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The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon (2023– )

3/10

1 October 2023

I only watched the first episode as it was free but this franchise died long ago for me. Instead of the acid for blood zombies what they should have done is introduced fast zombies. It's another continent so they could have just come up with some BS excuse to explain it away. There's acid blood after all.

The issue for me is that it became boring during TWD and nothing has changed in these spin-offs. They always use the same contrived setup to make the walking dead into a threat. Somehow the protagonist gets surrounded in a shop by these shambling wrecks. Every time. The real threat is always the horrible humans. The dead might as well not be in it now as everyone who is alive surely knows how to deal with them by now? But my reason to watch it is for the zombie apocalypse not how low and depraved humanity can be.

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The Walking Dead: Dead City (2023– )

4/10

Negan's a total joke now

11 July 2023

Every show over the past few years seems to be on a mission to diminish strong male white characters. This new Negan is now just a sad old man. Why's he running away from this Croat imbecile? They're trying to make this Croat out to be this menacing psychopath but he's a moron. About as intimidating as Ned Flanders lol Look at how good the Governor was and of course original Negan was compared to this so called villain. Even Simon that we caught a glimpse of was a more believable character than the Croat. What a little weasel. Really was shaking my head seeing Negan intimidated by him. It's a very odd show this. It looks good but it feels like people are just going through the motions for a paycheck. Never feels like there's any real tension and I don't really care about the plot.

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Among the Lotus Eaters (2023)

Season 2, Episode 4

3/10

Spock completely neutered

8 July 2023

At this point I'm wondering why he's even in it now. It's just unacceptable this. Spock is supposed to be one of the main characters of star trek yet this episode just further undermines him. He just sat in the bridge doing nothing like a dummy whilst the self proclaimed best pilot in the galaxy figures everything out and returns to the bridge to save the day. Wouldn't Spock figure out asking the computer who he was? Of course he would. Then there's the "doctor" remember the classic bones phrase of "I'm a doctor not a..." Well in this show he's a marine who has medical training. At least the captain was actually involved this episode. Was beginning to think he'd left!

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Blue Steel (1990)

4/10

Lost me at the start

1 May 2023

Couldn't take it seriously after the attempted store robbery at the beginning. No one at the police station believes her that there was a gun since it's taken by the real villain of the movie. But if there was no gun why was everyone in the store lying on the ground? He was literally pointing it at people. How could they not have seen it? Who would lie down on the ground without seeing any weapon? Why didn't they interview everyone who was there? They said they only asked the shopkeeper who somehow wasn't sure. It just doesn't make any sense. If it was just a random event I'd just shrug it off as a silly movie scene but it's central to everything that follows.

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The Last of Us (2023– )

6/10

Dragged down by a few pointless episodes

31 March 2023

Warning: Spoilers

Yeah you know the ones. Episode 3 Bill and Frank. What the... 🤣 What did that have to do with the plot? That's the sort of episode you throw in on season 7 episode 6 when the show is just dragging on. Box ticking rubbish. And prepper Bill has to be the dumbest survivalist ever. Standing out in the street with no cover firing aimlessly out into the darkness.

And then there's Kathleen. Somehow Kathleen is the head of a whole city block of raiders. How? Why are people following this woman? They tried to make her persona as ruthless as The Governor or Negan but she's about as intimidating as the low voice woman in Police Academy! If you must go for the gender reverse leader at least make it someone believable. Even Tess would have been better.

The Ellie and her girlfriend episode in the mall was a non important DLC as it's not important to the story and again it's the sort of episode you'd do in later seasons not here in a 10 episode series. Added nothing.

Out of the 10 episodes I reckon the infected were on screen for the equivalent of one of them. As usual it's one bad groups of humans after another which is really tiresome especially when the infected are actually a real threat given their speed and strength.

Overall the game is just so much better. Perhaps if you never played it this seems great to you but I was just underwhelmed. That said unlike a lot of people I thought Bella was great.

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Knock at the Cabin (2023)

5/10

Average

28 February 2023

Usually really like his films but this one was just plain sailing all the way from start to finish. Not great, not terrible. DB and the little girl were good. Biggest annoyance was that the TV disasters needed more oomph to make it convincing. A pandemic doesn't happen over the course of a few hours (it was even mentioned). A massive solar flare could explain "the sky falling" and tsunamis do happen and it wasn't as big as promised. I was expecting something along the lines of 2012 unfolding. As it was I wasn't convinced by them even at the end. In fact if it was me there I'd be of the view, "nope, on you go. I don't like humanity anyway lol".

