carolemlt2 Reviews

The House of Fear (1945)

Enjoyable but annoyed at how Watson keeps being portrayed

[6/10 · 2 September 2023]

I like the old Basil Rathbone movies but I resent Watson being portrayed as a buffoon throughout all his movies.

Having watched the magnificent 80s series with Jeremy Brett as the definitive Sherlock and David Burk as the intelligent and competent Dr Watson, it is a bit difficult to watch the 40s portrayal... I understand that they may have wanted some comic relief but the character really has been butchered and has 0 to do with the book. I think it went a bit too far..

Having said that, I enjoy the old Sherlock. I just won't give it 10 stars.

Jeremy Brett and David Burk were too brilliant at the job.

Citadel (2023– )

I like it

[7/10 · 21 May 2023]

Well, after reading all the comments on how abysmal the show is, I thought I'd temper all the negativity by saying I like it so each to their own.

Just a note though. I don't understand the criticism about Richard Madden' s acting. Has anyone seen the Bodyguard?!

He was absolutely brilliant in it. Seriously how can anyone say he can't act? Because he isn't American?

If that's the case , Yawn.

Plenty of excellent actors in the world who arent American, jeez.

And Pryanka isn't bad at all!! What's with people?

Got through the 1st episode fine. Watching the 2nd one and finding it still pretty entertaining.

Elizabeth (1998)

Biased

[4/10 · 6 May 2011]

First things first: I'm not Spanish, I'm French. I thought the acting in this movie was second to none (I'm a massive fan of Cate Blanchett anyway), the costumes, dialogues etc.. were great.. Nevertheless, Historically speaking what a load of nonsense (to be polite. First of all the way the Spanish were portrayed was ridiculous ..and stupidity really..especially considering that Spain was THE most powerful Nation of its time..so portraying the King of Spain as a pale feeble little weird man was frankly laughable..anyway.. Besides this, I'd like to stress that the only reason why Spain did not manage to invade Britain had more to do with pure luck frankly and to the fact that the winds were blowing so hard at the time that they destroyed half of the Spanish Fleet (Armada)..In fact, had it not been for said winds (and for the fact that the Spanish Armada had already been weakened/tired from fighting with the French) Spain would have surely succeeded, Queen Elizabeth or not!!

I was actually discussing this with an English colleague of mine ( I live in the UK) who totally agreed with me! So even if the English do.... Anyhow, can't really expect much from a movie made for and by Anglos Saxons can we? I guess their vision had to be pretty bias.. Good entertainment though..if you don't look into too much, lol! :o)