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Mrs. Doubtfire

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Another movie when a father will go to great lengths for their kids. 

When a divorced father lost the custody battle over his kids and now is only allowed to see them once in a while. With a little help from his cousin, he got dressed like a woman and pretended to be a nanny just so he could spend time with them. Even if at the beginning they didn’t know that he was their father. 

In the end, he showed everyone that he truly cared for his children

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Finding Nemo

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Do I need to explain the movie?

I would assume by now that you would have watched this 17 year old movie. However I did put a spoiler alert, just in case you've been living under a rock for almost 2 decades.

If you watched this movie, you would understand immediately why I chose this movie as a great Father's day movie.

Finding Nemo is a story about a boy with a bad fin and a father who's too over protective. The boy got taken by fishermen and the father sprung into action to rescue his son. He showed that a father will go to any length for their child. Especially to travel with a fish that annoyed him in the beginning. By the end of this movie, father and son will see each other in a new light. The son realized that his father had a reason to be overprotective, and that he might take his father for granted. The father realized that he might have been too overprotective and high strung. In the end, they both know that they love each other but show it in different ways.

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June Equals Father's Day

The time has come to honor the father role models in our lives. This time I've decided to make a list of strong Dad characters. And write about the movies. Each day I will try to post about a movie that I believe has strong father characters. If you would like to mention one to me that I might not know please tell me and I'll watch it. Then post about what I thought of it.

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The Dead Don’t Die

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This movie was a very special movie, that belongs in a very special place, not your DVD rack. I hate saying that I hated the movie but I absolutely did not like it. This movie may just be another Napoleon Dynamite, that was not appreciated around it’s time. There will probably be certain people who liked The Dead Don’t Die. I was just not one of them. And I feel bad that I don’t. 

The funniest part of the movie was when my boyfriend sneezed and it echoed in the movie theater.  

It had an interesting take on the Zombie Apocalypse, a deeper meaning if you will. When the Zombies came back from the undead, they repeated words of things that had consumed their life when they were alive. They came back from the dead to do things that they did before they died. 

The movie had random parts in the movie that just didn’t go with the movie and wasn’t even explained. They also didn’t wrap up some of the storylines. Which I didn’t like. 

So in conclusion, watch this movie if you like to watch a random movie that is supposed to be about the Zombie Apocalypse, but had a UFO in it, and doesn’t wrap up any storylines. 

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Captain Marvel

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I’m a huge fanatic of any superhero movies, especially from the Marvel Universe. Honestly, I’m more of a DC fan, however, Marvel knows how to make their movies. DC should really learn from them. Nothing against DC, I actually think that DC is very strong in their TV shows and Animated movies plus series. The only good movie that has come from the current DC movies was Wonder Woman.

Enough about DC, let’s talk about Captain Marvel. After I had watched the movie, I heard that Captain Marvel got one of the lowest rated Marvel films. I was actually surprised, I went in watching the movie without knowing what the ratings were, in contrast with what others have said. I enjoyed the movie. It was enticing, and kept me on my toes the whole time.

There might have been some things I would’ve changed. For instance, Captain Marvel, Vers aka Carol, was way too sarcastic for my taste.

I’ve noticed that Marvel has this thing with there movies that they like to use sarcasm in order to make the movie better, because if you’re laughing you don’t realize that the movie really isn’t that great. People just remember that the movie made them laugh. For example, remember the how bad the Thor movies were? Thor was so serious and very pompous, he was not really a likable character, until Thor: Ragnarok. His character suddenly became more funny and sarcastic, making his character more likable.   

Not saying that using sarcasm is a bad thing, I just thing there are times and places. You don’t want it to seem too cheesy. Captain Marvel did come off as slight cheesy but nothing that you couldn’t get past.

Other than that I rather enjoyed the movie. Marvel did great with her character development and her power development. She is truly one of the most powerful marvel characters.

If you go watch this movie to see if they give you any eggs for the upcoming End Game movie, you will not be disappointed. They give you a lot of hints at certain things, and they explain a lot. You get to see why Fury wears an eye patch and all about the Cree and the Skrulls. However, if you are familiar with the comics, you will be surprised to see that they changed it up a bit.

