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Tenet (2020)
The negative reviews were from those who didn't instantly get it.
This movie has easily one of the most complex stories I have seen. If you don't fully understand the story you can look at it and see "it's only mindless action" but you need to watch it a second time or give it some thinking over. You should eventually understand it and when you do your mind clicks and you suddenly realise how genius it was. Don't rate poorly because you don't instantly understand it, but think about, watch it again and then try to see the bigger picture.
Doctor Who: Orphan 55 (2020)
How not to rip-off some of the greatest twist endings ever.
Review for Orphan 55
Where to begin but with the writing? The writing was awful, I mean who writes, "Wait I need to grab my speedos, oh wait, I already have them on." And says it's good? Also, the final scene doing the whole, "Every action matters and can change the world" is just awful. Doctor Who establishes that the future can be changed by time travellers messing with it but it has never been changed by normal people making dragoon's and the idea of that being just one timeline is stupid. Character deaths mean nothing as everyone suddenly wants to sacrifice themselves and no one is actually human. The kid mechanic was also dumb. How would that guy be a mechanic if he didn't know how to do the stuff and how would his son know how to do everything better than him when he would've learned from him. Next, the 'your my mother' twist sounds like something the writer pulled out of their proverb to match Empire Strikes Back and the Earth twist sounds like something to match Planet of the Apes (the two greatest twists of all time according to WatchMojo). Oh yeah, the Earth twist, whoweeh this was awful. You read a sign in Siberian and boom Earth twist crammed in. What was stage point of it other than putting in some Climate Change and Brexit politics. The Doctor is a traveller through time and space, she wouldn't care about politics or climate change on Earth, she could go to the past and reverse it for crying out loud! I'm done talking about how badly written this was and I didn't even talk about the fact that was soma called just showed up at the end to do something with someone because the end needed a punch at emotional impact. Surely you'd know from about the moment you started building the thing that it wouldn't have enough room to fit anyone!
The acting was awful from everyone. Even the kid was so much better as Roger in His Dark Materials. Everything I said about the acting being slightly better from Whittaker and Walsh last episode I take back. This was awful. Reactions were just emotionless like everyone was a psychopath but just didn't act like one until they needed to stay alive. We don't see Benni die, we don't even see him at all after he picks up a hat but the writer needs some emotional impact, yay.
The score was once again horrific. Series 12 has already made a name for itself as the worst scored series of Doctor Who ever. Yes you got the occasional hiccup in music (Blink I am looking at you) but it isn't this consistently bad across an episode. The entire score consisted of one note played a few times in a slightly different way every 8 beats or so.
The monsters are up there with the worst monsters ever, ever. They are so badly designed and badly thought out it is ridiculous. If there is a nuclear fallout people wouldn't just mutate that quickly and change there entire bodily functions. I shouldn't even need to bring up motivations or decent backstory or how the hell they became that fast and changed genus, oh wait, none of that is ever explained, they don't even attempt to explain it, what?! Oh yeah, and the last scene happened which just solidified them as possibly the worst monster ever.
Conclusion: It was really bad, 1/10.
Doctor Who: Spyfall: Part One (2020)
Better than series 11?
I found it OK at best. I mainly had issues with the super up close camera shots and (spoilers) the Master stuff at the end. Him dancing around going "I got you! I got you!" just makes me think, "bruh, seriously?" I also don't understand why they didn't use The Boneless in it instead of them random monsters as that would be so cool to explore the second dimension. I mean, the dialogue is slightly better, kinda. Mweh. The companions still don't have characters and they need to do better with the Doctor but I guess The Doctor was slightly better than series 11. Also, what was up with the crap score. The music was actually good in series 11 (well for the first part) and especially the action songs, damn that reminded me of Blink levels of bad score. I guess those are my basic thoughts. It had some good moments, movement sensor thing was cool-ish and when Yaz got eaten I celebrated the fact that Chibnall was embracing the Classic series and then instantly took back my praise when she was instantly put back, I mean, come on! Whittaker was once again trying her best and so was Walsh but Cole and Gil need to get there acts together. I guess the Master was slightly scary ,-ish and the monsters did some cool stuff with the rewriting your biology stuff but didn't The Doctor do that like only 1000 years ago? (For us only like 10) so it would surely be in her memory or something. Anyway, 5/10.
The Village (2004)
Ignore the critics, this movie is great!
What started as a generic monster-horror became one of the best horror movies through clever writing and excellent directing.
When I saw the reviews for this I expected it to be boring and without colour but I watched it anyway and I was shocked to discover that I was on the edge of my seat the whole way through and the twists were very well done.
