Reviews

I shouldn't really like this show. My IQ is around 150, for 7 years of my life I have been harassed about my morals and sexuality and vices, but I really enjoy the dysfunctional family and what holes they dig themselves in. From a top down perspective, it is obvious this show shows the worst aspects of life in the USA. Crime fuelling consumerism, drink, soft drugs, hard drugs, corruption, vices, more vices, so called sins, but the small cast always keeps you wanting more. All the brothers are flawed, and yet I love every one. Smurf on the surface seems to be evil and controlling and corrupting, the Devil if you like, but even her childhood clearly influenced her. I don't usually like shows with quick editing and lots of short scenes, but here it worked, and I enjoyed seeing the camera move between the small cast. I think religious people would hate this show, I have my own religion, and clearly in terms of inter stellar colonization, I'd never let this leave the Planet Earth, but as I am trapped here with amnesia awaiting my death, I can at least enjoy people smoking a joint, when I cannot.

There are a whole host of really bad reviews for this movie. Personally I enjoyed, if I had read all the negatives I wouldn't have done. What interests me about this story, is the story behind galactic colonization. The fact that just one micro-organism on a new planet could be harmful for human life and the dangers that presents. Yes, it was essentially an Alien clone, but I thought it was well done. The Alien was suitably dangerous to the point of being over the top, but that added to the suspense of the movie. I didn't see the end twist coming and it was a pleasant surprise. The actors were great, no they didn't spend huge amounts of time on them, but as the star was the Alien lifeform I don't see so many negatives coming from people. Special effects were great, and the movie never lagged or got boring for me. I watched Star Trek Beyond for 30 minutes before switching off in disgust, yes I'll probably re-watch Alien and Aliens again because of this, classic movies. This wasn't a classic, but I still rate it as good and give it a seven out of ten.

Get Out is one of those gems, a horror film that manages to be highly original and unpredictable. I honestly didn't know what to expect next, all the way to the end, when I expected a horrible ending, we had a classic quote from one of the good guys. People were saying this film was racist, I didn't get that vibe at all, apart from saying that black people have extremely good genes. It was funny in parts, but mostly eerie with constant bad emotions running through it, from the start with the accident with the deer. As I said, I didn't know any of the storyline, and this made the film so much better. Go into it like me without researching it, and just go on a horror ride. As I said the ending was a joy, but it was a nail biting ride to the finish. Acting was wonderful, the cast did an excellent job of creating a weird suburban nightmare with scientific tones along with pure horror. In short a must see film, for it's budget I'm glad to see it making a lot at the box office. Horror is really suffering at the moment, few new ideas and loads of low budget movies getting average ratings of 4 out of ten, which tells you avoid it at all costs. This movie is a classic! And I want to add, this is the first film in ages that I have watched, then the next night gone back and watched it again to pick up things I had missed the first time. I have read some of the negative reviews on racism, it's racist against blacks, it's racist against whites. This is a horror/thriller film , it's not meant to be read into too deeply! I want to add Chris the main character in the film really did act excellently, you could sense his growing unease with everything with every facial and tonal change in him. Once again, ignore the haters, this was definitely one of the best horror films in ages.

I tried to watch The Conjuring 2 - and switched off bored after 1:15 hours, so considering this movie was 1:40 I was pleasantly surprised. There is no way this deserves only 1 or 2 stars. The acting and directing was fine. The story seemed to me to be logical and I had no problem following the plot. I thought the whole biology experiment to be pretty cool and it was a movie with a sense of doom about it, even if it wasn't scary. Perhaps it wasn't horror persay, more like as some people have said a sort of mystery with Samarra's story told in detail, and I liked the plot twist at the end. Would I have paid $10 to see it at the movie theatre ? Probably not. But that being said, I enjoyed the movie, not a classic, not as scary or creepy as Ring 1 or Ring 2. But still worth watching. I think some people get mad if they see a movie which doesn't blow their mind and give it 1 or 2 stars. I felt the same with the latest Star Trek movie, I didn't even finish watching that and it had a budget of 200 million dollars ! Give it a try, you might be pleasantly surprised.

