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Without the nonsense of the modern "re-imagineers," this episode would have been all about establishing contact with the alien culture. Instead, it's all about the goofy, dopey hijinx involved in Spock's impossible reconstruction. But why use Nurse Chapel's model to fix him? Why assume she was the model? There IS a viable scientific answer, but we don't hear it; we just hear clumsy lines like Chapel to the aliens, "You messed him up!" Scientific. And the aliens? Named Blue and Yellow; what happens when the writers run out of crayons.

AND MIA KIRSHNER REPLACES JUNE LOCKHART?! Garbage. Utter disrespect.

EVERY REVIEW ABOUT THE STORY IS BAD.

Same nonsense about what goes on in VR land, oh, my, what's real and what isn't, is there any DIFFERENCE?!

Children-INFANTS-could tell you where this is going.

AMAZON HAS THE WORST DEVELOPMENT TEAM IN THE WORLD, and it's IMPOSSIBLE that William Gibson did more than cash a check on this. Why so many viewers fall for these kind of fairy tales at this point is a greater mystery than this nonsense can contain.

And what's the big deal with how it looks anyway? It's not hard to look good when you're just photographing reality CGI-big in a bunch of extra images.

Don't listen to the whining of Welles and his sycophants: Robert Wise edited and shot extra scenes to make this a tight classic. Beats the incredibly overrated Kane!

It falls into a couple of obvious traps, but it is a Lot Funnier and a lot better done than most YA movies, not to mention those, lemme quote, "boring-ass Marvel movies" that all the adult Stan Lee acolytes ought to shut the hell up and let everybody else have some actual fun.

Awful writing, awful casting, unbelievable plot turns, hateful characters, wretched acting... The only reason to keep watching is that you don't think it can get worse but IT KEEPS DOING SO.

Okay; forget the over-glorification and simplification of Ian Fleming's role-the BIGGER objections: -Churchill didn't promise FDR he'd invade Sicily; the reverse is true, the Americans were dying to go straight to Northern Europe but: -Churchill was still trying to vindicate his failed idea of WWI that Southern Europe (or Turkey, in the earlier case) was the "soft underbelly" of the continent: but it wasn't the first time and wasn't the second. In fact, Sicily was a tough fight only marginally mitigated (if at all) by Mincemeat, and during which the Americans went west more easily only by making a deal with Lucky Luciano and his Sicilian Mafia Allies, not because of Patton's supposed genius, which failed to cut off the key German forces, anyway.

There's more; but that's the point: thousands of lives were sacrificed to Churchill, his egotistical addiction to stupid ideas, and typically crap British "imagination." The movie is GARBAGE.

Absolutely brilliant film, in many ways better than the book and certainly better than Carpenter's remake. Hawks' patented run-over machine-gun-banter dialogue was never better, and the cast of B actors turn in uniformly great performances.

AND IF YOU HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THE LAST LINE: 1) Remember the era in which it was made:? Stalin threatening the world and the equally horrifying reaction of McCarthy an HUAC being on the rise; and 2) Remember where threats to America HAVE always come from, in modern times: THE SKIES. Pearl Harbor, the Cuban Missile Crisis, 9/11, the Kims and North Korea-all powerful dramatic backing. Try reading history, BALANCED history, instead of hack voices from the Right and the Left.

Out of all the crimes and all the characters of the last twenty years, THIS is the one you elect to spend a ton of money on?

Forget that it's badly done: a lurid retelling of a grotesque crime involving a bunch of IDIOTS, all wrapped up in rudimentary, pretentious film school techniques, and forming a whole that, if the first three episodes are any indication, is AGONIZINGLY SLOW, no, the real point is, What did you FAIL to make instead? Did the world really need another tale of lying, cheating, murdering rich people? You don't think you've mined that area to utter exhaustion? Hint:YOU HAVE.

Add the fact that there was already an exhaustingly long documentary series about the same case...and it's just inexplicable. The world going to hell, and you give us this-inexcusable.

This is one of the best, most intelligently action-packed, well-acted, and funniest movies of recent years. Really brilliant, really informative, really fun.

THE FILM SCHOOL STUDENTS ANF PAID BEZOS STOOGE REVIEWERS WHO SAY DIFFERENT ARE JUST WRONG.