You should go see it, it was Marvel-ous!

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Bohemian Rhapsody

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I heard a lot of great things about this movie. One person even told me that it's a movie you have to see in the theaters to get the full affect. So I dragged my boyfriend, he wasn't really complaining, and we watched the movie. Honestly I could've waited until it was out on DVD or got on Netflix.

I thought it was a pretty good movie. This is a movie for people who are music fans, and even more so for Queen fans. If you never jammed out to Bohemian Rhapsody, then did you really live?

I mainly watched it for the music, but watching the storyline of Freddy Mercury was interesting too. I even went onto Wikipedia to fact check. For the most part, majority of the movie lined up with what Wiki stated.

My favorite part of the film was the connection that Mercury and Mary had. The movie didn't do their relationship justice. When Mercury died he left her his London home, and even said if they had stayed married, she would've gotten it all anyways.

Another small difference, the man he ended up with in the end of the movie, Jim Hutton was a waiter but in real life he was a hairdresser.

One small complaint that I had was at the Concert in the very end, it definitely looked like Mercury was lip synching. I don't know if it was meant to be intentional or not.

Even if you knew all the facts, you would still love the movie. It was a great movie for all music lovers.

I should've said this earlier but the actor Rami Malek portrayed Mercury wonderfully.

The movie was inspired a lot of emotions. There was definitely a lot of drama, especially when Mercury got on drugs and left the group to go solo. Malek did a perfect job at getting me annoyed with Mercury at some points. He was definitely a drama queen and always did things with flare.

I may have not liked it as much as others but I did tear up a bit when he told the band he had AIDS. It was more because of the reactions that his friends had. However, I would have loved to see a scene where Mercury told Mary that he had AIDS.

Even though a bunch of people said it was a must see in the theaters, I don't think that it was necessary. If you don't see it in theaters, I think you'll still get the full affect.

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Dumplin’

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Who else disliked the main character?

The movie was entertaining but I felt like Netflix could've done better. They made Stranger Things for pete sake!

It had a very compelling storyline, a plus-sized teenager that goes by Willowdean, unfortunately Dumplin’ by her mother, decided to join the towns beauty pageant. She said it was in support of her dead aunt, who was also plus-sized that never got the nerve to join, however throughout the movie it just felt like she was doing to spite her mother.

She just seemed to have some undeserving hate for her mother. Her mother was constantly working and helping girls with the beauty pageant that she didn't have time for her daughter, Willowdean. Her Aunt was the one she spent most of her time with, but unfortunately she died before the movie took place and they never really got into how she died.

The reason why the main character’s so hated was because she’s just so “woe is me,” and nobody understood her the way her Aunt did. She never really gave her mother a chance to understand nor did she try to understand her mother.

She basically accused her mother of not loving her own sister.

At the end, the mother and daughter both begin to understand each other.

I’d give the movie 2 stars but 5 stars for the moral, which was that everyone is beautiful no matter what their size is.

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The House that Jack built

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It was not what I was expecting. It was very American Psycho, but different. I enjoyed most of the movie. It started off with a question: what’s the difference between an architect and an engineer? The movie was about a man named Jack, who was talking to a man name Verge and was telling him about all the woman he murdered.

When he was talking about how he got started in the beginning, I was cringing and so embarrassed for the guy. There was one scene where he was explaining his second murder, so he was pretending to be a police officer to get into her house but she was smart and she wanted to see a badge. He was attempting to lie to get into her house, but he was just awful at it. Just awful. Through all the lying he ended up telling her he could double her dead husband's pension for her and so she let him inside. Then how he tried to kill her was terrible. It showed that he never really killed before. He choked her but he didn't do it properly so she was still alive, just breathing weakly. He kept apologizing to her about it. Eventually he stabbed her and finished the job. After taking a round of photos, he started to clean the place up. This was the funny part, once he was done, he'd be in his car about to leave with the woman’s body, then he'd be thinking that he left something dirty with blood. So he'd run back into to go make sure it wasn't then he'd clean all over again. He'd keep getting inside his car, then thinking he left something else dirty so he'd run back in. That happened for about eight minutes. It was like seeing how Monk would be as a serial killer, however, he'd probably would take a lot longer to clean everything.

