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Was it fun to watch Sandler floating around in space? You bet. A giant talking spider in space? I guess. However, this really has nothing to do with space. Sandler character could have as easily been working on an oil tanker at sea for a year. His wife, played by Mulligan, seems to want a divorce while carrying his child, or after losing a child, during the worst possible time for an astronaut. She is selfish and cruel, and while Sandler is losing his mind in space, his wife ghosts him. This is essentially the plot. Do you want them to repair their marriage and get back together. ? Not really. This is the problem with the film. It is a film about a marriage falling apart with space as a backdrop, and it is very boring and uninteresting. I had to fast forward through a lot of bad dialog, so I probably missed a lot of plot stuff, but in my defense, there isn't a plot.

A far better space film is Constellation (series on Apple) about a woman in a bad marriage who returns from space but she is not the same woman that left. The mystery is what happened to her up there, and what does all of it have to do with quantum physics?

I gave up up on season one after 4 episodes. I gave season 2 a chance because of Kathryn Winnick who I have loved since Vikings. Plot issues and bad writing aside, I think what bothers me the most is watching 14 year old girls exploring a homosexual relationship while their lives are in danger from drug dealers. It isn't credible and it feels so forced like the writers were compelled to insert an LGBT agenda where it clearly didn't belong. I want to be entertained not preached to. I wish Hollywood gets back to entertaining an audience at some point.

I'm pretty sure astrophysicists have computer algorithms that track the paths of comets. So the opening scene makes no sense, and the tone from the start is odd. It doesn't play as a drama or a comedy. I had the same issues with Vice and that cop movie. Step Brothers is a fantastic comedy because it set a perfect tone from the start. If a movie can't with me over in the first 20 minutes it just becomes a chore. I didn't laugh once at this and I fast forwarded through most of it.

This is so sad. The first Matrix is a masterpiece and groundbreaking. The next two were disappointing but watchable. This is nothing short of a disaster.

Right from the start you see these characters with really awful makeup trying to make them look old. You take a guess that perhaps these young actors trying to pass for old, with painted gray in their hair and painted liver spots on their faces might be being growing younger at some point in the story . I mean why else would you have all these actors in cheap, awful makeup. The dialog is atrocious, but you think I want to find out why the fake old people will get young? Maybe a fountain of youth? That would be cool. But no, it is another stupid vampire series. The twist on this one is that vampires are all Christians. Now intelligent writers could make something of that, but the writers of this trash seemed to have googled "Christianity" and " vampires " and written a story that a teenage boy might have written. The fact that the lead vampire is the village priest had potential but the writers do nothing with it. Instead they just think that if vampires quote from the Bible that it would be wicked awesome and send thrills up the legs of the anti-Christian left.

This series is insulting to intelligent viewers, and offensive to Christians. Fair enough, but the real problem is that the series is dreadfully BORING and VAPID. In short, more Netflix garbage.

I love Lilly James. She is terrific in everything she does. At first her character is charming and full of life, feeling trapped by her families wealth and privilege as she dreams of true love and an thrilling life. The director, Emily Mortimer, like Sophia Coppola before her, decides to mix a period piece with contemporary music. It was great to hear Marianne Faithful I admit, and in the first episode I found the series promising.

However, the character, Linda evolves. She becomes a horrible person who hates her own children and eventually abandons them. She also uses men to escape her boredom. She leaves a trail of human despair in her wake. Her cousin and best friend, Fanny is the narrator of the book and film. Soon you begin to wonder why they are friends at all. Linda seems incapable of being a friend to anyone. She is self-absorbed, aimless, and incapable of being happy and content. This is OK, of course. She is not the first anti-hero in literature and film, but this series tries to portray her as some sort of feminist hero like being a wife and loving mother is a betrayal to her own independence and Bohemian soul.

This is tragic story. Her downfall is very sad, but it's played out like a comedy that is not remotely funny. The characters are paper-thin cliches, void of humanity. I am reminded of today's youth who seem to think that a life on social media is the same as real life. It's a life of veneer. People pretending to be something they are not because it's more thrilling than facing how ordinary we all are.

Linda goes to great lengths to find happiness, ultimately by escaping any chance of it.

And in the end listening to people complain about there boredom is well, BORING.

First of all, Harry Connick Jr. Can't act. So every scene he is in is a real struggle. He in his mid fifties but is trying to pull off a haircut he had when he was twenty. A 55 year old father could not realistically wear that stupid hairstyle without being laughed at by his neighbors and peers. So the fact the procurers couldn't find a real actor to play the father is a bad sign.

