical films where within 5 minutes, one character meets another, a battle happens, they win, another happens, one dies, and we have to witness some forced emotional tear jerker scene as one gives there final speech before dying in the others arms, but has no effect on the audience because they only met 5 mins ago, and were supposed to just beleive these two formed a close bond in this time? Gimmie a break.
It probably could've been fleshed out better as a series, rather than a single movie, as long as they get decent actors to play the roles of the most uncharacteristic and dull leading roles I've seen in a long time. I was actually just irritated by them by the end of the film and my only thought was to point the finger directly at the male lead. He really was the worst choice for that character.
IF (2024)
Tries too hard to force emotions out of you.
IF
This film about assigning imaginary friends like it's a match making service could've been something decent, but its execution falls flat of being anything but a soon forgotten film that Ryan Reynolds made while waiting for his next Deadpool film to go into production.
This film has an idea of what it wants to portray but fails to build up any connection with any of the characters for the viewers to care any less about.
Everything seems to try to set up some emotionally uplifting pay-off in the end, but the build up is so quick that it is eye-rolling that the film is "This person. Who? Jump over any character development to care about. Something. All smiles and uplifting music" pay-off = Huh?
Whoever this films leading little lady is has a dad about to go under some sort of risky operation and stays with her grandmother. She doesn't have the expected sad, loner, left out, unhappy vibe. She stumbles upon Ryan Reynolds who is some sort of rjngleader of Imaginary Friends. She pushes her way into his life, and then is shown the place these IF things live.
There's no reason to care about how Ryan Reynolds character is supposed to be grumpy now compared to how he once was, and that small plot becomes extremely predictable what the outcome will be, leaving no surprise when it does to anyone over 7 years old.
This girl then just gets told to use her imagination and suddenly becomes God of the IFs world instantaneously, in a very unimpressive sequence of CGI cluster and a pointless musical number. Then back to the real world for some more snorefest interactions of almost seemingless pointless dialogue and it just leads up to a Labrynth knock-off ending.
The film tries to ram feeling good and smiling during uplifting happy music, with no set up as to why you're supposed to feel anything at all? It's like some stupid TikTok brain saw a film that did it, and said "who cares why? Just have the music kick in and make hearts glow and rainbows shine while everyone smiles and make everyone tear jerk at the happiness of it" but, without any setup as to why we're supposed to care as an audience, it's just lazy writing, or some sort of social expirement to see if people are going to feel emotional and tear up just because of the soundtrack and a bunch of characters in slow motion looking up and flashing their pearly whites.
The only thing this film made me feel was rolling my eyes at just how pathetic the build ups are to scenes where you're being forced to think everything's all magic and unicorn poop to fool the adolescent or people with IQs well below average.
Seriously, I'm expecting Dead Pool 3 to have some line about how IF was a late April Fools joke or made just to see if audiences even pay attention to what they're watching anymore and if competent writings even required anymore?
If you like CGI overkill characters, predictable outcomes, sloppy writing, forced emotional scenes only a child or moron would tear up for, and characters you won't invest a cent in, then this is the perfect movie for you. Otherwise, don't bother.
Comedy Legends (2018)
Could have been so much better with a premeditated structural format.
This does have great comedians to talk about, and give their highlights of their careers, but what's really annoying is most of them don't even mention some of the greatest TV or Movies they where in, or tell about how the actor/actress passed away.
It also repeats too much, like someone explaining a sketch word for word, then showing the clip of it, and then someone else repeats it again.
I don't know if certain copyrights prevented certain films and TV couldn't be used, but there was no need to constantly repeat the same thing 2 times whilst also showing the clip, or not giving the full stories from start to finish.
Its presentation structure is also very sloppy. Sometimes, you get a history of the episodes' main focus life story from when they were born to when they passed away, but others just start with their first TV/movie appearances and so on in order, where as others bounce from middle, end, start, somewhere else inbetween and then some random place.
I dunno if it's down to lousey editing, time consumption, or things got cut for time, but it doesn't really show the true respect these great comedians really deserved in telling their history.
If it was meant to just be a "Remember this" series, then it's what it's succeeded in doing, but it could have been so much better than it has been released as.
