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I was really looking forward to this, but was greatly disappointed. While I give kudos to everyone for trying, sadly it really missed the mark. Admittedly, some of the scenery was nice, but I'm glad I got this through the library and watched it at home; unlike Top Gun Maverick, it wasn't worth the money to see in theaters.

The characters were flat, there was no context, too much spiritual stuff, and a lot of the dialogue didn't make sense. Such a shame; I spent the whole film feeling like I was flailing in water with nothing to hang onto. The film needed much more oomph, and had none at all.

While I can appreciate the director's passion for authenticity and what not, if he is so obsessed with the mythos of the Viking era, might I suggest making a documentary?

As a fan of the original Top Gun, I was thrilled when it was announced there'd be a sequel. The critics were right: thanks to actual flying (no, Tom Cruise was NOT allowed to actually fly multimillion dollar government assets!), a wonderful opening scene, excellent writing, and characters with emotional impact, it's much better than the original. I loved how 'real' everything felt, and the fact that the late Goose was still very much present throughout the whole film. The scene between Maverick and Ice made me cry.

I've giving this a 9 out of 10 because of any and all mistakes, errors etc. Even though there's no such thing as perfection, this film comes damn close!

It's not quite as bad as some shows I've come across, but it needs to pick up its socks; there are hints of interest, but the show needs to get going, a la pick up some speed. Otherwise, it'll go bye bye.

While I'm curious to see what might happen, it'd be nice if the show moved things along a lot sooner. It's moving at a snail's pace!

Like any and every other show on TV, OUAT has its good and bad episodes, its ups and downs. I thought for sure - had I not known beforehand - that the season 6 finale could have been the series finale. It was a really beautiful episode that brought the entire series full circle.

Coming off the fabulous, much-touted musical episode (thank you Colin O'Donoghue, I couldn't get Hook's song out of my head for three days!), I thought for sure there was going to be a big confrontation between Emma and the Black Fairy. They didn't have a great big fight - that fell to Gideon - but I knew Gold and his mother were going to have a tête-à-tête. I just didn't expect him to be the one to turn her down and then KILL her! And it was nice to see him basically reject his darkness in favour of his family.

As a longtime fan of the show, I was really pleased with how the all the character arcs were handled; after all she'd been through, it was nice to see Emma happy. And Killian as a deputy? I'm curious to see what he'll get up to next season, 'specially without Emma.

Now that there is for sure a season seven, I'm anxious to see which direction the show will take come the fall; however, like many other fans, I'm going to miss seeing so many core characters, and will really miss CaptainSwan (at least Colin O'Donoghue is still on the show!)

I saw this several years ago and having heard of Ms Grandin in the past, I thought this would be a good film to watch. I encouraged my family to watch it with me and they enjoyed it as much as I did. Had I not checked the credits afterwards, I would never have guessed Claire Danes as Ms Grandin. I can sympathize with the difficulties of the autism spectrum, as I myself am on the Spectrum with a mild form of Aspergers.

This was a really good movie and I would encourage anyone who is or knows someone on the Spectrum to see this, it was really well done and should not have been a TV movie.

I started to watch Big Bang a couple of years ago and while I'm not a die hard fan, it is pretty funny.

Part of having a good show that works is making sure the right people are in the right roles. I think everyone fits perfectly; the situations the characters get into and the writing is good.

Sheldon gets a lot of attention because he's complicated and may or may not be an Aspie, but I don't think so. I 'spect he's a mix of many things.

I'm glad Penny isn't the only woman on the show anymore, though it would be nice, just out of curiosity, to know what her last name is. Guess it'll be revealed eventually.

I've watched the US version of Masterchef since its first season and now that they're going on six seasons, I admit that sometimes it gets tiring, listening to Ramsay's repetitive phrases etc (how come he does almost all the talking? I think he's hogging the judges' spotlight). It's nice to see Canada's judges take a different approach ('cept for Leung; does he have to be so bloody dramatic? He scares me; too much like Ramsay . . .)

I hope we get a second season, as it was a nice change for the first season to offer Canadian ingredients and Canadian-themed challenges. And even though the show finished ages ago, if I remember correctly, our Masterchef is much less dramatic than the U.S. one. Everything is such a big deal to them.

Anyway, it'll be interesting to see who we have next on the show. I think it was good for a younger home cook to take home the first Masterchef Canada trophy.

I'm running out of expletives and bad things to say!

Anyway, if the Twilight Saga was a carousel, it would never stop hitting people over the head!

There was a bit of drama - if you could call it that - during the final part of the movie, but it was just further confirmation that there is no substance to this movie either.

It's pretty bad when a movie like this is spurned by other media, and even in other movies! Guess it's a mark as to how bad it is.

Toss Eclipse out the window and hope it lands on the moon.

May it never see the light of day again.

OK, no offence to people who actually like the series, but to me, Twilight and the others in the series should never have been made. I wish I didn't have to fill ten lines, because given a choice, I could happily express my sentiments in five words.

