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MythBusters: Duct Tape Canyon (2013)
Very disappointing.
Conveniently carried in the trunk of their car, they had enough duct tape to carpet a small country. They had enough bubble wrap to pack the entire population of dinosaurs that ever lived. And like the dinosaurs, their story today is just as alive.
While rappelling down the cliff, you can see on one of the closeups, they are using regular climbing rope that was wrapped in duct tape (the knotted rope and carabiner can be seen). Also, it is clear they had assistance at the top of the cliff face. While climbing down a knotted duct tape "rope", you can see their "duct tape" safety harness was taught the entire time - they were being let down gradually. Even the remaining ropes can be seen as spirally, neatly and uniformly wrapped in duct tape, rather than the type they shown to manufacture.
When they made their rafts from bubble wrap and duct tape, they could have never fit all that bubble wrap into their drag pack on the way to the river. Nor the trunk of their abandoned car for that matter.
Although the view is pretty, the science and engineering in this episode is entirely missing, the tests were not really tests at all - not hard to tell it was entirely fake.
If you want my advice, there are MANY nature programs that show the same/similar footage, and are actually informative. You're better off with any of those and skipping this episode.
Considering they usually get their feats of engineering right in just about every other episode, this is very disappointing - I hope it's just a one-off.
Mimic: Sentinel (2003)
Awful, just awful.
I can understand why they chose a different style for this installment of Mimic. Too bad I can't understand anything else, such as:
Why the honored characters (the bugs) have barely but a cameo appearance, and hardly contribute to the storyline other than they are the "mystery killers"? Well duh.
Why the only relationship between the main character (the brother) and the bugs, is that he was one of the surviving children of the plague that the bugs were created for in the first place? Like if it were not for this fact, viewers wouldn't be able to link this installment with the first two.
How is the sister's involvement with her drug dealer associate important to the story other than just about everyone in the neighborhood is purported to be a drug user?
How is it important that the police officer investigating the killings become romantically involved with the mother? And not waste any time either...
Why is the relationship between the brother and the across-the-road beautiful neighbor not carried forward? For that matter, was it important to the storyline in the first place?
Sigh. I was left overly disappointed after watching this. I mean Mimic 2 was bad enough, but sheeze, this is so far worse it's not even worth watching to say you've seen it.
Click (2006)
They could have done a lot more with this.
They could have taken the plot and really run with it. But they didn't. They could have directed the actors to put more 'oomph' into certain scenes. But they didn't. They could have hired actors that don't take a huge page out of Billy Maddison and applied it to a film where it didn't belong. But they didn't.
It's not all bad, it does have enough humour to keep you occupied, though I really can't understand the dog humping the stuffed toy. It really wasn't instrumental to the plot, and really didn't have to be shown that often.
I love time shift movies, but this really doesn't do the genre any justice.
Lost in Translation (2003)
Yeah, I don't think so.
If this film were any more boring, it would have killed me in my sleep.
I watched it for the second time, the first because the DVD hire spiel sucked me in the first time around. I didn't get half way through that before realising I had wasted 45 minutes of my life. And two bucks worth of hire.
Then the second time on TV when their spiel claimed it was a comedy. Mind you, I wasn't thinking straight, and believed them. Again, I managed to endure about 45 minutes before changing channels. Because it was on free-to-air television, I didn't lose any money, but I did lose 45 minutes of my life that I'm not ever going to get back.
Fortunately, I was watching the second TV showing on a PVR, and had fast-forwarded through all the ads. I wouldn't have wanted the sponsors to actually have made any money off me on this drivel of a movie. Serves them right for paying for it.
Only I'm the bigger idiot for sitting through as much as I did.