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Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
Boring until the end
Utterly boring and waiting for some action until a great action scene near the end. Bought in 4K with atmos but nothing in it to demonstrate the benefit of the technology.
Toon Sandwich: Game of Thrones Season 6 (2016)
Not good enough
Why do they use minutes of made up dialogue with sub titles shown so fast that you need to be a speed reader and thus cannot take it in? They should start the conversation in the strange dialogue if they like but continue in plain English. I don't know how anyone with English as their second language, or oldies like me can cope.
This series is a disappointment compared to the previous. It seems they ran out of ideas until episode 8 to 10 and did, what seems to be the fashion these days, edit it into short truncated scenes so that no suspense was generated.
All in all a poor show and the dwarf is too nice.
The Hateful Eight (2015)
I liked it a lot.
Oh dear. I almost missed this film having read several of the reviews but could not equate them with an average of 8 on IMDb so decided to chance it. SO GLAD I DID! One of the best 3 films seen in the last 12 months and the most interesting and engaging.
Over three hours but I did not notice the time and did not even fidget. I found it an interesting. engaging, enjoyable, humorous, beautifully filmed and choreographed, well acted, story based film, wondering what will happen next as it is full of surprises. It's not a film for those who are not so interested in story but think action is the be all and end all like the last Captain America or the Fast and Furious series, even thought 7 was not too bad. Nevertheless it has quite a few shocks and had my partner clutching my arm a few times. It's definitely a story based film with enough action to satisfy action fans like me.
Midwinter of the Spirit (2015)
What a poor effort
Having read all the books & was expecting, if their author had anything to do with the production, characterisations close to the book, especially since they are described in detail, together with the humour and local feel for character that is amply explored in them. This production had nothing to do with that and was a poor representation of the story. Even if I had not read the books I would have been annoyed by the music drowning the speech and the central characters lifeless performance. She is much better in other things.
ITV need to do better if they make further series from these books and need to involve the author, which I assume they did not do this time.