Judd-Half-Nelson Reviews

Backstrom (2015)

Absolutely not!

[9/10 · 24 January 2015]

I really think that this show is NOT trying to be like House or Bones or Castle or Fitz (OK, maybe trying to be a little Fitzy, without the alter-ego character - yet).

I think this show is on another plane of existence, where it is poking AT those shows' formulas. Just think of the different ways they use the phrase "Absolutely not". You din't get funnier than that, unless there is a writers strike.

And that doesn't happen often enough.

So, is this show funny? Ya, IF you like humor. Is this show dramatic? Ya, IF you like to see blood. Is this show at all like Scrubs? Yes, but WITH a plot.

Perception (2012–2015)

Chicago, pa-lease!

[5/10 · 1 July 2014]

Why a 5? Because the SHOW is a 10 and the REAL LOCATION is a 1.

If you are going to have a show located in a town that PRODUCES TV IN TOWN,

then PRODUCE THAT SHOW IN THAT TOWN.!!

5. Average.

"Hello, Chicago!"

Major motion pictures are filmed in Chicago.

My perception of Perception's seasonal budget is nowhere near that of one film.

Really disappointing, it's not like these actors cant relocate for 2 months a year to do a series!

Perceptions: But, to the talent: I have only seen one other actor look in to the camera while acting (not an introspective 4th wall break), but the eye darting of the lead, Dr. P (McCormick) is eye-mazing - and fits the character complicitly.

Amazing Grace and Chuck (1987)

About why Amazing was killed by "the bad guy" (as if you couldn't guess)

[10/10 · 24 August 2008]

Honestly, the filmmaker here although using an implausibility, was trying to make a point: That if organized professional sports came to a grinding halt - really stopped, as s depicted in the film - for some higher ideal or attack of morals, parties interested in the point spread might truly become concerned enough to do whatever possible to re-start professional sports. This is the intended message, although one could make the case that "those interested in keeping sports gambling alive" wouldn't necessarily draw attention to themselves by killing a public figure (in movie worlds, killing public sports figures is usually left to governments), however, another implication in this movie "about the bad guy" suggests that the President's order of divestiture is just the tip of the iceberg of the "bad guy's" troubles. Even his friends after hearing of the plane crash on TV news, they start to distance themselves from him, knowing he's responsible and has really gone too far this time.

The Rutles 2: Can't Buy Me Lunch (2003 TV Movie)

Name of Character in Main Cast list is its own Spoiler!

[27 March 2008]

Fallon's character is only known as "The Occasionally Interrupting Younger Reporter".

He is NOT discovered as The Reporter's son until the VERY END OF THE MOCUMENTARY!

Also, the correct credit for Eric Idle's portrayal of the reporter is in fact The Reporter, NOT the Narrator.

Even though he narrates.

However, his character is ALSO the "Documentarist" and therefore should also be listed as the Interviewer.

I think.

Never Say Never Again (1983)

Prop technology, music, and actor "business".

[2/10 · 16 January 2005]

The use of technology as an integral prop on an almost per-scene basis is superb - for any bond film really. Each prop is used appropriately, including the fictional ones! In the TV scenes, each actor either uses or reacts to the TV in very convincing ways - unlike in perhaps a Battle Star Galctica episode! The diving scenes were acted with such subtlety on everyone's part that it is obvious that each actor was either a diver or became one for the film. Largo's accent (the real actor's?) is quite interesting, with an almost Walken-esquire delivery. Not until the installment of the Brosnan-ator will we see such perfection in props, usage and expertise among the actors in researching their "business".

Sorry to say here about the music.....? No, I must blow off steam here, the music is both terrible for a bond film and recorded horribly bad. Terrifically bad. The intonation and perhaps even the recordist's interpretation of speed control of the dubs is laughable. The music is most uncharacteristic of any other bond film as well. It has the sound and fell of most Avenger (TV) series' episodes where in that series is no doubt perfect, but without Steed, Peel and Mystery as such sounds completely out of place and touch with any Bond mystery. Oh, yes then there is the actual notes and chords and non-bond motifs that, and we know that "The David" knows this, every single Bond film cannot stand to be without! The ending sequence however where most if not all other Bond films end with the main henchman (or "men" when you count Diamonds) still trying to kill the Bond, in Never Again we see Mr. Bean (yes, THAT Rowan Atkinson!) being treated at first as if he were about to kill, ends up....well.

It is almost as if the whole film were somehow "trying" to wink at the Bond genre (or the "Bondre", if you will).

Perhaps I will never again want to comment on Never Again. Even most of the one-liners suck. Talk about your spoilers.

Moon Raker better by 1 point.