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Terminator: Dark Fate (2019)
Terminator: Dark Fate. A Solid Threequel with Room for Improvement
The makers of this movie want everyone to disregard the other Terminator films, so Dark Fate is a Threequel.
This is my third viewing of Terminator: Dark Fate. I first watched this at the cinema back in 2019, and i rewatched it last night when i rented it on Amazon Prime Video and I'm rewatching it again, so this is my third viewing. For a film buff who loves action movies, only rewatching so few as three times is due to the ending of this movie. I dislike the sad element near the end of this movie, I'm all about the action, I think emotional elements should be left to genres like dramas, but there's no rule that action movies can't have emotions, but emotions like that don't mix with action movies, in my opinion.
I want to mention something I didn't notice when I first watched this movie. Grace disrespecting Sarah Connor during the first few scenes after them meeting each other, has me frustrated in those moments as Sarah Connor is the OG of this movie franchise, she has important knowledge of the machines and both Grace and Dani know that they need Sarah. Regardless of the fact that Grace didn't know anything about Sarah Connor, i think the writers and director could have had Grace show some respect to Sarah Connor at first. I get that Grace easily took the gun out of Sarah's hand when Sarah had the gun pointed at her, but the verbal threats from Grace to Sarah a few scenes after is unnecessary, I like Grace - but I don't like how she treated Sarah after Sarah saved their lives from the Rev 9. And i know Grace and Sarah warmed up to each other, but i still have an issue with the initial first few scenes with Grace and Sarah.
The new bad guy/terminator model Rev 9, i think is a brilliant bad guy. I watched a movie review once on YouTube where someone said the actor who plays Rev 9 "does not look intimidating", but that is neither here nor there, (Robert Patrick doesn't look intimidating and he was still lethal in T2). The Rev 9 has extreme skills and is very dangerous, just watch the movie and watch what happens when anyone gets in its way when it's on the chase. Also, the Rev 9 terminator is relentless in wanting to hunt and kill Dani Ramos, this terminator just would not give up, if that's not intimidating...i don't know what is!
The action scenes are fun, edge-of-your-seat, high quality.
As a black-British aro-ace tomboy woman, i'm all for women taking the leadership role in action movies, and i feel this movie is changing things from shifting the leader from John Connor to Dani Ramos. I don't think this is sexism against men, it's a female-friendly message in an action movie. It's a positive thing.
I want to mention a specific scene that I think is great, when "Carl" is about to put the sunglasses on and then decides not to and the film score music starts getting louder - i love that, and it's clearly a nod/homage and this scene is possibly also telling viewers that Carl has evolved from what he once was. Also, speaking of homages, if you're very familiar with Terminator 2 - you will easily spot some of the dialogue lines that is similar to some lines in Terminator 2.
Terminator: Dark Fate. I love this movie, except as i mentioned earlier - near the end of the film, which is why i switch the movie off near the end. The action and the run and chase throughout most of this Motion Picture is what makes this movie worth rewatching even if the ending could have been changed. I don't think any good characters needed to die, but i guess the writers and director of this film wanted to strongly show sacrifice to the death.
A rewatchable Sci-Fi Action Flick.
A Raisin in the Sun (1961)
More Than Money: The Youngers' Fight for Dignity
I just streamed 'A Raisin in the Sun' on Amazon Prime Video. This was the first time iv'e watched this movie. As a black woman, I find the overall story line interesting. It's based on a play and you can tell that it's theatre-worthy as the setting is mostly in a small apartment. This is a film that needs and has tons of dialogue, due to its setting and drama genre.
As a 40 year old who is not American nor from the era this film is depicted in, I understand some of the sexist views against women that were around during those times, but that doesn't stop me from feeling frustrated at times at the limited words said to a black woman from a black man during one scene. Sidney Poitier's character "Walter" is unlikable at times, but as the film unravels - Walter is revealed to be a character that is not cut and dried.
I try to be open-minded as a film buff, and watch more of these older movies, and it takes getting used to at how dramatic performances from these old movies can be, with some dramatic moments from Sidney Poitier's performance and from Claudia McNeil's performance as "Lena" as during one particular scene her performance is very very dramatic (without giving away spoilers, the scene i'm highlighting with Lena is focused on money).
