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At Home Alone Together: Episode #1.4 (2020)
Bring back Frontline
Love comedy on the ABC.... didn't laugh once through this. Martin thinks he is still presenting a Current Affair, the comedy is juvenile and simply not funny.
Bring back Front Line !
V for Vendetta (2005)
NIce idea, but some big holes.
It's all pretty slickly made and the ideas portrayed are overall appealing, but I have problems with the story.
First up, V has no problem killing people, potentially innocent people to further his cause. Ironic since that is why he is taking vengeance in the first place. He is in no way forgiving, like the government that he seeks to destroy. He is an extremist, like the government he seeks to destroy. Wars are always fort between 2 or more extremist.
I would have like to have seen more focus on the ideas of racism and religious intolerance as these issues have been at the root of immeasurable violence, suffering and death throughout the ages up until recent times. Even today we have Donald Trump, potential leader of the most powerful nation on the planet declaring that he will "Ban all Muslims from entering the country", a scary and relevant real life occurrence of the totalitarian government portrayed in this movie.
Also the phrase that he quotes "By the power of truth, I, while living,have conquered the universe" that he attributes to Fuast is wrong, a lie if you like. Again somewhat ironic that such a strong statement about truth is attributed falsely.
On the positive side the ending showing all of the people standing up for change, peacefully is a good ending.
Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015)
Written by a computer algorithm ?
It's like someone made a computer program, then inputted all the data from the original 3 movies (which btw were very good) and it spat out this "movie" !
It's not a new movie, nor does it make much sense. Once upon a time movies had meaning, metaphors, stuff that makes you think, but the computer algorithm that spat this out dosn't understand that. It's all about visuals, getting the faces of the original cast but not their soul.
And this gets 8.6 on IMDb and makes over a billion bucks.
It's not sane !
Cloverfield (2008)
Completely Terrible
1 dimensional script, I had no empathy for anyone in this movie.
Lacks any logic or realism within its own context.
Poor acting, there was more annoying screaming from the guy freaking out than the girl when she we impaled. As mentioned totally unrealistic within its own context.
The camera work is terrible, hand held has its place, but not to this extreme and for the entirety of the movie.
Feels like a student film with a rented camera.
While the fact that prices for decent cinema cameras have come down, is a good, thing, on the flip side you end up with movies like this.
Sorry, but the move was completely terrible in every aspect.
Some like it, but then again some like Donald Trump. It's a poor reflection on society.
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)
Long Drawn out computer game graphics
I'm a fan of Tolkien and I didn't mind the Lord of the Rings adaption, especially the first one.
The Hobbit is a different story though (excuse the pun). I could barely watch it, particularly The Battle of the Five Armies. The CGI is terrible, its like watching someone play a computer game. The CGI is dark, cold, sometimes way too soft, sometimes too harsh and totally unrealistic ... I just couldn't connect to the movie with those visuals.
It's also stretched out with made up content that adds nothing and is not relevant to the story. What is does do is make 1 movie into 3 movies ... a way of trying to milk every drop of money out of it with no benefit to the us, the audience.
Could have been great, turned out rubbish.
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)
Long Drawn out computer game graphics
I'm a fan of Tolkien and I didn't mind the Lord of the Rings adaption, especially the first one.
The Hobbit is a different story though (excuse the pun). I could barely watch it, particularly The Battle of the Five Armies. The CGI is terrible, its like watching someone play a computer game. The CGI is dark, cold, sometimes way too soft, sometimes too harsh and totally unrealistic ... I just couldn't connect to the movie with those visuals.
It's also stretched out with made up content that adds nothing and is not relevant to the story. What is does do is make 1 movie into 3 movies ... a way of trying to milk every drop of money out of it with no benefit to the us, the audience.
Could have been great, turned out rubbish.
All Is Lost (2013)
All logic is lost
I grew up around boats and the ocean and was really looking forward to this movie. There are very few sailing movies and the reviews for this one where all great.
Unfortunately the holes in this movie are far larger than the ones that sunk the yacht. I am very happy to suspend belief in movies that are not meant to be technically realistic, but this movie is based on a real life situation and tries to be realistic but fails miserably.
The trouble starts on the very first scene, the 'sailor' wakes up to find his yacht full of water. It has hit a shipping container and is filling up with water through a large hole. He must have been on the whiskey the night before because apparently he slept right through the crash that tore the hole into the back of the yacht (odd that it caused a hole in the back of the yacht). He stands there looking at the hole in the side of the yacht with water pouring in, just one arms length away from the bilge pump button (a pump designed to work under water to pump water out of the yacht). Does he flick the switch ? No he doesn't bother lifting his arm up and turning on a pump to start pumping the water out of the boat. Of course when he does hit the switch some time latter the pump doesn't work. That would probably indicated a flat battery, but the battery wasn't flat as he used it to power the radio latter on. He never really bothered to try to work out what was up with the bilge pump, instead opting to pump the water out by hand, after having to make a handle for the manual pump (I guess the vandals took the original handle).
After removing the container from the side of the yacht, he then sails away but changes his mind and sails back to the container, leaning to the side of yacht where the hole is, thus letting more water flow in and then literally rams the shipping container that has already nearly sunk him ! Maybe he was still on the whiskey, but this guy really should not be in charge of this yacht.
Then there is the logic behind the broken radio. First up, it is a VHF radio, used for short range communication. At sea a yacht would use a HF radio, but anyway, he manages to get it working and hears voices, but the radio is going on and off. So he climbs the mast to find the antenna unplugged ! If the antenna was unplugged he would not have heard a thing on the radio, unless the transmitting station was right next to him and anyway an unplugged antenna would have nothing to do with the radio turning on and off, which is obviously a result of salt water damage to the radio ! So he plugs the antenna back in and while at the top of the mast notices a storm coming. When he comes back down, does he try the radio that he just spent a great deal of effort supposedly trying to fix ? NO HE HAS A SHAVE ! Where is the logic in it ! He could see the storm coming, yet he does not bother to try the radio again. OK, so the boat sinks, after suffering the huge unluckiness of getting yet another hole (even though the original hole is patched up) and after he makes several more very poor decisions, such as leaving it too late to put the storm sail up, going outside during the massive storm for no apparent reason, leaving the main hatch open etc. So he deploys the life raft, a good idea. He ties the life raft to the yacht and gets into the life raft. Does he cut the line, no. OK so he is going to leave the line attached to the yacht ... pretty dangerous, but I guess he thinks the yacht probably won't sink and he will keep a close eye on it on cut the line if the yacht starts to goes under .... oh no no no, he goes to sleep in the life raft with it attached to the yacht ! There is no point even being in the life raft, if the yacht sinks, he goes down with it. No sailor would ever ever do something so stupid. It just defies basic logic.
There are so many holes in this movie. Even the effects are bad, the rain is always vertical but if there was a storm that was making the sea so rough, there would be high winds and the rain would be more horizontal .. in fact there is really no wind effect anywhere in the movie. Even when he is trying to get the storm sail up it is hardly blowing around. When the storms clears by morning the sea returns to being flat, there is no left over swell, completely unrealistic.
The way the guy moves, so slowly all the time even in critical situation was also very annoying, there is no urgency or sense of panic in it, personally I think the acting was terrible. I have been aboard boats that are taking on water and believe me you do not think, you act.
I can only assume the sailor is either an alcoholic or senile, either way he should not be the captain of anything that floats. He doesn't even bother to equip the yacht with an EPIRB, something that is law in most countries, but common sense to have for anyone going to sea and is something that would have ensured his timely rescue.
A very disappointing movie, obviously made by people who have no idea about the subject matter and seemingly lack basic logic.