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A Fairy Tale After All (2022)
"Here's a movie I started writing when I was 7"
Written, directed and produced by the same person for his first movie attempt ... that should be have been warning enough. This is a movie filled with disconnected original songs, set pieces, Muppet puppets, red filter scenes... a middle school fever dream that somehow made it to the screen.
1* is too generous.
The Witcher (2019)
Lots of promise, but asks you to work hard
Having never read the books or played the games, I came into this series completely fresh. I needed some help from online explainers to make sense of it. But I am hopeful this series will go on to many seasons, continuing to develop the characters, unfold the universe it exists in and showing a story arc that might lead to a resolution sometime in the far future.
Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker (2019)
A fitting end to a 42 year long saga
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is a fitting end to a 42 year long saga. It might not be the very best Star Wars movie for the purists (if any still exist), but it stays true to the franchise, has some wonderful homages to the 42 years of storytelling and adequately concludes the saga.
Our family loved the movie.
Another Life (2019)
Hopes dashed - this is bad
I love Sci fi, and had high hopes for this series. A reasonably good setup and premise. I can overlook some design features (bad CGI, etc), but three key aspects make this show unwatchable (I finally abandoned ship at episode 7):
1. Pseudo science. Scriptwriters, just do some basic homework and spend the money to get a proper scientist to double check your script.
2. Ridiculous characters. Most of the crew on this spaceship are idiots. There are no protocols in place, bad decision making at every turn, and they present like a teen high school drama crew. This is meant to be earth's best and brightest on whom the fate of the world rests.
3. Rushed storylines. Not enough time to develop characters. Not enough invested to make us care. Too much going on - crisis after crisis after crisis without moving the actual storyline forward. Too much jumping around timelines too.
This is a high school drama set in space. That's very disappointing. I had high hopes for this, but they were all dashed.
Under the Eiffel Tower (2018)
Could have worked, if the actors were better
It's a reasonable premise for a story: midlife crisis leads to trip to France, with a chance meeting leading to romance. But the actors are terrible. Worst Scottish accent prize, no characters believable, over acting by everyone. It's not even "so bad it's good". It's just bad.
Proven Innocent (2019)
High hopes, sadly dashed
I had high hopes for this show. Good cast, great setup and concept. But the writing and stories are just very bad. We don't connect with the characters, the back stories are contrived, and the dialogue is stilted and at middle school level. The actual law in the show is ridiculously bad. Just bad.
A Wrinkle in Time (2018)
Worse than a bad cliche
If you've ever wondered what a movie would look like if you took 100 bad cliches about love, good and evil and relationships, and gave them to a non-creative ten year old to turn into screenplay, and then told the production team to work with their eyes closed, and given the CGI crew computers from the 1970s, then you will love A Wrinkle in Time.
Otherwise, avoid it like the plague.
Honestly, I am being generous. I watch a lot of movies and I can genuinely say that that is the very worst movie I have ever seen.