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I really liked War On Everyone, to me it was an alternate reality made through the trope of American cop movies and TV from the 70's. Not the real 70's but the film fiction of the 1970's but with the movie actually set in modern times.

I also noticed the viewer has to pay attention or you will miss the connection of each scene to the next (no checking your cell phone). War On Everyone is a tightly woven film where a homage to 70's film/TV style might be too obscure for anyone under 50 or someone who never watched old 70's cop stuff. The movie probably needed some objective editing from someone besides the writer/director.

I'm 54 and I thought War On Everyone was very funny. :-) I have a tomboy mom who took me to every car chase movie that came out in the 70's - R rated included - and her favorite TV shows (that me and my brother were 'forced' to watch) were Mannix, Dragnet, and Adam 12. I loved Starsky and Hutch 1975 (Huggy Bear reference in WOE). It probably helped me like the movie.

The movie does not pull it's punches in swearing, offensive racial slurs, and bawdy humor but it strangely passes the Bechdel test when the two main female characters have a scene where they talk to each other about their travels.

War On Everyone is movie where everyone has their faults but seems to ask the questions, "Does societies definition of right and wrong mean anything, are there acceptable degrees of wrongness and is there a line that even "bad" people won't cross?"

Have you ever wondered why there are so many versions of Tarzan? I read the original Edgar Rice Burroughs book a decade ago because I wanted to know what the real version was. The book was a Penny Dreadful that was fun as heck, silly as all get out, and pretty skewed from reality (Tarzan teaches himself to read from a book he found in his dead parents tree house and he can do that because he's of Nobel birth) LOL

This new version of Tarzan not only tries to make it as realistic as it can be in the circumstances (it is a super hero jungle guy), it also incorporates history of the time (turn of the 19th Century) by having the villains be the Belgians in the Congo. The Legend of Tarzan takes the legend and makes it a better story.

The stars of the movie are all fantastic in their roles. Alexander Skarsgard is beyond buff, beautiful and an amazing Tarzan. Margot Robbie is sweet and tough as nails as Jane. Samuel L. Jackson is always good but this part would be less without him. Christoph Waltz was very villainy and believable.

Thank you to all the people who made this movie, for thinking we needed yet another Tarzan. Now I want a sequel.

Olympus was entertaining considering my husband and I were in desperate need of a binge watch.

The CGI was pretty sad. Just think of it as watching puppet theater. The green screen shadow continuity person wasn't very consistent in the placement of where the sun was coming from.

Olympus as a show has to be watched to the end to be understood.

Do not think about what you know about Greek Gods, it will frustrate you. Try not to take it too seriously.

It becomes it's own mythology based on existing mythological characters.