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The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (2022)
Uninspiring but might have potential!
I issue I have with the the casting is the performances for Elrond & Galadriel are just so flat and uninspiring, I loved these characters in Peter Jackson's movie trilogy but here they are just so boring. The other actors are fine but when your main characters are dull it's massively off putting. I assume it's not connected to the Peter Jackson version so why they are using similar music by Howard Shore and a VERY similar aesthetic I don't know. I'm not sure where they are going with the Stranger storyline but that could be interesting. The show looks just as good as the movie trilogy, but the story telling just isn't as tight, they have less runtime in this series than in the extended editions of the movies, so I can only hope the pace picks up massively.
Home for Christmas (2014)
Poor script and direction (and terrible subtitles)
Where to start?! It's great to see British movies but here the story is fine at best, the essence is there but lacks any real punch. The directing is dreadful, all the dialogue is hammy, in mere moments films like The Princess Bride (however cheesy) can make you believe in love, but here I never bought into it. The actors are very capable seeing them in wonderful drama's like Skins and Game Of Thrones, so I can only put the lack of emotion down to bad direction and bad writing. The conversation never flows. Everyone only ever speaks in single sentences and never with any conviction. It's such a frustrating movie that I'd like to love but is lacking a heart. As a side note, the person that did the subtitles on Amazon Prime must have been totally disinterested in this movie too, as half the time the subtitles just say "mumbling" when it's clear to tell what the actors are saying.