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LOL: Last One Laughing Ireland (2024)
Dire
Dire, truly embarrassingly awful. Can't blame the format it's the comedians. If these are the best comedians Ireland can come up with and this is their best material then I despair! I know there are better Irish comedians than this. Savage thought putting food in his pockets and eating from them was the height of hilarity. Another female comedian who's material seems to be based solely on the fact she's a lesbian kept having to tell us she was as her material was so poor. Another clown had a puppet speaking in a french accent with jokes so poor a six year old wouldn't laugh and then Jason who put on a big nose mask for laughs! God help us.
Star Trek: Picard: Two of One (2022)
Song and Dance
I can see the conversation now between the Producers and the Writers. "You know what be a great idea? How about a song in this episode. It would be great fun and you know how the fans love a song and dance routine". What an epically misguided idea which they actually went ahead and did. Not one executive with a single braincell stepped in and stopped this embarrassing travesty. It's not fun it's monumentally stupid. The sort of thing you do mid seventh season when the crew have been milling around space with nothing to do for a while, your writers have run out of ideas and one of the actors mentions they can sing. You don't do this mid second season with the earth to save even if you've no idea what the plot is. A premise which to me seems to hang on a overly anxious astronaut with a chronic lack of confidence being convinced she can go into space! I don't hold out much hope it being more engaging than that! What is it with the current owners of the Star Trek canon that they're obsessed with Imposter Syndrome? Every cast member of STD seems to suffer from it and the fate of the planet in Picard depends on overcoming it. It's the writers of these shows that should be worried about being found out if anything.
Foundation (2021)
Started well then the inevitable decline
The first episode held promise the production values and VFX are excellent, shame they couldn't spend some of the money and resources on the writing and script. Firstly, As usual the writers are so preoccupied with gender and race quotas, messaging and cast identities they've forgot to write plot and dialogue. Who for instance though the writers thoughts on abortion had any place in episode two, a scene that wasn't in the original material and added absolutely nothing? Secondly, who thought to cast an actor with such limited experience and range to play Gaal? The character is anodyne and so lacking in charisma that I don't believe her as the math's prodigy. You have to wonder who in the show-runners sphere she's owed a favor from. Now they've removed the only credible character at the end of episode two I think thus may go the way of Discovery for me..
Manhattan (2014)
Disappointing
I think it's already been said, started out promising but soon became tedious and contrived. A little bit like a undergraduate film using paint by numbers dramatic exercises. Simply forgetting the basics, that sub- plots have to be interesting and back up the main plot (which soon became secondary) and at least one of the characters has to be likable so you care what happens to them! I hate the kind of films that are say set in space and are about a serial killer, why bother? don't set a film in space if doesn't add anything to the story about a serial killer, likewise don't make a series about the most important event in human history and make it incidental to the story! a real shame as it had moments but no heart at all.
Madam Secretary (2014)
Didn't work for me
I gave it a three or four episodes before deciding it really was rubbish and won't be watching any more. Nothing wrong particularly with the acting , production values or cast, what really irked me was the simplistic almost Disney channel feel to it. Everything was so easy for Madam secretary, no problem no matter how difficult wasn't solved just like that with her ridiculously young assistants helping out. The more seasoned experienced players in the WH didn't seem to know what to do, ever. So consequently it lost any drama or tension for me. It's a bit like a Steven Seagal Movie, he never gets hit or hurt, just once I'd like to see him get into a bit of difficulty.
Lame
Interstellar (2014)
Not sure what the fuss is about
Not a terrible movie but not half as good as some reviewers would have you believe. Firstly a lot has been made of you needing a degree in quantum physics to understand the movie. Not so, the premise is exactly the same as his last move 'inception', time moves slower the deeper you go or in this case nearer the event horizon of a black-hole. Don't need to be a genius to understand that.
Secondly a lot has been made of his revolutionary mixing of 'dazzling' science fiction and an intimate human story. As for the human story, it's clunky and at times cringe-worthy. It's dull and not particularly well handled with amateurish dialogue characteristic of the Nolan films. If you want to see a movie where the relationship between father and daughter is far better handled watch 'Contact'. As for the science fiction I'd have to say I was disappointed. Parts were very spectacular but I was not impressed by the planet scenes. Iceland yet again and a water planet with shallow seas and massive waves? I was somehow expecting more than this.
Overall grossly over-rated by the critics yet go and see it all the same.