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Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)
Kim Cattrall ruins the movie.
I have recently become a die hard Trekkie and just love everything about Star Trek and am very passionate about the vulcans because I love Spock.. Kim Cattrall absolutely ruins the movie with her ridiculous take on being a Vulcan. She is far too dramatic and has no idea how to play a Vulcan and I doubt she has ever seen a Star Trek show or movie. It's vital for Vulcan's to be unemotional and monotone with their speech but Cattrall puts on some weird high pitched voice and is far too emotional in her speech. I blame the director for not pulling her up on this and either firing her or making her act like a real Vulcan.. with the underlying arrogance mixed with the unemotional monotone personality.. that we all love..
The storyline isn't bad and the acting by the klingons is fantastic especially the chancellors daughter who is outstanding.. BUT Cattralls deplorable acting especially being one of the pivotal characters in this movie ruins it for me.. I wish producers and directors had more talent when it comes to employing good actors or at least know what the characters need to be convincing which Cattrall is not.
60 Minutes (1979)
60 Minutes went from credible to deplorable now.
60 Minutes Australia was such a good reputable show highlighting stories people needed to see from political discrepancies to organised crime with human interest stories in between.
In the last 15 years or so, 60 Minutes has turned from a source of reliable information carefully and professionally investigated to ensure the truth was exposed to one of the most deceptive, one sided disgraceful shows on Australian tv which is very disappointing. Personally, I find 60 Minutes Australia insulting because they treat the viewer abhorrently pushing their own twisted narratives to every single story in the guise of truth telling which it certainly fails at now.
I would love to see a complete change in management who actually values facts and the truth but that won't happen any time soon and I doubt 60 minutes will ever be trusted now.
Harry & Meghan: A Royal Crisis (2020)
One sided rubbish, again.
At this stage of the game nobody needs another biased one sided portrayal of Harry and Markles decision to quit being working royals because we know the truth now.
This show doesn't address any of the subsequent admissions directly from the HARKLES own mouths a lot of which shows their true intentions. The moment any program has Omid Scobie voicing his version of anything, we automatically know this a one sided version. The majority of the people speaking have since been proven to be dishonourable.
Even the way the narrator words everything is biased and one sided. I'm laughing because this is just another show full of victimhood and a ridiculous narrative which is totally expected now.
Secrets of Playboy (2022)
The truth is totally missing here.
I grew up knowing about playboy etc and Hefner and I always knew he was a total creep and nothing was a secret. It's astounding that Hefner never hid his true personality which was a man who exploited women by creating a magazine that appealed to creepy men who wanted to see naked photos of women and establish himself as the ultimate playboy, which he succeeded in. Hefner always had multiple girlfriends who were clones of each other which told the world he didn't value intelligence, personality or individualism, he valued looks above everything else which I suppose he had the right to do. But, what's beyond comprehension is anyone thinking Hefner was anything but a superficial, shallow self absorbed man who only valued himself because absolutely everything he did showed us anything different. We all knew exactly who he was and that didn't include a man of integrity or respect for women and it's impossible to understand how anyone would expect anything but being treated as a commodity because he was proud of the fact he used women.
This show was so biased and the narrative didn't touch on the fact Hefner didn't force anyone to do anything and everyone involved had a choice to either benefit from the exploitation and what was clearly a sleazy atmosphere or to say no.. which I suspect some women did over the years but conveniently they had no part on the show. As a woman who over the years was offered many opportunities if I chose to lower my standards, but I always refused because it was so obvious why these opportunities were offered and what was expected and I refused to degrade myself which every person involved with Hefner had the same choices. I just don't understand why this show didn't empower women by choosing a narrative that demonstrated the ability to say no and no amount of money or attention is worth degrading yourself over.
I still find it disappointing Hefners image is one of a playboy and not the realistic version or fact of someone who lived his life with zero respect for anyone, both the women who chose to lower themselves and be exploited and the pathetic men who bought the magazines and admired Hefner. This entire show pushed the narrative of victims which is absolutely false because nothing forced any of the women to go anywhere near Hefner, it was always a choice. The show didn't touch on the fact the women enjoyed the money, the attention and the lifestyle because if they didn't they could leave at any time. It was no surprise Hefner had weird rules living in his house and again, they had the choice to leave at anytime but didn't and now change the narrative to be victims, again for attention.
