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A Walk in the Woods (2015)
So Dull
I haven't read the book, so I wasn't expecting anything in particular from this film, but I *did* expect it to be interesting, full of spectacular scenery, and to have some decent dialogue. At best, this movie is inoffensive, and at worst, it is just boring.
The premise looked promising and the stars looked reliable, but in the end the film lacked bite and the characters didn't hold my interest. There's a reason I don't watch Hallmark movies, and this one is on par with those, unfortunately.
Oh well, there were one or two shots of nice scenery.
Danny Collins (2015)
Just OK
The first few minutes of this film were interesting enough to capture my attention, but then it rapidly became dull.
Pacino was unconvincing as a rock star, even a sort of sleazy Neil Diamond-ish or Paul Anka-ish type. I didn't find much wrong with his acting, just his casting. The other actors were all great, especially Annette Benning, but the story line was uninteresting and clichéd. It seemed much longer than the 106 minute run-time and near the end I was just hoping it would be over soon. Nothing terribly wrong with this movie, but nothing terribly right, either. It didn't delight or excite, I didn't learn anything new, I wasn't moved by it.
Cristela (2014)
Couldn't even finish watching one episode
I thought this might be a bit like "The Mindy Project", which I find (mostly) charming and amusing because it is character-driven humour. Cristela, alas, is stereotype-driven humour, which is to say, it is humourless.
The laugh-track (or audience, not sure which) is annoying (let me be the judge of what is funny), stealing jokes from Winston Churchill (yes, really), and some not-so-great acting made me switch off half-way through.
Personally, I am just not a fan of sexism, racism and fat-jokes. Every character here is a stereotype, from the blonde bimbo boss's daughter to the creepy boyfriend wannabe.
Truly just a waste of time unless you like 70's style sitcoms.
Scandal (2012)
Yuck
The premise for this show sounded promising, but how it has kept running for so many seasons is beyond me.
Not only is the acting awful, but the characters are both stereotypical and unbelievable at the same time. After four episodes I am done with this series. The situations are not that interesting, the main character has absolutely none of the gravitas you'd expect from a high-powered woman in her position, and "the most powerful man in the free world" (as we are constantly being reminded) is whiny and ineffectual. Don't even get me started on the naive new-comer and the black-ops hacker, et al.
Don't waste your time here; this is not the smart, interesting series it looks like from the description.