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The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (2022)
Worth it from this perspective!
Being a sixty-five year old stoke survivor with Autism Spectrum Disorder and ADHD, this program was worth watching if only to see Megan Richards , playing. Poppy Proudfellow, and looking strikingly like a younger John Candy playing, "Barf" in the Mel Brooks classic, Spaceballs.
It was otherwise a bit over winded and drab, except for an appearance by Michael Palin, who invigorates everything in which he stars. Or was that Benjamin Walker, as Gil-Galad, I'm not quite sure.
Owain Aurthur, as Durin IV the dwarf, mentioned in Variety, that he revisited a chapter in, "The Silmarillion," in preparation for this role - in shows. Excellent method actors generally are beloved more for their love of method, and Owain Aurthur has some great talent.
My only criticism of this series is in the cinematic disparity. In one scene, featuring Morfydd Clark, as elven-raced,Galadriel, and a very John Stewart from The Daily Show looking Ship Captain (perhaps of the obvious), who exclaims, "An Elf!", after searching beneath her hair, the cinematography is dull, but intercut before and after with proper camera work, lighting, abd dimension.
And apologies for giving anything away, it won't happen again.
Cheers.
Ghost Ship (2002)
Hey, Wait, I've got a new complaint
Haven't written a review here in almost ten years.
This stinker, seemingly edited by a juiced up food processor, was derelict in every way a movie can be.
It's another bad movie.
Words like, "film", "cinematography", "screenplay", "direction", "plot", "character development", "acting"?
None are represented meaningfully here. Granted, many would find it difficult, or even impossible, to write a movie review without such words. In truth, the one outstanding reason those words are used in this "review", is to meet the 600 minimum criteria.
Why? Why would someone take the time and effort to write this for all to see? Because these stinkers are industry parasites. Spend 20 million dollars to make 67 million, and slap on the biggest lie. "Success".
Saved you 91 minutes.
Thumper (2017)
Half believable/Half corney as heck
While the lead actor, Eliza Taylor, and others do well at building the chemistry between each other, this is only half of the film; the half that takes on the seamy underbelly of the Street drug dealing world seems contrived and the film suffers from a poorly written script, made-for-t.v. acting, and direction that seems scattered and poorly put together. Yes, it might have been a great film, but the focus of what the director presents seems tired and condescending to the viewer. That is, some of the film feels like it wants to build down-to-earth, close relationships between characters who seem sincere. The drug sub-culture parts of the plot displays a lack of understanding of the drug sub-culture and lingo. While this might have been finessed by employing less talk and more affect, the director fails to dovetail the human aspect with the moral one, makes it difficult to identify fully with any one of the characters. The subject matter ends up a drawn-out garbled message that was the main underplot of the entire project; the battle between separating good and evil from the grey emotional places in-between.This may have been better accomplished with less dialogue. Dialogue that sound more like a t.v. crime show rather than the decent indie-style film that it spends more time with. The half half that resembles a television series totally decimated what the character building phase accomplished. There is no happy medium. One comes away from the film feeling like hostages on a very slow, predictable amusement park ride - too long, too boring, and not worth the viewer's effort. Wish the entire crew the best, and hope that next time the director focuses more on overall continuity than wandering around taking us on an obvious message that spends too much time pretending the script is adequate, rather than spending time editing.
The initial idea was probably well-intentioned, but this subject matter, once bitten into, seems more than the professionals who made this can effectively chew. Overall very unsatisfying. Four stars only for efforts actor Eliza Taylor, who provided brief moments if engaging and captivating realism.
Nymphomaniac: Vol. I (2013)
First Review
Being an avid cinephobe, I feel qualified to offered an objective review. I am a Ph.D. Psychologist and feel it my duty to warn others to take this movie in stride. It offers a true, long, guttural, and languid portrayal of a large portion of mankind who focus their identities in a sexual realm. The nymph could be you, me, or anyone. Some of the screen writing and acting works, and when it does it does so splendidly. Some has the reverse effect. So much so that the negatives outweigh the positives. As much as you, I view reviews with contempt that say, "what a film this could have been."
As cliché as that is to say, it has never been as true as with "Nymphomaniac." On my word.