This show could have been such a good teaching tool giving women an insight of reality and to push the fact they made the decision to be exploited because they desired money and attention which they received and to now twist the narrative into something that they didn't choose is both deceptive and delusional and our choices are our own.. and they always had the choice to say no or leave at any time but didn't. So we have a man who brags about his lifestyle and apologises for nothing which is fine if that's the why someone chooses to live and women who were thrilled to be part of it and knew exactly what was expected but now think it's fine to become victims of something they knew all about and enjoyed at the time. When are people going to live in reality and admit they chased the attention, loved the attention and chose to stay when they could have left at any time and now regret their own decisions and should have made better choices and for young women today to make the right choices and don't placate narcissistic men.. and if you do don't expect different results. If you are happy being exploited that's fine.. there is nothing wrong with it, just don't whine about it later.
The Regime (2024)
Winslet actually read the script and said yes?
I am shocked Kate Winslet read this script and agreed to do this mess of a show. It doesn't flow and is a hodge podge of ideas thrown together.
It's about a fictional Central European country where Kate is basically a dictator trying to appear as a champion of the people while not associating with anyone but the people close to her. She is a hypochondriac and everyone tip toes around her because she's nuts.
Protesters at a cobalt mine are slaughtered by an unstable corporal who is then rewarded with a position of being the air quality tester or to be more precise, moisture tester walking in front of Winslet pretending to test the mould content.. it's nuts.. The corporal is fired but ends up being her constant companion after bashing an intruder who was sitting on her bed. AGAIN NUTS..
Whoever wrote this has taken real life events like Putin terrorising the oligarchs by jailing the most powerful and rich oligarch showing he can do whatever he wants.. so in this show Winslet gets the richest man in the country and degrades him on tv..
The storyline is all over the place..even to the point where Winslet eats dirt because the corporal completely manages her health regime he learnt from his mother which I suppose is a dig at European farmers antiquated ideas.
The pretend country had dealings with America but Winslet, with the advice from the Corporal, cuts ties with America which upsets all of the wealthy people in the country. I could go on but it's so damn boring it's not funny.. and it's not funny..
Some reviews actually say this is a comedy but black humour.. I haven't even grinned yet but I have rolled my eyes a lot.. and cringed.. I suspect the positive reviews are from family members of the cast because there is no way this deserves a high score.. it's so boring..
House of the Dragon (2022)
My favourite show absolutely ruined!
I'm embarrassed to admit this but I have seen Game of Thrones more than 200 times and love it except for the last season, so I was so excited to watch House of the DRAGON because it would not take much to make this a sensational show.
THEY FAILED MISERABLY!
GOT was so good because the character development was fantastic and viewers were in love with some characters while we despised others.. and some we were undecided about from the first episode..
The acting and cast were second to none except for a few actors who aren't that great but viewers didn't notice sub par acting because the supporting cast carried everyone..because they are so darn good.
House of the Dragon has shockingly bad actors especially Millie Alcock and it was obvious because the rest of the cast wasn't much better and they had a terrible script that didn't help.
It's really bad when every single character could be killed off and I would have been happy because maybe they might introduce someone interesting.. and not the boring mob we had to endure watching.
The storyline is ridiculous and doesn't exploit GOT's popularity by focusing on the dragons.. I would have loved to see how the original Targaryens raised and trained dragons because Danaerys didn't have a clue..
There were so many mistakes and things that didn't make sense and the storyline was all over the place.. and we didn't even see any crazy Targaryens often mentioned in GOT.. because of the in breeding..
I would have loved to see things like babies being tested to see if they are fireproof because not all Targaryens are fire proof.
The story could have been sensational but it certainly was not..
So no character development, a shockingly bad storyline and sub par acting ..
Well done ruining what could have been a fantastic show. As for the good reviews they are clearly posted by people with beer goggles on who are either very young or people so excited they didn't even watch the show properly..
Belgravia: The Next Chapter (2024)
The casting director should be fired.
Belgravia was ok with some really good actors holding it up.