The way that Shyamalan presented the idea of a village living in fear of monsters was good but the reveal that it was a group of traumatised adults wanting to protect their families was even better. I have to admit that after the reveal that there were no monsters and it was just a cover up by the elders I thought the action had stopped but no, the final chase was incredible and the shot where the camera pans out and you see that she is standing in a field of red berries creates dread beautifully.
All in all, great movie, really worth the watch.
Doctor Who: The War Games: Episode Ten (1969)
Sensational! The greatest of Doctor Who ever!
Review for all 10 episodes.
This story is the very peak of Doctor Who, its highest point. It has better writing than any story before it and any story since. Every actor is on fine form for there final appearances. The music is at its height with possibly the best room search score ever. It creates atmosphere like no other and the plot gets thicker and thicker before the conclusion of the millennia streams in.
Review for this episode.
This is undoubtedly the best episode of Doctor Who ever. It is flawless, completely perfect. The Time-Lords are handled so well that it would be almost impossible to beat the way it handles them. The opening scene is just sensational at creating build up for the Time-Lords and the final scene is so heartbreaking. Not just that (spoilers) Jamie and Zoe get there memories wiped (Journeys End's ending was not original) but the Doctor is basically executed and exiled. It perfectly sets up the next era and the regeneration scene is superb.
Doctor Who: The War Games: Episode Five (1969)
Sensational! The greatest of Doctor Who ever!
Review for all 10 episodes.
This story is the very peak of Doctor Who, its highest point. It has better writing than any story before it and any story since. Every actor is on fine form for there final appearances. The music is at its height with possibly the best room search score ever. It creates atmosphere like no other and the plot gets thicker and thicker before the conclusion of the millennia streams in
Doctor Who: The War Games: Episode Two (1969)
Sensational! The greatest of Doctor Who ever.
Review for all 10 episodes.
This story is the very peak of Doctor Who, its highest point. It has better writing than any story before it and any story since. Every actor is on fine form for there final appearances. The music is at its height with possibly the best room search score ever. It creates atmosphere like no other and the plot gets thicker and thicker before the conclusion of the millennia streams in.
Stranger Things: Chapter Four: The Sauna Test (2019)
Finally a good episode in season 3!
The first 3 episodes of season 3 don't even feel like Stranger Things. The entire plot is very basic and is all centred around how the characters are getting on a year later. They are slow paced and have relatively no tension as well as having very sloppy writing (notably for the kids).
Despite this, season 3 finally delivers an action packed, tense episode that involves the characters having to be brave for once and them actually having good writing. The other seasons delivered excellent chills like this every episode (nearly every episode anyway) and they received lots of critical acclaim.
Also, this episode gave me one of my favourite scenes of horror ever (when a certain character smashes through some glass and throws tiles at some innocent children). I love this moment because you realise that he has gone over the edge of sanity and the kids realise it too but a bit too late as he rips open the padlock...
This episode will hopefully start a good run of episodes as the Duffer's know that they can do good ones now which will hopefully boost confidence.
This episode is probably worth sitting through the first 3 to watch.
Doctor Who: The War Games: Episode One (1969)
Sensational! The greatest of Doctor Who ever!
This story is the peak of Doctor Who, its highest point. It has better writing than every story before it and every story since. Every actor is on fine form for their final appearances. The music is at its height with possibly the greatest room search score ever. It creates atmosphere like no other and has a plot which gets thicker and thicker before the conclusion of the millennia streams in.
Doctor Who: Flesh and Stone (2010)
An awesome second part to the best New Who story ever.
This is a perfect way to close this amazing two parter. The plot of this brilliantly ties in to the series arc and all of the action revolving around Amy having to close her eyes is superb. The Angels are utilised perfectly in a way that they won't be ever again and the TARDIS team is on fine form. River is the opposite of annoying here as she actually has mystery and intrigue in her character and she is well acted here too.
Excellent way to end this sensational story.
Doctor Who: The Time of Angels (2010)
Possibly the greatest Doctor Who story ever.
Wow. I was told that this story was good before I went in but I didn't see it beating The Eleventh Hour and how I was wrong. This episode and story builds tension like no other and takes the Angels to another level. Far superior to Blink on so many levels this story has me on the edge of my seat for the entire story (only one other story did that (The Empty Child). It was a perfect sequel to Blink adding mystery and intrigue to the Angels where most sequels just take that from their villains.
Completely flawless in every way and easily the best of all time.
Horrible Histories: Episode #5.12 (2013)
What a final song!
When I watched this I didn't think it would be the last one of the educational episodes until the final song. It was an excellent way to sum up a great show in one song and a sensational finale.