Monday, 16 May 2022
So, What's the Problem? Clip Show (Year One)
Wednesday, 11 May 2022
So, What's the Problem? Every Problem and Positive (part one)
The Crush
Jimmy
One- It's based on a true story (sort of) and originally used the girl's real name.
Two- the way songs are used, especially one about sex over a scene of a child sunbathing.
Three- The practicality of having a whole carousel in an attic with a small door.
Positive- The wondeful stupidity of the third act especially how Nick takes Adrian/Darian out.
Jen
One- Nick is an idiot.
Two- Cary Elwes' American accent
Three- The way 90s movies depict computers.
Positive- Alicia Silverstone.
Sleepless in Seattle
Jimmy
One- An ugly bow-tie.
Two- Watching movies set at Christmas in May.
Three- Walter deserves better.
Positive- Tom Hanks
Jen
One- Leaving 8 year olds home alone.
Two- The stalking thing.
Three- How does Sam’s friends not know what’s going on?
Positive- The movie makes you want them to get together.
The Net
Jimmy
One- The acting is mostly poor and Bullock is mis-cast.
Two- Angela and Alan both leave uneaten Chinese food in the hotel room.
Three- It’s not very thrilling.
Positive- It’s a good looking film.
Jen
One- Ableism because it paints Angels as wrong for wanting to stay home to work.
Two- Angela’s hat is terrible
Three- Alan is a dick
Positive- The movie has aged well plus Angela.
Police Academy
Jimmy
One- Mahoney is terrible.
Two- Shouldn’t be R rated.
Three- Too many reused jokes/repeated insults.
Positive- The score.
Jen
One- Can’t tell if it’s offensive or progressive.
Two- The blowjob scene.
Three- Movie doesn’t play as well due to modern times.
Positive- The premise.
Can’t Hardly Wait
Jimmy
One- Preston is an entitled douchebag.
Two- Kenny Fisher pees but doesn’t wash his hands.
Three- The UFO part makes no sense.
Positive- Denise is the best.
Jen
One- The movie was cut from R to PG-13.
Two- Homophobia
Three- Preston leaves his baggage behind at the airport.
Positive- The soundtrack
Splash
Jimmy
One- Freddy
Two- The date captions are pointless.
Three- The ending.
Positive- The underwater photography.
Jen
One- Freddy
Two- Allen is basically in love with Madison because she jumps his bones right away.
Three- The ending
Positive- Madison.
The Goonies
Jimmy
One- Why are they friends with Chunk when they clearly don’t like him.
Two- It’s not well made.
Three- One Eyed Willy means penis…
Positive- The Score and the Cyndi Lauper theme song.
Jen
One- Mouth is an asshole.
Two- Fat shaming
Three- The Fratellis are pointless.
Positive- Chunk
Pretty Woman
Jimmy
One- It’s a very white movie.
Two- The penthouse suite isn’t very impressive.
Three- Ugly tie.
Positive- The Movie
Jen
One- It glamorises sex work.
Two- Edward.
Three- People who complain about the Materialism in the movie. It’s realistic.
Positive- The Movie
Mrs. Doubtfire
Jimmy
One- That’s not how cartoons are made.
Two- Daniel is terrible.
Three- The use of Dude Looks Like a Lady is cringeworthy.
Positive- They don’t get back together at the end.
Jen
One- Miranda drops the kids off late and picks them up early. That’s shitty to the kids.
Two- Offensive language. The movie would be more woke now.
Three- Allergies being used as a joke.
Positive- The kids.
The Good Son
Jimmy
One- The tone is all over the place. It doesn’t justify its R rating.
Two- Casting Culkin.
Three- The dialogue.
Positive-It’s a good looking movie.
Jen
One- The use of comic sans in the opening credits
Two-The casting/ Kit Culkin.
Three- It's boring,
Positive- Elijah Wood.
Reality Bites
Jimmy
One- filmmakers using Gary glitter songs
Two- Troy is a terrible, terrible human being
Three- the "is that them? No, it's a double" trope.
Positive- naturalistic dialogue delivery.
Jen
One- The presence of Andy dick
Two- No clear idea of the passage of time
Three- Troy is the worst, Michael is a good guy.