Jack started to take photos of all the woman he killed, in the places that he killed them in. He sent in the negatives and he named himself Mr. Perfectionist, because he was a perfectionist.

Through all the years of him murdering and maybe even before, he had been trying to build a house. But nothing was perfect. He started with cement, then moved to wood, so on and so forth.

Verge and him also discussed all the faults he had, OCD, narcissism. He even showed examples of them. Like his second kill was showing his OCD side.

I have to say my favorite murder would be the one where he murders a mom and his two children. It was just so terrible that it was interesting. He took them hunting and gave them bright red hats to wear, then he started to hunt them. He stood up on a tower and hunted them down one by one, starting with the children. He knew to kill the children first because it would destroy the mother.

There was a scene that I really liked, it was with a blonde girl that he was dating and planning to kill. She was young and over the top. When he went to her place, she was having a tantrum about something. It was about how she wasn't good enough for him or something but he comforted her. Which showed that he really broke out of his shell and was able to lie easily. She said that he thought that she was stupid and she was probably right about that. He took her breasts out and drew red dashes around her boobs, like surgeons would do before surgery.

She somehow figured out he was Mr. Perfectionist, so she ran downstairs to the police officer downstairs and told him. But the police officer didn't take her seriously, he just asked her if she had been drinking. Jack and the girl went upstairs and she started to scream for help but no one in the complex cared, Jack even screamed for him too, to make it seem like it was just kids being kids. Eventually he killed her, and cut out her breasts and he put one the police officers windshield. And it showed in the future that he turned her other breast into a coin bag.

So the movie was good but the ending was long and weird. It was a thought like Dante's Inferno. I honestly would never watch the movie again, it was an interesting movie but that's all it was. I'd say definitely watch it to see if you liked it.

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Spider-man: Into the Spider-Verse

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Sony has come back with yet another amazing superhero movie. I don't know about you but I've been trying to forget the first three spiderman movies. No hate on Tobey Maguire, he's a good actor, loved him in Pleasantville. Just the movies didn't do Spiderman justice.

But Spider-verse was amazing. I had nothing wrong to say about it.

The music went really well with the storyline. When I watch movies, music is one of the important things that gets me into the movie. I loved the music for when the Ultimate Prowler is on the hunt for his victim. Even Miles Morales could not help but listen to music to loosen up. There was a scene when he started singing to loosen up so he could stop sticking, it was hilarious.

Another thing is the animation, it was like I was watching a real life comic book. Which was the basis of its appeal. The colors were vibrant and popped out with the music. I especially loved how it showed the onomatopoeia, just like a comic book would do.

Finally, the most important part of the movie, the storyline. It was phenomenal! A handful of parts made me laugh so hard, especially when he thought he was going through puberty after the side effects of the spider bite started to happen.

They also explained every background of the spidermans, and they all had a common factor, which was actually a twist. But I'll leave that to be a surprise. I was so wrapped up into the movie, I didn't notice the factor until it happened.

The movie kept me on the edge of my seat, I was always laughing or popping my head to the music. This movie 10 fingers up! I loved it, and I know you will too.

Make sure to watch the end credits, for that post credit extra.

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Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

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For an entire year, we had all been waiting and anticipating the sequel to Fantastic Beasts, the continuation in the Harry Potter world.

With this film you finally got the answers you were looking for, the background of Newt Scamander and then some. Well sort of…. Plus we got to see Jude Law portraying, some people’s all time fave, Dumbledore. I said “some people’s” because he was not my fave, frankly, he doesn’t even make the list of my favorite characters from the Harry Potter world.

(I won’t get into that on this one, but believe me I will shortly in the future.)

Anyways, you finally get to meet his highly regarded older brother Thesus. First of all, I would like to say that they did the casting right with him. He certainly looked liked he could be Newt’s brother. I would also like to point out how handsome he was. I didn’t think he was that bad of a character, obviously, they wanted us to slightly dislike him with the shocking fact that he was Leta’s Fiance. Which I might say was a low blow for Thesus. Newt was pretty easy to read about how he felt about Leta, Theaus must’ve known how his brother felt too. Unless, he was that stupid, but considering, his high up role in the Ministry, you know that he is a smart fellow.

