This is the first time Alexander's humane side is shown in a film rather than just about battles. I felt I really understood the boy inside him dealing with all this sudden power endowed upon him. Love the fact that his bisexuality was shown for what it truely was according to most historians. For someone who knew little about him I found this series enlightening and entertaining. I'm sure there is more to his life that could have been dealt with but this remains to be the best film or documentary about the young lad's coming to power and inner thoughts and feelings. Great acting and epic scenes and music. Pity it wasn't longer.
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Quantum of Solace
(2008)
Possibly the worst bond movie
9 April 2009
Initially I would blame this bad movie on the writer as there can really only be one Ian Flemming but Barbara and Michael (the producers) have been around long enough to know what a real bond movie should look like. Bond has been popular all these years because he has style and the plot is witty. This film has neither of these elements.Its a hotch botch of lots of action and SFX sequences which aren't really cut well together but I suspect this is not entirely the editor's fault but maybe it is (I don't know what material he was given to work with). There seems to be a belief that lots of action, violence and special effects is what bond fans want. Well I for one don't look for that and I know friends who were equally disappointed with this film. This film is really bad writing and poor direction. Albert, Barbara's father, who created the bond films, would be restless in his coffin if he could see how his series has becoming. My advise to the producers and to the future director (sorry this film wasn't directed well) is to NOT start the next bond movie before you got a script that screams really as well as the Fleming books. Then find a director who knows how to give pace and style to the movie without needing to cut fast on every scene and who can hold an audience because of the characters and the way the scene in played out, without needing violence, action, sfx almost every time. Often action and sfx is an excuse to hold an audience which has nothing else to hold onto. Oh and Barbara stop trying to save money by bringing in the sponsors. The car chase at the beginning (shot badly) did'nt do justice to the opening of the film. It was so badly directed and cut. Most ridiculous were the sunglasses...Im guessing they were sponsors but maybe Im wrong, which would make it even more ridiculous. First the bad guy Green meets with his business partners on the pier and they're all wearing dark sunglasses which look strikingly similar and catchy. They talk as they stare away from each other in opposite directions..ouch what a yukky way of staging the scene like kids trying to play mafia bosses but parading instead with fashionable sunglasses almost like they're on a cat walk. I then couldn't believe my eyes when two similar sunglasses were dressed on Giancarlo and Daniel later ss they met alone in the middle of nowhere. Again it looked like some fashion statement but unfortunately the glasses don't help Craig who is already quite wooden in his acting. Really, i don't know if I expressed myself well enough here but this movie is really one of the worst in the series. Even the opening music wasn't chosen well. Im sure Barbara or Michael would argue that they've got to use a song that's more 'in' with today's times, so they went for this very beaty song that doesn't have the same memorable tunes that other bond movies leave you with. I'm 36 not 50, so im not being nostalgic from old age. I simply cant believe how experienced producers can make such a blunder. Sorry for being blunt.
The Secret
(2006 Video)
Read between the lines rather than take everything said at face value
15 January 2007
Unsurprisingly many are those who can find this documentary as some attempt to brainwash or involve you in some kind of cult following so to speak. Meanwhile this documentary has changed many people's lives no doubt.
I do not usually comment on films I watch but I could not resist doing so on this one because I feel many are missing the point.
Personally I do not believe that simply by thinking positive you are having some 'magnetic' effect within the universe to attract exactly what you want in a spiritual or superstitious or scientific manner.
The underlying truth in my opinion is that negative thoughts will attract negative actions/reactions, whilst positive thoughts will enhance positive actions/reactions. Those of you out there complaining that you don't have enough opportunities to make your life or career any better should wipe out all these negative thoughts and should begin to think positive. Once you have a positive outlook you will then be able to 'see' all the opportunities out there that exist for you and which have not been noticing. And then you can grab those that fit your goal.
The documentary presents the above in a more sensational way by claiming that positive thoughts WILL, almost by some form of electromagnetic waves, attract positive things into your life. Well for those of you who are not superstitious or who are not into some scientology stuff, this is if anything stressing the importance of wiping out all negative thoughts and expectations which will hurt your ability to recognise positive opportunities and to enjoy a healthy lifestyle. Of course this does not mean you should be so positive to the extent of not being cautious. You can't leave your bicycle unlocked on the street in Amsterdam simply because the documentary seems to suggests so. What the documentary is really trying to do is yes..brainwashing you..but not in a way to make you selfish, egocentric or start acting in a irresponsable manner as though crime did not exist around you, but in a way to ERADICATE those negative thoughts which inhibit your ability to recognize your opportunities or which are bad enough to effect your health.
The documentary is being truthful in suggesting that the mind controls the body and yes to a great extent the mind controls the healing of the body. It is all about the power of the sub-conscious.
Those of you who are very religious or who believe in faith-heeling will find this hard to believe of course!
I do not usually comment on films I watch but I could not resist doing so on this one because I feel many are missing the point.
Personally I do not believe that simply by thinking positive you are having some 'magnetic' effect within the universe to attract exactly what you want in a spiritual or superstitious or scientific manner.
The underlying truth in my opinion is that negative thoughts will attract negative actions/reactions, whilst positive thoughts will enhance positive actions/reactions. Those of you out there complaining that you don't have enough opportunities to make your life or career any better should wipe out all these negative thoughts and should begin to think positive. Once you have a positive outlook you will then be able to 'see' all the opportunities out there that exist for you and which have not been noticing. And then you can grab those that fit your goal.
The documentary presents the above in a more sensational way by claiming that positive thoughts WILL, almost by some form of electromagnetic waves, attract positive things into your life. Well for those of you who are not superstitious or who are not into some scientology stuff, this is if anything stressing the importance of wiping out all negative thoughts and expectations which will hurt your ability to recognise positive opportunities and to enjoy a healthy lifestyle. Of course this does not mean you should be so positive to the extent of not being cautious. You can't leave your bicycle unlocked on the street in Amsterdam simply because the documentary seems to suggests so. What the documentary is really trying to do is yes..brainwashing you..but not in a way to make you selfish, egocentric or start acting in a irresponsable manner as though crime did not exist around you, but in a way to ERADICATE those negative thoughts which inhibit your ability to recognize your opportunities or which are bad enough to effect your health.
The documentary is being truthful in suggesting that the mind controls the body and yes to a great extent the mind controls the healing of the body. It is all about the power of the sub-conscious.
Those of you who are very religious or who believe in faith-heeling will find this hard to believe of course!
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