Exodus, parts 1 and 2, is quite simply some of the best drama I have ever seen on television. From the close intimate scenes to the epic space battle scenes, there just is nothing that has ever compared to this. Even all these years after it aired, this two part episode will take your breath away.
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7 Reviews
Worst episode of The Office.
13 September 2019
This is one of two episodes that show Michael as an absolutely despicable human. The other is Prince Paper. And it's unnecessary. He is always cringey. Frequently a jerk. But when it gets down to it, that is always because he thinks he is being funny. But these two episodes are different. They show him taking irreversible actions that hurt real people. In Prince Paper, you can watch the opening scene with a Jim/Dwight prank, then skip the rest. In Scott's Tots, there is nothing worth watching. Even the bits back at the office with the rest of the characters is boring and unfunny. Just skip the whole episode.
Disappointing
28 August 2004
Whoever hired this director should be smacked hard. That was about the worst choice they could have possibly made for Director. He needlessly changed so much. Why change the whole look of the school? It was wonderfully magical in the first two movies. In this one it looked totally different, and to no purpose. The costumes also were terrible. Dumbledore looked more like a homeless person than a headmaster of Hogwarts. I realize you were working with a different actor, but you could at least stay true to the character from the book. And what was the deal with the kids' costumes? They were always wearing street clothes when the books made it clear they only wore clothes like that when they were in the Muggle world. Effects were okay, although I agree with a lot of other people that the werewolf stunk. It looked like he somehow stopped transforming half way through. Finally, the look, the tone of the film was all wrong. In the first two movies the muggle world was all gray and flat, reflecting Harry's view of that world. Then the wizard world at Hogwarts was colorful and vibrant because that was where Harry really came alive. This movie, though, has the wizard world all flat and gray and dingy. Why? To what purpose? I know the kids are growing up and becoming more adult, but Hogwarts shouldn't change. We could get a perfectly good picture of the kids growing up without changing the school from a vibrant magical world to a dreary awful place. I was horribly disappointed in this movie. Whoever hired this director for this movie must have been drunk to think he could pull it off. One final thing: the imdb trivia mentions that the fountain at the school has eagles eating snakes because it is the symbol on the Mexican flag where the director comes from. What rubbish! It is perfectly fine and appropriate for him to put imagery like that into a movie about Mexico. But this is a British film about a British school in Great Britain, for pity's sake! Get over yourself already and don't put pointless extra stuff in that doesn't fit in the story. Sheesh!
Die Another Day
(2002)
Good FX, but mostly a big YAWN.
30 November 2002
This movie had plenty of good effects, but the producers forgot the most important rule. Story, story, story. The movie can not be about the special effects. Example, Lord of the Rings: major special effects, but they are secondary to the story. The story is what makes it a great movie. If you go back through movie history, the movies that last are the ones with a good story. This movie has the FX, but no story. Second: Dialogue. It was terrible. You have always expected Bond to throw out suggestive comments in every movie, but in this one they forgot to look up the meaning of "subtle." Sean Connery was the master of the double entendre. It helped that his writers gave him good ones to use. In this movie it is obvious they are catering to the MTV, Beavis and Butthead crowd that probably never finished high school. Here's a tip. Use some of that $142 million budget and hire some decent writers. Acting: Mostly bad. I happen to be a big fan of Brosnan. I think he is the second best Bond next to Connery. But it was a struggle in this between his acting and the bad writing. I liked Rosamund Pike. They would have done well to cast her as the good one, but I guess they are following the footsteps of the last movie where Sophie Marceau stole the show from the awful Denise Richards. As for Halle Berry, I could write a book about how bad she was. It amazes me that she actually believes she was hired to be a new sort of Bond girl, i.e. smart, tough, and able to kick butt just like Bond. The problem is that she IS a new sort of Bond girl. Most of the previous ones were smart and tough and able to take care of themselves. Witness Ursula Andress, Maude Adams, etc. With Halle Berry and Denise Richards, they have basically made it obvious they are just hiring according to bra size. Halle was nothing more than a bimbo with a big chest. She couldn't act her way out of a paper bag. Okay, off the soapbox. One last thing, the music. The Madonna theme was absolutely the worst Bond theme ever. Even in the bad days of the Timothy Dalton films, they at least had good music. Someone should tell Madonna that her career actually died quite some time ago, and would she please accept that and stop torturing us. Cheers.
Masada
(1981)
One of the best mini-series ever!
15 November 1999
This is quite simply one of the grandest epics you can see. I first saw this on TV when I was young. Every night it was on I was glued to the TV, completely enthralled by the story. When I finally got the multi-tape set recently, I wasn't sure if I would still be affected the same now that I am older, but it was everything I remember. Fabulous story. Fabulous actors.Incredibly moving musical score. Incredibly realistic set because it was actually filmed at Masada. The whole thing was just breath-taking. And the story is so powerful it will have you walking around for days just weeping from the emotions it brings out. If you can find the 6 1/2 hours to sit down and watch it in one sitting, you will not be disappointed.
Noah's Ark
(1999)
Complete Waste of Time
3 May 1999
When seeing this TV movie, one wonders if the writers even bothered to read the original story in the Bible. About the only thing the real story and this movie have in common is the name of the main character, Noah, and the fact that there was a flood and he built a big boat. Past that, the writers ignored all sorts of historical facts. Like the fact that Lot and the whole Sodom and Gomorrah story happened about 1000 years after the flood. Like one of the women was to be sacrificed in the temple of a religion that didn't exist at the time. Like the fact that Noah and those on board the Ark were the ONLY survivors. There were no pirates or travelling salesmen. Even aside from the historical inaccuracies, I was offended by the extremely poor dialogue and plotlines. NBC has been advertising this for months as a serious, epic drama. It was more like an attempt at being a Monty Python ripoff. And it was a very bad attempt at that. I am highly offended that NBC chose to waste broadcasting time on this lousy excuse for a movie.
Titanic
(1997)
Best film of the decade
4 August 1998
Easily the best film of the decade. Sure, the script might have been polished a bit more to make it less modern, but it was still very well done. The cinematography and the score are simply outstanding. A lot of people criticize Titanic because it didn't follow the real characters on the ship. Well, guess what. This was not meant to be a documentary. It was meant to be a fictional story set against the historically accurate background of the Titanic. Some people have tried to say that the movie was not accurate like Walter Lord's book. I have read the book, and Cameron must have memorized it to match the details so well. Besides, Lord wasn't even entirely accurate. His first book had the ship going down in one piece. Well, to all the critics of Titanic, I have this to say: If you want to go raise $200 million and make your own version of Titanic, you can do it however you want to. Cameron got the bucks for this, and it is his vision of the story. I happen to think it was money well spent. Wait and see, but I think Titanic will be viewed as one of the more important films in film history.
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