SaidNDone

"Sweethearts" has fragments of a decent movie but overall doesn't work due to horrible pacing and not enough focus on the main relationship. Basically the first and last 10 minutes of the movie which focus on the main characters are solid while the rest of the movie is a complete disaster.

Way too much time is spent on pointless cliches in the side character's subplot and the inane misadventure to find their 'sweethearts'. This leads to an underdeveloped relationship between the main characters, causing me to not really care about them at all.

They should have tightened the plot and focused significantly more time on the main characters and their relationship and I think this could have at least been an average romantic comedy instead of the (mostly) derivative snorefest it ended up being.

"Road House" feels like the highest budget 'made for TV' movie ever. Despite the money thrown at it, blockbuster director, and casting of Jake Gyllenhaal the movie overall falls completely flat with awful dialogue, uninteresting characters, and a storyline so thin you can see through it.

The only positive about this movie is there were some very creative shots in the fight scenes, but even those were relatively uneven. And Connor McGregor was given far too much (poorly written) dialogue which combined with his vapid delivery takes you right out of the movie.

Overall it feels like "Road House" was the product of someone giving a 13 year old boy absolute control of a Hollywood production. The upside to this is the chaotic mess they left behind is somewhat entertaining.

"The Curse" is a well directed and very well acted but overall mediocre and pretentious TV show. The core idea of an out of town 'do-gooder' couple trying to profit while redeveloping a sketchy neighborhood could have made a funny comedy, and the idea of a couple being torn apart by reality TV could have made a nice drama, but they bogged this show down with too much guilt and side-plots for it to work.

The core problem with the show is they want you to hate the main couple and in doing so go over the top in trying to unsettle the audience. That plus a cast of side characters that are (seemingly unintentionally) somehow more unlikable than the main couple means every episode of this show will leave just leave you feeling nothing but awful.

For me the humor and themes just don't hit, they are too obscured by the pure revulsion the show tries to shove down your throat and fact that there are too many plot lines for the pacing (inefficient use of time -- the episodes are very long), leading to most themes/stories being underdeveloped (and no real payoffs).

The feather in the cap is the finale which is 1h of pure nonsense and unwatchable TV -- punctuated by an excruciating 30 minute long scene that was completely unrealistic (not just in action but in character decisions) and to me one of the worst in television history. And again the theme of the finale is obvious but is underdeveloped to the point of meaninglessness.

Overall it feels like the creators of this show are somehow more out of touch with the average person than even the show's main couple.