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Foundation (2021)
Brilliant, one of the best TV shows I've ever seen.
One and a half seasons in and I'm blown away. I think it's genius. I've never heard of the books and based on other reviews I'm glad I haven't. Imagine, something like Star Trek is based a few hundred years in the future, this concept is thousands of years in the future. It's fascinatingly unpredictable, all the characters are likable, even the bad ones. It's so well thought out and I can't wait for the next episode. I hope the naysayers don't ruin this for everyone with bad reviews. I can't believe it's ranking as low as 7 out of 10 because of them. It's unlike anything I've seen but has a slight Dune feel about it.
Star Trek: Picard (2020)
Brilliant, people should watch all episodes before rating.
After the bad reviews, I waited until well after all episodes finished to watch it and found it an amazing evolution of the franchise. I guess the die hard ST fans didn't like change of a continuous storyline. I'd highly recommend waiting before rating. Can't wait for season 2.
The Gentlemen (2019)
Cast, Story, Dialogue and Directing at it's best.
This is what all films should try to be. A fantastic cast, where everyone is a suitable fit to their part. A brilliant story like Lock Stock and Snatch with twists and turns and the unique dialogue, that only Guy Ritchie films have. Ten out of ten.
Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura (2009)
US TV Fails again.
The initial thought we get if a person believes a conspiracy theory is they are paranoid and gullible (because somehow in our own gullibility, we believe our politicians tell us the absolute truth and act only in our interest), so when a former US governor puts his name to a show that is investigating these mad allegations we should take heed. I've just watched the first episode about HAARP and while the information given is vital and informative, American TV fails again. The information and whole point of the show becomes lost and irrelevant as the makers try to focus and capture the viewers imagination with spooky misleading music and narration, really annoying sound effects makes this show (like most US documentary shows) completely artificial, pompous and patronizing. The most annoying thing about this is that instead of the angry shock of what the investigators discovered, the viewer is left with a sense of comfortable normalization of the topic discussed. I don't blame Jesse Ventura, instead I blame the makers for making it more of a reality show about him than the topic at hand. However, Jesse should take responsibility for some of the rhetoric one-liners he used such as "I don't get intimidated, I get angry" which was used at least 3 times. I'll give this a rating of 4 or 5 for drawing credible attention to topics that have become sneered at in a world with an easily controlled status quo. But I would honestly recommend YouTube for these topics instead.
Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura: H.A.A.R.P. (2009)
Artificial American TV Fails Again.
The initial thought we get if a person believes a conspiracy theory is they are paranoid and gullible (because somehow in our own gullibility, we believe our politicians tell us the absolute truth and act only in our interest), so when a former US governor puts his name to a show that is investigating these mad allegations we should take heed. I've just watched the first episode about HAARP and while the information given is vital and informative, American TV fails again. The information and whole point of the show becomes lost and irrelevant as the makers try to focus and capture the viewers imagination with spooky misleading music and narration, really annoying sound effects makes this show (like most US documentary shows) completely artificial, pompous and patronizing. The most annoying thing about this is that instead of the angry shock of what the investigators discovered, the viewer is left with a sense of comfortable normalization of the topic discussed. I don't blame Jesse Ventura, instead I blame the makers for making it more of a reality show about him than the topic at hand. However, Jesse should take responsibility for some of the rhetoric one-liners he used such as "I don't get intimidated, I get angry" which was used at least 3 times. I'll give this a rating of 4 or 5 for drawing credible attention to topics that have become sneered at in a world with an easily controlled status quo. But I would honestly recommend YouTube for these topics instead.