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Law & Order: Organized Crime (2021)
The most incompetent police force in America
This is the story of a division of NYPD fighting organized crime. More precisely, failing to fight organized crime. Former SVU Detective Stabler, suffering from PTSD but being in complete denial trying to find who murdered his wife throughout the entire Season 1, finally arresting a criminal they were trying to get for many years.
Then in Season 2, that criminal goes free and they could not care less because now Stabler is undercover in a completely different organized crime group. And the bad guys continue to win, while the neurotic Stabler is getting more and more out of control.
Then again, this is NBC, which is notorious in starting absurd new shows, then dropping them after a season of two. The sooner they drop this one, the better.
Debris (2021)
Horrible
The actors keep saying something, but the sound is barely audible. And what I could hear was fi but definitely not sci. Just New Age garbage.
I Was a Teenage Intellectual (Byl jsem mladistvým intelektuálem) (1999)
Delightfully hilarious!
I am 70 years old, and this has got to be the funniest short film I have ever seen. The only funnier thing is some of the negative reactions it has received from people who think it is somehow anti-intellectual, while in reality it is done so intelligently. It is a clever parody of the I was a teenage werewolf type of movies. A masterpiece of the absurd.
It is in Czech with English subtitles. I happen to understand both languages, but if you understand at least one of the two, it is well worth your time.
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)
Bland
Unlike the excellent first film in this series (Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them), this film had a bland and boring plot, which it was trying to cover up with same old, same old, Hollywood fog and explosions. Even the star-studded cast could not save a film with no story line.
Greatly disappointing.
The Perfect Game (2009)
The Perfect Movie
This is an absolutely perfect movie. Everything in it is perfect, from the story (based on a true story) all the way to the actors. This film is a rare treasure, such as only comes out once in many, many years. Truly moving, well acted, well filmed, well directed. A must see for all, young and old.
I have just finished watching the Blu-ray version of this movie. I am glad to make it a permanent part of my collection, a movie I will watch over and over, for many years to come.
If you have not seen it yet, don't walk, run to get it. Don't just rent it, buy it. You won't regret it.
At zijí duchové! (1977)
Absolutely amazing!
I bought this precious little gem from dvdbest.sk on a hunch without knowing anything about this movie. And, boy, am I glad I did. In the two weeks I have had it in my possession I have watched it at least ten times and I expect to watch it many more times in the years to come.
This movie is absolutely amazing. Its cinematography boggles the mind. Filmed long before the advent of computer special effects, it shows us tiny elves in the presence of full-size human children seamlessly working together.
It has wonderful music that I just cannot get out of my mind. It has children, some of them well under 10, acting along experienced professional adult actors as if they were old pros, a great tribute to the art and craft, and probably psychology, of director Oldrich Lipsky.
The story is both funny and endearing, both dark and innocent, even romantic. A great movie for the whole family, children and adults alike.
Pete's Dragon (1977)
Simply Amazing!
I saw this movie sometime in the very early 1980s on TV, and I absolutely loved it. Then for all these decades I never saw it again until a week ago I requested it on DVD from our public library. I was allowed to keep it for a week (and sadly have to return it today). I watched it every single day of the week! This is one of the best movies ever made. It was filmed before the obsession of computer generated "realism" started. Instead of CGI, it relies on its performers, on music, on pure photography, and, for the dragon himself, on a cartoon. All of them were topnotch back then and still are topnotch today.
The main character, Pete, is played by a multi-talented twelve-year old Sean Marshall who has to be one of the best twelve-year-old performers I have ever seen (and I have seen quite a few as I have lived in a number of very different countries in my more than half a century). This kid has an amazingly powerful voice. His facial expressions can show so many emotions. He can carry any tune in his singing. He has a wonderful sense of rhythm, whether in the way he sings and dances, or in the way he talks and walks. How any of the reviewers below can be critical of this talented young man (yes, really, at twelve he had the full talents of a grown-up man!) is beyond me.
This movie is amazing. The only bad thing about it is that I have to return it back to the library already!
Die Wilden Kerle: Alles ist gut, solange du wild bist! (2003)
Bad News Bears, the international version
This is a German remake of the 1976 classic Bad News Bears, though rewritten to appeal to a more international audience. Bad News Bears is about minor league baseball, something very familiar within the American culture. Die Wilden Kerle is about a bunch of kids wanting to play a ball game, something very familiar just about anywhere on this planet.
The movie is in German, a language I had studied as a child but am rather rusty in now. But the cinematography and the acting were both excellent and completely made up for the fact that I understood at most 10% of the spoken language. It only proves that picture is worth a thousand words. And since a 96 minute movie contains more than eight million pictures...
I thoroughly enjoyed this movie. It made me feel young again. I have heard it is a big hit in Germany. I can see why! This movie definitely deserves to be seen all over the world. If you can get your hands on it, you will enjoy it, too.