Not sure what I think about this. First 4 episodes were great. Episode 5 it suddenly was a mess and there was only one person stealing the show (and not John and Jane, obviously) and all chemistry was gone.
Episode 6 and 7 it was asif I was watching an episode in As The World Turns or something. Did suddenly get a different showrunner on board or something? Disappointing crap.
The final episode seemed a bit as if part of it had a movie re-enactment. Not as-good as the movie and lacking that superb acting and stunning chemistry between Pitt and Jolie obviously - but... not so badly done.
Then everything just got messy, easy, predictable. Too obvious. Disappointing and lack of originality. I could have written the script. And no thats not a good thing.
I started fast-forwarding this episode. Ohhhh the drama. ffs. Next.
Sure its important for setting up for the violent divorce, but come on does it have to be this way? I just felt annoyed and ready to kill Jane myself. Ungrateful passive aggressive piece of sh*t
I'm 4 episodes in and actually..... positive surprised. I expected some off-the-charts woke crap. Aside one racism-conversation which turned out ok, I've actually not really felt annoyed about woke virus shit. So.... all in all, pretty good. This is how Tue Lies series could have been!
Donald Glover is great in this role. Quite convincing as the modern retro weak not-very-manly-man. I'm not a huge fan of Maya Erksine, her whole character is rather bland. But together they have decent chemistry.
This series is absolutely nothing like the original movie... but pretty decent. Well above average.
This is basically a better version of the True Lies (utter bullshit) series. Too bad it's not as a series, but a movie.
It does underperform in many aspects unfortunately.
First hour of the movie was quite enjoyable, then it got a bit too much like 'its time to wrap-up the storylines'. That was too bad. Would have worked much better as a limited series. Or maybe another season of The Flight Attended.
I absolutely loved season 1. Season 2 not so much. Loads of plotholes and totally illogical scenes, not very intelligent dialogues and just pointless violence that really seems specifically setup to become a violet fight. Its just nothing like season 1.
Season 1 - 9.5 out of 10
Season 2 - 5.5 out of 10
sure. realism. everything is dark in the underworld.
cant see shit.
I dont like these dark series. so. -3 for this episode.
I basically binged this entire series. I enjoy cop-shows, but this outshines nearly any out there.
Only a few get close. Banshee being one.
There are very few weak episodes in this series.
Season 6 is a bit too graphical for my taste, but at least its a very good and proper ending and gives a close to basically all story lines.
Very enjoyable.
Woke report: the woke virus had not hit us yet when this series was made. So no crazy woke crap.
What a load of b.s.
Wow. And of course the fueling of hatred towards white people.
It's like asif all sci-fi and (a lot of) fantasy movies/series are all put together in one long list of scenes with an overal covering saus of a quest. This is while completing a set of challenges along the way to grow the fellowship. Does that sound familiar yet?
It's one near endless list of [strike]stolen[/strike] inspired by famous scenes and characters.
From 7 Samurai to Lords of the Rings, from Star Trek to Star Wars.
For example the spider from the mines combined with a Borg Queen lookalike.
Or a native american-look-a-llike who tames a bird, which then can go on to kill the oppressor.
Unfortunately the woke virus strikes again with racism against white people. The heroes are full on diversity, but every white guy in the movie is a traitor, suppressor or tiran (or a stupid farmer). Every person of color is a hero. Right.
And add on top of all this the terrible dialogues, mediocre to appalling 'acting' and that entire list of stolen scenes, etc..... This is just a piece of rubbish which only seems to be aimed at making 3D action scenes with as much fighting and explosions are possible.
Season 1 started as a typical police series, but from episode 4 everything went off the rails. Too much coincidence where the main characters only get more and more intertwined without logic.
Note that this series is not family friendly, there is a lot of nudity and violence.
The first few episodes started out quite interesting, but from end of episode 3 and basically most of episode 4 the story went off the rails. Not sure if I enjoy it too much. There's also a lot of nudity and sex, nearly every episode again and again. Though I am not complaining about that, pretty Polish ladies ;) But it seems more like a goal than supporting the story.
The preview scene on Netflix where the guy runs into the metro with a chair still stuck to his ass, is the only good/funny scene of the movie. Everything else is just mediocre at best.
If you are into this type of movie, then check out Black Lotus with Rico Verhoeven.
Michael C Hall is showing to be (again) he's a truely good actor, carrying all of this.
Several of the supporting actors are mediocre at best. Several of the kids are truely great though.
The series is very complicated with many characters who all have their own secret agendas.
Plottwists galore. A typical Coben's series. In many ways I enjoy this more than Fool me Once or The Stranger.
This series is not perfect. It has some weird scenes that are not realistic or plain simple stupid. Motivations why some characters do something, or dont do something does not always make sense.
It is a bit over-hyped.
It does not have a great ending.
But.
It has proper dialogues, good acting, interesting(mostly ;) ) plot twists and it keeps you on the edge of your seat wanting more.
I completely binged it and am feeling a bit of simply wanting more. And a different ending.