'A Raisin in the Sun' is a drama film that is focused on the financial struggles of this African-American family, dreams that seem difficult, but not impossible, to accomplish, segregation and dignity, and a lot of people can probably relate to this film.
I found 'A Raisin in the Sun' was getting more interesting as it went on. The beginning and the middle - the story is just getting started. I was finding this movie slightly boring when i began watching, but I'm glad I watched until the very end.
The Punisher (2004)
"The Punisher?" or "The Vigilante?"
The Punisher is one of my favourite movies as an action film fan. I like the story line, the action, (although there is an element in a fight scene near the end of the movie that is quite gruesome) but i always skip over the scene where a good man gets badly hurt over something he was not even involved in.
The Punisher movie plot is quite simple. Frank Castle is a different man after a tragedy in his life. He narrates near the end of the movie at shaming the law, then he mentions that he wants to punish bad people, so i guess it's both of those reasons of his new way of life, but like my review title hints at - "The Vigilante" would have been a better title and I understand this film is from the comics, and as someone who is not a comic book fan - i don't know much about that, but then i should say that the comics should have gave the name "The Vigilante" because that is what Frank Castle is all about now.
Castle narrates that his actions 'are not about revenge,' but initially his actions are about revenge.
Castle is still a likeable character, but I don't think anyone asked him if his wife and son would want him taking the law into his own hands. His new mission is about vigilantism, punishing/killing bad guys, but would his wife and son want him to do that? I don't think they would. Castle narrates that 'Frank Castle is dead', however, he was once working for the law and eventually was planning to leave his career on good terms, so there seems to be a bit of contradiction in his new viewpoint about the law.
As someone who's watched this film many times, it gives me a lot of scenarios to think about what could have been done different. Frank and his entire family were having a little holiday in Puerto Rico before leaving for London, but as I rewatched this movie again earlier tonight - i was thinking, he doesn't need to be on a quick vacation...the moment one of the Saint sons gets killed, Frank should be going straight home and telling his wife and son to pack their bags, make a quick phone call to his parents and tell them he has to lay low, then Frank and his wife and kid should change their names and leave the country (not to London!) because surely, Frank should know that Howard Saint would possibly come after him after his son got killed. But there would be no movie, i understand that, that's why as a new spec screenwriter - i think writing a movie should be important to write it in a way where when things go wrong - it would be inevitable, but then maybe i'm thinking too much about this because characters mistakes are what set the chain of events for things to go wrong in a movie, not that i'm blaming Castle for other peoples' actions of choosing to go after him and his family.
As a Christian, I don't agree with revenge, but the film buff part of me loves this movie, lol.
If you're an action movie fan, I don't know why you wouldn't love this film.
"God's gonna sit this one out." ~ Frank Castle.
End of the Road (2022)
A Black Brit's Take on "End of the Road": Why This Netflix Film Gets It Right
End of the Road is one of my favourite movies. Iv'e streamed this film lots of times on Netflix and I still find it entertaining. As a new screenwriter, this film is inspiring also.
End of the Road has many great elements. Great performances, especially from the female lead, Queen Latifah plays the likeable and strong-willed Brenda Freeman, she takes her family, her brother Reggie, and her two kids Cam and Kelly to Houston via the road where they get themselves caught in a dangerous game of cat and mouse with money involved.
There's something as an aro-ace person that I can't stand and that is a disgusting offscreen sex scene, but that can be skipped over.
I love how colourful the desert scenery is in this film, I like the cinematography. I read a review on here once that criticised the colourful vibe of this movie, but every movie has its own cinematography theme and every movie has certain colours throughout, and End of the Road has colourful scenery even during the night scenes because obviously that's how the director wanted it, i like the cinematography as it makes sense being in the desert as the desert is a bright place.
When i first watched this film when it was first released, i found the plot-twist to be unexpected. The movie plot is decent. End of the Road is a suspenseful road thriller. Recommended.
