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The Letter for the King (2020)
How to ruin an all time favourite story
I cannot imagine to have ever been more disapointed by a film made from a book than this time. I read the book as a child, several times, I read it to my children and one day read it to my grandchildren. It is a heroïc story of a young adolescent coming of age and in no way whatsoever this can be seen in this poorly made sequel to Game of Thrones or LOTR (Tiuri's dad is Faramir ) The fairytale atmosphere is totally lost. In a way, I am happy they did such a bad job. This way I can easily keep the pictures I painted myself in the story. And maybe some day there will be someone who really understood what's the story about and make a decent movie out of it.
The Kominsky Method (2018)
Absolutely fabulous
A remarkable American series, The Kominsky Method, is currently on view at Netflix.
In short: Sandy Kominsky (Michael Douglas, 74 years old) gives acting lessons after a successful career as an actor, his agent and best friend Norman (Alan Arkin, 85 years old) loses his wife Eileen to cancer in the first episode. This is followed in the second episode by a hilarious funeral with Labelle and their legendary hit Voulez-vous coucher avec moi, an almost real Céline Dion and the entrance of Norman's 45-year-old 45-year-old daughter, Phoebe, a drunk and drug addict. Every episode is a rollercoaster of emotions.
Once you've recovered from all this completely non-American drama, you can hardly control yourself to go bingewatching. Still, I don't do that in order to be able to watch half an hour of entertainment at an unprecedented level every day for the time being. Because this series is not just anything.
In short, it defies any illusion about the fact that old age does not exist, something you actually see in all American series but also in real life America. A president of 73 is considered very normal, old age is not an issue in American life, while our poor Sandy is tinkering with his prostate and other old men's ailments and Norman is a bitterly angry old man who doesn't really seem to have become any wiser, in all those years. Sandy has a daughter, Mindy, an unheard of obese contrast to all the beautiful girls in his acting class. This girl's treasure is going to go down with a man who is barely any younger than Sandy and, if possible, has even more physical and mental problems than his 'father-in-law'. Meanwhile, the men take Norman's daughter to rehab (for the umpteenth time), Sandy gets his first ever boyfriend with a woman with wrinkles and teaches his expectant students, all of whom firmly believe in their chance of eternal fame. This includes scenes that you watch with a lump in your throat as you laugh the next moment.
Gradually it dawned on me that these acting lessons fit in seamlessly with the events in the episode itself. When Sandy asks his class what the difference is between drama and comedy, we come to the remarkable conclusion that there is no identifiable difference. Norman makes at the desk of the Frozen Yogurt Company where his daughter works in such a way as to apologize for his always angry behavior that you shoot tears in your eyes, and then he points out to her that she shouldn't forget the m&m's on his ice cream with which the whole seriousness of the situation has disappeared. And that's exactly the art of good drama: no crazy pelvis or meaningful faces to indicate that it's going to be fun / sad, it's purely and simply the interaction between people that makes you laugh or cry as a viewer. If that's what actors can do, they do well. A well thought-out script will help, as will legendary series such as Two-and-a-half men, Mike and Molly and The Big Bang Theory, of which Chuck Lorre (now 67) is also the creator and producer.
As older people get older, the confrontations in this series are sometimes almost unbearable. Disease, decay and death are lurking and the men don't give a damn about that. But it is like life itself, mercilessly, without frills, chillingly real. That there is also enough to laugh about is necessary so as not to drop out of the series. Or in life itself.
Dolly Parton's Heartstrings (2019)
Amazingly cliché
First of all,I admire Dolly Parton and some of her songs are in my top ten. So I was really looking forward to the series. I started of with Jolene and watched with growing disbelief this first episode. How many cliché can you stuff in one episode? I think about all of them. I managed It till the end but this will remain a one time dreadful experience. What a waste of good actors...and time.
The Intern (2015)
Lovely
Nice and warm movie with excellent actors. I was stunned reading other peoples bad reviews. I just loved it being not too predictable and leave you with a smile on your face in the end. Nothing more, nothing less. Absolutely not necessary to spend a 1000 words on criticizing a basically happy movie!
How It Ends (2018)
How it ends is how it ends
Very real and gripping film about some sort of Acopolipse and yes: this will be how it ends.