Hello, I know you are out there, I probably have a heap of critics, but I would like to say that these are my opinions and I am allowed to express them.
Just thought I would say that to get it off my chest.
Friday, 10 June 2011
A Good Man Goes To War Review
Oh, I really cannot be bothered with this.
That was probably what Steven Moffatt was thinking when he wrote this. It all seemed a little last minute and half hearted by everyone actually, except of course Alex Kingston, who was fighting a losing battle in this episode. By the way, there will be spoilers galore here.
OK, the direction and director, there were some good bits, but honestly, the Tall gay man whatever, why were there so many shots to him in the barracks scene, HE DIDN'T DO ANYTHING! The climactic bit, with the fat blue guy having his head chopped off, OK, but then when we saw his head like that, we could hardly see it, the quality actually went back to the quality of what we had in the 60s, I couldn't make out much, just that he didn't have a head.
The score, it was impressive and fitted and all that jazz, but HOW CAN SOMETHING WITHOUT A HEAD MAKE A HUMMING NOISE? It was a cool, atmospheric score, but made no sense. The opening 15 minutes were introducing characters and blowing a huge chunk of budget on really good and atmospheric sets, for and then threw them away really easily, it was a waste!
Apparently, this story was brilliant... Really, really? I wish the story was what it should have been, like the chase, racing around time and space, chasing after Amy and picking up the other characters along the way, it would have been so much better that way, no matter what anyone says. There just seemed to be an anticlimax to the whole "Doctor will rise after a huge war" and what not, but I've seen Tennants Doctor, Bakers Doctor (The good one) FOR GODS SAKE EVEN TROGHTONS DOCTOR, get angrier than Smith was in this episode. And there was no war, the "Doomsday" battle was a nerdgasm, this should have been just as good as that, there should have been some big battle and action, instead we got a few people shooting at monks with swords very slowly advancing.
As for the storyline, I am disappointed in Moffatt, last review, I could have forgiven him as another writer made that story, but even as this was better than that one (come on, which one wasn't from this series) it didn't give what I wanted and the only thing that made me want to watch it when it returns is the tagline "Let's Kill Hitler". I am an avid fan of this show, and for the first time, I am annoyed, I forgave Baker (The Bad one), I forgave JNT to a certain extent, I even forgave Mel, but maybe it is how I am feeling at the moment, but I sincerely hope the series gets better in the future. For its own sake.
Right, can't write anymore or I will end up not enjoying reviewing as well. Great.
That was probably what Steven Moffatt was thinking when he wrote this. It all seemed a little last minute and half hearted by everyone actually, except of course Alex Kingston, who was fighting a losing battle in this episode. By the way, there will be spoilers galore here.
OK, the direction and director, there were some good bits, but honestly, the Tall gay man whatever, why were there so many shots to him in the barracks scene, HE DIDN'T DO ANYTHING! The climactic bit, with the fat blue guy having his head chopped off, OK, but then when we saw his head like that, we could hardly see it, the quality actually went back to the quality of what we had in the 60s, I couldn't make out much, just that he didn't have a head.
The score, it was impressive and fitted and all that jazz, but HOW CAN SOMETHING WITHOUT A HEAD MAKE A HUMMING NOISE? It was a cool, atmospheric score, but made no sense. The opening 15 minutes were introducing characters and blowing a huge chunk of budget on really good and atmospheric sets, for and then threw them away really easily, it was a waste!
Apparently, this story was brilliant... Really, really? I wish the story was what it should have been, like the chase, racing around time and space, chasing after Amy and picking up the other characters along the way, it would have been so much better that way, no matter what anyone says. There just seemed to be an anticlimax to the whole "Doctor will rise after a huge war" and what not, but I've seen Tennants Doctor, Bakers Doctor (The good one) FOR GODS SAKE EVEN TROGHTONS DOCTOR, get angrier than Smith was in this episode. And there was no war, the "Doomsday" battle was a nerdgasm, this should have been just as good as that, there should have been some big battle and action, instead we got a few people shooting at monks with swords very slowly advancing.
As for the storyline, I am disappointed in Moffatt, last review, I could have forgiven him as another writer made that story, but even as this was better than that one (come on, which one wasn't from this series) it didn't give what I wanted and the only thing that made me want to watch it when it returns is the tagline "Let's Kill Hitler". I am an avid fan of this show, and for the first time, I am annoyed, I forgave Baker (The Bad one), I forgave JNT to a certain extent, I even forgave Mel, but maybe it is how I am feeling at the moment, but I sincerely hope the series gets better in the future. For its own sake.
