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The White Lotus: Departures (2021)
Disgusting
I liked this until the last episode. I loved the music, especially the last one in episode two. However, the last episode (^) is distasteful. I will watch season two to find out what happens to Quinn.
Marcella (2016)
Should have ended with two
I really enjoyed the first two seasons. They should have stopped there. The third season is terrible, and the last episode is laughable.
Little Women (1994)
Loved It
I preferred this version to the new one. It was very true to the book. I cried a lot, remembering how I read the book when I was a little girl.
Gisaengchung (2019)
Too Unpleasant
The plot is very good, with loads of twists and turns. However, I did not like this movie. It was an entirely unpleasant experience.
Red Joan (2018)
Atmospheric
I loved this movie. I t was very atmospheric of the 1940s and could have been made shortly thereafter. The music added to the atmosphere. The story kept my engrossed throughout the movie, and Judi Dench was her usual amazing self. I h ighly recommend it.
The Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019)
Boring
I was very disappointed in the movie. It got such great reviews, so I chose to see this over other good sounding films. I guess there's some truth toit, but many things that happen do not seem believable. It's all talking and not very good acting. Much of the dialogue is difficult to understand, and it doesn't need a big screen. Wait until it comes out on DVD.
Hunter Killer (2018)
What a Bore
This was a real bore. Constant noise, Russians speaking English perfectly and a hard to follow plot. You never knew who the good guys were and who the bad guys were.
The Florida Project (2017)
Bratty Kids
What a bore. This film got rave reviews, so I finally got the DVD out of the library. Most of what I watched was about screaming, bratty kids living in a dilapidated Florida motel. Now I know this is supposed to be a social commentary about poverty and raising children in it, but most of the characters are unlikeable, and the children are uncontrollable. I just watched half of it.
The Missing (2014)
Addicted
I was addicted to this show and watched the 8 episodes of season 1 in about three days. Season 2 was good also, but there were too many characters, and the time shifting was confusing.
Like Sunday, Like Rain (2014)
Boring
I did not like this movie. I found the kid obnoxious. He was just so perfect.
Den of Thieves (2018)
Impossible Plot
How could this movie get a 7? It was OK for a while, but the plot became impossible to follow. What got robbed by whom and when?
There Will Be Blood (2007)
There Will Be Boredom
I recall a novel by, I believe, Evelyn Waugh, in which an amateurish church group decides to make a film about the life of John Wesley. They haven't the slightest idea of what makes an interesting film, as, for example, one of the scenes in which Wesley is seen, sitting at his desk composing a pamphlet for four minutes.
Of course, that's the joke, these people are amateurs, and will for all their good intentions, turn out a piece of boring junk. That was my reaction here - one scene after an other, dull and too long. But then, I remember, these people aren't amateurs, they are supposedly some of the most skilled professionals in the business, who make a lot of money entertaining us.
What on earth could they have been thinking when they turned out this tedious turkey?
Dan in Real Life (2007)
Minority report
If this is not the worst film I have ever seen, it is close to it.
Basically, it is about a single father, a newspaper columnist who decides to alter his life to spend more time with his three unpleasant, demanding daughters (although they were evidently not intended to be seen that way). The problem is that he does this as the result of a stay with his family. I was going to use the term "family from hell", but one commentator apparently beat me to it. All great minds think alike.
There is a subplot about his attraction to his brother's girlfriend, but I can't say I found myself very involved in it.
I have never seen such a bunch of frantic, hyperactive people as this family in my life; I grew fatigued halfway through the film just watching them. If I were the protagonist, I would be looking for a nice, quiet neighbourhood on Madagascar or the Falkland Islands just to get away from them and their constant whooping it up.
Den brysomme mannen (2006)
Ho-hum, more deep meanings
This film seems promising enough at the outset. Plenty of Scandinavian gloom, obviously, but very promising symbolism, surrealism and "deep meanings" all over the place.
The trouble is that, by the time the film is half over, you have lost track of the symbols and the plot. And, as far as the meanings are concerned, you simply don't care any more. One gets the idea that the writer felt that his world view is of extreme importance, and worth telling everyone about. I, however, felt as if I had been stopped in the street by an Ancient Mariner, and forced to listen to an endless story in which I had less and less interest as the plot progressed. At least light Hollywood comedies make few demands on your intellect, rather than engaging it and then letting it down.