Honestly, there is nothing remotely interesting about this movie at all. I've never read the book series - and don't intend to - and only watched Twilight because of the fuss surrounding it. I'm neither a fan of first person literary narrative or fantasy per se, and I put up a big stink when my sister persuaded me to read Philosopher's Stone; it turned out to be a much better experience than this!

Look at it this way: the novels aside, when the lowest grossing Harry Potter movie makes millions more at the box office than the highest grossing Twilight film, what does that tell you?

PUT TWILIGHT IN THE GARBAGE!

I've loved the Heartland series for years and four years ago, when I found out CBC was going to add 'A Heartland Christmas' to its holiday lineup, I was thrilled. At an hour and a half long, this heart-warming special is a wonderful tie in to the TV series. It is nice to see that just because it's Christmas-y, it doesn't mean there's no drama! Plenty of it, in fact.

The plot line involving the stranded horses is a good point, if a bit overdone in other media. However, the special manages to make it work.

Canada's own Nicolas Campbell is excellent as Will Vernon. He portrays his character very well, and it's nice to see the eventual turnaround. It's also nice to see the connection he has to Jack, and Jack's assistance in helping change Vernon's opinions and attitude.

'A Heartland Christmas' gets its message across without being a turnoff for viewers. It's a lovely holiday addition to any Heartland lover's lineup.

What's the name of this show again? Oh yeah, BATB, the one that takes a six month break and no one remembers what's been going on when it resumes.

Season two left me feeling unhappy, because most shows nowadays don't take long breaks like the one did.

I should really take it off my to-watch list, because it isn't really worth it. Such a shame, because the characters have good chemistry, and the writing's decent - as is the acting. Even still, the production crew should change the air dates or something. The finale of season two aired last July!

Since the pilot, Arrow's been a good show, and very popular. Having seen every episode, I thought the first two seasons were strong, though the Mirakuru element made me nervous. Now that we're approaching the third season's finale, I'm nervous again, but that's because the producers have said they're changing the elements of the show to more or less be in line with The Flash.

A side note: if Arrow is the brooding older brother, The Flash is its energetic, lighthearted younger brother, with lots of go (pun intended).

Back to Arrow. Can't say I like the Felicity/Ray pairing very much, especially when Ray is maligning Oliver. He has no idea what Oliver went through! However, I'm sure the writers will steer Felcity back towards Oliver eventually (fingers crossed!)

In one way I'm not surprised that Intelligence got cancelled. Nowadays it takes a very special show to get and keep viewers (Arrow anyone?).

While Arrow has been doing very well, unfortunately Intelligence couldn't match such success. I s'pose the producers etc should have taken a few leaves from Arrow's Book of Success.

It's a shame that the show didn't make it past season one, but it just didn't have the right stuff, so people didn't stick with it. Hopefully, the next time Josh Holloway is seen on mainstream TV, he's in a show that is more Lost in calibre, and maybe then it might stay on air longer.

I know a lot of people wouldn't watch this show, but I enjoyed it because it was fun, and stayed as true to the legend as it could. The chemistry between the actors was great, and the writing made more sense than in some other shows. Anthony Head played Uther so well, I either wanted to run out of the room or punch him!

I've heard Colin Morgan's natural accent and at first I thought - considering how heavy it is - he wouldn't be able to do an English-y accent very well, but he did it brilliantly. Over the course of the entire series, he uses his English accent, an old man voice (for Dragoon) and - my favourite - a feminine pitch for Merlin's disguise as the Dolma.

Anyways, the show was fun while it lasted and it's too bad they didn't do another season, the producers did manage to do what they wanted with the show. I'm just thankful it ended while it was still in the black and wasn't cancelled like others have been.

HP DH P2 gets the same rating as P1 because it too, lacked punch; it needed umph to be interesting and it just wasn't. In fact, I can sum up Pts 1 and 2 in about three words: dull, lifeless and flat! The movie was too slow, and it needed speed or something because for most of it, it felt like you were slogging through muddied molasses. I'll admit that it was interesting to see the trio as adults, but could the finale get any more awkward? And Voldemort's death? Oh please, about as anti-climatic as you can get. He just seemed to turn into ashes and float away! I'm sorry to say this but the last two movies were as Razzie as you can get. Overall, the two parts may have grossed over several billion, but in my book, it wasn't worth the twelve bucks to go see them; viewers should have paid less than half that. At least I - and many others - won't be tortured anymore by any more chopped up crap. If like me, you love the Potter series, for God's sake, stick to the books, they last longer!

I absolutely love the POTC franchise because more than any other movies series, I've seen it makes me laugh. A lot. I own the first three and recently went to see this one. I laughed until I cried throughout most of the movie because of Jack Sparrow, of course. The writers are just brilliant. I loved Captain Teague's line "Does this face look like it's been to the Fountain of Youth?" and really liked Jack's line after the mutiny: "I can name fingers and point names." It may not make sense to some, but that is just typical Jack, wonderfully portrayed by Depp. I think Depp is perfect as Sparrow; honestly and - I think other fans will agree - the franchise wouldn't have been anywhere near as successful as it's been if Depp wasn't a part of it. If the production team can keep up the good work, I'd say let's have two more, and make it two trilogies.