To fill the gap I started watching The Stranger...
I really wonder what the whole plan was with this season. It looks like they had some specific story in mind, recorded everything. Probably some scenes were not done yet during the whole writers and actors strikes
And then in post-editing someone totally re-wrote the story.
There are loads of flashbacks or supporting scenes that seem to be more about native americans and their roots and customs as a sort of documentary, which in some ways is better developed than the main story itself.
Frankly I dont like the Maya character. I dont like several of the other characters either. And a lot of what we see just doesnt make sense.
You dont go driving hundred of kilometers/miles with a bullet still stuck in your chest.
Maya her endless frowning / angry face gets old quickly. I found myself fast-forwarding most of episode 2. Then I was wondering why I was even bothering with this.
Basically you can fastforward the first 20 minutes. the story does not really make much sense anyway, other then meeting Maya who loses part of her leg. Then she's grown up suddenly. Add some more drama. Fisk takes her in and makes her into a bad lieutenant. Add some fist fighting and some more violence. Add a cameo / cross-over from one series. Then someone else makes a cameo and of course she believes him. Does something. Fast forward 5 months and she goes back home to her roots. Done.
Errrr..... ok.
Some episodes of Iron Fist made more sense. And no of course I dont mean that in a positive way.
Too much weird shit for me.
Feels a lot like art school students got some budget and this was the result
I really miss Roscoe (Willa Fitzgerald).
The love interest 'tension' that is supposed to exist between Reacher and Dixon, is not so convincing.
Overal I find Season 2 less interesting unfortunately than Season 1. There are so many more people in the team involved now, it's no longer the lone wolf taking care of things.
Probably one of my most favorite moments was T-1000, uh, I mean Robert Partrick saying that he doesnt care who Sarah Conner is :)
It's not bad, just a bit less cool than season 1.
Watched the first 2 episodes and started to fall asleep in the third episode. The first episode had something interesting to it all, but it was all very, very slow. The constant flashbacks were already getting annoying halfway through episode 1. On the positive side, it is quite easy at least to figure out when a flashback is going on.
Less positive is the permanent freaking-out-mom-style of the main character.
The whole semi religious freak show as a means of brainwashing is getting very old. Combine that with a pace that even BBC First usualy keeps higher, this series is.... just boring.
The final episode (season 1) made so little sense...... and yeah well, the "plot twist" was getting so extremely predictable ever since episode 5 that it was getting annoying it was taking so much time for them to figure it out.
The way they figured it out was done quite cool though.
Overal the whole "who dunnit" was a bit weak.
The endless flashbacks to a (possibly much more interesting) old story arc was taking a lot of time. Ok, it was vital for the 'here and now' story arc, but the character development of that here and now was extemely limited. Most time and effort was going into getting to know Darby and Bill. That basically made everyone else just unimportant 'extras'. It keps their motivations hidden for us, just as for Darby, but it also limited me giving a crap for anyone and wether or not they'd die. That probably was not the best of choices.
From a positive side, it was not too woke. No gay/trans promotion and not specifically discriminative against white people. Though there was a lot of negative focus on white men being portraid as being in power and suppressing women. Though that was the whole point of the series basically, so understandable in this case.
The movie is a bit blend, not to say boring. A typical who dunnit movie in a historic setting. Visual effects were good, atmosphere creation was interesting, but the characters i found less compelling. Dialogs were uninspired and the Harry Potter kid with his near katatonic behavior was distracting and even annoying.
And sorry to say but I'm getting tired from Michelle Yeoh in basically everything. She's a little bit too productive.
Overall the movie is entertaining enough, but it's all just mediocre at best.
On the plus side, no bullshit woke crap. No gay or trans promotion or misplaced discrimination of white people.
I was very afraid of another unwatchable piece of woke cr*p, but to my surprise - so far, 3 episodes in - it's not too bad. There's too many black washing of characters, but that's it.
The series itself is also quite decent, though it's aimed at kids/young families. It's really a remake of the 2010 movie. It lacks some sparks amongst the main characters (insert woke here) but it's been better than i dared to expect, again - so far.
Still it's a huge step down from the movie, which is to be expected when cramming every episode an entire story in a 35 minute episode.
The humor was good.
General storyline perhaps better than season 1...
But again multiverse timetravel etc.
Too bad Loki was used as set up for this story line.
Plus it means that Avengers are also setup to go for time travel again. Sigh.
So done with Marvel.
Summary: I had my rating initially at 6 out of 10, lowered it to 3 out of 10 and now at 2 out of 10. Really - dont bother with this crap.
The best actress in this series is probably the small girl Lauren Gravitt playing Laura. All others should ask their money back from acting school.