I really enjoyed the first few episodes of Legion. Interesting story, a mutant with incredible powers, rescued by other mutants, etc. But I have to say after watching episode 6, I was beginning to become irritated. We had at least 40 minutes of the episode inside the characters mind again, focused on the mental hospital again, knowing this isn't the real word again, etc. The dream sequences and flashbacks and psychological hocus pocus just were not satisfying me at all. I wanted to get back to the real world, the real story and find out what had happened in the characters old childhood house. It is a shame really, as I was enjoying this series, but if this continues I will have to bow out gracefully. Sometimes, I think scriptwriters get too caught up in their own imagining and think what is clever or interesting for them is going to engage the viewer. We already had almost an entire episode with the character in his Astral Plane, meeting up with the head mutants husband who for some reason had lived there for 20 or so years, and this episode was stroppy and distracting enough. To be honest I don't know whether I will finish episode 6 and go on to episode 7, and hope this sort of dream sequence episodes aren't going to ruin the series altogether for me. I changed my rating to 5 out of 10, and have decided to leave the series for good after reading some other reviews. I agree with the negatives, Jessica Jones and Daredevil are super examples of how to do Super hero shows. I love both of them. Upon thinking more deeply, I agree with others, 6 episodes in, I was actually caring less and less for all main characters, seriously, anybody who really enjoyed episode 6 of season one should have their brain checked, it was boring, it was pretentious, it added nothing to the story, I couldn't care how some Mum's died. I couldn't care they were back in the mental hospital again. As a person diagnosed with schizophrenia and has been in a mental hospital it was just an insult. I seriously urge potential viewers to avoid this series. It will leave you frustrated and just wishing the story would stick to the main plot - and that is the whole point. What on earth was the main plot ? Getting rid of the devil with yellow eyes ? Beating the evil government employees who wanted to enslave mutants ? Saving the Dr's husband from another 25 years in the Astral Plane ? Deciding whether the main hero was schizophrenic ? I could go on and on. I only started watching this series due to the high ratings, and clearly there is a fan base out there, but I honestly do see why this deserves to have a second season.

I had to edit this review at my absolute disgust at the IMDb rating of 8 out of 10 given to this lacklustre, clichéd movie. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) got 8.3/10 -a masterpiece. It is disgraceful that people are blatantly lying on this website and falsely boosting the ratings to make people think this is some poker genre masterpiece. I have changed my rating to one, to express my annoyance. First off, I was pleased and thanked God this movie only ran for 80 minutes, it was an extremely flimsy attempt at cashing in on the whole poker genre.

The story line was extremely weak with no substance. Similar to the movie The Gambler, we are introduced to a complete loser, a loser so bad, he steals his mother's life savings in order to play in a high stakes poker game. He loses of course to the owner of a gambling club where he has lost all his money. This guy (Paul Sorvino) wins $250,000 that night, is a rich man, but somehow persuades the loser to break into the game later and steal the $250,000 on offer, for which he will get $100,000. Are you getting this ? You take all the risk, break the law, risk getting killed or arrested and then after, hand over $150,000 to somebody who suggested you should do a robbery ! No sense at all. This loser has a smoking hot blonde babe girlfriend ,who loves him despite being a total loser, a mum who forgives him. A deceased dad who was a loser gambler as well. The finale was ridiculous in so many ways, somehow everyone dies, and he just escapes scot free from the situation in order to reform himself and suddenly decide to enrol in college and do a degree in electrical engineering or something. No questions about his debts, his mother's huge medical bills and nursing costs. No, just one big happy ending. Personally, I would have been happier to see the guy die. As before I give this movie 1/10 for the blatant lies of reviewers trying to boost this movies ratings.

Fortitude was a mixed bag for me. I did finish watching the whole of Season One, but frankly found it a bit of an effort. I won't really say, what the whole storyline was, but I guess it was interesting enough a premise for me to continue to the end. I honestly found it, a hard slog at times. I don't know if it was the editing, acting, directing, or writing but Fortitude just didn't gel for me. There were frequent moments when I thought ' what is going on?' Someone described this as a psychological thriller. I didn't see any real psychology, I didn't see any thriller elements. Ultimately I just didn't get it. I can see from other reviews, that some people loved this. And they must be keenly awaiting Season Two. I felt Season One was dragged out to the hilt. And honestly, what other big interesting secrets can be waiting in Season Two? Ultimately the location was one of the best things about this series. Acting, writing, editing ,and directing were I felt very average.

