Sunday, 12 October 2025

Mrs. Doubtfire 1993 by AverageMansReviews

Mrs. Doubtfire 1993 by AverageMansReviews

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Warning: there is flashing effects/colourful effects/transformation/bodily functions/burning/medical/references to cancer and outdated references including which may cause offence to those of the rainbow community or not.

I need a nanny: basically; Miranda Hillard [Sally Field:] she is a partner at Gregory, Henderson and Hillard; I believe it to be a renovating property business of a very high standard, unfortunately she has decided to divorce her husband; Daniel Hillard/many characters and their voices or voices [Robin Williams:] he is a voice actor which has just become unemployed, enthusiastic about life, not the most maturest of individuals, but one thing is 100% certain he loves his children and comes down to be away from. So he applies to be the nanny to look after his three children, I mean Daniel put forward the idea that he could look after the children for a few hours after school, but Miranda didn't go for that, so he came up with a character Mrs. Euphegenia Doubtfire; a strict but fair Scottish old lady that is a widow and his name was Winston.

Generally speaking: the framework and pacing of this 125 minutes film is good; I know, I know I usually break things down into smaller sections, but this is one of those occasions where in this case everything revolves around its lead characters from its lead role in Robin Williams; in short to begin with he is the entire reason that this film is individually or together fondly remembered and/or a classic that everyone should see once in your lifetime from voicing in one way or another different characters to becoming Doubtfire; having this small musical number ["Don't Rain on My Parade" 1964 version by Barbra Streisand, on reflection I believe this is because Daniel looks like Barbra Streisand or to cover my back this is what they were going for and I think there is other musical elements as well, they have a compilation thing going on with the right look for Daniel;] as a good bit of art, be it being a woman and having these very long days, using a broom has a guitar, almost being mugged but putting up a fight and these let's just call them bits of the advice to Miranda on dating and many other comedy and action elements; that makes this film very lively and incredibly easy to settle down with

Character developments, voice performances and performances; broadly speaking first of all they are all good versions which are built for fluent chemistry throughout the cast, their performances reflect this as well and with Daniel/Doubtfire they went with the narrative of growth from the experience, so if I haven't made this clear already the voice performance from Williams well if you know anything about Williams; him doing voices; is second nature to him as in this sequence of events the audience will see he just rattled off different voices and one still impression; this is Williams at his naturally best.

This film receives: 10/10, this film is top-notch entertainment; [I know I have already said this already but it is worth repeating] it is a classic that everyone should see once in their lifetime. This film has some awards to its name such as 11 Winners that includes Academy Awards, USA Oscars Best Makeup Greg Cannom Ve Neill Yolanda Toussieng and Golden Globes, USA 1994 Golden Globe Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical Robin Williams. 10 Nominees that includes Casting Society of America, USA Artios Award Best Casting for Feature Film, Comedy Jane Jenkins Janet Hirshenson and Awards Circuit Community Awards 1993 ACCA Best Actor in a Leading Role Robin Williams

 

Reactionary To The Wrestling News of: Wes Lee released from NXT/WWE in 2025 by AverageMansReviews

Reactionary To The Wrestling News of: Wes Lee released from NXT/WWE in 2025 by AverageMansReviews


Warning: there will be censored adult language references at some point in this content

Well what a complete fudge up this is!: I am absolutely furious by this turn of events, it is clear to me now that they cannot make any future stars in their own backyard, they have to go and purchase other talents from elsewhere such as Jordynne Grace [TNA,] Stephanie Vaquer [Revolution Pro Wrestling/AEW,] Ricky Starks/Ricky Saints [AEW] and others. But Lee was pretty much built especially over the last 5 years as The Guy/The Man the air apparent to smash it on the main rosters, I mean he literally made the NXT North American Championship prestigious with his 269 day reign, but then again I have just realised this is not the first time you have taken a fantastic talent and well and truly fudged them up WWE, how about Carmella Hayes; he has gone from HIM to who?

But I digress how can you not find a spot for Lee? Unless you are trying to tell me at the age of 30 years old [as of this content being first created,] he is too old? Everyone knows that who has ever seen him wrestle he should find himself in the main event scene at some point as he can confidently with his high skills wrestle with anyone, I mean he could have been something like that Rey Mysterio.

This is nothing personal to Lee or anyone else, but it has to be said; what is the point of having NXT if you spend all of this time, energy and resources in building up your future talent, if you don't then at minimum give that future talent which will turn into present times in decent opportunity to see how far they can get? Because I really did have Lee marked as someone that spent a large portion of their career within the WWE machine like maybe until his early 40's at minimum.

My last two points are obvious; Lee you are more than welcome to cross the great divide into AEW and finally after this release I don't want to hear that AEW can't build fresh talent, before you criticise one promotion you should take a long hard look in your own backyard that is for sure.

 

 

Saturday, 11 October 2025

Now You See Me 2013 by AverageMansReviews

 Now You See Me 2013 by AverageMansReviews


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Warning: there is flashing effects/colourful effects/drowning/animal feeding/shooting/vehicle crashing/stabbing/burning/medical/reference to the rainbow community

The Four Horsemen get assembled: briefly; this unknown individual sends out these four cards to these four gifted individuals from the world of magic, illusion, street magic, escapist and mentalist and hypnotist; such as J. Daniel Atlas [Jesse Eisenberg:] he is very difficult about everything, he performs illusions and street magic, he is to have an assistant which swiftly brings me on to Henley Reeves [Isla Fisher:] they went their separate ways and yes they clearly have a history, she performs stage magic and she is an escapist; but alongside the other two numbers they have three performances to perform for this unknown individual.

