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Jack Ryan (2018)
Season 4 - Awesome!!!
Season 4 was great. So sad that this series has ended. John Krasinski was excellent as Jack Ryan - imo the best and most believable portrayal of Tom Clancy's character - even better than Harrison Ford's two movies and Alec Baldwin's one. Having read all of his novels, Krasinski captured, I think, Clancy's image of Jack Ryan.
Scripts were excellent, especially Season 4, and brilliantly acted. Michael Peña and Michael Kelly were the perfect Chavez and November. While James Earl James was perfect, Wendell Pierce's performance as James Greer was excellent. And the writing...Season 4 writers deserve awards for their suspenseful and entirely believable scripts. Yes, there were the requisite fighting scenes, but not the wildly over the top scenes depicted in other "action" series or movies (John Wick 4).
At the conclusion S4/E8, it was so disappointing that there will not be a Season 5 - I wanted to know what happened next!
Watch the entire series. It is binge worthy and certainly one of the best series for either network or streaming services.
Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)
Pandora...I want to live there
Visually stunning movie. I felt as though I was on Pandora.
Terribly long but visually stunning - one forgets you are on another planet. Very slow mid movie and you keep wondering when the turning point will occur. But the cinematography is so compelling that I felt I wanted it to continue on and on. The world created on screen is so compelling you don't want it to end. I would be content to watch 3 hours of just exploring the wonderful world of Pandora. The undersea world is gorgeous. The story is secondary to the world created by the CGI TEAM. James Cameron is brilliant. Cannot wait for third movie.
Oldboy (2013)
No...
Awful movie. Wasted 2 hours of my life watching this garbage. The story meanders and makes absolutely no sense until 5-10 minutes before the credits. I understand this is a remake of a Korean film. The producers should have just added subtitles and released it on streaming. I am just baffled why talented actors would jeopardize their careers on this tripe.
Don't Look Up (2021)
Not the greatest disaster movie.
Happy that I downloaded and watched over two days. Just could not hold my interest for more than 30 minutes at a time. Boring movie, and I kept watching, hoping somehow it would improve. Nope. Lame satirical rehash of elements from Armageddon, Sudden Impact, and other "comets hitting earth" B-movies. However, it was satisfying to witness President Orlean's demise and Jason Orlean's isolation as a survivor. Fitting ending. Good riddance.
Hard Kill (2020)
Hard to Watch
One word...AWFUL!!!!!!
Yikes. Bruce Willis must be desperate...this was just painful to watch. Some of the dialogue reminded me the last Die Hard film.
9-1-1: Athena Begins (2019)
Angela Bassett earned an Emmy for this episode
Without spoiling anything the last few minutes of this episode were incredibly moving, raw, and powerful. Ms. Bassett, without dialogue, brought Athena's early story to a heart wrenching, emotional close. Bravo, Ms. Bassett. Bravo.