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Jodi Arias: Dirty Little Secret (2013)
They NAILED it! This was Spectacular. Riveting. Brilliant.
This was BRILLIANT. Both actors nailed these parts and they were both very difficult to pull off. But they were utterly convincing and I think this TV movie was smashing. Not at all clichéd and stuck to the facts that I know of the case, having followed it, from London, for the last two years.
Jesse Lee Soffer not only got Travi's charm and obvious boy next door magnetism, but he also successfully reminded us that Travis was a flawed character, certainly sexist, perhaps ambitious at the expense of others, but most of all bound and brainwashed by his particular religious brand of zombieism, Mormonism. Also, it was clear from the show that the two of them had a very very powerful connection that went beyond the physical. Travis liked Jodi for quite a while, and intermittently throughout the saga. We like her too, in this reconstruction. We consider her point of view. At times we are totally on her side even.....until, of course, that fateful, epic, bloody road trip.
Production values are serious and classy and very effective. This is no regular daytime TV true story. This is a highly accomplished piece of work and everyone involved can be very proud of what they achieved. Im looking forward to seeing these two lead actors in other material.
I'm very fussy about I watch and what I enjoy and I give this an unreserved 10/10
Drive Angry (2011)
Beyond Bad
I was dragged to this by my mates. This is possibly the WORST movie I have ever seen. Don't even waste your money. I don't know what is going on with Nicholas Cage. After years of rubbish, he redeemed himself for me with Bad Lieutenant, and then he goes back to this nonsense. He has no shame. This movie plays into every cliché in the book and poorly at that. Clichés can work if they are done well, but everything about this dross is offensively bad.
Did he not read the script?? There is not one piece of decent dialogue in the whole thing. I think Nicholas Cage must be a really dumb ass person with no brain to see a script like this and agree to do it. What little respect I had for him is gone. He's clearly an idiot.