- Tue Apr 12, 2022 3:24 pm
#146739
You Are Not My Mother dir by Kate Dolan
Bad poster aside, this film was really quite good. An Irish horror film that centers around a mid teen girl whose mother has some issues, never quite divulged but on the surface she seems like a drug user. They live with the grandmother who has some odd tendencies. The mother goes missing and when she returns something isn't quite right. That's all I'll really divulge about the plot. It's quite tense, has a good pace and some great performances. I definitely recommend checking this one out.
Drive dir by Steve Wang
This is a bad movie, plain and simple. Plot is kind of there and what is there isn't good, the acting is borderline amateur and the "comedy" isn't funny at all but boy do they try. I kind of thought this was a Rush Hour rip off film but actually came out the year before. The reason to watch this is the action, for a low budget, assuming DTV release from '97 the fights, choreography and stunts are really impressive. I kind of forgot American Iron Chef man Mark Dacascos was actually a decent action star with bad acting skills. I had fun watching it.
See For Me dir by Randall Okita
This movie was fucking awful. I'm going to spoil it so either skip reading and watch or do what I recommend which is don't watch it at all. Set up is a blind girl who is hired to cat sit for a very wealthy woman in the middle of nowhere NY (assuming Catskills? not sure where this house would be). Film starts off with the main character trying to leave for her job and her mother is kind of smothering her and being overbearing. She's incredibly rude and snippy with her mother, basically doesn't want any help, she can do it herself (a theme here) which is understandable she wants to prove she can do things her self. She takes a cab to the residence, is very mean to the cab driver who is just trying to do his job (offer to bring her bags to the door, inform her there's a step down on the path she's literally never been on before) then she snaps at the home owner a bunch of times. 15 minutes into this film you will hate the main character. Shortly after the home owner leaves, she calls her friend and uses the camera on the phone to have him tell her where stuff is. She goes into the wine cellar and steals a $5k bottle of wine to sell which leads to an argument with the person on the other end of the phone saying he's not going to help her steal stuff anymore. Basically next she goes outside to smoke, locks her self out and has to call a "help me see" app that directs her on how to break back into the house. That evening she wakes up and people are in the house, she calls the app again and has the girl help her navigate the house with these people in it. You think this is going to be a home invasion film, only it kind of is. She gets caught pretty easily then agrees to help them steal what ever is in the vault for a cut, only she called 911 prior. so then she needs to pretend nothing is wrong, is a complete bitch to the police officer. Then shit goes side ways and she basically has to kill all of the people in the house. And then has a final show down. It's stupid and unfolds in the dumbest way. Then at the end we smash cut to her back on the slopes with her friend guiding her, because there's a whole sub plot of her being a great skier who refuses to ski anymore. It's completely useless and why the fuck do I care that this nasty human being feels good enough to nice again and do what she wants.
If you're going to do a redemption arc for a character that's very unlikeable, it's helpful if you give the audience things to relate with or some likeable traits. This character is horrible all the way through and then everything is just OK for them. After they killed a bunch of people and one person in cold blood that had no weapon and just wanted to leave.
You Are Not My Mother dir by Kate Dolan
Bad poster aside, this film was really quite good. An Irish horror film that centers around a mid teen girl whose mother has some issues, never quite divulged but on the surface she seems like a drug user. They live with the grandmother who has some odd tendencies. The mother goes missing and when she returns something isn't quite right. That's all I'll really divulge about the plot. It's quite tense, has a good pace and some great performances. I definitely recommend checking this one out.
Drive dir by Steve Wang
This is a bad movie, plain and simple. Plot is kind of there and what is there isn't good, the acting is borderline amateur and the "comedy" isn't funny at all but boy do they try. I kind of thought this was a Rush Hour rip off film but actually came out the year before. The reason to watch this is the action, for a low budget, assuming DTV release from '97 the fights, choreography and stunts are really impressive. I kind of forgot American Iron Chef man Mark Dacascos was actually a decent action star with bad acting skills. I had fun watching it.
See For Me dir by Randall Okita
This movie was fucking awful. I'm going to spoil it so either skip reading and watch or do what I recommend which is don't watch it at all. Set up is a blind girl who is hired to cat sit for a very wealthy woman in the middle of nowhere NY (assuming Catskills? not sure where this house would be). Film starts off with the main character trying to leave for her job and her mother is kind of smothering her and being overbearing. She's incredibly rude and snippy with her mother, basically doesn't want any help, she can do it herself (a theme here) which is understandable she wants to prove she can do things her self. She takes a cab to the residence, is very mean to the cab driver who is just trying to do his job (offer to bring her bags to the door, inform her there's a step down on the path she's literally never been on before) then she snaps at the home owner a bunch of times. 15 minutes into this film you will hate the main character. Shortly after the home owner leaves, she calls her friend and uses the camera on the phone to have him tell her where stuff is. She goes into the wine cellar and steals a $5k bottle of wine to sell which leads to an argument with the person on the other end of the phone saying he's not going to help her steal stuff anymore. Basically next she goes outside to smoke, locks her self out and has to call a "help me see" app that directs her on how to break back into the house. That evening she wakes up and people are in the house, she calls the app again and has the girl help her navigate the house with these people in it. You think this is going to be a home invasion film, only it kind of is. She gets caught pretty easily then agrees to help them steal what ever is in the vault for a cut, only she called 911 prior. so then she needs to pretend nothing is wrong, is a complete bitch to the police officer. Then shit goes side ways and she basically has to kill all of the people in the house. And then has a final show down. It's stupid and unfolds in the dumbest way. Then at the end we smash cut to her back on the slopes with her friend guiding her, because there's a whole sub plot of her being a great skier who refuses to ski anymore. It's completely useless and why the fuck do I care that this nasty human being feels good enough to nice again and do what she wants.
If you're going to do a redemption arc for a character that's very unlikeable, it's helpful if you give the audience things to relate with or some likeable traits. This character is horrible all the way through and then everything is just OK for them. After they killed a bunch of people and one person in cold blood that had no weapon and just wanted to leave.
