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The Ice House (1997)
Rubbish
Daniel Craig Scottish accent is absolutely awful. The story is far too long and painfully slow. The cutting is woeful. And what's with the villagers hostility which makes little sense at all. All in all it's total rubbish.
Daniel Craig Scottish accent is absolutely awful. The story is far too long and painfully slow. The cutting is woeful. And what's with the villagers hostility which makesDaniel Craig Scottish accent is absolutely awful. The story is far too long and painfully slow. The cutting is woeful. And what's with the villagers hostility which makes little sense at all. All in all it's total rubbish. Little sense at all. All in all it's total rubbish.
Guilt: Episode #2.1 (2021)
What happened to Bill Paterson?
The key actor in the first series was Bill Paterson. He brought real menace to proceedings and was perfect for the part. I don't know why they couldn't secure his services for the second series perhaps he had seen the story line and didn't fancy it. I didn't they added an estranged wife an daughter which I don't think were that essential to the story. The guy they brought in to play Roy was very good and trying to mimic Bill Paterson style but I wasn't convinced. I think the story became a little less believable when Max did a deal with the police for early release. That said why the hell did he give over his business for a pound in the first place.
Ridley: The Peaceful Garden (2022)
Excellent
Absolutely gripping stuff from ITV spoilt of course by all the adverts. Vera will have to watch out if the rest of the series is as good as the first one. I like Adrian Dunbar and he played it very well. The story had a bit of everything about it and even managed to end on a high. British television has never sunk as low as it has at the moment but drama's like this prove it's still possible to come up with something worthy to watch. Love to know where it was filmed - somewhere in Yorkshire by the look of it or could it be northern Ireland? Surely I have written enough to exceed six hundred characters by now?
The Sandman (2022)
Dreadful hodge podge
I was kind of looking forward to seeing this. I've read a number of Gaimans book and liked them. The Sandman however was a hodge podge of ideas bolted together with little central theme to connect them all together. They should have stopped at episode 6 which was by far the best story. After that it hot even more ridiculous and I ended up fast forwarding through the last 3 episodes. I won't be watching the second series.
Il commissario Montalbano: Il metodo Catalanotti (2021)
Very poor ending to a wonderful series
It looks like they've rushed this final episode out and to me it's ruined the complete series. How he ditched Livia on the phone is totally out of character to the brave Montalbano we've become used to in the previous 36 episodes. The story was theatrical in more than one way and even Mimi was back to his old ways. Catarella only crashed into the door once and Fazio only made brief appearances. Montalbano fell like a 14 year school boy for a girl half his age. None of it worked for me. I think they filmed it in winter in the middle of the second COVID lock down. Perhaps that's why it was short on cast.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Mail Order Prophet (1957)
Pretty bad
Still trying to work this one out. Nice to see Quincey getting mad again. Padding required as I need to write 150 characters for this junk. Still some way short hopefully this line will do it.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Glass Eye (1957)
Dreadful
Dreadful story nicely acted. The punch line if you can call it that was like a poke in the eye with a sharp stick. Why do so many people think it's the best episode of the series beats me. Like most of the AHP stories very poor. If TV & Netflix weren't so bad this box set would still be in the attic with the glass eye.
1408 (2007)
Very poor not in the least scary
Cusacks character was supposedly a debunker of the paranormal with vast experience of ghosts, but within being in the hotel room 1408 for just five minutes collapses into a blubbering wreck frightened to death by very little. Nothing very original about this rubbish. The Twilight zone was turning out better stories than this over sixty years ago.
Ozark: A Hard Way to Go (2022)
Not true to character.
Ruth virtually commited suicide. She was a fighter and she went out like a skulking dog. If she had kept the gun in the car and not thrown it in the lake she could have taken out the Mexican cartel leader easily. Navarro should have suspected something wrong in the van. When he was given the gun without bullets he should have used it to take the other guard out. Noah should have taken his uncles ashes off the PI and tossed them in the lake end of story.
