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Death of a Cheerleader (2019)
Just watch the original
Horrible remake, horrible camerawork, horrible wigs. They took out some of the storyline, which really just deflates any emotion or reasoning behind everything.
Did they blow their entire budget on Kellie Martin? They didn't even have enough extras to fill out "The Bobettes" - did you notice how the group seemed to only have 1 member when the new group joined?
Dumplin' (2018)
Misses the mark
Generic and every "deep" moment seems so superficial and unearned.
Busy Tonight (2018)
I'm sticking with it.
I love Busy's instagram stories. The show is a little rough but I think they are working out the kinks. I've watched the first 5 episodes and she's loosening up. It's hard to go from a casual medium to a more formal one, and that may be the show's one big flaw. I think the intro's are too scripted, you can tell when she's naturally talking vs. speaking what someone else wrote. The "bits" are forced, especially when you only have 30 minutes. We don't need to talk to all 3 writers every day (well, talk to 2 while her friend sits there and looks at herself in the monitor), there should be no song at the end.....or at least mix it up, you don't have to do the same menu every night. But, I do like her and I'm willing on giving the show a shot.
Home Again (2017)
It's bad, no I mean it, it's really bad
Let me preface this by say that I love movies, I'm not a movie snob by any stretch. I particularly love Rom-Coms and have been disappointed that they have fallen out of favor over the last decade or so. Some of my favorite movies are cheesy Rom-Coms; Never Been Kissed, 13 Going on 30, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, The Holiday and even Ghost of Girlfriends Past.
I saw this film as a pre-screener ahead of it's official release. Sometimes they pre-screen movies because they are great and want them to get buzz, sometimes they are really bad, and hope the audience falls in love before the critics get their hands on it. This is bad, really bad. Not just in story, but in acting, directing, editing score; you name it, it's bad. I love Reese Witherspoon and never thought I would see her phone in a performance but here it is. She doesn't so much as act as rolls her eyes and makes goofy faces; it's embarrassing to watch. There are so many cast members here that usually can do no wrong in my book; Candice Bergen, Lake Bell, Michael Sheen. They are given nothing to work with and Michael Sheen's character is nothing more than a cartoon. Nat Wolff is up and coming; I've seen him in a few things and think he's generally pretty good. Thanks to the very poor editing you can see him laughing in two scenes where he's clearly not supposed to be.
The whole film is just embarrassingly bad. You know the movie Mother's Day, how "bad" that is? It looks like an Oscar winning film compared to this. I looked up the movie after the screening, curious how it went so wrong. It's written and directed by Nancy Myer's daughter. Her daughter seems to have no credentials to be able to sell and direct a movie so my thought is that there were a lot of favors and strings pulled and it shows. I wouldn't even recommend watching this movie if you were sick in bed and it happened to pop up on TV.