They call this a horror movie? Utter nonsense. Romance, drama, thriller and fantasy yes, but not horror. Horror movies are supposed to be out-of-this-world creepy and scary, and this movie doesn't fall into that category. Sorry horror fans.

While overall I thought the movie was good, I found that there wasn't a whole lot of intonation in many of the actor's voices, which was a bit disappointing, because that helps with believability and is one of the things that draws a line between a good movie and a bad one.

If you're NOT a horror fan, you'll be disappointed with the classification. Mind you, Cesaire was portrayed as a wee bit creepy, but not enough to really scare you, just enough to make you suspicious of him.

If you like staring at hunky men on the big - or small - screen, see this as many times as you want, because Shiloh Fernandez is complete eye candy, and so is Max Irons.

On the other hand, Gary Oldman as Father Solomon is good too, that credit doesn't just go to the younger guys. Just like with Potter and Batman, Oldman completely disappeared into his role. Line up every character he's played since 2000, and you'd never know they were portrayed by the same guy. I guess some actors are just better at the disappearing act than others.

I really enjoyed the Valerie/Peter relationship, and Peter's predicament at the end after being bitten . . . very good. Fernandez's acting in that scene is likely to tug at heartstrings. Peter's return at the end is an obvious invitation for a sequel. It might be a few years away, but I do hope a sequel gets made.

While I can appreciate wanting to bring a legend to life, this movie could have been done a bit differently. Not to say it was bad, it wasn't, but there seemed to be too much focus on the people, not the horse.

Anyway, overall, I thought it was a decent effort, though some of the mistakes were obvious, and horribly out of place. How could a flight be cancelled due to weather in July? That line - said by Mrs Ham - made no sense. Other than that and similar mistakes, the movie does manage to capture the still-standing stamp of accomplishment that Secretariat made on racing and its fans. All in all, a good try.

I'm a big HP fan; I have the books and I've seen all the movies, but I think this one was the worst of the lot so far. It's one thing to make a movie out of a book, but when you have Rowling material, don't chop it up! The first two movies were good, but beginning with the third, it's like the filmmakers just weren't into it; things began going down drain from there, and each installment kept getting a little bit worse.

With DH P1 in particular, I found that no matter how loud I put my TV, it was often hard to hear the dialogue and most of the time, the music was too loud. Words were mumbled and certain lines just came out sounding wrong.

I cringed when it came to the Ministry scenes: I mean really, you'd think the way Harry's Runcorn was moving, he was dead, he was so stiff! What was David O'Hara thinking? Another thing that's annoyed me about movies three through seven is that the right dialogue is said, but the setting is wrong. They did that a bit in the first two, but it wasn't as noticeable.

Things in DH P1 jumped around a lot, it was really choppy and there was very little transitional flow. For those of us who haven't read the last book in awhile, it was quite disconcerting. And really, I think only Radcliffe, Watson and Grint should have gotten star billing on Wikipedia, because Snape's scene(s) in the final cut amounted to little more than a cameo, and yet Alan Rickman got star billing.

Overall, comparing all the movies so far, this one was the worst. When HBP came out, I almost didn't want to watch it because I was afraid of the horrors I would see. The only reason I did was because Rowling is such a great writer.

I don't know what to expect for P2 but I'm thinking it could almost be as bad as P1; they were shot at the same time after all. There really wasn't anything good about P1. I actually considered turning it off. I was really, really disappointed. I could't believe that such a good production team could pull off such horrible work. Hell, I've seen kid's stuff that was better! It really was a let down.

I don't usually like to give material of Rowling's caliber such a low ranking (2) but unfortunately, Deathly Hallows deserved it. Maybe it's because I'm a writer that I'm picky about this sort of material. We'll see what P2 is like. Cheers!

I have several shows I watch throughout the television season, and this is by far one of mandatory viewing. I've enjoyed Heartland since the pilot - way, way back in October 2007 - and one of the things that's great about it is that you don't have to be a horse person, or a horse lover to enjoy it.

Admittedly, it was sad when Ty actor Graham Wardle left in 2021, but I understand why; fourteen years is a long time to do anything, and it's understandable that he'd want to do other things.

Still, the show is not strictly about horses anymore, it's about learning and growing, and everyone - from the characters, to their actors, to everyone on the crew - do that beautifully. I'm just glad Heartland was able to keep going, despite COVID.

I also like that they don't do a traditional 'September/October to April/May season, like most shows. In some ways, it's nice that they split it up and do shorter seasons instead.

As of this writing (July 2023), the Heartland cast and crew are busy at work on season 17; I look forward to its arrival in the fall.

For me - and I think many would agree - this show is beloved because it feels very 'real'; everyone involved works hard and viewers can find someone or something they can relate to, no matter their age or circumstances. It will be a very sad day indeed when it finally goes off the air. In the meantime, I intend to enjoy it as much as possible!