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Samaritan (I) (2022)

5/10

The good Samaritan

19 September 2022

There's only one superhero in this which was my biggest issue with it. Who tf is this other guy that's meant to be the villain? I don't get it. He has a couple of dozen followers yet somehow is running the city just because he puts on a mask and pretends to be Nemesis. Nothing makes any sense because of this. There are also the usual leaps in logic and plot exposition to get the two protagonists together for the finale but there's never any sense of danger since it's a superhero Vs human albeit with Nemesis' hammer but even so he's still a human. The plot twist was so obvious I guessed it very early on but it really made no difference anyway taken into account what I've just said. ;) Would have been better if some other super villain had emerged and he was dragged out of retirement for that. Overall watchable though.

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Nope (2022)

2/10

Couldn't finish it

11 September 2022

Warning: Spoilers

Turned it off with about half an hour left when they were hatching a plan. By this point I was checking Twitter about how Ukraine were retaking territory and glancing at this occasionally. It's so bad. How can anyone rate this above 5? It's just beyond idiotic. A space alien animal that's moved into a cloud. Give me a break. You'll be shaking your head at how dumb it is and the dialogue is so boring. The first 30 minutes are just about empowering black people and showing white people in a bad light. Every film or TV show this guy makes has to bring race into it. Utterly sick of it. Get in the bin!

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The Orville (2017–2022)

3/10

It's lost the plot

18 July 2022

Changed my score from 9 to 3. 9 was based on the first season. This 3rd season is humourless CGI garbage. It was great as a Star Trek spoof. That's why I liked it. Now it's just a bad clone of it. Also for advanced humans they're not very enlightened. They were all saying suicide is always on the individual. That's clearly nonsense. People are driven to it all the time yet not according to these intellectual bozos.

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (2022– )

5/10

A big dull dud

3 July 2022

I'll give it credit for one thing. The story in every episode feels rushed yet at the same time the episodes drag on. That is quite the feat. Episodes don't end without long drawn out monologues similar to Discovery. What is it with this rubbish? Everyone has to share their feelings for ten minutes at a time. The writers of these modern shows must be sensitive younger people who need their safe space if you say boo to them. It's just not Star Trek.

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Night Sky (2022)

7/10

S2 will disappoint people who liked it

11 June 2022

I enjoyed it despite the slow pace as it was different and I liked the way it was as much about Franklin and Irene as the sci-fi. Really enjoyed their relationship. I'd have preferred it to have concluded though as I don't think people realise that it's pretty much set up to be a completely different (more action oriented?) show going forward if there are more seasons. People have mentioned the obvious Stargate comparison but I'm thinking it's going to be more like Jumper with what amounted to factions appearing in the final episode. Basically Franklin and Irene will have a minor role in season 2 or will just be written out of it completely very early on. 🤷‍♂️

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Uncharted (2022)

2/10

Gave it an hour

27 April 2022

It's all forced, soulless and very generic but it was the double cross after an hour where I'd had enough. It was just so stupid as there was no point to it. The run up to it was dumb as well. National Treasure is great because they're in/under plausible locations searching. In this they're emerging in night clubs then carrying on through another hidden door behind the bar ffs. And all accessed by these magic keys opening everything. I couldn't watch any longer after all this. Garbage.

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From (2022– )

4/10

It's Lost all over again, isn't it?

3 April 2022

It's going to be the same formula. Starts off with one mystery then moves onto another and another and so on without ever really going anywhere. So much so that you forget what it was about. This new threat outside the tent is exactly the way Lost went about things. Remember the light from the cave entrance, the others, pushing the button etc by season 4 you still won't have any answers here yet some will still be saying slow burner 10/10 lol.

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The Exorcist (1973)

6/10

It's just not scary

21 February 2022

I'm sure it was decades ago but unfortunately the horror element hasn't aged well. I actually found some of the scenes quite funny. Probably because of Scary Movie 2 and Repossessed as some scenes are very similar and I couldn't get the image of James Woods sticking his tongue out at Megan Vorhees on the bed 😄 it's still an OK movie but I'm not sure I'd watch it again. 🤷‍♂️

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Severance (2022– )

6/10

Never heard of working from home?

20 February 2022

Creating a separate personality just for the office seems a lot of effort to go to when all they do is bin some numbers on a screen. Only seen two episodes so don't know everything yet so might adjust the score based on why they're actually doing it and what's going on. Biggest problem is that the ones at work are always at work. Why would anyone accept that? No joy just working always. I'd kill myself rather than put up with that so no way I'd ever put another me in that scenario as I know I wouldn't go along with it past the 1st day. At best I'd emerge from the elevator with a sore face or limbs! 🙄

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Battlestar Galactica (2004–2009)

7/10

Did you actually watch all four seasons?

