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Valhalla Rising (2009)
Insufferable self-anointment from Winding Refn
Every situation contrived, overly-simplified dialogue didn't feel mythic or significant, and seemed built only to pump up the legend of this character, his tragedy, his toughness, and his rise. I'm looking for a meaningful reason it's so void of so many things as a movie, but it's just kind of a "poem from a brooding punk who just read Milton" of a film.
Frasier: Rooms with a View (2002)
Tonally confusing
Felt like watching community theater, or catharsis for a writer who went through a loved one's heart surgery, kept a journal, and spit it out as a script, hoping the episode would write itself. Wasn't this show funny? Whatever it traded jokes for didn't pan out in this episode-maybe just director Kelsey Grammer trying his hand a little too hard at a multi-camera one-act.
This episode is so, so un-Frasier like-I'd never show it to anyone I wanted to get watching the show.