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Season 1 and 3 are great. I never saw 2 for some reason. Season 4 is far below the quality of 1 & 3. Started out potentially interesting. Unique location, characters and plot. The lead cops are solid. I love John Hawke. Acting isn't the issue. A weak story, with weak writing, and weak subplots is. Too many awkwardly scripted scenes that didn't have the gravitas the writers clearly were trying for. Too many threads exposed in each episode, only to be left dangling, then tied off in unsatisfying ways. And the borderline supernatural "spiritual" dreamy nonsense. No thank you.

The main plot moved unnecessarily slowly because of superfluous subplots that were meant to be meaningful but felt contrived. This played very much like an xfiles episode. And they could have done this story in one episode (maybe a 2 parter). My wife (the real xfiles and true detective fan) and I kept watching knowing we were likely being led nowhere. And that's exactly what happened. The final episode was the nail in the coffin. Just ridiculous. Absolute nonsense. None of it made sense. No Logic. Just Dumb writing.

I've read a bit of the first one, but it's clear that it is unfilmable. No one leaving the theatre understood what was going on. Not really. And certainly No one cared. My family vaguely understood the plot, but no one really cared. Some great sci-fi imagery. But no one cared. No one laughed once in our big imax theatre. There might have been one "heh" from a guy. But No one cried. Not a sound from the audience. No oohs and ashes. Everyone just watched. Then left.

Compared to lord of the rings, full of character and joy and emotion this was hollow. Even blade runner 2024 ended with some emotion.

I think there's a fundamental issue when your leading man has no depth. No character, good looks but zero Charisma. (Even Ryan goslings replicant made you feel for him). Everyone acting around Chalamet was in a different league. Even mark hamill was believable as Luke skywalker. Timothy was a pretty face with nothing behind his generic line readings. Even Zendaya, who was almost as weak an actor, looked like a decent actor beside him.

There was nothing compelling in these films. The emperor has no clothes.

Right from the start it's a technical mess. The audio is a Disaster.

Ignoring that, the editing, writing, pacing, storytelling is downright amateurish. Like the people who made this have no clue about the subject they are documenting or have never made a documentary before.

There's no coherence to anything here. It talks about the death of 70s soft rock by showing images of punk...then late 80s Bad era Michael Jackson? It talks about the 70s and shows clips of the late 60s.

Then it just randomly starts profiling early 70s artists and songs and cultural attitudes but then a moment later randomly jumps to referencing '76 Kiss and '77 Alice cooper. Then jumps to talking about electric piano and Drew Barrymore and random musicians and bands. And it jumps all over the place in time. Here's Pablo cruise in '77, now ambrosia in '80. But now let's talk about kick drums. No wait here's stuff from Barry Manilow in 74!

No wait heres a musicologist with a word about soft rock brain chemistry! No wait here a mini captain and tenile bio!

There's no direction here. No story. Just a random assortment of clips and talking heads.

Utterly pointless.

Matrix plus hitchhikers guide in a frenetic modern asian-cinema style.

There's an audience for this. But it's not me.

My wife liked the mother daughter aspect. My 14 year old daughter was ambivalent.

I found it derivative of so many other, better, sources. Matrix obviously. The infinite improbability of hitchhikers guide. Scott pilgrim. Etc etc etc.

The comedy was low brow and unfunny. My young boys thought the dildo fight was funny. No one else did.

The acting by "short round/data" was really amateurish. He has a sweet presence but he's only only marginally talented. It's absurd that he received accolades for this.

Honestly, we all thought he was much younger than michelle yeoh. It took everyone a minute to realize they were married. He looks 38, she looks 58.

For all its chaos it could be dull, for all its attempts at family drama it was not compelling. For all its slapstick it was not very funny. (unless you loved the ghostbusters reboot).

This felt like a film made by millennials for millennials... hyperkinetic, ambitious, but with no real grounding. No cohesiveness in vision.

The factoids (that anyone with an education should know) at the end say it all: this is a movie made for people who know nothing about ww1. Or perhaps even seen a real war film.

