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The Mint (2007)
Terrible show - now canceled
This would have to be one of the weakest television shows I have ever seen, work experience hosts, basically designed to fill the late night time slot at minimum cost. The saddest part, it is the same concept as the show "quizmania" which the same network had on only a year before this show canceled suddenly. Now, thank goodness "the mint" has also been canceled both shows are basically the old con of charging everyone who rings in and only letting a very few callers through, they make a large amount of money off the few poor saps who keep calling. Even infomercials are better than this complete and utter rubbish. Only a couple of years ago the network (channel nine) was our highest rated this sort of show has cost them that position.
Circle of Iron (1978)
Silly mess
The main character Cord played by Jeff Cooper seems to be playing the same part he played in many late seventies and eighties TV shows "a guy who just dashed out of a hairdressers and is trying to find his Porsche". David Carradine seems to be trying to do a Peter Sellers, playing multi characters. What used to be his signature slow motion kung-fu, in this, seems to be the actual speed he moves at. The philosophy seems to be out of a box of cheap fortune cookies. The Israel locations do add a bit to this, but overall a fairly bad movie. If only Bruce Lee had made this the martial arts certainly would have been much better.
The Wedge (2006)
Truly awful rubbish!
Watched a couple of episodes of the first season, it was terrible. Thought I would give the second season a chance as Cal Wilson has joined the cast, but even she can't lift this rubbish, Honest I can't believe it got a second season as it is the same unfunny pap as the first season. Many skits are repeated over and over e.g the Sandra sultry skit, it was almost funny the first time but went nowhere or the mental school girl with the web cam, Ahhhh not even slightly funny. One small benefit the skit of the sisters who joke about leaving their kids in the car while gambling seems to have been pulled, pity the whole show couldn't follow it!
Roar of the Wild (2006)
Welcome to the wonderful world of beach bimbo wildlife television
Quite bad really, I have just seen this, sort of a home made wildlife/ sailing lifestyle show, not really sure as the whole thing is all over the place. The pictures quality is low and looks like it was filmed with an ordinary home video camera. The main problem is the host who also is the voice over person, she has a terrible voice which drones on in a monotone and, while I don't have a problem with the female form almost every second shot seems to be her running to, swimming past or walking away from camera in her itty bitty bikini, novel at first but gets a bit boring after a while. While it will probably be popular with 16-25 year old males its not really very good television. The whole just ends up just looking like a couples holiday video with a cheesy voice over.
Mission: Impossible III (2006)
there's no I in team, Tom
The first MI Movie would be in my top 10 favs it had the style of the old TV series but was updated well, the second was complete rubbish. I remember reading a critics review for the second film saying Mr Cruise is on the screen most of the time, this didn't leave much time to develop any other characters, this seemed to be even more the case with the third film. I don't seem to remember more that 30 sec in the whole film that dosen't cut back to scene with T.C. even Ving Rhames "the only other recurring part" is reduced to almost a bit part and Philip Seymour Hoffman is great but should have had a bit more time to develop the bad-guy character. The set piece at the Vatican lifts the whole thing a little a bit. It is pretty obvious most of the budget was spent on effects and toms pay cheque and not the script.
Lost (2004)
Many mysteries, no answers
I really tried to like this show, someone else here commented that new secrets/mystery had been added each week but few had been answered. As the season went on I certainly noticed this also, the local TV station hyping each new secret but on watching never saw one revealed, to be honest started to lose interest about 2/3 of the way through the season. Towards the end of the season there was special here (australia) hyped again as revealing the SECRETS OF LOST having missed a few I thought this might finally say something, but even this just rehashed the secrets of earlier episodes and still revealed nothing. Just the other night I watched the final episode "same thing" thats the whole first season gone with little reveal of anything. There is also some strange casting Mira Furlan plays a french women but has a thick eastern European accent and Sayid is supposed to be Iraqi but is obviously Indian. I don't think any review of Lost could have spoilers as the show reveals nothing, Battlestar Galactica and Taken where must better.
Medical Investigation (2004)
Hold the phone
Some small spoilers
This show recently started here (AUS) My comment deals with one episode the one where they go to the Arctic station (one of the few, where they don't have the run to the hospital bed scene) anyway, after sabotage the generator is out and most of the rest of the show is a desperate attempt to get the power back so they can contact home base to find an antidote. (a) Any part military base would have battery backup for the radio system. (b) more importantly, They all seem to forget that after the (MI Team) first arrived at the station one of them used his iridium phone to call his family, major plot goof.
Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004)
plop plop (western reference-sound effect from rear of horse)
Quite liked the original and got the homage to the old Hong Kong kung fu movies. I read a number of pre-release blubs saying Vol II would have a western theme, great I like old westerns. If mister Tarentino is a master film maker he used all that skill on Vol 1 and had nothing left for Vol II this "in my opinion" is the worst movie I have seen in the last ten years. Some other reviews here have said the distributors wanted to split Kill bill into two 1.5 hour movies, this sounds good but KB2 had at most 30 minutes of useful footage the rest was longwinded dialogue sessions that in most cases added little to plot or character development and should have been left on the cutting room floor. It should have been left as one 2 hour movie
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002)
Good effects, needed better plot and dialog
Saw this a couple of days ago, I liked the previous movies episodes 3-4 "Phantom Menace" was Ok, with the exception of Jar Jar Stinks. Thankfully in Clones he is reduced to a bit part. Anakin seemed to spend half the movie moaning about this or that, the movie itself was a tour de force "pardon the pun" of special effects and it was good see more of the star wars universe than just deserts and space stations. BUT the plot was the worst yet, the love story was lame. And even a plot error C3p0 & R2D2 now seem to be main characters in these movies too, but in Stars wars 4 Obi wan has no memory of them. Maybe if George Lucas didn't try to do all the main jobs director, writer and screenplay. Episodes 4-5 were directed by other people and where the best of the five movies so far.
In Clones, when Obi Wan goes to the street cafe, for information, two of the digital characters "the cook and robot waitress" seemed to have some sort of shimmer at the beginning of the scene, which looked like a fault. A full digital Yoda was very good and quite handy with a lightsabre, a good number of the audience laughed as this scene started but it worked better as it went along.
Overall good effects but needed better story, effects only carry a movie so far, although I'm sure it will still make a zillion dollars