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Texas Ranch House (2006)
Who do those women think they are????
Going into any of these historically based reality shows these people need to be told: YOU WILL BEHAVE AS IF IT WERE REALLY THAT TIME PERIOD. Not how you would react if you were beamed into that time period with your 21st Century attitude. No pioneer woman would have been as intrusive as Mrs. Cooke and her entourage were. They should not step up when strangers come, they should stay back for their own safety (remember the horse that ran off with the manure wagon?). None of those females had a clue how to act around real men. Why would they, they were used to that wimpy little man they called Mr. Cooke. And if I have to watch one more spoiled brat run around in her undergarments I will throw something at the TV.
The cowboys were a little off (sophomoric???) in their behavior to the women. But remember that Mr. Cooke initially expressed that he wanted them to stay away from his women. The cowboys were NOT to become friendly with the females, but then the women/girls were whining about how they wanted to be friends with them and how they turned on them by quitting in the end. EXCUSE ME...but, Mr. Cooke sold Jared that horse and when he was let loose by the Indians Mr. Cooke never said he was repossessing the horse. It was a MAN PRIDE thing at that point and we all applauded when they rode off together.
When the evaluation came and they all came off exactly as we thought they would that was the greatest satisfaction PBS could've given us. The committee validated every thought the viewers were expressing at home...so the question is: WHO THE HECK HIRED THE COOKES? AND WHY???
Femme Fatale (1991)
Colin fans only....
This movie is intriguing only because Colin Firth is in it. It is one of his earlier films so he still has a baby fat face, but he also has that charming accent...so, not a total waste of time. He is the only reason I stuck it out.
Movie has thin plot that probably could have been a good, had the characters not been so superficial. Colin has all his usual passion, but seems out of place with the surrounding "ghosts" pretending to be actors. Really was let down by extent of the emptiness of the acting. The plot was too easy...first there are really bad men, then the bad men don't want to be bothered with the physicality's of killing someone. So they leave...what's with that? They are hit men without bullets, basically.
And I am so used to seeing Billy Zane as a really bad man that he seemed secondary if not less. Kinda spacey, and not really in the part of the film that he would have been best at, the supposed brutal sub-ending. I say sub-ending because the ending-ending was even more disappointing....turned into some warped fairy tale.
All in all, waste of time and space. Sorry Colin.