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Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1960)
Very dated and doesn't hold up well
Though the film had several big stars, I had to wonder what people thought of it at the time. During the 50s, if a man was having girl problems there would be a male sidekick who would say almost all the things that Spring Byington's character said. But then you could chalk it up to male chauvenism. But hearing it come out of Byington's mouth was like a slap in the face. I found the music and dancing pretty awful. David Niven was much better in "The Bishop's Wife". But Daisies is a truly painful movie to watch, getting more painful as it goes. It's hard to believe that it was converted into a TV series. I don't think the creators of that show watched it with a critical eye.
The Sea Hawk (1940)
Twisted history
The real reason England was in a precarious position was because of all the conspiracies to make England into a Catholic nation again. This is not mentioned in the film. All that is referred to is gold and jewels.
Gilmore Girls: Friday Night's Alright for Fighting (2006)
Logan
Why did the writers think that everyone wanted Rory and Logan to get back together? He was the most despicable of all the guys on the show. He was despicable in these episodes, and he was despicable in the follow-up they did later.
The Second Time Around (1961)
A little backwards
Arizona became a state in 1912.
Women didn't get the vote in 1920. Women could not have signed petitions or recalls or voted.
The plot couldn't have happened the way it was written.
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
READ THE BOOK!
Some of the visuals will help you imagine the action in the book. However, forget all the photography of the actors. What will matter is your imagination when you actually read the book.
Psych: An Evening with Mr. Yang (2009)
Overarching mysteries
Overarching mysteries are the worst. It was a development in several series that ruined my enjoyment of those series. I would like to see a regular episode ten times more than ones like this.
Murder, She Wrote: Witness for the Defense (1987)
His performance
Patrick McGoohan's performance in this episode is one of the reasons this series turned me off.
Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life (2016)
Everything quirky was ramped up
They took everything that was quirky about the original series and ramped it up - like it was on steroids. In the process they lost all that was sweet about the story.
Unsolved Mysteries: Washington Insider Murder (2020)
Newark
If only the "head detective" from Wilmington knew how to pronounce Newark. It was very annoying to hear him pronounce it incorrectly over and over and over again.
Also, if a living person is crushed in a garbage truck, I would think his injuries would be similar to being beaten up. Why was the autopsy result saying it was murder? I'd question the autopsy.
Hinterland (2013)
Overarching mysteries galore
I have come to dislike overarching mysteries intensely. Usually there is one per show or one per season (series in Britain). However, this show has TWO overarching mysteries. It nearly drove me crazy. I like shows like Columbo - one mystery per episode. It eliminates mysteries that go through the season or show.
Dead Ringer (1963)
Formulaic, over-acted, with terrible soundtrack
Poorly written with Davis going through the motions. The police are smarter than this. If someone was the last to see another person alive, the police would be hammering on them in an interview room. And the music makes it sound like a TV movie. Really hard to watch.
Echo in the Canyon (2018)
Would be better
It would be better if they just had done interviews and played the original music. The other music (recent remakes) are awful.
Gilmore Girls: The Deer Hunters (2000)
Love Gilmore Girls, Hate this Episode
They have used the "sleep late" tactic too much.
The deer hitting the car is hard to take.
And then even though she knows she's late she stops to try to help a deer that doesn't need helping.
And at the end she gets out of the car to look for it. The deer is gone. It's been hours. For it to be somewhere nearby it would have to have received a near-death injury.
Spycraft (2020)
Nucular
When all the people in the series pronounce "nuclear" correctly I'll raise my rating. VERY ANNOYING.
The Butler (2013)
It makes a statement about our current situation
If you don't take this as an accurate biography of the butler
and if you take some of the historical depictions with a grain of salt,
it's about as much as you can expect from this kind of movie. I found it spoke to the basic problems of our country from the 1920s through to the 1980s. Some people quibble about accuracy, but it's heart is in the right place. I enjoyed watching it.
Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey (2020)
Why is this movie so LOOOOONGGG?
Childrens movies are never over 2 hours. Something should have been cut. One thing I can think of is the woman who keeps coming on to the Forrest Whitaker character. Extremely annoying. Otherwise the movie is extremely boring.
Young Wallander: Episode 1 (2020)
Cartoonish
More like a graphic novel. The appearance of a drone is anachronistic. I was expecting this to be about when Wallander was young. Young policemen out of the academy are not promoted at the whim of a superior. They have to prove themselves. Disappointed.
Black Panther (2018)
Poorly written and Poorly directed and Poorly edited
Black Panther had potential, but the whole effort was mediocre at best.
The Aeronauts (2019)
"Inspired by" means don't expect any historical accuracy
If you are expecting a historically accurate film you will be annoyed after reading accounts of what happened in 1862.
Charlie Chan at the Olympics (1937)
Totally devoid of the reality of what was happening in Germany
By 1936 (the year of the Olympics), Germany was totally infused with the Nazi organization. The concept that the espionage was an underground minor thing, or that espionage was being accomplished by an arms dealer is farcical. The idea that the German police are cooperating with the investigation throughout is laughable. They would have been given instruction by the Gestapo.
Frasier: The 1000th Show (1997)
B-team writing
A VERY weak episode. I groaned during most of this episode. I expected better.
Ruby Herring Mysteries: Silent Witness (2019)
Cast and script fall short
The acting is poor, but the script is most of the problem. Whoever wrote this does not know police procedures. No detective would divulge anything to a reporter in the fashion portrayed, and no Medical Examiner would divulge to a reporter either. If any detective or ME did that, the DA would object strenuously, and their jobs would be on the line.
And the director should make sure people say cavalry rather than calvary. The actor who played the father said calvary twice when it's obvious that cavalry was meant.
Charlie Chan Carries On (1931)
Eran Trece
The only version of "Charlie Chan Carries On" I've found is one on Youtube which stars Manuel Arbó and is called Eran Trece. It is labeled on Youtube as starring Warner Oland, but Mr. Oland is not in this version.
Mozart in the Jungle: Not Yet Titled (2016)
This is what we're left with
First, why would anyone go to Riker's or any prison and play those pieces? What an orchestra should play is something more traditional than experimental. Why would the inmates be happy with that performance? The musicians could be the best in the world, but the pieces did not bring any beauty to them. The orchestra should have brought beauty into the prison - not something that has no form or beauty.
Second, is this what music has come to? Have all the beautiful classical music been written? Is it true that no one can write anything beautiful, because they would end up copying something written in the last 300 years? Is everything new experimental, and therefore ugly? No wonder orchestras play Mozart, Beethoven, Rachmaninov, and others who composed things worth listening to. Rock bands and other composers are sued (frequently enough) for copying some little part of a song that was recorded decades ago. Are today's classical composers afraid to be charged with "lifting" a portion of a work written decades or centuries ago? So they feel cornered into writing something "experimental" and therefore nonsensical?
Mozart in the Jungle: Symphony of Red Tape (2016)
SPOILERS included - Give me a break
I've been watching "Mozart in the Jungle", enjoying the music and the give and take of the main characters, but I was kind of disgusted by the episodes in Venice that seemed to have no purpose (why were all the main characters ending up in Venice), and by the strike. Don't get me wrong, a strike every now and then may be necessary, but it was the ham handed writing of the resolution that bothered me. Locking the front door of a church? What major building in a city only has one exit? Wouldn't that be against the fire code? The negotiation between the two women was OK, but the celebration at the end just seemed to lack any emotion. The writer(s) had to resolve it somehow before the end of the season, but - as I said - it was ham-handed and poorly written.