I really wanted to love this movie, but it just didn't do it for me. There are a few great moments here, and the performances are undoubtedly very good. Lots of great shots, and I like the idea of what Eggers was going for. But in the end, it just felt... lacking. I liked the brutality and the often historically accurate feel of the movie at times, but even the best of the action sequences just didn't really do it for me. I feel as though the movie could easily have been 20 minutes shorter - I say this as someone who loves long movies, and I'm always more than happy to sit through even longer films than this one, but The Northman simply felt as though it was lacking in substance to justify the runtime. It certainly wasn't a bad movie, but no matter how much I tried to love it, I couldn't. If I had watched it on a small screen at home, I'd probably be giving it an even lower rating, but as it stands, I did think it was a decent cinema experience, and it certainly wasn't a bad way to spend an afternoon.
the show is literally going where no MAN has gone before.
because apparently an all female Star Trek is what was needed
So far it's pretty bad... ( the Last episode I watched is #5)...
According to Trakt, this show has 9 episodes, and so far nothing important or interesting happens. There is no actual overarching plot so far. While this was true for the first season of the Expanse too. That many different seemingly unconnected plot threads only connected at the end of the season for a big climax, here there are no multiple plot threads to connect.
The Discovery discovered mushroom magic propulsion technology which allows them to teleport their ship where they want. This is the crux of the plot so far. There is a war with the Klingons and the Discovery is the only ship equipped with the magic mushroom drive. And that's it...
This is not helped at all by how unbelievable the main character is written. She is a rebel in a military organization that constantly disobeys direct orders. Cpt Picard or Cpt Sisko would have kicked her out from their ship\starbase right away.
Klingons are one-dimensional villains who have only one mode 'Kill Enemies'. For some reason, they also don't want to 'culturally appropriate' the Klingon language so this results in tedious extremely long scenes where Klingon characters speak only Klingon. This happens in Game of Thrones too when they speak Valyrian, but the scenes are never as long or tedious as the Klingon speaking scenes in Discovery...
Also, normally I don't care about things like this, but it seems the show went out of its way to cast as little white men as possible. As I said, this is not something I would usually care about, but it's so comically obvious that it's disturbing. It's like they are living in a world where there was a plague that killed 90% of the staight male population...
Discovery is the worst Star Trek so far. All of the over-the-top wannebe political correctness that governs our current day society has been stuck in just this one series. A woman in the lead role - fine with me. But why to give her a male name? So that we show that its fine to not be a woman or a man? And of course a gay relationship has to be part of the main story line. And a refuge that is fighting for his oppressed people. And a disturbed brother-sister relation. And augmentations to the body for - well, whatever reason. And body-shaming. And the challenges of not accepting your own body. And a relationship of a white woman with a alien husband, she went to live with him to his place, with a mixed DNA child not being accepted by society and then adopting another kid with....... oh my God, please, is it really all necessary to be stuck into the series in such an over the top way?? Season 2 at least does not have a lot of those fake Klingons anymore. That was the worst of all, even being untrue to the original Star Trek Klingons. I'm still watching the series, but I hope it will stop trying to be so extremely endless wannebe politically correct. At times its nauseating.
They took an incredibly interesting story and somehow made it boring/annoying. Not sure what's up with the obnoxious volume music throughout. I'll watch a few more episodes in the hopes it improves. Just seems off. Like the actors are doing a good job but the way it's edited together it doesn't draw you in.
In the final episode of Season 1, after the investigators summarize what happened, a character says, "You know, what you're describing is both insane and impossible." I agree. The events in this series are both insane and impossible. As Season 1 progressed, the things that happen slowly turn from implausible to just plain fantasy. I don't know who wrote this or why none of the production team seem to have experience living in the real world, but it's remarkable that something this bad could get made at all. The acting is bad, there are continuity errors, the plot holes are enormous and numerous. Anyone involved in this series should be banned from content production for life.
Probably just me, but I just don't find this interesting! It seems that it's dragging on unnecessarily. Boring like a 'made for TV' series of old. Remember them?
Just end the show. Please. Every season has less coherent story and more political crap delivered in such a heavy-handed manner it's not even funny. We finally got past all the Gay Jesus crap only to be met with more of Debbie's obnoxious brand of "feminism" and Liam reflecting on his blackness. My problem isn't with the coverage of these issues, no--it's with the way it's delivered. The writers these days are too incompetent to be subtle about it so episode 2 literally has a salesman try to solicit a blowjob from Debbie then reveal he only did it because he's a fragile white male who gave up on his dreams. At various points in the episode, Debbie gets such blunt lines as "Why are men so pervy?" and countless others reaffirming her womanhood. In what I guess was an effort to cover hot button issues from both genders, when Carl asks his manager if she's sexually harassing him, she gives him the old "it's okay because you're a guy". I guess we're supposed to pat ourselves on the back for being woke enough to get that this was a joke about that being wrong?
All in all, this show has lost everything that made it great--namely, Emmy Rossum. Fiona was a character who didn't need to tell us through ham-fisted dialogue that she was a strong woman--we could see in every episode. Lip is the only character giving this show direction now but I feel like I've watched the "raising a kid" thing so many times now that I'm not even really that interested in that either.
The German nihilists, the feminist artist, the porn manager, the crazy phedophile, the crippled fake business tycoon, the Vietnam-war obsessed psycho and off course the Dude: a lazy deadbeat lowlife. The Big Lebowski sure has a lot of colourful personages which in my opinion is one of the reasons this movie is one of the best i have ever seen.
This is one of the many masterpieces from the Coen brothers, i wish i could congratulate them myself because they are geniuses. The music, the script and the cast are beyond fantastic. This is a masterpiece that only comes along in movies a few times in a decade. This is one of those movies that is and always will be a cult classic. I cannot say that this is the best movie that the Coen brothers ever made, but only because they made so many exceptional movies. But its definitely high up the list.
My favorite part is Gutterballs, when the Dude has some kind of hallucination. The music was just perfect together with the show Jeff Bridges and Julianne Moore put on. I can't tell you how often i saw that part, that was just awesome.
Anyone should see this movie at least once in his lifetime. But once you've seen it i can guarantee you that you want to see it again.