Little Joe (2019)
Reworking of the invasion of the body snatchers
A dumb downed reworking of the invasion of the body snatchers. Watchable, but as in the book and the film's, ultimately depressing. The Stat Trek episode tha mimicked the story at least had a better ending.
Tales of the Unexpected: Mr. Know-All (1988)
Thank goodness that's the last one!
Not a bad story. The main thing is that it was the last one in the box set! Started off thinking thinking these stories will be great, but soon found most of them weren't. I now realise 25 minutes can be an excruciatingly long time.
Tales of the Unexpected: A Time to Die (1988)
Another divorced based story
Q. You don't like your wife and can't get a divorce from her? A. Walk out on her and make off with your teenage girlfriend. The trouble in this story he has to blow her up with a half kilo of Semtex under the gas meter.
Tales of the Unexpected: The Dead Don't Steal (1988)
Really?
Another poor episode about a man having an affair whose afraid to ask his wife for s divorce of all things. Most definitely filmed in the winter of 1987, because of the snow, and probably in March.
Tales of the Unexpected: Scrimshaw (1985)
Above average story
I can't help but wonder if these American episodes where made in the late 1970's. Joan Hackett doesn't look as if she is 47 in this one. Rather slow but that's how most of the TOTU stories are.
Incidental music by Elizabeth Swados!!!!!!
Tales of the Unexpected: The Open Window (1984)
Odd story
A rather odd story that I'm still trying to get my head round. Is it me or have I tired of the short 25 minute stories. Usually decent actors but generally poor stories that turn out to be a long winded joke.
Tales of the Unexpected: Bird of Prey (1984)
Another doozy
Another doozy in the TOTU series. This one's completely stupid with a nutty parrot that dies after laying a rather large egg. What were the actors thinking as they did the best with this crazy script. I notice that in many of these American production then name of the director is omitted, I wonder why?
Tales of the Unexpected: Sauce for the Goose (1984)
At least this was meant to be funny
At least this episode was meant to be funny, so many others are just funny because they're bad. Released in 1984 when GG died in 1981 so this beauty must have been gathering dust on some film companies shelf.
Tales of the Unexpected: Wet Saturday (1984)
Wish I could give it zero stars
I wish I could give it zero stars. The Hitchcock version was bad enough, this one was pure tripe. Raining from sunny blue skies at times. The actors were good enough but the story was absurd and the denouement... well I'm still trying to work that one out.
Tales of the Unexpected: The Last of the Midnight Gardeners (1984)
Another wasted 30 minutes of my life
Another wasted 30 minutes of my life with this load of old rubbish from TOTU. I can't believe it but as I watch each episode from this box set they seem to get progressively worse.
Tales of the Unexpected: Have a Nice Death (1984)
Another ridiculous story
Another ridiculous story from TOTU. This drab uninteresting story is chock full of awful acting and terrible dialogue plumbing new depths even for TOTU.
Tales of the Unexpected: Number Eight (1984)
Slightly better story
Slightly better story from TOTU. A little slow and parade out even for a 25 minute show. Guessed the ending just after he let in the hitchhiker to the car.
Tales of the Unexpected: Proxy (1984)
A rare beast
A rare beast for TOTU - A good story that quickly catches your attention, good acting, an a nice twist at the end that proves he wasn't as stupid as they thought.
Tales of the Unexpected: The Best Chess Player in the World (1984)
Even 25 minutes is a long time...
Had to resort to the x4 button for parts of this. Doing this at least releived the boredom of watching crap like this. Decent actors a poor script coupled with some bad casting. The punch line was pretty pathetic. I wished I'd never bought this box set.
Tales of the Unexpected: The Dirty Detail (1984)
A new all time low
Good actors wasted on a dreadful script once again. The age difference between Peppard and Dobson was too great. Why would he have kept his uniform and a loaded gun he had from Vietnam?
Tales of the Unexpected: Where's Your Sense of Humour? (1983)
Utterly dreadful
This was another utterly dreadful episode of tales of the unexpected. Tales of the unexpected I should cocoa! Anything but, if George hadn't had a heart attack I would have gone back in time and clubbed him to death myself.