Wishmaster 3: Beyond the Gates of Hell (2001)
Meh. Just a low budget made for TV film filler that didn't need to be made.
If only the original script ript was used and the original Djinn actor reprised his role, this mightve been something decent. Instead they went with the cheaper to make script and it clearly shows. Who thought this would be a success?
You can accept the fact that this is now a completely separate Djinn to the one jn the first 2 films. OK, so you haven't got the original actor, so make the new guy a different Djjnn, fine, that's OK, makes sense... but you have to wonder if the writer of this 3rd instalment even watched the original movies, or cared?
The laws the first two films set up just get ignored here. I guess cheap writers only caring for a pay check are all alike, because in this script, the fire opal that inprisons the Djinn is just released from a box, but not the opal itself. The first two movies clearly show the stone must be broken to free the Djinn, but this one, it's just finding the stone in a lock box? Then the Djinn appears five minutes later after being freed?
Then when the Djinn is revealed, no one decided to light the set right to make the lower budget costume look a little better? Nope, fully lit and you can see all the plastic and foam bits clear as day.
From then on its just a typical poorly written repeat of the same plots. But on really low budgets.
The actors seem to not care they're in this film. Looks like they just did it for the money knowing this movie was going to be a waste of time making.
It's far from the worst film ever made, but it's even further from being a film you check out once. It's just a pointless film all around.
Warlock III: The End of Innocence (1999)
Not too bad.
I can see other reviewers here have given this a low score because apparently it's nothing like the previous 2 films. Well, I haven't seen the previous 2 yet. This just started playing after another film I had on, and I don't think it was all that bad.
It had a much better first half, where a college student finds out she's been left a house in her family and if she wants anything in it, go get it before the place is demolished.
She ventures to and into the house where strange things begin to happen. Then her friends show up and the Warlock, posing as a architect, and it evolves into are her friends truly her friends, or would they allow her to be sacrificed for the Warlocks plans?
Overall, the filming, lighting, audio etc is all good. The acting if fine. The sounds fine. The only thing that bothered me was a few glitch like moments, but I think that might have been Tubi, not the film itself.
I was entertained from start to finish, no moments of boredom and no previous films knowledge to be distracted by. So overall, this films ok for one viewing. Seems a bit harsh to rate it lower from others. Perhaps this a Halloween Season of the Witch moment? It just needs to be watched for what it is, and not what it's supposed to be following?
Decent for one viewing, I don't think it has any replay value tho.
The Story of Playstation (2023)
Nothing to gain from watching this.
This documentary offers nothing you most likely already didn't know about the history of the Playstation.
It's presented through a couple of no-bodies being interviewed and sharing their useless nostalgia stories and uncaptivating personal histories that come off more vein than anything else.
They just talk about each launch of the new systems and mention a couple of leading games, while obviously not being allowed to talk about the games consumers where really obtaining the consoles to play.
It's also got quite some misleading parts to it, in particular one of them claiming the PS1 had better graphics than the Nintendo 64... yeah, nah a umm, 32 bit system vs a 64 bit is not going to have better graphics. What they're failing to admit is the PS1 was easily chipped to run bootleg games, where as the Nintendo 64 wasn't able to be modified like that, and that's how the PS1 outsold Nintendo's 64 console. It wasn't from it being a better console or had vcd.
Also, the sound editing during this entire thing is atrocious. At points you can't hear what someone's saying because music is drowning it out, and it's annoying as bleep that way the sound goes up and down and has no constant level. Very poor job on the audio all through out this pointless documentary from the pov of a couple of nobodies.
Would I Lie to You? (2022)
I'd be lying if I said it was good.
This show is the US attempt at creating an already great UK show where two teams of celebrities play against each other in a series of rounds where the opposition has to guess if they are telling the truth or making it up?
The UK version is already a classic after about 15 years of being on the air, but this US version just doesn't have the same vibe.
The host and two team captains are not cast right. The host contributes nothing, and who the heck are the team captains anyway? One is plain annoying thinking she's a rapper or something, the other seems to have little to no charisma.
