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Fisherman's Friends (2019)
I wanted to move back to Cornwall
Anyone who knows Cornwall will love it. I loved there for a short time, and this was a wonderful view of my favourite county. Also a great story, well acted and well written.
Black Panther (2018)
Not a bad film, just not good compared to other MCU
SPOILER: I am on a catch-up watching films I've missed before seeing Infinity Wars, so I watched this back-to-back with two other MCU films. On it's own it would stand up fine, but compared to them it is not great. Far from bad, just not up there. 6/10 is about right: worth watching, but don't pick it over anything interesting.
I do like one decision, which is to make the black characters, "good" and "bad", super racist.
They make the evil South African look racially tolerant and benevolent, and the CAA operative look positively angelic (although being Martin Freeman with an American accent, a bit odd). This is an essential idea for the mythos and plot. The Wakandans are racist against tribes from other nations in the region, who they refuse to help, and a little bit racist towards the fifth Wakandan tribe; the opponents are racist in thinking Wakanda should help black Americans just because they, too are black.
No side is very sympathetic therefore, which makes for an interesting plot and a film in which you invest in individual characters, not in "sides" because the sides (of which there are three) are all based on different bigotries
Blockers (2018)
Utter garbage
Wow. How someone professional can write such turgid dross? How can actors be paid so well yet not bother? Well, that is kind of excusable, given the terrible script. However the professional wrestler is the only one who is able to act in this, and even he is so saddled with poor script and bizarre action and decisions that even he does not come across as a real person.
The only reason this gets good reviews from the pros is that it injects hard-left, feminist rhetoric that they agree with into the dialogue, which jars, it doesn't fit in unless the characters are utter political boors, who would be tedious to actually spend any real time with.
The Indian Detective (2017)
Most not-overblown police drama you'll ever see
Great show. Thoroughly understated, this flows really well and feels far more real than most police drama. No artificial-feeling "clues", no CSI-type reliance on science, just am outsider looking at what has happened and talking to people.
Almost all the negative reviews complain about the actress's Hindi. Since 95% of the people watching have no idea what Hindi should sound like this is completely immaterial. As for stereotyping Indians: I felt the Indians came across well. The criminals, including the corrupt cop, some across as intelligent and capable but not unrealistically so, or as greedy, selfish and venal (as some murders are) and the honest people come across well, as decent people who happen to live in a relatively poor country with a different culture.