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Ten Percent (2022)
Great...great...Yeah that's great. Oh so great.
As one can see from the headline, one specific word is absolutely overused in this show. Do modern people really talk like this in the UK?
More often than not, whenever two or more people were talking about something in this show they ended up with: 'that's so great, yeah it's great. Isn't it great? Yeah so great. WTF?
Besides that, one of the better shows in recent times. Entertaining, uplifting at times, chaotic at other times but still presenting many likeable characters, which is rather rare in a modern TV show. Recently even the protagonists are mostly unlikable and the supporting characters are all bad people. Here everyone is trying to be good, even though it might fail once in a while.
If you want to spend a weekend being entertained by a well casted show and likeable characters, watch this.
Drinking Buddies (2013)
What just happened?
We just watched Drinking Buddies and we are still perplexed. I cannot agree with the reviews that rate this movie a 9 or even a 10 out of ten. I didn't know until I read one of the reviews that the dialogs were improvised. I should have known, because most of them were just awful. There is a reason that people like Hitchcock spent up to 5 months to create the script and the dialog, because without proper words the interactions seems to be totally useless. I still think that all the main characters were played by good actors, but a good actor is not necessarily a good improviser. I like independent movies and will continue to watch them, but next time I will read some reviews first. I give 3 out of ten, because the basic idea for the movie was good, just the realization was very amateurish.
Castle (2009)
One of the best shows on TV
I just watched the last episode of the 3rd season and I am upset. The two main characters Beckett and Castle have a great chemistry, all of the other characters a very well placed and the show has this always entertaining twist, whether the two main characters will get together or not. Not too many of those unnecessary situations are present, where a word or a sentence would clear up the problem, but it never does until the very end, like you have in so many of the other shows or even a lot of recent movies. Great stories throughout the 3 seasons and usually a nice cliffhanger at the end of the seasons, to be anxious enough to watch the next one. What they did at the end of season 3 is different. They kill the 3rd main character off, for real, as we all see his funeral and then they kill ( spoiler) Beckett. There is no sign, that she wore a bullet prove jacket or anything. She seems to be dead. What kind of cliffhanger is that ? Right below Blue Bloods and Justified a show to watch, a must... Hopefully this was not the end of it
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Excellent Movie
What can you say about such a great movie, that can give the reader an idea of the quality of the visuals, the acting, the story etc ? I had watched LoA before on TV; but as usual with widescreen movies on a 27 inch TV in the 80's, the film didn't leave any impression on me, except, that it's damn long. When in 1989 the remastered, means longer version, came back to the movie theater, I went with friends to see it again. What a difference. Already the prelude with the red curtains still closed beamed me back to the 50's/60's, when all big movies had music to create the right feeling before the movie really started. Great photography, wonderful music that stays with you for weeks, and of course the acting of all the great names make this movie one of the few films, that I can watch over and over again. This film made Peter O'Toole known to the world, as well introduced Omar Sharif to the western world, although he was already a big star in Egypt and other middle eastern countries. The added material - missing for the better part of 27 years - gives a whole new insight to the person of Lawrence and the circumstances of the creation of an Arabic world with united countries, in contrast to hundreds and hundreds of tribes, that were fighting each other all the time. Some critics didn't like the violence, that take place in several scenes; but I believe these scenes of murder and violence only add to the feeling, to watch actually a documentary of what was going on, instead of just watching a mainstream movie. And besides, any PG 13 movies from the last 15 years has far more violence, than any scene in this movie. If you also feel dizzy after couple of minutes, watching modern movies with their in average every 0.8 sec edits and you would love to see wide visuals, that give you the feeling you are in the desert or by the oasis etc, watch this movie and enjoy.