The selections for guest "celebrities" is a real head scratcher. I think a total of 3 people have been on this show I'd actually call a celebrity. The rest seem to be unheard of "comedians" and some sort of TikTok nobodies.
Its a show that could work for the USA, but it needs to scrap everything its doing right now, follow the UK formula and actually have guests on people know and wanna see on a weekly basis.
Give the show to someone like the Who's Line Is It Anyway crew, or bring back a team from the past like the MadTV cast perhaps? Anyone but these has-beens that never was who pretend the audience knows who they are and add in 2 or 3 actual celebrities during the coarse of the season.
By the way, I said follow the UK formula, which means, stop doing the typical US filler where when a known name is mentioned, it gets a round of applause, and the terrible obvious cuts in editing that ruin the feel that what you're watching isn't just slapped together because there's too much boring stuff being cut out. Get the vibe going and let the guests let loose, not an obvious take 2 moment.
Kliq This: The Kevin Nash Podcast (2022)
Was good, but Sean Oliver has killed it.
The podcast itself was interesting for a while, but has become way too try-hard with Sean Oliver's unessercery clips from the show being made into small, pointless/who cares, topics that flood your YouTube subscriptions with absolutely useless garbage, because Sean thinks that's how you promote a channel.
The premise is obvious. Sean Oliver hosts a podcast with former wrestling legend Kevin Nash and discuss whatever they want to talk about. Fine, it's their podcast, they can talk about what they want, but they have no understanding that their podcast is being watched globally, and they just discuss things that fit into their local areas. Not being American myself, I could not give a damn about politics. Not on a global scale, my own country, or Sean and Nash' local candidates. But like I said, they can discuss whatever. It's their show.
What sickens me tho is Sean Oliver will take useless snippets from the hour or so podcasts, and upload them to YouTube with stupid titles like "Who does Kevin Nash support in the election", "Kevin Nash on how he feels about toilet paper", "Kevin Nash reveals how his last fart smelled", "What Kevin Nash had for breakfast".... seriously, if anyone wants to know or care about such useless information, then I can't express enough how much you need to get a life, and stop supporting such trash, so Sean Oliver can be paid in ad revenue for spamming such pathetic snippets to the gullible who just click and watch anything and comment "first" or "love you,saw you once at black blah"... such insightful information no one could have gone on living without knowing.
The podcast occasionally has other guests, but it seems Sean uploads the full podcast at first, then takes it down to upload his useless snippets for more clicks. I had to unsubscribe because I'm just not putting up with that sort of thing from anyone, or the dribble he does make into snippets.
It was good in the beginning when Nash revealed some backstage information and shed light on things from his past wrestling days, but now it's like they've run out of wrestling stories, and just think talking politics, sports and promoting products they've probably never used is all that's needed to call what they're doing as entertainment.
Sorry, im not interested in anyone's completely useless opinions about anything. I don't care what they think of a TV show, movie, drink, betting pools, what they had for dinner, how they think everyone else should be entertained.
It's become a snorefest of egotism of not being able to take a look at themselves, and wonder why what most of what they say should be cared about by anyone else?
Still, I suppose you have your fans of things like Gogglebox, so there's obviously plenty of people to watch pointless and useless dribble and think it's entertainment, because they dont have the intelegence to realise they're being duped.
Nothing against Nash, tho. He's just answering the useless questions Sean Oliver is asking.
The final straw with this podcast was Oliver posting the snippets of how he doesn't care what the haters of the podcast think.... I wasn't a hater, I was suggesting how to improve the show for better viewing, but Oliver doesn't care about long-term viewers, just what money he can make off it right now. Sounds like he has a lot on common with Vince Russo, and his podcasts fate will match that of WCW in the end.
The 50 Best Horror Movies You've Never Seen (2014)
Pretty much a collection of pretend it's good promos
Honestly this entire list is a bunch of annoying actors pretending the bad horror movies they appeared in once are actually worth watching. They're not.
Most of the people talking about these are annoying, hard to like, conceited, or eye rolling at how bad they're trying to pat themselves on the back for creating, seeing, or being in a bunch of B-grade shock.
