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Weeds (2005)
Surprisingly mature, enough to keep me watching
I get distracted easily. I drop watching series easily. I stop caring about characters in series easily. Not this time.
When a series (or a movie) is trying to force something into my mouth I just grab my remote. And almost every modern series does that, mostly because ratings go high after such move.
Weeds is different. Writers somehow stopped themself from putting any gimmick plots and focused on telling something you can believe in. Then when you believe in the character, and wonderfully played by ML Parker Nancy Botwin is the one to make you care. She is just so natural, like a person that the creator probably met in his real life.
And when all the unrealistic stuff comes in it's just funny. Soap opera moves are reduced to a appropriate level. Written like somebody really cared to do a good piece of writing, not just to sell it to million of viewers And the theme. Elvis Costello's version rules
Sherlock Holmes (2009)
astonishingly feckless, with absolutely no idea how to originally grab your attention
Even though it probably doesn't deserve the lowest grade, I go out with the theory of pitchfork's grading system - if sth seriously wastes your time, then...
I really hoped that it will become good for long time. I became disillusioned about an hour before end. Amount of action isn't the problem. Ridiculous mystery and easy final isn't the problem. No chemistry between actors, except Downey Jr. in himself, isn't the problem. Even the schemes and old moves, even all these unnecessary special effects and computer graphics in every scene. It's just this director who is deliberately selling himself to mass audience, doing easy cinema. Guy Ritchie, which was one my favorites after Snatch and Lock Stock.
He doesn't even try. I can't seriously name at least one idea that surprised me. Jokes were fair, but far from top. This movie is like a pithole. Seriously empty inside. Whole scenario seems to be written as a homework assignment to CSI starting writer. And not he one who aspires to write a Las Vegas episode. The one that wants million of viewers, need to be impressed by elaborate deductions, even though they doesn't make any sense nor could happen in real life.
Tarantino is now laughing, "and you guys compared him once to me"