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Universe (2021)
This is really poor
Prof Cox, with his eternal smile, talks down to us with numerous inaccuracies and banal music. This is a very disappointing and very expensive series that tells you nothing about the universe or even our galaxy. Anyone enjoying this kind of pap should get hold a few decent books and understand it all more accurately. There's a lot there!
Clickbait (2021)
How to screw up a series...
... just add an incidental character in the last episode. One who is not noticed throughout the seven preceding episodes. This is the villain. Stupid climax to a well made series. A shame.
Dam (2021)
Total garbage
I'm a South African and really wanted to like this local series... I couldn't... there were just so many mistakes in the storyline which culminated in the most absurd denouement I think I've ever seen. What a shame, what a waste of good talent in this country. Still waiting for a good series. This was a total shambles, but hey, some people loved it!
The Stranger (2020)
Coben sells out.
Haw can you allow your excellent novel to be so screwed up by producers... oh, you are one! Now we're in UK and it's been transformed. So, anyway Harlan is shy of a penny or two so we get this drivel. Big shame.
Babylon Berlin (2017)
Sloppy
For all the expense and the fascinating time frame, the production values fail miserably. There are numerous incorrect references to the time and many sloppy editing and continuity problems. In addition the structure and pacing is off - the arbitrary sexuality is jarring. The whole thing is unfortunately a bit of a dog's breakfast.
Knysna (2014)
Weak and unfunny
This is movies for children. Idiotic characterizations and quite a bit of sexism. A fair bit of slapstick. Nice trip around Knysna if you've never been there.
Blå ögon (2014)
Muddled
This could have been really classy but you need to tie up numerous plot lines. Hoping for a second series but not really going to happen after four years. At least then Olin could get a change of trousers and we could rid of the red bra that never seemed to make the washing machine!
The Bridge: Jubilex (2014)
Really poor ending
After two series and so many hours of watching this series unfold, I am amazed that the production team could not manage better than this mess. In fact the entire series, both 1 and 2 are disappointing. Ryan Bingham's croaking 'one with you' should've been warning enough. I thought the Swedish version so much more sophisticated and clever.
Discreet (2008)
Regrettably dull
My coming across this 2008 SA'n movie was pure happenstance. I had recently watched 'Veraaiers', 'Skoonheid', 'Black Butterflies' and 'Die Wonderwerker' - all really fabulous movies. So I was very excited to come across another recent 'art' movie from SA. Wow, what a dull posturing piece of pretension. I guess the two leads (throughout), the Alexanders are a married couple (surely not brother & sister?) and they produced this piece. They spent a lot of time and effort getting this movie together... what a shame.
A seemingly shy and dull 25-year old man, who is surprisingly successful at work considering his disinterest with the meeting he is attending, hires a up-market prostitute for 90 minutes. He uses all his time not having sex (she is very appealing, and claims to be a dancer) but endlessly talking. He is very unsexy. So their varied histories are slowly, very slowly, revealed. So from a shallow hiring of a body (he purports to be a virgin, but isn't really, just inexperienced) to the revealing of both of their inner lives - her real name, his circumstances, a kiss on the mouth, changing postures, repeated leavings/returns to the one apartment that occupies 90% of the movie. This is not 'My Dinner with Andre' or a Richard Linklater masterpiece.
And she does not phone him at the end, as per another reviewer, but her mother. His phone rings in the final scene, having FINALLY left, and it is not her but his girlfriend. The movie ends without us knowing if he accepts the call. Cut to black! Gosh - the uncertainty is driving me crazy. Not.