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Star Trek: The Next Generation: Family (1990)
Why did they feel the need to go French?
When not one of the actors nor the writers is a French speaker, why put up that pretense? It's annoying every time they try to say the name Jean-Luc because English speakers cannot pronounce the sound "u". Even the character Picard can't say his own name right!
But it is particularly irritating in this episode because they don't even know the lyrics of "Auprès de ma blonde"! It does not end in "il fait bon, fait bon, fait bon". It ends in "il fait bon DORMIR"!
So please, either stick to English - or hire bilingual actors: Canada is just next door!
Modern Family (2009)
Whatever happened to this once brilliant show?
I weep for the untimely departure of the wit and intelligence of this show's first seasons.
For the past two seasons, I felt the writing less subtle than before. But this (hopefully) final season takes the cake! The stories are garbled, the direction inexistant at best and the acting on constant overload.
I won't cry its demise.
Marie Antoinette (2006)
I wasted 2 hours watching this
All right, the costumes, setting, hairdos and filming are beautiful. But what would be enough for a photograph misses the mark entirely in a film.
A film needs a scenario. It seems Coppola thought using a Wikipedia page would suffice: it does not.
A film needs dialogs. There isn't a shred of that. Coppola thought perhaps that insipid sentences would convey the vacuity of the life in Versailles: it merely conveyed the vacuity of the film.
And the choice of the music was atrocious. Don't get me wrong: I don't mind the clash between a XVIII century setting with XX century music. But why choose bands whose singer can't hold a tune?
Anyway, that's two hours of my life I'm never getting back!
Elementary: Once You've Ruled Out God (2018)
Euros? Really?
Good episode but I do so wish American screenwriters would put some effort in depicting a realistic Europe. Talking about "Euros" is borderline ridiculous - but I may buy into the fact that American nationalists might use that word to talk about people and not the currency. But having these "Euros" converse in German and then saying they are Dutch is just plain stupid! The Dutch people speak ... Dutch which is an altogether different language than German! FYI, in Western Europe, there are about 25 different national languages and just because they sound alike doesn't mean they are the same...
Madam Secretary: The Operative (2014)
Can they not afford a French actor?
For a show of this caliber and so oriented on international issues, I am appalled to hear the "French " minister Dubois speak French with such an atrocious accent! French is my native tongue and I can't understand a word he says! Even a French Canadian would do a better job and they have a hell of an accent... That was one thing I loved (among many others) about Lost: actors from all over the world joining in to convey a true internationality. My fear here is that Madam Secretary will stick to a pretense of dealing with international issues while really only surfing above them and delivering the American mundane point of view. In short, I was hoping for a show that would excite intelligence and I only see another self-congratulating Murican spiel. Hope they will prove me wrong!