Episode 1 started out really interesting and I was instantly hooked...... then....... it crashed and burned basically. What a b.s. scenes. Some are just retarded. The car chase was utterly crazy. Some dialogues are.... 'strange' if to be kind :)
It's just a lot of small things. Like in episode 3, Rees is giving a presentation to a group of people and you hear her talking. Then the big boss comes in, walking around the glass box and you hear his footsteps. While he is outside of that glass box. And then he comes in. Uhhhh what the fck :)
From episode 1, into episode 2, there is a burial - between a death and being buried theres usually a few days. He seems to have been instantly buried. Nobody bothered to clear out his appartment in the mean time, so its still all there end of episode 3. Even if it was a violent death. Nobody looked into it. Really? Or how did he get buried at a public cemetary. If the bad guys buried him (alive) on purpose, then why was that in a cemetary and not just somewhere in a back forest or something. And why in a coffin? So many questions....
And just some huge plot holes... or at least seemingly huge plot holes. Why is our main guy not asking questions to this Claire woman. She claims "I was there, I called the police". So why was she there? How did she know where he would be in his car at what moment so she could hit him 'to safe his life'. He's just all accepting it without question. And if she called the police, then again - how did he get buried in a public cemetary?
The series just doesnt make any sense.
I am still interested in the series, but it all seems just a huge hot mess.
EDIT: haha in episode 4 daddy forgot how old his daughter is. She's 8 in episode 1 and suddenly daddy thinks she;'s 9. Must have hit his head too hard? :P ok this series blows. Stupidity all over.
EDIT 2: episode 5/6/7 - the dialogues are getting worse and worse and more and more dump stupid and pointless. The supporting music is ''really'' elevating the drama (not). Also since it's keep being the same music over and over and over again. Even there the amount of available budget seems to have been limited :)
And to top it all off: an experienced FBI agent is taking her brand new boyfriend to a safe house. Really? And she doesnt get suspended or at the very minimum suspended. Again.... really?
"Sir I got something. other agent: OK we got something, lets load up and move out!" Uhh.... what do yo have? Is it actionable even???
Ugh. Dont have much more to say about it then that.
This was by far the worst episode over the entire 2 seasons.
Messy. Little bit too much bs storyline. I guess all of season 2 was working towards this, but this really is a let down.
Very much enjoyed season 1, even if it was already hinting a bit too much at feminist tendancies.
Season 2 is just full out men hating. And suddenly muslim refugees and Palestinians are victims of course. The Woke mind virus hits everwhere. Episodes 5 and 6 of season two are by far the weakest. Here's hoping that it wont be the last of Stella we see in those 2 let downs....
Still an intelligent series. Heida Reed is really carrying the series in a convincing way.
Maybe with some different main characters - with a lot less ''brooklyn, yeah baby''-vibes - this could have a better movie. Or at least some actors who can act. Woke-broke-etc.
Also strongly dislike what they did to Wheeljack.
And the whole dinobots whose origin story got totally raped into "maximals" sucks too. I was looking forward to Grimlock and the others.
This was quite disappointing.
Stratosphere was probably one of the few good things about this movie.
The only good casting done here was Pete Davidson as Mirage. He really fits with that character.
Arcee didnt really strike me at all, so cant comment.
Funny that I didnt even recognise Petre Dinklage and Ron Perlman's voices. Michelle Yeoh was very obvious.
anyway.
All in all : huge disappointment.
After Bumblebee I thought they had finally 'got it'. Seems not.
I very much enjoyed the movie. At least it was about dinosaurs again. And great to see this reunion. They did that quite well. Lots of winks to the earlier movies and some other movies.
The bridge that Masie crosses, looks a whole lot like the one from A Quiet Place. At least from memory.
Sure there were some scenes that do not make a lot of sense, but its forgiveable.
My only true complaint is little to no John Williams music. There was a half hint to the theme of Jurassic Parc, but not enough
I went into watching this with extremely low expectations. I realized when getting ready to watch Dominion, that I never even bothered to watch Fallen Kingdom. So...... I watched it and actually... it lived up to the expectations ;) So I decided to give it a 7 out of 10, as it was exactly what I expected. No its not a great movie. It's far from original. The typical computernerd needed to do some random computer magic by typing sudo and some statement on a terminal was of course present. Not sure if it was lack of inspiration or a wink to the earlier movies that they had to "reboot the system" (which was back then done by that blond girl, now it had to be a colored boy obviously, because, well, woke.)
The wokeness scale was not too crazy. Of course all the bad persons are all white men, because, well, woke. I did not detect any gay/trans promotion this time.
Some scenes from previous movies were kind of recycled - and that was a good thing! There was the connection to the previous movies in a proper way. Like the big open gras area where the dinos are running in the field - now the same but just.... well insert spoiler here. The big bad evil hunter was a bit too obvious for my taste. That was more lack of inspiration then a nod to the earlier movies.
Chris Pratt is mostly carrying the movie, along with Bryce Howard. I was not a big fan of the whol Eli Mills role/person/actor.
This is like a modern version of Lethal Weapon on nearly every kind of upper known the man :) Very much enjoyed the first few episodes. Sure its all over the top. Like.... by a lot. But in a fun way. Just dont take it all too serious. The series doesnt take themselves very serious either :)
