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Last and First Men (2020)
What a disappointment
Pretentious, painfully slow, tedious, repetitious, and seriously unscientific; e.g., Neptune has no surface. It's a gas giant. It isn't green. It has no oceans.
Advokaten (2018)
Mediocre
Story is poor and implausible. Acting is uneven, especially the male lead. Series 1 finale is a setup for series 2 and an insult to the audience. Series 2 is worse than series 1.
Maiden (2018)
Disappointing
It's a good story, but I found the movie disappointing.
And too much of the rest is uninspiring talking heads in front of the same studio backdrop, and the focus on misogyny ignores the
breathtaking lack of long-distance offshore qualifications in the crew.
Skipper-Navigator Edwards had been in a prior Whitbread, but only as a cook,
and her other experience was as a stewardess on a charter boat.
Their tuneup race was supposed to be the Fastnet, but they had to abandon
when a member of the crew broke her wrist and there was no medkit.
The movie makes it sound like Edwards planned to build her own boat,
despite lacking relevant experience, but had to settle for a beat up used boat
when she couldn't raise the money despite sponsorship by the King of Jordan.
The movie failed to mention that the used boat was a 10 year old custom design
by top designer Bruce Farr for a previous Whitbread in which it finished 4th overall (on corrected time), a considerably better finish than Maiden
(18th overall out of 21 finishers, 2nd in class of 4 boats).
The movie also suffers from a lack of crucial Maiden race details,
with no mention of the serious crew injuries on Leg 4,
dismissing the huge blunder on Leg 5 as just "overthinking" navigation,
no mention of hitting a whale and a waterspout on Leg 6,
and making it seem like they weren't that far back at the end
despite being over 2 days behind the class leader.
That they finished was equal measures of luck and perseverance.
Still, I do think it worth seeing.