Right, can't write anymore or I will end up not enjoying reviewing as well. Great.
Tuesday, 7 June 2011
The Rebel Flesh and The Almost People Review
Hello, I am alive, and reviewing Doctor Who, sorry, just had a lot going on recently, but I should be a bit free now. Right, I thought I should review this two parter in one part, but it will be longer than normal, if that makes sense.
The Rebel Flesh opens quaintly really, but of course, Amy is hung up on the whole doctor death thing, but, ooh look, Rory is getting screen time, and its good, finally, lets hope it continues. This Doctor is a pushover, he really is, Amy, Rory, can I drop you off, you know, get some space maybe. Cut to Amy screaming "NOOO, YOU'RE HIDING SOMETHING FROM ME! DON'T THINK I DON'T KNOW YOUR SECRET YOU MONSTER!", so he has to take them, which was a bit of a shame, would have been nice to have had another Deadly Assassin moment.
OK, the other characters, we have Cleaves, your typical boss type, hard and not got a soft side until they actually need to be hard, then we have Buzzer, a character who promises so much charisma and a jokey nature, who then goes sour, and unhappy, very sour and very unhappy. Jimmy, your dad out working to provide and conveniently his sons birthday is tomorrow, then Jennifer, sweet and nice (What the hell is she doing on a bloody chemical mining site thing) but then she goes super schizo. Then there is the other one, I know he was credited with a name, but I won't use it, this person did nothing to the story, but was there, seriously, in the second part, he doesn't even talk on camera until the last *spoiler* death scene bit and at the end. THAT'S IT!
Oh, I'm on a roll now, and going to jump straight to the monster, the flesh is an interesting thing, and this could have been a really psychological episode, relying on thrilling scares rather than naff gore. Whats that BBC, you want naff gore, oh goody. -_-
The make up on the flesh was really cool, it looked spooky, and atmospheric, which I really liked, shame that the setting and the storyline weren't. The setting was meant to be a big monastery, but it felt wrong, like the budget went out of the window hiring Neil Gaiman (So worth it by the way) and they half dressed the set sci-fi and then gave up, completely. Now we go onto the big climactic flesh monster, and all I can say is, what the hell was that, I thought graphics were meant to get better as years went on, I watched "Tooth and Claw" the other night, and the Werewolf was much better than this atrocity. It looked that slimy that it looked fake, the face was nothing like Jenny's and the hair, weird, the body was abysmal, I was expecting a huge wall of faces of Jenny's sliding along, slowly devouring anything that got in its way, at least something with substance, not this stick thing!
Right, the plot, oh, I thought for a second I was going to start on something actually of any quality, but no, a two parter, in an industrial environment with a revolution in the early stages, and the Doctor is key negotiator, anyone hearing, oh I don't know a little word like SILURIAN! Totally stole from that episode and killed what was good about it, even though I am in the minority in that particular department, it was psychological, fun, nostalgic and not all about the gore and killing. This was terrible, boring, and characters apparently, conveniently had to die.
I will say one thing, Raquael Cassidy as the flesh version of Cleaves was thoroughly entertaining and witty, all the best lines were obviously saved for her, the saving glory of this story, but it pales in comparison to the rest. Oh, and Rory, yes, he is getting some screen time, oh, he's understanding the flesh girl, aw, that's cute, OK, now you go to your wife, what, you're risking death for some girl when the love of your life is begging you to go with her, oh, and you find it acceptable that this girl is hitting on you, oh, you pansy, you locked everyone in the chamber to meet their doom, and now the weird girl knocked you out, GOOD! No, wait I actually like Rory, and look what this writer has done to him. Grr.
Ooh, nearly forgot, Two Doctors, that can't go wrong, oh the one's a nutcase, but he does really good Tom Baker impressions, you have to give him that much. Oh, they swapped shoes, cop out! And the conspiracy theorists will wonder when they swapped, and if the "real" one heard that he's going to die, ooh, nope, bored of this dull dialogue.