11 February 2022

I did and as a whole package the highest score I can give this is a 7 and that's at a push and only because of the superb 1st season. The 2nd is good too but the rot really sets in about halfway through the 3rd and the 4th season is so bad it's painful. It's a real drag to get through it with most of the episodes feeling like dull filler ones with endless character monologues and pan pipes as the background music. It really could put you to sleep. Did they run out of money? The video quality is really poor too. Feels like cheap straight to video content compared to the 1st season. As I said the 1st season is excellent with a great plot, drama and superb battle scenes. Feels a bit like the way Sliders went whereby it felt like a different show by the end. 🤷‍♂️

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Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021)

4/10

Average with the usual box ticking

8 January 2022

It was better than the other one so that's something? However, all the usual wokeism is on display. Even the white girl can't just be normal. No, it seems it's now the new normal to be on the spectrum and have a robotic personality. The last 15 minutes was a total cringefest. And where did the towns population go? They just disappeared? No police. Nobody. Just all gone like a ghost town. Ghostbusters should always be set in a big city not some backwater in the middle of nowhere. Really ruined the vibe but as I said it was better than the other mess by far.

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I Know What You Did Last Summer (2021)

2/10

Abandoned after the 1st episode

4 January 2022

I don't normally do that but its obvious this is another one of these terrible modern remakes full of cardboard cutouts and dull dialogue. Everyone in it is annoying so why would I keep watching? Half the episode was a boring flashback of the main character arguing with herself... I mean... her twin sister! Kill them all. I do not care. Bye.

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The Matrix Resurrections (I) (2021)

4/10

What was the point?

22 December 2021

It's nothing but a love letter to the original and Neo and Trinity's relationship. The whole movie is spent reminiscing about it. Take a step back from it and ask yourself what was the plot here other than that? It's completely pointless.

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Star Trek: Discovery (2017–2024)

2/10

Endless monologues and piano scores 😴

11 December 2021

Watched the 1st season over a week and it's hands down the worst Trek by far. It was getting to the point I was expecting crew members to have their own safe space where they could go for a cry when they got overwhelmed with emotion. And real men appear to have been phased out of existence, replaced quivering wrecks or as was the case the one strong male character was from another universe and no surprise he was 'evil'. And what's with these little 8 or 9 stone butch women battling Klingon warriors, Lorca and winning? This Burnham character is ridiculous. Totally unbelievable in the role she's in. All she's got are stern faced looks and boring monologues. Get real, this is a an absolute joke. Even the Klingons have a woman running things at the end of the series. Lol No chance I'm watching any more of this rubbish.

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The Humans (2021)

1/10

Nothing happens haha

24 November 2021

This has to be the ultimate 'its a film about nothing'. Seinfeld is supposed to be a show about nothing but there's comedy in it and every episode actually is about something. This really is about nothing. Imagine walking into the home of a random family and spending a couple of hours there. It's possible all sorts of incidents could happen but more likely the most that will happen is someone might complain about the WiFi not working or something trivial. That's this. It's completely pointless. No plot, no point!

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Army of the Dead (2021)

3/10

Disappointing

24 May 2021

I don't bother with trailers and previews so thought it would be the same zombie world as Dawn but in a different setting and stage of the outbreak. Dawn is great and captures the mood perfectly and has a great cast. This is full of annoying cardboard cutout characters with a stupid plot with some zombies acting more like deranged humans from Mad Max or The Hills Have Eyes. Everything about this felt forced and lacked genuine emotion or tension from the getting the team together scenes to the 'heartfelt' scenes between Scott and Kate (I had to look up their names) to the mission itself (oh they're there already) and the inevitable finale. I've no idea why certain people didn't just fly in with a helicopter and get what they really wanted. I just found it all very dull and didn't care at all what happened.

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Extant (2014–2015)

3/10

Surprised at how poor this is

18 May 2021

Especially with Halle Berry in it but It's just so dull. I'm on episode 6 but I just don't care about anything that's happening which isn't much and what there is feels like it's getting dragged out to fit a series longer than it should be. The emotion in it all feels very forced with an annoying score as though something exciting or dangerous is constantly happening even if it's just Molly out walking with a concerned look on her face. Think I'll just have it on in the background from now on as it's on at a convenient time otherwise I wouldn't even continue watching.

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In the Earth (2021)

3/10

What on Earth?

9 May 2021

Starts off OK but it just gets more and more bizarre to the point anything could happen and it wouldn't be a surprise. What's the movie even got to do with the 'world searches for a cure to a disastrous virus' that the synopsis mentions? What virus? It could be set in any forest at any time. All you need is a big stone, strobe lights, fog machine and the BBC sound effects library!

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Stowaway (I) (2021)

3/10

A movie short

23 April 2021

It could have been 10-15 minutes long and would likely have been engaging. As a full movie it was sleep inducing.

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