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The Night House (2020)
Not bad, but simply doesn't make any sense
Please don't read the following if you don't want a major plot spoiler.
-Acting good, unsatisfactory ending.
-It was difficult to understand what was going on, but in essence what happens is as follows:
-at young age the main character is involved in an accident and was supposed to die, but lives to tell the story. In her 4 minutes of clinically being dead she experiences Nothing. Nothing appears to be a demon or so and decides it's payback time. She was married 15 years and I presume she must have had boyfriends before that time as well, so Nothing takes his time trying to kill her off.
-Her husband at one stage is becoming aware of Nothing and in order to distract Nothing husband seeks out lookalikes of his wife and kills these lookalikes in a mirror-copy of the house he partially has constructed on the other side of the lake. During that time no one has ever stumbled upon the development, which must have taken some time and effort to get the cellar, foundations and construction going. She however finds the site in no time, whilst her neighbour walking his dog nearby has never come accross it.
-Husband in other words now has become a serial killer, judging by the many lookalikes the main character sees in her visions and the amount of corpses stashed under the floorboards of the copy house. This element in the film is totally overlooked and I can't possibly believe she hasn't seen photos of the victims/missing women, which look so much like her, nor that anybody is talking about this or that searches in the woods around the lakes have taken place. The neighbour confirms that husband was seen with a lookalike woman. The young lookalike lady from the bookstore confirms she was at the copy-house with him and he tried to strangle her, but in the end let her go. No one thinking best to talk to the police. -In order to finally trying to shake off Nothing, husband shoots himself in the head on a little boat in the middle of the lake.
-The film then starts with her arriving home after the funeral, but it's unclear how long that is after the suidice of her husband. What was Nothing doing all that time, nothing? Then Nothing starts to harrass her but (as is usual in films like this) in stages and every time a little bit more to the point that she is hovering above the floor and she is being thrown against a wall with a mirror, so he must have some power, but still doesn't kill her, no he is trying to persuade her to kill herself with the same gun that was used by her husband and was returned (presumably loaded?) by the police. Her good friend thwarts Nothing's attempt and the main character wakes up from her trance and the film ends.
-What if they lived in a small flat, would husband have rented another flat accross the road? Why makes Nothing such a deal about the whole thing. There must be hundreds of men/women who survive serious crashes and be in a similar situation as the main character was.
-All 'n' all I left the cinema disappointed. I would have favoured a less supernatural explanation. I hope Nothing won't return for a sequel.
Doctor Who: Deep Breath (2014)
Thumbs up for Capaldi's Doctor?
''Thumbs up for Capaldi's Doctor'' says the BBC today on it's own site. Luckily most Have Your Say respondents reflect my thoughts, amongst others ''I lost the will to live about 30 minutes in'', ''..where did they hire these script writers from.Perhaps they were redundant from the Beano'', '' I found the story a little boring'','' I hope things improve, because I thought this opener was weak'' and I agree, I thought it was another pile of tripe. We can now transport an over-sized T-Rex in time by simply swallowing a Tardis. Victorian people know how to instantly diagnose a choking episode in a T-Rex. Then some obscure mechanical robot-race destroy the whole T-Rex in order to obtain a section of optic nerve. Dr Who goes missing, because he has a delirious changeover moment following regeneration. By chance Victorian Clara gets hold of a newspaper with a cryptic advertisement and meets up with the Dr again, in the restaurant of the Robot, where no-one else fancies a meal, but dead people. By holding your breath the zombies stop attacking you. Lizard lady (the only one I liked) French kisses her maid. An escape pod for the robot is a balloon made out of skin. Robot ends up committing suicide following (again) a rhetoric from the Dr. The new Dr looks unwell I feel and resembles a vampire. All's well that ends well, but now Clara has second thoughts about the Dr, who ''isn't her boyfriend'' he states. Luckily previous doctor rings her on her mobile in Glasgow (wtf?) and she is persuaded to trust the new doctor. Roll credits. Even my die-hard fans daughters were glad it was all over. I've learned my lesson yet again, no more for me.
Jonathan Creek: The Letters of Septimus Noone (2014)
Shocking!
Apart from the numerous clichés applied in this incoherent/fragmented episode, to have a woman with post traumatic stress syndrome/post natal depression hang herself in a judicial style scenario in front of a Poirot episode compatible audience is just plain shocking. From the beginning it became clear this was supposed to be a humorous (?)episode. Why on earth would you add this suicide hanging scene? Let the woman throw a sandbag from the walkway above the stage (and miss!), but this climax was totally unnecessary and distasteful. There literally is nothing left of what the Creek episodes used to deliver: obscure, silly mysteries. I hold my breath of what the next two episodes in this series will bring us.
