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True Detective: Night Country: Part 1 (2024)
Casting Jodie Foster in This Season Was a Bad Idea
The reason casting Jodie Foster is a bad idea is because she is such a great actor. So great that it makes the not so great acting of Kali Reis even worse. Reis has one expression and plays the tough female character in the generic way a lot of.novice actors do with that single brooding expression and the emotionless delivery. It's so overdone and is never good. Foster's brilliance heightens how bad Reis' performance is. I'm going to stick around for the next episode and hopefully Foster can carry the show because I'm not loving the partnership with Reis. But I don't have a lot of hope as it already feels very forced much like the latest season of "Fargo" is, which I am not enjoying, and that one has a lot of great actors in it.
Love in Country (2023)
Beautifully shot and scored, Would Have Benefited from a Higher budget
There is a lot of great cinematography in this film and the score was really great, these can specifically be seen in the landscape and aerial shots and the final closing scene and the scene with the monk in the woods. The story is compelling but could have used something more, possibly if this production had a higher budget as it does feel a bit on the low budget end. Especially with the gunfire and explosions not looking real. But I did find myself rooting for the characters although I did get a bit lost with what happened with the mission and what the rouge captain was doing at the end of the battle. But overall I felt the relationship between the two lead characters was very genuine.
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (2022)
Where did all of the budget go?
The acting is bad. The writing is bad. The special effects are bad. How did they spend so much money to make something so bad? Sadly I may not continue watching beyond episode 3 because if they can't improve by the third episode, it really has no hope. Maybe in a few years, someone else will try again and do it right. I also feel like the filtering of bad reviews is not placing an accurate perspective on how this show is being received. Unless a review shows hate language or something like that, sure, remove it. But if it is simply critical, it needs to be seen. I just feel like the wrong people were involved in the production. Maybe too politically biased or focused, it really reflects on the lack of desire to create art but merely set up a narrative. This is not good writing. This is not even writing. It's preaching and we don't want that.