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The Wheel of Time (2021)
Why is this sooooo stretched out?
If it's one thing I'm learning, it is to just read the book. This series is sold on its scenery and costuming, but sold out on the sheer numbers of characters and 'things'.
I keep asking, who are they and why are they doing this? And it's not with active curiosity but with chronic irritation.
The funny thing is so many of the actors look like other more famous actors so I wonder if they cheaped out hiring the 'type' and not the known performers.
Do I want to continue into season 2? No. I believe I will wait for the library's audiobook to come available and visualize everything.
Due my disability I use more audio books.
Babylon (2022)
What starts as a party bold as 'Babylon' ends with ...
Consider this: if film creators had to pitch the end of their production before they pitched the film, I'd bet half of projects would not be made.
Starting as Babylon did, there just wasn't the energy to see it to a bombastic end.
The minutes wasted in the last scenes in the theater we just that- wasted images of weird watercolors to symbolize what?
Although I was entertained by the first 30 minutes, the rest of the film plodded along.
It dished out plot lines like a gossip columnist- just enough to make your curiosity pursue the rest of the film.
Watch the trailer, listen to the soundtrack and find something else to quench your thirst for the golden age of film.
Shotgun Wedding (2022)
Is JLo ever going to make a film without choking on stereotypes?
Out of the gate everyone except JLo is a ridiculous stereotype
You can recognize all the actors from tv. I cringe every time Jennifer Coolidge squints her way through 90 minutes and I cry. She is capable of more, but the film industry will wring every available laugh out of her.
I guess JLo will continue playing thirty somethings as long as her face and body holds up.
It's unfortunate that rock god Lenny Kravitz is even in this. - but it made me watch.
It has the obligatory panty and crop top scene, folks and she's escalated from being alone in earlier films to wearing the thing and crop top in front of her future mother in law.
I want my time back.
Mayor of Kingstown (2021)
Every gritty show needs violence and nudity
Beyond the corn pone of the little town and the prison, you always need a strip club, a black gang and white guys in power trying to keep everyone against each other.
Like puppet strings, things happen without thought, just by plot.
Running the city is no high honor, in fact he must feel the target on his back 24/7.
Life is cheap.
Sex is cheap.
Minorities are the bad guys.
White guys are the bad guys.
I just started watching after Jeremy Renner's accident and I feel guilty thinking this is a series of dirty little stereotypes- but where do stereotypes start? In little bump in the road towns like this.
1923 (2022)
Why all the phony blonde hair?
They keep using women with that flat bleached blonde hair.
Yes, my great aunt peroxided her hair, but it was a totally different 'blonde'.
The modern day lingerie is such a blatant smack in the face. Would it have killed them to use period correct clothing?
You take these great performers and blast the moment with inaccuracies.
I am waiting to see season 2, just to see if their production values change.
I'm interested if other history buffs are seeing things in their area of interest and if they will chat about those.
This series is emotionally impelling, people, even those with means had a hard life.
1883 (2021)
Not here to bash...
Generally westerns are full of white cowboys taking a native wife - but when it reverses out come the daggers.
If you do the math , Faith Hill is 55. She plays a woman who is at most 36-37. I guess it's to show how this life ages a pioneer.
The men look all ages, except good old Sam Elliot who looks like he's immortal.
My family made it West prior to the civil war, so I have no stories to tell.
I can't pick at the languages - my family was English.
All I can say is I wish corsets were like armor. And the gap between this series and the next wasn't as long.
Bring tissues. You are going to cry.
Corsage (2022)
This star shot her film in the knee
Watching the commercial between YouTube videos, I became aware of a loose cannon star spending valuable time whining about her corset.
Number one? Their costumers had to be out for this person. Well made corsets fit. Whoever was driving the corset bus didn't know what they were doing.
So, all the time they could have demonstrated the emotion and character experiences- they let the star rant.
If the mute individual next to the star had said:
I wrote the character's corset misfit as a metaphor for the character- well that could be a wee bit fascinating. Instead the person looked like she didn't understand a word the woman was saying.
Will I watch this costume drama? Probably not.
The White Lotus (2021)
Dropped the ball all the way around
Rich people are stupid
Rich people lose reality easily
so many folks did not deserve a happy ending in season 2.
Who is responsible for this total train wreck? They were paid too much even if they were making 9.00 an hour.
This would have been so much fun to manipulate. I could have done better with an etch a sketch
Half the time was spent in awkward pauses- the other half reinforcing wretched sexual patriarchy.
This series reinforces:
Men are slaves to available women, especially the expensive kind of women. This entire generational plot was amazingly annoying.
Where will we travel next season? Probably at a redecorated LaQuinta in outside Clearwater.
The Lincoln Lawyer (2022)
Who casts these shows?
Why did they show a garage full of Lincoln's when he had only two?
This just isn't the book. Read the book.
Too many things to list in the first episode. Will it get better? Don't know.
Stay Close (2021)
Why, Harlan, why?
This is one of his books I have not read. Is the book this aggravating?
This easily would have been 4 episodes at most. This script needs tighter writing.
The Pajama Game (1957)
I usually love musicals, but...
This musical had every unattractive performer they could find.
Doris Day looks ten years older than John Raitt and he seriously grew more handsome with age.
Lots of familiar tunes and a few they could write today.
This is hard to watch.
Dracula (2020)
Not a sexy thing about this Dracula
From the thick discolored nails to his middle of the road looks, I put off watching this as long as I could.
By the third episode there wasn't a thing that 'entranced' me.
Sadly, it was a DNF for me.
1922 (2017)
You get to a point there is nothing new to write
I get agitated that readers accept fairy tale retelling, but here goes the King serving up old cake.
Netflix's copy didn't even look dubbed correctly. The voice/mouth movements were all wrong.
I want my time back from waiting for something original.
The White Orchid (2018)
They tried but used the wrong cameras
This film wanted to be noir but is too crisp, sharp, colorful and unimaginably filmed to hit the mark.
It's distracting and seems brash.
Everything is bright and peppy.... No chance of noir (sad face)
Evening (2007)
They had to pay a ton for the talent
Too bad the secret got in the way. Honestly, the symbolism of the night nurse? A little heavy handed.
Did Harris father a child?
The ending pretty much stunk.
Dr. Death (2021)
It is choppy by scenes, but fascinating
Like a train wreck.
Peacock network temps you with three episodes then demands your pay for a monthly subscription.
Although the story is interesting, I'll find the book from the library and finish the story there.
Boo on Peacock baiting us as a free network.
The Haunting of Bly Manor (2020)
Insufferable and slow
Characters so flawed I just cannot care. Why drag something out when you could cover it all in 120 minutes?
An American in Paris (1951)
If a romance novel was a film, it would be this one
1951, take it for what it is. Don't impose 21st century logic on it. Enjoy the flawless grace Gene Kelly injects in every move.
Enjoy a woman who isn't a stick figure.
The music with sweep you away. The ballet section is the most sensual 18 minutes of film ever.
Dracula (2006)
Watch it for Dan Stevens and Sophia Myles
This is an interesting angle on the mythology however the actor chosen to play Dracula is so square jawed he is not easy to watch.
I've always thought Dracula should be entrancing and alluring.... The cult aspect is clever.....
But even with the costumes and the sets this is a stinker.