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A Friend of the Family (2022)
Need to see the documentary to undertstand
Watching this made me angry ! Great acting by everyone but hard to watch without being very upset. I have trouble understanding this. I need to watch the documentary about this to get more information and see why a 14-year-old acted this way. I completely understand that an 11-year-old child can be manipulated and brainwashed, but a 14-year-old?!?! Talking , believing in any Z's and Z's? I can't understand it, unless her growing up and her hormones played a big role, but this series lacks that, We don't know what they really had in common and that's a big minus of this series ! The parents were naive, very stupid at first, but a 14-year-old in 1975, not 1875, should have some wisdom? We should learn a lesson from this about how easy is influence a teenager and how silly they could act . Mostly , how stupid it would be to let a 14-year-old child make important decisions in his life !
Leave the World Behind (2023)
Very Booooring
I admit, I spent half of the movie checking my emails , answering to many of them. I watched just by one eye, basically letting play it almost 2 h until I found the remote to stop it ,once I realized I did not care for Any of these characters. I heard teenagers talking F ..words all the time and they supposed to be the kids of the City College professor ! When I looked at the screen, I saw a fake pile of cars made by computer and other crappy photos, easy to spot even for a layman like me, a non-professional, not real photos. Actually nothing was real or believable in that or even scary ! I guess when you're almost 60 and you've been a star once , you have to accept even a part like that, but why, why were Kevin Beacon and Ethan Hawke in it ?
Joyride (2022)
Around 60 years old woman, 13 years old boy and the baby....
Plus terrible sound (like reciting/reading on a loudspeaker in a locked room regardless of whether the action is inside or outside) and not the best cinematography.
I have to admit that I didn't watch the whole movie, it was boring . I couldn't stand the stereotypical old lady character played by Coleman. The same actress who replaced the fantastic Claire Foy in The Crown. She was annoying in Crown and she is annoying here.
The boy looks talented, I'll be watching him in the future. Too bad, I like Irish movies.
What a disappointment after that great Irish movie, the last one with Colin Farrell!
Break Point (2023)
Too much Instagram
For most of it, I felt it was more of an Instagram platform for tennis players girlfriends than tennis players themselves. I hope the next part will be more professional, more tennis oriented. However, I like the whole psychology of the game, the stamina of the players and all the insights. Hopefully more of this in future episodes. Also , please include more new faces, more newcomers , young players and concentrate more on their relationships with their coaches and family, how they spend the free time, than short relationships with the models. How about more information on famous tennis venues around the world? This could be an endless series if done right !
On the Verge (2021)
Too political
I liked it at the beginning as it was easy to watch, you did not need to sit in front of TV to not missed any scenes ! Universal subject but distracted by too many political ( supposed to be ) jokes . The main character is obviously a victim, abused verbally by her husband at every scene,she is unstable and on the verge of the panic attacks ,her friends are almost the same crazy and she jokes on Trump a lot. I stopped watching at episode 5 (?), in the park scorning Trump ,as all this was too distracted. We got it :these kind of people, crazy an unstable do not like Trump. She the producer, writer wanted obviously to please some people, but lets face it: This show is from the start limited to only 1 small group of people, women 50 plus , immigrants mostly, victims mostly , now limit these to no one from 72 million Trump voters . Why to go for suicide of your own show ? I used to like her when she was an actress ( Europe, Europe) but she should stay away from her own writing as I remember some movie of her ,very similar to this.
The best part is played by that cook woman husband, he is brilliant and very convincing as the abuser. The friends of the cook are overplaying so they are not realistic or rather the writers made them unrealistic.
Giving 1 star for ruin my pleasure as I was planning to watch till the end.