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Wednesday 25 May 2022
So, What's the Problem? Clip Show (Year Two)
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.
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