Change Your Image
janmanden
Ratings
Most Recently Rated
Lists
An error has ocurred. Please try againReviews
This Way Up (2019)
This Way Out
I should mention from the beginning that I just turned 50 and my wife is in her late fourties and thus this show, which is clearly far below our age group, intellect and level of sophistication, is just outright boring, shallow and pretentious. It's no fun at all to watch a bunch of self-absorbed narcissists and sycofants having laughs about things that aren't funny at all. No wits, no charm, no dare. There is no bad acting, but it just isn't worth watching at all.
My wife and I really enjoyed watching the Catastrophe and the chemistry between Sharon Horgan (who also happen to be one of the leads of this show) and Rob Delaney and all the other distinct personalities of that show, but this is just like watching wallpaper in comparison, because there is no chemistry here. We got about half-way through the first episode, before we realized how completely dull and uninspired this show is.
So... It's about two completely ordinairy, bland, mundane, cute and pretty sisters with no particular personality, conflicts or depth of character, nothing worth your time are having a laugh that isn't funny with a camera man on a shooting spree trying to do fifty different kinds of camera angles pr second and every now and then some other pretty girl or boy appear and they all smile and laugh at nothing. Erm...?! okay, I am out!!
Stretch (2014)
Blah-blah-blah...
This is one of those piss poor american movies where the movie start with a nobody whining about how inadequate he is in life and how much of a difference his is going to make. Boring!!!
If you've got nothing better to do, than watching this, you are really stretching it at your wits end.
Cuckoo (2012)
First season is gold, but the rest is barely bronze
It's really a matter of taste of course. If you love bizarre, wacky (and slightly romantically suited for your girlfriend) shows with uniquely crazy characters like Nine-Nine, New Girl, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and so on you'll grow to love the first season after the second episode which is about the same time that you finally realize why Cuckoo seems so familiar..
Unfortunately it all ends after the first season and after watching the first episode of the second season you'll be sinking into a dark hole, because Cuckoo is gone and Rachel has been replaced with someone else and while Ken and Lorna do a pretty good job they are sorely missing Cuckoo. The disappearance of Peralta, erm, I mean Andy Samberg is a massive blow to the show. The chemistry is all gone and as the show goes on it becomes more and more apparent that the series move in a completely different direction.
The second season is basically a spin-off starring Ken and Lorna. I wonder what the rest is, but the loss of Cuckoo was a major turn off point for my wife and I.
10 with both thumbs up for the first season. 0 for the total disappointment of the turn after first season.
Star Trek: Discovery (2017)
To baldly go where no soulless Klingon has gone before..
This is not the formula of Star Trek as I know it, which was never really going anywhere as boldly from one generation to the next. Visually all the past Star Treks are on the same plate with ships, tech and environment kept at a minimum to the naturally bland and mundane every day colours and even though the tecno-babble got a bit out of hand sometimes there were always the crew dynamics to balance it out in the end. It was all very formulaic and it worked to endear you to the crew and missions and the mix provided you with a pretty solid experience with emphasis on story and dialogue. Action was.. well.. it wasn't really something you watched for the action.. Besides they were all supposed to be wide-eyed explorers and thus it was always more substance than surface.
Star Trek Discovery is the first generation with a completely new set of producers, that probably just watched the last two Star Movies and thought that was the base of it, and it is on a completely different level in regards to visuals, choreography, action and background music. In the beginning it also seems like it dispense with everything that came before it with a blaze of cutesy action-flickness and CGI, but it returns gradually to higher standards. It's much more like a movie and much less like a daily show. Much more polish, CGI and shiny surfaces. Cinematographically it's much more like the last two Star Trek movies than any series before. Discovery makes Star Trek feel as if the budget got a lot bigger all of a sudden.. Like all the geeks got fired and replaced with a younger, more professional, calculated and streamlined crew..
