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Outlaw King (2018)
Don['t know why the studios didn't go with Angus Macfadyen's Script
Angus Macfadyen has been working on a sequel to 'Braveheart' for some time now. In fact they are coming out with 'Robert the Bruce' in June of 2019. He's been working on it for several years. Why go with an entirely different script with different actors. Didn't think much of Chris Pine as a 'Scotsman'.
Doctor Who: The Wedding of River Song (2011)
No continuity *Do Not Read If You Haven't Seen The Ending*
I guess using a robot doctor can fool time into thinking it's the real doctor. Moffat got himself into a hole by making the Doctor's death a fixed point in time, then compounded that by making time stagnate when he didn't die. He could've had a good ending episode without the time issue. So now how could anyone take Doctor Who seriously anymore? You can't lie to your viewers. You can't go so far as to make something as definite as possible and then go against any logic what so ever to get out of it. All it does is cheapen the series. Not only that, but there are several flaws in this writing.
1. In Impossible Astronaut, the Doctor says he is 200 years older than what people know him to be. Is this an error by the robot? There was absolutely no indication the Doctor that got zapped was 200 years older. If it is true that the Doctor is 200 years older than that means the Doctor from now on in the series just jumped 200 years in age because the point at the ending of season 6 is the only Doctor.
2. At the end it is shown that the Doctor was in a robot. So the zaps still didn't affect him? He states he was barely singed by the burning of his body. He didn't leave in the TARDIS be for that? 3. How can time be started again and a 'fixed point' of the Doctor's death be averted by a robot doctor? It was a robot touching River, nothing should have happened.
4. What relevance did it have for the doctor to send an invitation to himself? The (supposedly) younger Doctor chose not to go but went to a nearby diner? Why go even that close? What if he went? 5. Amazing what Amy and Rory don't care about. Daughter being called Melody Pond instead of Williams. Convenient there Moffat. Gee let's call her that and then switch the last with the first to match River Song. Oh, and Amy and Rory get the award for the least caring parents of their baby.
There are many more. The problem is Moffat and others made the season so complex to bewilder their fans and cause them to wonder how it would end to the point of making an already science fiction TV show into more of a fairytale. He just turned a good dramatic Doctor Who into a cartoon for children on Saturday mornings.
Doctor Who: Doomsday (2006)
final scene
I have only been watching Dr. Who for half the season. I knew nothing of Billie Piper's departure from the show. But I did research the show and the characters afterward. What struck me was how good Billie Piper's did the final emotional scene. It was a cold day on the beach which helped but there seemed more to me. In watching interviews I think that the reason the final scene was so good was that it was as much Billie Piper crying as it was Rose Tyler. But I have to hand it to Billie Piper. For someone to leave a very comfortable family of friends and strike it out on her own, to make herself a better actor, is very courageous. I did see a behind the scenes video of her hugging David Tennant for quite a while, which I believe was just before they did the final scene.
It does seem that the writers of DW have a tendency to be just short of making scenes even better. I think that if any of us were going through this with someone there would be more emotion displayed. A weakness somewhere. Maybe we'll see it in an episode of season 3. At some point the stress of losing someone will get to a person. There was some connections to Rose in The Runnaway Bride and there will be throughout the next season. Just watching the ones in TRB can make a person sink. I have no doubt that Billie Piper will be back. Maybe in a movie. I only hope that it's even more emotional than the exit. Well done DW staff.
Planet of the Apes (2001)
An entertaining but inconsistant film
After watching this film, you appreciate the films of the past that so many have tried to redo. There really not a lot of action in this film except for some fight scenes toward the latter half of the movie. Looking back at the original Planet of the Apes, you could see where there was a definate plot and goal. This remake doesn't have that cohesion. It does work well with the relationship between Whalberg and Carter. But the relationship between Warren and Whalberg develops too quick after the demise of Kristofferson. In that type of primitive society, Kristofferson could be father or husband but we don't know because Warren just says "my family". It's too obvious that the writers used her as competition for Carter. In fact you really see no reason for Kristofferson to even be in the movie. Whalberg's involvement with the primitive humans comes too quickly also. It's like they cut out a part where Whalberg should find out what this planet is for the sake of the length of the movie. The fight scenes seem inconsistant. One minute an ape kills a human with one blow but our hero (Whalberg) takes several blows and falls. But somehow,again, Whalberg maintains the common sense he has in many of his movies. Somehow through all his movies, writers give him lines that make him act (or react) realisticly. While the others have lines and actions that don't seem be what it would be if it was real, Whalberg comes in and acts like the only one sensible or realisitic being. (as though he walked from the seats into the film) So much so that when we see him in the end....an ending that makes absolutely no sense or connection with what we just saw in the rest of the movie, the look on his face is as though he thinking, "what kind of stupid ending is this to a movie" right on the screen.
*see more in goofs for inconsistant content