Watched 2024.
Wow, this is one of the most boring movies of all time. Chalamet and Zendaya are OK as actors when the scene is dark (which is most of the movie), but once they are in the light, they look like middle school kids. It is practically impossible to tell one reverend mother from another. The best moment of the movie was when "Paul" tells one of the rev moms to shut up.
Watched 2010-ish.
Lots of funny moments in each episode, with quirky (sometimes unrealistic) characters. Lots of racy humor and 1990s British pop culture references. Active churchgoers will find good church humor, and an occasional jab at the politics of the Church of England.
It is unclear why IMDB says this ran until 2020. Maybe there was a reunion episode or something like that.
Watched reruns during the 1970s, then the full series in the 2000s.
Episode 1 showed great promise. 2-6 are OK, but many sloppy plot devices. Like, Straker complaining about security, but all locks are easily picked with a paper clip. The writers want to show the advances in race relations of the '60s, but women are treated like dirt. Still, there are some cool glimpses of the future from the eyes of the '60s, and it's so much fun to watch sci-fi TV without the Sci-Fi network's constant commercials. Final half of season 1 (there is only one season) was disappointing. 26 episodes in all. I was 12 in 1970, and all those short skirts are a schoolboy's dream.
Watched 2013.
I watched season one and do not care to continue. There is no promise that the apocalypse can ever be truly resolved, only that these poor schlubs will trudge on from one zombie horde to the next, and from one useless survivor to the next. Battlestar Galactica 2004 is a better apocalypse series.
Watched 2007-10.
Quite stylized with its ornate costumes and settings.
Season 1 - 6/10 - I didn't see much of peasant life outside the Court, and according to other reviews, there are historical inaccuracies. If you like soap opera melodramatics, you'll like this. Lots of fornication, but the language is not too bad. Season 1 ends as a cliffhanger with major issues unresolved.
Season 2 - 7/10 - Darker and better than season 1. Costumes remain lavish. Watch for a hilarious brief encounter between the Pope and Michelangelo (a welcome break from the grim storylines). I remain disappointed that there are no depictions of peasants and others outside of court, and it's hard to understand how much time is passing (which must be months between each episode). The season is overall 7/10, but the season 2 finale is one of the greatest hours of TV that you will ever see.
Season 3 - 8/10 - I'm glad that season 3 has many scenes with commoners, and not just nobility. Season 3 is as good as previous seasons, except nothing can compare with the final episode of season 2.
Season 4 - 7/10 - Light on the history and political intrigue, heavy on the s-e-x.
The Royal Wedding of Will and Kate
Watched 2011.
The family members looked great and the crowd behaved well. The Anglican Church of England let us down by not including a female priest.
Watched 2020.
This is alternatingly dark and glorious. Yes, it is too fantastic that a young girl can gain such international prominence in the chess world, and I wish there could be more technical discussions of chess. Some plot directions could be guessed, but the details were, as I said, glorious.
Watched 2014.
It drags a bit for over an hour before finally divulging the scholars' conclusions, but it is an objective treatment of a topic that probably irks many Christians.
Watched 2024.
Unfortunately, the description of this movie (in the TV schedule listing) explains the only important plot twist (the identity of the vampire), and the rest is generic vampire gore. The supposedly professional criminals break every operational rule they insist they should follow, but of course this doesn't matter since the vampire magically knows everything. The appearance of the big boss vampire was unsatisfying.
Watched 2024.
The imagined ghostbusting technology was ok, although if the writers had imagined Dan Akroyd using a paranormal phone app (like everyone in the world uses an app for everything in 2024), that would have been better. Instead, the writers stuck with traditional chessboards and brick-and-mortar library geek jokes. This was like a mediocre comedic episode of Stranger Things, but Mckenna Grace is not the next Millie Bobby Brown (but Kumail Nanjiani was funny).
Watched 2024.
The future-AI, sci-fi plot was actually respectable, but the casting of JLo was poor. She is supposedly an anti-social genius AI programmer who argues her way into a military guerilla mission and then spends the whole movie complaining that she is just an "analyst" who should not be on a military guerilla mission. Suspend belief that one of the hottest babes on any planet is anti-social. JLo covers 98 km on foot with an AI-bot running on a supposedly dead power source that magically lasts the whole movie, even after the bot is intentionally damaged.
Watched 2024.
Cute and funny, appealing to baby boomers in the early 2020s, nothing profound.
Watched 2024.
I can't really give more than an 8 to something that has no plot. Each episode is a vignette, but even in that short format, it would be nice to have more ongoing character development of certain recurring characters. Some episodes are great, some are OK. The recurring characters are endearing (even the mobsters and sex workers), but they don't evolve from episode to episode except in a couple rare cases.
Watched 2024.
This film is recognized as a great film that argues for evil. In the end, fabricated events glorify the KKK and white supremacy. In some ways, the mistreatment of blacks is accurate, but it is justified through fabricated scenes with fabricated crimes by blacks. It is unclear why DW Griffith would bend history that much except to achieve some racist objective.
Watched 2024.
Comedy:8 - Romance:1 - Drama:1 - Action:9 - The funny bits were really funny, and this movie is really all about action stunts, but there is little plot.
Watched 2024.
It takes several episodes for the viewer to figure anything out. The character's personal dramas and motivations are childish. The plot has many technical holes; I was always left wondering how a person got into the right place at the right time. It's always fun to watch Godzilla stories, and the special effects are great, but the plot proceeds very slowly.
Dune: Part 2 Watched 2024. Wow, this is one of the most boring movies of all time. Chalamet and Zendaya are OK as actors when the scene is d...