I can't even go on, I physically can't the terrible storyline, the random annoying characters, Rory being dragged to a whole new low. Oh, Amy is preggers, didn't see that, oh yeah, did, lol. Oh and now she's flesh, whoop, Rory is being a man and letting his wife go after being told by the angry man for her to meet her fate, you go! Oh, right. And the eye patch lady is back, she was always fun.
I will post the Good Man Goes To War review when I recover from this atrocity. OK, if I recover from this atrocity.
The Rebel Flesh opens quaintly really, but of course, Amy is hung up on the whole doctor death thing, but, ooh look, Rory is getting screen time, and its good, finally, lets hope it continues. This Doctor is a pushover, he really is, Amy, Rory, can I drop you off, you know, get some space maybe. Cut to Amy screaming "NOOO, YOU'RE HIDING SOMETHING FROM ME! DON'T THINK I DON'T KNOW YOUR SECRET YOU MONSTER!", so he has to take them, which was a bit of a shame, would have been nice to have had another Deadly Assassin moment.
OK, the other characters, we have Cleaves, your typical boss type, hard and not got a soft side until they actually need to be hard, then we have Buzzer, a character who promises so much charisma and a jokey nature, who then goes sour, and unhappy, very sour and very unhappy. Jimmy, your dad out working to provide and conveniently his sons birthday is tomorrow, then Jennifer, sweet and nice (What the hell is she doing on a bloody chemical mining site thing) but then she goes super schizo. Then there is the other one, I know he was credited with a name, but I won't use it, this person did nothing to the story, but was there, seriously, in the second part, he doesn't even talk on camera until the last *spoiler* death scene bit and at the end. THAT'S IT!
Oh, I'm on a roll now, and going to jump straight to the monster, the flesh is an interesting thing, and this could have been a really psychological episode, relying on thrilling scares rather than naff gore. Whats that BBC, you want naff gore, oh goody. -_-
The make up on the flesh was really cool, it looked spooky, and atmospheric, which I really liked, shame that the setting and the storyline weren't. The setting was meant to be a big monastery, but it felt wrong, like the budget went out of the window hiring Neil Gaiman (So worth it by the way) and they half dressed the set sci-fi and then gave up, completely. Now we go onto the big climactic flesh monster, and all I can say is, what the hell was that, I thought graphics were meant to get better as years went on, I watched "Tooth and Claw" the other night, and the Werewolf was much better than this atrocity. It looked that slimy that it looked fake, the face was nothing like Jenny's and the hair, weird, the body was abysmal, I was expecting a huge wall of faces of Jenny's sliding along, slowly devouring anything that got in its way, at least something with substance, not this stick thing!
Right, the plot, oh, I thought for a second I was going to start on something actually of any quality, but no, a two parter, in an industrial environment with a revolution in the early stages, and the Doctor is key negotiator, anyone hearing, oh I don't know a little word like SILURIAN! Totally stole from that episode and killed what was good about it, even though I am in the minority in that particular department, it was psychological, fun, nostalgic and not all about the gore and killing. This was terrible, boring, and characters apparently, conveniently had to die.
I will say one thing, Raquael Cassidy as the flesh version of Cleaves was thoroughly entertaining and witty, all the best lines were obviously saved for her, the saving glory of this story, but it pales in comparison to the rest. Oh, and Rory, yes, he is getting some screen time, oh, he's understanding the flesh girl, aw, that's cute, OK, now you go to your wife, what, you're risking death for some girl when the love of your life is begging you to go with her, oh, and you find it acceptable that this girl is hitting on you, oh, you pansy, you locked everyone in the chamber to meet their doom, and now the weird girl knocked you out, GOOD! No, wait I actually like Rory, and look what this writer has done to him. Grr.
Ooh, nearly forgot, Two Doctors, that can't go wrong, oh the one's a nutcase, but he does really good Tom Baker impressions, you have to give him that much. Oh, they swapped shoes, cop out! And the conspiracy theorists will wonder when they swapped, and if the "real" one heard that he's going to die, ooh, nope, bored of this dull dialogue.
I can't even go on, I physically can't the terrible storyline, the random annoying characters, Rory being dragged to a whole new low. Oh, Amy is preggers, didn't see that, oh yeah, did, lol. Oh and now she's flesh, whoop, Rory is being a man and letting his wife go after being told by the angry man for her to meet her fate, you go! Oh, right. And the eye patch lady is back, she was always fun.
I will post the Good Man Goes To War review when I recover from this atrocity. OK, if I recover from this atrocity.