I wasn't quite ready for it. I came with all my expectations and impressions in the footsteps of TNG, DS9, Voyager and the last two Star Trek Movies fresh in mind and I was expecting to see the same formula in action once again battlng moral concepts, dilemmas, conflicts and aliens from different perspectives.. I was really not prepared for the cutesy action-flickness with neither wits nor comic talent nor the totally nullified and mullified adaption of the soulless hairless Klingons. There were just so many zeros trailing each other into an atrociously binary string of doom, damnation and epic failures as I was watching this in the beginning.. Yep, I was really in the wrong mind at the wrong time, but I even though I feel the show start growing on me I still get yanked back to my initial impression on every Klingon encounter.
In the end it's like a bad habit.. You know it kills you, it makes you gasp, cough and spit blood, but there is a brief moment of joy which is unique, but there is also a queue of hairless people sputtering about how horrible it really is once the killing has begun that ruin the joy of it..
Despite everything else, the one thing that really ruins the experience of this Star Trek is the Klingon adaptation. In this version they are a strangely calm and domesticated, hairless and soulless Orc that speak a horribly distorted and muffled chop-mix of guttural sounds in a devastatingly slow and pain staking way.. Every Klingon scene is pure torture, that wipes the slate clean of everything you might have liked and that's just sad, because there is something to like. I feel the show growing on me, until that moment where I get yanked out of my dream world and into the Klingon mess again, with increasing frequency.
The show would really benefit from having a complete do-over of all the Klingon Scenes.. Not just audio, but hopefully and especially the speech, but the whole lot of it, because it's just bloody boring, useless and painful to watch and listen to. I love the good old violation and brutalization of English.. Not this neanderthal guttural spiritualism.
I would recommend it, but brace yourself and go easy on the beginning of it. Zapping away from the Klingons is recommended.
Dark City (1998)
Flashy, dark and boring.
As the description goes.. "A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no sun and run by beings with telekinetic powers who seek the souls of humans." That's it and it never evolves beyond that. It's all a mystery for 90 minutes or more, even more so why I was watching it. The mystery ends with an explanation, that took too long to get to the point and then it all ends with a long massive climax of noise and visual flashes just to ensure that the growing feeling of discontent turns into a real headache.
No passion, no emotion, no suspense and no thrill. Not even humorous in any way, dark or otherwise. No plot or leads to follow. A soulless movie full of nobodies and boring characters, that never evolve to anything more than just a flashy image of neo-noir composition. All style (of a dark, boring and forgettable kind) and no substance. Unbelievable, but it happened and that's it. If only Luc Besson had been the director, this could have been an awesome movie with more than just style, but he wasn't and it isn't.
I had no idea, what this movie was about and at first I was baffled and curious for quite a long time and then I was just getting bored and tired and looking at the clock. I really had a feeling, that everything I saw I've seen done a hell of a lot better elsewhere and thus it was really pointless to watch it again and without the context that it made it great in the first place.
It's more of a Psi-fi, than a Sci-fi and both is quite a stretch of words, because there is very little of both and even less consistency.
Had a short conversation with my wife after watching it. There wasn't really anything to talk about other than the total disbelief with the rating. This is the one.. out of ten.
Been there, done that, but who cares? Not me, not you and definitely not this movie.
Zombies! Zombies! Zombies! (2008)
Worth a chuckle for $5.
I picked this up for about $5 and it was almost worth it. Pay more and I think you'll be pretty disappointed.
I was expecting cheesy and hoping for a laugh or two in the company of some hot babes, kinda like Lesbian Vampire Killers just with Zombies, but it was more like Land of the Dead with Jam for blood. I wouldn't really call it funny, but I chuckled a bit and had a few laughs at the movie.
It's about on par with a very good school play, but in the hands of professionals I think it could have been a pretty good show.. It's clearly budget, but the writing is okay. They could even keep the actors if they got some pros behind the cameras, sound, efx and cgi, because that part really sucked..
The jingle almost ruined it at the beginning, but there is practically no music, not even for atmosphere or building up tension, in it. I guess, that's a actually a good thing in light of the really poor technical side of it; it could have been much worse.