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Chernobyl (2019)
Totally over-hyped, from cold-war era USA!
Visually, this mini series is stunning. That's all there is, though. For me, the first episode was a bit entertaining, the next four were just boring. But I don't take this as much of a negativity - they took a disaster and tried making it into an entertaining show. There's only so much one can do. I'm mostly bothered with the following two major points.
1. It all looks like USA propaganda from the cold-war era. Visually, they created a Soviet Union that looks like a world from a Hollywood post-apocalyptic movie. The onl ything we needed was Will Smith and a dog, figthing the evil (Soveits) that was left after humans dissapierd. Every single shot of every single human structure (apart from the presidental palace) looks like nobody has been there for 50 years. Everyting is rusty, dirty, paint falling of, about to fall apart, nothing works. All people are grumpy, angry, mean, dirty, etc. It looks like the makers of this series really wanted to poot horns on these evil communists, but this would be a bit too politically incorrect.
2. To me, it comes of as anti-nuclear propaganda. In reality, nuclear technology is the opposite, it's maybe the best source of energy we have, also taking into account impact to the environment and the number of people it directly or indirectly affect in a negative way. After watching this series, nuclear looks like the biggest evil there is. Well, after the Soviets of course.
Saving God (2008)
Good idea, bad movie
So the story is about a convicted felon, rev. Armstrong who returns back to his neighborhood. A changed man now, he wants to get the old neighborhood church operating again. But some thugs there make things difficult. OK, I think, not bad, might be a good movie...
Well, the reality is that it's an interesting idea, but very poorly executed if you ask me. I maybe believed Ving Rhames's role, the character Armstrong Cane to be an ex-con reverent, obsessed with god and faith after coming out of prison, his acting was good. But all the other characters, I didn't believe them one bit. They were shallow, they suddenly had outbreaks of feelings without any reason, just because the they had to due to the story. I couldn't feel any of these feelings, shallow, shallow. The thugs looked funny, not realistic at all. Just a mix of good ideas, but very badly executed. Afraid to say so, but not worth your time...