Generally speaking: the framework and pacing of this 124 minutes film is well... very awkward as things begin with such gusto with real purpose and enthusiasm, with a year time jump [which I will discuss this later,] where somewhere around more less the three-quarter stage of this film things really do begin to slow down and struggle for a while in which time I fell asleep, but woke up again to catch the final section; on reflection this film slows down that much that I can't believe it is only 124 minutes long, because man it really drags its feet.

Comedy, action and art; Woody Harrelson as Merritt McKinney: he is a hypnotist/mentalist and claims to be a psychic, he pulls out this hypnotist trick wife whilst including the husband the dust down for some money to keep one of his secrets a secret, which he does pay up so he returns wife without any memory of what they had just discussed McKinney is very much the comedic component of the group. The art is very much fitting in with the whole magic mystical presentation of this film; it is meant to be big, bold and sometimes beautiful or/and sometimes horrific to distract or/and mesmerise its audiences which it does that fantastic ease be it using playing cards, fish tank with piranhas or using this teleporting machine or even how this Intel is provided has been given a spectacular entrance into the film.

Character developments and performances; the character developments are very foundational: as they are of the concept of mostly everyone getting to know everyone that kind of thing regardless of history or/and reputation and whilst I am on the subject I did find the one time jump to be incredibly lazy, because this group have obviously moved on as it relates to their character/chemistry building, but we haven't been there to experience it, so straight away the characters and the viewers are a part in their stages of getting to know one another, but as they are; they are good just have this audience connection problem with these character developments that fulfil their purpose for the first journey out and moving on to the performances likewise broadly speaking they are good; but when the tempo drops of this film; they have been left hanging high and dry, they are still able to manufacture chemistry but it does come across as melodic, so I am hoping they don't repeat this in this sequel.

This film receives: 4/10, this film is mixed; like I have already made reference in one way or another yes this film does begin really lively as there is lots happening, but somewhere around the three-quarter stage or more or less, everything began to really slow down so I missed a good section of this film, but I did wake up to watch the closing stages, you see; if you have been around content creating for as long as I have you will have spells of perhaps once every three years or so, where you will just have a bad patch of content in my case reviewing and that is where we are at the moment. The person I watch some others contend agree with me where they said I am paraphrasing here; it began really enthusiastically and from out of nowhere it just hit the wall and took ages to compose itself. It does have some awards accredited to its name such as 1 Winner People's Choice Awards, USA 2014 People's Choice Award Favorite Thriller Movie and 3 Nominees which includes but not limited to Empire Awards, UK 2014 Empire Award Best Thriller

 

Friday, 10 October 2025

Average Extra of: Gary Neville Not facing any discipline actions from Sky Sports 2025 by AverageMansReviews

Average Extra of: Gary Neville Not facing any discipline actions from Sky Sports 2025 by AverageMansReviews

Related content: Average Extra of: Liverpool vs. AFC Bournemouth: Racial Incident Friday 15/08/2025 Link https://averagemansreviews2017.blogspot.com/2025/08/average-extra-of-liverpool-vs-afc.html and then Average Extra of: Gary Neville should be Gone from Sky Sports 2025 Link https://averagemansreviews2017.blogspot.com/2025/10/average-extra-of-gary-neville-should-be.html

Warning: there will be censored adult language references and it will be uncomfortably real and at no point am I condoning either situation.

Real Talking Time:


Sky Sports now have a big problem: so people criticise Sir Keir Starmer for being Two Tier Keir which to be honest on reflection it started off slowly, to the point where I can now see it in all its glory [obviously I am being sarcastic;] so let me get this right, Antoine Semenyo gets verbally racially abused by this so-called football fan in a wheelchair is now banned from every UK stadium, meanwhile Gary Neville can go on about middle-aged white men being angry and face absolutely no repercussions from Sky Sports.

When yes I have no idea what this person said in a wheelchair they have been suggestions of what he could have said, but it in this case is irrelevant because clearly been made reference to race, but Neville makes a reference to white and yet that is okay, I mean yes I am fully aware he is Caucasian, but then we also find out that this individual that created this situation at this religious place of worship wasn't white to begin with.

So we now have two points of awkwardness to contain with; we now have Gary Neville spouting off let's be honest here and say it was manure without facts; stoking the flames of division even though he calls for unity, I don't know how that was meant to work, when he clearly blames middle-aged white men and then to find out that the perpetrator was not white to begin with and yet Sky Sports are taking the option to not reprimand him in any way shape or form is ball manure.

When I now find it highly comical now [yes once again I am being sarcastic] when everyone talks about inclusivity, take a knee and all that garbage, what you actually mean is; believe in what we believe, do what we do or you can be silenced.

So I have a rhetorical question; what is the difference between your ideology to the likes of Reform UK or President Donald Trump? Because essentially you are the same just polarising opposites, yes I mean left but I am much more of a central person, where no one wants equality, I mean you say you wanted but do you really? As far I can tell equality is a pipe dream that everyone says they wanted until it doesn't serve them anymore.

Like I got reminded of where I sit in this world a few weeks ago; I am going to paraphrase this situation, but don't misunderstand me it happened: I was peacefully having lunch with the person I want some of this content with and from out of nowhere two security guards approached me and this person with allegations of inappropriate behaviour as it relates to OnlyFans, which based on the fact this is where I have lunch I declined to speak on this topic because I had no idea of what they were talking about, so I took this outside where at this point I now have three security guards over 6 foot tall each around keeping in mind I have brain damage and essentially most of my body doesn't work properly so I am in a wheelchair and the other person is at best 5'4 in height: so what I am trying to indicate here is we hold absolutely no threat, so I had to face the delegations of inappropriate behaviour, because they were not upfront with me I denied these allegations of these comments, then my brain started to figure out what had happened; three weeks previous I was under the impression I was having a joke with a friend, where someone had twisted my words including not actually saying some words, so needless to say I am now banned from this location and now has to watch my mouth.

