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At first I was laughing, I mean...
And then I found myself pausing it and wondering - who talked? I mean, I told no-one about my time in Finland...
Then it came to me. Eve, my daughter, she must have sold off the rights...
This is the Noble and True story of my life skillfully told. How it ended up on the screen I'll never know, and why I'm seeing it 3 years after it's release will require some explanation.
Anyways, once I overcame my initial misgivings I found myself frequently pausing the movie to relive and reconsider my life's choices.
This was great. A proper old-timey Saturday or Sunday Matinee.
When I was done, looking it up so I could share my story with the world, imagine how surprised I was to discover there's a sequel! Now it'll be like I can see into the future!!!
Trust me, you'll love it, you can watch the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2k4QAItiSA
Or just find and watch the damned film, trust me, you'll love it...
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This was a very charming Indie film, the story revolving around the rather socially maladroit Martha Plant who makers her living selling AC units in the desert, and burying treasure for a slight cash reward...
...Who befriends a homeless dis-institutionalized crazy woman who turns her life upside-down for the better...
Surreal, hilarious, great imagery and characterizations of otherwise dysfunctional people, about isolation and surreal moments of connection, sort of a cross between "Napolean Dynamite" and "Sorry to Bother You" - the biblical claymation scenes are amazing.
Better than "House M.D.", "Foundation", "The Purge", everything else I've watched lately and on a fraction of the budget...
Watch Online for free (sorry about the ads but ... free): https://youtu.be/AfGvYLf99fg?si=v1_Pe45Hpjvx8eaj
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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...