seer-2 Reviews

End Game (2009)

Not worth watching for 1 minute

[1/10 · 19 June 2011]

I have now found a movie which will replace my all time worst movie, a film dating back to the 1970s which has reigned A #1 worst film for about 35 years.

This film is absolutely horrible. The acting is non existent, the dialogue could be written by a four year old or a chimpanzee with a typewriter, the "actors" are largely unknowns... and I can now see why. I won't spoil this film for anyone by describing the plot... because it essentially has none.

Please spare yourself. I don't know why I watched it til the end... I'm either a glutton for punishment or just couldn't believe how bad it was.

If I could give it negative stars I would.

The Silent World (1956)

This movie must be viewed in the context of its time

[8/10 · 11 June 2010]

While I understand Badge's deep concern for what is portrayed in this film regarding what we now consider serious mistreatment of the creatures from our oceans, this film must be viewed from its historical context. I am old enough to have seen it when it was first released, and to have been awe inspired by it. Cousteau and his crew were pioneers, entering a world few knew at that time... and even fewer (including the Captain) knew how to treat. It just can't be viewed and judged properly with the benefit of today's understanding of our ocean.

More than a decade later I was a practicing marine biologist and killed sharks myself, some for research, some for their flesh and skins (to tan) and some just for the heck of it. Despite claiming to be an environmentalist, we saw little wrong with most of that since sharks had been given a black eye by the media (even prior to "Jaws") and at the time they were so plentiful in my local waters. No one foretold at that time how we would devastate them and impact ecosystems from shallow sandy bays to tropical coral reefs.

It was early Cousteau films like this that led many in my generation to pursue SCUBA diving as a career, and often work for the cause of ocean conservation. I was fortunate enough to work for JYC and his son Jean-Michel during the 1985 filming of one of his TBS episodes in the "Rediscovery of the World" series. By that time Cousteau and many of us who loved his work, had developed real concern for the oceans that grew out of what was revealed to him and what he revealed to us over the decades.

11:14 (2003)

People liked this?

[1/10 · 27 November 2006]

I couldn't believe that there were people who actually liked this movie. I'm considering it as a replacement for the all-time worst movie I've ever seen! Good thing it was a 2-for-1 special at my local video store and this week I got my selections free. I think this one is a real dog. I expected a lot more of Hilary Swank, Barbara Hershey and Patrick Swayze. I thought the acting was rather mediocre, the concept as presented a bit weak (although it could have been well implemented), and essentially a waste of my time. Fortunately it was only about 90 minutes long so I had plenty of time left to enjoy the second video in my double feature!

Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)

Why don't people get it?

[4 October 2004]

I sat down to watch this film with a slightly skeptical mind. I expected the truth to be distorted slightly and Moore to be a bit "in my face" even though I knew I would agree with most of what he said.

The film I watched was quite different from the film I expected to see. If there were any distortions of the truth, I was not aware of them. Moore allowed the "characters" (and many of them certainly are, in a very negative sense of the word) to present the case themselves. I didn't feel he was ever in my face.

This is a movie all Americans of voting age should see (as well as those too young to vote). Coming from the Vietnam era myself, I expect Moore to be vindicated on the material presented (as if the information hasn't mostly been already).