Meanwhile girls and/or women can go around wearing very little clothing and yet no one says a thing, even when it is clearly grounds for public indecency laws: on the grounds of I now find it incredibly uncomfortable no I am not approved, it is just if I look at the wrong place in the wrong second, I will be the one getting into trouble not the girls or/and women that go out dressed like that.

So as things stand I am extremely conscientious and afraid of talking to women so as I have a mental illness already which is slowly but surely getting worse, because I am on a very tight rope, I ask this question often lately how am I going to meet somebody [just for the record previously in this content I did make reference to this woman just being a friend, but I'm now talking broadly.] The website thing doesn't work for me, because as soon as someone finds out I am in a wheelchair and they quickly disappear, so all I can say is; I hope that everyone understands that eventually men's mental health is going to get much worse and we will have to suffer in silence. Because we know one of two things; the first being is there are some women out there that believe men's mental health is a myth and secondly it is a weakness.

Screw it I have been in two minds if I want to say the next bit; it is so easy for people to say that people are just angry because of their lot in life or a lack of, that is such a chicken manure answer; because okay there maybe some lazy individuals out there, but for people like myself I have had to earn everything that I have including but not limited to dealing with my circumstances of being in a wheelchair, but to know that someone can make up false or/and stretched allegations to destroy another person or just go on OnlyFans for an example making lots of money for showing her body off, essentially having a life on easy street and then have unreal expectations about life, which if you think about it also creates division, based on the facts of obviously no one can compete with that broadly speaking obviously, but also is massively disrespectful to people that work really hard and long hours to make a real difference in the world such as doctors and nurses and etcor use a throwaway racial slur about me when if I was to do it to another section or forget someone's pronouns I would be cancelled, so absolutely there may be some thugs in these situations and the vast majority of England is and has always been multicultural society, but at the same time Brexit was and is firstly completely mis-sold to us and secondly every nationality that calls England/the United Kingdom home is correct me if I am wrong approaching a decade is probably getting fed up paying for it.

You see I am a central slightly left leaning individual that is multicultural, so I wouldn't be so ignorant to label one section this or that, but smart enough just to point out that I have had individual in the keyword here is individual run-ins with members from different cultures/different sections that doesn't mean I then label every member of that section the same; I will leave this content on this comical outlook, how come it takes one very partly brain-damaged individual should point this out when most of you have a fully active brain to think for yourselves.

 

Thursday, 9 October 2025

In-depth Predictions/Other elements WWE Crown Jewel: Perth 2025 by AverageMansReviews

In-depth Predictions/Other elements WWE Crown Jewel: Perth 2025 by AverageMansReviews



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Warning/Just a heads up: there will be censored adult language and on paper this event looks good, but is it me or even know I know what roughly is happening in this promotion; things are looking a bit stagnant

The Vision's: the WWE World Heavyweight Champion Seth Rollins vs. The Undisputed WWE Champion King Rhodes; Singles Match for the WWE Crown Jewel Championship: my pick is Seth Rollins. Due to his stable's involvement and whilst I'm here can I just say that I think this stipulation is complete manure and WWE's narcissism on full display, I have no idea why they just don't create a Men and Women's International Championships, where there is only 3 simple rules attached to these Championships; these Championships are prohibited from being defended in the USA and Canada, but for an example Mexico is fine and at minimum must be defended twice a year [I am trying to keep them prestigious, so two, three or four times a year would be absolutely fine] and if you are unable to defend the championship you are subsequently stripped of it and it is up for grabs at the next national event. I am not being arrogant here, but this would be an excellent idea for these Championships instead of this situation.

John Cena vs. AJ Styles; Singles Match: my pick is John Cena. Just based on the grounds of his last Premium Live Event outing he lost to Brock Lesnar

Rhea Ripley & Iyo Sky vs. The Kabuki Warriors': Asuka & Kairi Sane; Tag Team Match: my pick is The Kabuki Warriors': Asuka & Kairi Sane. So usually in these situations, the heels in this match slot should just about escape the W, Ripley for the next round of TV content should be pointing out to Sane that she deserves better leading to WWE Survivor Series: WarGames Saturday 29/11/2025 Ripley being blindsided by Sky as she rejoins Asuka & Sane.

The WWE Women's World Champion Stephanie Vaquer vs. the WWE Women's Champion Tiffani Stretton; Singles Match for the WWE Crown Jewel Championship: my pick is Tiffani Stretton. Based on interference from Nia Jax, she clearly has come for Stratton, but she screws up and accidentally hits Vaquer, Jade Cargill if medically cleared After what happened on Friday 26/09/2025: can do the chase away spot, consequently Stratton picks up the W.

Roman Reigns vs. The Vision's: Bronson Reed [with Paul Heyman;] Australian Street Fight: my pick is Roman Reigns. This match/main event is going to be incredibly messy, yes it should be good but as I have been around wrestling long enough to know using a stipulation of this manner invites interference; so clearly what I am suggesting here is; this could be at minimum the start/dress rehearsal for who is going to be in the men's WWE Survivor Series: WarGames, to create this newsworthy/closing angle to finish this event on.

 

Mission Alarum 2025 [alternative name Alarum] by AverageMansReviews

Alarum 2025 [alternative name Alarum] by AverageMansReviews

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Warning: there is flashing effects/colourful effects/shooting/stabbing/cutting/torture/medical/references to Russia

5 years later: briefly; Agent Joe Travers/other names [Scott Eastwood:] he is retired, but is on a mission with his wife, but Agent Chester [Sylvester Stallone:] he is sent to take out this husband-and-wife.

