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Reviews
1883 (2021)
Good show but with serious flaws
The biggest mistake was to give the girl/narrator a hillbilly accent. It always sounds ignorant even from the lips of such a beautiful girl. And there are a lot of dumb mistakes in the show that weaken it, as if it were put together in a hurry. For example, wouldn't the leader of the wagon train (Sam Elliot) have checked the loads in the wagons before setting out? Why would he wait until they were days out to finally decide that the loads were too heavy and the people had to dump a lot of things when they could have sold those things in town before leaving?
The Spy Who Dumped Me (2018)
Stupid and Vulgar
This is one of the dumbest movies I've seen in a long time (though to be fair, I usually avoid American so-called comedies). The plot is not interesting, the dialogue is dull and not at all funny (unless you consider the obligatory vomiting scenes and toilet humor funny) and the acting is so so. This movie cost 40 million to make. This is a crime against humanity.
Flesh and Bone (2015)
Wasted opportunity
My real problem with this show is the fact that the scriptwriters or whoever is responsible for the dialogue here, feel the need to make these dancers as vulgar as fraternity boys. I worked for many years in the dance world (in the 1970s) as a dance critic for newspapers in Chicago, San Francisco and Massachusetts, as a publicity director for a modern dance company in Chicago and as company manager for the San Francisco Moving Company, and as a writer I was very happy to work in a world of intelligent, refined people who were interested in literature, fine music, theater and all the other arts. I never heard the sort of low language that mars the sensibilities of this show. I never experienced such vulgarity and lowbrow mentality as displayed by many of these characters. Ballet and modern dancers are dedicated artists who work in an atmosphere that is on a higher plane than what is found in baseball or football locker rooms or army barracks. The creators of this show do a great disservice to the world of ballet and contribute only to the general dumbing down of America. I don't remember even Walter White in Breaking Bad delivering the sort of vulgar lines the artistic director of this ballet company spews out. What a shame. I will continue watching it for the beauty of the dance alone.