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You Got Trumped: The First 100 Days (2016)
So Funny!
I love this show! The guy who plays Donald Trump looks more like the real Trump than most impersonators and his voice is very good for Donald Trump.
This show is about President Donald Trump's first one hundred days in the oval office and what his administration probably looks like. Just as you would think he makes laws that are racist and uncaring and very rude and sexist.
The best episode is one where his wife Melania gets bored so she starts burning cash so President Trump tells her he will give her a reality show. But the show is not America's Got Talent it is America's Got Empathy and in it they decide what "broke losers" to give six million dollars to and the person they choose to give the money might surprise you, oh and also they insult all the poor people on the show by calling them ugly immigrant losers. The show is hosted by Chris Christie who Trump is always insulting and putting down until he eventually quits and runs away like a child.
In another episode President Trump makes a wall with "Mexi Flaps" in it so Americans can fit through to go on vacation in Mexico but Mexicans can't fit through to sneak into America because their ponchos and sombreros won't fit through. Naturally he makes Chris Christie run face first into the wall while singing Ricky Martin's Livin' La Vida Loca.
Trump's security adviser is also a very old man in a wheel chair who is apparently an escaped Nazi war criminal who wants to kill everyone.
I love the show but you might think the comedy is mean I know a lot of the people leaving comments who are Trump Supporters hated it, but I thought it was very funny.
The production is very good for an internet series. I hope they will make another season showing his next 100 days in power unless he is impeached first!
St. Vincent (2014)
Touching, Understated
I really enjoyed this film.
Bill Murray gives a typically great performance in it as the titular "Saint" Vincent. The name is ironic in that he is actually very much a jerk. He's selfish, slovenly, arrogant, rude, and just all around ill- tempered with nothing but faults.
But when a single mother with problems moves in next door (running over his fence in the process) as much as he pushes them away he ends up connecting with the kid, first because he really needs the babysitting money the mom will pay him, but he soon comes to like the kid despite himself.
It's the kid who really comes to care about him though. And no matter how much Vincent pushes him away the kid sees something good in him which nobody else, Vincent included, can see - or remember.
Ghostbusters (2016)
Underwhelming
I was a fan but not a huge lover of the original Ghost Busters movie which I saw when I was very young. I remember I also liked the cartoon series but I did not like Ghost Busters 2. I jut say this so you know where I was coming from when I went to see this reboot of Ghost Busters with a female cast and so you know where I am coming from, in this review.
I am a feminist and a female but that really has nothing to do with this review. On the surface I really like the idea of a film like this being remade with a female cast of strong female characters. I did not find the characters weak and actually like the actors involved (female and male as well) but I hated this film. I just didn't think it was funny at all, I found the plot stupid and the actors had very little to work with.
I also thought the cameos were quite dull, especially Dan Aykroyd and Bill Murray who can usually do no wrong in my eyes. I think they should not have been in this movie at all because they distracted from the film.
It's a shame because I wish this movie was good so we could have good female role models in a hugely successful Hollywood film franchise, and so we could see more of this series. Sadly I doubt that will happen.