Generally speaking: the storyline/script, character developments, framework and pacing of this 95 minutes film; is messy go in the wrong it makes sense kind of but it doesn't give us a full rounded picture and this is one of those rare occasion, for us the viewers to get the understanding in some cases we need to see things, I will discuss this more later on, but needless to say as things are it comes off really cheap and tacky and incredibly lazy, so in response to that it makes the framework and pacing nonsensical from the aspect of Who? What the hell? Where are we going now? Then it suddenly drops like a stone as when we go to these characters sitting around possibly at this table, then for all intents and purposes we are back out in the field.

Art, action and comedy; for some reason [ I say with some reason based on the quality of this artistic sequence and the quality of the rest of the film, is very poor:] but however the artistic red opening sequence is high quality, but for the rest of the film the green-screen effects are let's be polite highly noticeable, the action sequences are plentiful with guns and combat; basically Mike Colter as Orlin: without giving too much away as he is a leader of this group sent in to retrieve something: but in this one sequence of events he shoots the grenades into these three separate windows to hopefully burn out/bring out these characters or with one character in a nutshell asking another character if they can join them, with in response after killing this individual saying something to the effect of access denied.

Character developments and performances; I need to make this crystal clear that if we just had the substandard character types for this type of action film, which we do on some aspects with some characters, but to have this exposition of 5 years, including but not limited to making references to this organisation in some fashion, without actually seeing them in the slightest, well to be brutally honest it is incredibly tedious and tiresome, which infringes on the is paint by numbers character types, so broadly the performances are a mixed bag of poor to mostly mediocre with one exception: Colter as Orlin; he is the one that looks and feels natural as this character type; so this is all good; he very much standout as a character and simultaneously a performer it as well.

Alexa is in music 1/10, this film is poor; in theory this film should have been somewhere between 5 or 6 or at a push 7/10, because everything about this project is designed to be an action film, you know something straightforward without too much hassle. But back in reality the execution is absolute garbage; yes it may have some good elements or/and components, but the negatives greatly outweigh the positives; it's very much whatever talent this cast as at its disposal and like I have already referenced it leaves everything open for a sequel, based on here and now if it doesn't it makes this ending look like garbage and if it does the person I watch some of this content with has already very much declined to watch the sequel.

 

Wednesday, 8 October 2025

Best of the Best 1989 by AverageMansReviews

Best of the Best 1989 by AverageMansReviews

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Warning: there is flashing effects/colourful effects/burning/dislocation/racism/domestic violence/bodily functions/medical/references to vehicle hit

Team Korea vs. Team USA: briefly:  Alex Grady [Eric Roberts:] he is currently an auto mechanic engineer,  a dodgy shoulder, he used to be one of the best martial artists in the world and one son, but when he is on this opportunity, he goes in for this tryout, where he and a small selection of other martial artists are selected to take on the highly talented, skilled and ruthless martial artists from Korea. The head coach of Team USA is one; Coach Frank Couzo [James Earl Jones:] he will not tolerate less than 100% of their focus, dedication and determination to be victorious.

Generally speaking: the framework and pacing; well for the framework we have plenty of training montages and slow motion effects, the pacing of this 97 minute film is good; as in it is uncomplicated as it moves with good purpose

Action, comedy and art; we have martial arts; including a bar brawl which has moments of comedy in it, before I continue I should point out that there are some outdated comedy references, but I digress; Grady is using a telephone in this bar to phone home to talk to his family; meanwhile things/this situation is brewing, so it eventually kicks off with these bar patrons and the Team USA, where Grady quickly finishes the telephone call to participate in this rumble, then we have some scenery training of some description first with Team Korea standing under this waterfall or Team USA running on a beach as the sun goes down and we have the opening ceremony with all of its prestigious grandeur.

Character developments and performances; the character developments have a good variety to them; such as in one way or another some deaths [no these characters don't die so this is not a spoiler,] or something like Chris Penn as Travis Brickley: he is a martial artist of the Team USA, that happens to be in one of those guys that is an unpleasant person and he is a hothead to; we also have these elements of coming-of-age: even though these characters are fully grown, we still have elements of this character growth; just not the young age part associated with this expression: especially good performances with good chemistry throughout this cast, an excellent performance from Roberts and obviously a masterful performance from the one and only Earl Jones as he really does legitimise this whole sport/competition, with his larger-than-life stage presence and booming voice of a strict nature, consequently because he legitimises this sport/competition he also legitimises this film to be taken seriously as Rocky 1976: with predominantly 3 major differences: the difference in sports; one being martial arts and the other in boxing and on some research this film had $5 million as a budget and altogether took $16 million at the box office, whilst Rocky 1976 had $1.1 million as its budget and took an astronomical $225 million at the box office. But back to this film; Earl Jones should have without a shadow of doubt been at the very least nominated for some positive awards for this really strict and gritty performance, I will even go one more step and say he should have won a positive award somewhere for this performance and Roberts should have been nominated for some awards as well, but my point here is; without Earl Jones in this film; okay it would probably been still on average a good movie, but just a good movie probably circling in my opinion a 6/10: it is difficult to tell because he has such a massive bearing on this film it would be hard to tell if I have gotten my prediction spot on or possibly less in the marking.