Ozark (2017)
Morality crumbles on the Lake: Ozark Season 4 Review
As a 40 year old black aro-ace tomboy woman from London UK, my review will probably have a different perspective at times than others. I prefer American thrillers and Dramas, and I recently rewatched Ozark Season 4 and even though I knew what was going to happen - I still found this series interesting, entertaining and edge of your seat thrilling at times.
As a new movie screenwriter, I like a lot of the elements of the writing. Season 4 had different challenges and situations. My favourite character is Wendy Byrde. Even though she is ruthless, she's one of the best written characters as her character changes a lot from Season 1 and even when it's established that she is more ruthless than many of the characters, Wendy still reveals more layers of her personality, she's manipulative, contradictory at times, and the way she speaks to her husband a lot of the time is disrespectful, but Wendy is not the everyday wife anymore, and she still loves her family. I like the character Marty, but he is a one-dimensional character, maybe two-dimensional character, but leaning more towards a one-dimensional character as he doesn't change that much throughout the entire show, there might be a few scenes here and there where he will do something different than his usual personality, but he is one-dimensional, and I'm not even saying that it's a negative trait with this character due to plenty of main and supporting characters featured in the show. And Marty's calmness works when heated situations need to calm down.
As an animal lover, however, I am disappointed that the situations with animals in this overall series has been negative situations. Season 4 isn't too bad with this, however, even though it isn't a major part of the story - some circumstances are left unanswered as I wonder who will take care of a characters' pet when a character does not go back home. TV shows and movies do this all the time, they don't think small details like this will matter to audiences, but it matters to animal lovers. Ozark Season 4 and overall would have been an even better series if they'd either left animals out of it or brought more positive situations with animals.
Ozark: A powerful TV Drama/Thriller Series about a lake district community swimming in corruption.
Baby Driver (2017)
A brilliant high-speed action flick, but the movie goes downhill (no pun intended) near the end of the story
As a cyclist, I still love this car action movie "Baby Driver". I've streamed this movie many times over the years and have not got bored of it. It's unique, the music syncing with the action is different. The high-speed chases are decent and the storyline is interesting. However, in my opinion I feel this movie made a big mistake killing off "darling" and "buddy". Apart from "baby", "darling" and "buddy" were the most interesting characters and even slightly more interesting than "baby". This movie could have had better endings, one example without killing anyone off, they could have finished the last job and have "baby" and "debora" on the run from the law as well as on the run from "doc" as he would not let "baby" go throughout all of the movie, then near the end he all of a sudden has a change of heart? Nah, I don't buy that. Back to "darling" and "buddy", in my opinion they could have not been killed off and that would have been a good opening for a possible "buddy" and "darling" spinoff movie, because we don't know anything about their backgrounds, even though "bats" takes a wild guess and they don't deny it during a diner scene, it would still have been interesting to find out the origins of "buddy" and "darling"'s relationship and could have been a standalone bonnie and Clyde style spinoff movie. I don't think most of the characters in "baby driver" needed to be killed off to bring it to its final conclusion.
Creed III (2023)
A Threequeel that doesn't dissapoint
I've rewatched Creed III quite a lot of times and I still like this movie. Some films are only worth watching once, but not Creed III. Adonis's background is revealed more as his past that he's buried deep is now in the open and Adonis now has to confront his past. Damon, Adonis's Foster brother from childhood, did time in prison and believes Adonis is living the life that he should be living. But when Damian gets out of prison and gets a chance to be put in the ring, it still isn't enough, there's a scene where Damian has a flashy high rise apartment - yet he's still bitter, he wants a shot as the boxing world champion, but there's a vibe that he still would not be happy if he got that. We see that Damian feels betrayed and that is clearly deeper than any title for Damian as he says in one scene to Adonis that Adonis "ran out on family".
Rocky not being in this movie may be disappointing for some, but his absence does not ruin this film. This Threequel is more focused on Adonis and his past before Rocky and before Adonis's stepmom, and frankly I don't know where Rocky would fit in now in this movie.
The sad element in this movie is when Adonis blames his stepmom for things that were not her fault. Yes, some of her actions made it seem that Adonis abandoned Damian due to her hiding Damian's letters, but overall Damian's bitterness is still his choice out of unforgiveness. By the time Adonis got to apologise to his stepmom, she had become basically delusional believing her husband was still alive, but no doubt before she got very ill - she still knew her son still loved her even though he had harsh words for her in their argument.
