I have a shitty memory when it comes to any show but is this even connected to where this started from ? I don't want to go back and watch everything again but I barely recognize it. It doens't feel like Westworld. Right now this has gone from "best show of that year" to "couldn't care less". And I guess the WWII thing is the new simulation this year ?
Well, maybe I'll wait for the whole thing to finish and start from scratch at the beginning. Or, not ?
I've been an Eastwood fan for basically my entire movie watching life. Ever since I've saw him in one of the Dollar western. If he's playing or directing - it's a reason for me to watch it. However his last directing credits were literally hit and miss the last youple of years.
Amerian Sniper (miss), Sully (hit), 15:17 to Paris (miss), The Mule (hit). And now Richard Jewell is somewhere in between but leaning more towards missing, again, for different reasons.
I knew nothing about the person or how he's been treated at the time. So I had really no idea what was going to happen in this movie. While I'm not surprised at how the story unfolds I have to say that Eastwood did not manage to invoke real sympathy for the man in me. The whole thing pretty much plays like you would expect it to. Jewell is the hero.
After I watched the movie I read about the controversy surrounding the portrayal of Kathy Scruggs. I know movies are taking artistic freedoms when it comes to the portrayal of characters but I think they went below the line here. Especially considering that she is dead. That made me read up a little more. I don't want to excuse what has been done to Jewell by the FBI and the media, and how terrible it must have been for him. But I found it interesting that the movie neglected to mention that the Attorney General formally apologized and that Jewell got a 500.000 $ settlement from NBC. Others settled, too, but I don't know for what.
I think it is really important to tell stories like this. But adding or leaving stuff out are intentional decisions on part of the writer and/or director and I really ask myself: why ? If you make a movie based on a real event, stick to the fact. Don't add or leave things out. Because if you do I really question your motive and your agenda.
Not quite sure what to make of this. Felt a bit like a Bladerunner / Oceans 11 mix.
The relevant stuff for the general story happened in the last five minutes and even that came to no surprise, really. I don't know if Brian Brophy was even asked to again play Maddox but seeing how little time he would have gotten I could understand if he'd said: no. Other than that this was a short arc to re-introduce (?) Seven. Because I'm not sure we'll see a lot more of her. Personally I found their disguises a bit too flamboyant.
For sure they are throwing a lot of mythology into this to build bridges but it isn't always working like it should. Because either they are burning them immediately (Icheb) or they are not really walking over them (Picard and Seven talking about their assimilation).
As I mentioned before I don't mind this kind of episode in general but it seems to be taken up space that could be better served towards the main plot.
So they really did what Picard and Guinan were talking about in Measure Of A Man.
I like the Romulan angle as they are still a race that needs to be deeper explored given how long they are around in the ST lore. Is the Zhad Vash their equivalent to Section 31 ? Not sure where this Borg stuff is leading. I thought Star Trek was too over-borged at times.
This clearly isn't the federation of old if an admiral takes they position that they should decide a race's fate. I would have love to watch a show centering around that part in history and how Picard acted at the time. But I am OK with where this is at now.
Only thing I can't stand is the Abrams hommage lens-flaring. In the conversation between the Commodore and that Lieutenant you couldn't at times see them. Why does every Star Trek show have to look like that now ?
Great animation and story but I think it's a bit to many characters involved. If those villains are downgraded to extras what's the point in having them anyway ?
There are hours upon hours to watch about the space program in general and Apollo 11. Although I've watched it all repeatedly I never grow tired of it. Especially during the last days, nearing the 50th anniversary, many documentaries were shown. Didn't particulary like this one for one reason.
I am not a huge fan of re-enactment. I prefer original footage. I understand its necessity at times but more often than not it feels like a low-budget movie. At least, if you do it, use the actors voices instead of overdubbing the fake characters with the real voices. For someone like me, who knows their faces and voices it is very disturbing and disjointing. And mixing original footage with re-enected scenes makes it worse.
