This series portrays every other intimate relationship as being inter-racial, a number far greater than actually occurs in society. And usually these couples are notably mismatched. It has reached the point that is has become so distracting that it compromises my ability to enjoy the series. Is it really necessary for a series of this quality to worship at the altar of Wokeness?
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12 Reviews
Red River
(1948)
Never again...
4 September 2021
Warning: Spoilers
I first viewed this movie on TV when I was around 14. The entire time I thought The Duke would catch up with that weasel Clift and tear him limb from limb, which he was about to do until that damned woman interfered. The Duke let Clift live. I could not believe it. That was well over fifty years ago. I've never watched that worthless damned movie since.
Enola Holmes
(2020)
Don't waste your time.
1 October 2020
If there's one thing that consistently annoys me it is meddling with established historical literary characters. The casting for the characters of Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes is a train wreck, both in terms of their physical traits and their personalities. For those actually familiar with these characters no explanation is necessary. For everyone else to do so is pointless. The shame of it is that this rendition could have been filmed with the characters intact. If there are more productions in this franchise I will NOT be watching them.
Paris Can Wait
(2016)
Disappointing
5 July 2017
My wife and I made it perhaps thirty minutes into this before we looked at each other, rose and walked out.
It was slow and boring.
What a tragic waste of the astonishing Diane Lane. She is ten times more alluring now than she was when she portrayed Lorena in "Lonesome Dove."
The only redeeming aspect of bailing when we did is that I was spared seeing anymore of leftist, anti-American puke Alec Baldwin pawing Ms. Lane.
It was slow and boring.
What a tragic waste of the astonishing Diane Lane. She is ten times more alluring now than she was when she portrayed Lorena in "Lonesome Dove."
The only redeeming aspect of bailing when we did is that I was spared seeing anymore of leftist, anti-American puke Alec Baldwin pawing Ms. Lane.
Never So Few
(1959)
Short and sweet.
31 May 2017
This could have been a good, although not great flick IF its producers had resisted including the mandatory "love story" component.
Sinatra was a crooner, never an actor, who was able to get by and even be entertaining with a good supporting cast. He has one here with Steve McQueen as the standout.
Gina Lollobrigida was never anything more than a pair of boobs with legs.
These two could never have handled a GOOD script. Their personal chemistry was zero, and the painful, stilted meanderings that pass for their love scenes are downright painful to watch.
Fortunately we now have the technology to spare ourselves such things. I gleefully advance through every scene with Old Blue-Eyes and Boobs Walking.
Confine your viewing to Sinatra and his Kachins and you actually have a pretty good movie.
Sinatra was a crooner, never an actor, who was able to get by and even be entertaining with a good supporting cast. He has one here with Steve McQueen as the standout.
Gina Lollobrigida was never anything more than a pair of boobs with legs.
These two could never have handled a GOOD script. Their personal chemistry was zero, and the painful, stilted meanderings that pass for their love scenes are downright painful to watch.
Fortunately we now have the technology to spare ourselves such things. I gleefully advance through every scene with Old Blue-Eyes and Boobs Walking.
Confine your viewing to Sinatra and his Kachins and you actually have a pretty good movie.
Manchester by the Sea
(2016)
I don't get it
24 February 2017
I attended this movie with my wife and one of her girlfriends. I was squirming within minutes but I presumed they were enjoying it and resolved to stick it out. At last my wife leaned over and said, "We think this movie is TERRIBLE!!!" I said, "Let's give it ten more minutes and see if they get off the dime and something starts happening." It just got more painful to watch. We walked out. It was tedious, boring and depressing and I'm at a total loss as to how it got such positive reviews.
The Wiz
(1978)
The TV production reminded me...
11 December 2015
Back in the day when "The Wiz" had left theaters and could be seen on newly popular cable TV I watched about fifteen minutes of it one morning when I had a few minutes before departing for work.
I was like the proverbial deer-in-headlights. I had never seen anything so awful. No, not awful...appalling. The music was trite, the acting was unspeakably bad. So bad in fact that for the first time that I could remember I actually felt sorry for the people who were performing it and wished that there was some way that I could comfort them and tell them that perhaps there was hope that their careers would somehow outlive it. Diana Ross? REALLY??? Was there NO ONE in Hollywood whose brains weren't addled by drugs who could veto such a decision???
Didn't anyone actually SCREEN this thing before they released it?
"Plan 9 From Outer Space" is an artistic masterpiece compared to this POS.
I was like the proverbial deer-in-headlights. I had never seen anything so awful. No, not awful...appalling. The music was trite, the acting was unspeakably bad. So bad in fact that for the first time that I could remember I actually felt sorry for the people who were performing it and wished that there was some way that I could comfort them and tell them that perhaps there was hope that their careers would somehow outlive it. Diana Ross? REALLY??? Was there NO ONE in Hollywood whose brains weren't addled by drugs who could veto such a decision???
Didn't anyone actually SCREEN this thing before they released it?
"Plan 9 From Outer Space" is an artistic masterpiece compared to this POS.
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
(1969)
Some stories are NOT meant to be musicals
28 May 2015
I first saw this movie while still in high school. There were no DVR's in those days and I was held captive and forced to endure the dreadful, trite musical numbers that degrade the film and reduce it from what COULD have been a first-rate film into a mediocre one. One of the great misconceptions is that if you string together words with a few musical notes that you have music. NOTHING could be further from the truth.
Peter O'Toole is excellent, as usual. Any man who can portray T.E. Lawrence and Mr. Chipping with equal facility is an astonishing actor. Petula Clark is adequate when she is not singing.
I am now viewing the film on TCM having recorded it on DVR which allows me to gleefully advance through the unbearable "musical" numbers. It should never be viewed any other way.
Peter O'Toole is excellent, as usual. Any man who can portray T.E. Lawrence and Mr. Chipping with equal facility is an astonishing actor. Petula Clark is adequate when she is not singing.
I am now viewing the film on TCM having recorded it on DVR which allows me to gleefully advance through the unbearable "musical" numbers. It should never be viewed any other way.
Saving Mr. Banks
(2013)
Big Disappointment
1 January 2014
Tom Hanks and Emma Thompson...how can it miss?
It did.
Performances were first rate, especially Ms. Thompson. How CAN that woman play such a frumpy and unpleasant character and still be so beautiful and desirable? The woman is an artist. That wasn't the problem. Hanks was adequate and nothing more.
The story spent WAY too much time on the deeply depressing relationship between Ms. Travers and her father and WAY too little time on the relationship between her, Disney, and Disney's team. The movie is frankly a downer, BIG time.
I can't recommend it. Sensitive people and those prone to depression NEED to avoid it.
It did.
Performances were first rate, especially Ms. Thompson. How CAN that woman play such a frumpy and unpleasant character and still be so beautiful and desirable? The woman is an artist. That wasn't the problem. Hanks was adequate and nothing more.
The story spent WAY too much time on the deeply depressing relationship between Ms. Travers and her father and WAY too little time on the relationship between her, Disney, and Disney's team. The movie is frankly a downer, BIG time.
I can't recommend it. Sensitive people and those prone to depression NEED to avoid it.
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