santirub Reviews

Eric (2024)

Boring and shallow

[4/10 · 11 June 2024]

I did watch all the episodes, and somehow it got tedious to the point where I didn't want to keep watching, but what the hell, I did.

This is not the best of Benedict Cumberbatch, for sure, and at times it gets annoying. The whole idea of "Eric" is never really explored, and suddenly there's a big puppet walking around. You have to infer whether this is metaphorical or if the protagonist has (and had, as is hinted) mental issues.

In parallel, there are several small stories related to the police officer who's looking for the missing kid. There are so many, but compared to the main plot, these are more captivating.

The worst part happens at the end when you find out that neither the main plot nor the side plots are substantially related or affect each other. What's more, if this was just the story of McKinley Belcher III looking for the other missing kid and his background, it would have been a decent TV show. At the end, all the "Eric" stuff is pretty useless.

City Slickers (1991)

Poorly aged 90's comedy

[4/10 · 22 July 2023]

I had good memories of this movie, but as it happened before, some things is better not to see again and keep your old feeling.

No matter tv cable showed the sequel more than this one back in time. Most of the dialogues made me cringe and were full stereotyped. By far Jack Palance is the best thing of the movie and he's there just a couple of minutes, that's why they used it again in the sequel.

It's more a movie for kids who don't care what they say while they ride horses in the dessert.

At the end some stories are not even finished and the last cow scene looked really unreal.

But anyways, for the sake of the old times is good for me, but if you are going to see it for the first time, watch the sequel instead.

How I Met Your Dad (2014 TV Short)

They should've given it a chance

[7/10 · 9 August 2022]

I've just seen the pilot and it was funny, it was really HIMYM style. Truth is, it didn't create anything new, but at least is way better than How I Met Your Father.

I think that it was too soon to work, but in 2022 might have worked.