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Cunk on Earth (2022)
Cunk doing Ali G
I only watched for about 5 minutes or so. Cunk started interviewing experts in Ali G style, asking dumb (not funny, there's a big difference) questions. I knew immediately that I did not want to lose any more time on this series. Ok, this review took another 5 minutes.
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Mayor of Kingstown (2021)
Episode 3 season 2 made me quit watching this series
Suspension of disbelieve is what makes drama series worth watching. You've got to be willing to go with the flow and not be bothered with some unrealistic stuff here and there. However, this episode broke the straw. Season 1 was fine (maybe a 7 for entertainment) but season 2 is just awfull. Waste of time. Nothing happens and when you think it does, it's ridiculous, illogic, dumb. It insults the viewer's intelligence. Stick to season 1 and quit. The scene where Mike enters a club (he could as well have entered through the front door), not thinking it's a trap, then being caught in the trap but not being tied up (or just killed) and walks away after giving this gangster character another beating? Anyone? Just dumb, lazy writing. These writers do not deserve an audience.
John Wick (2014)
Super super super silly
The premise of this movie is, even within the genre, completely stupid and insults your intelligence. A super super super bad ass guy wants revenge on the guys that were able to kick his super super super bad ass. Which should have been impossible. But they did, nevertheless. Otherwise the super super super bad ass guy would have no reason to show how super super super bad ass he is.
The premise of this movie is, even within the genre, completely stupid and insults your intelligence. A super super super bad ass guy wants revenge on the guys that were able to kick his super super super bad ass. Which should have been impossible. But they did, nevertheless. Otherwise the super super super bad ass guy would have no reason to show how super super super bad ass he is.
Last Christmas (2019)
But George's songs are 10/10!
Even for a Christmas family movie this one is very, very bad! A mellow but nice idea/twist ruined by bad acting, directing, script and predictability. Let's watch Bad Santa to swallow this mess through. A mellow but nice idea/twist ruined by bad acting, directing, script and predictability. Even for a Christmas family movie this one is very, very bad! A mellow but nice idea/twist ruined by bad acting, directing, script and predictability. Let's watch Bad Santa to swallow this mess through. A mellow but nice idea/twist ruined by bad acting, directing, script and predictability. But George's songs are 10/10!
Friday Night Dinner: The Au Pair (2020)
Every brilliant series needs that one terrible let down episode
Every brilliant series needs that one terrible let down episode to remind us how fantastic the rest of the series actually is. Just a small step back to make a giant leap forward, ending in a magnificent finale!
Dead to Me (2019)
Watch season 1 and stop there. It's worth it.
Season 1 was pretty entertaining. Good mix of comedy and drama. The acting was nice. No 'Better call Saul' but that's not why you sit for this kind of series. Gave it an 8.
But then, season 2. Lots of crying, lots of I'm so sorry's. The comedy-drama mix gets silly. When they pull out the Twin Brother Act, it was over and out for me.
Season gets a 2, that makes 6 on average for the whole show.
Slow Horses (2022)
Entertaining but episode 5 became really silly
Movies about spies, secret agents and the lot, well, they're just movies about a world we know little of, so it's easy to go with the flow and turn on our suspension of disbelief switch. But when the writers start to insult your intelligence, that's harder to swallow. The 'terrorist' with the gun scene? His mate could have easily taken it off of him the way he was swaying it. The car with the bomb scene? As if they would not sweep that car first in search of whatever but instead just park it nicely back inside. The gasoline station scene? The guy asking multiple times (for 'dramatic reasons') to the customer "what number?" when he can clearly see there's just 1 (one!) car left. The going back to the office scene to wrap up some stuff? As if the 'dogs' wouldn't secure that place (and would only expect them to go home). How silly all this. For what age group are these series made these days? 12 year olds?
Widows (2018)
Liam, get back at revenge movies
Started OK but they lost me very early on in the movie when one of the widows tries to buy some guns and puts up a sillyt act as a Polish beaten woman. A few minutes later another widow gets involved in a kissing scene after she lost her husband 2 weeks prior. All very unrealistic and turned the suspension of disbelief in euh... disbelief. Add the incoherent story lines and a missing end and it makes for a very unsatisfying movie experience. Not recommended.
News of the World (2020)
Five reasons to stay away of this movie (sorry Tom)
1. rather slow, not as in interesting slow burner but as in boring slow
2. very predictable (the good guys win, the bad guys lose)
3. Hanks talking to himself again, as in Cast Away
4. Helena Zengel not talking to anyone, as in Systemsprenger (in which she was fantastic btw)
5. ridiculous Holywood twists: turning a whole village against 1 man in 5 minutes, killing 5 people along the way and getting away with that, being miraculously saved by friendly Indians, ending up at the attacked home of the girl where everything was rather well preserved after all those years...
Forhøret (2019)
Rollercoaster whodunit, please take a ride!
When I'm writing this review, only 13 people have gone me before. Admittely, I also had not discovered this gem till recently (someone mentioned it in another series' review). The less you know, the better, but I highly recommend viewing it. Good pace, outstanding acting performances, only 20~30 minutes per episode, great dialogues. (If you really don't wanna know anything, stop here). The style keeps between a movie and a theatre act. Limitation of space and locations, but that in turn puts each and every confrontation between the protagonists under a marvelous spotlight. In regular movies, you have 2 or 3 of these, with lots of filling in between. Here you have 8 in a row! Everything is cut to the bare minimum, with all emphasis on the dialogues. Why 9 and not 10? Cause there are some flaws, nothing that spoils the ride, but nevertheless, without them it would be a 10. (e.g. Putting the gun on the ground ? The rigor mortis had not yet affected the whole body till the last scene in the morgue?)
