Reviews

I was a little too old for the books when they were being released but my sister constantly talked about how cool they were. And, I would borrow her copies and skim them so that when she was talking about the story I would at least be able to keep up some idea of what was going on.

So when I saw that the series was on Netflix and I was like hey why not enjoy the series. Maybe in movie form they would be more my thing. And initially it was actually kind of good, for the first couple episodes. However the absolute stupid of basically all the characters aside from the children who are ridiculously overly bright as their sole defining feature really got boring quickly.

I don't know if everybody is this black and white in the books because it was a long time ago that I last skimmed any of them. I cannot l envision this series appealing to anybody older than like 14.

The cinematography is good however the CGI is seriously obvious. There's many points where it's clear that actors are literally standing on a green screen stage and everything surrounding them is being added digitally. I don't think it's a spoiler to say that Sunny seems to suddenly age significantly between events that as far as I can tell are supposed to happen in fairly short sequential order. I'm sure that had something to do with the fact that you're talking about three seasons but it's a very weird and totally non-addressed thing.

Well I won't get into actual spoilers because quite frankly there's a book series you could go read or cliff notes and I don't really care to talk about specifics. I will say that there are numerous plot holes that you could drive a tanker truck through with plenty of room to spare. There are also completely illogical decisions made by characters and the main driving subplot is never actually revealed in any satisfying way. This lack of plot revelation also means that it is extremely difficult to figure out who is siding with whom and why they care. They're also so many characters just thrown in palmetto but I don't even remember their names let alone what they're there for.

I'm not saying don't judge for yourself but I don't think it's very good. If it's this and being trapped at a dinner you absolutely can't stand I might actually go with the dinner.

I have watched my BF play this game so I understood the premises. We both were not expecting much out of this film but really wanted to see it as it looked fun enough. It WAS a fun film with good production value and a fantastic lead duo. Clearly everyone involved understood what kind of film they were making so everyone just committed to that direction and it worked.

Yes there is almost no story to speak of.

Yes characters make seemingly illogical or out of character moves to advance the plot.

Yes 98% of the cast you either see for less the 3 minutes or gets killed so fast you don't get time to care about them.

Yes the ending is total sequel bate.

But it was fun and I was not watching the clock while watching the film. The CGI looks really good and there are some genuinely creepy to actually scary moments. Milla and Jaa play well off one another and the lack of taking to one another on screen is not an issue and honestly probably improves the film. The action is fast paced but feels like it has a point.

Basically go ahead and give it a go.

I knew it was called Dowton Abbey and Maggie Smith play the a sharp-tongued character. That was precisely everything I knew walking into the movie.

I loved it I thought it was beautiful watching the characters. There are no grand battles or cosmic good and evil. It's about people wanting a chance to be recognized as being the best, wanting to do the best, give the best and be the best. It's about a fading way of life and struggling to think about how to move forward into the future.

It's about the pressure of duty versus personal want and need. It's about being human with all of its contradictions and complications. And even though I've loved other movies this year I think this is my favorite because it's about people being human and wanting to do something that is so important to them that they're willing to take a few underhanded tactics to get a wish fulfilled.

Here I am watching this in 2017 and Spellbound by such beautiful work. I never knew a movie could quite be like this. If you've never seen this movie you need to see it. It's not a comedy but it's not the drama exactly. It's life pure and simple life and the Awakening to the fact that maybe it's not what you thought it was. Maybe it's a commentary on midlife crisis cease or maybe it's a commentary on the modern-day prevalence of reality TV. You could take it either way or you can take it for what it is. A story that sings.

Okay so let me just start out by saying I love the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. To this day I still think the opening sequence of the first one was fantastic. And I really like certain parts of this movie. The special effect are brilliant and the CGI is great. However the script is sadly lacking. It's not the actors are bad they just simply don't have anything to work with. I'm really not appreciating the direction they took Captain Jack Sparrow with constantly being flat-out drunk. It more feels like they were trying to wrap up a bunch of loose ends they left dangling 10 years ago and introducing a whole bunch of new possibilities at the same time. That's a tall order for any movie let alone one with a very short run time. To do such a thing would require a tight script tight pacing and everybody being on point. None of that really happened. Now the story is certainly more comprehensible than some of the previous installments. It lacks all the wit and charm that one expect.

I really didn't know that to think going in. I really had no idea what the movie was even about so I went in with little in the way of preconceived notions.

Rogue One is not quite the fanboy orgy that Force Awakens was. Though it is there you just have to look a little closer. The beginning is very jumbled and a bit clunky. Not a deal breaker though. The ending in my mind has the greater sin in trying really too hard to tie hen into A New Hope. So forcibly is it tied in that it renders part of the start of A New Hope into contradiction.

The characters are good but nothing really to make you feel all that much for any of them.I really wanted to like them but nothing.

Really this film I would say is on par with Revenge of the Sith so a middle of the road film that does it's job but won't really be remembered. Heck it doesn't even get a number. Though considering that that number would be 0 I suppose I can get why they went this way.