I will be honest with readers. I only really watched the first 30 minutes of this Hollywood blockbuster. What I did do before I settled down to watch it, was look at the rating on IMDb. 8.6 out of 10!! This must be great, like many other reviewers, I believe my low rating is a reaction to the absolute travesty that many movies are being rated so highly. The original Mad Max movies had a young and charismatic, unknown Australian actor called Mel Gibson in them. They had some plot and believability. This had so much money thrown at it, supposedly around $150 million, that the whole world view of Mad Max was gone. Hundreds of vehicles driving around in the desert. A community of thousands, with clearly no problem with water or food, even though the baddie turns on the water and lets in pour into the sand and then turns it off, and tells his people not to become addicted to water ??? Words are failing me, to describe how badly I feel. Any young people out there reading this, should watch Mad Max 1-2, skip the Hollywood version, thunderdome. Honestly, once again left speechless with the true awfulness of this film.

I am seriously starting to wonder, where are all these good reviews and reviewers coming from ? I mean to say, I watched 30 minutes of this awful, cheap, terribly acted, even worse dialogue sci-fi movie and was left bored and depressed. Nothing made sense, right from the start, all the characters were cheesy cardboard cut outs of who real people actually are. Lawyers and people who got into Princeton University, and then act and talk with IQ's of 70. Point a gun at someone, take them prisoner and your response ? 'I'm going to kill you !!!' You are in a parallel universe, kidnapped and taken hostage, you are with your sister, and the reaction is that ! Come on. People are gushing over this idea, many Earth's ! Not original at all, a theme explored many times before, and much better, by many films and books. I am so glad, this terrible premise for a TV series failed. It will save this Earth from yet another terrible Sci-Fi drama.

Oh boy, months waiting for a movie to come out and when it does it just feels kinda tame. There is something to be said for certain clichés, unfortunately for a cliché to really pay it has to be superbly acted. We also have to really care about the results of this acting. For example, Harrison Ford's character comes across as a racist, grumpy, greedy idiot. Result, he would have been better off being killed off in the first Alien attack on the village. Daniel Craig was an all but two dimensional hard man, without an Inner city Glasgae twang or a real sense of uncontrolled violence to really bring it off (hint stick to James Bond). This is a man who ran an outlaw gang of 30 men? He wakes up with a bracelet of fire on his wrist. Like an RPG game, but instantly giving away the fact that he had been already 'abducted' and no doubt rectally probed by the evil aliens. The aliens view us as insects...despite in 1876 or whatever already possessing weapons that can kill them. These aliens presumably all have awesome blasty bracelets of mass destruction but when it comes to an all-out attack on their mother spaceship - remember they are a scouting group for the whole civilization which is a gazillion light years away - respond by streaming out of their ship in the buff, yes with no arms or armor on. One would think a civilization 20,000 years ahead of us, could have designed some pretty amazing weaponry and tactics for dealing with the upset locals. The plot they were here for gold was no more interesting than any other movie, aliens are always here for some resource or other but never for peaceful trade. The movie got really ridiculous when Olivia Wilde suddenly 'came out' and admitted she as an alien too, but a shape shifting sort who could possess bodies, she was hot, and wow! We even got a screen kiss, but really. Questions could literally jump out of your brain, where did she come from? How did she get to earth? Didn't she realize it was unethical of her to possess another being, or was it okay being she was the town whore. I not saying this was a complete wash out, clearly the budget was there, but so unmemorable. A sad waste of vital resources. Once again Hollywood fails to impress. Hate to say these words, but currently I am playing Skyrim on the PS3. Awesome game, and an example of why games are taking over from the movie market. If Hollywood can't do better, a whole generation of younger people are going to seek out video games as a much more satisfying way to spend 2 hours on a Monday evening.