And the inserts are unnecessary dramatic at times. It's OK to point out the critical stages of the mission but adding lines like "if this (or that) doesn't work, the mission is over" is kind of useless.
It's my personal opinion but watch "Apollo 11" instead.
https://trakt.tv/movies/apollo-11-2019
I hate clip shows, always have. Even a great show such as this can't get away with it. First 15 minutes are OK, then it goes down fast.
If I remember the production history correctly this was due to the fact that the Borg episode ate up more than the usual budget for an episode so they had to come with ways to save money elsewhere. Which ultimately led to a clip show as the season finale. It would have been an awful episode at any point of the season but as a finale it's even worse. It would have been better to shorten the season by not producing this episode. But S2 is already the shortest so maybe that wasn't possible, I don't know. (I went to check up on that, there was a writers strike happening around that time)
If there is any episode of the whole run you can leave out, it is this one. I would rate it as a bottom five of the whole franchise.
Isn't that a coincidence that Pa Riker shows up after Will mentioned him in the last episode ?
Well, it's not a bad one. It gives character background, which is never a bad thing. Althought, the way they mended their difficulties was a bit too Hollywood. Plus, those suits look silly now. And the connection to Dr. Pulaski felt out of nowhere. Granted, she's only just on board for a brief time now, but you being in love with a fellow colleagues father ? I think that would have come up. Well, maybe I am a bit picky.
One thing from the logic department: how do pain sticks cause pain on the holodeck ? Aren't there safeguards in place ? Usually they are mentioning it when those are turned of. OK, I am being picky again.
In hindsight it was obvious Riker wouldn't accept the promotion. As he will turn down others in the future. Loosing him would be like loosing........hmm. Whom, now? Who does Riker stand for compared to TOS. He's Number One. Which was Spock. Who himself is more represented by Data. Never really thought about that.
I watched Unbreakable a long time ago and I didn't watch Split (which I do regret now). So it took me a while before the pieces of this movie fell together for me. But when they did it was amazing. I was really convinced "They" had won and it all felt rather unsatisfying before things turned around.
A very well made movie that is subtle and not blatantly action ridden. McAvoy's performance is ten out of ten alone. You could watch this stand-alone but it probably is better if you watch all three in succession.
A timeless TV classic from when the whole family came together to watch. Totally worth a re-watch after all these years.
This show can be really good when it deals with the main plot. It can be equally awful when it brings us the bad metahuman villains.
Nevertheless it really picked up for me at the end of S2 where I really wanted to watch it but what happened next I had not anticipated.
I will remember this show as tough to stick with at first. Evolving, over the two seasons I did watch, to something I liked. Then it dropped like a millstone within the events of 3 episodes to the point where I couldn't quit fast enough. And it made me ultimately realize I should probably not start watching another superhero-show.
I wish, for once, they would make one of this shows for adults. Without all that unessessary drama.
Ever since the first Predator with Arnie I'm waiting for a worthy successor. This one ain't it either. I was tempted to quit watching instead I choose to let it play along. Man, this is awful.
Bunch of stupid morons that are supposed to be funny, but aren't. I am not sure who's worse - those "soldiers" or that guy Traeger with his I-am-a-cool-mothaf*** vibe.
Dialogue like: can you ask the kid to turn down that psychosis. One stupid one-liner amongst many.
Plot holes, f.e. the guy swallows that cloaking device and seemingly never went to the toilet after that. Whole script is no good.
CGI isn't good either. Apperently 88m $ (according to imdb) isn't enough nowadays. Action scenes have lots of cool moments, if you're an adolescent that is. You clearly can identify the target audience by the number of times the f-word is used.
Whole movie is just a waste of time and money. But, of course, at the end we get a hint for the next movie with a Predator suit that is a cross between Iron Man and Optimus Prime. I really hope someone has the good sense to stop this from happening.
A great story idea again somewhat ruined by a sledgehammer morale. Still way over on the better side of season one episodes.
Kiddy girl stuff, what I'd expect fron Disney. Not really worth watching.
