What are You Watching? Year 2022
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Rings of power…abomination. Doesn’t follow Tolkien lore, bad acting, bad story line. I wondered if the writers, actors, directors or producers have ever read any Tolkien. -4/5
LOTR Rings of Power 3.5
Its fine. If I want pure cannon..i read the books (which are great by the way!). The show is not great..but not the total pile of horse droppings many are calling it. Remember The Hobbit films? Those too are poopy and yet the Tolkien Universe lives on.
Its fine. If I want pure cannon..i read the books (which are great by the way!). The show is not great..but not the total pile of horse droppings many are calling it. Remember The Hobbit films? Those too are poopy and yet the Tolkien Universe lives on.
"Where Eagles Dare" (1968) with Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood. 5 out of 5.
Britbox - I rate it 4/5. Half way through season two...I'm really enjoying it.
Filmed in picturesque Bath, England. My wife and I are going to London in 2023, so Bath is on our list of places to visit.
A shy and enigmatic Detective Sergeant is partnered with a wildly ambitious Detective Chief Inspector to solve crimes in the historic city of Bath.
Filmed in picturesque Bath, England. My wife and I are going to London in 2023, so Bath is on our list of places to visit.
A shy and enigmatic Detective Sergeant is partnered with a wildly ambitious Detective Chief Inspector to solve crimes in the historic city of Bath.
I watched episode 1 of Rings of Power. I feel like it's too early to make a judgment on a series that takes place is a largely unrecorded period of Middle Earth history. From the time that the details of the show were announced, I expected a gloriously high budget fan fiction. I loved the Jackson films, and didn't get too upset that there were elves at Helms deep, or that Merry and Pippin basically became the leaders at the Entmoot and lead them into battle. (Far too hasty) So far I like it, but there's a long way to go before we see how the story unfolds and I'm all too familiar with a show starting off well and taking a drastic turn at any point. Anyway, so far so good to me. 4/5
On the newer stuff I am watching She-Hulk and it is just a hoot. Taking into account that the plot is preposterous She-Hulk is about a female attorney who gets into a car wreck with her cousin Bruce Banner (Hulk). They're both cut and some of his blood leaks into her body. Voila!! She-Hulk. She's not as big (only 6'7"), not as violent, and can control when she turns into a hulk and when she wants to come out. She isn't as strong as the Hulk but fairly close. An unlike Bruce Banner everybody knows who she is. Fired by her old firm because she couldn't prosecute anybody (mistrials galore because she's She-Hulk} she takes a job with a law firm that specializes in representing clients who are super villains. Okay, it's much better than I described it. Only three episodes so but more coming every Thursday.
4/5
4/5
Watched this yesterday and really enjoyed it.
It offers a much different perspective on the man. I especially liked the insight re his relationships with Borg and Gerulaitis.
5/5
The only minor criticism I had, and obviously he basically crafted it, was by the end it seemed like he had probably apologized enough about not being the best father the first time around and mentioned more than enough about his own father not being real affectionate --- I guess it was somewhat cathartic for him, but it started to seem a little redundant to me --- I think he made the point enough that some of that could have been cut out in favor of a little more along the lines of relationships with other players/life on Tour/etc. So it was really more a memoir of sorts and I thought it was great, just thought maybe it was about 15 minutes too long. Loved listening to him and he is frank and to the point.
I agree the last bit could have been left on the cutting room floor but I think he was trying to bring things full circle- it was probably important to him to show that he was still looking for something from his father and not getting it right up to the end.
Excellent documentary. Beautiful photographs of Ingrid Bergman, Ernest Hemingway, James Dean, Clark Gable, Liz Taylor, Bogart, and many others. Some of the pics are truly haunting. The only weak points are the more contemporary pics--especially of Sean Penn with freshly pumped biceps and cigarette trying to look as tough as possible. But even that part, silly though it is, serves as a point of contrast with, say, Bogart showing real toughness, allowing magnum photographers to shoot him looking vulnerable without his toupee. 5 stars.
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