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The Midnight Sky (2020)
Too much of nothing
This movie just has too much grief; it feels like there is nothing but sadness and tragedy and for what purpose.
Futuristic space exploration movies are often based on some kind of calamity on Earth, but this just keeps presenting doom.
I watched it because I like Mr. Clooney and his work; this is not his best.
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (2019)
Closure
It's a fitting wrap to Jesse's story.
I didn't expect more of Breaking Bad and so I really like this for what it was.
The I-Land (2019)
Tired and clichéd
Nothing was new in this, it just felt like I'd seen it all before.
It was like watching a disaster unfold, I couldn't look away. I think I watched it through just to see how much worse it could get.
It left questions hanging, of course, to leave open a need for season two.
I won't be looking for season two.
I think the environmental situation was a subtle commentary, but too little too late in an otherwise shallow plot.
Victor (2008)
Poorly Written and Acted Movie
The biggest problem I had with this movie when it aired, and that I still think of years later, is that it was so poorly cast. Victor Davis was 25 when he died--and in his 20s in the context of the movie--while Mark Lutz was in his late 30s when the movie was shot. Ms. Clavel was younger than Victor Davis, much younger than Ms. Shannon who portrayed her in the film.
I knew Victor Davis. I swam in the same pool, in the same training group, with the same coach; I spent time with him away from the pool in many circumstances. I did not see anything that resembled the man I knew in Mark Lutz's portrayal. As a friend of his, I found the portrayal of the generic friend "Dave Kolisnik" rather lame. A composite of more than one person Davis was friends with at the time of his death, he fits with the sappy story Lutz wrote, but not with the real story. Moreover, since this story uses real names for almost everyone, why was "Dave Kolisnik" invented? I was also disappointed with the portrayal of journalist Dave Stubbs in this film. I've met Mr. Stubbs a few times over the years and never in him have I seen the lackey that he was portrayed as in the movie.
It is understandable that a movie like this will change some things, or skip details, but as someone who knew Victor Davis in the years portrayed in the story, it just came across as weak writing and acting.