Yes, the car chase is what sets this movie apart from similar ones. Althought I remembered it to be longer. But the rest of the movie isn't bad either. It's a thriller in the truest sense of the word with convincing portrayals from, both, McQueen and Vaughn alike.
If you made a movie that is making $ 544k domestic and a little over $ 1m worldwide it tells you something. There wasn´t much interest in the first place (no, honestly how many movie goers are that? 100-110k maybe?) Anyway, if you haven´t seen it I don´t think you´d missed out.
Yes, the story is - or rather could have been - interesting. I think it is to superfical. You have the innocent little girl that one day sees the monk burning himself and suddenly she went haywire and becomes anti-everything. From there on the story jumps through the years with little explanations or deeper investigation. It´s the father not wanting to give up on his daughter and the mother trying to move on. You could have easily jumped from Merry´s disapearance to the day her father found her because all what happened in between isn´t really meaningful. I don´t blame McGregors directing, I think he did a good job and since he didn´t wrote the script you can´t lay blame on him for that. I haven´t read the book, maybe it isn´t even a bad adaptation. Maybe the origin is as sketchy.
All the actors did a very good job and it is what keeps this movie above water so that you get through it. But that is just it, you get through it and after the end you just forget. If this was supposed to be a critical lock into that time in history it failed.
The problem I usually have with the Marvel movies is that while they where something special when they started they´ve become a common thing in cinema today. So I´m not as thrilled today with every new one coming out, I watch them, they were quite average to me lately. I found this to be quite entertaining though. Story was good, I like that we see more of where the x-men came from and how they got together. Visually it is good too. As I said, it´s a good and entertaining movie.
Movie is OK. The story is lacking a, bit though. I thought it odd that she went over to France to find her love and after finding out what happened to him she soon falls in love with another one. That´s to convenient story writing.
I like the period, the first moments of the Empire. With sixteen episodes in total I hope we get a lot of world building aside from the main story.
Anyone else thinks Hunter looks a lot like Rambo ? I Don't think it's intentional, though.
I try to be fair but seen with the rational mind of an adult this show is barely "meh".
The voice acting is absolutely overdone. Most of the villains are silly. Sound effects seem to come straight out of The Flintstones. Music between Pink Panther and Scooby Doo with a portion Peanuts.
Spider Man sounds like Adam West´s Batman, both in word as well as pronounciation and acts really dumb at times. "Oh, my spider sense is tickling" while someone stands right behind him.
Jamesson is completly possessed by Spider Man. Everything is Spider Mans fault, Spider Man is responsible - he sounds like a whiny child most of the time. That was my impression of the first season.
The Second season started with a great episode "The Origin of Spider Man" but that was a lone exception. In general 20 min episodes are just too long. They had too little content and oftentimes contain minutes of Spidey swinging around to some groovy soundtrack. It became increasingly more ridicolous, it felt like the writers were smoking weed. Elfes, demons, monsters or some kind of wild tribe, alltogether more sci-fi elements - it just doesn't fly.
Season 3 seems to be recycling old material with new dialogue.
For the intented audience that was probably under 10 I am sure none of this mattered. Unfortunately I don't have the fond memories of watching this as a child. I skipped some of the second season and the third just played with me paying no attention.
So I have to stick with "meh", sorry.
That was kind of a letdown as a season finale. It only serves to prevent the destruction of Homelander for at least another season and I fear we get a repetition of season three "How to kill Homelander". I get it, he's a show favorite but it's just unimaginative. And what happens if Butcher is in the same situation, facing Ryan and Homelander, at the end of season 4 ? How do we get to a point where he either can accept he has to destroy Ryan to or for the latter to switch sides ?
But we then still have Soldier Boy. And there is the same problem arising. How can he come back with a different outcome then now ? Like I said, we just put in multiple twist to lengthen the story.
And at this very moment I don't like it.
More pieces of the puzzle but still no full picture developing.