Then there is this scene where a girl suffering from schizophrenia ends her stay in a hospital to return to public school. While fumbling through her locker a bottle of medication falls out of her locker and on to the hallway floor and she is mortified and embarrassed as all her classmates stare on with disdain and judgement. 1) every high schooler is on medication these days so it should not be an issue at all. 2) if she so ashamed of being spotted taking medication why not key it in her purse and take them in the bathroom. 3) medications have childproof caps which means it's nearly impossible to drop a medication bottle and have the pills spill out on the floor. So the fact that the writers and producers kept this stupid scene in the film is a very bad sign. It is lazy filmmaking.

... and this is far as I got.

I love basketball and I follow women's NCAA. Therefore, I'll always give a show like this a shot. The problem is that this is not a series about basketball. It's a series about turning a high functioning alpha male into a woke beta because the woke agenda promotes homosexuality and denigrates the traditional male. The won't decision made by the producers though is to cast for diversity instead of basketball skill. Not a single actor can even dribble let alone shoot properly. So what we are left with is not a show about athletic skill, passion for the game, developing teamwork, or basketball strategy. I follow UCONN's basketball team. One of the reasons I love their team is that they have as much talent and desire to win as and men's team I have ever seen play. Women do not have the same skill set as men so the basketball is purer. There are not as many fast break dunks or schoolyard flashy play, but what you have is teamwork, diversified scoring, and a lot more passing and strategy. Basketball at its purest.

The coach in this series wants more than anything to teach the fundamentals and even more to teach his girls to love the game. In today's culture though that isn't woke enough. So all the women in the show, and the token homosexual teacher, must band together to retrain a successful NCAA coach what it means to be woke.

Do you know how many lesbians are the the Connecticut Women's basketball team?

I don't either because nobody cares.

Would not a better example and a better basketball show be about how the game brings people together regardless of race or sexual preference? Wouldn't a better message to young girls be that is if you are talented and have heart that no one will give a rats ass about your sexuality? However in the rules of wokeness it's not enough to not be racist you have to be ant-racist. It's not enough to be gay, you have to be pro-gay and a gay activist. To me that seems like a lot a pressure to put on a kid.

What if a girl just loves basketball and wants to win? What if she wants to be a better player?

Well that's not a show. That's not woke enough.

It's always a joy to stumble upon a SK story turned into a film or series. When I first signed up for Hulu and found Castle Rock I did not have high hopes because I had not heard anything about it, but it ended up being one of my favorite series and it's a crime it only lasted 2 seasons. I read his books as a kid and I loved the way he wrote.

In these entertainment barren times post pandemic, the news that Apple was doing a new SK series starring Clive Owen playing a writer was truly great news... However, this series was so boring, so unfulfilling, so void of any entertainment value, that it's a miracle I lasted to the end. Of course even this isn't true because I fast-forwarded through the last few episodes because I was so tortured by this tedious drivel that I couldn't watch it in real time.

A quick note to some commenters who try to defend this disaster by calling it a "slow burn" implying that we are just not sophisticated enough to appreciate a slowly paced story. That is a rubbish. The problem is not pacing. It's a boring story with boring characters that do absolutely nothing. I cared so little for the characters that I was pulling for that Bool monster thing to kill them all off.

If you have not seen Castle Rock, get Hulu. You can watch two seasons in a month and it will only cost you $6.

What starts out as a movie about the dangers of designer drugs ends up being a low budget time travel movie that is the most boring time travel movie in history.

There is no one like Hitchcock and everyone who has tried to imitate him has failed except Brian DePalma. However, De Palma did not imitate him he learned from him and used his techniques. He was inspired by Hitch and developed his own style. Watching this film I kept thinking it was missing the mark and I wondered what DePalma would have done with this script. It's a shame because I think he would have made a much better film.

The first half of season one is pretty good. It's far fetched but at least there is a plot and some character development. Then begins the slow decent into absurdity, pointless sex scenes, meaningless dialog, and excruciating scenes where main character's relationship put into completely nonsensical situations. Season two is so stupid I found myself fast-forwarding through 50% of each episode. Season 1 at least has an interesting premise: is crypto currency the money of the future or just a way for criminals to operate under the radar of law enforcement? By the middle of season two you realize the show is just a bad soap opera, and the characters seem to forget that they are millions of dollars in debt, some have murdered people, and all of there lives are in danger from the Russian Mob. How the Russians entered the storyline is a complete mystery.

Another issue is that it totally misrepresents the complexity of crypto currency and how it works. It really doesn't matter because all of these plot points are just frivolous devices for meaningless sex, murder, and cheap dramatic tension.

Don't get the bad reviews for this. This is directed by an X-Files alumn and it has that same vibe of humor and drama. Do people not get that the special effects are purposely bad? Why? Because this is a film about an alien invasion in the the 1950's and the premise is " what if those cheesy sci-fi movies with the cheap effects were accurate? It's a clever idea executed to perfection. The thing that strikes me is how romantic and charming it is. In today's bitter world it made me wonder if with all are technological advancements in the last 70 years if we are any better off. I loved this film. I highly recommend it for anyone that wants to feel good and uplifted.