Apocalypse now, come and see, deer hunter, platoon, full metal jacket..masterwork films that explore war and human nature in an artful, unique and compelling ways.

AQOTWF 2022 is not one of those films.

This is a thoroughly conventional movie. It pulls its graphic punches in a way that say, hacksaw ridge, does not. It's anachronistic "synthesized tuba" riff feels like a rip off of nolan/zimmer. 1917 wasn't a great film and i'd put this below it.

It's a good looking film. But it's Unrealistic, stagey, melodramatic. Trying far too hard to be deep and compelling. It all feels phony and artificial.

There's nothing here, absolutely nothing, that hasn't been done before and far, far better.

Scorsese was right. Movies like this are not "cinema", exactly. It's something else. When you can buy tickets for seats that move with the action, it's something else. (like imagine an interactive novel, with surround sound ambient sound effects and piped in scents, to match what you read...it's no longer just literature, it's something else).

This is more of a ride and a sensory experience than cinema. In 3D, This feels more like a long DisneyWorld attraction than a movie. The frame rate changes are distracting. Alternating from smooth "soap opera" high def video to occasionally looking actually filmic and realistic.

Unlike, say, The seventh seal or the godfather, The story and characters here could be adequately summarized in a sentence or two, with little to no finer resolution required. One could make the same argument for the first Star Wars, i suppose.

But telling a simple story in an epic way doesn't necessarily diminish the piece. Or does it? In this case the story and characters are not so much archetypes (as in Star Wars) as they are just SO thin and shallow as to be perfunctory, generic and ultimately devoid of what is necessary to be compelling: relatability.

Star Wars was thin, to be sure, but the archetypes and story were so classic, and so universal as to be somehow relatable and human, in a way that Avatar isn't.

This is a ride, with or without the moving seats. And though it is certainly worth the price of admission, it's lasting effect is precisely as long and deep as the feeling one is left with exiting a disney attraction. It's fun while it lasts, then it all but evaporates as you get in line for the next ride.

This is no "making a murderer".

Starts slow, becomes intriguing, but by the final episode you'll be saying "huh?" "what?" " wait..". Because the storytelling is so convoluted.

By the end you'll be slightly confused and wondering why the story wasn't just told in a straightforward manner, as opposed to "drama" and "suspense" being artificially and unnecessarily imposed by withholding so much key information until the end.

So many times Necessary Information is doled out long after it is required. You'll be asking obvious question as it goes along that won't be answered.

Re: the skull fracture: "we have technology now that we didn't have then"...huh? You mean like...eyes? Was this just an interrogation technique? Oh no photos from '85? That's interesting ...so Where was the info about the '85 pathologist who presumably was incompetent or corrupt and botched the whole case? There's none!

The wrap up texts at the end felt tacked on and raised so many more questions. (24M lawsuit, the story of the final confession, the crime that he plead out to, the other girls, all were glossed over. The final 10 min could have been properly told in a whole other episode.

All in all a good true crime story very poorly told...the final outcomes were interesting and complex but it all wrapped up far too quickly in a way that makes you think they pretty much botched the whole story from the start.

It's funny to see the left, like rolling stone magazine, lose their minds over this. They claim it's deceitful, ambush filmmaking. Yet it's EXACTLY the same tactics used by every left wing documentarian, like michael moore and sasha baron cohen and all the documentaries about the 2008 crash. They all misrepresented themselves to gain access to people like rudy giuliani or charlton heston or the wall street people. Once they got access they let them dig their own holes.

Exactly what walsh did.

Sure it's biased. But the people interviewed were speaking their truths. And now we know how utterly indoctrinated they are.

If gender is a social construct. Then it follows that so are all current form of gender non-conformity.

And that's fine. Who cares. I don't. But don't tell me i have to buy into it.

I met Kane in '90 at a toronto horror convention, it was a big deal for me at that time. He was really cool. Very friendly. I brought a sharpie knowing I might get a few autographs, he signed a photo, let me take pictures, and a bit later someone else was asking him for an autograph and he looks over to me and says "hey, *says my name*, can i borrow your pen?". That was the coolest. Such a small thing but even my girlfriend was like "hey he knows your name!".

