Fry-TheMovieReviewer

What did I just watch?! Who in there right mind thought this was acceptable at any level? This is not even a 1! I feel as if everyone involved decided to take a year off and give it to the undergraduate intern. Not "interns," but "intern".

What a mess!

-CDM.

This was a colossal disappointment given the actual result of the final ending. American Horror Story season 10, episodes 1-5 were decent up until the last episode. Those episodes, however, could've been completed in one hour. The story presented in episodes 1 through 6 was unoriginal, insipid, and complacent - in that the story was no different than Hulu's American Horror Stories season one, episode six, titled, "Feral," which only came out, as of this writing, a mere six weeks ago.

My biggest issue was with the little girl, the sociopath. I would use psychopath, but the character is void of any intellectual thought, much less emotional maturity and/or the potential for emotional, empathy with any other person or type of social structure, as she "grows" into adulthood.

Playing the violin will not change the world or enhance our knowledge for the betterment of humanity and its quest for knowledge and cultural acquisition. Playing other people's music will get you a job at a well-to-do restaurant (or mall, right inside Nordstrom), sure, but nothing more than that. If she were contributing (writing her own music) and adding to the compilation of music and its history, then, maybe, she would be seen as "talented" and "unique".

These characters were nothing more than sycophants, and a significant burden on its respective community, since they require the blood of others to live; whereas, the "pales" feed off dead animals, with some of them being alive, perhaps.

Red Tide can be summed up in one word: Selfishness; it is a type of selfishness that should have had consequences, and I hoped as the story came closer to the end that it would do that. It did not. Instead, it dramatizes self-aggrandizing negative, horrendous behavior as a positive and not as a negative, which, again, would have made for a good story; a story that would have explored the consequences of negative behaviors over positive behaviors, especially the types of behaviors that only serve to destroy humanity and beget a people to perpetual stagnation.

This is, unequivocally, the worst (not one of the worst but THE WORST) storyline (or plot) in American Horror Story, and the worst episode in all its decade-long run of 116 episodes.

-CDM 09/24/2021.

Wonder Woman 1984 (or stylized as WW84) is an incredible film! The story, directing and message of WW84 are bold, thoroughly thought-provoking, and will forever engender change to the superhero genre. I, for one, am excited at the prospect of future superhero films taking on a more serious tone in their storytelling - no need for mindless explosions or pointless CGI, as is the case with many other superhero movies, and how we, the audience, relate to their (superhero) more human plights.

The superhero genre has thus forever changed thanks to Jenkins and Gadot. No more mindless explosions and cookie cutter stories of "happy endings" - stories that end with little consequence or consistent continually (e.g., Iron Man 3), more so is the case in superhero movies where the message and consequences told through their story in the previous movie are all but forgotten and are therefore retold (lazy writing; nothing new going forward) or played to the titular character's "new" story in either its main plot or subplot (i.e., Loki in (all) Thor movies). -CDM 12/30/2020