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The Outlaws (2021)
Have you lost any sense of decency!!!
I liked the series until the writers thought it clever to have the main characters entice non-drug-using people to buy the cocaine they decided to deal. We have had literally hundreds of thousands of deaths related to drug overdoses and drug crimes plague this country. You foul as****es !
StartUp (2016)
Ever met an intriguing person at a party only to flee once they drone on and on!
Really enjoyed the first season, second season held my interest. Season three demonstrated that the writers and producers have never been to an inner city, met an actual drug dealer, would not be able to tell the state in which Cal Poly is located, and unable to create anything but unidimensional characters. I am so disappointed in the boring drivel they are now rolling out!
Ya no estoy aquí (2019)
Mesmerizing alien planet to which we all belong... in the end
I am an old man in love with cinema for 70 years, At the end of this film I sat alone in the dark, silent, and unwilling to move from my chair. Then the deep connectedness and tears emerged. As if I were in a holy place, a place of the sacredness, connectedness, identity, and aloneness that all of share.
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (2019)
Great story...But can no longer accommodate subtitles!
I just do not have time to sit through the ever increasing volume of foreign language or partial foreign language films on Netflix and Amazon. So many great films I sadly miss in frustration as I have a home, family, work and chores that must be done. I love putting on the headsets and working as I listen to the movie or watch from across the room. Not possible if I must read subtitles!
Call Me Kat (2021)
Can't Even Plagiarize
Worst imitation, approximation, or whatever this is, of Miranda. Gag!
Homecoming (2018)
Like wearing underwear three days running!
I rated season one as an "8". Season two is like a remake of the three stooges as the two stooges, not changing underwear, trotting out a tired and uninspired rehash of an old mystery to the point of little mystery..... blah, blah, yawn, yawn.
The Producers (2005)
Kitsch and Superb Musical at their Finest
I have loved musicals for 60 years. They, as intended, lifted me from a very difficult real world into a glorious and wonderful alternate reality. This film combines a musical score and choreography that rivals any serious musical. The quality of the musical core is overshadowed by some of the most perfect Kitsch. This Kitsch defined. What a wonderful and underrated production.
Mr. Robot (2015)
Nearly Perfect
You know when you read or view a work of art that leaves you staring away in amazement. I am too limited in my vocabulary to render proper praise, this work was Nearly Perfect.
The Haunting of Bly Manor (2020)
Beautiful and delicate layers
I am a redneck from the Western USA. I rarely soften or shed a tear. This series provided a compelling and slowly unfolding mystery that kept my interest throughout. In the end, it touched me in thought and feeling. It revealed the truest truth about love and legacy. Yes, I shed a tear.
Alone (2015)
Very INTERESTING...BUT, Why allow killing of a Wolverine?
Wolverines are a precious and revered animal long vanished from vast areas of the "Lower 48." I don't care about your ratings or one man's desire to win some cash, YOU DON'T KILL WOLVERINES YOU JERKS!!!
Line of Duty: In the Shadow of the Truth (2017)
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ORIGINAL SERIES! This is a bore!
We were enthralled with the first two series. This series is monotonous, tired, lacks originality, YAWN.... same old themes and characterizations found for last two decades of Brit cop shows. Male/female competition and conflicts, anger, anger, angry cops. Competition and social backbiting. I do not care what happens to any of the characters or the show! Get back the team of writers who made this show worth watching.
Good Omens (2019)
Reckon I've been reading and watching media for too many decades this is a yawn
A two hour movie stretched to the point I am bored to point I cannot finish the series. Not very original, tries too hard, awfully predictable.
Mary Poppins Returns (2018)
A lesson in throwing good after bad
Mary Poppins (1964) cast a perfect Mary Poppins in Julie Andrews, A musical score that is unforgettable for it's unique and exhilarating melody and lyrical meaning, and a poignant and deeply touching story line that permeated the entire movie. This dreadful bore picked the wrong director (like asking a burlesque choreographer to direct a Baptist Christmas Musical), Emily Blunt appears to be attempting to put on an air rather than a genuine air of Mary Poppins, the music was entirely forgettable. How did the Disney Corporation stray so far from the visions of Walt Disney and a wonderfully creative spirit that moved Disney for so many decades. Blah, boo, humbug.
Wanted (2016)
Strong Start Completely Predictable Seasons 2 and 3
Loved the first season. Season 2 and 3 hackneyed, borrowed from so many familiar TV and movie plots and scenes. So predictable I found little to surprise or entertain me. Like so many series, writers run out of original ideas after first season.
Kavanagh QC: In God We Trust (1997)
Arrogance need not lead to lazy script writers
I realize that stage and screen are populated primarily by narcissists both sides of the Atlantic. However, if you plan to write an American court room and teach us the immorality of the death penalty and the violence, racism, and corruption of the American south, please learn the nomenclature, titles and roles in an American court room and the fact that "sportsters" are Harley motor cycles and not a diminutive British sports car. AND PLEASE cast people who can actually parrot a Southern Accent... you sound as bad as Donald Southerland's attempts to sound British!
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)
A redneck admires an Eloquent reveal of the elements of story telling
Story telling has an ancient form, infrastructure, and subtle seductions. Although organic, the elements of a well-told story are borrowed, shared, and infinitely reproduced in the many forms that stories have taken over millennia. The shared inner life of stories take root in us over our lifetime setting expectations and interpretations within us that allow us to participate in the story itself. The Coen brothers have eloquently laid before us the essential elements of stories that are revealed in our expectations and reactions to the stories they have reconjured. These stories are not "pointless" or simply "dark manipulations", as some have exclaimed. The point of each is the beautiful and simple illustration of story telling itself! A. Jay Smith
Touching Evil (1997)
American Redneck Reviews
I must admit that I do enjoy watching this series. However, I also intermittently feel a need to yell critiques at the screen. Recurring themes include: why do Brit men incessantly whine, moan, cry, and whimper? And a host of things we universally rant about in horror movies, don't go in there, don't say that, hey! don't sleep with your client, ward, co-worker, relative, boss, etc. etc. Also, guns don't actually work like that, no human logic can explain your relationship behaviors, only really stupid or dead detectives think and act like you! I think Brits revel in rule breaking in all their TV and movie scripts. Rule breaking to the absolute point of absurdity. I also believe that they believe strong men yell at everyone and everything and that caring men cry and blubber to express the majority of feelings. I hate and love this series. A. Jay Smith
Phantom Thread (2017)
Rave Reviews Confuse Me... Did I Watch The Wrong Film?
I Agree entirely with Michael Wood, "London Review of Books". A rather poor imitation of the cinematography, music, and plot themes found in 1940's and 50's gothic films. I love the old gothic movies but, this film left me unmoved and uninterested in the characters. I seem to have missed the tension or romance promised by critics. Unless I need to discover the erotic in characters as cold as a slab of grayish mudstone. I feel left out, just watched a robotic performance of an imitation of the films of a by-gone era. And Mr. Lewis, seems like he so often is Daniel playing Mad, Sad, Happy, Confused, Detached, blah, blah, Daniel Day Lewis.