Is it silly? Sure. Is it funny, at times hysterically so? Absolutely. Is the cast brilliant? Yes, even when given less than brilliant dialogue. The ONLY problem is at the end, when the emergence of the undead and th supernatural gets out of hand. Should have heat it in the realm of joking reality, like when they are "captured" by the tribe of woman-led natives. But the first half and the end make up for the mistake, so stop taking it so seriously and enjoy the beautifully-shot ride!

Indeed, this one is remarkably controlled, but it does include key facts that the British wanted covered up:

• that their embargo of Germany was the first and bigger war crime;
• that Churchill wanted the Lusitania sunk, and in typically murderous fashioned schemed to make it happen;
• that the explosion of illegally carried war materials, especially gun cotton, caused the second and greater explosion;
• that the Admiralty first covered up and then destroyed all materials relating to the incident;

And much more. Anybody who argues anything else has not studied the subject in depth; one need only consult THE authority on the subject, Patrick Beesley, in his authoritative Room 40 to know this. None of this is "politics": it's all facts.

The British cast is great, about half the Americans-with the exception of some really out of place duds like Redford, Gould, O'Neal, and a positively embarrassing Hackman-but the Germans are TOTALLY miscast, some good and great actors but nothing like their historical models. And we never see the IDIOT we really want to see-Montgomery-absorbing the failure of his baby, the biggest Allied disaster of the war: Market Garden.

And a soundtrack that tries to make the whole thing sound like an Allied triumph doesn't help, All in all, the wrong story to blow so much dough on, badly told.

HBO and Netflix are competing for the drawn-out, UN-surprising or shocking-just lurid-true stories.

No redemption, no satisfaction, nothing but TV for Gen X and Yers who've never been close enough to nightmare.

And Season 1, other than that ridiculous 5th episode, was great; but Season 2?

GARBAGE, almost completely!

Why do comedy writers have to PROVE that they can write drama? News flash: you can't! No bad thing, you're already writing the toughest form there is! Take heart from that and GET FUNNY AGAIN FAST; because right now, you don't get a Season 3...

I get why young people love this kind of sickening series: because their lives, like those of the victims, are free of actual violence and tragedy, so they must manufacture it. For cheap thrills.

I get why young people love this kind of sickening series: because their lives, like those of the victims, are free of actual violence and tragedy, so they must manufacture it. For cheap thrills.

Basically, one part of a movie blown up by boring sequences into a looong bore. Wouldn't even make a Star Trek episode...

Not sure how the Guild gets so much respect just for coming first, but it doesn't matter: this is better written, has a better cast, much better effects, up and down the block it's better. All four main characters are great; if the Brits ever regain their sanity, gotta hope for more seasons.

Funny, touching, good stories with great characters: American cop shows could take lessons from Rocco!

Nothing more to say: seasons 1through 3 built to a great crescendo and great expectations. Then Jeff Bezos and Amazon Studios, the worst production facility in the world, took over and the whole thing collapsed. Turns out, SyFy was probably right to cancel it; but it could have been salvaged if someone other than the Vampire, Naren Shankar, hadn't been brought in. JUST A TERRIBLE WASTE OF PROMISE. BEZOS, YOU CAN BUY WHATEVER YOU WANT, including IMDb, BUT YOU CANT BUY TASTE OR TALENT, DELIVERY BOY!

They call it nepotism for a reason, Fincher: you're not likely to edit your old man, even when he needs it. This is an entirely predictable, shallow version of a complex story, one that really has no hero or villain: everyone is awful, as they were in life. Strange waste of a good cast.

Tragic, really. He writes one good series, "The Practice," and he's allowed to make rich people porn forever. IT'S NOT MORE INTERESTING JUST BECAUSE EVERY CHARACTER IS LOADED. Quite the contrary. But you live behind palace walls in LA long enough, you start to think you're superhuman, super interesting ubermenschen. But you're not, Kelley; you're just a legal failure married to a hooker. Not unlike this garbage you write.

Historical accuracy, production value, acting, set pieces recreating famous paintings and moments: all superb!

If you disagree you know nothing about history, and are a CGI addict, too: NO CGI SOLDIERS HERE, only 16,000 extras.

Pure genius.

Anybody giving this movie less than full marks can take it up with Peck's ghost. Brilliantly done, and one of the greatest classic adventures!

Doesn't seem to bother most people, but: Guy Ritchie, you need some dough, every court in the UK would find for you. In-be-fricking-lievable...