Horrible writing and horrible acting by the lead. SF looked nice but even that is a lie because if you have ever been there you know that you only see the bridge from a few places and mostly you just see endless apartments in every direction. I could see where it was supposed to be funny but instead of laughing I just cringed and felt embarrassed for watching this garbage.

Did they run out of money before hiring a lighting director?

This is so funny I had to watch it twice because the jokes and laughs are so rapid fire it's easy to miss some. This is the perfect show for our times. It's so ridiculous and absurd, but it has real charm too. I could go on about my favorite scenes, but I don't want to spoil it for others.

My only complaint is that there are only 6 episodes and I wish there were 20 more.

What made 3 Days of the Condor such a great film was Robert Redford's performance as a naive book worm who suddenly is thrust into the role of a hero-spy instead of just reading about spies.

There are some very good actors in this series. It's impressive. What is not impressive is the lead actor in this series. He has no charisma. He can't act. He seems to be cast because of his physique which is odd because his character is supposed to be an analyst not a stud field agent.

It's a horrible miscalculation.

This film is so funny, charming, and full of life. These young actors really rise to the occasion too. It's a shame no one will see it and no critics will give it a fair review. It's absolutely one of Woody's best films and is bursting with hilarious and intelligent dialogue.

There are some good comic actors in this that help to make some scenes watchable but Octavia Spencer is not one of them. While bad comedies are not easy to watch, you can at least find comfort watching actors having a good time in the silliness of it all. Spencer seems to be suffering from some sort of depression. Her scenes drain the viewer of energy. She can barely recite her lines. Perhaps no one told her it was supposed to be funny.

There are many thing wrong with this film. The most obvious one being the failure of the producers to secure the rights to Bowie's music for a film about Bowie's music. The second issue is that the story is in accurate. The film implies that until Bowie invented Ziggy he was a failure in the US until the Spiders from Mars album was out. This is false. Before Ziggy and after TMWSTW Bowie released an album called Hunky Dory which had a US hit called Changes, an FM staple called Life on Mars, and a song that changed rock and roll, called Queen B*tch. The riff of Queen B*tch is maybe the most copied riff since Chuck Berry, especially by punk and new wave bands. So the fact that this film pretends this album never existed to serve some made up story is dishonest

Third mistake is having a 60 year old Marc Marin playing a 39 years old is very distracting.

You can tell a lot about the first 15 minutes of a film. This was painful to watch. It may have been a good novel, but this has disaster written all over it.

I love a good thriller and I also love writer- directors because they almost always show you something unique. Peter Facinelli seems to be following in the steps of Todd Field, an actor turned director who allows his actors room to breathe. His script has a Robert Parker vibe, and the setting is unique. On a lakeside RV park a couples child disappears and several murders follow. The campground is filled with lowlifes so there are many suspects in the child's disappearance. The setting becomes claustrophobic and it plays out like a play. Like Bus Stop on meth. From the start something seems off about the parents of the missing child. They take drastic measures after the kidnapping but strangely aloof. Jason Patrick is good as the sherif. Tom Jane and Anne Hesche have a blast playing off each other. A really good film by actor-writer -director, Peter Facinelli.

I'm giving this 2 stars for the location and drone footage. I am trying to figure out exactly what went on during the production of this film. The best answer I have is that the script was written in Italian and was translated to English by a producer's 6 year old girl. The actor who plays the father seems to be reading English for the first time without knowing how to speak English. Which might explain why in dialog scenes he doesn't look at the actors but is probably staring at cue cards out of frame. The actor who plays the son isn't bad and he is clearly is the only English speaking person on set.

The script is just gibberish. So is the "science" behind creating the time machine. If you look at the physics calculations on the wall it is just random drawings of geometric shapes - like a dissected cone and there is a drawing of a G clef from music notation with a dissection line through it. What does that mean? Lol.

This is such a half assed attempt at making a film. It was clearly shot in one day, maybe two since there are two locations.

This film has nothing to do with time travel. They could have just as easily made a film about cloning and used the same script.

As a rule I hate hostage and kidnapping movies. I'm not sure why, except that it's seems lazy and trite to me. This film works on many levels. It's a beautiful looking film. Very interesting framing. Every shot looks great. The acting is top notch. I will watch Naomi in anything she does. It's a thriller and it had me on the edge of my seat. I do wonder if it was any other actress playing the lead if it would have worked though, but she is so good I was hooked from the start.

My biggest complaint is the dreadful performances by the 2 leads. Neither has any comic timing. Elizabeth Olsen is painful to watch. I'm not sure if this is supposed to be comedy. I kept waiting for something to happen but it never did. I will try episode 3 out of curiosity but it's been a struggle to watch this.