This on the other hand is a mess with the worst actors caste especially Clara who is annoying in every scene and can't act. I assume she's related to someone because she certainly didn't get the role for her acting talents.
This focus's on the son of characters in the original series who were not popular or the main focus of Belgravia so to create a sequel on an obscure characters son is beyond reason and makes no sense.
We have a spoilt entitled young woman who in reality marries for money because her family are struggling, who spends 5 minutes married before she gets bored and decides to behave abhorrently. Basically, Clara is really annoying. Ok, her husband Frederick has issues because his father resented him for not being his biological child. The flashbacks are absolutely ridiculous and over the top and I assume they saved production costs by replaying the flashbacks to death for this purpose.. but again, it's annoying. How anyone signed off on this show is beyond me. They clearly didn't get a period expert in to ensure the characters behaviour was authentic because nothing made sense and it's certainly not a Downton Abbey calibre show.
I have endured 7 episodes so far, fast forwarding past a lot of it because I can't stand watching whiney Clara more than I have to.. and Fredricks miserable demeanour.. even when there are no flashbacks which isn't often.
I doubt this show will have a second season because someone should step in and put it out of its misery and cancel it.
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Skin of Evil (1988)
Yay, Yar is no more!
I'm writing this after watching a multi part doco on Star Trek and this episode was mentioned. The actor playing Yar quit the show because she didn't have a more prominent role so they killed her off in this episode.
The basics of this episode have been described in other reviews but a gooey black creature that is incredibly cruel hood the crew captive and kills off Yar which made me so happy. Her character was so boring and I found the actor herself is boring after being invited to appear in a later episode where she pays her own daughter raised by Romulans but she's just as boring in that episode so her acting range is one dimensional..
Yar dying benefited the show because her boring personality didn't drag the rest of the character down anymore..
Star Trek: The Next Generation: All Good Things... (1994)
Not the best ending for such a great show!
Star Trek is such a fantastic franchise and some of the best and worst storylines around but so enjoyable because of the characters.
This ending was ok but not great with Picard being a confused rambling man for half of it then working out what's actually going on. Q, one of my favourite characters, was so disappointing not for his appearance but the ridiculous costume he wore which I guarantee he was embarrassed wearing.. the costume was a distraction and so poorly chosen for such a character.. Come to think of it Q"s personality in this episode was flat and not the usual over the top omnipotent joker he usually was.. But, the scene where he pointed out to Picard life is not what humans perceive and to open our minds was beautifully done. BUT, I wondered if Picard could possibly be chosen as an omnipotent being but that was just me.. I think.. I just love Picard..
Overall there were many mistakes and inconsistencies in this episode but it's been decades so it's pointless listing them all..
I'm afraid after seeing the multi episode Star Trek doco revealing the details about the shows, there wasn't one person involved in the production that worked out why Star Trek was so popular and I think most of them got lucky with the success of the series and movies because fans hung in there even when the show sucked.
Trainwreck (2015)
Schumer is NOT FUNNY!
I have tried really hard to see how anyone finds this woman funny and just can't! I find everything funny, things most people wouldn't laugh at and yet, I have NEVER found anything Amy has said in either movies or standup that is remotely funny.
I watched 20 minutes of train wrecked and wanted to poke my eyes and ears out!
How the hell is this woman getting any work! She is not funny! Maybe she has a lot of relatives and they are keeping her relevant by seeing her movies etc.
QI (2003)
Stephen Fry 10/10- Sandy 0/10 !
QI is a great show and Stephen is such an entertaining and humble guy! I just love him! I'm afraid I can't bare Sandy Topsvig or however you spell her last name. She is the most sexist, rude and insulting host and after a while I stopped watching because I can't stand her! I got sick of her continual combative and derogatory comments aimed at men in the guise of comedy.. and I am a female. If a man spoke like her they would be SACKED immediately and there would be outrage but she thinks she's funny! She is NOT!
Bring back Stephen!
Gogglebox Australia (2015)
FAKE MORONIC SHOW!
The advent of so called reality shows has tragically destroyed the number of quality programs/series but Gogglebox is the worst of the worst!
