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The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (2022)
Plain unpleasant
The only reason this gets 3 stars is because the CGI backdrop is absolutely stunning.
But what is the point of a beautiful background if what's happening in front of it is utter rubbish?
This show is nothing but a disjointed sequence of overused TV tropes and an insult to source material.
How can you take an engrossing work of epic prorations and turn it into something this boring and trivial? Have the writers even read the books this is meant to be based on?
The only thing the show characters have in common with their book counter parts is names. Otherwise they are unrecognisable. Also they are either boring or plain unlikable.
I stick with it for 4 episodes, I wish I could get my time back.
Solaris (2002)
Meh...
Having read and loved the book, as well as 1972 movie I had a feeling this version would disappoint.
And it did. I guess they had to shorten the plot and adapt it to fit into 1.5 hours but that turned a great Sci-Fi story into a movie that is plain boring.
Star Wars: The Bad Batch (2021)
Worth getting through the first few slow episodes
It does start off a bit slow but does improve in later episodes.
Loki (2021)
Brilliant!
This is so, so good and get better with every episode! I wish I had the patience to wait for all the episodes to come out and watch them in one go.
Chaos Walking (2021)
Decent Sci-Fi, good cast
I don't get the bad reviews, it's was positively more enjoyable than the Star Wars instalments that the lead actress was in.
Justice League (2001)
The best DC animation, imho
JL and JLU are my favourite DC animated shows to this day. They are well written (neither too dark nor too silly), well voiced, music is great.. just as watchable today as they were 15-20 years ago.
The Old Guard (2020)
A promising start followed by a bunch of cliches
The premise was promising but the initial build-up was followed by a very predictable story. The second half of the film was a boring collection of common tropes broken up by ok fight scenes
Wonder Woman: Bloodlines (2019)
Really bland and boring
The 20 minutes I spent watching it before I gave up were a waste of time.
Paradise Hills (2019)
Lame
This is a kind of thing a teenager might enjoy watching because it definitely feels like the story was written by one. Or may be like some obscure comic book adaptation that looks ok on paper but is just too shallow for screen.
Howard Lovecraft and the Frozen Kingdom (2016)
Too dark for kids, too dull for adults
There was nothing about this film that would make it worth watching. It's too dark and convoluted for the children to enjoy and too slow, lame and badly animated to interest adults. I feel it was a total waste of my time.
Alita: Battle Angel (2019)
Cheesy, predictable and long
This film was seriously, seriously boring. There was nothing in it that you haven't seen before, including the Titanic moment where 'she let him go... awww...'
just a mash up of cliches with average CGI
Dark Matter (2015)
This show is so full of clichés, it hurts.
I gave this show a fair chance, hoping that it would improve, but season three just proved that there is little chance of that happening.
The format is a knock off of Firefly. The characters are walking, talking stereotypes spewing clichéd remarks and having predictable personal 'dramas', that you've heard and seen before.