The last movie, I would have to say was kind of quirky and light hearted. This one took a step into a small puddle of darkness and a slither of sadness. There was one scene around the beginning of the movie, where I didn’t think the movie would actually go so dark. I’ve seen a lot of people get killed in the Harry Potter world, however, you never see this certain scene. I frankly didn’t think they had it in them, but they did. I actually liked them more for it. It meant that they were trying to break away from being seen as another children’s movie.

The fact that wizards and witches are not allowed to be friends or even marry a muggle, became a big factor in this movie. You would just have to see how this one plays out in the movie, I can’t really say anything about it without giving away a main ending.

There were two women, who I believe stole the spotlight whenever they were on screen, Leta Lestrange, portrayed by Zoe Kravitz and Vinda Rosier, portrayed by Poppy Corby-Tuech. Vinda Rosier, Grindelwald’s right hand woman, was an amazing character. A lot of my favorite scenes, were when she was in it. I liked her dark character, but she exuded elegance and charm. Vinda Rosier, may have some relation to Evan Rosier, who was mention in the Goblet of Fire. He was said to had been working alongside Voldemort, but died fighting off Mad eye Moody. It should had been a sight to see. Get it? Cause Evan was the one who took out Mad eye Moody’s real eye. I had read somewhere, I don’t really remember where, but they were speculating that Vinda Rosier, might have a larger role to play in the later movies to come.

Leta Lestrange’s character was hauntingly beautiful, I honestly felt sorry for the poor girl. I also wonder why she was with Thesus when it was clear that the Scamander, she truly loved was Newt. He definitely knew her better than his older brother. Her storyline was probably one of the most tragic storylines that have yet to come in the series. She said one of my favorite quotes out of the series, “Newt, you never met a monster you couldn’t love.”  It’s a good thing that they quickly severed any thoughts that Leta and Newt should end up together. They had more chemistry than any of the characters, that are supposed to be in love in the movie. However, I thought that Tina and Newt’s chemistry was there too. Tina was just a bit more cold in this one, her having a boyfriend could be the reason for it. I would like to see, who will be playing this boyfriend in the third movie.

This movie covered a lot more about Credence and his backstory. I thought that this movie should had been called Fantastic Beasts: The Search for who Credence is. 50 percent of this movie was about how Credence was trying to figure out where his mother was and what family he belonged to. The scenes were okay, not quite that entertaining though. It was kind of like watching Lord of the Rings, and having to watch the boring but informational scenes with Frodo and Sam. Besides that, I really enjoyed the fact that Credence’s love interest in this film was the notorious, Nagini, Voldemort’s most trusted companion. It raised a lot of interesting questions. Like how did she end up permanently staying in snake form and what made her go bad? Those are questions that I am going to love getting the answers to.

Last, but not least, I wish we had more scene time with Grindelwald. As I stated above, 50 percent was all about Credence, so that left the other 50 percent. 30 percent of that 50, I would have to say went to Newt Scamander’s past. 10 percent went to some of Dumbledore’s past and the last 10 went to Grindelwald. Although he had limited screen time, you were able to get some good information about his reasonings. His cause was almost similar to Voldemort. He wanted to get rid of the muggle-borns, saying that he wanted to make everything pure. Meaning that he wanted a world with only pure bloods. He used fear in order to manipulate a lot of people onto his side. He also used other ploys but the fear of another war caused by the muggles was soon to come. In the end, he recruited a couple surprising people, ones that were very vulnerable at the time. Due to who ended up on which side, I would like to see how these two sides play against each other.

There was a really huge twist at the end, but if you were paying attention throughout the movie, then you probably could’ve figured out what it was. It does not disappoint. It got me excited for what’s to come.

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Chilling Adventures of Sabrina

Sabrina, the good witch, has come back with a thrilling, and delicious tale. This show was nothing like the TV sitcom, we had known and loved. From the producers of Riverdale, they give viewers a more dark and realistic rendition of the show. Think Riverdale, but more Satanic and creepy, way creepy.

If you’re a religious person, and don’t really like to watch things about witchcraft, then this show would not be for you.

