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Wounds (2019)
Ruined By Poor Script
Good actors given a lousy, meaningless, pointless, aimless script. How did this movie ever get funding?
Doc Martin: The Admirer (2007)
Betrayal of Trust
This most popular show has built up its high following by laying down a solid foundation of trust between producers and viewers. People trust the producers to stick with certain limits. So what went wrong with this episode?
It seemed to me that the usual production team had taken a break and left the show in the hands of some clueless idiot who just didn't get the point of what Doc Martin is all about.
Between the Doc walking around a party with dead dog wrapped in newspaper and his granny aged aunt with her legs open on a kitchen table having sex with a man young enough to be her grandson, the whole sorry episode threw the 'feel good' factor out of the window in favour of some sort of bizarre attempt at 'shock and revulsion' factor.
I hope whoever is in charge never leaves the shop unattended again.
Escape (2012)
Missed Opportunity
Whilst in possession of a film crew and at least two good Western actors and three good 'bad guy' local actors, all on location in Thailand, why didn't the director make a 1st rate movie about pirates, human trafficking and kidnapping, all topically relevant themes? My guess is that having turned up on location and finding a lead actress who seems she couldn't be bothered with it all and possibly on a limited budget and time scale, he just did the best he could and went home. This is no 'Apocalypse Now', it's just about 'adequate' as very light entertainment, possibly with financial backing from a 'faith group' as the movie's over done, religious message would suggest. What I find so disappointing, is that this could have been a great movie given the location and topic. In my view, it's such a pity that a great opportunity was missed.
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
Nasty and Ugly
If this movie is considered not only to be entertainment but a work of art worthy of cinematic awards and an endorsement of Hollywood's encouragement for more like it to be produced then it's a sad day for the industry. I found it to be nasty, ugly piece of work that sets out to portray men in the foulest light possible for no better reason than to play to the current drumbeat of every social movement wanting to distance itself from Harvey Weinstein and Donald Trump.
I can only guess the claim to being a 'comedy' albeit a black comedy, is to justify a certain degree of satire in stereotyping the white guys as racist, mysogenists on the defensive against the unexpected attack of the movie's downtrodden feminist principle character.
The fact is, ordinary people do not act or talk the way these characters do. The dialog is devoted to extreme expletives raging on in hate for each other and proving and achieving nothing in the process. Ironically the result is extremely racially offensive and sexist and even manages to be debasing to dwarfs; and for this trash they award oscars?
Eichmann (2007)
Missed Opportunity
Okay so you have a cast of excellent actors and an seriously important story that needs, like 'Shchindler's List', to be told, so why make an unbelievable, disjointed, completely out of place titillating, mess of telling it.
This Adolf Eichmann, in flash backs, had more in common with a stock character out of the British WW2 sitcom 'Alo Alo' than the blandly evil man he really was.
There should be some sort of tacit agreement in Holywood under which all drama/documentaries, on the subject of the holocaust, are to follow strict guidelines of authenticity and due respect for the subject matter.
The Post (2017)
A True Oscar Worthy
Having seen the politically correct Oscar awards go to cheap trash 'Three billboards' and 'The Shape of Water' B Movie drivel, I think it most unfortunate that this movie didn't take the Oscars and Golden Globes by storm. Another Spielberg masterpiece.
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
Nasty and Ugly
If this movie is considered not only to be entertainment but a work of art worthy of cinematic awards and an endorsement of Hollywood's encouragement for more like it to be produced then it's a sad day for the industry. I found it to be nasty, ugly piece of work that sets out to portray men in the foulest light possible for no better reason than to play to the current drumbeat of every social movement wanting to distance itself from Harvey Weinstein and Donald Trump.
I can only guess the claim to being a 'comedy' albeit a black comedy, is to justify a certain degree of satire in stereotyping the white guys as racist, mysogenists on the defensive against the unexpected attack of the movie's downtrodden feminist principle character.
The fact is, ordinary people do not act or talk the way these characters do. The dialog is devoted to extreme expletives raging on in hate for each other and proving and achieving nothing in the process. Ironically the result is extremely racially offensive and sexist and even manages to be debasing to dwarfs; and for this trash they award oscars?
The Shape of Water (2017)
Utter Rubbish
Beautifully filmed, excellent actors, great props and very expensive to make, so why didn't they make a really good Cold War movie instead of a totally lame one based on a crude B Movie monster in a cheap fishman wetsuit.
The result is an insult to the intelligence of a 5 year old let alone worthy of awards other than maybe cinematography. My advice, save your money and don't patronise lowbrow trash like this as it just seems to encourage Hollywood to further lows.