Friday, 3 June 2011
You Are Here Review
I think I should start by explaining how I found out about finite films and their work. I was one day idly searching on YouTube random things and wondered whether anyone had made a music video to the Regina Spektor song "Two Birds" and found Alex Calleros' video and I instantly fell in love with his work, it was unique, combining natural looks and feels to everything, but unnaturally, somehow, pulling you in to the storyline and the characters.After watching that, I researched him and found out he worked on Finite Films and I looked at their work and was intrigued by what they do, letting the viewers choose what happens which gives endless possibilities, ironically as the choices are referred to as constraints.
You Are Here is the first film created properly by Finite Films, well, that's what I read on the website, and i must say, they certainly opened on a huge high. From the opening you knew there was going to be a big narrative, the quiet before the storm shall we say, opened with an sharp track and real, cool action to open. Which is what I enjoy about the work these guys and girls do, its real, they don't get rid of background sound, in fact, emphasise and enhance it and the soundtrack, in a time where louder and more disruptive seem better, this production was a real relief, only using music when it was really needed and to enhance the experience in the right way for the viewer.
The writing was really top notch, especially for a low budget production, you knew when and where the character were in the storyline through hints such as the map on the wall or relationships between the characters throughout. Which brings me to the acting and the characters in this piece of film, Shashona Brooks really stole the show for me, but as the lead she should have wowed, and she did, I felt the emotion that she did in this story because she portrayed it so beautifully in this production, she really did, I am truly surprised that she is not on the big screen, however, I can say that for all the cast in these films I have seen so far, I really think that. Garrett Liggett did a great job, and I know how hard it can be to connect with as, I guess for want of a better word, bad a character as his was, as a n actor because you don't want to connect with them, but he really did and, I mean this in the right way, I felt angry at his character because although there was no promise made, one of the key "constrictions" in this piece, I can see why, he sent out messages through subtle gestures only someone who really felt like the character could pull off. Finally, Adele Watkin, although not given a huge amount of screen time, gave a wonderful performance, innocently and unknowingly destroying a friendship, which was quite sad really, but she pulled off, what I feel was another difficult character extremely well.
Also, the direction was very innovative and top notch, enhancing the natural feel and helping the mood each scene conveyed.
All in all, this was a great production, however, if I were to critique a bit, i would have liked more content and room to grow in the piece, even if it was presented in to parts, I wouldn't have minded because the work done on this by everyone was top rate, and I can't wait for "Stealing Time"
*****
You Are Here is the first film created properly by Finite Films, well, that's what I read on the website, and i must say, they certainly opened on a huge high. From the opening you knew there was going to be a big narrative, the quiet before the storm shall we say, opened with an sharp track and real, cool action to open. Which is what I enjoy about the work these guys and girls do, its real, they don't get rid of background sound, in fact, emphasise and enhance it and the soundtrack, in a time where louder and more disruptive seem better, this production was a real relief, only using music when it was really needed and to enhance the experience in the right way for the viewer.
The writing was really top notch, especially for a low budget production, you knew when and where the character were in the storyline through hints such as the map on the wall or relationships between the characters throughout. Which brings me to the acting and the characters in this piece of film, Shashona Brooks really stole the show for me, but as the lead she should have wowed, and she did, I felt the emotion that she did in this story because she portrayed it so beautifully in this production, she really did, I am truly surprised that she is not on the big screen, however, I can say that for all the cast in these films I have seen so far, I really think that. Garrett Liggett did a great job, and I know how hard it can be to connect with as, I guess for want of a better word, bad a character as his was, as a n actor because you don't want to connect with them, but he really did and, I mean this in the right way, I felt angry at his character because although there was no promise made, one of the key "constrictions" in this piece, I can see why, he sent out messages through subtle gestures only someone who really felt like the character could pull off. Finally, Adele Watkin, although not given a huge amount of screen time, gave a wonderful performance, innocently and unknowingly destroying a friendship, which was quite sad really, but she pulled off, what I feel was another difficult character extremely well.
Also, the direction was very innovative and top notch, enhancing the natural feel and helping the mood each scene conveyed.
All in all, this was a great production, however, if I were to critique a bit, i would have liked more content and room to grow in the piece, even if it was presented in to parts, I wouldn't have minded because the work done on this by everyone was top rate, and I can't wait for "Stealing Time"
*****
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