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Stargate: Atlantis: First Strike (2007)
Excellent, but ...
I love this whole series and have binged it dozens of times, but it requires a tremendous amount of willing suspension of common sense disbelief. How is it that humans, apparently either taken from earth thousands of years before the earliest forms of English language were spoken, or independently evolved in a whole other galaxy after separate creation by the ancients, are miraculously able to converse in modern English with the Earthlings. For that matter, how the hell do wraith, an entirely different species who didn't even know earth existed, naturally speak fluent English? Nobody even has an accent except for the occasional Jersey, New York, or even British accent. Oh, and then there's Michael the wraith/human hybrid with a west Texas accent? Star Trek overcame this anacrony via the "universal translator". No such mechanism exists in the SG1/SGA universe.
Then, how do they come up with 27-30 year old military colonels and apparent leaders in the medical and scientific fields? That just doesn't exist in real life, and is even a difficult sell in fiction. 25 year old Jewel Staite's character of Keller is likable enough, but unbelievable as a supposed "best and brightest" experienced leader in the medical field.
And how do most of these civilizations have clothing styles that parallel western earth societal norms?
Its a fun show, but you'd think the writers would have built something into the cannon to cover all of this.
Robin Hood (2018)
poor scripting. predictable dialogue. forced feeling leftist propaganda flick
Yes, we all know the story of Robin Hood. When I used the term predictable to describe this poorly contructed attempt to adapt the story of Robin Hood into a pro-communism vehicle, I'm not speaking of our familiarity with the classic tale. In fact, this is quite a departure from the original yarn apart from the obligatory arrow shooting, former crusader who fights the corrupt sheriff. Watching this, it becomes evident that someone had the idea to make a film intended to incite revolution against the wealthy for purposes of redistribution of wealth, and paint all wealthy people as corrupt. This really isn't my political commentary on the film, though some devout pro-communist fans may choose to see it as such. This review would be as scathing if it were an equally poor attempt to push the contrary political position. The problem is that it is obvious that the propagandist goal was a higher priority than making a great movie. My commentary is not based solely on my political distaste for such misrepresentation of societal reality, but more so on the fact that the film appears to be all concept, with no actual ingenuity in its construct. Its as if someone thought, lets make a pro-communism propaganda film, spent a year thinking of the idea, 30 minutes writing a script from some kind of "fill in the blank", "mad libs script writing for dummies" book, and a month filming the whole thing, with the assumption that Jamie Fox is a big enough box office attraction to pass the whole thing off. It reminds me of some of the CBS tv shows, where they spend more time coming up with the idea of trying to stretch a poorly thought out script effort around a political message than they do actually writing the script, the result of which is long on propaganda content and short on substance. I wish I could unwatch it all the way back to the beginning. Also, Morgan Freeman was SO much better than Jamie Fox, as Robin Hood's displaced Saracen buddy, but as discussed, there really wasn't much of a script for Fox to work with at all here.
The Last Godfather (2010)
Stupid. Not funny at all.
So bad that it will make you angry. Can't believe anyone could ever watch more than 10 minutes without bailing.