It actually wasn't too bad. We see more of Q, which is a good thing given deLancies great performance. Concerning Q: Why would he rip himself of his own power in a scenario he himself created ? Doesn't make sense and suggest that someone else is involved ?
So, Laris isn't Laris but a supervisor like Gary Seven. That's an interesting angle that I hope get's further developed than just this short mentioning. I'm also getting some Edith Keeler vibes with Renee Picard in the sense that she was essential for the timeline. Interestingly Keeler's survival would have let probably to the same future as Renee not making the flight. Coincidence ?
The ICE storyline is hopefully done with and it was obviously just there to make a point. Let's leave it at that.
I don't like the Jurati plot because I don't like Jurati. And I'm dissapointed in how they used the Borg Queen so far. But that's just me personally.
Bringing in Brent Spiner as another Soong ancestor is a nice angle that, in a way, gives more depth. Althought I fear he's just a tool here. And Isa Briones finally got to make her appearance in this timeline, too.
One thing that pains me to say a bit is that it feels that Patrick Stewart seems exhausted in almost every scene he's in. It could be intentional in how he plays Picard as a fragile old man. I hope it is because otherwise it would mean it's too much for him. Which could be normal given his age but makes me wonder about his involvement in season 3.
I think this story is based on a great concept. Being an atheist I love that it completely takes god out of the equation. Unless you consider those aliens to be god. It also resembles on a larger scale our own planet with different races and cultures and our origins. And like it happens today in our time the different races, Klingons, Cardassians and Romulans reject the idea and are even appaled by it. Of course it also explained why all those alien races had a similar anatomy.
But this episode is interesting, or better has become so for me, because of two facts:
Salome Jens playing the alien that looks kind of similar to The Founders who she also portrayed. Of course this is pure fantazising on my behalf as this was never picked up upon on DS9. But it would certainly be an interesting angle.
But here is another one I was just able to recognize now. When the Romulan commander talked to Picard at the end he implicated that in the future, maybe, there could be a time of understanding. This, at the time rather insignificant, conversation get's a new meaning if you look at the plot of Star Trek: Picard now and (please don't read this if you haven't watched this show) Picard's involvement with the rescue effort of the Romulans and how he even sacrificed his career for them. Am I reaching too far ? Could be, but it jumped right towards me.
Interesting how there seem to be more negative reviews here than in the ones before whereas I think this was the best one of the series. Or maybe I´m just getting used to it.
Anyway, I´ve critizised the Abramsverse a lot but this one was a small step in the right direction. I would attribute this largely to the fact that Abrams isn´t involved directly in this movie. Yes, it is still more like blockbuster cinema but there is improvement. We finally get rid of that annoying lensflare and this is something new not just a twisted old story (althought the crash of the saucer on the planet.....nah, it´s allright.) .
Gone is the sometimes silly behavior and unnessessary stupid humor. There is one part of the movie I didn´t like and that was the part where to music kills the bees that is the kind of > let us do something cool < factor I didn´t like in the first two movies but the rest was really solid. Still not comparable with the old, and it never will be, but for now enough to convince me to give the next one a try.
As I mentioned before - even if those new trek franchise would do nothing for me it generated interest and, more important, revenue that led to another tv show. Here´s hoping that it will do well.
Really love this show. Just finished watching the whole thing again.
This is not only great comedy, this is about the people, their life and everyday problems. There arent't a lot of sitcoms you can watch more than once, this is definately one. And if you haven't watched it, well - what are you wating for ?
Remember when these Halloween episode were actually spooky. And why not air it last week when it would've been on time ?
Mystique is Rogue’s adoptive mom ?! That's a forced plot twist if I've ever seen one.
Pretty dull episode. I was never a fan of Marge. She always exaggerates everything.
OK, that's it - I'm out. The individual episodes are more or less watchable but they are dragging that season spanning plot out to the max and I just don't care any more. Don't want to watch five more episodes and the long breaks between episodes are not helping in that regard.
The meeting between The Queen and Winston was absolutely superb. And finally she shows some bite.
