Hilarious first season. The non-american style of the sitcom is very refreshing: this starts with the actors who look like normal people and not supermodels (the exact opposite of Hollywood productions like e.g. Arrow where all the actors look like they belong to the cat-walk instead of real-life), continues with the fact that sex is treated in a natural way and ends with the missing laughter-track (something not very popular in 2006 in US productions).
Really funny and as good as the first Season! Let's hope this show has a looot of future seasons ahead!!!
Hilarious first season! Can't what for Season 2...
That's some crazy shit! As often with Tarantino's movies, Django is very brutal. IMHO certain parts and scenes are too brutal and unnecessary because they do not help conveying the brutality of the slave traders and plantation owners but are just a glorification of violence.
Despite that, I liked the movie quite a bit. The first half was great, I would give it 8/10, the second was only decent to good with a ending that could have been better: 6/10 to 7/10. This leaves me with mixed feelings overall and while I can recommend to watch it once, I'm not sure whether I would watch it again. For that, I think it misses a certain something that would compel me to give it another spin!
While not perfect, this first season of Arrow certainly is very entertaining: it is packed with action, intrigues and not-too-shallow-characters (even though they are not great, yet?).
The main criticism of season 1 I have are the following:
1. the Green Arrow is depicted as a poor copy of Batman (boy/man lives through traumatic events, hides his vigilanty identity under the cover of a billionaire, lives in a huge castle to name the most important parallels).
2. all the female characters look like supermodels! I mean come on, even for a comic adaption this is incredible unbelievable. I can't shake the feeling that the producers want to attract teenage boys to the series by casting gorgeous looking women (something that works as I know from my own experience: back in the days I watched Charmed not because it was good but because it had Alyssa Milano in)! I think it would be wise to rethink this decision because it is really annoying that they all look better suited for the cat walk than working as attorney, IT girl, boss of global enterprises, waitresses, and so forth and so on.
3. nobody seems to recognize Ollie Queen under his hood. This is just laughable as his face can be seen on a lot of the crime scenes. I didn't like that fact about Batman / Bruce Wayne and he at least wears a mask, but the hood of Green Arrow isn't cutting it for me.
While not perfect, this first season of Arrow certainly is very entertaining: it is packed with action, intrigues and not-too-shallow-characters (even though they are not great, yet?).
The main criticism if have are the following:
1. the Green Arrow is depicted as a poor copy of Batman (boy/man lives through traumatic events, hides his vigilanty identity under the cover of a billionaire, lives in a huge castle to name the most important parallels).
2. all the female characters look like supermodels! I mean come on, even for a comic adaption this is incredible unbelievable. I can't shake the feeling that the producers want to attract teenage boys to the series by casting gorgeous looking women (something that works as I know from my own experience: back in the days I watched Charmed not because it was good but because it had Alyssa Milano in)! I think it would be wise to rethink this decision because it is really annoying that they all look better suited for the cat walk than working as attorney, IT girl, boss of global enterprises, waitresses, and so forth and so on.
3. nobody seems to recognize Ollie Queen under his hood. This is just laughable as his face can be seen on a lot of the crime scenes. I didn't like that fact about Batman / Bruce Wayne and he at least wears a mask, but the hood of Green Arrow isn't cutting it for me.
Well the imagery is sometimes stunning and I liked the soundtrack and that there is from time to time just silence.
About the plot I am divided: I do not think it crap or junk like others do, but on the other hand I also have to admit that I do not think it a masterpiece. For that both characters as well as the story itself lacks depth and is quite predictable IMHO (granted I didn't see it coming that Kowalski is killed off about half way through the movie, but somehow this is only emphasizing that Stone is going to survive.) .
Lent on Google Play, I mostly enjoyed Apocalypse. It is an entertaining watch packed with a lot of action and characters known from the previous X-Men movies.
What I did not like at all was the villain and I think they should have come up with something better. I therefore found the beginning to be a little boring in parts and all the scenes in Egypt throughout the movie were not that great IMHO. It didn't help that in some of the scenes the CGI was discernible as such quite easily (something I found rather odd for a movie made in 2016!).
Overall I think Apocalypse was better than "The Wolverine" (the weakest in the series for me) but worse then X2 and "Days of Future Past".
Great, as were the previous 3 seasons! Lets hope J.J. Abrams does it right this time and creates a superb (fifth and) final Seasons (something he didn't manage IMHO with Lost and Fringe).
I wouldn't say that Season 5 is better than the previous seasons, but since its the last one, I still give it 9 instead of 8 points to honor this exceptional show!
The only bad episode of this season IMHO was Synecdoche, and that is only because of its stupidly patriotic ending! Otherwise there are only good episodes, some of them even brilliant. I also like the ending that J.J. Abrams chose for the show, so much better than the ones from Lost and Fringe! Look very much forward to his next show, Westworld.
While not as bad as some of the other Marvel movies as Iron Man or The Avengers (personally, I only like their X-Men franchise and Spider-Man 1-3), Thor is no must-see. It is a no-brainer that you can watch once, but that's it IMHO.
Not as brilliant as "The force awakens", bit still great and so much better than a lot of people feared when only a year has passed since the last Star Wars movie was out.
I think the newly introduced characters are not as great as the ones from the original films (but since a lot of them died during the film, they may be thought they shouldn't create characters that the audience loves and therefore is severely disappointed when the die, but still much better than ones featuring in "of the rack" action flicks.
The scenery was great and I thought the beautiful planet of Scarif a nice touch and good contrast to the mostly grim planets depicted in star wars movies! What I missed was a great new type of star ship, but that's not that crucial.
Plot-wise it fits perfectly between Episode III and IV and features (as always) a lot of action! I really enjoyed it and look very much forward to the next Star Wars movie: keep up the good work, Disney!!!