This film receives: 10/10, this film is top-notch entertainment; even though it is a little bit cheesy from time to time, the reason it gets this marking is simple; it knows what it is and it sticks to that and does the best with what it has at its disposal, so this is one those rare occasions I have to say it is; the final piece of this section is incredibly harsh and completely unwarranted, because if you choose to watch this film on average and hopefully; you will come to the conclusion of this film clearly knows what it is, so I am not sure how they could have avoided this negative award, even if they could go back and change it. The Stinkers Bad Movie Awards 1989 Worst Picture Phillip Rhee [as Tommy Lee: one of the best martial artists that Team USA has] Peter E. Strauss

 

Play Dirty 2025 by AverageMansReviews

Play Dirty 2025 by AverageMansReviews

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Warning: there is flashing effects/colourful effects/shooting/electrocution/animal cruelty/vehicle hit/torture/medical/references to suicide and the rainbow community

Don't waste your time; even though I did: briefly Parker/other characters [Mark Wahlberg:] he is a criminal that plans out heists, but the thing he couldn't plan out for is one member of his unit betraying them Zen/other characters [Rosa Salazar:] she is also a highly skilled criminal, that does this betrayal for a bigger purpose, so obviously there is revenge on the menu, but for now they have to work together.

Generally speaking: storyline/script; well it is so boring and relentlessly so, on every aspect minus the art, this film is such hard work to the point where at one point or another I fell asleep watching this film and the person I watch some of this content with knew within about 15 minutes as did I that this film was going to be absolute garbage: the script, framework and pacing of this 128 minutes film never somehow seems to remind you that even though there is a lot happening now and again that this project is very formulaic and agonisingly slow.

Art; the only positive component to this film is we get something like a James Bond 007 style opening sequence as it relates to the artistry; so this is faultless as they take their outlay and turn it into their own sequence.

Action and comedy; yes we get the standard vehicle chasing, guns and chaos with elements especially on the first highest we get a sense of comedy, but I should also point out that after this comedy of what I remember is; here and there and it just isn't funny, you know when a comedian is trying to be comical, but their material is landing or it was an attempt at comedy; this is one of two ways to pretty much described the comedy in this film.

Character developments and performances; to be completely honest; we individually or together completely became disinterested in this film, to the point where not only did I fall asleep twice we mentally switched off as well. Now be it the script, the framework and pacing or individually or together a character developments being generic versions of what you come to expect from a project from the heist genre, so if this is what they were going for they struck gold here, but back in reality; the character developments or/and performances were just monotonously painful to watch, I should point out that they are not bad, just incredibly boring.

This film receives: 1/10, this film is poor; I think we are just both happy just to get through it so we never have to see it again, without giving too much away but then again I think the person I watch this film with just said this for future reference; that they won't be watching the sequel if there is one in the future.

 

Tuesday, 7 October 2025

Average Extra of: Gary Neville should be Gone from Sky Sports 2025 by AverageMansReviews

Average Extra of: Gary Neville should be Gone from Sky Sports 2025 by AverageMansReviews

Warning: there will be censored adult language references and it will be uncomfortably real.

Real Talking Time: 

Let's start from here:
a broad transcript of: what Gary Neville had to say: So I just left my house walking into the office, this after waking up, goes on to talk about the terror attacks of the Jewish community just about a mile from where he is, driving to Salford City, going downhill Ellington Road, between 50 and 60 Union Jacks and on the way back I went parallel road; Vairton [I'm going to presume I have got the wrong spelling here apologies] Road: got Jewish community at its heart and they are out in the streets, defiant, not hiding or in fear. I just kept thinking as I was driving home last night, we are all being turned on each other [I have a problem with this point; which I will discuss it later but for the meantime this is just a bookmark to remind me,] but I digress; back to Neville and the division being created by is absolutely disgusting: mainly created by angry middle-aged men [don't worry I also have a problem with this as well,] Neville continues that knows exactly what they are doing, funny enough on one of my development sites last week, there was a Union Jack flag put up I instantly took it down, there may be some people wanting this thinking Gary that wasn't very patriotic, I played for my country 85 times, I love my country, I love Manchester and I love England. But I have been building in the city for 15 years-20 years and no one has put up a Union Jack [repeats the timeframe,] so why do have to put up one now? It's quite clearly to send a message, to everybody that there is something you don't like, the Union Jack being used in a negative fashion, it is not right. I am a proud supporter of England, Great Britain and of our country I would champion it anywhere around the world as one of the greatest places to live, but I think we need to check ourselves; we need to check ourselves and start to bring ourselves back to the neutral point. Because we are being pulled right and left, we don't need to be pulled right and left at all. Neville goes on to talk about he has played with many different nationalities and cultures in a nutshell calling for united/unity Brexit has had a devastating impact on this country and the messaging is getting dangerous extremely dangerous, all of these idiots that are out there spreading hate speech in any form and abuse of any form, we must stop, you must stop promoting, we must stop elevating are voices toward them and it needs up now and get back to a country love and peace and harmony become a team again.

Well the first thing I am going to do is mock this entire speech simply just saying the following "This has been a public broadcast for the Labour Party and sponsored by Sky Sports" and just for the record I found the vast majority of this speech to be mesmerisingly dumb and inadvertently or intentionally or both simultaneously which let's be honest in the gift in itself of how clueless someone actually is, to the point where it is so dumb that anyone agreeing with this whole heartily is just dumb by association which conversely shows how dumb they are to and yes you can cut the garbage everyone is entitled to their opinion, this is true: but then again why open your mouth and remove all doubt in the first place.

My list of problems with this speech:

1. We are all being turned on each other:

My response: Where the hell have you been Neville? Before or especially Brexit you can talk to any different nationality or disabled or other this has been going on for almost a decade, my quality of life has drastically declined from having comments in the middle of the street, to the financial aspect to being seen as a welcome member of society, anyone from the disabled community would tell you broadly speaking our standard of life is something like from the 1950s, so Neville you know absolutely fudgin' nothing of what you speak, for one example where were you when the blue or red party were withdrawing finance where was your outcry for those that can't fight back? You are extremely late as it relates to the division in our country it's like saying something after the horses have broken free and for some strange reason you put you close the gate anyway.