I’m not a religious person, however, I do get spooked easily. I’m not one to watch shows/ movies that dabble in satanic stuff. I’ve noticed with a lot of shows and movies, like Harry Potter and the previous Sabrina series, that they portray witchcraft in a very light way. They don’t really go into detail how they got their magic, Harry Potter never had to write his soul to the devil to gain his magic. However, with his family, he probably would’ve done so to get away from the Dursleys.

Even though I didn’t want to watch it at first, due to its realistic take on witchcraft, I stuck it out and it eventually won me over with the intriguing storyline. With Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, it seemed they really did their research. A big decision in the show was Sabrina choosing whether or not she would give her soul to the devil. By writing her name in the book of her beasts, she would have to give up her free will and leave her mortal life behind, which includes her mortal friends and boyfriend Harvey. It’s only ten episodes but they were all pretty intoxicating. I finished it in two days, I could’ve finished it faster if I didn’t have to work.

Another similarity like Riverdale, the music was well placed. Very down to earth and goes along with the storyline. I always tend to enjoy a movie or a show when they had great music in the background to pump me up.

Definitely give this show a chance, it’s well written and you can see that they put the time in to make it a great show. You wouldn’t be disappointed.

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Terrible TV show endings

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How I met your mother:

This was probably the biggest let down in TV show history. If you had stuck it out like I did, then you were greatly disappointed with how they ended it. This show was amazing and hilarious. I loved it just until I saw the ending. I would always recommend this show, however, I'd tell them that the ending sucked.

I watched the entire show, waiting to see who this amazing mother was and you meet her for a minute then they go and kill her off so he could end up with Robin. It was ridiculous! Every time I had watched HIMYM, I liked to forget how they ended and I would imagine that Robin and Barney were happily married and maybe, Ted's wife still died but he was happy being the father of his children.

Heroes:

This show technically never ended. When it was airing it had to suffer through the writer's strike. A lot of TV shows were cancelled because of it, and the shows that remained had a moment when they weren't so great themselves. This show never had a chance to end the way they wanted it too. I would've loved to see how they wanted to finish the show.

Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life:

“Mom, I'm pregnant,” what kind of ending is that? Apparently the way Gilmore Girls had ended roughly 11 years ago, was not the way Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino didn't want it to end. So Sherman-Palladino created A Year in the Life to end it on her terms and in a way that she wanted to end it. The four episode mini series was great until they had decided to end it on those four words. There wasn’t any talk about another mini season. We may never know who the father was, or who she would end up with. I don't want to have to wait another ten years to figure those out.

These shows may have terrible endings, but I'd still recommend them.

Please let me know if you have any other TV shows that have let you down.

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Venom

First of all, not a great film to watch if you are getting over a hangover. Especially because you see the main character vomit and eat a person’s head off. One thing that bothered me the most was Tom Hardy’s accent, it is known that he has a british accent, so when he opens his mouth a bronx accent came out. It took me at least an hour to get over the odd, but necessary for the role, accent.

Forgetting the accent, I rather enjoyed the role. It was humorous and entertaining. For instance, I loved the part where he interupts Anne’s date with Dr. Dan and starts eating live lobster.

There was a lot of comic relief roles in the film coming from Dr. Dan, Eddie, and of course, Venom.

The leading female actress, Michelle Williams, playing the role as Anne Weying, was a great character. She was not another damsel in a superhero movie. She held her own and even found her own way to help Eddie and Venom. I love the fact that Michelle Williams is breaking from her angst-ridden, slut shamed role as Jen Lindley from Dawson’s Creek.

One thing that I disliked was the fight between Venom and Riot ended very anti-climatic. I was expecting a more entertaining way of Venom defeating Riot, rather than how it actually ended. But it was the first film of this stand alone, so I will forgive it.

The film also did not go by the comics, so if you’re a superhero nerd and wanted to see their rendition of how it is in the comics, you will not see it. I didn’t know too much about Venom’s background and how he came to be so it didn’t bother me as much as my friends, who were more informative.

All and all,it was great as a stand alone. I’d give it a thumbs up and say it’s worth the money you’d spend at the movies.