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Star Trek: Picard (2020)
Poor start, hope it gets better...
This show is slow. Very slow. So slow that the first three episodes could have been covered off in 20 mins. The screen time is taken up by people sitting and talking, standing and talking, walking and talking, and vaping (???) and talking.
Hopefully something will happen soon...
Star Trek: Picard (2020)
Poor start, hope it gets better...
This show is slow. Very slow. So slow that the first three episodes could have been covered off in 20 mins. The screen time is taken up by people sitting and talking, standing and talking, walking and talking, and vaping (???) and talking.
Hopefully something will happen soon...
The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
Bad film. Very bad film!
Matrix: awesome, revolutionary, epic, challenging, pretty much the perfect sci-fi flick.
Animatrix: continues fine work started in the matrix. Continues the sense of paranoia and threat.
Matrix reloaded: wachowski bros take the ideas expounded in the first flick and drown them in so much rhetoric and hyperbole that you struggle to follow the plot between pointlessly extended special effects blowouts. Primary characters become redundant, secondary characters are under-developed/unlikeable. Shambles of a movie and comes close to destroying the whole franchise.
Matrix revolutions: decent attempt at a rescue, characters play their parts in the plot well, secondary characters are still douchebags but overall a fairly decent flick.
In short: watch reloaded because you have to to enjoy the whole story. Awful standalone film though.
Wonders of the Universe (2011)
Science for the masses
Some reviews on here are either woefully stupid or they just don't understand the reason for this program.
Now bear with me here: this is a prime time show on mainstream television. Did you understand that? No? Well just to clarify: the program doesn't assume we are all scholars in the fields of cosmology, particle physics, thermodynamics and quantum mechanics. This is a TV show, not a lecture. Although one reviewer seems to think that gravity is not a force (it is), so would have been utterly confounded by a proper lecture.
As someone who does know a fair bit about cosmology I watched this show with high hopes, as I very much enjoyed the previous series Solar System. It certainly lived up to my expectations. I watched it with my mother, who previously had little interest in the subjects covered, and she became more and more fascinated as the series progressed. This, I suspect, is the whole reason for the show: to bring science to the masses, rather than keep the knowledge within a group of people who already know it.
So to summarise: if you are well versed in physics and want to learn something new then you should probably avoid this show. However if you are merely interested in astronomy, cosmology et al and want a plain, easy to understand welcome to the field then I very much recommend this show.
Very well done BBC!
Valhalla Rising (2009)
Incorrectly Marketed - Led To False Expectations
Don't get me wrong: I do appreciate a good mindbender of a flick, and while there are some things to savour in this film, overall I was rather disappointed. Although I will admit that the primary source of my disappointment is that I expected rather a lot more violence than was forthcoming in this film.
To start with the good points: The director handles the story competently if with no great style. Mads Mikkelson is VERY good as the stoic, mute One-Eye. The cinematography is beautiful and captures the beauty and savagery of northern Scotland (location for filming) with aplomb.
Now for the bad points: The film is PAINFULLY SLOW. The story seems content to rely on symbolism and interpretation rather than narrative flow. As I mentioned earlier the marketing and poster for the film seems to lean more towards a "hack-n-slash" vio-pic, rather than the brooding existential art-flick that it actually is.
I must admit that I am not a fan of this kind of film- making. Certainly there is a place for it in the movie canon, but it is not to my taste unfortunately.