Sherlock: The Sign of Three (2014)
Yes it was fun, but actually not that good
It certainly was a nice and funny episode to watch (the beginning of Lestrade missing a mega 'collar' for the sake of an emergency call from Sherlock was funny), but not worth watching again, even to work out what the psychotic links are between the murder attempt on a soldier Grenadier Guard, women dating an unknown person and the wedding photographer being the culprit. I'm surprised that Watson didn't know who the photographer was, for instance. I'm also surprised that Lestrade was totally unfamiliar with the case of the Grenadier Guard, which must have taken place a short while before the attack on the Major. There were also a lot of clichés, which I thought were inappropriate for this series: the assumption that the Best Man for instance has to bed the bridesmaid. Appropriate for any silly series of course, but this is Sherlock (the series) we're talking about. Finally, rest assured, if someone stabs you with a oversized knitting pen, no belt in the world is going to postpone a bleeding, unless no vital organs were hit. A belt like that would have to totally cut off any bloodsupply at high pressure and thus lead to serious issues ''below the belt''.
Doctor Who: The Time of the Doctor (2013)
''Doctor Who change tops TV ratings'': Turkey Cooking!
Doctor Who change tops TV ratings (I quote BBC biased article today on BBC's own website), yes, but that doesn't mean it's good. It may mean there is nothing else on telly. In this case's episode we are told how to cook a turkey the timelord-way. Take it from a conventional oven and drag to any odd panel in a phonebox-cum-timemachine, lift the panel, put in empty space under panel and remove after one hour of a total utter chaos of an episode, in which the doctor then appears to be loved through a crack in the sky (formerly a crack in the wall) by his alter egos from a parallel universe, in order for him to regenerate, so to secure another season of tripe. I'm now NOT going to be persuaded to watch any future episode anymore. Doctor Who in my opinion is now overcooked.
Doctor Who: Nightmare in Silver (2013)
Can this please stop now? It's 2013!
The chaotic episodes in this series continue. My kids persuaded me to come and watch another one. Clara, the nanny (is she the nanny of those kids?) is found out, so the Doctor takes the lot to a Luna Park far away, but, hey ho, the park is out of action, features however a Moonscene from Earth, that still works with an anti-gravity button, but needs blanked out ropes and hidden platforms in order to persuade the viewer there is no gravity. ''Oh nooo!'' I thought. In the past I attended movies, where toddlers got so bored, they started playing in the isles, throwing with popcorn and so forth. My own children started to twitter with each other on their i-pods and talking about proms. Then the ''we've seen it all before'' kicked in: Willow operating a chess-machine, Star Trek Borg facial appliances with the obligatory led-lights, Wrath of Khan creepy crawlers entering the body, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy ''sign-the-form please Ma'am'', briefcase-shaped doom-device, a small group of Stargate NERD soldiers, Willow appearing to be the 1000 Galaxies Emperor and no-one sussed that one, but the clever Jonathan Creek girl at the end. When The Doctor, who initially identified himself as a sort of military commander, but was later just addressed as ''The Doctor'', started to talk to himself against a background very reminiscent of the old computer game ''The Sentinel returns'' and then disabled his opponent with a golden ticket and anti-cyberman neck device on his own face(!), I almost screamed: ''Can This Please Stop Now? It's 2013! We want proper scripts!'' The episode imploded with an explosion of a planet, which was supposed to implode and Emperor Willow being rejected after an ''unexpected'' wedding proposal. ''How did you know, that he wanted to ask her to marry him, daddy?'' I had a lot of popcorn to clear when the lights went back on.
Doctor Who: Cold War (2013)
The Hunt for Red Alien E.T.