This was a great documentary. I admit i teared up a few times.

Years later i would work on jason x. Never would have dreamed of that. Hope he does Jason again.

It took a couple episodes to hook me but i'm in. This will never be GoT but as a revisit to that world it's very good.

For comparison. I watched RoP with an open mind and was just bored. It's such a waste of time. No compelling characters or story, no intrigue.

HotD has slowly built to a very interesting set of plots and has developed a set of compelling characters. I look forward to each new episode .(as opposed to RoP which i may never watch again).

The production looks great. Not quite GoT level but certainly not "cheap" as some have felt.

I'll continue watching this. Clearly they have a story to tell. If only the makers of RoP could have done the same.

It's just boring, not compelling, and ultimately a waste of time.

My 11 year old boy likes it.

My 8 year old boy, 13 year old daughter, me, wife (all huge LotR fans) are all just bored by it.

There's no vision here, no storyteller at the helm. A show made by committee.

There are so many small problems they all add up to a mess. A completely average show.

For such a big budget it feels cheap in a way that, say, the new House of Dragons doesn't. That show has very good acting, good direction, intriguing story and characters. It's not GoT but it far better than RoP.

I just don't understand what they were thinking here. It's not tolkien. It's...amazon? Why bother.

Is MM a pos? Yeah. Was there abuse? Yeah.

But the narcissism displayed by ERW makes it tough to sympathize. This all about her. All about her life. An actor wanting the attention. The stage. The publicity. If there is a crime, you go to the police with evidence. You don't make an autobiographical documentary.

At what point does someone become consenting in their abuse? Like it or not There are consenting Dom/Sub relationships. Why is this different? How can you prove it?

She had opportunity upon opportunity to leave. This is not victim blaming. It's about responsibility. For decades we've heard the stories. The "very special" episodes. We know about abusive relationships. We've been told and told and told. Leave. Tell someone. She was silent. All this does is perpetuate the paradigm of victims waiting years to come forward. And cases being impossible to win.

When will people learn? If there is a crime. Report it. Now. Because the excuse of "i didn't know what to do so i waited years" isn't helping anyone.

This is a document of what not to do if you are a victim of abuse.

Palpatine won. His granddaughter destroyed the skywalker bloodline and took the name for herself. All Skywalkers will then forever be heirs of the emperor.

WHAT. THE. $@$)??

Disney. You. Suck.

JJ. YOU ARE A HACK.

A good man made to suffer before his death because of a sanctimonious, self righteous, intellectually vacuous filmmaker.

I have had this book since i was a teenager. Many thousands of kids did.

That a handful of bad people who did bad things also had this book on their shelf is as meaningless a correlation as them having a copy of Catcher in the Rye or Marilyn Manson records or video games or the bible.

Any army field manual (available on amazon or any surplus store) has the same information. And now it's all (and much much more) on the internet.

This writer, this book, CAUSED zero harm. Zero. Bad people will do what bad people do.

There zero evidence that ANY bad thing came as a direct result of the information in this book.

The filmmakers angle was that he should feel guilty. Accept some responsibility. Nonsense.

I felt so bad for the way he was treated. It was shameful.

Movies, books, media...plenty of information on how to go about doing bad things. Bad people doing bad things existed before all of it.

Bad bad karma on the people who made this movie.

Saw with my kids. Was barely tolerable. A far cry from JP1 or 2. Bad acting, no engaging plot or characters. More Disposable entertainment. Why does it look like CGI has barely progressed since 1993?

Should have been called "ben kenobi". It would have made much more sense.

TV can be cinematic...this is not. It all feels cheap.

Don't let mcgregors charisma distract you from bad direction, bad scripts and bad acting.

Did these people even watch star wars?

In star wars ben says to luke "now that's a name i've not heard in a long time..a long time".

That's sounds like a long time!

Nope. 8 or less years. That's it. Dumb.

And in star wars it's pretty clear that vader and obiwan have not seen each other since vader was "but the learner". It's nonsensical for them to meet after vader's turn. Once anakin became vader he was "the master". Are we to believe that vader still considers himself "the learner" during this show? Hardly.