This feels like Tubi put it together to aid trick watchers into checking out some of their God awful content... I don't know IF Tubi even make it, but it's currently on Tubi and so are most of these horrible horrors.
It's slightly better than the "50 Worst Movies" documentary, but not by much. It gives little to no insight about the films either, just some nobodies nostalgia memories that any sane person couldn't give a rats behind about.
The House on Sorority Row (1982)
Slashed ending.
For a 1980s slasher film, this one stands up above the rest as far as acting goes. The cast is great and only a few eye rolling moments about acting badly, but for the most parts it's portrayed well and overall believable.
The plot evolves around a small group of college graduates, whom decide to stick around their sorority house a few more days to throw a graduation party. They also decide to play a prank on their den mother, whom none of them favour well. The prank turns deadly and the girls decide to hide the body and party on. However, during the party, a spree of murders begin leaving to question if the den mother is actually dead?
The film was acted well on most parts, it's shot nicely, the pace is not boring at all, and the score is all fine... the problem with the film is the ending. It just abruptly ends, and I cannot stand movies that suck you in from start to... terrible finish.
I don't care about anyone's nostalgia, find memories or love for such and such, if a film has a terrible ending like this, and no sequel to kick off wherever ended, then forget it, it gets no higher rating or a recommendation as a hidden gem.
It's a shame the director didn't listen to ideas of an alternate ending, as talked about in related interviews, because it could've actually made this film a classic slasher flick with a satisfying ending.
RoboCop: Rogue City (2023)
Robo flop
For a game released in 2023, the graphics look like they're from GTA3. Every horrid animation is a polygon staring upwards and rocking around with the mouth moving, but it's completely out of sync with the audio.
If 1 person made this game, I'd say it was impressive, but I'd expect this to be a free game on mobile devices, not a so called finished product that was ready for release.
The voice actors are terrible, aside from Peter Weller, not one returning character sounds, or acts, the way they did in the films, and they're not even close. Did the devs do the voices themselves and intend to get better voice actors, but couldn't afford it, or be bothered replacing them?
The new main villian looks like a direct rip-off of Hans Gruber, and the new jerk in charge of Robocop is like a very poor rendition of Jimmy Smits, but nothing in comparison to the terrible voice choices of the old man and the police chief.
Speaking of, can't they give these guys names? Calling him "the old man" has run its coarse, would it be so hard to refer to him by name? I guess the devs thought it'd be funny, which they don't know what funny is, because from start to finish, this games storyline and scenes don't nail a single joke it tells.
I really hate the ending too. They've completely ruined the character of the old man, and it felt so way out of line to have him the real villian in the end.
Perhaps on an anniversary of this game, they might update EVERYTHING and do it right, as I can't imagine any modders bothering to improve anything hardly of worth here.
Sure, other reviews are praising it, but the earliest reviews like that are always fake as.
Many are saying it's so much better than the last Robocop game, yeah, maybe? But it still suffers from the exact same thing of the previous game, and that's there is no replayability once it's completed.
I'm not going to pretend this is a great game just because it's the first Robocop game in years. It looks cheap, sounds absolutely horrible, and all the effort has clearly only been put into Robocop himself, and the rest looks like an after thought.
Tunnel Vision (1976)
On par with Loose Shoes.
I love Kentucky Fried Movie, laughed little, but at parts of Amazon Women on the Moon, Loose Shoes, etc... but this one, this one's had probably the minimal laughs of all these types of movies.
I think I laughed once and smirked twice. Those were way beyond the halfway point of this mostly non-stop garbage.
The brief 10-second scenes featuring Chevy Chase and John Candy are nothing to go out of your way to check out. Not even a smirk to be had with their cameos.
Even trying to imagine I was back in the 70s watching this, I still can't imagine I'd be laughing much during this. Most of the skits don't even seem to be done in humour, but more as filler.
The racial and sexist skits of coarse wouldn't be accepted today, but even trying to think with a 70s mind, I still can't imagine being amused at the pathetic gags.... if you can even call it that.