Adonis is definitely not a one-dimensional character, this movie series shows the viewers how Adonis is changing and also his career...the scenes where he's getting back to training, has the vibe that he's old past this boxing game and even one of his trainers says to him "You're old", but through training and determination - Adonis still beat those odds.
The boxing scenes also in this third movie are entertaining and intense.
Creed (2015)
A rewatchable Adrenaline-Fueled drama flick
I've rewatched Creed lots of times and I decided to purchase the movie tonight on Prime Video. Creed is an adrenaline-fueled action flick. The fight scenes are well-choreographed and always keep me glued to my Chromebook and I'm not even a Boxing fan. As a black woman, I also like that the main female lead is a woman of colour, as it's a rarity in Hollywood and i feel even though there's been some progress - there should be more women of colour as main leads, also I always want to see black love onscreen even though I'm Aro-Ace. I like that this movie shows Adonis focusing on the people he cares about as well as his career which can be an inspiration to focus on what matters to each of us in life.
Stallone and Jordan have great uncle/nephew style/friendship/mentor/mentee chemistry as Rocky and Adonis.
The Karate Kid (1984)
From Childhood Dismissal to Grown-Up Appreciation: Re-Examining "The Karate Kid"
Growing up in the 90s in the UK, The Karate Kid was regularly on TV, but I don't remember watching it properly from start to finish, only some scenes I remember watching. I never liked this movie growing up even though as a tomboy I was interested in Karate, but never took Karate classes.
Now as a 40 year old adult I've had a new appreciation for this movie over the past few years and due to the amount of times I've rewatched this on Netflix, this movie is now one of my favourite films.
I like the underdog story. I've analysed if Daniel could find a way of avoiding conflict with Johnny and them lot, but unless Daniel changes schools - it's difficult to see any other way out of being bullied, and so Karate seems like the answer. I like the message that Miyagi promotes which is Karate for self-defense only.
There's a specific scene where Daniel doesn't do himself any favours, he doesn't want to be bullied, yet he starts trouble with the bullies in a specific scene, but the film does this to show us the beginning of Miyagi's fighting skills.
The Karate Kid is not a movie about going around fighting. It has a story, it has a message, and self-defense and healthy mentorship is strongly part of the message.
The fight scenes are natural, but compared to if this movie was made today - the martial art scenes of this 80s movie may seem a bit stiff, meaning that heavy CGI/VFX is used today - so it's highly possible that if this movie was remade today - the martial art scenes would look more smoother with the special effects available today. But I still like the fight scenes in The Karate Kid as they look more natural. Today a lot of fight scenes in movies are so heavily dipped in CGI that sometimes it doesn't even look like they are hitting each other. The Karate Kid shows the rawness of fight scenes looking real.
The mentor friendship between Miyagi and Daniel is natural and realistic as Daniel's impatience changes into understanding when Miyagi eventually shows him the true meaning of Karate. A specific scene highlights this when Miyagi shows Daniel that Karate can be learned from everyday things like cleaning. Daniel's impatience turned understanding is realistic in many different real life situations sometimes.
The Karate Kid. Very rewatchable.
Bad Boys (1995)
High Octane Action: A 90s Classic Revisited
I grew up in the 90s not liking this movie as I was a kid who preferred family movies. But during my adulthood I began to have a change of heart. Bad Boys is an action comedy flick that lives up to its name. It has tons of action, I would single out specific scenes, but I like all the action scenes. The comedy aspect happens during the right times, but it doesn't turn this movie into one of those silly over-comedic action films. Bad Boys is still a serious action movie.
The smoky picture throughout the entire film adds to the uniqueness of this motion picture. Cinematographer Howard Atherton did a brilliant job with this.
Will Smith and Martin Lawrence have great natural friendship/colleague chemistry.
This is one of Michael Bay's best movies, in my opinion.
