ripe_51 Reviews

Da Vinci's Demons (2013–2015)

Set your brains to zero

[7/10 · 29 April 2013]

Da Vinci's demons isn't too bad, as long as you're willing to accept that it's in the fantasy genre.

The series is about a historical figure made by people who never opened a history book, if you can deal with that then you probably will enjoy it to an extent. When I say to an extent, I mean it's not a brilliant show (the acting, the plot.. and what especially disturbs me is the supernatural aspect of it which is just not suitable for a series like this), it tries to convince you that it is intelligent but in fact is far from it.

But as I said before, as long as you're willing to ignore any links to reality and history, it is watchable.

John Carter (2012)

cunning stunts..

[17 May 2012]

Wow! I wish I was 10 yrs old and had never seen any movies before because I would've loved this one! But whilst I was watching this one I just couldn't stop thinking of other movies that this one was ripping off, without even trying to hide it! Fair enough it borrows only short bits of other movies but it's irritating, it feels like someone just picked a ton of movies and cut tiny pieces of each one and glued them together. The number is countless. Off the top of my head I feel there's bits from: pirates of the caribbean, dune, gladiator, star wars, avatar, conan, last samurai,lord of the rings, cowboys vs aliens....

There's more, just can't remember and if I'd seen more movies I'm pretty sure I could find oh so much more.. I'd have to watch the movie again minute by minute and point out every section of how it's copying other movies and that's just not fun. Don't get me wrong, on the whole the story is original, just not the parts it's composed of.

I'm a huge sci-fi freak and I've watched a lot of crappy movies and series that I absolutely loved just because they're sci-fi, but this one just didn't appeal to me, regardless of the cgi.. The topic of this rant is a word play, go ahead and figure out what I mean.

Oh! What was really annoying is that in the first hour into the film, the lead character is playing a part of an overgrown emo-kid, not cool!

Archer (2009–2023)

interesting to say at the least.

[7/10 · 9 March 2012]

wow, I had to add more words in order to submit my review to make it 10 lines of text, Archer (the main character) would just shag the person in charge of these rules and make them forget about them... Anyways, read on because it's right to the point :)

The series is drawn like a bad He-man cartoon, so obviously the animation style isn't why it's so high on ratings. It's a no holds barred kind of cartoon, the humour is something that you wouldn't expect to see on TV. Being a bartender, our sense of humour is crooked to say at the least, so to me this series offers very little, but I really do understand people loving the shock effect of having cartoon characters just tearing into subjects that are politically incorrect, in so many ways! But besides the "rattling" effect, this series is rather boring.

Revenge (2011–2015)

Teenage series

[6/10 · 20 February 2012]

The show seems to have gotten a lot of positive reviews, but really cannot agree with them. To me it seems that revenge is just another teenage show, which leads me to question how has it gotten 8.3 stars without even having vampires in it... o_O

The idea of the show is decent enough, but it doesn't match up to the name, it really should be REVENGE, not a soap opera with teenage issues. The series is frankly a bit childish with emo themes in it. It's got the rich kids, the not rich emo dude who's angry at the privileged and pretty much the whole world except this girl etc etc. Sound familiar? It's because every teenage show has them.. It's not my cup of tea.

I did watch 5 episodes, should given up after 20 minutes of the show because that's more than enough to get the idea of what this series is about. I should add also that the main actor doesn't exactly fit the profile, she's just not believable as the "angel of death" who looks like an angel on the outside, she just looks dull. She doesn't make me believe her rage, anger.. anything.

The Tree of Life (2011)

Emperor's new clothes...

[4/10 · 13 January 2012]

As the title says, this movie really reminds me of the fairy tale, Emperor's new clothes. All the pretentious critics praise this movie to the heavens because they haven't got a clue WTF is going on in this movie, but in order to seem intelligent they pretend it's a great masterpiece and us idiots just don't understand how beautiful it is.

I'm giving the movie 4 stars since some of the scenery is amazing, but in all fairness I'd highly recommend watching "Planet Earth", it's beautiful and it makes sense too, no wonder it's been rated the highest on IMDb TV-series. Seriously don't waste time on this one, for the life of me I cannot fathom which drugs you need to be on to be able to enjoy this movie, if anyone truly loved the movie, please do tell me which rat poison you're on.

Puncture (2011)

A great movie

[8/10 · 3 December 2011]

I thoroughly enjoyed the movie but the reviews seem to go from one extreme to the other, i belong the ones that really liked the movie. It's a great story (based on a true one) and the acting is top notch and seriously it is well worth watching, despite the bone crushing judgement of some reviewers' (i bet some of them work for the "evil" greedy companies that this story is about :P jokes aside, i'm shocked how appalling the movie's success is compared to how interesting the film is. Just see it for yourself, don't expect too much, then decide. If you're not a cynical a-hole, I reckon you'll enjoy the movie like i did.