When it comes to these types of movies, I always tend to wonder if there's any scene or skit that would fit perfectly edited into Kentucky Fried Movie or slap together a bunch of scenes to edit together a KFM II? This film is pretty much equal to Loose Shoes... there is 1.5 scenes I'd add. Which means overall, there's about 10 seconds of this film worth seeing. The rest is throw away garbage not worthy of anybodies time at all.
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (2022)
Way too fictional
The truth to the Weird Al success is that he had a decent hit in the 1980s parodying a Michael Jackson song, then just kept his face popping up now and then in Lesley Neilson films, up until the turn of the melenium where he struck it lucky by having the record company actually put some money into his video clips on his latest CD spoofing Star Wars.
It was at this time younger audiences saw his clips amongst actual music on MTV and with there being no contest in the parody market, the kids associated parody/spoof/funny songs with the name Weird Al, having known no other comedic writers.
It was at this time luck struck big time for Al, as Napster was born. Any, and pretty much anything comedy related, was being mislabled by the kids as being a song by Weird Al.
It should have been a time to rocket the original artists to the top, but instead the kids only knew of Weird Al as being the guy doing the silly stuff, so everything silly was just named Weird Al as the artist.
Years after the closure of Napster, the damage still remained. So many great artists work like Bob Rivers, Bob & Tom, Dr Dirty John Valby, Kevin B Wilson, Rodney Rude and so many more have had their songs heard by millions, laughed at by millions, and mislabelled as being written by the wrong person.
The question most of these supposed Weird Al fans seem to not realise, is if you ask them their favourite songs, they often mention songs with adult language. Aka the R-rated ones. To which they blink in blank stares when you inform them that whatever that song is, it's not Weird Al because Weird Al does not do anything R or x-rated. He barely registers a PG rating.
That's because Weird Al thinks everything he does should be family-friendly and commercial. Very straightforward PC humour.
This is why I can't give this film any higher a rating or say anything good about it. It's written by one of the Napster day fans who don't really know Al's actual work, just what they thought was his, up until they tried to get the rights to certain material, and I'll guarantee they mention nothing about the actual truth of his popularity boom in the early 2000s due to mislabelling other people's funny songs and being falsely recognised as the comedic talent of filth that he never actually was, and once that's realised, his PC G-rated songs he has written seem pretty bland, boring, easily forgetful and most of all, not funny.
This man has just been extremely lucky to have been in the right place at the right time. But, none the less, the true meaning of what highly overated is. The film tries to convince you otherwise. But no, that's not the true way his popularity came to this movie.
If You Don't Stop It... You'll Go Blind!!! (1975)
I didn't quite make me blind, but it was a decent attempt
Thank you to Tubi for recommending this unexpected little tucked away gem. I love parody and slap stick goofball comedies, and sure, there are a LOT of stinkers out there. But this one has its moments of its share of laughs.
It's not quite up there with the likes of Kentucky Fried Movie, but it is about on par with Loose Shoes if you're familiar with those classics.
As I said, it's hit and miss with a few of the sketches and gags, but it still manages to hit enough targets to tilt the scales to a thumbs up by the end.
As long as you have a low brow sense of humour for dirty sex jokes and toilet humour, this one's worth checking out.
Gold Diggers (2023)
6 'n a half for these lovely Sheila's!
It's quite surprising to have read the negative reviews around here from the old fuddy duddies. I'm not even sure how that's spelled, but it's what they are. Perhaps they need to pull the stick out of where it doesn't shine, or insert another one next to it, because this show is an unexpected hit with me.
Which I can tell you, is suprising, as I'm not into gold rush era times, or much of Australian made shows at all any more, but finally one's come along that's actually just having some fun and not wreaking desperately of trying to do everything for a stinking Logi award.
Sure, it's not historical either, which I've seen too many complain about in reviews. To that I say "So what"? It's a comedy series, not a documentary. These people have no problems suspending belief for a house caught in a tornado and dropped in a non-existant place where murder is fine, or a Nanny who leaves the impression where kids try to jump off high places with an umbrella and find out the hard way that fairy tales are only magical on screen, but God forbid these ladies do a comedy set in the gold rush years with a more modern pop culture dialogue for fun rather than a done to death premise.
I haven't really caught the lead actresses names yet, so they nay not be household names yet, lol, but they're chemistry together as the Brewer sisters is great.