2. Division mainly created by white middle-aged men: you are a hypocrite because you yourself as of this content being first created Neville is 50 years old, so you are directly criticising your own demographic and not forgetting hypothetically speaking but also probably a ring of truth is somewhat attached to it is the fact that the same demographic that you are criticising it has the same demographic that has made you a very wealthy man as of 2025 is worth is roughly between £70 million-£100 million, sure there is also a ring of truth to that demographic being angry which is completely unacceptable, but labelling this demographic is comically very rich of Neville considering as I have just shown that is precisely what they have made him, so maybe not bite the hand that has fed you for the vast majority of your life.

3. I played for my country 85 times, I love my country: I have to say on reflection find this line incredibly fudgin' funny, because as I have already shown if you love your country so much, you would have spoken out for all injustice on UK soil and not just some, on top of that... Oh yes you like many took Qatar money when they hosted the 2022 FIFA World Cup, yes you did the virtual signalling conversations and comments about the injustice of this country, but you still took their money. I mean if I really had to do my job, I would have taken their money and givin' it away to a woman's charity actually, because I like to raise my middle finger I would have given it to the WSL [Women's Super League.]

4. It's quite clearly to send a message, to everybody that there is something you don't like, the Union Jack being used in a negative fashion, it is not right. I am a proud supporter of England, Great Britain and of our country: I am pretty certain Neville is blind, deaf, or dumb or just all three? Because yet again I ask where you been lately? Because there is quite a few flags just off the top my head could be related to negative connotations at one point or another and yes this is open to interpretation; historically and presently Russia/the USSR, Germany, Union Jack/England, Palestine, Israel even the present rainbow flag.

5. I am a proud supporter of England, Great Britain and of our country I would champion it anywhere around the world as one of the greatest places to live: yet again level is entitled to his opinion, but also yet again he is completely avoid of reality, you go and ask someone that works two jobs just to put food on the table and live an adequate life with their family, whilst regardless of blue or red party's they get richer would take handouts or accidentally apparently don't keep their finances in order, whilst you have it places not paying a decent amount of tax.

6. I think we need to check ourselves; we need to check ourselves: the vast majority of us don't actually Neville; the general British public of all ethnic backgrounds are getting extremely tired, of being told what to say, how to think and saw on, it is just some from here in England or abroad that are bad eggs and obviously I am putting this amicably be it home grown or incoming to the UK I don't condone their behaviour including actions or anything other.

7. Start to bring ourselves back to the neutral point: I know I have already referenced this; but having said that it needs to be briefly discussed again to highlight that Neville is clueless; where have you been Neville? I can't tell you enough you are about a decade behind.

8. Neville goes on to talk about he has played with many different nationalities and cultures in a nutshell calling for united/unity: I honestly get his point, but in the same token everyone knows in the world of football you are somewhat protected from the outside world, but at least I am one of those people that actually comes into contact with many different cultures throughout my week and I will make this quick and painless Neville is again about a decade behind with these comments.

9. Brexit has had a devastating impact on this country and the messaging is getting dangerous extremely dangerous, all of these idiots that are out there spreading hate speech in any form and abuse of any form, we must stop, you must stop promoting, we must stop elevating are voices toward them and it needs up now and get back to a country love and peace and harmony become a team again: okay, okay who is going to tell Neville that his speech can and will and has been interpreted as divisive and I can tell you from years of experience, there will be some people out there like myself, about to say this: he is a hypocrite because on one hand he is calling for unity, but on the other hand he is being divisive and innocence spreading hate himself as he comes from a different world to most so rightly so there will be some that will happily tell Neville to do one, as he doesn't recognise, that he gets to go home and have a comfortable life, whilst most of us don't and on top of that he shoots of his mouth. Now this final statement incredibly annoyed me, because speaking for the outsiders like myself, of ethnic backgrounds and different and so and so forth Neville just shut the hell up, honestly just do us all they were and shut the hell up as I have repeatedly shown in this content you have no concept of what it is like out there in the real world, where I have openly said when it is appropriate within a matter of days of this decision being made, mine and many others live drastically changed overnight where it became very acceptable to be verbally abusive and etc, I mean it wasn't brilliant before this, but if you have ever dealt with this kind of unpleasantness I am sure you would say okay it wasn't brilliant but after 2016 it was like the floodgates were opened and unlike Neville I will name groups that revelled in this division and still do to this very day the Tory party and nowadays known as the ReformUK and don't worry Labour are not going to get off the hook easily either; at the end of the day they remind me of Mr. Magoo: visually impaired, deaf to what is going on around them as they bumble from situation to situation; not making much coherent sense.

What's next?: Well the first thing is Neville needs to go, they need to remove him from Sky Sports, because I don't know about everyone else but I am getting fed up of these wealthy individuals getting paid by us to then air their opinion, I know Neville has previous for voicing his opinion, but on the grand scale of things this would be the major first time he has not only put his toe out of line, but he jis entire body as well after just completing a world trip around the world, as he blames middle-aged white men he has also insulted up to maybe 40% of Sky Sports audience that watches football, so this is obviously isn't going to sit too well with them, but I know full well Neville isn't going anywhere.

This is why I really don't like ignorant people talking on subjects that they have no at minimum grasp of; so allow me to educate Neville's supporters including Neville himself, so you want to make a reference to Brexit and just for the record I was/still am a Remainer: but I digress; we were sold this idea that this concept would in essence put the people of the United Kingdom first, but over roughly the past decade it has been anything but, you know that expression that says essentially if you don't have a plan; plan to fail and boy howdy haven't we exceled in that.

