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A Murder at the End of the World (2023)
It is very boring
I don't understand the high scores. 9.0 for the first episode. That is "Godfather" and "Shawshank redemption" scores.
The first five minutes were okey; and I thought this has potential. But then it started going south. I can't complain on most details - the acting is good. As is the music and the photo.
But the story is not interesting. And above all - it is slow. It's like watching a half interesting documentary on Youtube and watching it on 25% speed. The little interest there was, gets lost in low speed.
I can handle slow movies, but then the story must be catching and everything else on place.
OK, the series debuted on Disney today, so I guess (and hope) it is just the most dedicated fans who have rated it so far. Good luck watching it, but I reccomend you not to. Just watched one episode and won't bother watching any more.
Ted Lasso (2020)
It's so good. And I'm not sure why.
I am an Action, Sci-Fi and Documentary guy. Don't like Drama. Except for Doc Martin. And now Ted Lasso.
Everything is good with this show. The story is good. Casting is excellent. And performances great. Jason Sudeikis shines.
I think the reason Ted Lasso is such a good show is:
- It has several underdog features. Ted Lasso, as a college American Football coach, coaching a premium Soccer team in England. Nathan Shelley. And the team itself, which has underperformed the last season.
- It has en evolving story, where each episode has a story, but it is also weaved into the next episode and adds to the whole story.
- The characters evolve with the story, which makes it interesting and also make you understand that they are not static and that things may change.
- The Ted Lasso character, who is so kind no matter what challenges and hate he meets. That is enigmatic, because when you think of it: how can a person who is so sympathetic and understanding also be so unresponsive to setbacks and rudeness? That doesn't make sense; but the writers and the Jason Sudeikis pull it off and you buy it.
- Also, it is not political or woke.
Anyhow. It is a great show and I would recommend it to anyone.
Ricky Gervais: SuperNature (2022)
What did Netflix edit out?
The show is pretty good. A few giggles here and there. A few laughing out louds. And a few jokes that wouldn't have made it just a couple of years ago.
A few times, after a really non-woke joke Ricky concludes: "This won't Netflix' editing room". And I guess he would have been right a year ago. Or two. There is a change in the wind.
At the same time, one wonders: what jokes where actually cut out by Netflix. I'd like to hear those! The show is just a tad over one hour, so I guess some is actually missing.
Should mention, that there a two sections, a few minutes a piece, that are not funny. I had to fast forward through them. That's OK, I could accept one hour show if it's just one really, really good joke in it. And in this one, there are plenty!
Ojing-eo geim (2021)
It is not even worth a bad review
I managed to watch it for 15-20 minutes. Bad acting. Hysterical.
In the first 15 minutes you should at least get some indiction that this may be worth watching. It could be a surprise (like the first minutes of the "Travellers" or "The Blacklist") or the beautiful settings (like in the Shire in LOTR) or familiar but at same time alluring and somewhat sinister (like the first Alien movie and the Fargo series).
This is nothing like that. I can't imagine it becomes any better. And then keeping in mind that some reviewers even think the first episode is okey, while it then goes worse. Brrrr.... Stay away.
Palm Springs (2020)
Another prepubertal Hollywood movie
A true stand up comedian can deliver jokes and get laughs without going under the belt. It's my definition of a good stand-up comedian.
It is the same with comedy movies. Is the fantasy and humour so bad in Hollywood these days, that they can't do nothing but putting a humiliated masturbating man in the first scene to laugh at?
And how can this movie be rated at 7,4? Are you guys rating it 12 years old?
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)
A serious disappointment
First, I want to say that I loved the LOTR trilogy. The spirit of the movie is close to the spirit of the books, even though the action scenes are more dominant in the films.
The Hobbit has a completely different spirit than the LOTR trilogy. Though I am adult, and the Hobbit is considered a children's book, I enjoy it a lot. I have read the book a couple of times and listen to it (as an audio book in Swedish, with a very talented reader) and it is just a wonderful journey.
Both the story-telling and the story itself has a great number of intricate and humorous moments. With Peter Jackson's talent of making the LOTR trilogy into the three movies I had great expectations of the Hobbit movie. Unfortunately, PJ has just made another LOTR-movie which has very little to do with the Hobbit.
In my point of view, the greatest moment of the book was when the dwarfs, Bilbo and Gandalf visited Beorn. For the movie, I just couldn't wait to see how PJ had tackled the big hassle Gandlaf had to introduce all the dwarfs to Beorn. In the book, he had to introduce them two by two, during a long period of time. Just to make Beorn comfortable with so many visitors. PJ left this wonderful scene and changed it to an action scene, where the company just sieged Beorns house and didn't let him in. That makes the film story to something completely different than the book.
Then, I was curious whether the company would be served by animals, as they are in the book. That could have been a challenge, and PJ didn't take it, but placed a normal cow and goat in the kitchen and living room.
If you are around 13 years old, never read a book and obviously not the Hobbit, and love to play Grand Theft Auto - this might be a decent movie to watch. Otherwise: skip it.
The only positive thing with the PJ:s movie being so bad and so far from the book, is that there is room for a REAL The Hobbit movie in the future!
Kronjuvelerna (2011)
All ingredients for a Swedish 2011 PC-movie
If you are a white lower middle age father and husband watching this movie with your wife and daughter - don't expect this movie to be for you. Unless you are a masochist who enjoys being described as the root of the evil on this Earth.
This movie has it all:
Evil white male capitalist -- check. Evil white male raping his own wife -- check. Evil white male racist -- check. Dysfunctional white family -- check. Spiritual immigrant family -- check. Wonderful, caring immigrant husband -- check. Wonderful, caring and spiritual immigrant mother - check. White teenagers harassing retarded immigrant child -- check. Gay marriage -- check. Interracial gay marriage -- check.
I guess these are the ingredients you end up with, when you are funded by a highly political, left-wing liberal, public Swedish Film Institute which acts on the orders from the Swedish government. (As may be known. the Swedish prime minister (in 2006) said (freely translated): "the only thing original Swedish' is barbarism - everything good comes from the outside").
So, why do I give the movie 3 (out of 10)? I think the filming and directing is good. Also, the acting is really good from all actors, not at least by Loa Falkman (the evil white middle-aged male). Jesper Lindberger, playing the boy with Downs Syndrome gives the film its warmth.
If you are a white, left wing liberal female, between 14-60 years old - you will love this movie!
Battlefield Earth (2000)
Acceptable SF saga
If you haven't seen this movie before and you like SF - go see it. It is on the upper end of the continuum of SF movies. A 2.3 rate is just a bad joke - an evidence of humans "flock instinct". Myself, I really dislike Scientology. (In the same way I don't like narcotics - but that doesn't mean I don't enjoy Beatles' music.) It was a long time since I watched the movie so I cannot properly comment it. I just remember I liked it. I would say between 6-7 on a 10-scale. If you want to see a bad SF movie. Go see "Cyborg 2.
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
It didn't move me
I have never read the books, and I hope that explains why I am not at all thrilled by the Ring. There is not a single character in the movie that gets me hooked. I mean, it is a movie about good and evil, aren't you supposed to get involved so much that you at least feel something?
The CGI is impressive, but since the story is so confusing and non-involving, it just serves as fireworks.
I watched it on the theatre, but if I had rented it, I doubt that I would have seen all of it.
5 out of 10 from me. And 2 of them goes to the big cave monster. And 1 to Gollum.