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Secrets of the Saqqara Tomb (2020)
Better than most people give it credit for
People who are giving this bad reviews apparently have never watched very many Egyptian archeology programs on tv. First about the gloves everyone keeps griping about. It's 95° and they can't keep gloves on tut while entire time because then their hands would sweat and could bust open and cause even more issues. Plus I saw SEVERAL scenes where gloves were being used. Then there is the opening of coffins out on the open. The head of Egyptian antiquities himself even stated that sometimes those coffins were empty and they checked then to make sure that a mummy was inside. Apparently no-one watched the special with Josh Gates and Zahi Hawass when they opened a coffin while it was still in the tomb. Pretty standard for most Egyptian archeology shows that I watched. Letting the bones out in the crypt was another complaint. They were covered in dirt to begin with and in poor condition. Laying them out isn't going to hurt them any more than they already have. My only gripeis about the way they were handling the mummified animals.
However...
Some people complained about the lack of a narrator made the documentary d disjointed and confusing and didn't fill in extra information. I felt this was actually very refreshing. Never before did I ever get to hear the individual workers talk about their work, discuss their family doing this work for at least four generations, how many of them depended on this work every digging season, or show them teaching their children the work too. It was nice to get their point of views on what they were doing and hearing what it meant to them personally to be there. Seeing their everyday mundane conversations and joking with each other as they worked was wonderful to witness. I honestly don't get how they thought anything was "staged". They probably only filmed when things were found or cleaned up enough for the audience to see what was there. Seeing things as they were found was awesome. You have to remember that what we got to see was probably trimmed down from hundreds or even thousands of hours of filming. We were shown what an archeological dig in Egypt was really all about without the annoyance of a narrator who was never there nor bogged down by wasted minutes of people documenting the finds. It was up close and personal from the actual workers point of view which was beautiful and awesome.
Fear the Walking Dead: The Door (2021)
Fear the death of every major character
Do they really have to kill off every single worthwhile character?
Vikings: Sacrifice (2013)
They just killed Leif Eriksson
Is anyone going to say anything about them killing Leif Eriksson? You know, the famed explorer and son of Erik the Red who was killed in an earlier episode? Just wondered.
BlacKkKlansman (2018)
Powerful movie, especially the ending
Those who gave the movie low ratings or were disappointed apparently didn't understand the message that they were trying to convey about racism then and the continuance of racism now. The dialogue of David Duke talking about getting someone in a higher office that had the white supremacy ideology at heart and then the clips of Trump speaking at the end showed the fruition of those statements. The duality of the man speaking about the lynching running concurrent with the initiation scene was a powerful moment, leading up to the bombing scene. I would have liked to have seen more of what transpired afterwards, if anything, but I understand that the movie itself had already conveyed the message that they set out to do and that nothing else was levy to be said. To me the movie is very deserving of the awards that the movie was nominated for and received.