As a new screenwriter, I appreciate the overall screenplay and dialogue by Writers Michael Barrie, Jim Mulholland, and Doug Richardson. However, as an Aro-Ace woman, I feel some dialogue and some scenes are unnecessary as they are disrespectful towards women, they could have been ad-libbed, regardless I think some dialogue and a couple of specific scenes are not needed.
As an animal lover and vegetarian, I love that the main female lead played by Téa Leoni is a vegan who cares for her dogs. I found a specific scene about the rug and Will Smith's response about one of the dog's to be humorous (excluding the part where he roughly removes the dog off of the sofa).
My review has pros and cons, and I get that there will be a few things in a movie that movie lovers will oppose. Bad Boys has a few cons, but the pros outweigh the cons for me, and this is one of my favourite movies.
Without Remorse (2021)
Forget Politics, It's the Action in Without Remorse That Shine
As a new screenwriter, I appreciate 'Without Remorse'. This is one of my favourite movies and even though I'm not keen on politics and revenge - the film does explore these themes, but for me, it's the action sequences that truly steal the show.
As a Black tomboy with a shaved head myself, I was pleasantly surprised to see a strong Black female character with natural, short hair. It's refreshing to see such positive representation that felt genuine in the film's world. Karen Greer is a no-nonsense soldier who kicks behind in the action scenes.
The action scenes make this movie entertaining in my opinion. The prison fight scene, the scene when John Kelly jumps in a car with flames around, the scene on the roof - are a few highlights.
Without Remorse - tons of action.
Switchback (1997)
A Hidden Gem In The Sand
I grew up in the 90s, and I thought I saw and knew of most 90s movies, but "Switchback" is a movie I never heard of until recently. I just finished streaming this movie on Amazon Prime Video, and this is a movie that is worth renting.
"Switchback" is suspenseful from the very beginning, and as I was watching throughout - I really wanted to know what would happen next. I'm not usually into Neo-Westerns, but the overall theme was about catching a serial killer, so as someone who loves thrillers...the thriller aspect is still strongly ingrained in the Neo-Western vibe.
This film does a good job withholding important information until it's ready to tell the viewers more. A few scenes had me guessing wrong which I feel is good filmmaking because there are too many predictable films out there.
As a film buff, there's some films that I love enough to buy on Amazon Prime, and there are some movies that I like enough only to rent and watch once and never again. "Switchback" is one of those movies. I've seen it once, I liked it, but I don't need to watch it again.
The Client (1994)
Brilliant legal thriller of the 90s
I'm from the UK and I grew up in the 90s, and I've always loved American movies, and since my teenage years I've known this movie and continued to watch it in my adulthood. I re-watched The Client again tonight and I still love this motion picture. This courtroom drama / legal thriller has twists and turns. Mark Sway takes dangerous risks and his Lawyer Reggie Love cares about him that she puts herself in dangerous situations at times also.
I like the relationship between Mark and Reggie. She could help him in ways that his mum couldn't help him which led to his mum being prideful and disrespectful towards Reggie during one particular scene when all Reggie ever wanted to do was help them and she helped them basically for free. Diane Sway eventually apologised to Reggie at the end of the movie and gave her a nice compliment which I'm glad the writers added in.
I have never read the book, but they made a good choice making the book into a movie because courtroom thrillers is an intelligent genre and there should be more of them.
The Client is a gem on the 90s. However, one thing about this movie that I'm not keen on is the ending, the reasons why they made the ending the way they did are sensible and understandable - but it's too sentimental for me and it is just too much and bittersweet that I will no longer watch the ending of this movie.
Till (2022)
A Brilliantly Made True Story
I just finished watching Till for the first time on Amazon Prime Video, and this movie based on a true story is as brilliant as I thought it would be. I've been wanting to watch this film the moment I saw the Movie Trailers, and this movie depiction of these true events did not disappoint.
As a Black British woman, this story affects me still even though I'm not American. I've watched Documentaries about what happened to Emmett Till and I think it's good that a Hollywood Movie was finally made.
The actress who plays Emmett's mum - Mamie Till-Bradley, is brilliant, there are some powerful scenes with her and her speeches and the film score music along with the speeches - can't help but make you feel emotional, the words that she said about 'racism in the south has nothing to do with those in the north' is true, racism should affect every black person everywhere.