But disney has to twist logic to get them together. Gotta get that stock value up.

It's one bad moment after another. Interspersed with a few good moments, yes, but this is just bad TV.

That other jedi in the first episode? Awful.

The main lady baddie? Terrible. Not scary. Not compelling. Lame.

The inquisitor sounded like he was doing a bane impression half the time.

Little leia can't seem to run like a normal kid.

And let's think about this;

Disney messed up star wars SO bad...star wars is now TV shows.

So much silliness. Why is a stormtrooper in the sarlaac?

Sand people are martial artists?

Jawa voices are all reused sounds.

Why would fett even want to be a crime boss?

He takes his helmet off now? To have it cleaned?

Weak acting, silly story, cheap effects. One nonsensical moment after another.

Disney turned star wars into lame tv shows full of fan service "member berries".

Really sad.

Star wars used to be special. This feels like a show on the level with old weekend shows like Xena or Stargate.

The magic is long dead.

NBK epitomizes the 90s. The themes, the style, the filmmaking, the music, the culture, the media...it takes it all and blows it out the end of a shotgun. Stone's most artful film.

Throughly average film. In spite of some good scenes, We've seen almost everything before and better.

The film relies heavily on the score to create drama for scenes which otherwise wouldn't be particularly dramatic. The music is often overbearing.

The editing and time jumping is also a bit confusing at times.

A good film. Hardly great.

Nice atmosphere, Intriguing start. But ends up an overlong twilight zone/outer limits episode with a few uninteresting twists and an ending you can see coming a mile away. An Old fashion tale, and not in a good way. A far cry from Pans Labyrinth.

This was a "best picture" nominee?

It's not a Marvel Movie. It's not Dark Knight. It's superman. The first half is great cinema. The second half perfect comic book tone. If you can't get past the "dated" effects, then you have not allowed yourself to let the story take you. ALL effects become dated. It's irrelevant if the characters and story are compelling. Superman is compelling. Superman has a very special soul and magic that no other superhero movie has. If you disagree...well, fair enough...but, like those who think 2001 A Space Odyssey is "boring"...it's says more about you than the film.

This would have been so much better with a real actor in her role. Her amateurish acting is conspicuous. She delivers lines as if she has no intellectual idea what's behind what she's saying.

Interesting and Original show though.

Tig has done some smart material. This isnt it. This was a bunch of rambling nonsense. The animation aspect is pretty desperate, if you literally have to "draw a picture for you"...that shows how desperate it is.

The laughter is coming from a really easily amused crowd.

I guess if you were there and drinking it might be an enjoyable waste of time..like listening to someone at the party tell some silly stories..but as a recorded comedy show, its really quite amateurish and quite weak.

Inequality is not getting worse. Factoring out a few billionaire outliers the world population is becoming richer, more egalitarian. Everywhere in the world. Hunger, food, medicine, shelter, clean water..all better than 50 years ago looking at a worldwide picture.

As the middle class in 1st world countries struggle with their problems developing countries are living lives exponentially better than the previous generations. Thats the world even-ing out. And their childrens will be even better. If post-modern (anti-enlightenment) "democratic socialists" don't destroy the progress we've made, and continue to make.

Capitalism, corporations and free markets are the biggest reasons for the steady decline of poverty and hunger in the world. Not socialism, not democracy, not anything else. No other system has come close.

If you are comparing to utopia, to perfection, as all marxists do, you are a danger to civilization. Only compare NOW to THEN, never to a future utopian fantasy.

The people who made this movie know little about history or reality.

Very much like Idiocracy: Two smart normal people surrounded by cartoonish buffoons who don't understand what all their fuss is about.

As a comedy it's very average. It's generally entertaining and there are some funny bits. As a satire it's very average. There's little in the way of intelligent, original observations about modern society. It's all very obvious, on the nose and with s heavy-handed political bias.

Which is a shame, because if this movie spent as much time satirizing hysterical, hypocritical environmentalists as it did "dumb" right-wingers it would be a much better film.