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Ghosted (2023)
It's so ridiculous it's perfect for a light hearted watch
Absolutely daft and some enjoyable cameos, turn off your brain and just enjoy the ridiculousness. This is a popcorn movie not intended to be taken seriously or for deep thought. It's light entertainment with a bit of action thrown in. It reminds me of This Means War with the civilian love interest finding their self in the middle of a spy drama. Ana seems to be channeling a bit of Jodie Comer in Killing Eve while Chris runs into an awful lot of his MCU buddies. Adrien Brody is chewing up the scenery as the bad guy with his plethora of assistants. Completely bonkers fluff with a decent budget to look slick.
Girls Can't Surf (2020)
Covers the evolution of women's pro surfing
Just saw this at a special screening arranged by a surfer environmental warrior politician who would be of a similar vintage to many of the women from the early days of pro surfing, and is herself a former national surf champion. I grew up in the surf industry and remember so many of the battles that got next to no coverage in the surf publications. It is hard to believe how recent so much of it was. My immediate reaction after watching the movie was a hope that the trailblazers got a reunion off the back of the film. Lisa Anderson is still an ambassador for Roxy and it looks like they've learned to leverage her generation instead of only focusing on the new shiny object. This documentary brought back so many memories of discussions I'd have with the guys in our shop about the women fighting for equality. They didn't mention how hard the women fought to get a contest at all 3 of the Hawaiian triple crown locations, for years it was mooted that the girls couldn't possibly surf such powerful waves so their parallel events were at beach breaks instead of the reefs.
S.W.A.T.: Vagabundo (2021)
Hire Irish actors pleaseee
Hollywood's idea of an Irish accent is as outdated as black and white tv. If you won't hire an Irish actor then at least use an Irish casting agent to vet the "accent" you're asking an Aussie to produce,
MacGyver: Revenge + Catacombs + Le Fantome (2018)
If you're Irish don't watch, stage oirish muck
Why do casting directors keep hiring actors who can't produce an actual irish accent to fill a role that requires an Irish accent? Or are they terminally unable to actually identify an Irish accent? This was another example of b'gosh and b'gorra stereotypical stage O-irish
Madam Secretary: Eyjafjallajökull (2018)
Not Shannon airport / not at all like Shannon airport
Shannon airport is not called Grainne airport, it does not have karaoke at the departures/transit lounge. The one full pint of Guinness shown on screen was an awful half-head pint! The departures/transit lounge at Shannon serves food from the bar, the only "sandwich cart" type outlet is downstairs by the budget airline gates. There's also no windows to the gates in the lounge area until you pass US customs and immigration. If you're going to pick an airport that hundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women passed through you might want have made an accurate recreation of it, not to mention the audiences overseas who have also been through that airport.
Stitchers: Mind Palace (2017)
US tv is backsliding on Irish accents
Truly atrocious Irish accent on display throughout this episode, it seems to be a recurring trend in recent times across US tv shows. After a couple of decades of casting Irish and British actors the casting directors seem to have backslid into picking actors without the ability to produce a decent accent. Instead stage "oirish" that plagued cinema and tv pre 1990 has returned with a vengeance. It might seem like a petty nitpick but it throws you out of the world of the show rather horribly.
Siu Lam juk kau (2001)
Worst movie ever !
I'm a fan of sports movies, I loved "Bend it like beckham", I saw trailers for Shaolin soccer on various other DVDs and thought I'd see what it was like. For the first time in my life I couldn't watch a movie to it's completion. I've had that experience once or twice with books, but never before with a movie. It is far too slow, tedious, and the characters have absolutely no appeal as characters. It doesn't take much for me to enjoy a movie & I've enjoyed many that others have slated in the past, but this had to be the most painful viewing experience of my life. I watched at least 40 minutes of it, it felt more like 2hours, and the movie felt like it was going nowhere so I'd had enough! I don't know if it improved in the 2nd hour, but I'd already lost enough time I wouldn't get back.