Add my whole family to the list of disappointed viewers. We found most of the characters unpleasant, the acting wooden and unconvincing, and the dialogue needlessly crude. We're baffled by all the positive reviews. There are some worthwhile moments, mainly involving Ray Romano, but we'd have rather ignored the publicity and watched something else.
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Tomorrow's Cantabile
(2014)
Our family loved it
27 April 2016
While staying in Korea for four months, I decided to dip my toe into K-Drama, and this 2014 series came up in our search results. As our high-school age daughter is a violinist, this was a natural series for us to try. Our American family has loved it. Moving and uplifting story lines, the right number of goofy and absurd moments, great classical music, a tolerable level of contrived situations to keep us in suspense from episode to episode, and characters we really grew to love. I wish it went longer than sixteen episodes! I don't yet know whether this series is typical or atypical for K-Drama, but if the miniseries are all this good, we're going to have a lot of fun watching them.
Brave
(2012)
okay for a Disney movie, poor for a Pixar
23 July 2012
Warning: Spoilers
Pixar execs used to say that the story was indispensable in their filmmaking. They were right. It is too bad they didn't follow their own advice in making Brave. As a formulaic Disney movie, it would be average (though with above average visuals). But our family (kids' ages from 10 to 18) doesn't bother seeing formulaic Disney movies anymore. We saw it yesterday, and everyone was disappointed. "Cliche," one of our children said. "Easily the worst Pixar movie I've ever seen," said another (though none of us has seen Cars 2). I chuckled once.
Even though the moral of the story is that we're free to change our fate, the stock Disney characters were firmly locked into their roles and we could see the ending coming less than halfway through. I'm sorry I saw it at all.
In a wonderful documentary called "The Pixar Story," John Lasseter tells the story of how Disney suits almost ruined "Toy Story," which had to be remade radically in order to be saved. It feels like this time the Disney suits succeeded.
Is this a sign of things to come? Has Pixar been domesticated? With tickets so ridiculously priced, I'm not going to a theater next time to find out. We'll wait and rent.
Even though the moral of the story is that we're free to change our fate, the stock Disney characters were firmly locked into their roles and we could see the ending coming less than halfway through. I'm sorry I saw it at all.
In a wonderful documentary called "The Pixar Story," John Lasseter tells the story of how Disney suits almost ruined "Toy Story," which had to be remade radically in order to be saved. It feels like this time the Disney suits succeeded.
Is this a sign of things to come? Has Pixar been domesticated? With tickets so ridiculously priced, I'm not going to a theater next time to find out. We'll wait and rent.
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