A lot of reviews are criticizing the character of Amber but what is she supposed to do? Mark will not tell her the truth, and for what reason? William figured it out why does it matter that Amber knows too? The issue with this episode is the pacing and the silly situations the characters get themselves into. Why is William going down into the sewer to find his friend? It makes no sense, that is just a stupid action for a reasonable person to do. There is also the issue with the unevenness of the super-powers. One episode he can throw a massive asteroid into space the next episode he finds it hard to grapple with a regular sized humanoid.
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3 Reviews
Some good moments
11 May 2015
This film pushes all the right emotional buttons but so much of it is a bit lacking.
There seems to be too much fluffy filler rather than story-telling. Some of the filler: Baton girl, Anorexic fan (why is she representative of all fans? No others were really featured) and no interviews with Brendan Rodgers - the most influential manager of Swansea - ridiculous.
I did enjoy the Roberto Martinez story and Lee Trundle (no interview again.) In fact it was weird how there were interviews missed from many key individuals. Oh well. I lived in South Wales when I was younger so this film resonated with me quite a bit the landscape that Leon Brittain alludes to remains with me as a lasting impression the slag-heaps and industrial skyline.
As an emotional story this works quite well. As an informative documentary not so much.
There seems to be too much fluffy filler rather than story-telling. Some of the filler: Baton girl, Anorexic fan (why is she representative of all fans? No others were really featured) and no interviews with Brendan Rodgers - the most influential manager of Swansea - ridiculous.
I did enjoy the Roberto Martinez story and Lee Trundle (no interview again.) In fact it was weird how there were interviews missed from many key individuals. Oh well. I lived in South Wales when I was younger so this film resonated with me quite a bit the landscape that Leon Brittain alludes to remains with me as a lasting impression the slag-heaps and industrial skyline.
As an emotional story this works quite well. As an informative documentary not so much.
Tarnation
(2003)
An exercise in extreme narcissism.
18 March 2006
Warning: Spoilers
I sat through the first hour of this movie and I could watch no more. What you find out is his grandparents are slightly cuckoo and boring. His mother is really cuckoo which may or may not have been because her parents were abusive and that she received extremely harsh psychiatric treatment. The film maker is really narcissistic treating the viewer to long sections where he performs (when a young teenage boy) for the camera as some female with Southern affectation which I guess is based on some famous performer or something but which is really lost on me. His grandmother (and himself?) terms these mini performances "confessions" which I guess has some analogy to the film presented - is this his grown version of the "confessions" he performed earlier. I don't know because the first hour is not only harrowing but boring and emotionally un-involving. The real story is told using text which appears across the screen over images which I suppose relate but often unintelligibly. I would like to see this story but I would want to see it told with some honest humanity and not wrapped up in posturing and affectation.
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