This episode was a mixture of the Hunt for Red October, Alien, Aliens, E.T, Predator, Starman, Star Trek and The Thing from Another World. It takes place somewhere under the North Pole on a Russian submarine, which carries nuclear weapons and has only a handful of crew, rather than the standard 150 or so. Due to a 5000 yr old Martian being defrosted from a standard cube of ice, the submarine sinks to a depth of 700 metres, but luckily it manages to remain exactly horizontal on the edge of an abyss or so, this in order to make the filming of this episode an easy job. What would have happened if the submarine had landed on its side or nose? The Submarine is large enough for the Tardis to land in. The Tardis, by the way, then disappears again to the South Pole. The alien initially is easily subdued with a Tazer stick, but thereafter can't be restrained anymore. The submarine is leaking seawater (it's raining all the time), but many of its people/crew inside remain dry and there is no flooding. The alien escapes from his special suit and hides in ceilings and behind walls of the submarine, from where he systematically picks out and eliminates crew-members. Most crew-members, who try to find him, still ask the question ''is anybody there?''. The alien's distress-call goes unheard, so it's time for him to launch the nuclear warheads. Then a rhetoric takes place, so in the end the alien doesn't press the ''red button'' and his E.T. ship arrives just in time to absorb him. Guess his friends must have been hovering about in the area for 5000 years, just in case he would let off a distress signal. Meanwhile it keeps on raining in the submarine, which doesn't flood. The submarine is sucked upwards through the thick ice to the surface of the North Pole thanks to a tractor beam from the alien ship. Rather than admiring the alien ship above him, the captain of the submarine laughingly approves a lift for the Doctor to the South Pole. The End!
Jonathan Creek: The Clue of the Savant's Thumb (2013)
Boring boring boring!
Parka-man is his usual boring born-again self, again assisted by famous celebs, like Purdey from the New Avengers (who manages to make a conscious emotional statement just before she dies in a hospital bed after having been crushed by a large concrete statue) and Neil & (P)Rick from the Young Ones: ''Mmmmmmmm, something isn't right, but what?'' What amazed me, was the fact that his sidekick almost got strangled at the abandoned old school and the two of them weren't even remotely interested in who just tried to kill her. ''Let's get out of here, Jonathan!, this place gives me the creeps!'' . Then we have a Young One, who allegedly is paralysed, but looks remarkably fit in his suit and on his wheelchair. He even disables a super-crook and his non-speaking black female accomplice with his integrated laptop. Don't get me started on a loose bolt on a chainsaw leading to an accidental decapitation of the other Young One (''Rick's head! Yeah, ugh ugh, Neil's head! Cliff's head! NO NO!'' was what I started to sing). The neck/head would probably be partially severed, but would never roll off ''guillotine''-fresh. Anyway out of this head they apparently made a ''Non-Living Doll''. Replace petrol with diluted apple-juice and hey presto!, a totally incoherent ridiculous Creek episode is born.
Red Dwarf: Trojan (2012)
What the smeg?
Was this supposed to be funny? I stumbled upon this by chance as I was zapping through channels and ended up passing DAVE, when this 1st episode (of how many?)of Red Dwarf Series 10 was about to start. I then remembered earlier announcements and decided to sit out the ride but already feared the worst, based on my opinion of Red Dwarf 9. Red Dwarf started ''difficult'' with series one, but then improved and peaked with series 6. Series 7 was mediocre, but series 8 with the nanobots' resurrection of ship and crew was in my opinion disastrous. Series 9 was smegging awful (if you can call 3 episodes a ''series'') and it looks like series 10 is following suit. The same old, same old ''jokes'' and encounters with clearly some modern and contemporary computer terminology input. Drained flanel actors as well. I didn't laugh at all, not even the ''having been put on hold to try to order an automatic stirrer'' sequence was funny. How can 50% of the IMDb-voters judge this 10 out of 10?
Sherlock: The Reichenbach Fall (2012)
Disappointing
I liked series One, refreshing albeit a bit overdone. Series Two in my opinion has been disappointing. I wasn't particularly impressed with 'Scandal' and 'Hounds', but 'Reichenbach' in my opinion was even more chaotic. Moriarty's crime and trial for instance. Uses a diamond on chewing gum to smash glass, which is nothing more than old windscreen glass? Then the intimidation of the jury members. Having been on jury-service myself, I just went home every day, let alone that all of us had to stay in a hotel, where we would have been threatened via the hotel TV. One at least would have informed police I would have thought (me for instance, if I would have been on that jury). There must be an awful lot of flats for rent around 221B plus the fact that notorious foreign gangsters can enter Britain easily as well. They even help with DIY at 221B. Then several shootings take place and none of them are investigated. The ultimate cracker for me was the police ganging up against Sherlock, who must have solved more cases (as an amateur sleuth) than all these officers together and (as we have several episodes to prove this) not always on the basis of a single footprint. One minute both Holmes and Watson are arrested, the next they escape (fair cop, that happens) and the next they're free men again (I believe this must happen within a few hours as both seem to never sleep) and Mrs Hudson seems totally blasé about the whole affair. As we are told the story from Watson's perspective (note how he gets a whack against his head as Holmes falls to his ''death''), I knew the forensic lady had helped Sherlock prepare for a fake death (''I need YOU, Molly''), but no doubt we'll find out in the next season how he pulled off that stunt. I bet it's Moriarty in the grave!