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I Am Not Okay with This (2020)
Can we cancel cliche 80s rip offs yet?
It's like the writers watched every John Hughes movie and tried to awkwardly piece together the best bits. Prom? Check. Getting up to mischief in detention? Check. Lazy love triangle? Check. Some scenes have even recreated famous shots, which comes off as a gimmick rather than a homage.
It's made by the creators of stranger things, which shows. Unfortunately though, that 'vague 80s' setting isn't as fresh as it was in 2016, and without a decent storyline there's nothing really holding it together.
The actors are either not great, or have been given no room to play with their characters - leaving every interaction feeling awkward and painfully scripted.
Watch an 80s classic instead.
This Changes Everything (2018)
Really important message - slightly confusing delivery
The content of this documentary is great. Fantastic interviews with so many powerful women in Hollywood, it's fascinating to hear from everyone from Shonda Rhimes to Merck Streep about the state of Hollywood for women.
The editing, however, is extremely confusing. Rather than tell one linear story, you get a grab bag of clips and sound bytes that I can only describe as being like a very long trailer.
Also, when the credits rolled at the end and it came up with a man's name as the director I actually laughed out loud. At one point the film literally instructs anyone working in the film industry to take risks and hire female crew. It splashes shocking statistics across the screen showing how few films are directed by females, and all the contributors being interviewed are attesting that "it's not that hard to just find qualified women to do these jobs". To hear a film tell us exactly what needs to be implemented, but then not even be able to implement that on their own movie... took some of the wind out of my sails
Seth Meyers: Lobby Baby (2019)
Top notch comedy
I didn't care much for Seth meyers before this and just put it on for something to watch. I was laughing from the start, seths standup style is nothing like his rigid persona on Late Night. He reminded me a bit of John mulaney at points