Positive- The soundtrack.
The Truth About Cats and Dogs
Jimmy
One- Putting skates on an actual dog.
Two- The phone sex scene is a bit hard for a pg-13
Three- Roy doesn’t get his comeuppance.
Positive- The relationship between the two women
Jen
One- The premise of the movie
Two- The movie isn’t more about the two women
Three- The use of the r word in the part of a song not in the actual movie.
Positive- Still liking the movie and nothing changing.
Drop Dead Fred
Jimmy
One- They shave a cat for one brief gag.
Two- The girl who plays young Elizabeth clearly has different coloured eyes to Phoebe Cates.
Three- “Kiss me and say my name”
Positive- Rik Mayall
Jen
One- Elizabeth’s clothes.
Two - Janie is fucking nuts.
Three- They didn’t get into its theme of childhood trauma more.
Positive- Writers who don’t want care too much about creative control
St Elmo's Fire
Jimmy
One- Billy is scum.
Two- Kirby
Three- The theme song which is nothing about the movie.
Positive- The end credits because the movie is over.
Jen
One Everything to do with Kirby.
Two- Billy is a creep.
Three- The ending.
Positive- It’s a good hate-watch.
Cherry Falls
Jimmy
One- The tone
Two-The killer’s motivation
Three- The MPAA fucked this movie over.
Positive- Brittney Murphy
Jen
One- Satire can be confusing
Two- Sexual tension between father and daughter.
Three- The killer’s motivation.
Positive- The casting of Jay Mohr as a killer.
Planes Trains and Automobiles
Jimmy
One- Getting older and changing who you root for.
Two- It veers too much into the fantastical in the driving scene.
Three- What happens to the girl on the train? She isn't on the bus!
Positive- John Candy.
Jen
One- Neal is a big baby.
Two- Gay panic.
Three- The jacket getting caught scene, just pull over!
Positive- The scene where Neal realises the truth about Del.
Go
Jimmy
One- Simon
Two- I hate rave/dance music.
Three- No real stakes.
Positive- The cast.
Jen
One- Simon
Two- The bouncers
Three- The cops suck.
Positive- Melissa McCarthy
Home Alone
Jimmy
One- Uncle Frank is a wanker
Two- Bare foot trauma.
Three- Not enough John Candy.
Positive- The stunts.
Jen
One- Frank
Two- The burglars are terrible.
Three- Kevin is intelligent but his time management skills are shit.
Positive- The plotting is very tight.
The Terminator
Jimmy
One- The score
Two- George Jetson’s hair is black not red on Sarah’s t-shirt.
Three- the sex scene.
Positive- The plotting is so tight.
Jen
One- Kyle Reese is so mean and scary during their first meeting.
Two- the stop motion terminator is not scary.
Three- It’s not as good as T2.
Positive- The writing.
Sliding Doors
Jimmy
One- The majority of men are terrible.
Two- Why do people in movies throw wedding rings away?
Three- Some of the dialogue is forced towards the beginning.
Positive- The chemistry between Gwenyth Paltrow and John Hanna.
Jen
One- The first scene, she essentially fires herself.
Two- She was going to get pregnant no matter what.
Three- The need to have James lie about being married for conflict.
Positive- The script.
Little Monsters
Jimmy
One- Maurice is terrible and has no character real arc.
Two- The tone and who is the movie aimed at?
Three- The underused bad guys, especially Boy.
Positive- They don’t force a romance between Brian and Kiresten.
Jen
One- Fred Savage is a little shit.
Two- The monsters are awful, getting kids into trouble and ruining lives.
Three- The dad.
Positive- The story is interesting.
Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead
Jimmy
One- The title.
Two- The mother.
Three- The secretary is correct but still treated as the villain.
Positive- Kenny’s arc.
Jen
One- The mother.
Two- Gus but also the whole “that’s just men” mentality.
Three- Brian is a dum-dum.
Positive- Rose
Supergirl
Jimmy
One- Where does her suit come from?
Two- The movie is lazy.
Three- The love story is based on a lie.
Positive- The score.
Jen
One- Where does her suit come from? How does she know about Clark Kent?