In the AUSTRALIAN version you have a group of people sitting uncomfortably and weirdly on couches desperately trying to be funny and FAILING dismally!
The entertainment value is below zero and the only people who enjoy watching people WATCH TV are those who are alone and friendless and probably imagine being in the room with them and pretending they have visitors.
I understand everyone has different tastes in shows and can even forgive people enjoying watching people watch tv IF the people on the show were funny and entertaining, BUT everyone on Gogglebox behaves fake and is obviously trying to be funny but are too boring to succeed.
These shows are cheap to produce, can be cancelled at any time and any money generated is a win for the producers because the costs are minimal. The producers count on morons liking these shows and aim the content towards them!
If we have any hope of regaining quality shows like dramas and comedies people MUST stop placating the producers of so called 'reality shows' and STOP WATCHING!
Banshee (2013)
Highly underrated and the best fight scenes!
Banshee is one of the most underrated shows on TV! The storyline is good and the characters and casting is superb!
I am writing this review after the show has finished so won't go into details about the storyline or characters because there are plenty of reviews doing just that! I will say the fight scenes are amazing! I usually fast forward fight scenes in movies and series because they are choreographed crap and so boring but I love the fight scenes in Banshee because they are different and so well done!
The score/music is fantastic and just tops off a great show! I really wish there were spin offs but they killed off the best characters. But, a show with Hood, Sugar and Job would be fun to watch.
The bad reviews here are from people who expected to see Hawking describe quantum physics and entirely missed the point of the show, entertainment!
Grimm (2011)
Trubel spoils the show!!
Grimm has been one of my favorite shows until the producers decided to add a new character that is so annoying to the point of being unwatchable! I have always thought that the casting director did a great job until Munroes parents who were over the top and opposite to how they should have been! Munroes parents should have been highly educated and multilingual like Munroe and not a pair of red neck bigots who overacted!! Now the show has Trubel, a girl who doesn't know how to eat properly, doesn't listen to anyone and rides along with Nick and Hank while they do their police work.
The actress that they got to play Trubel is painful to watch and its obvious that David, who plays Nick, has to over act his part to make her look better! After 2 episodes, Trubel now knows more than Nick because she read the Vessen books which Nick has been studying for years! I understand that the producers are trying to appeal to the younger audience by adding a young character but although the story line is suppose to be fantasy, it is now idiotic and annoying! Nick tells Trubel to "stay in the car" but before he gets to "the car" she is out and chasing someone! I wont be watching Grimm anymore until the get rid of Trubel!
Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan (2004)
Fantastic show not just for dog lovers!
Cesar Millan is my favorite person on TV because his methods of dealing with dogs apply to life itself! Basically, his methods are to be calm and assertive! The problem with being calm and assertive is that dogs pick up on your true emotions and you can not fake it! The old saying that dogs can sense fear is absolutely correct but they can sense every emotion that you feel! I have tested this out on my dogs and I am shocked that they do what I want without words! I have had dogs all of my life but Cesar has taught me so much! Cesar shows you how to be authentic and recognize your true feelings and emotions, then address them until you are genuinely calm and relaxed! This is the only way to influence dogs in the right way! Its amazing how dogs become your barometer with emotions and feelings! Cesar is fantastic and the people who criticize him haven't got a clue about dogs! I would recommend this show to anybody who wants a few hints on how to calm down and recognize unstable emotions! If everyone truly understood what Cesar is saying things would be a lot happier!
Love, love, love the show!
Your OWN Show (2011)
I agree, terrible show! What was Oprah thinking?
I was really looking forward to this show because I am a huge fan of Oprah and think that anything she touches is gold! I was so wrong with this show not to mention surprised that it is as bad as it was! The idea behind the show is pretty good and Carson is great but he was really boring on this show because there was not an opportunity for him to do what he does best! The contestants that were chosen had no talent for interviewing and were not interesting at all! I couldn't watch any of the contestants for an entire interview as they were fake and didn't have a clue how to behave! I don't understand how the contestants were chosen because there must have been someone that entered that had a good personality and was interesting to watch! This show was a huge disappointment and I am shocked Oprah had anything to do with it! You don't have to be a genius to recognize an awful program especially when it is this bad!