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OK - based on the recommendation of a certain Andrea, a long time ago, and as I had need of some mindless entertainment I thought I would give it a try.
Now, once the premise and the main characters are introduced the plot flies like an arrow to it's inevitable destination. Never have I been so unsurprised at a film - what amazes me is that anyone would think to discuss or recommend it. Absolutely - 100% predictable, with not a curve in sight.
So, even by the standards of B or C films it was completely appalling. I just needed a break from House M.D. and all I can do is find films that make me appreciate it all the more...
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Even by the standards set up in the premise and beginning, by the end of Season 4 I was done. Just a little too out there, the producers must have been thinking that because they got away with the first 3 seasons of this nonsense the audience wouldn't mind another.
Pure escapism, and never to anyplace pleasant.
But the cliffhanger, well, that just might see me downloading Season 5, although I should watch a few other things to cleanse my intellectual palate...
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This, upon being unfavourably impressed with "House", a little too predictable, the recommendation of my brother.
There's really very little science in it, and quite a bit of fiction a space opera without the intriguing aliens, based on outdated ideas abut human nature and ideology, all these cable networks, reality TV, Disneyfication of DEI, everyone in the world is an actor now, the characters ridiculous, the steam-punk “huntress” with her bow, the ridiculous languages with Russian Accents (how do you portray a villain? Bad accent...). That said it's visually stunning, with stellar computer graphics - first rate CGI, and it's hard to imagine acting all this against a green screen, but given the inane dialogue and ridiculous plots they're not acting too hard.
Anyways, Season 1 down and it's not grabbed me in the least. I completely disagree with Asimov's vision of the future, space-ship-go-hyperspace is not science and if we're to cross the interstellar abysses and colonize the entire Galaxy I think we'll be finding a lot more miracles than are here portrayed and our nature will need to evolve substantially to allow these wonders in...
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This was pretty bad. Lines of slight wit stripped by their delivery, entirely predictable plot lines, neither Schwarzenegger nor Stallone can act, but - amazing how well the jackbooted security guards (Ice Agents) at the prison and private enterprise investment in policing/incarceration (Palantir) have been represented - 2013 - and it’s only a decade later and it’s largely coming true in the US.
Bad movie, but prescient.
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Stymied by a lack of interesting film choices and prompted by the promise of a "Nobody 2" I downloaded this.
To sum it up briefly "Bob Odenkirk does John Wick". Kind of a cheap and cheesy rip off, I knew what I was getting into and so it would be unfair to be critical. Amusing, but pretty silly.
That said I was amazed to see Christopher Lloyd show up in it - I mean, he was old in "Back to the Future" and - well, 30 years older in this. AND - remember when he shows up to take Marty to the future - 30 years hence - and, skip the flying cars but look at the politics...
We've arrived - none of the promise, all of the downsides.