Two- She only has a few days but has time to enrol in school.
Three- Overacting.
Positive- For little Jennifer- the fact that Bianca and Selina live in an amusement park.
For older Jennifer- Bianca’s line, “the way to a woman’s heart is the elimination
of her rivals”.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Jimmy
One- The characters and inconsistent acting.
Two- The editing.
Three- Breaking the fourth wall.
Positive- One of the dream sequences.
Jen
One- Merrick is too creepy.
Two- Some of the sexism hits differently now.
Three- The inconsistent vampire rules.
Positive-You can see the bones of a good story.
Sixteen Candles
Jimmy
One- Farmer Ted
Two- Racial stereotyping
Three- Jake
Positive- The soundtrack
Jen
One- Ableism
Two- The grandparents
Three- The rapiness of it all
Positive- The 80s of it all
My Girl
Jimmy
One- Shelley and Harry get engaged far too quick.
Two- The use of silly “sexy” music when Vada is wearing makeup.
Three- Weird time thing after the punch and the ex driving away.
Positive- Anna Chlumsky
Jen
One- Watching the movie knowing what happens in the sequel
Two- The use of the word retarded
Three- How much the movie makes her cry.
Positive- Anna Chlumsky.
The Lost Boys
Jimmy
One- Star is a badly written character.
Two- Everyone is white.
Three- The grandpa rescue is cool but makes no sense.
Positive- The soundtrack
Jen
One- The white maleness.
Two- Why is there a sex scene?
Three- When the kids go to the vampire’s lair, they are too loud.
Positive- Dianne Wiest
The Mighty Ducks
Jimmy
One- It’s too cartoony at the start with sound effects.
Two- Continuity error regarding Tammy’s hair.
Three- Some storylines don’t get resolved.
Positive- The adultness…there’s a blue balls gag in a Disney movie.
Jen
One- Continuity error involving an egg.
Two- Charlie’s hair.
Three- The family movie friendly racism.
Positive- The darkness of the movie.
My Father the Hero
Jimmy
One- Nikki is evil.
Two- The oversexualisation of a 14 year old girl
Three- I blame this movie for Who Let the Dogs Out
Positive- A nice shot of the moon reflecting in a window.
Jen
One- Nikki is a sociopath.
Two- The premise of the movie
Three- It’s boring.
Positive- The Bahamas looks very nice.
The Rage: Carrie 2
Jimmy
One- Mark looks too old.
Two- The scene where the dog gets hit by the truck.
Three- Killing Sue Snell.
Positive- The party massacre.
Jen
One- Boys are gross/rape culture.
Two- Rachel clearly knows how to put make-up but can’t in one scene.
Three- The end jumpscare
Positive- The movie despite it’s a sequel to a classic. It had a lot against it.
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Jimmy
One- Willie Scott
Two- It’s dark and not fun.
Three- Bugs.
Positive- The Score.
Jen
One- Wilie Scott
Two- Kate Capshaw’s performance.
Three- The food scene.
Positive- Short Round.
Sister Act 2
Jimmy
One- The “parent doesn’t want their kid do a certain thing” trope.
Two- Comedy priests.
Three- Breaking the fourth wall.
Positive- Back in the habit is a great subtitle.
Jen
One- There are only six teachers in the school.
Two- Music is a required class yet her mum doesn’t want her to sing?
Three- Why didn’t the NUNS go over their story better, they’ve done this before!
Positive- The music.
I Still Know What You Did Last Summer
Jimmy
One- The dream cop-outs. It makes the ending redundant.
Two- Ben’s plot makes no sense.
Three- Jack Black.
Positive- The black best friend lived.
Jen
One- Ty is so horny.
Two- Why did they try to kill her by tanning bed after all that trouble?
Three- Why did she ask what date it is? She would know!
Positive- The black best friend lived.
The Wizard
Jimmy
One-The way Jimmy is written.
Two- Jimmy’s parents.
Three- “He touched my breast!”
Positive- The cinematography.
Jen
One- Are these kids not showering?
Two- Putnam.
Three- Where are the parents of the kids in the audience of the competition?
Positive- The cast.
To be continued...
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