The writers, director, actors all did a brilliant job. As a new Screenwriter, I like how this movie uses subtext at times, example, during one of the court scenes when Carolyn Bryant was giving the demonstration of Emmett supposedly grabbing her, the camera then focuses on Emmett's mother and she does not look at Bryant and her demonstration, we see from this scene that we know Emmett's mother doesn't believe one bit of that story, she didn't even have to say the words "my son would not do that," the subtext in this scene tells the viewers how Mamie Till-Bradley feels about that.
Till is a powerful story of something extremely sad that didn't need and should not have happened. Those white men didn't get thrown in prison, but God sees all! No one can hide anything from God!
What happened to Emmett Till, and Mamie Till-Bradley working hard to change things, set off the Civil Rights movement.
The Karate Kid Part III (1989)
I love this movie.
The Karate Kid: Part III is a movie that has become one of my favourites. I grew up in the 1990s, and I know this movie more now as an adult than I did back then. Some professional critics mentioned that it's basically 'the same story line as the first movie', but does that make it a bad film?! It's subjective. I agree that some of the movie plot is similar to the first one, but this is still a brilliant movie. We see Daniel change into a person that he's not for a while because of the influence of the sociopath Terry Silver. And speaking of Silver...the actor does a good job portraying him because the character is a convincing slime bag, I really can't stand it when Terry Silver is laughing at Daniel behind his back during a scene and then when Silver and Kreese get their a*$%s whooped - they stand there laughing at Daniel and Mr. Miyagi, I mean - you're the one who got humiliated and you're the one who's laughing???...it makes no sense, I believe Silver and Kreese are sociopaths.
The Karate Kid: Part III is not exactly the same as the first one, this Threequel is more brutal due to the extreme fighting techniques.
A lot of sequels and threequels are similar to the first movie, with this one - there's the protagonist, antagonists, love interest, journey. Still a great Motion Picture.
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010)
The lyrical soundtrack throughout, ruins the movie
Some people may agree with me, some may not. But the lyrical music in this film makes it difficult for me to fully enjoy this movie. I've watched 'Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps' many times and I tolerated the music before, but I watched some of this film again today and I just can't tolerate this music anymore, it's a shame because this is a good movie, and if they just played one song from that artist then fine, but this artist's music is featured throughout - not in every scene, but in most scenes, the music is terrible and depressing, if they wanted lyrical music throughout then a more appropriate route would have been some rap songs with lyrics that boast about money - that would actually have been better for this motion picture considering money is what this film is basically about.
I don't usually do full negative reviews like this, but it's something I felt I needed to say.
On the Line (2022)
Disappointing
I was looking forward to "On The Line" the moment I watched the Trailer, and when I finished watching the movie - I was very disappointed. This movie had a lot of potential, but in my opinion - they messed up the story line.
I actually was entertained watching this film, but when the final plot-twist was revealed - I felt it ruined the movie. I started to guess some of the twist halfway through the movie, and I was half right - I didn't know fully what the outcome would be, but I started to guess that the threats and the radio people being "scared" was fake, but what ruined this movie completely was the final plot-twist, so the overall story was that it was a birthday present for Mel Gibson's character, and speaking of Mel Gibson - he is not a very good actor anymore, he was good in the 90s flick "Ransom", but this movie - his performance is not very good.
If they'd had left the ending as the British guy's accidental death, that would have been better, or they could have made it more serious and not added a prank outcome. A positive thing I will say about this movie is that it's different and for a thriller - no one gets killed, however the characters and the overall story lacks sincerity - usually in thriller movies - the characters are serious about whatever they have been through - which makes them sincere.
I'm glad I never saw "On The Line" at the cinema and watched it on Amazon instead. I give it 2 stars instead of 1 because like I said earlier - I did find this movie entertaining until the final plot-twist was revealed, I wasn't that keen on the first plot-twist, but like I said - that would have been better than the final twist that they went with - the first plot-twist - we see a sincerity in Mel Gibson's character as he was going to quit his job and he was devastated...we see that he is not completely heartless, but then the movie paints over that with the foolish final reveal.
