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wadebednarick
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Marie Antoinette (2022)
Immerse yourself in this
This brought me right in completely.
We get the viewpoint from her experience entering the new life she must fulfill. The acting did not ever leave me wanting. I am trying to commit to not watching the last episode because I am liking the two as presented more than anyone in the production. Not because of their acting but surely because the characters were loathsome. Pretty much everyone besides the two had dodgy traits. This is a story that makes us appreciate not having to live the life of aristocracy. I'll make an exception to the food though; Who wouldn't. Everything it takes to make a production like this was so well done. Even the most simple moments were essential like her toying with the bug on the window express volumes about the sort of life this was. I have only watched the first episode and already I'm immersed.
Stan Helsing (2009)
I had fun watching this..
That is all, just fun, and I kept watching so there. It wasn't epic drama or Shakespeare. Sometimes you just want to have fun watching a silly movie. Holy crayola six hundred characters to write a review? What is this English Literature class? I'm not writing a mid-term here, eh. You know what I don't even want to read a review that's six-hundred characters long. I would also like to thank the ladies costume department. If you are looking for something to finish off your popcorn and daiquiris this should do it just fine. You can turn out the lights because this will not scare you. So make some popcorn and daiquiris and let it roll.
NCIS: Los Angeles (2009)
Watched through the years on and off. It was a good escape for a while.
Mainly because I am not the type to catch every show by planning my week around a tv show. This one was interesting but the last few times/ years even it seems they are getting lazy. The writers maybe the most I don't know, it's just lost the beat. It's become the old New Bakery on the way that lost it's way; got rid of the baker and now depends on the staff. Also I lose interest in shows that try to take on the real issues of the day. It feels like they are trying to resolve those topics for us. Take us somewhere else. Blase'. Prosaic. I am Sorry 'bout that. ~w.
The Ray Bradbury Theater: The Murderer (1990)
Ray wrote this before 1953!
It's so amazing that he predicted so accurately how people are stuck on their technology now. There are people that have cultured themselves vie their phone and their digital lifestyle that they often are at a loss of what to do during actual in person interactions. When they don't know what to do they stare into their phone. The house and appliances talking to you. The cell phone going off even though he's at his place of work during a work video call. No more details, I'll just say that there are people today reacting almost exactly as the main character does although they don't seem to be conscious of it. Ray was my first serious read interest after comic books in my pre-tween years. It is truly amazing that he wrote this perhaps even as early as the nineteen-forties. He updated some details for the 1990 tv episode. The original write was forty years of age at that point! We barely had television yet or jet airplanes. A wristwatch ran off a wound up spring. How he could see this coming is really imaginative. Maybe the people arguing about whether to put radios in cars inspired him to write this. Yeah there was a time when it was hotly debated if there should be radios in automobiles. It's very encouraging that during the black and white days that there was Ray with his vivid imagination seeing reality so clearly. There were probably others like him but he wrote those thoughts into stories for us. Thank you Ray! (This review submitted 9/19/2021) I read at first in the 1970's.
Get Smart (2008)
Would you believe five stars and a Junior Mint?
It was good entertainment. It was apparent they worked really hard on this. If I could get a re-do I think French Stewart would have fit the role of Smart like a painted on surgical glove.
Match Game (2016)
Difficult to Watch, I think I'm done
(dramatization) This new version of the Match Game is sooo bad ((HOW BAD WAS IT?!)) Well let me tell you, It's so bad it's the only game show ever to be nominated to receive the "______" Award!
Panelist #1? "Serving to explicate the true nature of it I said, "The Golden Upchuck Award", #2? "Oh honey they got The Cow Chip Award", #3? "The all famous and sometimes absolutely needed Gong Award (written on three cards with a drawing of a cracked gong when hit)", #4?"The Quick Find the Remote Award", #5? "I happen to have heard they received The Darwin Award", and #6 what did you say? "It's what I got in junior high swim class, The Belly Flop Award".
