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So You Think You Can Dance: The Next Generation: Auditions #3 (2016)
Creepy, horrible, dreadful, what were they thinking !
Absolutely dismal. It's creepy and uncomfortable to watch. Littered with 'precocious' stage-trained kids with false smiles and plastic personalities. It has all the nastiness of a children's beauty pageant. It's a horrible idea, badly executed. A real train-wreck. The show used to be about extraordinary, talented, exciting dancers and wonderful choreography. It used to amaze and delight, I looked forward to each season. All the 'next generation' does is leave me slightly creeped-out and VERY VERY disappointed.Please please please bring back the adult competitors, guest judges, and range of wonderful choreographers. But you can leave the Bollywood and tap numbers on the cutting room floor.
Noah (2014)
The worst movie I have ever seen.
Absolutely dismal, woeful stilted script, wooden yet hammy acting, bad cgi, dodgy special effects, mixed Eco and religious messaging, terrible plot execution, incompetent directing. This is exactly how NOT to create a biblical epic. Russell Crowe (who is pretty talentless at the best of times) should be ashamed of his "performance" and ashamed to be associated with this complete turkey. Normally I can find something good to say about a movie, but this one has absolutely no redeeming qualities whatsoever. All copies of this film should be gathered together and fired directly into the Sun. I would rather have a tooth extracted than watch this again. A waste of my time and money, it'll be a cold day in hell before I watch a movie with Russell Crowe in it again.
Antichrist (2009)
Unrelentingly grim and depressing, beautifully filmed.
It took two attempts for me to watch this film from beginning to end. The first attempt was aborted due to the film's complete failure to engage me or to create any real empathy with the characters. I left midway through feeling that I had wasted my time. The second time I gritted my teeth and watched through to the end. This time I left feeling disturbed and nonplussed.
The film is beautifully shot, visually superb, and the performances by the two actors are quite extraordinary. Some may view this as an art piece but for me it does not achieve this.
The plot is fanciful, pedestrian, and unrelentingly grim. There is simply no reason to feel anything other than mild disgust and puzzlement as you watch this bleak and largely soulless story drag itself to it's completely pointless conclusion. A film should engage it's audience and provide a reason to keep watching. Antichrist completely failed on this most critical (for me) of points. I wanted to like it, I admired the performances and direction, but I felt lessened for having watched it.