But the reality is those that wanted Brexit to get over the line in 2016 did anything possible to get it done in a decision outcome anyway; basing everything on false promises hoping for something better, people's ignorance, hatred, bigotry, misinformation and destroying unity of the United Kingdom: so approaching a decade of this outcome these are the results, so as it relates to Neville his ignorance is astounding because don't you get it yet, because of the blue and now red parties leadership in just a few years time we could have Reform UK in power and if you don't look like them or sound like them or have a full functioning body or mind we all fudgin' toast, but as always the legacy of Brexit... Neville will be: as long as it doesn't affect me screw everyone knows, probably the only reason you have decided now to take a big swipe at it, is because it is now in close proximity to you? So allow me to finish off by saying what I heard many times over many years Brexit Means Brexit.

 

Monday, 6 October 2025

Paramore: Decode 2008 by AverageMansReviews

Paramore: Decode 2008 by AverageMansReviews

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Warning: there is flashing effects/animal hunting

["I caught myself"] Decode; by Paramore: this music video goes on for roughly 4 minutes; the storyboard is; the band are in the woods of Forks [from the Twilight universe] where they are performing this track: with fusion of the band being involved and individually segments of the film they are a part of the soundtrack: Twilight 2008: where at the end of this video the band are backing in a circle to indicate they are possibly being hunted by the 3 vampires that come to Forks: the band are elegantly placed to perform this track.

This track encapsulats this entire film; as it relates to Bella Swan [Kirsten Stewart:] she is a newcomer to Forks, that is quiet that is intrigued by this Cullen family specifically Edward Cullen [Robert Paterson:] he is a vampire, in fact they are all vampires: Edward save Swan's life.

This track is beautifully sung by Hayley Williams [lead woman/lead vocalist for Paramore:] as the song covers that Swan and Edward shouldn't be together, because it is going to be extremely complicated and on top of that extremely dangerous for their two worlds to collide, but without one another they may as well be dead as they feel alive around each other and they are each other's missing part, as they seek good in one another, but at the same time they knowledge their relationships may have gone too far: where Williams sings softly and pushing up her vocals on "How did we get here?"

This film receives: 10/10, this film is top-notch entertainment; it does everything that it is meant to do in not only a visual manner but also an alternative music manner as well, it also has some awards accredited to its name 2 Nominees in total; MTV Video Music Awards (VMA) 2008 VMA Best Rock Video Paramore and you will find this under Twilight 2008 and not as track for some strange reason: but I will this here so it looks as if I am not withholding an achievement or information Grammy Awards 2010 Best Song Written for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media Josh Farro Hayley Williams Taylor York [members of Paramore] For the song "Decode".

 

 

 

The Usual Suspects 1995 by AverageMansReviews

The Usual Suspects 1995 by AverageMansReviews

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Warning: there is flashing effects/colourful effects/shooting/burning/bodily functions/vehicle crash/drugs/sexual assault/cutting/police brutality/torture/medical/references to homosexuality and human trafficking

You have immunity, so tell me what you know?: Briefly; Agent Dave Kujan [Chazz Palminteri:] he has two hours to talk to Roger "Verbal" Kint [Kevin Spacey:] he is a member of this criminal group of individuals, he is a disabled individual that was at this location when things went south.

Generally speaking: the framework: uses the outlay of storyteller/narrator [Kint,] so yes we will have this back and forth between present and earlier on top of that we also have coming full circle. The pacing: of this 106 minutes film is good as I am just referenced it is incredibly well structured in one way or another, so the pacing just has to progressively move from place to place to adapt to what is required at that specific time. But we have more; the character developments and performances between this group of criminals being individually or in different numbers or in their entirety; create the world they live in; meaning these all criminals they all have a certain perspective on the world around them essentially life as a criminal, so when they have dialogue exchanges, they all know the game of being a criminal, even when one is trying not to be one he still knows the game and as a bit of comedy I can make reference to; when they are all in a line-up and they are told to read what is on the bit of paper; in every fully grown adult in this situation is a 10-year-old boy waiting to come out as they hardly take this situation seriously for a moment.

Action; the action sequences are by and large of the hoist varieties: these are all good in their own ways.

Character developments and performances; this collective of criminals have their own types of skills and personality types as I made reference to earlier they very much create their own atmosphere and chemistry or friction; yes they might make their own decision throughout this film, but predominantly they are not weak to a certain point and their performances reflect their character types, stage presence and sometimes confrontational personalities and mannerisms; which this cast in or outside this group of criminals understand what is not only needed from their individual characters, but the standard/quality performances that are necessary to pull off this kind of film and a special mention should go out to Spacey: because without his masterful performance from being a subdued character, to put in all of this authentic detail and mannerisms and etc, without him I feel confident or without a shadow of doubt without him this film wouldn't be the classic crime film it is today and roughly 3 decades later and counting: to be honest with you whomever was involved in this film on any level whatsoever should be delighted even with 30 years on what they achieved here and how these types of films should be done and this is one of those films that should have been adapted for Broadway or something as in theory it would be something I would say that was achievable; because come on most of this film is some form of spoken word and the rest can be adapted for theatre production and just out of interest and on some research as of this content being first created so far this has never happened yet and whilst I am here I am going to say this; never ever, never ever make a remake or a reboot of this film, because it has a perfect and priceless cast that can never be replicated, because I believe there are some films that are times in history films; this basically means taking a legendary film out of its timeframe in this case 1990s and hypothetically replicating it in 2030: you aren't going to be able to completely replicate everything and I do mean not only performers which on its own level good luck with that, but also that time frame in the 1990s and what it was like back then with genuine authenticity.