The Undoing (2020)
Unwatchable.
Just terrible. Even if you only hope for some basic, old school whodunnit, this series fails enormously. Hugh Grant can only play 1 character and that's Hugh Grant. He can get away with it (sometimes) in romcom stuff but here he is a complete miscast. You just can't believe he is the person he pretends to be. Nicole? Man, she's horrible, with all that plastic filler in her face, she just has no expression, which makes her creepy and ugly (those eyes!). Just weird. Her vocal chords also seem to have been treated with botox: one dimensial, whether she's happy, upset, sad or angry... all the same boring tone. Then there are some more fillers... in the script: plenty of unnecessary scenes, shots, dialogues just to stretch the whole thing into 6 hours. The ending is predictable from episode 1. Watch Cardinal instead. Also 6 episodes but what a treat.
Black Mass (2015)
Nice to kill time on an airplane...
If you need that much of make up, fake no-hairdo's etc... why not just go for a different actor? There are many talented actors who could have played the part. Depp is doing Depp, but he does not radiate any danger. Only Holywood danger. After Pirates Depp will always be Jack Sparrow. A cartoonesque figure.
Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
Another one bites the dust!
I heard the movie was bad but still wanted to give it a try. Besides a Queen fan, I am also a huge Beatles fan. I am the kind of dad that gives his 10 year old kids 'The Story of the Beatles' in comic version as a present (and must read for 'general education'). This movie felt like I had just read the story of Queen in comic version. The wikipedia page of Queen translated in Disney style pictures on the white screen with a tribute band and a dental prosthesis as lead actors. Awful!
Dumplin' (2018)
Dump this movie...
I saw this movie while on an airplane for 9 hours. Otherwise I would not think about spending valuable time on this kind of predictable stuff. Besides all the other comments you can read here, there was 1 thing that struck me the most: it was the lack of real physical emotion between the mother and her daughter. There's this one scene in which a normal parent would not recite these typical Hollywood flawless sentences but would just close your kid in your arms and hug it firmly. No words necessary. A same scene comes to mind actually in another movie where the son has come out as gay (Love, Simon) and there is again this weird, rational dialogue between mother and son, where the mother tells her son how much she loves him... but, well, she just tells him, sitting across from him in the living room. No physical emotion whatsoever. All the time I was thinking: Come on, just give him a hug, give him a kiss... These so called heart warming movies with messages of love and understanding and acceptance... there all just fake crap. Nothing realistic. At least not the kind of reality I want to live in, or create for my kids.
Welp (2014)
The Ardennes for toddlers
What a dumb movie. This is horror for 7-year olds. Just a whole bunch of genre cliches thrown together. Can't believe all these marvelous reviews. Who wrote those? Kids? Utterly silly attempt to make a scary 'oh-the-woods-are-creepy!' flick.
PS: The Ardennes was a far entertaining movie, watch that one instead.
The End of the F***ing World (2017)
F*** the end, the beginning was better
The show gets into gear really nice, with all the typical elements of an indie like movie but nothing too ennoying. A bit surrealistic, dreamy kind a like. So far so good. All goes well (depending on the perspective of course, viewer or the movie characters) till the murder scene. From there on it becomes predictable, the characters get boring and the story goes nowhere. The end is just ridiculous. Never would the police shoot a boy running away on an empty beach in the back. Why couldn't they come up with something really original, and save the whole series with a surprising ending?
The Devil's Candy (2015)
Insultingly stupid!
It's all ok, nothing really great, but watchable... until there's the scene where the father gets shot. He drops dead and bleeds empty, or so we are to believe, but then some minutes later just as easy 'raises from the dead ' (like Lazarus? or Jezus Christ himself?), starts running, climbing ladders... I was so pissed with this nonsense that I cut the movie short. Waste of time. Insultingly stupid!
Twin Peaks: The Return (2017)
Putting sugar on it won't make it a brownie.
What's that great English expression again? If it looks like sh*t and smells like sh*t, it probably is sh*t. Well, this is it. In 1 word: bulshit.
Loved the 1ste season 27 years ago! Was disappointed with season 2: the story just didn't go anywhere, plain silliness in the end. Never wanted to watch the movie (are you kidding me?).
Because in the last 10 years, TV-series have so matured and some real great stuff has been released, I thought Twin Peaks 2.0 might be interesting again. Well, man, it ain't.
It's not intriguing nor clever, not arty nor innovative TV. It just insults your intelligence... and wastes your time. It's, well, bulshit. Sorry David. The trick doesn't work anymore.
Recommended instead: Fargo, Better call Saul...
The Intern (2015)
"You talking' to me?"
This is the kind of movie I (like to) watch when sitting in a 10 hours flight, it kills time, you don't have to bother about the background noise of the engines muffling some beautiful score, you won't wake up your neighbors by laughing out loud and it's so boring that you do not need anything artificial to fall asleep. Somewhere in the movie De Niro talks to himself in the mirror... I couldn't but see his younger version in Taxi Driver and for 1 second I was hoping that he WOULD say his famous line, then we would all have been reassured that it was all just a big parody, but he didn't (of course) and everything went downhill further along. Two stars nevertheless because De Niro does what he does best, do the De Niro and Ann Hathaway is not that bad an actress.