They've come to a small town secretly being on the run as wanted criminals in Sydney for a murder they may or may not have committed.
They settle down and turn the town upside down by being themselves that either offend the locals or they absolutly love them.
Each episode theh get into some sort of mischief or have some plan to find a lover, get someone back or achieve something or other. They are hilarious together and parody the time period as feminist women in their own DILLIGAF way.
Hopefully, the fuddy duddies don't ruin a second season happening, the shows great and that's coming from someone not really into these things at all.
Also, great to see Heather Mitchel (Ashka from Spellbinder) back on telly. Her brief appearances where great, hilarious, something I haven't seen her play before.
(Re)Solved (2023)
What's "Solved"?
This is kind of interesting to watch at first, but then you suddenly stop and wonder why these people are even making this show?
The shows title is not at all what this show is about. It's about a couple of nobodies, pretending to be somebodies, talking about the deaths of celebrities and what they personally think, suspect, theorise and speculate, but in the end, not a shred of evidence to prove anything. Nothing is actually solved.
The most annoying one is Deanna Thompson who can't open her mouth without telling you about what other investigations she's appeared in. She just has tickets all over herself. She comes off as someone who believes self promotion means more than the death of somebody and how their family and friends would react having to watch her love and admiration for herself everytjme she opens her gob.
Overall, this show is nothing more than a useless series devoted to useless opinions. It might clear up how an actor died IF you didn't know already, or you didn't hear the whole story. But that's it. The rest is whoevers speaking personal opinion they want you to believe because it's what they believe.
Everything else is pointless background filler. At least shows like Unsolved Mysteries had updates and resolves now and then, this show has cases that no one will ever know the truth to. This show is the equivalent of a passing YouTube comment saying "I THINK the butler did it"
The Delightfully Shit World of Hayden and Lachlan (2012)
A rating this high? Lol, keep dreaming.
Looks like the cast got all their mates to rate this up higher than it ever deserves.
I somehow caught the first episode of this on a public broadcasting station 31. I laughed my rear off and thought it was the most hilarious thing I'd seen in years. Afterwards, I felt like telling all my mates they need to check out this show, it's absolutly wee weez funny!
However, after viewing episode 2, the laughter stopped. Infact, it didn't even get started again. I managed to suffer through the whole season, but not a laugh to be found. Not even a small chuckle. The only time I ever laughed again at this show I think mightve been the second season at a song parodying "Splish Splash".
It's baffling how the debut episode I would give 7/10, maybe 8/10. Then every episode following it, a solid 1/10, apart from that other episode I mentioned that gets a 3/10 for having a funny song, but the rest of the episode was just as the shows title describes.
Where this went wrong was filming the same sketch 100 times with a different punchline for each take, then splitting it up into the same alternate sketches one after the other each weeks episode.
The biggest problem is they only had 1 funny take for most of it, and it was all put in episode 1, the rest of the season was unfunny out-takes presented as episodes instead of cutting room floor material where it belongs. Not even stuff worth adding as a bonus feature for its 20th anniversary release had it been successful.
I've never been so disappointed in a show after such a strong first episode that looked like this was the beginning of an Aussie sketch comedy classic.
It's such a shame it failed and they where just the 1 hit wonder with the 1 episode alone that was great.
Kangaroo Jack (2003)
Jack off
What killed this movie before it was even released was the trailer. You see, the film is about chasing a real kangaroo around the outback, with a dream sequence where one of the characters dreams the kangaroo is animated and talking/rapping which gave the impression this was going to be some whacky cartoonish film about an animated talking kangaroo. But audiences would soon find that's not the case at all and find themselves watching something they weren't exactly expecting. I could imagine it caught the attention of a lot of young children who wanted to go see this, only to be disappointed it wasn't what the trailer made it out to be, and wanted to leave before the movie was over.
Whomever put the trailer together should be made to blame for the misleading premise. Most likely they put together a trailer without the animated part, and felt it wasn't going to attract anyone, so they included the animated bits, gave the wrong idea about the movie to drag in whoever they could, and hoped they made their money back they spent making this.