As a new Screenwriter who writes thrillers - I would never end a screenplay like this. Sometimes the Director makes changes in a Screenplay, but if this ending was the Screenwriter's idea - what does that tell the viewers about the Screenwriter's view on thrillers? Does the screenwriter / writers not like Thrillers? Why end a serious movie as a literal joke?!
Frasier (1993)
Brilliant Sitcom of the 90s
I was born in the 80s, grew up in the 90s watching Frasier among other Sitcoms, I liked the Sitcom differently back then as opposed to today...in the 90s as a Brit I've always loved American TV and American Films, and I liked Frasier because it's American, but didn't appreciate the humour as I do now as an adult, because this Sitcom is not for kids, it's made for adults, and now that Channel 4 online has put all of the Seasons on their website, I've been enjoying this Sitcom so much more than I did in the 90s.
Frasier lives up to its genre, it's funny and the situations that he gets himself into while trying to do damage control, is entertaining.
This is not like other Sitcoms, the humour is different, and the character Frasier is not what we usually see in these type of shows,
I don't watch today's new Sitcoms (and I've tried to watch some new ones on Netflix, but they are very boring) so I don't know the personality types of today's sitcom characters, but I do know that in the 90s - Frasier's personality-type was not depicted in other shows of this genre.
The performances and the lines are brilliant, the writers are very talented as well as the cast, director, e.c.t, I like all the main characters, but I've noticed as I've been watching episodes recently that Frasier and Niles' father is very rude a lot of the time, I don't mind the telling-it-like-it-is direct attitude, but the dad goes beyond that many times, he sometimes is just plain nasty and disrespectful with calling people names.
I love this Sitcom, and can't remember most of the episodes, so it's still sort of new to me every time I watch an episode.
I read that there might be a new upcoming Series of Frasier, as a fan of the show - I think if they go through with it, it will be a mistake, the actor who plays the dad - passed away, and I doubt the cute dog "Eddie" is still alive, so that's already 2 main cast members who won't be in the new one, the new Series won't be as good, they can pay homage e.c.t, but it still won't be the same, I feel that it will make those of us who are fans of the Series actually feel sad every-time we watch it because the 2 main cast members will be absent, I think they should just leave it as the brilliant 90s Sitcom that it is.
Sudden Fear (1952)
A very good old Hollywood Movie
I don't watch much of these very old Hollywood films, but I've started to be more open-minded and have been giving these films a chance, and this one "Sudden Fear" is a very good one.
The story line is well-done and the plot-twist at the end is clever.
It's a very dramatic film, Joan Crawford is very dramatic in this...I presume a lot of these old films are dramatic like this movie and it takes some getting used to.
7 out of 10 rating.
Antarctica: A Year on Ice (2013)
Compelling
As someone who loves nature, scenery and animals, I thought i'd check out this documentary on Prime Video and was very impressed.
This is a compelling documentary film that shows the extreme conditions of living and working on the coldest place on earth.
Through this documentary, I feel that Antarctica could be a wonderful place and also depressing at times as well.
The people in this documentary love that place and have been back there regularly and they've also said that many people were not keen on it especially during the winter months.
I personally could probably only be able to stay there for about 4 days if I were ever to put Antarctica on my bucket list.
The way this documentary was filmed - half of it is stunning with the scenery and the animals, but the rest of it that has the people indoors and in other scenes that were not all that - looked a lot older than 2013, before I looked up the date that this documentary was filmed - I honestly thought it was made in the late 1990s or early 2000s.
I recommend Antarctica: A Year on Ice, for anyone that loves scenery and nature. There is a couple of scenes that show deceased animals, I wasn't keen of those scenes as an animal lover, but at the same time I think they did the right thing by not shying away from showing the realities of Antarctica,
it wasn't too bad, so I still would recommend this for animal lovers.
Antarctica: A Year on Ice - 10/10 rating from me.
Moving Art (2014)
If you love animals and nature, this is a must-watch
I love animals and I love nature, I recently saw this Moving Art advertised on Netflix and I decided to watch most of it. This is a beautiful Series, the nature, scenery, wildlife sounds and animals are fascinating, the camerawork and photography are awesome along with the serene music.
Earth truly has beauty in it.