iroquois_pliskin00 Reviews

Hell on Wheels (2011–2016)

Good series...but

[8/10 · 29 July 2019]

My dad was a fan of western movies. He introduced me to this show way back in probably 2012 or 2013. I enjoyed it from the start. For three and a half seasons, it was fine. Seasons 4 and 5, I can't say much about those though. There are top performances by the entire main cast: Common, Christopher Heyerdahl, Robin McLeavy, Anson Mount, Dominique McEligott and Colm Meaney. There are really no bad performances, aside from the character who plays Ruth. In my opinion, she has the same expression on her face every time.

I would recommend watching all of season 1,2 & 3, and maybe the first 5 episodes of season 4. I used to watch this with my dad when it first came on on AMC. I got the season pass to watch all of season 2 online. Now, I will go back and rewatch the episodes and pick up on things I may have missed before. I think if you like westerns or gritty shows/movies, there's a good chance that you'll enjoy Hell on Wheels.

John Q (2002)

Very unrealistic, but okay.

[5/10 · 27 July 2019]

I hadn't watched this in over a decade, but thought I'd check it out again today. I remember liking at the time, but finding some parts very laughable. I did not take it serious, but watched it as kind of a dark comedy toward the end. I am for the first time noticing just how bad it is, as far as egregious continuity errors and shaky plot. There are the inconsistent characters, the terrible ending and the glaring inaccuracies throughout the entire film. I can't go into everything, because I'd be here all day. I'll just say that some of the most ridiculous things I noticed were:

-None of the hostages attempted to seriously escape once John was incapacitated. -His wife could run to the door of basically a crime scene, with hundreds of police around, and nobody stopped her. -The surgeon said "disbarred" which refers to a legal profession I thought, not a medical one. -The terrible 'swerve' where we are supposed to believe that the cops thought Eddie Griffin was Denzel/John Q. Come on, man. -The fact that after the hostages were released, Robert Duvall's character let John sit and watch his son's surgery. I'm assuming this would've taken hours to complete. He's just standing there the whole time waiting to arrest this man? -It's a tense situation where John is threatening to kill people, and the crowd is laughing when he comes out holding a gun at the sniper's head?

Again, there were a lot of messed up, inconsistent plot points in this one, but Denzel overall is good in his performance. I suppose he did what he could with this role, but I can't give the film anything higher than a 5 for ruining the immersion with all the silly errors and dumb things. I couldn't suspend disbelief when these things occurred. It took me out of the movie tbh.

XX (2017)

Quick review of XX

[5/10 · 1 November 2018]

XX - 5 kids starving themselves out of 10.

Well, I saw this one on the Netflix horror list a long time ago, and finally decided to give it a try yesterday. This collection of 4 short stories was alright I suppose. Other than the first one, "The Box", most were not too scary or interesting to me. Many of them kind of had cliched, formulaic plots, in my opinion. The highlight for me was Melanie Lynskey traipsing around in a sheer housecoat, showing her ample assets in the second tale, "The Birthday Party". The last one was decent, but too much like a grown up poor man's clone of Rosemary's Baby. The third story, "Don't Fall", was the worst IMO.

Much like another film "I Am The Pretty Thing That Lives In The House", it has some mildly interesting concepts that are utilized, but it does not fully capitalize on them. I'd recommend watching the first and second tales and skipping the others.

The Devil in Miss Jones 3: A New Beginning (1986)

A masterpiece

[9/10 · 17 August 2006]

The Devil in Miss Jones 3: A New Beginning is still to this day one of the best adult films I've ever seen. And believe you me, I've seen quite a few. The story never gets dull, the characters and dialog are thoroughly entertaining and at times, very comical, and oh yeah... the sexscenes are pretty damn good too. I would recommend this to anyone (over 18 of course)who is bored of the traditional cheesy porn movies, and wants a glimpse back into the decade of the 80's for some fun and memorable times. I also recommend getting the DVD which features The Devil in Miss Jones 4: The Final Outrage to see the shocking conclusion. Seriously, this movie I love it now as much as I did when I saw it as an 11 year old kid. Hahaha.