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5/10
Lacking Magnetism
29 March 2023
The best book I'd read in many years so was looking forward to this. However like the Crawdads movie it doesn't transfer to the screen at all well. I don't know who's to blame. Casting director ? Screenwriter ?

The biggest let down for me is that the leads in particular Riley as Daisy have no magnetism about them at all. She just comes across as a brat. And in the book her character is almost mythical.

It's such a huge missed opportunity that this could have been a great series.

The Sets are great and the original music is decent. Suki Waterhouse is a plus in there as well.

But overall disappointing.
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3/10
Communication is Key
22 February 2023
Warning: Spoilers
The family would be asking the visitors straightaway why are they there ? What's going to happen ? What if we don't do this ? Can they prove what they are saying ? Why have they chosen who gets to die first ?

There seem to be a lot of pregnant pauses which leave the viewer wondering why they are not asking the obvious questions

COMMUNICATE Damn it So frustrating and ultimately boring There are no twists, no turns as you would expect from M Night. There is a lot of padding and it isn't even that long a film. Fire in films never looks realistic anymore either

He hasn't made a good film in many years unfortunately. And this one hasn't changed that record.
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Titans (I) (2018–2023)
5/10
Should have ended after season 1
30 December 2021
Can we still use the phrase "Jumped the Shark" ?

This happened around a quarter of the way into season 2.

Season 3 - What a mess

Plus points - Season 1, Dick Grayson,Starfire Negatives - Jason Todd, have they just given him swearing dialogue to disguise the poor acting. Batman, I normally love Iain Glenn. But he is no Batman. Not enough action. Season 3.
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Untold: Malice at the Palace (2021)
Season 1, Episode 1
6/10
Spoilt by background music
18 August 2021
Warning: Spoilers
I enjoyed this as a documentary and the unseen footage. Artest really let his team down by doing a runner though after his ban. I refuse to call him by the silly new name he has come up with.

However the whole thing is spoilt by the loud background/foreground music. So much so I really struggled to hear the dialogue for long periods. Poor editing/mixing.
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2/10
Why ?
28 June 2020
They were of their time. And should have been left back there. Some nice cameos, which agains begs the question, Why ? And the most annoying part is the heavy phone typing. Who the hell greenlit this ?
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Line of Duty (2019)
4/10
Worst Shoot-Out Ever
28 June 2020
The premise is not bad and Eckhart is a good actor. I thought the first 15-20 minutes were decent. But then it goes downhill. Featuring some dire dialogue and possibly the worst movie shoot out ever. They fire about 20 thousand bullets and who knows where those bullets go but they don't go anywhere near the main protagonists
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2/10
Not For Me
3 December 2019
I tried to get passed the canned laughter track, but then realised even without it, this series lacks Laughter
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Love Is Blind (I) (2019)
6/10
Unusual premise, spoilt by sound
4 August 2019
I enjoyed this up to a point. But I had to have the remote control in my hand throughout due to the music being played really loud over dialogue. So I was turning it down, then up etc. Very poor sound editing. There are some great visuals, dialogue and scenes. But there are still some bits I don't understand. Decent ish
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4/10
Frustrating
18 May 2019
The thing is there are flashes of brilliance speckled throughout and some of the dialogue is superb. But overall it's sooo boring. Leslie Manville is outstanding
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