Watched this at the movie theater back in 2009 and gave it a try at home this year: while the 3D effects are still OK (although not that impressive anymore after having seen quite a few other action flicks with decent 3D effects since 2009), the story is just too flat, as are all the characters IMHO, to let it stand out besides all the other mediocre action flicks available!
Take a look a the original Matrix movie: this provided mind-blowing action sequences (for the time it was released) and still managed to provide a story and characters one cares about. Avatar is nowhere near that level of brilliance and for me a perfect example of Cameron flick that is hyped and provides no real sustenance.
Lent this on Google Play and got what I expected: an action flick with a lot of shooting and a mediocre plot (retired hitman John Wick gets back in the game after his dog, which he got as parting gift from his dead wife, is killed by Iosef Tarasov. Wick then decides to take revenge on Iosef and his cronies and when Iosef father, mobster boss Viggo Tarasov, decides to stand in revenges way, his is killed in the final showdown, too).
While the movie is never boring thanks to its fast-pacing action sequences, I doubt that I'm going to watch it again because it just doesn't offer much beside those action sequences (which are done really well and stylish): the characters are rather shallow as is the story.
Much better than the first season and I'm happy that I didn't quite watching the series despite some of the mediocre episodes of Season 1!
Well, not bad but neither is it a really good movie IMHO. While I like the quite different take on gangsters and crime (they are all depicted so different to the stereotypes depicted by Hollywood normally presents as nowadays: an accountant-type of person is quite a big shot hierarchy-wise and instead of crunching numbers hires assassins, the hit-man doesn't want to kill persons he knows personally because it gets too emotional and no high-tech equipment or weapons are to be seen anywhere ) the plot is rather boring and besides Brad Pitt the characters are all very wooden (heck even Pitt's performance is mediocre). I do not regret having watch this flick but I'm also not going to watch it again!
Ok, but certainly not more. For that characters as well as plot are missing depth. Since their is that much action happening on screen, it is not that noticeable but that everything is rather "flat" and I probable wouldn't want to watch the movie for a second time!
While not the best first season there is, it has its funny moments and it has me hooked enough to give Season 2 a chance
Great! Recommend by a former colleague from work, I watched it without too high hopes for it an was certainly awed by the entertainment it proved! Definitively going to watch the sequel.
What was a little annoying IMHO were the special effects, e.g. when the horsemen meet for the first time in the abandoned apartment in New York and see the plans projected into thin air or when the Building Block where the final showdown takes place is illuminated with the rotating tiles and such, because they are absolutely unnecessary!
Well, not bad and certainly worth watching. But it if you're expecting something as epic as Lord of the Rings or fantastic as the Harry Potter series you will be left disappointed for sure: City of Bones doesn't have enough depths, both regarding plot as well as characters, and cast the also not above average IMHO.
I'm not sure whether I am going to watch the sequel(s) and most certainly am never going to watch this first installment again...
Another great season of Person of Interest. Very intriguing!
While the final is not as brilliant as the one from Season 2, it's still thrilling!
However, I'm not quite sure I like the addition of Shaw and Root to the permanent cast, though... and I definitively regret the elimination of Carter!. This is somewhat curious because I thought her character rather lacking at first, but somehow she grew on me.
Great season! Especially the mid-season-final, but also the final is superb!!!
After Lost and Fringe, J.J. Abrams did it again with Person of Interest: creating a very thrilling series that grips you practically from the get-go! Nice.
The first two episodes are a little silly. But from the third one on the series had me in its grip and I couldn't wait to watch the next episodes. I'm very much looking forward to season 2!
For me the last season was the weakest one of the series. While I was thrilled by the one episode in season 4 which showed the Observers taking over the control, I think dedicating a whole season to the idea was simply too much. Mainly this is because there are nearly no fringe events occurring in this fifth season, which Fringe turns into an action / crime show ditching most of the (pseudo) scientific aspects that made the show so great in the previous seasons.
I would not recommend to skip it altogether but I'm still quite disappointed by it!
For me this is the weakest part of the series. The ending is clear and the flick never does it get very thrilling. Its also not boring and all in all a decent action flick with only few mediocre parts. However, I think a lot of potential was wasted here.
So my final verdict: you probably have to watch it as part of the series but do not expect too much!
I liked the first part very much. It showed a very disturbing possible future for mankind (of course in an exaggerated way): I'm not so sure if the rich part of mankind would not greatly enjoy the concept of Society or even Slayers.
However, the the second part was too very inventive and the ending overly simplistic. But all in all gamer is an entertaining if brutal flick that never gets boring because of the fast pacing plot and the huge amount of action scenes.
The exorcist goes TV show! Liked it quite much and going to watch season 2 for sure.
It doesn't happen very much but its tense atmosphere pulls you in none the less...
While I like the first 2 Seasons, this third Season is rather boring. There are a lot of mediocre episodes and the really fun ones can be easily counted on one hand. And even those few are not outstanding!
I hope the series picks up again with Season 4 or I am going to abandon it! I had really high hopes for the show and a lot of people seam to like it (otherwise there wouldn't be 11 Seasons so far!) but after having watched this season I do not get why...
The beginning and the last two episodes were quite a disappointment for me: after starting off rather weak, the season gets better and reaches previous heights and greatness. I especially liked how the season seemed to culminate towards the final: "Letters of Transit" was brilliant!
BUT then the final came, a double-feature, and it was a huge let down! How could the blow it like that?!?! Hopefully Season 5 will be more along the line of 4x19 than 4x21!
This certainly isn't the best season, there is not a single outstanding episode. To be fair there also isn't a bad episode but I think we are just expecting more from "Modern Family".
Besides that it was funny to watch Season 7 and I am looking forward to Season 8 in the hope that it picks up the slack!
