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The Spanish Princess (2019)
!0 Stars, but for its blatanly revisionist historical anachonicity.
Good story, well acted. Despite well intentioned but childish attempts to rewrite history for the purpose of "wokeness". There were no moorish households of nobility in the court of Ferdinand and Isabella. The only black people in Catherine of Aragon's entourage would have been slaves. Yes, there were black people, but they were not nobels. Also, portraying Catherine as a certain liar in regard to the consumation of her marriage to Arthur is inappropriate. Historians tend to afford her credibility on the matter, and indeed there has never been any evidence to suggest that she lied. Most accounts, though inconclusive, lend to her credibility. The least the writers could and should have done is portray it as an unknown. I have no issue with minor incongruities with history attributing to artistic license, but major revisionist history should never be undertaken in actual biographical/historical period drama simply to achieve casting diversity. They may just as well have cast Henry VIII as Chinese, as to portray the other characters as such. Its not a matter for interpretation, but one of well known historical record.
Gay Positive (2014)
Chock full of bad science and fallacies
This documentary is reliant on inaccurate information provided by people falsely presented as experts without any regard for the truth of why the ban was created, which has nothing to do with social morays and is based only on biological fact, statistical reality, cost efficiency, and has no social implication whatsoever. The entire premise is false and based in false assumption. Social justice has no place superceding medical fact.
Bones: The Blonde in the Game (2006)
"Jasper"? Should've named the pig "Hamate" (wrist bone}
Good episode with lots of twists. Given the context, I'm surprised they didn't name the pig Hamate (after the wrist/hand bones) instead of Jasper........................................................
Family Guy: The Blind Side (2012)
Wait... Adam West is a cast member, and they did a Batman cut-away using a different voice actor?
Would've given 9 or10 stars if they hadn't done the Batman cut-away with a different voice actor when the original Batman, Adam West, is already a cast member. They should've used West for the Batman voice, even if it had to include some kind of comment to point out the similarity to the mayor's voice. Not using West is at least a 2 star penalty.
The Godfather Part III (1990)
Would be 10 stars without Sophia Coppola
I guess, if your pop is Francis Ford Coppola, you don't need talent to get a major supporting role in the sequel to the two greatest movies ever made. Sophia Coppola is maybe the wost actress I've ever seen. Yes, WORST EVER. Other than that, I thought the movie was worthy... even if not quite measuring up to I & II. I'm mainly reviewing the original Godfather IIII, as I thought his re-cut, Coda, was a misguided mistake. Changing the end was a terrible idea. It was the most moving scene of the movie in the original. I'm maybe the least outwardly emotional bear on the planet, who never gets choked up over movies, and that scene from the original GF Part III choked me up and made my eyes water. So, the newer "Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone" re-cut version only gets one star because they chopped the most significant scene of the movie. The original cut gets 10 stars, but is docked 1 star because of how terrible the director's daughter was in it.
Dexter: Teenage Wasteland (2010)
Jonny Lee Miller's fake American accent was painful
Miller is an excellent British actor, but his American accent is absurd. He sounds like some weird cartoon villain.
Otherwise, the show is excellent as always.
No Time to Die (2021)
I won't even watch it, in protest. They have no right.
What if, God forbid, the people who made Bond films in the 70's had let Roger Moore take him to the grave? Bond is perpetual, for all generations to experience in their own idiom. How dare they end it all?
The Unit: Gone Missing (2007)
No, Sorry. The Army doesn't select privates from basic training to promote to OCS. Critical plot element error
I thought this show was supposed to have actual military technical advisors? Apparently they didn't on this episode. I don't mind the errors in minute military details which don't become central to plot elements, but they really should have researched something that they made into a plot element. The Army doesn't promote enlisted privates to send to OCS to becaome officers. Such a blatant plot error may seem small to some, but blows up the entire plot for anyone with actual military experience. Also, s'he didn't graduate college, which would have prevented her from joining as an officer to attend OCS. Enlisted personel who become officers, short of a battlefield promotion, which doesn't really happen in the modern army, normally do so because they were able to complete a college degree while enlisted. I really hate it when writers creat a plot event out of such an obvious error.
Bones (2005)
Boreanaz and good scripts carry the show. Deschanel is a boat anchor
It is painfully obvious that Emily Deschanel "acts" only from cue cards, reading them as if, on rough seas, spying them precariously through a telescope while having never actually laid eyes on the script prior to the camera roll. Without Boreanaz and other professional actors ability to carry her through each scene, the show would have flopped in the first season. Observing her lack of acting prowess is painful, as a toothache which throbs with each line of dialog she delivers. With any actress of the slightest competency the series would deserve 10/10 stars, due to outstanding stories with well conceived scripts and an otherwise amazing cast, direction, and production. Only Deschanel's migraine inducing, pitiful, toothache of a performance, worthy of 1/10 stars, brings the series' rating below perfection. She's just a horrible actress.
The Sopranos: Made in America (2007)
BEST SERIES EVER-WORST SERIES FINALE EVER!
If you watch this series, expect the way the finale ends to ruin the whole thing and make you wish you could un-watch all 6 seasons. Its like someone just pulled the plug on your TV in the middle before it ends.
Blow the Man Down (2019)
Vague ending. Erratic plot development. Could've been great, with better writing
Great concept. If not for bad writing, could've been a great movie. I was struggling to focus my attention throughout the movie, to contend with the erratically developed plot progression, only because the premise was intriguing. It was like doing dental work while riding a bull. The vague and completely unsatisfying ending made me wish I hadn't bothered. Good performances by cast, especially considering the poor script they had to work with.
Dexter: Remember the Monsters? (2013)
Series: 10 stars... Series finale ending: 0 stars
Its almost as if the writer of the last 5-10 minutes of the series finale hadn't written or even watched the rest of the series or even the rest of the same episode.
There was no plot necessary reason for Deb to die if Harrison and Hannah lived and he faked his death to go be a lumberjack to get away from the people he loved for their own safety. The series could have ended the same way, but with Deb alive to be available for a reboot later.
For that matter, there was no logical reason for him to fake his death. He was already leaving his life with Deb and friends behind to live on another continent with his kid and serial killer wife, having already (in the same episode) conquered his "need" to kill by realizing that the cover life he had created had become real- and a greater force than the need to kill.
It could have ended in a much more satisfying way if he had simply joined Hannah & Harrison in Argentina as planned, in a flash-forward with a recovering Deb contently receiving an anonymous postcard from Argentina.
It would have made more sense that way, as the core of entire series was Dexter's relationship with Deb juxtaposed against his dark side. The upcoming season 9/series reboot won't be the same without that irreplaceable dynamic, which can't possibly be replaced in a single reboot season of 10 episodes as planned. I predict this ending kills the season 9 reboot, which should be titled "beating the dead horse".
Stargate: Continuum (2008)
Not bad. Must see for SG1 fans. Flawed timeline premise.
The premise of the movie is based on the flawed "grandfather paradox", in that Baal supposedly changed the current timeline by thwarting discovery of the Stargate on earth, causing SG1 never to have existed and Cameron Mitchell never to have been born. The fact that it is meant to have eliminated the current timeline is evidenced by the fact that people and placed resulting from the existence of the Stargate program disappear from the current timeline.
In fact, changing past events would have created an alternate timeline without any evidence being apparent in the original timeline and voiding the premise of SG1 rushing to the gate and returning to an unfamiliar timeline. The theory of alternate timelines is that new timelines resulting from alternate versions historical events happening requires that the original timeline continues unnoticed to its inhabitants.
That all said, it's still worth seeing for nostalgic purposes of ardent fans, even if the story arc is limited and short sighted.