Everyone including the host seems to be half there. The buzzer is very annoying and too loud. The music sounds like it was left in the wash too long; it's the original music bleached out to a droning howl like it's on a small radio way down a brick hallway but turned up louder to make it that far. The questions were as fun as adverts left up on an online classifieds website way after the expiration date and you wish they'd finally delete them so they'd quit popping up. A low volume and non-capital letters~booo. (sorry 'bout that.) Please put Gene's Microphone back in the display case. Sincerely ~ wb.
Fractured Fairy Tales (1959)
Quantum uncertainty principle applied to Fairy Tales
These multi-verse versions of common fairy tales with diabolical subterfuge are really made for the adults that watched along with their children. The irreplaceable Narration by Edward Everett Horton completes the signature coat of varnish. At the Top of the list of all cartoon series ever seen by me. The music prepared you for what was about to unfold. Each story leaves you in a strange state of glad gratitude that the villainous got their due. The concept of this was genius. All the creative minds that were involved with this should be praised. The artwork and animation express the alternate nature of the stories. These are collectors quality.
Law & Order: Organized Crime (2021)
Phoned it in?
The continuity was difficult to follow. Eg. Some guy we didn't know was a cop stops the expensive car, we don't know why he runs into a building joining a team we don't know why the girl in the car runs in after he leaves the car, she does nothing but run around and makes a phone call, cut to him getting in the car she's in the car we don't know what she did, why she hid the fact that she left the car he doesn't give any clue to what was going on inside. They are x lovers and that was the only thing that was conveyed with any clarity. I can't say this is a spoiler because they revealed nothing, total non-story.
I worked in a movie theater in my twenties. I like to write as I watch to see what other story lines I would come up with. But there was nothing to write along with here. In the theater we would call bad movies a "pile" because with no patrons and a bad movie we would eventually forget to take care of the film and it would end up piled up on the floor of the projection room. This show is one of those. A Pile. My apologies for having to critique it like this. But quit focusing on the catering and the elbow rubbing and make your art. Did you get the incidental music from Dr. Who?
Toon in with Me (2021)
Round of Applause
I like the banter among the host and crew. It brings a refreshing effect while watching the cartoons. Many (and maybe all actually) of the cartoons chosen are older than I am and I remember thinking that Popeye for example, was not as good as the others maybe because of color vs black and white. But now I see that they really worked a lot into those and I am way more impressed with the artwork. The crew is like a cross of Svengoolie and Mystery Science Theater 3000. They do pay tribute with having a Svengoolie test pattern on one of the nineteen televisions. I'd like less of the most played cartoons because the 'toons that got most re-run time were a bit homogenized/pasteurized with the artwork. I'm a fan of artwork. I'm a painting artist. Thanks and well done everyone!
Rockula (1990)
1980's style all the way!
First of all most of the stars from me are for Toni Basil as Mom. She gave the best acting performance for the film.
I was also happily surprised that Bo Diddley was the cigar box guitar playing blues/rock guy in the band.
Then the rest of the film: Perfect example of all the things someone that was teens or twenties in the eighties to make them embarrassed.
Embarrassed as we are for it it is the way things were. I only just now in 2020 watched it on television mostly because, as television is great for, it simply was on and running. At first I was thinking okay lunch is over can I shut it off. Just then It got better when I got to see what the kids real look was. I laughed and finished watching it with a good boost.
Hee Haw (1969)
Everyone I knew liked HeeHaw!
Whenever this show came on everyone that was over came to the living room to watch. If there were family, grandparents, the youngest, any neighbors all gathered around to watch when it was on. The total ridiculous nature of it was the charm. When I hear so many of the songs that I learned about on Hee Haw I get all kinds of memory spikes and I still laugh out loud when I see the re-runs playing on Circle Tv. I was five years old when it first started up. My grandparents owned a tavern in Wisconsin and my Uncle and Aunt owned a tavern too so often times I was watching it with a bunch of locals sittin' in the bar along with a bunch of my own family. I sure do like those ol' memories and yes I loved this show too. "That's all"