This film receives: 10/10, this film is top-notch entertainment; it definitely is one of those films that at minimum you need to see once in your lifetime for its concept and execution, mystery and cast assembled. I also had the wonderful pleasure of watching this film at the cinema on its 30th anniversary with the person that I watch some of this content with, it was still immensely entertaining and should be absolutely no surprise, but it actually has some awards accredited to its name; such as 37 Winners that include but are not limited to; Academy Awards, USA 1996 Oscar Best Actor in a Supporting Role Kevin Spacey and Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen Christopher McQuarrie and National Board of Review, USA 1995 NBR Award Best Acting by an Ensemble Stephen Baldwin Gabriel Byrne Benicio Del Toro Kevin Pollak Kevin Spacey Chazz Palminteri Pete Postlethwaite Suzy Amis Giancarlo Esposito 17 Nominees would include but also not limited to Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA 1996 Saturn Award Best Director Bryan Singer, American Cinema Editors, USA 1996 Eddie Best Edited Feature Film John Ottman and Chicago Film Critics Association Awards 1996  CFCA Award Most Promising Actor Benicio Del Toro [as Fred Fenster: a self-confident member of our criminal group.]

 

Sunday, 5 October 2025

Wicked: Part I 2024 [alternative name Wicked] by AverageMansReviews

Wicked: Part I 2024 [alternative name Wicked] by AverageMansReviews

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Warning: there is flashing effects/colourful effects/burning/ritual/transformation/childbirth/melting/animal cruelty/references to racism

Let's start at the beginning at Shiz University: basically; Galinda Upland/other name [Ariana Grande-Butera:] she is a very popular student at this University, she meets and shares a dorm room with Elphaba Thropp/another name [Baby: Unknown name/Younger: Karis Musongole/Older: Cynthia Erivo:] she on the other hand is unpopular and different, but eventually these two become friends and eventually Thropp gets invited to Emerald City to meet  The Wonderful Wizard of Oz [Jeff Goldblum:] legend says he is a great and powerful wizard, but sometimes legends can be wrong, but we have Thropp and Upland heading off to Emerald City: which I do hope everything goes okay?

Generally speaking: the framework and pacing of this 160 minutes film is good, well let's be honest Disney have very much gone back to what they know with a very reliable and fruitful outlay of this project; of script, musical number and so on and so forth; even though let's talk about the elephant in the room this film may be long but it doesn't feel like it because there is more than enough happening in one way or another and as I have just indicated the rotation between script and musical number is a useful variety to your have, but it does have some negatives which I will discuss later. But for here and now the framework and pacing has nothing for me to criticise.

Art and action; it is very clear on where I am going to start; they have done a outstanding job bringing this landscape/world to life in all of its glory, including but not limited to the wardrobe and I can see a certain miniature model landscape [that is as much as I am going to tell you; when you see it you will know what I mean] being turned into a Lego set [I mean if it isn't it should be] and moving on from that as I just touched on the musical numbers where mostly beautifully performed and in this first film it does feel like we only really begin to scratch the surface of the action sequences towards the later stages of this film; but at least what we see of them; they are excellent.

Character developments, performances and voice performances; the character developments ranged from really in-depth and well rounded, to reliably good version of what they are meant to be to predominately really shallow and even when they have some character developments; they still come off as phoney to a certain extent as even when this individual has proof in front of them, they still are okay to take another path. So let's start with the glowing positive to this film Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba Thropp/other name; she really does grasp this lead role opportunity and makes her performance as this character her very own; as she is a strong woman that knows herself and does come across as someone that wants to do right, but every time she tries to put yourself out there she ends up getting scorned in one way or another, she can also sing with excellent range and confidence; she should hopefully at the very least be nominated for an Oscar for this performance, but however there is just one thing I didn't like that much; and there was the reference to skin colour as her reminiscences is African-American and she is green so she basically points out; this relative is the right colour. But it is delivered in such a way that; as an Englishman understanding the subtext; I can see and smell on the surface in our context is based on the film, but underneath getting ready sense and feel; is she making reference to real life? It most definitely felt more was being implied here then just on the service, because there is just too much of a punch here.

The rest of the character developments are good versions of what they are meant to be and smoothly fit into the chemistry of the casting now we come onto Barbie Oh apologies I meant to say Ariana Grande-Butera as Galinda Upland/other name; I can't stand these character developments, I mean I get them, I understand them, but that we have done hit the typical popular high school girl character types so hard? Like I said there is some growth at some point, but even after this there isn't much friction or anything, I mean a little bit of friction would have been nice to see that these two women in a character's sense have rubbed off on one another just a smidgen and for me hell no can Grande-Butera sing and if you're wondering the duets are smoothly synced and in beautiful harmony, but Grande-Butera no thank you and the voice performances are all good as well.

This film receives: 8/10, this film is excellent; I think I have made myself clear about this film, it should be noted that person I watch some of the content with doesn't think too highly of Ariana Grande-Butera as Galinda Upland/other name; as this individual felt she was very plastic, but obviously we are still going to say that the sequel. It has some awards accredited to its name such as 3 Winners that includes Santa Barbara International Film Festival 2025 Virtuoso Award Virtuoso Award Ariana Grande and Critics Choice Awards Celebration of Cinema & Television 2024  Actress Award for Film Black Cinema & Television Cynthia Erivo. 5 Nominees that includes Hollywood Music In Media Awards (HMMA) 2024 HMMA Award Best Song - Onscreen Performance (Film) Ariana Grande & Cynthia Erivo Song: "Defying Gravity" and from the same award ceremony/event Best Music Themed Film, Biopic or Musical Jon M. Chu Marc Platt & David Stone