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Twisters (2024)
Ok movie, as a sequel disappointing
Twister is one of my all time favourites of the nineties. It has it all: a great (background) story, action, romance, a bad guy and... great directing and acting. This sequel... hm not so much. Children pretending to act like they are in the first movie. The good thing is that is shows how good the first movie actually is. From moment one you are sucked into the motivation of the characters. And from moment two you are sucked and blown away (sorry) by the action and the storyline.
In this sequel, again, not so much. There is no background. There is action from the start, actor children are shouting and one is literally blown away. We don't care because we don't know who they are.
Overall we sat this one out and it was mildly entertaining. But my advise is: watch the old one and enjoy the great Bill Paxton.
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: The Elysian Kingdom (2022)
Worst 'Star Trek' episode ever
Wow after almost making it through Discwokery season 1 I thought Ihad seen it all.
Even though the prequels are terrible starting from the movies (we want the story from DS9 and STVoy back) this SNW felt OK. At least a decent crew and ok acting. Except the 'Dr and the 'nurse'. Horrible actors who get a chance to shine in this badly written (a child?) episode. And SNW went downwards from it. Quit after episode 3 from the 2nd series with 'Kirk'. Back to this. How can a director watch this acting and not run away. How can you read a script like this and not cry.
Don't watch this, it will hurt your eyes.
World War II: From the Frontlines (2023)
Great series; watch it without sound
I love this coloured images. Suddenly they speak more then the old black and white scenes. This is real. And more grim being coloured. Unfortunately the commentary in this documentary is terribly done. It's difficult to explain. Yes the texts are bad but it is the voicing really. Really bad, so bad that a normally 9 is a 5 now. And i watches without the sound even... Hopefully it will be done again with a better (voice) actor.
PS it is difficult to understand the people who are giving this a 10 because of the voice actor. Please be neutral and give real reviews. Even the computer voices on youtube are better.
Napoleon (2023)
Another Heromovie for a warcriminal
A movie I wasn't looking forward to. Another hero film about, in this case, a power-hungry warcriminal. The fascination for the (little) man is misplaced. Responsible for probably 10 million deaths. An incredible number for that time. In doing so, he caused the Germans and Russians' to hate the French and create a lust for revenge that would later cause the world wars. A disgusting man.
Anyway. Ridley Scott and Joaquin Phoenix, two greats of the silver screen, should nevertheless make for a good film. That doesn't happen. The film is boring and goes from event to event. Historically speaking, there is little truth to it. The motivation for the little man's lust for murder is also never made clear. Frustration about his origins? Delusions of grandeur? Just being French? We won't find out. And after two hours we are left in frustration.
Ahsoka (2023)
Easily the worst star wars spin off...
An unnecessary star wars spin off. After the great Mandalorian series it feels like a forced series with female stars. Unfortunately the leads are bland and suffer from bad writing.
Wren is annoying and childish. A mix between young Anakin, Luke and Bambi. But without the good acting.
And then we have turtle Ewoks. Like there was no cgi or special effects.
A waste of the great Ray Stevenson. His role is layered and should be bigger. Hopefully there will be no season two. If there is I won't be watching.
It's a four because it's star wars. Just about. But please do not make any of this unnecessary uninspired crap.
Ted Lasso: Sunflowers (2023)
All the clichés about The Dutch...
I haven't seen so many clichés about the Dutch in this episode since... 100 years? And still it's a great episode from a great show. So many great substories. So what if we are just Amsterdam, windmills and bicycles in a tv show. Which we are obviously not. We are more and I see that in the characters from the series in this episode. Trent and Colin is a great plot. And Rebecca... No spoilers here... Even Leslie and Will become more three dimensional. They are all just more than clichés. Ray and Jamie becoming mates. On bikes! Ted finding home ground in Amsterdam. Thank you for this great episode.
D.B. Cooper: Where Are You?! (2022)
Warning: waste of time (really)
So this series is not about D. B. Cooper but about some deluded TV guy with tunnel vision who chases the wrong suspect. Can I please have my 4 hours back...
The Lincoln Lawyer (2022)
Doesn't do 'justice' to the books
The problem starts with the bad casting, which is even worse than with Bosch. And the acting is not much better. The storyline is good obviously because the books are excellent. But this series is, just as is the case with Bosch, for people who don't read (the books). Will not wait for season 2.
The King's Man (2021)
Ok-ish
First of all, good to see that the British finally acknowledge being the Russians of the 19th and 20th century, showing their invention, the concentrationcamps where they killed 25000 Dutch people in South Africa. For diamonds...
The movie is OK. Not as good as the first one, not even as the second one.
But still better than any Bond movie of the last 16 years... After the shock of the first minutes I enjoyed the adventure, the acting and the nonsense.
Why You Suck at Golf (2020)
Wow it's bad...
Amateuristic home movie. Play a round in stead. And who gave this a 10? The directors parents?
Stowaway (2021)
Nice and entertaining... until the end...
I liked the first half of the movie. Apparently made without a big budget but the effects look quite good. The acting is fine. And the story developed nicely until it ran out of fuel. An unprofessional (for highly trained astronauts) discussion leads to a illogical mission and the movie stops without an end which gave me the feeling of having wasted my time. Remake the last half hour with a better ending and the movie will be fine.
De Oost (2020)
disappointing movie
I was looking forward to see a movie about this hidden part of Dutch history, where -shortly after WWII- Dutch conscripts were send to Indonesia to maintain the piece between the warring sub-states and communists.
Was I disappointed... A dreadful and historical untrue depiction of events, brought in an uninteresting story and badly acted. You can only ask why and wait for a better and true movie about this subject.
The Last Vermeer (2019)
Bad, silly and unrealistic
Someone wrote 'movie for historybuffs'. Well, only if you are not interested in real history. The real history has been ignored in this silly Hollywood version. The real heroes, the Dutch partisans (verzetsstrijders) are put in a dubious light. Painfully for their (grand)children. The movie is not realistic, characters are from 'allo 'allo (which was brilliant btw) and it is a waste of some real talent, hidden behind preposterous lines and an amateuristic script. Let's hope someone will make a real good movie about Van Meegeren someday.